{"id":6005,"date":"2010-09-28T09:43:28","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T09:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=6005"},"modified":"2010-09-28T09:43:28","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T09:43:28","slug":"book-talks-on-civic-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=6005","title":{"rendered":"book talks on civic engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This fall, please join these four authors for discussions of their new books.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/activecitizen.tufts.edu\/images\/activecitizen_1040.jpg\" align=\"right\" height=\"117\" width=\"76\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\"><\/p>\n<p>Sept 9, Noon-2 pm, Rabb Room, Lincoln Filene Hall<\/p>\n<p><strong>Henry Milner<\/p>\n<p>The Internet Generation: Engaged Citizens or Political Dropouts<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Tufts University Press, 2010<\/p>\n<p>Henry Milner is a political scientist at the University of Montreal in Canada and Ume\u00e5 University in Sweden, and co-editor of Inroads, a Canadian journal of policy and opinion<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/activecitizen.tufts.edu\/images\/activecitizen_1041.jpg\" align=\"right\" height=\"117\" width=\"76\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\"><\/p>\n<p>Oct. 13, 4:30-6:00 pm, Rabb Room, Lincoln Filene Hall<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shirley Sagawa<\/p>\n<p>The American Way to Change: How National Service and Volunteers Are Transforming America<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Jossey Bass, 2010<\/p>\n<p>As special assistant to President Clinton for domestic policy, Sagawa drafted the legislation that created AmeriCorps and the Corporation for National and Community Service. After Senate confirmation as the Corporation\u2019s first managing director, she helped lead the development of the new agency and its programs. She is co-founder of the sagawa\/jospin consulting firm and Visiting Fellow at the Center for American Progress.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/activecitizen.tufts.edu\/images\/activecitizen_1039.jpg\" align=\"right\" height=\"117\" width=\"76\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\"><\/p>\n<p>Oct. 15, Noon-2 pm, Crane Room, Paige Hall<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Warren<\/p>\n<p>Fire in the Heart: How White Activists Embrace Racial Justice<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Oxford University Press, 2010<\/p>\n<p>Mark Warren is Associate Professor of Education at Harvard University. A sociologist, he is concerned with the revitalization of American democratic and community life. He is the author of several previous books, including Dry Bones Rattling: Community Building to Revitalize American Democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Co-Sponsored by the Social Justice Initiative<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/activecitizen.tufts.edu\/images\/activecitizen_1042.jpg\" align=\"right\" height=\"117\" width=\"76\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\"><\/p>\n<p>Dec. 10, Noon-2 pm, Crane Room, Paige Hall<\/p>\n<p><strong>Richard Wolin<\/p>\n<p>The Wind from the East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Princeton, 2010<\/p>\n<p>Richard Wolin is Distinguished Professor of History, Comparative Literature, and Political Science at the City University of New York Graduate Center. His previous books include Heidegger\u2019s Children and The Seduction of Unreason and he writes regularly in Dissent, the Nation, and The New Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Co-sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages and the Center for the Humanities at Tufts (CHaT)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This fall, please join these four authors for discussions of their new books. 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