The Whole Body of the Sound: Listening to Jimmy Baldwin Listen
Ed Pavlić is Distinguished Research Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Georgia and director of the PhD program in creative writing.
Franke Lectures in the Humanities
Post-screening discussion of James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket, between the film’s writer, coproducer, and director Karen Thorsen and Professor Jacqueline Goldsby.
The screening of James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket was followed by a discussion between the film’s writer, coproducer, and director Karen Thorsen and Professor Jacqueline Goldsby. As a filmmaker, Thorsen finds her inspiration and themes at the intersection of art and social justice. She tells stories about “game changers,” as she puts it, “artists and activists who shape history.” Price of the Ticket, her first feature-length documentary, was a worldwide hit.
Map of a Vanished Town: Recollecting the Palestinian Past through Biography
Adina Hoffman is the author of House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood and My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet’s Life in the Palestinian Century, a biography of Taha Muhammad Ali, published by Yale University Press. Her essays and criticism have appeared in The Nation, Raritan, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, New York Newsday, World Literature Today, and on the World Service of the BBC.
