At Past the Web page, we imagine within the energy of information, the magic of tales and the fantastic thing about shared experiences. This occasion sequence options interactive classes with famend authors discussing their newest work and writing course of. Whether or not you might be in search of profound discussions or heartfelt feelings, these occasions provide one thing really particular for everybody.
GBH and Past the Web page are excited to kick off the 2023 Boston Ebook Competition!
On October 3, we speak with Tiya Miles, a public historian and artistic author whose analysis focuses on African American, Native American and girls’s historical past throughout colonial America
Miles is the Michael Garvey Professor of Historical past at Harvard College, the writer of 5 prize-winning works on the historical past of slavery and early American race relations, and a 2011 MacArthur Fellowship recipient. She was the founder and director of the Michigan-based ECO Women program. Her New York Occasions bestselling guide All That She Carried received the Nationwide Ebook Award.
Miles’s newest guide Wild Women, examines how Harriet Tubman, Zitkála-Šá andLouisa Might Alcott, amongst others,discovered self-understanding within the pure world and have become ladies who modified America. This lovely, meditative work of historical past places ladies of all races—and the landscapes they beloved—at heart stage and divulges the influence of the outside on ladies’s independence, resourcefulness and imaginative and prescient. For these trailblazing ladies of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, navigating the woods, following the celebrities, taking part in sports activities and taking to the streets in peaceable protest weren’t solely joyful pursuits, but in addition methods to withstand assimilation, racism, and sexism.
Register now for this free occasion. Signed copies of Wild Women can be found at try when registering for this occasion.
Can’t attend on October third? The Boston Ebook Competition formally begins on October 14, the place Tiya Miles (together with many different proficient authors) can be featured as a keynote speaker! Take a look at all of the 2023 Boston Ebook Competition Headliners and Keynotes at bostonbookfest.org
