The Center for Ethics and Public Engagement facilitates conversations beyond the classroom to examine assumptions, exchange ideas, and encourage responsible action in our world. Sign-up below to read and discuss the following books (books are provided and are yours to keep).

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Janelle Monae, Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer

Facilitator: Student Led
Meeting Time: Thursday, May 5th, shadowblock (9:40-10:50)
Location: Hovde Lounge, Preus Library
Number of Participants: 20

"Singer-songwriter, actor, fashion icon, futurist, and worldwide superstar Janelle Monáe and an esteemed cohort of collaborating writers bring to the written page the Afrofuturistic world of her critically acclaimed album, exploring how different threads of liberation -- queerness, race, gender plurality and love—become tangled with future possibilities of memory and time in such a totalitarian landscape ... and what the costs might be when trying to unravel and weave them into freedoms." - HarperCollins Publishers

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Edited and collected by Yu Chen and Regina Kanyu Wang, The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories: From a team of female and nonbinary creators [Full]

Facilitator: Director's Edition, Prof. Andy Hageman, English
Meeting Times: Thursday, April 21st, shadowblock (9:40-10:50)
PLUS 1 or more editor and/or author Zoom event, date/time TBA
Location for 4/21: Hovde Lounge, Preus Library

This collection of Chinese Science Fiction and Fantasy stories is like a corridor with doors that open into wildly disparate rooms. Join the group to explore these many imagined spaces, to glimpse China through its speculative fiction, and to embrace gender, fluidity, and genre.

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