Thursday, November 13 at 6:00 pm
FREE
Join us at Hallwalls to celebrate the release of Buffalo-born author Rachel J. Lithgow's debut memoir, My Year of Really Bad Dates! This event will consist of a conversation to be followed by questions and signing. Free to attend. Purchase of your book from Talking Leaves is the best way to support this event.
Rachel J. Lithgow is a historian and museum professional with thirty years of experience running large cultural institutions. Her work and writing have appeared in dozens of publications around the world, including The New York Times, The Daily News, Time, The Advocate, The Jerusalem Post, The Huffington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Times of Israel, eJP, The New York Observer, and the Buffalo News. Rachel has two children and splits her time between Long Beach, Long Island, and Hell's Kitchen in New York City.
After two life-shaking events—losing her father and divorcing the man she's spent half her life with, who happens to be an actor from a famous family—Rachel Lithgow leaves a thirty-year career to write full time and pursue a relationship with a calming, delightful man she recently met online. She thinks she has it all figured out . . . until he announces he’s joining a cult and moving to Phoenix with a blonde real estate agent.
Through a year of terrible dates, peppered with a few great experiences and a lot of pinot noir, the author learns that patterns can be changed, that asking for help is sometimes necessary, and that there’s only one way to repair her brokenness: by facing her trauma and demons head-on.
Friday, November 14 at 4:00 pm
UB Humanities Institute and Hallwalls present
A monthly lecture series featuring the UB Humanities Institute’s Faculty Fellows for the current academic year, hosted at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center.
4:00pm | Mingling
4:15pm | Introductions and featured talk followed by Q + A
We hope you'll join us in-person for the good camraderie and conversation, but you can also join the livestreamvia the Hallwalls website.
Based on ethnographic research of a political campaign to reform criminal justice responses to the violent crime of U.S. military veterans, this talk unpacks how criminal justice policy actors engage, consume, and reshape medical knowledge for political ends. Focusing on political contestation over who specifically should be eligible for lesser sentences and rehabilitative responses, the talk shows that while medicalization solves some legitimacy problems for reformers, it simultaneously generates new knowledge and classification struggles. This underlines the fragility of medicalization processes in criminal justice institutions and raises questions about the consequences of making criminal courts key arbiters of vulnerability and recovery.
Victoria Piehowski uses interpretive qualitative methods to study medicine, punishment, and the politics of knowledge at their intersection ...
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