Previous Book talk Events

  1. Associate Professor of English and Rapoport Center Co-director Neville Hoad discussed his book, Pandemic Genres: Imagining Politics in a Time of AIDS.

  2. Speaker:
    Mónica A. Jiménez, Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies and Rapoport Center faculty affiliate, discussed her book, Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico.

  3. Professor Steve Meili (University of Minnesota) will present his book, "The Constitutionalization of Human Rights Law: Implications for Refugees".

  4. Join us for a conversation with Caitlin Killian, Sociologist and author of Failing Moms: Social Condemnation and Criminalization of Mothers.

  5. In the midst of the most recent war in Sudan, Sudanese-American author Fatin Abbas read to a UT audience from her highly acclaimed book, Ghost Season: A Novel.

  6. Professor Wendy A. Bach of the University of Tennessee College of Law discussed new book, "Prosecuting Poverty, Criminalizing Care," which focuses on Tennessee’s fetal assault law as an example of the criminalization of care in poor communities. Professor Aziza Ahmed, Boston University School of Law, responded.

  7. Speakers:
    • Professor Emerita of Ethnic Studies, California State University
    • Senior United States Circuit Judge, United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
    • Wright C. Morrow Professor of Law
    • Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing, University of Texas at Austin
    A celebration of the publication of Michael Tigar’s latest memoir, "Sensing Injustice: A Lawyer’s Life in the Battle for Change."

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