BOOK EVENTS
Healthcare and Humanity Reading Series: Muhammad Zaman, author of “We Wait for a Miracle: Health Care and the Forcibly Displaced,” in conversation with Theresa Brown
7-8:30 p.m. Jan. 16, City of Asylum, 40 W. North Ave., and online
In “We Wait for a Miracle,” Zaman, professor of biomedical engineering and global health at Boston University, describes the difficulties faced by refugees, the internally displaced, and the stateless in accessing health care. He writes that barriers to health care share the following key factors: trust, social network, efficiency of the health system, and the regulatory framework of the host environment. The book combines personal and journalistic accounts of refugees with broad systemic analysis on global health care access to compare problems and solutions in different regions and provides holistic policy and practice recommendations for refugee populations. The series is co-sponsored by Pitt’s Center for Bioethics & Health Law and City of Asylum, with additional support from the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. It is curated by Theresa Brown, author of “The Shift and Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient,” and features authors whose works explore experiences of health, healthcare and embodiment. Programs in the series include a brief reading from the author, a moderated conversation, an audience Q&A, and a book signing. Register for free tickets
Africana Studies Brown Bag Series: “Place-Making in a Fractured Academic Landscape,” by Darlène Dubuisson, Pitt assistant professor of anthropology and Africana studies (Rutgers University Press)
Noon-1 p.m. Jan. 24, 4140 Posvar Hall
The Department of Africana Studies Brown Bag Series presents Darlène Dubuisson, with a discussion on her forthcoming book, “Place-Making in a Fractured Academic Landscape,” based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Port-au-Prince between 2013 and 2018. The book explores Haitian intellectual exile and academic diaspora homecomings after two would-be moments of social transformation in Haiti: post-Duvalier (1986-) and post-earthquake (2010-).
API Month Conversation with Lidong Xiang, assistant professor in the English department, about “Last Night at the Telegraph Club” by Malindo Lo
12:30-1:15 p.m. Jan. 24, 1st Floor Cafe, Hillman Library
The University Library System is hosting Xiang to talk about "Last Night at the Telegraph Club" by Malinda Lo, which received a National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2021, but is currently banned from the K-12 schools and libraries in many states. The novel tells the story of Lily Hu, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, as she explores her sexuality and the struggles and threats her family faces in 1950's San Francisco during the Red Scare and the McCarthyism investigations. Registration recommended.
NEW BOOKS
“The Political Writings of Bhagat Singh,” co-edited by Michael Yates, professor emeritus, Pitt–Johnstown (LeftWord Books, New Delhi)
Bhagat Singh is one of India's most famous revolutionaries. He was executed by the British in 1931 at the age of 23, charged with murder of a British police officer. While he is perhaps best known for his audacious actions against British imperialism, he was an accomplished writer, with keen political insights. This book contains his most significant political writings, with an overall Introduction to his life and times and also an Introduction to the political works themselves. Each essay is situated in time and place by the editors, who hope that this book will make Singh's importance better known to an English-speaking public.