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Roemer lecture to focus on importance of indigenous peoples in water and climate solutions


The annual Kenneth Roemer Lecture on World Affairs at SUNY Geneseo will feature Manuela L. Picq, a professor of international relations at Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador, who will speak on the topic of “Water Defenders: why indigenous peoples, especially women, at the frontlines of climate solutions.
The April 14 lecture will be hosted online via Zoom at 2:30 p.m. and is open to the public. Register for the lecture online here.
In addition to her professor role at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Picq is the Loewenstein Fellow in the Departments of Sexuality, Women’s and Gender Studies and Political Science at Amherst College in Massachusetts. She has held research positions at Freie Universität Berlin (2015), the Institute for Advanced Study (2013), and the Woodrow Wilson Center (2005). ....

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Public intellectuals and the fabric of dissent


The “public intellectual” has a specific role in society – to publicly raise embarrassing questions, to confront orthodoxy and dogma, to be someone who cannot be co-opted by governments, someone whose
raison d’être is to represent people and issues that are routinely forgotten or swept under the rug.
This definition of the public intellectual – from Palestinian cultural critic and literary scholar Edward Said – is the foundation of a book we have just completed, titled
The Fabric of Dissent: Public Intellectuals in South Africa, published by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) Press.
Our editorial team from the University of Pretoria’s faculty of humanities and the HSRC put together 75 portraits of public intellectuals who personify Said’s definition and who have profoundly influenced South African society in the past and present. ....

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Poetry Magazine, Prison Abolition, and the Limits of Mercy


And this is how a poem by Kirk Nesset made it into the pages of Poetry. Nesset, a 63-year-old former Allegheny College English professor, pleaded guilty in 2015 to possession, receipt, and distribution of child pornography; he was sentenced to 76 months in federal prison and released this fall. He is now on the sex offender registry in Arizona.
From the moment the issue came out, sexual violence survivors, victims’ advocates, and assorted feminists began raining angry tweets, blogs, and public statements on Poetry and its publisher, the Poetry Foundation. A Change.org petition demanding that the magazine remove the poem and apologize to “Nesset’s voiceless victims, their readers and subscribers, and victims of sexual violence everywhere” gained over 1,600 signatures in a week. By then the story had spread as far as New Delhi. ....

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