Thursday, March 22, 2012

EVENT NEWS: John Fowles Presents Sergio Chejfec, Mar. 26


The John Fowles Center presents Sergio Chejfec, March 26, 2012 at 7 p.m. in the Henley Reading Room.

Chejfec currently lives in NYC and teaches in the Creative Writing in Spanish program at NYU. He has written novels, essays and a poetry collection. Among his works, one can mention Lenta biografĂ­a, Los planetas, Boca de Lobo and Los incompletes. His novels usually feature The John Fowles Center for Creative Writing promotes and advances the discipline of creative writing in all its aspects: fiction, poetry, drama, creative nonfiction and screenwriting. For fourteen years the center has invited international writers to Chapman as: Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, Salman Rushdie, Maxine Hong Kingston among others. Each year access to those writers is available not only to the Chapman community, but to the Orange County and, by extension, the Southern California community as well.This year's 2011 literary series is devoted to Latin American writers.

 
The focus of the 15th Annual John Fowles Center Literary Forum is devoted to Latin American writers and writing including Carlos Franz, Marcio Souza, Alizia Kozameh and Luisa Valenzuela. 


Admission if FREE and open to the public. For any inquiries or for further information, please contact Taylor Holbrook via-email at holbr102@mail.chapman.edu.


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a slow-paced narrator who interweaves the plot with refl ection. Memory, political violence, and Jewish-Argentine culture and history are some of the themes recurring throughout his work. My Two Worlds was published by Open Letter Books in 2011.

Harvard physicist Lisa Randall to discuss her latest book, ‘Knocking on Heaven’s Door’ - Mar. 27

Randall, Ph.D., professor of physics at Harvard University and one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World, will speak at Chapman University on Tuesday, March 27, about her newly-published book, Knocking on Heaven’s Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Are Illuminating the Universe and the Modern World.

The talk will take place at 5 p.m. in the Sandhu Conference Center, D and D1 (second floor), and a book signing will follow. The talk and book signing are free and open to the public.

The latest developments in physics have the potential to radically revise our understanding of the world: its makeup, its evolution, and the fundamental forces that drive its operation. Knocking on Heaven’s Door is an exhilarating and accessible overview of these developments and an impassioned argument for the significance of science.

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EVENT NEWS: Do You Have Charisma? - today at 4 p.m.

Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Department of Communication Studies presents Do You Have Charisma?Charismatizing Your Message - Communication tips from Melanie Chartoff, actress, animation performer, voice-over artist and communication coach, today at 4 p.m. in Argyros Forum, rooms 209 A & B.

This event is free and open to the public!

For more information, please contact Alley Levy at 714.7444.7017 or levy@chapman.edu

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

EVENT NEWS: Social science research, Babbie Research Center to be celebrated at campus conference, Wednesday, Mar. 21

A host of international scholars will be part of a social science research conference scheduled in conjunction with the dedication of the Earl Babbie Research Center at Chapman University Wednesday, March 21. “The Future of Social Science Research Methods Conference and Babbie Center Dedication” opens at 10 a.m. The day’s programming closes with Professor Emeritus Babbie, Ph.D., presenting a faculty workshop titled “The Future of Social Science Research Methods” at 4 p.m. in Argyros Forum 209.
Professor Babbie said he was humbled by the news that the center, located in Smith Hall (pictured left), was named in his honor.
“I am honored beyond my ability to express it in words to have the new research center named for me. I am excited about the possibilities contained in our mission statement: where research and compassion come together make a difference in the world,” he said. He further noted that Ann Gordon, associate dean and associate professor, had been the driving force behind the center’s creation.

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Earl Babbie Research Center ...

STUDENT NEWS: Chapman Debate Team Ranked 14!

Congrats to the 2012 Chapman Forensics Team!
 
They are currently ranked 14th in the Nation after an impressive showing at the 2012 Pi Kappa Delta National Comprehensive Tournament (which included 70 schools, 283 Debate Teams, and 1,329 Individual Events).
 
Check out Chapman Forensics Team's Facebook Page for a list of the results!
 

STUDENT NEWS: Comm Major awarded schoalrship


Senior Communications Major Jamie Krispel is one of three recipients to be awarded the MICHAEL JUND SPORTS MEDIA SCHOLARSHIP AWARD.

Congrats Jamie!
 
 

STUDENT NEWS: Attention Journalism Students, New Scholarship

The Marshutz Endowed Journalism fund, Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences, will award a scholarship each academic year to a matriculated student majoring in English with a journalism emphasis or a journalism minor who displays a growing talent and the potential to succeed in the course of study while also demonstrating a need for additional funds. 
Amounts will vary depending on student need.
The fund was created to help talented journalism students with a demonstrated financial need to subsidize financial burdens where necessary, such as books, bills, travel and research expenses or international study.   Interested students should submit an application consisting of a one-page cover letter explaining how they will use the scholarship to further their journalism studies, a resume and three to five of their best published clips to Susan Paterno, journalism program director, c/o the English department.  

Thursday, March 15, 2012

EVENT NEWS: 4th Annual Alpha Mu Gamma History Conference, Mar. 17

Students, Staff and Faculty ... You are invited to the 4th Annual Alpha Mu Gamma History Conference, which is being held this Saturday, March 17th, from 10 am to 2:45 pm in Beckman Hall.  All papers are being delivered by our Integrated Senior Seminar students and all commentators are presently taking Historian’s Craft.  With 38 Senior Seminar students this year, there are quite a large number of  topics on offer.  Our History majors have won more than 30 research paper prizes over the past five years including the two most prestigious in the nation.

For more information, please contact Dr. Lee Estes at 714.997.6550 or estes@chapman.edu

Friday, March 9, 2012

EVENT NEWS: Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies, Mar. 17


Chapman University and Wilkinson College will be hosting Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies on Saturday, March 17 at 3 p.m. in Leatherby Libraries Doy and Dee Henley Reading Room (2nd floor.) 

Margulies will talk about writing for the theatre, film and television. Margulies’ speech will include selected readings from his plays Sight UnseenCollected Stories and Dinner With Friends by actors Kandis Chappell and Bill Brochtrup.  He will conclude by taking questions from the audience.This appearance by one of America’s most lauded playwrights coincides with South Coast Repertory’s 20th anniversary production of Sight Unseen (March 11-April 1), which is considered Margulies’ breakthrough play.

Please join us at this exciting event.  

For more information, contact the English Department at 714.997.6750.

EVENT NEWS: Public Sociology Conference, Mar. 16-17


Chapman University and Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences invites you to the Public Sociology Conference entitled, Faceless Latino/a Immigrants: Pathways to Resistance at Chapman University on March 16 and March 17, 2012.
The conference aims to encourage meaningful conversations and practices between scholars, policy makers and local Latino/a communities on undocumented immigrants in Orange County. It is an interdisciplinary conference organized by the Department of Sociology of Wilkinson College in collaboration with the College of Education Studies and the School of Law at Chapman University, in effort to engage scholars, grassroots groups, students and local institutions in serious dialogue on different models of conversations, engagement practices.

The conference will consist of six special panels of community members and scholars discussing.


  • Contextualizing the Immigration Debate and Making Sense of the Backlash against the Undocumented
  • The Criminalization of Immigration and the Violence on the Borders
  • Education and Resistance: Pedagogical Nuances and the Dare to DREAM Movement
  • Solutions to Immigration: Cutting across National and Local Dimensions
  • Exclusion Versus Inclusion: Why Assisting the Undocumented Makes for Healthier Communities
The conference will run from 9am to 8pm on Friday (with breakfast, lunch and dinner provided) and 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Saturday (with breakfast and lunch provided).

RSVP NOW! 
For more information, please see our website.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

EVENT NEWS: Fanatical Mechanical Exhibit ends Friday, March 9 at 5 p.m.

Chapman University and Wilkinson College's Department of Art is pleased to showcase the Photo-Lettering archives and typefaces from one of the leading type foundries and design studios in America, House Industries.

Photo-Lettering or PLINC was one of the earliest and most successful type houses to utilize photo technology in the production of commercial typography and lettering. Numerous artifacts chronicling PLINC's development are exhibited such as original specimen books, catalogs and films with Photo-Lettering founder Ed Rondthaler and longtime Photo-Lettering art director Ed Benguiat. Chapman is pleased to host the first West-Coast exhibition showcasing its history

Admission is free and the exhibit is running everyday this week from noon to 5 p.m. in the Guggenheim Gallery.

STUDENT NEWS: Attention journalism students, new scholarship being offered!

The Marshutz Endowed Journalism fund, Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences, will award a $2,500 scholarship each academic year to a student majoring in English with a journalism emphasis or a journalism minor who displays a growing talent and the potential to succeed in the course of study while also demonstrating a need for additional funds.
The fund was created to help talented journalism students with a demonstrated financial need to subsidize financial burdens where necessary, such as books, bills, travel and research expenses or international study.   Interested students should submit an application consisting of a one-page cover letter explaining how they will use the scholarship to further their journalism studies, a resume and three to five of their best published clips to Susan Paterno, journalism program director, c/o the English department.  Application deadline is May 1. 

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

STUDENT NEWS: Wilkinson College Students Represent ChapmanU at 2012 Student Peace Conference at the University of Notre Dame



The Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences congratulates two of our students who have been accepted and will be presenting the 2012 Student Peace Conference. Senior Political Science major, Sociology minor, Philip Quigley, and sophomore Peace Studies and Sociology double major, Ashley Lovell, will be attending the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies’ 2012 Student Peace Conference, which is being hosted at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, IN, from March 30-31, 2012.

Mr. Quigley and Ms. Lovell jointly created a multimedia presentation titled, “Engineering the Future: Nation Building Opportunities Presented by the Arab Spring,” which they will be presenting at the conference as part of a panel discussion that will be debating how the global community can assist in fostering sustainable peace-building processes during the on-going Arab Spring movement.

The annual Notre Dame Student Peace Conference provides a space for undergraduate and graduate students to engage in dialogue on important political science issues related to peace-building and other contemporary international relations topics. The conference this year, “Strategies of Peace: Transforming Conflict in the Modern World,” will explore approaches to building sustainable peace around the globe. Mr. Quigley and Ms. Lovell will be presenting their research topic on the final day of the conference. The keynote speaker is Molly Kinder, the Director of Special Programs for Development Innovation Ventures in Washington, DC, part of the United States Agency for International Development. 

Thursday, February 23, 2012

EVENT NEWS: Art Lecture Series, Feb. 23


Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences's Department of Art presents, Parallel Visions with art historian, Donald Preziosi, February 23, 2012 at 7PM in BK404 as part of the 2012 Bensussen Art Lecture Series.

Professor of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles, Donald Preziosi has written many notable books concerning intellectual history, critical theory, and museology. In August 2007 he became the MacGeorge Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He is a past president of the Semiotic Society of America (1985). His 1998 book The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology is considered ‘the most widely used English-language introduction to art history’. At UCLA, Professor Preziosi developed the art history critical theory program and the UCLA museum studies program. At Oxford, he held the Slade Professorship of Fine Arts in 2001, where he delivered a series of lectures entitled Seeing Through Art History. His talk will deal with issues being discussed in his forthcoming book on art and religion.

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Jeanie Randazzo at 714.997.6729.

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

COLLEGE NEWS: Spring 2012 Edition of Wilkinson Review Now Available

Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences presents, the new Spring 2012 edition of the Wilkinson Review

The Wilkinson Review Offers a glimpse of exciting work our faculty in the new Wilkinson College are doing, as well as highlighting Wilkinson alumni. 

We thank all of those who contributed! 


To access it online click here


Monday, February 13, 2012

FACULTY NEWS: Faculty in Department of Languages In-Action



Dr. Valenzuela leads linguistics workshop for native teachers in the Amazon

Pilar Valenzuela, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Languages, Wilkinson College, recently led a four-day workshop to analyze the grammar of Shawi, an indigenous language spoken in the Province of Alto Amazonas, in northeastern Peru. The workshop took place in Yurimaguas, a small town on the banks of the Huallaga River, and was organized by a group of native teachers specialized in intercultural bilingual education. With a population of approximately 22,000 individuals, the Shawi are among the largest indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon. Their language continues being passed on to the children, who tend to be monolingual until they attend elementary school in their villages. The Shawi bilingual teachers approached Dr. Valenzuela in search of linguistic training due to her intensive research on the sister language Shiwilu as well as a comparative work involving the two languages.



Thursday, February 9, 2012

EVENT NEWS: Fanatical Mechanical, Feb. 6 - March 9


The Guggenheim Gallery presents, 

Fanatical Mechanical
February 6-March 9

Fanatical Mechanical showcases the Photo-Lettering archives and typefaces from one of the leading type foundries and design studios in America, House Industries. Photo-Lettering or PLINC was one of the earliest and most successful type houses to utilize photo technology in the production of commercial typography and lettering. Numerous artifacts chronicling PLINC's development are exhibited such as original specimen books, catalogs and films with Photo-Lettering founder Ed Rondthaler and longtime Photo-Lettering art director Ed Benguiat. Chapman is pleased to host the first West-Coast exhibition showcasing its history.

Included in this exhibition are the materials and methods used in graphic design practice during the “Cold Type” or Phototypesetting Era. Phototypesetting took precedence from the 1960s to 1980s when letterpress was replaced by offset printing. Graphic Designers became “Paste-up Artists” and used numerous tools to create layered mechanicals that were camera-ready to develop plates to go on press. The show invites students and visitors to examine the mechanical nature of this period of the history of graphic design and the physical craftsmanship involved in the process.

For more information or questions please e-mail your inquiry at gallery@chapman.edu or call 714-997-6729.

EVENT NEWS: Between Hitler and Stalin, Feb. 16


     The Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education, Wilkinson College, and the History Department present, "Between Hitler and Stalin: Jewish Youth in the Polish-Soviet Borderlands" with Mr. Jeffrey Koerber on Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. in Beckman Hall, Room 404 (Bush Conference Center).

ADMISSION: Free
TIME: 
7 p.m. 
LOCATION: 
Beckman Hall, Room 404 (Bush Conference Center)



Jeffrey Koerber joined Chapman University in fall 2011 as the first research associate affiliated with the Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education. His appointment begins an innovative educational partnership between two universities and their centers on opposite coasts, the Rodgers Center at Chapman University and the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University, both dedicated to excellence in Holocaust education and scholarship. Mr. Koerber, a Ph.D. candidate at Clark University, will discuss his pioneering research on young Jews growing up during the 1930s under Polish antisemitism and Soviet political oppression and the influence of these experiences on their subsequent responses to the Holocaust. Before embarking on his Ph.D. studies, Mr. Koerber was a successful preservation architect. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois, Urbana, and is the recipient of numerous fellowships, including a Fulbright Fellowship to Belarus and Poland.

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Ashley Bloomfield at (714) 532-7760 or E-mail her at ambloom@chapman.edu
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Friday, February 3, 2012

EVENT NEWS: Director's Screening and Public Forum, "Israel vs Israel" Feb. 9 @ 7PM

Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social 
Sciences 
invites you to the director's screening of: 

Israel vs. Israel
A film about Israelli Peace Activities


"Israel vs. Israel" is an award-winning documentary that profiles 4 progressive Israeli organizations including Rabbis for Human Rights and Checkpoint Watch. This special event screening features the director and a strong panel in conversation, at the film school.

For More Information Click on the following links:
http://www.levantinecenter.org/event/directors-screening-israel-vs-israel-orange
Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/events/317753911597238/

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

EVENT NEWS: Iluminacion Celebration, Feb. 24


Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences is proud to present our Iluminacion: Celebration, February 24, 2012 in the George H.W. Bush Conference Center in Beckman Hall Room 404.
The event will consist of a cocktail reception, dinner, followed by the live music by the well-known Latin Jazz Band with Frank Cano. The Keynote speaker for the event will be the admirable Michele Serros, Newsweek’s “top young women to watch for in the new century”, author of Chicana Falsa and Other Stories of DeathIdentity and Oxnard, How to be a Chicana Role Model, Honey Blonde Chica, and her newest novel, Scandalosa!  So, don’t Miss Out!

For more information on the event, please visit the following website: http://www.chapman.edu/Iluminacion/

EVENT NEWS: Dealing with a Rising China Lecture with Former Ambassador of China, J. Stapleton Roy, Feb. 9

Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences presents, "Dealing with a Rising China" with former ambassador of China, J. Stapleton Roy, Thursday, February 9 at 4PM. This lecture is part of the Dr. Richard Watson Distinguished Speaker Series sponsored by the Kay Family Foundation.


Ambassador J. Stapleton Roy was born in Nanjing, China of American missionary parents. In 1956 he graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University. He is the Director of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. He retired from the Foreign Service in January 2001 after a career spanning 45 years with the U.S. Department of State. Ambassador Roy spent much of his Foreign Service career in East Asia. He also specialized in Soviet affairs and served in Moscow at the height of the Cold War. Ambassador Roy rose to become a three-time ambassador, serving as the top U.S. envoy in Singapore (1984-86), the People’s Republic of China (1991-95), and Indonesia (1996-99). In 1996, he was promoted to the rank of Career Ambassador, the highest rank in the Foreign Service. Ambassador Roy’s final post with the State Department was asAssistant Secretary for Intelligence and Research. He is currently Chairman of the United States Asia Pacific Council, a Vice Chairman of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, a Trustee Emeritus of The Asia Foundation, a Trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and serves on the boards of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy of Georgetown University, the American Academy of Diplomacy, and the U.S.-China Policy Foundation. He is a Distinguished Senior Adviser to the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC and a Distinguished Graduate and Member of the Hall of Fame of the National War College. Ambassador Roy has had various publications. His most recent include, The Internal Logic of China’s Political Development,” The Globalist, June 3, 2011; Review of Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, by Ezra Vogel, The Wilson Quarterly (Autumn 2011).

To RSVP for the event, please contact Allison Tritch via-email at tritch@chapman.edu.

EVENT NEWS: John Fowles Presents Sergio Chejfec, Mar. 26


The John Fowles Center presents Sergio Chejfec, March 26, 2012 at 7 p.m. in the Henley Reading Room.

Chejfec currently lives in NYC and teaches in the Creative Writing in Spanish program at NYU. He has written novels, essays and a poetry collection. Among his works, one can mention Lenta biografĂ­a, Los planetas, Boca de Lobo and Los incompletes. His novels usually feature The John Fowles Center for Creative Writing promotes and advances the discipline of creative writing in all its aspects: fiction, poetry, drama, creative nonfiction and screenwriting. For fourteen years the center has invited international writers to Chapman as: Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, Salman Rushdie, Maxine Hong Kingston among others. Each year access to those writers is available not only to the Chapman community, but to the Orange County and, by extension, the Southern California community as well.This year's 2011 literary series is devoted to Latin American writers.

 
The focus of the 15th Annual John Fowles Center Literary Forum is devoted to Latin American writers and writing including Carlos Franz, Marcio Souza, Alizia Kozameh and Luisa Valenzuela. 


Admission if FREE and open to the public. For any inquiries or for further information, please contact Taylor Holbrook via-email at holbr102@mail.chapman.edu.


Click here for more information on the series ...


a slow-paced narrator who interweaves the plot with refl ection. Memory, political violence, and Jewish-Argentine culture and history are some of the themes recurring throughout his work. My Two Worlds was published by Open Letter Books in 2011.

Friday, January 13, 2012

ALUMNI NEWS: Alumni Book Club Presents: The Help, Feb. 16


You’re invited to the Wilkinson College Alumni Book Club: The Help, February 16 at 6:30 p.m. at the Elliot Alumni House.

Overview of the book to be discussed:
Professor Pat See, who lived in Mississippi during the 1960’s, shares her unique perspective on bestselling book and recent fi lm success, The Help. The Help, a novel written by American author Kathryn Stockett, explores the lives of African American maids working in Mississippi during the 1960’s. The novel follows Eugenia Phelan, daughter of a prominent white family who has aspirations of becoming a writer. Spurred on by memories of her own maid during her childhood she decides to tackle the truth about being a colored maid in Mississippi as her fi rst writing project. The novel explores race and class issues central to American life during the 1960’s with both a dramatic and comedic approach.

You can RSVP by emailing, stroop@chapman.edu (space is limited). 

There are several parking spots available behind the Elliot Alumni House and additional parking is available across the street in the public parking lot. Street parking is limited. 

For additional parking information visit our website: http://www.chapman.edu/publicsafety/parking/default.asp or contact Parking Services at (714) 997-6763.

FACULTY NEWS: Communications Studies Professor Publishes New Book


Chapman University and Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Studies Assistant Professor, Jennifer H. Waldeck has recently published a book entitled, Business and Professional Communication in a Digital Age, a comprehensive instructional package designed to build students' business and professional communication competence. The interactive, multimedia nature of this text emphasizes traditional and contemporary topics germane to business and professional contexts. The engaging online modules that accompany the text create an interactive, media-enhanced experience in the classroom, allowing students to develop an in-depth understanding of business and professional communication in the 21st century.

Check it out! For more information about the text, please visit the following site:



Thursday, January 12, 2012

EVENT NEWS: The Future of Social Science Research Methods Conference with Earl Babbie, March 21


Chapman University and Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences presents, The Future of Social Science Research Methods Conference with Earl Babbie on March 21. Hosted by the Earl Babbie Center at  Chapman University.

The Earl Babbie Research Center at Chapman University is dedicated to empowering students and faculty to apply a wide variety of qualitative and quantitative social research methods to conduct studies that address critical social, behavioral, economic, and environmental problems. The Center’s mission is global in purview and its concerns include human rights, social justice, peaceful solutions to social conflicts and environmental sustainability. The Babbie Center supports cutting edge interdisciplinary research and encourages faculty student collaboration. For more information about the Earl Babbie Research Center, please send us an E-Mail at babbiecenter@chapman.edu.  

This all day conference will take place in Argyros Forum, Room 209 (A,B,C) at Chapman University in Orange, California. After the conference an interactive workshop on teaching social research will be led by Earl Babbie and experienced instructors of research methods. They will reveal how to engage students and excite them about social science research.

The conference will consist of a dedication and buffet lunch, conference paper presentation and class for attendants with Dr. Earl Babbie that will run from 12 noon to 5:00 p.m.


For more information about the conference visit http://www.chapman.edu/wilkinson/babbiecenter/.

 For more information about the Earl Babbie Research Center, please send us an E-Mail at babbiecenter@chapman.edu.  




Thursday, January 5, 2012

FACULTY NEWS: ‘A Safeway in Arizona’ by Tom Zoellner Gets Positive Review in the Boston Globe


Chapman University's Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences professor in the Department of English, Tom Zoellner, gets a very positive review of his  new book, A Safeway in Arizonza,  in the Boston Globe as follows: “A Safeway in Arizona is a masterly work of reporting, historical analysis, and sly cultural criticism. Arizona celebrates its 100th birthday next year. Let’s hope Zoellner takes the anniversary as an occasion to pen yet more pieces about the state, in all its horror and hope.”

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