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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Edgar Garcia & Benjamin A. Saltzman
DESCRIPTION:A Conversation with Edgar Garcia & Benjamin A. Saltzman \nEdgar Garcia and Benjamin A. Saltzman will discuss their new books Cantares and Turning Away\, respectively. A Q&A and signing will follow the discussion. \nAt the Co-op \nRSVP HERE \nAbout the Books: Turning Away: A sweeping account of how we are at our most human when we turn away from the pains of the world. \nWhy do we look away from the suffering of others? Why do we cover our faces in shame or lower our heads in grief? Few gestures are as universal as the averted gaze. Fewer still are as ambivalent and inscrutable. In this incisive study\, Benjamin A. Saltzman reveals how the kaleidoscopic appearance of these gestures in art\, poetry\, and philosophy has turned them into an essential language for our uncomfortable engagements with the world. \nInto the horizon of contemporary discourse\, Turning Away sets out from five influential scenes in which figures avert their gaze: Timanthes’s Sacrifice of Iphigenia\, Plato’s Republic\, Augustine’s Confessions\, Christ’s Crucifixion\, and the Fall and Expulsion of Adam and Eve. The gestures of aversion in these scenes refract across visual media\, through philosophy and politics\, into modernity and the present day\, having been reimagined along the way by thinkers like Hannah Arendt\, artists like Marc Chagall and Salvador Dalí\, poets like Langston Hughes\, and many others. Saltzman offers a timely critique of the privilege of turning away and of the too-easy condemnation of our tendencies to do so. \nCantares: Poems and micro-essays intertwine in this poetically attuned adaptation of the mid-sixteenth century Nahuatl-language Cantares Mexicanos \nCantares is a multipart engagement with the poetics and history of the colonial and Indigenous Americas\, oscillating between poetry and essay in a structure of repetitions derived from Mesoamerican poetics. Edgar Garcia reimagines the Cantares Mexicanos\, a sixteenth-century anthology of Nahuatl songs from Central Mexico\, and brings these songs to life not just as historical documents\, but as music\, to give presence of thought to their historical layers and complexities. His adaptations evoke the sound and texture of the sixteenth century\, blending Indigenous and Baroque traditions\, exploring themes of translation\, adaptation\, race\, and historical memory. The collection moves between poetry and scholarship—between poems and micro-essays. The essays provide commentary and historical context about the colonial soundscape of Central Mexico. At the same time\, the poems emphasize the songs’ sonic\, spiritual\, and poetic dimensions. \nThe Cantares emerge from a time of cultural collision—after the arrival of the Castilians but still rooted in older\, Indigenous worldviews. These songs are not nostalgic or idealized; they reflect crisis\, survival\, and creativity. Garcia’s work draws inspiration from the Popol Vuh\, the K’iche’ Maya creation story\, which begins in colonial darkness and still insists on the possibility of light. Through these adaptations\, Cantares becomes a meditation on history\, imagination\, and the power of art to endure and create in the face of loss. \nAbout the Authors: BENJAMIN A. SALTZMAN is associate professor of English at the University of Chicago\, where he coedits the journal Modern Philology. Saltzman is the author of Bonds of Secrecy: Law\, Spirituality\, and the Literature of Concealment in Early Medieval England and the coeditor of Thinking of the Medieval: Midcentury Intellectuals and the Middle Ages. \nEDGAR GARCIA is associate professor of English at the University of Chicago\, where he is affiliated with the Program in Creative Writing. He is the author of Emergency: Reading the Popol Vuh in a Time of Crisis\, Skins of Columbus: A Dream Ethnography\, and Signs of the Americas: A Poetics of Pictography\, Hieroglyphs\, and Khipu.
URL:https://welcometohydepark.com/event/a-conversation-with-edgar-garcia-benjamin-a-saltzman/
LOCATION:Seminary Co-op Book Store\, 5751 S. Woodlawn Ave.\, Chicago\, 60637
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Literary/Book Signing/Storytime
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SUMMARY:7th Annual Release Party of Lab School's "Ouroboros Review"
DESCRIPTION:7th Annual Release Party of Lab School’s “Ouroboros Review”
URL:https://welcometohydepark.com/event/7th-annual-release-party-of-lab-schools-ouroboros-review/
LOCATION:Seminary Co-op Book Store\, 5751 S. Woodlawn Ave.\, Chicago\, 60637
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Literary/Book Signing/Storytime
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SUMMARY:Sara Moslener - 'After Purity'
DESCRIPTION:Sara Moslener – ‘After Purity’ \nSara Moslener will discuss After Purity: Race\, Sex\, and Religion in White Christian America. A Q&A and signing will follow the discussion. \nAt the Co-op. \nRSVP HERE — please note your RSVP is requested but not required. \nAbout the book: In After Purity\, purity scholar Sara Moslener conducts a nuanced investigation of purity culture in white evangelical Christianity\, revealing its profound impact on gender\, sexuality\, race\, and national identity in the United States. Moslener shares exclusive stories of participants from her research on the After Purity Project to discuss how purity culture affected women—and particularly women of color—who grew up in the evangelical church. These stories depict how white supremacy has a hand in constructing idealized “traditional” or “biblical” views of family\, white racial identity\, sexuality\, gender expression\, and religion\, and how our physical bodies are situated within systems of power and oppression. After Purity provides a window into the world of white evangelicalism and how its leaders and political allies have manufactured socio-sexual panic to justify the elimination of sexual and religious diversity that thrive in a flourishing democracy. \nAbout the author: Sara Moslener is a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy\, Anthropology\, and Religion at Central Michigan University. She is the author of Virgin Nation: Sexual Purity and American Adolescence and creator of the podcast Pure White: Sexual Purity and White Supremacy. She lives in Mt. Pleasant\, Michigan\, with her best friend and soulmate\, Gibson the Chug.
URL:https://welcometohydepark.com/event/sara-moslener-after-purity/
LOCATION:Seminary Co-op Book Store\, 5751 S. Woodlawn Ave.\, Chicago\, 60637
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Literary/Book Signing/Storytime
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Shannon Chakraborty!
DESCRIPTION:A Conversation with Shannon Chakraborty! \nJoin us for a conversation with New York Times bestselling author Shannon Chakraborty as she discusses her new book\, The Tapestry of Fate! \n\n\n\nShannon Chakraborty will join us for a conversation about her new book THE TAPESTRY OF FATE\, followed by a book signing! \nBUY TICKETS HERE \nWe are so excited to welcome Shannon Chakraborty to the Seminary Co-op! \nJoin us for a conversation with Shannon as she discusses her newest book The Tapestry of Fate\, her second book in An Amina al-Sirafi Adventure. A Q&A and book signing will follow the discussion. \nNew York Times bestselling author Shannon Chakraborty sets sail into the second adventure of pirate Amina al-Sirafi as her quest to track down magical artifacts brings her to the island lair of a sorceress whose woven enchantments are impossible to flee in The Tapestry of Fate .\nAmina al-Sirafi thinks she’s struck gold. Tasked with hunting down arcane artifacts for the council of immortal peris\, she can savor the occasional rollicking adventure on the high seas with her cherished criminal companions while still returning home to raise her beloved daughter\, Marjana. But when Raksh\, the spirit of discord with whom she is reluctantly wed\, provokes the council’s wrath\, Amina is charged with a seemingly impossible quest: steal a spindle capable of rewriting fate from a mysterious sorceress on an island no one can escape. \nForced to leave Marjana—who is increasingly frustrated at being peddled what are clearly lies about her mother’s life and her own past—Amina finds her mission almost immediately thrown into peril. But deadly storms\, an erratic poison mistress\, and old enemies are the least of her worries. For the peris’ story is unraveling\, hinting at a far deadlier game whose rules Amina must swiftly puzzle out. A game that sets her against an adversary more cunning and powerful than she has ever faced. \nA game that not everyone on her crew wants her to win. \n“A thrilling\, transportative adventure that is everything promised–Chakraborty’s storytelling is fantasy at its best.”\n— R.F. Kuang\, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel\n​\n“Sheer joy\, with quirky characters\, spooky monsters\, sprightly banter\, and swashbuckling that puts Sindbad to shame.”\n— Kirkus Reviews (starred review) \nAbout Shannon: Shannon Chakraborty is the critically acclaimed\, New York Times bestselling author of The Daevabad Trilogy and The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages and nominated for the Hugo\, Locus\, World Fantasy\, Crawford\, and Astounding awards. You can find her online at www.sachakraborty.com or on Instagram at @SAChakrabooks. \nHelpful information: \n*There is street parking only. There is a parking lot next door to our store but it is NOT ours and we cannot guarantee that you will not be towed. \n*You may start lining up at 6pm. Doors will open at 6:30pm. \n*Limited seating is available on a first come first serve basis. There will be standing room only once seating is full. If you do require seating\, please email mgmt@semcoop.com to reserve a seat. \n*Additional copies of the book and backlist will be available for purchase at the store during the event.
URL:https://welcometohydepark.com/event/a-conversation-with-shannon-chakraborty/
LOCATION:Seminary Co-op Book Store\, 5751 S. Woodlawn Ave.\, Chicago\, 60637
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Literary/Book Signing/Storytime
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SUMMARY:Devin Johnston - 'Bright Thorn: Poems 2000-2026'
DESCRIPTION:Devin Johnston – ‘Bright Thorn: Poems 2000-2026’ \nDevin Johnston will discuss Bright Thorn: Poems 2000-2026. A Q&A and signing will follow after the reading. \nAt the Co-op. \nRSVP HERE — please not your RSVP is kindly requested but not required. \nAbout the book: Bright Thorn\, which distills Devin Johnston’s work across a quarter century and seven books\, offers an alternative to our frenzied moment through poems diffused with Johnston’s characteristic calm measured feeling and striking formal intelligence. Historical\, philosophical\, closely observational\, and rooted evenly in the deep poetic past and the daily rhythms of American life\, these poems open the world to imaginative scrutiny. Johnston is a chronicler in a Yeatsian sense\, whose eye\, cast discerningly over the landscape\, is affectionate yet icily clear. \nAbout the author: Devin Johnston was born in 1970 and spent his childhood in North Carolina. He is the author of eight books books of poetry\, including Bright Thorn: Poems 2000–2026. He works for Flood Editions\, an independent publishing house\, and teaches at Saint Louis University\, in Missouri\, where he lives.
URL:https://welcometohydepark.com/event/devin-johnston-bright-thorn-poems-2000-2026/
LOCATION:Seminary Co-op Book Store\, 5751 S. Woodlawn Ave.\, Chicago\, 60637
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Literary/Book Signing/Storytime
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SUMMARY:Nicholas Epley - 'A Little More Social'
DESCRIPTION:Nicholas Epley – ‘A Little More Social’ \nNicholas Epley will discuss his new book A Little More Social: How Small Choices Create Unexpected Happiness\, Health\, and Connection. A Q&A and book signing will follow the discussion. \nAt the Co-op \nRSVP HERE \nAbout the Book: We know that social connection enriches our lives–so why do we hesitate to connect? \n“A Little More Social explores the power and promise of the human connections that most of us never make–but could make so easily if we just opened our eyes. This is the eye-opener. Insightful\, engaging\, scientifically grounded and beautifully written\, A Little More Social is one of those rare books that might actually change your life.” –Daniel Gilbert\, New York Times bestselling author of Stumbling on Happiness \nThere is a fundamental paradox at the core of human life. We are a highly social species uniquely equipped to connect with other people and doing so is better for us. Yet we so often choose to be unsocial. We avoid talking to the stranger who sits next to us. We struggle to move beyond small talk with an acquaintance. We are reluctant to express our gratitude to people we appreciate. Every day\, we avoid opportunities to connect with strangers\, neighbors\, colleagues\, friends\, and family. By missing those moments\, we miss out on all the benefits of a more social life–one that is happier and healthier for everyone. \nUniversity of Chicago psychologist and author of Mindwise\, Nicholas Epley has spent his career studying the way we connect\, and he has found that our social fears often keep us from reaching out. But bridging the gap between two people is easier than we think–and success is more likely than we imagine. We just have to be a little more social. Epley shows us how to seize the small moments with insights such as: \n\nSocial connection is a choice we make based on expectations about how others will respond to us–expectations that tend to be overly pessimistic.\nIntroverts and extroverts alike benefit from choosing to be a little more social.\nMistaken expectations can cause us to avoid interacting in ways that create strong connections–such as having a conversation–in favor of less satisfying interactions–such as social media or texting.\nWhile many books promise one big fix\, making a habit of small connections is much more likely to improve your life.\nThe habits and practices that Epley advocates are approachable. The beauty of this book is that small acts have an outsized impact on the most important parts of our lives.\n\nEpley draws on decades of research\, his own experiences\, and the stories of everyday people to deliver groundbreaking conclusions about the psychology behind our social decisions. A Little More Social shows how we can put science into practice and change our lives\, one small choice at a time. \nAbout the Author: Nicholas Epley is the John Templeton Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavior Science and Director of the Center for Decision Research at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He studies social cognition—how thinking people think about other thinking people—to understand why well-meaning people so routinely misunderstand each other.  He teaches an ethics and wellbeing course to MBA students called Designing a Good Life. His research has been featured by the New York Times\, Wall Street Journal\, CNN\, Wired\, and National Public Radio\, among many others\, and has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Templeton Foundation. He has been awarded the 2008 Theoretical Innovation Award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology\, the 2011 Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology from the American Psychological Association\, the 2015 Book Prize for the Promotion of Social and Personality Science\, and the 2018 Career Trajectory Award from the Society for Experimental Social Psychology.  Epley was named a “professor to watch” by the Financial Times\, one of the “World’s Best 40 under 40 Business School Professors” by Poets and Quants\, and one of the 100 Most Influential in Business Ethics by Ethisphere.  He is the author of Mindwise: How We Understand What Others Think\, Believe\, Feel\, and Want (2014)\, and A Little More Social: How Small Choices Create Unexpected Happiness\, Health\, and Connection (2026).
URL:https://welcometohydepark.com/event/nicholas-epley-a-little-more-social/
LOCATION:Seminary Co-op Book Store\, 5751 S. Woodlawn Ave.\, Chicago\, 60637
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Literary/Book Signing/Storytime
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SUMMARY:Jamila Michener - 'Uncivil Democracy'
DESCRIPTION:Jamila Michener – ‘Uncivil Democracy’ \nJamila Michener will discuss her new book Uncivil Democracy: How Access to Justice Shapes Political Power. She will be joined in conversation by Cathy J. Cohen. A Q&A and signing will follow the discussion. \nAt the Co-op \nRSVP HERE  \nAbout the Book: Each year\, as many as 250 million Americans face civil legal problems like eviction\, debt collection\, and substandard housing. These problems are disproportionately shouldered by racially and economically marginalized people\, particularly women of color. Civil courts and legal aid organizations are supposed to protect their rights\, yet more than 90 percent of low-income people receive inadequate or no legal assistance. Instead\, access to justice is reserved for those who can afford its high price. \nIn Uncivil Democracy\, Jamila Michener and Mallory SoRelle show how civil legal problems\, and the institutions meant to address them\, can erode trust in the legal system among marginalized communities\, undermining their broader sense of democratic citizenship and political standing. While legal representation offers vital protections\, increased access to justice through an ever-growing supply of lawyers does not address the structural problems that generate demand for lawyers in the first place. Looking at cases involving unfair evictions and substandard housing\, Michener and SoRelle demonstrate how community groups such as tenants’ unions can fill this justice gap and provide the means to build political power that transforms the conditions that create precarity. \nDrawing on eye-opening qualitative evidence and a wealth of historical and survey data\, Uncivil Democracy explains why collective organizing holds the greatest promise for altering the systems that create civil legal problems and exercising the political power necessary for meaningful change. \nAbout the Author: Jamila Michener is a professor of Government and Public Policy at Cornell University. She is Director of the Center for Racial Justice and Equitable Futures. She works closely with community-based organizations around the country to apply research insights to address urgent problems facing racially and economically marginalized communities. \nAbout the Interlocutor: Cathy J. Cohen is the D. Gale Johnson Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. Cohen is the author of two books\, The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics (University of Chicago Press) and Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics (Oxford University Press). She is also co-editor of the anthology Women Transforming Politics: An Alternative Reader (NYU Press) with Kathleen Jones and Joan Tronto. Cohen created and oversees two major research and public-facing projects: the GenForward Survey and the Black Youth Project. She is the recipient of numerous awards\, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and co-editor with Frederick Harris of a book series at Oxford University Press entitled “Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities.”
URL:https://welcometohydepark.com/event/jamila-michener-uncivil-democracy/
LOCATION:Seminary Co-op Book Store\, 5751 S. Woodlawn Ave.\, Chicago\, 60637
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SUMMARY:Mary Walling Blackburn - 'Cream Psychosis'
DESCRIPTION:Mary Walling Blackburn – ‘Cream Psychosis’ \nMary Walling Blackburn will discuss Cream Psychosis. She will be joined in conversation by Salma Shamel. A Q&A and signing will follow the discussion. \nAt the Co-op. \nRSVP HERE — please note your RSVP is requested but not required. \nAbout the book: The lumpen and the miscreant walk a long\, long way together into a bar. That bar is a landmass\, is an empire\, is an institution\, is a painter\, is insistent laughter through death. Deep gallows (sometimes humor) built for survival. The lumpen are kin to that famous glom of the proletariat. The miscreant treads earth in overlapping circles. \nThis book of essays\, written by the artist Mary Walling Blackburn between the 2010s and the present\, moves with near-psychedelic precision across American time and its surrounding spaces. \nPaul Chan observes that “Walling Blackburn writes like an artist as alchemist. She draws from philosophies\, histories\, and ideas into wildly vivid and combustible forms that read like nothing else. Her writings radiate with incantatory power.” \nFacing a spiraling empire\, Blackburn insists on showing volumes of teeming\, vibrant\, life. The essays and works collected here are movies of America in parallax view. \nAbout the author: Mary Walling Blackburn is a co-founder of Anhoek School (2008-2013)\, a collective education experiment dedicated to collapsing class and imploding gender which included WMYN\, its pirate feminist radio station. Walling Blackburn’s writing has appeared in Afterall\, Art in America\, Bomb Magazine\, Cabinet Magazine\, e-flux journal\, Grey Room\, Triple Canopy\, and other journals and magazines. Walling Blackburn’s writing has been included in multiple anthologies including Social Medium: Artists Writing\, 2000–2015\, (Paper Monument\, 2016). Quaestiones Perversas\, (Pioneer Works\, 2017)\, co-written with Dr. Beatriz E. Balanta\, functions as a poetic rupture of standardized testing. Her new collection of essays\, Cream Psychosis\, (e-flux/Sternberg Press) was published in March 2026. \nAbout the interlocutor: Salma Shamel is a writer and scholar working at the intersection of critical theory\, Marxism\, psychoanalysis\, and Arab intellectual history. She received her PhD from New York University in August and is currently a Collegiate Assistant Professor and Harper Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago. Her writing has appeared in Parapraxis\, Endnotes\, Social Text\, Rethinking Marxism\, and Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly\, among others.
URL:https://welcometohydepark.com/event/mary-walling-blackburn-cream-psychosis/
LOCATION:Seminary Co-op Book Store\, 5751 S. Woodlawn Ave.\, Chicago\, 60637
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Literary/Book Signing/Storytime
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SUMMARY:Nuno Castel-Branco - 'The Traveling Anatomist'
DESCRIPTION:Nuno Castel-Branco – ‘The Traveling Anatomist’ \nNuno Castel-Branco will discuss The Traveling Anatomist: Nicolaus Steno and the Intersection of Disciplines in Early Modern Science. A Q&A and signing will follow the discussion. \nAt the Co-op. \nRSVP HERE — please note your RSVP is requested but not required. \nAbout the book: Nicolaus Steno (1638–1686) was a renowned anatomist in his lifetime. He reformed the anatomical understanding of glands\, argued that the heart was a muscle\, renamed the so-called female testicles as ovaries\, and developed a mathematical model for understanding muscle contraction—discoveries that were fundamental to the fields of anatomy and physiology. However\, other aspects of Steno’s life have come to define him: his claim that mountains’ strata reveal the history of the Earth and his conversion to Catholicism as a practicing scientist. This excessive attention to his geological discoveries and to asking whether science and religion are compatible\, Nuno Castel-Branco argues\, has obscured his significant accomplishments as an anatomist. The Traveling Anatomist thus restores Steno to his rightful place as a crucial figure in early modern science. \nUsing Steno’s extensive travels as a framework\, this book depicts him as an active participant in the Republic of Letters. Castel-Branco traverses Leiden\, Paris\, Copenhagen\, Florence\, and Rome as he follows Steno in his sojourns through different scientific academies\, courts\, and artisanal workshops. There he developed new friends\, some of whom were women\, with whom he researched and exchanged ideas. Drawing on Steno’s books\, correspondence\, and novel archival material\, Castel-Branco invites us to approach Steno and his accomplishments in anatomy\, mathematics\, and geology through the eyes of his contemporaries. Doing so\, Castel-Branco reconstructs the rich and overlapping worlds of scientific disciplines that shaped Steno’s work\, revealing the richness of interdisciplinary research in early modern intellectual life. And through Steno\, he illustrates larger developments and new networks of significance in mid-seventeenth-century science. By focusing on ideas\, scientific genres\, institutions\, and friendships\, Castel-Branco offers a way others might also productively study science from the early modern period until today. \nAbout the author: Nuno Castel-Branco is a research fellow of All Souls College at the University of Oxford.
URL:https://welcometohydepark.com/event/nuno-castel-branco-the-traveling-anatomist/
LOCATION:Seminary Co-op Book Store\, 5751 S. Woodlawn Ave.\, Chicago\, 60637
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Literary/Book Signing/Storytime
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ORGANIZER;CN="Seminary Co-op Bookstore":MAILTO:info@semcoop.com
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