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Patricia Leavy: Feminist Author Blurs the Arts and Sciences
Lauren Sardi interviews Patricia Leavy, feminist sociology professor and author. Leavy has become known for advocating innovative and artful approaches to conducting social research as a means of getting at the complexity of lived experience and linking the “inner worlds” of women to the social contexts in which they live.
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A Different Kind of Social Justice Movement: Choreographer Ananya Chatterjea Uses Dance to Inspire Change
Caroline Palmer looks at the motivations of Minneapolis-based choreographer Ananya Chatterjea and the work of Ananya Dance Theatre (ADT).
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Security (Surveys from the Cape of Good Hope): Jane Alexander @ La Centrale Électrique
BRUSSELS – Through July 21st, La Centrale Électrique of Brussels exhibits the first monographic exhibition in Belgium of the controversial and surprising African artist Jane Alexander.
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One World Café presents Thaisa Frank
In this podcast, Thaisa Frank reads from her novel Heidegger’s Glasses and discusses how “her intuition led her to write about circumstances that were grounded in factual events, but of which she had no knowledge at the time.”
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