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Semipublic Intellectual Sessions: On Leaving - lareviewofbooks

Last updated Thursday, December 16, 2021 10:05 ET , Source: NewsService

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IRENE YOON: Good evening. Thank you for joining us for our second Thursday event of the Semipublic Intellectual Sessions here at the Los Angeles Review of Books. I’m Irene Yoon, LARB’s executive director, and, on behalf of all of us here at LARB, I’m thrilled to welcome you and all of our wonderful guests — Andrea Long Chu, K. Austin Collins, Lauren Michele Jackson, and Christine Smallwood — for our discussion on leaving, moderated by LARB’s new editor, Sarah Chihaya.

The practice of writing inside, outside, against, between — insert just about any preposition here — the academy and the broader public and the questions at such workplaces strikes at the heart of so much of what we do here at LARB. Over the last decade, we’ve been really proud to foster capacious intellectual forums (like this very series) that welcome scholars, writers and readers of all kinds worldwide to the conversation [and] to the wide-ranging, accessible, and simultaneously deeply researched and expert exchange of ideas. We’ve also not shied away from thinking through the ways, as some of our guest speakers last week so eloquently put it, in which this richly textured discourse and the flourishing...



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