"Life of the Mind"-author Christine Smallwood & scholar Maggie Doherty explore the relationship between art, experience & activism in higher ed.
Upcoming episodes of Shelter & Solidarity View this email in your browser <https://mailchi.mp/encuentro5/617-adjunct-lit-life-smallwood-doherty-thursday-700-eastern-4939408?e=197ff7c2ec> Shelter & Solidarity Thursday 6/17 & Saturday 6/26 *Thursday, June 17, 7:00 p.m. (Eastern)* Adjunct Lit & Life with Christine Smallwood & Maggie Doherty Novelist Christine Smallwood (author of *The Life of The Mind* <https://encuentro5.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=53fe7b10944568ab8724330ae&id=25a3181a56&e=197ff7c2ec>) and scholar Maggie Doherty (author of *The Equivalents* <https://encuentro5.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=53fe7b10944568ab8724330ae&id=8a5ddbdbf8&e=197ff7c2ec> and the recent Nation article on “Adjunct Hell” <https://encuentro5.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=53fe7b10944568ab8724330ae&id=e3255e3186&e=197ff7c2ec>) as we explore the relationship between art, experience and activism in a contemporary higher education system increasingly characterized by contingency, inequality, and uncertainty. Contingent faculty organizer Nicola Walters will join as a respondent. *Christine Smallwood* is a critic and journalist and the author of a novel, *The Life of the Mind*, published in March 2021 by Hogarth Books. A contributing writer at *The New York Times Magazine* and a contributing editor at *Harper’s Magazine*, her fiction has been published in n+1, Vice, and *The Paris Review*. Co-founder of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, she is also a fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities. *Maggie Doherty* is author of the recent article in *The Nation *on “The Rise of Adjunct Literature, and of the acclaimed book *The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship and Liberation in the 1960s*. She teaches writing at Harvard, where she earned her PhD in English. Her writing has appeared in *The New Yorker*, the *New York Times*, the *New York Review of Books*, and *The Nation*, among other publications. She lives in Cambridge. *Nicola Walters *is an organizer, researcher, public speaker, and teacher. She is a lecturer in the Department of Politics at Humboldt State University and organizes faculty labor as the Statewide Membership and Organizing Chair for the California Faculty Association (CFA). *CLICK HERE TO JOIN SHELTER & SOLIDARITY ON ZOOM* <https://encuentro5.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=53fe7b10944568ab8724330ae&id=c81f7cbde4&e=197ff7c2ec> https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5999353012 SATURDAY BOOKSHELF JUNE 26, 2021, 12 NOON Join author Eleni Macrakis on her book, *A People's Guide to Greater Boston.* [image: Twitter] <https://encuentro5.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=53fe7b10944568ab8724330ae&id=858cb19153&e=197ff7c2ec> [image: Facebook] <https://encuentro5.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=53fe7b10944568ab8724330ae&id=5a7d72ff19&e=197ff7c2ec> [image: Instagram] <https://encuentro5.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=53fe7b10944568ab8724330ae&id=5f418d08d1&e=197ff7c2ec> *Copyright © 2021 encuentro5, All rights reserved.* We set up this list to provide updates to activists and concerned individuals who have provided their addresses at events organized by Massachusetts Global Action and encuentro5. These events include Color of Water conversations, peace movement activities, pro-immigrant actions, and Downtown Workers Center programming and outreach, teach-ins and tabling. These updates are sent out 3 - 4 times a month. *Our mailing address is:* encuentro5 565 Boylston Street 4th floor Boston, MA 02116 Add us to your address book <https://encuentro5.us7.list-manage.com/vcard?u=53fe7b10944568ab8724330ae&id=63bf135013> Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences <https://encuentro5.us7.list-manage.com/profile?u=53fe7b10944568ab8724330ae&id=63bf135013&e=197ff7c2ec&c=31f42099ec> or unsubscribe from this list <https://encuentro5.us7.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=53fe7b10944568ab8724330ae&id=63bf135013&e=197ff7c2ec&c=31f42099ec>. [image: Email Marketing Powered by Mailchimp] <http://www.mailchimp.com/email-referral/?utm_source=freemium_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=referral_marketing&aid=53fe7b10944568ab8724330ae&afl=1> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#9263): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/9263 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/83610771/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
