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As both a journalist and civic visionary for nearly 6 decades, Neal Peirce played a unique role as the chronicler of civic best practice in cities and regions --- as well as friend and civic mentor to many of us in the fields of city and regional planning and development.

Neal's nationally-syndicated columns in the Washington Post for some 35 years, and his related work in cities and regions, led the New York Times to compare him to Jane Jacobs and Lewis Mumford in their Sunday, December 27, 2019 tribute to Neal.

The Times observed, "Peirce carved out a new national beat covering the affairs of local governments and states. He paid close attention to fresh approaches that were succeeding in economic development, transit, housing, public education, recreation, pubic safety and government management." That's quite a multi-faceted array of disciplines.

To sustain this 6-decade legacy in civic best practices --- Neal Peirce's children, along with several of us who were fortunate enough to have Neal as a civic mentor over the years, have joined together to establish a new national philanthropic organization, The Neal Peirce Foundation.

The plan is to award grants to journalists to fund travel so that they can go out as Neal did and write the undertold stories of how to make cities and their metro regions work better for all their people.

Please join us in spreading the word by forwarding this email to colleagues and friends, sharing the website link [nealpeircefoundation.org] on your social media platforms, and talking up Neal and our efforts at the picnic table, the beach, or wherever else you may happen to be this summer.

Following Neal's passing in 2019, I penned the attached tribute to him and to his particular contributions to the advancement of cities and regions, including Denver and St. Louis, where our communities commissioned Peirce Reports in conjunction with the Denver Post and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

As Andrea notes in her July 26th post, anyone wishing to connect with the work of the recently-established Foundation, the mailing address is: The Peirce Foundation, 610 G Street, S.W., Washington, D.C., 20024, and the e-mail is nealpeircefoundation.org.

A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and workplaces.

A collection of speeches and writings by political activist Angela Davis which address the political and social changes of the past decade as they are concerned with the struggle for racial, sexual, and economic equality.

Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history. In a sweeping narrative that traverses 600 years, one that eloquently weaves precise historical detail with poignant personal reportage, Pulitzer Prize finalist Howard W. French retells the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, the anchoring of democracy in America, and the fulfillment of so-called Enlightenment ideals all grew out of Europe's dehumanizing engagement with the "darkest" continent.

Adapted by celebrated academics and comics artists Damian Duffy and John Jennings, this graphic novel powerfully renders Butler's mysterious and moving story, which spans racial and gender divides in the antebellum South through the 20th century. Butler's most celebrated, critically acclaimed work tells the story of Dana, a young black woman who is suddenly and inexplicably transported from her home in 1970s California to the pre-Civil War South. As she time-travels between worlds, one in which she is a free woman and one where she is part of her own complicated familial history on a southern plantation, she becomes frighteningly entangled in the lives of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder and one of Dana's own ancestors, and the many people who are enslaved by him.

All first year students are required to take two seminars, one in the fall, the other in the spring semester. The seminars are courses in which the student is introduced to the literary, philosophical, and artistic legacies of several interrelated cultures. Works are chosen to represent a wide range of intellectual discourse, from poetry, drama, and fiction, to history, philosophy, and polemic.

In the spring semester each section of the Seminar focuses on a single work of demonstrated historical importance. A work may be interpreted as, for example, a symphony, a painting, a scientific treatise, a city plan, a dramatic performance, a novel, an ethnography, a case study, or a political tract. Faculty will devote the semester to an in-depth study of the particular work they have chosen, students will engage with this work by writing frequent analytical papers.

Th 11:30 am - 12:50 pm OLIN 301In the Spring of 1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge published a slim volume of poetry with the help of his new-found admirer, the wildly popular young poet, Lord Byron. Two of these poems - "Kubla Khan" and "Christabel" -- had remained unfinished for over a decade, but they were well-known among England's intellectual circles. Both had been recited as after-dinner entertainments, and had even inspired imitations and parodies. Their reception by the public at large, however, was mixed to say the least. Byron had praised the poetry's "wild and original genius," but Byron had suddenly fled England amid a flurry of scandalous rumors, and Coleridge was left behind to face accusations of foisting nonsensical fragments on an ingenuous public. Much of the critical outcry was prompted by the poet's notorious preface to "Kubla Khan," in which he describes the poem's conception during an opium dream -- a dream interrupted by a "person on business from Porlock" who knocked at the door. The author of one of the most savage reviews was Coleridge's former protg, the essayist William Hazlitt, who declared the poetry "dim, obscure, and visionary." "Kubla Khan" and "Christabel" have proved to be two of the most influential poems in the English language, in spite of, or perhaps because of their visionary, obscure, and fragmentary states.

CRN12288 Course No.FSEM II EBTitleThe TorahProfessorEthan BlochScheduleMon Wed 1:30 pm -2:50 pmLC 210The Torah (literally, the Law, in Hebrew) consists of the five books of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. These books form the beginning of both the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament, and are at the foundation of the Jewish and Christian traditions. The Torah is also the source of many myths, concepts and moral principles that have become a part of the fabric of all Western civilization. The Torah has been studied as a work of literature, as a cultural artifact, as an inspiration for moral behavior, as a source of religious beliefs and as a divinely written work. We will read large parts of the Torah, examining how it can be interpreted in these different ways. Readings from the Torah will be supplemented by a variety of commentators, both ancient and modern, from Jewish, Christian and academic approaches.

CRN12362 Course No.FSEM II MCTitleFlaubert:Sentimental EducationProfessorMark CohenScheduleMon Wed11:30 am - 12:50 pmOLIN 310At the heart of the bourgeois revolution that began in the eighteenth century was a promise of absolute freedom towards which humankind was thought to be steadily progressing. The nineteenth century would be the proving ground of that promise, one in which virtually all of its great thinkers and writers placed their most fervent hope. One novel of the nineteenth century, however set out to prove that not only could the dream not be realized but thjat both history and desire were ultimately incoherent and revolution itself therefore impossible: Flaubert's L'Education sentimentale, first published in 1869. Its characters comprise the privileged, listless, fetishist protagonist Frederic Moreau and his friends: an assortment of women, students, entrepreneurs, artists and social climbers (otherwise known as "Bohemia"). Flaubert carefully designed the novel to show the ultimate pointlessness of all of their various beliefs and projects. More broadly, the diffuse manner in which Flaubert has structured his narrative of the 1848 revolution and the characters' passage through it which forms the central event of the novel acts to drain history, desire and perhaps even literature itself of their significance. To show how Flaubert carried out his counter-history of the nineteenth century we will examine the novel itself in detail, the historical context in which it was written and other relevant texts from the period (Flaubert's other works, Stendhal, Balzac, Marx, Michelet, Baudelaire, Darwin, Hugo). L'Education's brilliant formal innovations and its revelation that literary realism might find its apotheosis not in science but in pure irony make this one of the founding novels of modernism (and indeed postmodernism) but also point forward to our own current ideological impasse.

CRN12301 Course No.FSEM II PGTitleHenry Fielding's The History of Tom Jones, A FoundlingProfessorPeter GadsbyScheduleMon Th11:30 am - 12:50 pmOLIN 307Considered by Coleridge to have one of the three great plots of all literature, Fielding's Tom Jones (1749) has long been regarded as one of the first and most influential of English novels. Fielding's hapless but loveable hero careers through the pages of this generous, worldly, supremely comic tale, extending the tradition of the picaro through his travels across eighteenth-century England. We will consider this rich text in relation to the development of the novel, changing social and economic conditions, and the author's ongoing inquiry into the moral life of man.

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