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  • Matters of State: Literature & Espionage

    Matters of State: Literature & Espionage
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    WHY SPY NOVELS? Spy novels emerged as a distinct genre around the time of World War I, coinciding with the creation of formal intelligence agencies in many countries. This was a period characterized by heightened concern on the part of rulers about national security, imperial strength, and the impending conflict of the Great War. Spy novels from the early twentieth century reflect these concerns, and generally feature secret agents and seemingly realistic tales of international intrigue. With the rise of fascism, spy novels shifted their focus to examine the dynamics of political movements within individual states, assessing their threats to the stability of the international political order. In these stories, the anxiety over the powerlessness of the individual is assuaged by the resourcefulness and ultimate success of exceptional or lucky individuals in confronting such harrowing problems as war, nuclear proliferation, and terrorism.

    $24 – $36

  • Matters of State: Literature & Espionage

    Matters of State: Literature & Espionage
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    WHY SPY NOVELS? Spy novels emerged as a distinct genre around the time of World War I, coinciding with the creation of formal intelligence agencies in many countries. This was a period characterized by heightened concern on the part of rulers about national security, imperial strength, and the impending conflict of the Great War. Spy novels from the early twentieth century reflect these concerns, and generally feature secret agents and seemingly realistic tales of international intrigue. With the rise of fascism, spy novels shifted their focus to examine the dynamics of political movements within individual states, assessing their threats to the stability of the international political order. In these stories, the anxiety over the powerlessness of the individual is assuaged by the resourcefulness and ultimate success of exceptional or lucky individuals in confronting such harrowing problems as war, nuclear proliferation, and terrorism.

    $24 – $36

  • Pluto Wildcat Series: Final 2 sessions—Augmented Exploitation and Wobblies of the World

    Pluto Wildcat Series: Final 2 sessions—Augmented Exploitation and Wobblies of the World
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    These books uncover the radical militancy which characterises international workers struggles, both contemporary and historical. Looking at diverse topics including proletarianisation and class formation, mass production, gender, affective and reproductive labour, syndicalism and independent unions, and labour and Leftist social and political movements, it is the most comprehensive exploration into workers’ organisation being developed today. All books from the series are available at the MEP on-line book store.

    $12 – $18

  • Pluto Wildcat Series: Final 2 sessions—Augmented Exploitation and Wobblies of the World

    Pluto Wildcat Series: Final 2 sessions—Augmented Exploitation and Wobblies of the World
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    These books uncover the radical militancy which characterises international workers struggles, both contemporary and historical. Looking at diverse topics including proletarianisation and class formation, mass production, gender, affective and reproductive labour, syndicalism and independent unions, and labour and Leftist social and political movements, it is the most comprehensive exploration into workers’ organisation being developed today. All books from the series are available at the MEP on-line book store.

    $12 – $18

  • Fifth Summer of Noir: Last session this week (Derek Raymond and Denise Mina)

    Fifth Summer of Noir: Last session this week (Derek Raymond and Denise Mina)
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    For the last four summers, the MEP Literature Studies Group has delved into a wealth of noir fiction. This year our six selections will take us deep into the underbelly of capitalism – good for reading at the beach, on the subway, a train, boat or plane, or in your favorite reading chair safely at home.  Join in for the last two books.

    $15.00 – $25.00

  • Fifth Summer of Noir: Last session this week (Derek Raymond and Denise Mina)

    Fifth Summer of Noir: Last session this week (Derek Raymond and Denise Mina)
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    For the last four summers, the MEP Literature Studies Group has delved into a wealth of noir fiction. This year our six selections will take us deep into the underbelly of capitalism – good for reading at the beach, on the subway, a train, boat or plane, or in your favorite reading chair safely at home.  Join in for the last two books.

    $15.00 – $25.00

  • Fifth Summer of Noir: Last session this week (Derek Raymond and Denise Mina)

    Fifth Summer of Noir: Last session this week (Derek Raymond and Denise Mina)
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    For the last four summers, the MEP Literature Studies Group has delved into a wealth of noir fiction. This year our six selections will take us deep into the underbelly of capitalism – good for reading at the beach, on the subway, a train, boat or plane, or in your favorite reading chair safely at home.  Join in for the last two books.

    $15.00 – $25.00

  • Fifth Summer of Noir: Last session this week (Derek Raymond and Denise Mina)

    Fifth Summer of Noir: Last session this week (Derek Raymond and Denise Mina)
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    For the last four summers, the MEP Literature Studies Group has delved into a wealth of noir fiction. This year our six selections will take us deep into the underbelly of capitalism – good for reading at the beach, on the subway, a train, boat or plane, or in your favorite reading chair safely at home.  Join in for the last two books.

    $15.00 – $25.00

  • Diary of a Digital Plague Year with Dennis Broe

    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    DENNIS BROE, author of Birth of the Binge: Serial TV and The End of Leisure, will be talking about his new book Diary of a Digital Plague Year: Corona Culture, Serial TV and The Rise of The Streaming Services. The book offers a blow-by-blow account of the ongoing confinement, charting the changes in our lives exacerbated by the coronavirus. Corona culture is a digital culture extraordinaire for some, while for others it has increased panic and terror about being at work.

    $7 – $11

  • Women Write on the Verge of Historical Change: Last session

    Women Write on the Verge of Historical Change: Last session
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    During this term, the MEP Literature Studies Group will read novels by women writers which explore the intersections of life in their communities, both at home and in the metropoles of Europe, India and the Philippines. These stories will take us to places and introduce us to people facing many of the dilemmas posed during late-stage capitalism, when the looming tipping points begin to collide. Reading and discussing these important writers could very well bring us to a broader sense of time and place. We will discussion Aminatta Forna and Gloria Apostol on December 2, 9, and 16.

    $15.00 – $25.00

  • Women Write on the Verge of Historical Change: Last session

    Women Write on the Verge of Historical Change: Last session
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    During this term, the MEP Literature Studies Group will read novels by women writers which explore the intersections of life in their communities, both at home and in the metropoles of Europe, India and the Philippines. These stories will take us to places and introduce us to people facing many of the dilemmas posed during late-stage capitalism, when the looming tipping points begin to collide. Reading and discussing these important writers could very well bring us to a broader sense of time and place. We will discussion Aminatta Forna and Gloria Apostol on December 2, 9, and 16.

    $15.00 – $25.00

  • Women Write on the Verge of Historical Change: Last session

    Women Write on the Verge of Historical Change: Last session
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    During this term, the MEP Literature Studies Group will read novels by women writers which explore the intersections of life in their communities, both at home and in the metropoles of Europe, India and the Philippines. These stories will take us to places and introduce us to people facing many of the dilemmas posed during late-stage capitalism, when the looming tipping points begin to collide. Reading and discussing these important writers could very well bring us to a broader sense of time and place. We will discussion Aminatta Forna and Gloria Apostol on December 2, 9, and 16.

    $15.00 – $25.00

  • Siegebreakers: A discussion of Justin Podur’s novel set in Gaza

    Siegebreakers: A discussion of Justin Podur’s novel set in Gaza
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    Under the crushing weight of the siege of Gaza, Laila and Nasser are members of the Palestinian resistance fighting desperately to free their people. Together, they learn of a plan to unite the disparate Palestinian factions and break Israel’s siege. Unknown to them, Ari, a brilliant Israeli spy, has decided that his conscience can no longer allow him to participate in the starvation of Gaza. A double agent whose every move is under mounting suspicion, Ari reaches out to the American contractors who trained him with a secret plan. As they all struggle to break the siege, they face the wrath of the Israeli military machine.

    $9.00 – $15.00

  • Siegebreakers: A discussion of Justin Podur’s novel set in Gaza

    Siegebreakers: A discussion of Justin Podur’s novel set in Gaza
    Online Event - Zoom Meeting

    Under the crushing weight of the siege of Gaza, Laila and Nasser are members of the Palestinian resistance fighting desperately to free their people. Together, they learn of a plan to unite the disparate Palestinian factions and break Israel’s siege. Unknown to them, Ari, a brilliant Israeli spy, has decided that his conscience can no longer allow him to participate in the starvation of Gaza. A double agent whose every move is under mounting suspicion, Ari reaches out to the American contractors who trained him with a secret plan. As they all struggle to break the siege, they face the wrath of the Israeli military machine.

    $9.00 – $15.00

  • Insurrecto with author Gina Apostol in conversation with Patricia McManus

    Gina Apostol’s Insurrecto is a harrowing depiction of the nearly 125-year history of U.S. intervention, occupation, and domination in the Philippines.
    “Of course, as opposed to the colonizer, the world of the colonized is visibly and thus irreparably multiple – because included in the world of the colonized is the world of the colonizer.”. —“How Do We Know the Things That Make Us?”, An essay from Gina Apostol

    $3 – $11