Aurora Levins Morales: "Memory is Our Soil: Bringing History into the Commons"

Public Lecture by the 2018 UMass Amherst History Department Writer in Residence, Aurora Levins Morales: "Memory is Our Soil: Bringing History into the Commons"
Student Union Ballroom, UMass Amherst, April 17, 2018
Aurora Levins Morales is a Puerto Rican Ashkenazi Jewish feminist writer, historian and well-rounded radical. She is the author of six books including "Medicine Stories, Remedios: Stories of Earth and Iron from the History of Puertorriqueñas" and "Kindling: Writings on the Body." Her work has appeared in dozens of anthologies, is widely taught, and has been translated into seven languages. She produces "Letters from Earth," an environmental justice podcast, and is a member of JOCSM, the Jews of Color, Sephardi and Mizrahi Caucus partnership with Jewish Voice for Peace, and the JVP Artists’ Council. She lives in a tiny house in Northern California. www.auroralevinsmorales.com/
The UMass Amherst History Department Writer-in Residence Program facilitates sustained conversation with widely-read authors whose historical work engages broad public audiences. It is supported by Five Colleges, Inc.
Event sponsors: UMass/Five College Graduate History Program, UMass Amherst Department of History, and Five Colleges, Inc. It is co-sponsored by the Ethics and Common Good Program at Hampshire College, the Amherst College Department of History, the Mount Holyoke College Department of History, the UMass Amherst Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies, the UMass Alliance for Community Transformation, the UMass Amherst Department of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, and Maria Salgado-Cartagena, People's Historian of Holyoke's Puerto Rican Diaspora.

[@Sabino-Daniel]

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