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New Book: “All the Rage”
All the Rage (Nightboat Books, 2021) is a new collection of poems by Lambda Award winner, Rosamond S. King, “conceptualizing state violence, racism, and the persistence of Black desire, resistance, and joy.”
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All the Rage addresses everyday pleasure as well as the present condition of racism in the United States a time marked both by recurring police violence and intense artistic creativity from a variety of perspectives: being Black, an immigrant, a woman, and queer. At its core dwells “Living in the Abattoir,” a series in which people of color live out their days as both workers and meat. All the Rage simultaneously invokes both anger at ongoing systemic violence and the frivolity of something that is, perhaps temporarily, “trending.”
âGrounded in a thorough mastery of scholarly literature on eighteenth-century French theatre, McMahanâs study ingeniously interprets Luigi Riccoboni and his troupe as theatrical migrants who used comedy as a means of cultural diplomacy. . . McMahanâs innovative approach to
commedia dellâarte as a âtransnational brandâ offers a robust contribution to Theatre and Performance Studies scholarship.â (âDaniel Smith, Michigan State University, USA)
âIn bringing to the attention of an Anglophone audience a neglected theatrical figure, McMahan performs his own act of translational border crossing, which is revealing not just about its subject, but also about the value of critical work that itself moves fruitfully across all sorts of national, disciplinary, and temporal borders.â (âJessica Goodman, St. Catherineâs College, Oxford, UK)
Queen Mary University of London
In 2020, Arts and Culture at Queen Mary University of London invited UK-based artists to converse with academics from across the university, using its Higher Education Innovation Fund. A dentist spoke to a sculptor. A mathematician to a choreographer. A dramatist to an opera singer.
While an unforeseen pandemic limited human contact for many of us, these artists and academics found ways to talk. They held conversations about climate change, mental health, housework, racism, childcare, justice, wellbeing. They exchanged knowledge. Expertise. Then the artists set to work.
The results are original artworks and creative responses that could not have happened without conversations between academics and artists. They remind us of the power of art and the impact of connecting deep thinkers across fields. Watch the video on Vimeo.
AstraZeneca s COVID-19 Vaccine Safe for Canadians above 65 by Angela Mohan on March 17, 2021 at 11:03 AM
Oxford-AstraZeneca s COVID-19 vaccine found to be safe and effective for people aged above 65 years, particularly against severe illness and hospitalization.
The announcement is different from a recommendation made by the NACI itself on March 1, when its panel of vaccine experts said AstraZeneca hadn t included enough people over the age of 65 in its clinical trials, the Xinhua news agency reported.
The committee said that three real-world effectiveness studies helped inform its decision to change the recommendations, including evidence from Britain, which has been administering the vaccine to people over 65 years and older since January.
“By gossiping about celebrities and by talking about what they’ve done that isn’t so great, it allows us to establish our values as a community and also for me, as an individual, to advertise my values to the people I’m speaking with,” says professor Julia Fawcett, who teaches a course called the History of Celebrity in the Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies.
Celebrities, one theory goes, act to unite imagined communities in a modern nation. When people used to know everyone in their villages, now we use celebrities to come together in a new kind of group. “I’m a fan of Beyoncé, and you’re a fan of Beyoncé, so now we’re a part of this imagined community,” says Fawcett.