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SUMMARY:Presenting Jane: Showing and Sharing Jane Austen in the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California. \n“Presenting Jane” honors the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth through an exploration of the challenges\, discoveries\, and new ways a 21st-century audience has encountered the woman and her work. In this ATBL-Book Club of California event\, collector and curator Mary Crawford alongside Professor and Library Director Kirsten J. Leuner will discuss both Mary’s innovative Austen exhibition\, hosted at the Grolier Club in December 2025\, and will lead attendees on a guided tour through the British Library’s first edition facsimile of Jane Austen’s famed Pride & Prejudice (1813)\, issued by Rizzoli USA. The deluxe facsimile edition of Pride & Prejudice includes not only the text separated into its originally distributed multiple volumes\, but also contains key archival documents connected to the text and Austen’s life from the British Library’s collections. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Mary Crawford\, collector\, curator\, trustee of The Grolier Club and the Bibliographical Society of America and Kirstyn J. Leuner\, Associate Professor of eighteenth-century British Literature\, Santa Clara University and Director of The Stainforth Library of Women’s Writing \n**Co-presented and co-hosted by The American Trust for The British Library. \nTo register for the virtual event\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/presenting-jane-showing-and-sharing-jane-austen-in-the-21st-century/
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SUMMARY:Wonders of the East: Medieval Belief and Making Monsters in the Middle Ages
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California. \nIn the Middle Ages\, monsters were of great interest to artists\, authors\, and theologians. They appear in all visual media and all textual genres. They were\, to their creators\, both serious subjects of contemplation and fun entertainment. This talk will focus on a particular set of medieval monsters known as the Wonders of the East\, a series of fantastic peoples\, beasts\, plants\, and landscapes that was especially popular in medieval England\, where they appear on the edges of world maps and in the margins of devotional books\, as well as in three surviving manuscripts\, all heavily illustrated\, where they are given pride of place. This talk will consider where such monsters were located\, how they were constructed\, and what sort of work they were designed to do for their intended audiences. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Asa Mittman\, author and Professor of Art & Art History\, California State University\, Chico. \nTo register for this virtual event\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/wonders-of-the-east-medieval-belief-and-making-monsters-in-the-middle-ages/
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SUMMARY:Koreatown Los Angeles: Immigration\, Race\, and the “American Dream”
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California. \nThis talk is based on the book Koreatown\, Los Angeles: Immigration\, Race\, and the “American Dream\,” which delves into the social and cultural history of Korean Americans in Los Angeles\, focusing on the period from the late 1960s to the early 2000s. The presentation will explore the argument that building Koreatown was an urgent objective for Korean immigrants and US-born Koreans\, serving simultaneously as a vital economic base and a profound emotional and social anchor. It will examine how figures defined as “place entrepreneurs\,” such as Sonia Suk and Hi Duk Lee\, spearheaded the community’s development from a modest cluster of businesses into a thriving\, recognized enclave. Their entrepreneurial achievements\, lauded in publications as proof that the “American Dream is Alive and Well in Koreatown\,” underscored the irony of success achieved during an era of diminishing opportunities for others. \nA virtual presentation by Shelley Lee\, author and W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of American Studies\, History\, and Humanities\, Brown University. \nTo register for this online event\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/koreatown-los-angeles-immigration-race-and-the-american-dream/
LOCATION:Book Club of California
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SUMMARY:Black Wests: Reshaping Race and Place in Popular Culture
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California. \nWhat does it mean to imagine the American West through Black experience? For too long\, popular culture\, from Hollywood Westerns to novels\, music\, and television\, has erased or distorted Black presence in the West\, leaving us with an incomplete story of American identity. Black Wests: Reshaping Race and Place in Popular Culture brings those histories back into focus. \nIn this talk\, Dr. Sara L. Gallagher explores how Black writers\, filmmakers\, and performers have reimagined the Western landscape in ways that challenge dominant myths about race\, land\, and belonging. Moving across literature\, film\, and music\, she examines how figures ranging from Oscar Micheaux to contemporary creators like Beyonce have reshaped what we think the “West” looks like\, sounds like\, and means. \nThe “Black West” is more than a geographic space\, it is a cultural and imaginative terrain that reveals hidden histories of migration\, labor\, homesteading\, and community-building. At the same time\, it offers new perspectives on familiar genres\, from the Western film to the jazz archive. This presentation will highlight how Black artists and thinkers have unsettled the frontier myth\, opening up conversations about power\, resistance\, and the legacies of race in American culture. \nA virtual presentation by Sarah Gallagher\, author and Professor of Liberal Studies\, Durham College\, Oshawa\, Ontario\, Canada. \nTo register for this virtual event\, click here.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/black-wests-reshaping-race-and-place-in-popular-culture/
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