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2/27/2013  rm 225/229, noon-1pm
Sally Ashton
Lecturer, English and Comparative Literature
Making Sense of Contemporary Poetry
Current Santa Clara County Poet Laureate Sally Ashton is a lecturer in the English and Creative Writing Departments at SJSU and Editor-in-Chief of DMQ Review, an online journal featuring poetry and art. As Poet Laureate, and as a poet and teacher, she has spent the past several years familiarizing people with poetry and making a case for its place in their lives. Ashton will talk about these experiences and discuss “how a poem means,” her own writing, and how someone might come to enjoy contemporary poetry.

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3/20/2013  rm 225/229, noon-1pm
Natalie Boero
Associate Professor, Sociology Department
Come hear Natalie Boero talk about how and why obesity emerged as a public health concern and her book Killer Fat: Media, Medicine, and Morals in the American 'Obesity Epidemic'
Killer Fat: Media, Medicine, and Morals in the American 'Obesity Epidemic' examines how and why obesity emerged as a public health concern and national obsession in recent years. It enters the world of bariatric surgeries and diet programs to show how common expectations of what bodies should look like help determine what interventions and policies are considered urgent in containing this epidemic. This book offers an alternate framing of obesity based on the insights of the “Health at Every Size” movement. Natalie Boero is an associate professor in the Sociology Department.

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4/24/2013  rm 225/229, noon-1pm
Joel Franks
Lecturer, Asian American Studies & American Studies
Batter up! Come hear Joel Franks talk about race, colonization, and baseball in the twentieth century
Dr. Joel Franks teaches Asian American Studies and American Studies. He has done extensive research and writing in the area of Asian Pacific American sports. His most recent work, The Barnstorming Hawaiian Travelers: A Multiethnic Baseball Team Tours the Mainland, 1912- 1916, tells the story of a multi-ethnic, multi-racial team of Hawaiian ballplayers who played across the continental U.S. from 1912 through 1916. This book sheds light on a little known tale of baseball, race, and colonization in the United States during the early decades of the twentieth century.

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