Brown Bag Biography with Michael Shapiro

February 1, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Mānoa Campus, Kuykendall 410

The Center for Biographical Research presents: / “The Civic Lives of Grief”/ Michael J. Shapiro, Emeritus Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Hawaiʻi at ԴDz / In response to the addition of “prolonged grief” to the American Psychiatric Association’s 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—poetry, plays, photography, street demonstrations by the Madres de Plaza de Mayo, and a novel—Shapiro highlights the poetry of the late exilic Argentinian Juan Gelman, whose son and daughter-in-law were murdered during Argentina’s “Dirty War,” and whose infant granddaughter was sent to Uruguay for adoption. This talk will feature this poetic line from Gelman: “I sip the night slowly, knowing that you’re in it somewhere.” / Michael J. Shapiro is an Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Ƶ ԴDz. 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: “Grief,” Dmitri Baltermants, 1942


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