Brown Bag Biography with Michael Shapiro
February 1, 12:00pm - 1:15pmMānoa Campus, Kuykendall 410
The Center for Biographical Research presents: / 鈥淭he Civic Lives of Grief鈥/ Michael J. Shapiro, Emeritus Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Hawai驶i at 惭腻苍辞补 / In response to the addition of 鈥減rolonged grief鈥 to the American Psychiatric Association鈥檚 diagnostic manual in March 2022, this talk will make the case for the creative and productive effects of enduring grief. Among many illustrations drawn from a range of media genres鈥攑oetry, plays, photography, street demonstrations by the Madres de Plaza de Mayo, and a novel鈥擲hapiro highlights the poetry of the late exilic Argentinian Juan Gelman, whose son and daughter-in-law were murdered during Argentina鈥檚 鈥淒irty War,鈥 and whose infant granddaughter was sent to Uruguay for adoption. This talk will feature this poetic line from Gelman: 鈥淚 sip the night slowly, knowing that you鈥檙e in it somewhere.鈥 / Michael J. Shapiro is an Emeritus Professor of Political Science at UH 惭腻苍辞补. Focused in recent years on the politics of aesthetics and compositional methods, his recent publications include Aesthetics of Equality (Oxford University Press, 2023), Writing Politics: Studies in Compositional Method (Routledge, 2021), The Phenomenology of Religious Belief (Bloomsbury, 2021), The Cinematic Political: Film Composition as Political Theory (Routledge, 2020), Punctuations: How the Arts Think the Political (Duke University Press, 2019), and The Political Sublime (Duke University Press, 2018). / Cosponsored by Hamilton Library, Conflict and Peace Specialist, and the Departments of American Studies, Ethnic Studies, History, and Political Science / Thursday, February 1 / Kuykendall 410 / 12PM to 1:15PM HST / Image: 鈥淕rief,鈥 Dmitri Baltermants, 1942
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