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The Literature of War and Peace: A Symposium, Part Two
Friday October 18, 2024 6:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
Feldman's Books
Co-presented with Feldman's Books

Join renowned writers and scholars including Polina Barskova, Ulia Gosart, Patrick Hunt, Jessica Semaan, and Tobias Wolff in a panel discussion, readings, and Socratic dialogue on the complex topic of war and peace. Featuring musical guests Effie Zilch and others performing original songs and classic 1960s anti-war music. Feldman's is proud to partner with local schools in creating 1,000 paper cranes to send to Hiroshima and Nagasaki as an international gesture of peace. In honor of this partnership, attendees of this event will be sent home with one paper crane as a token of remembrance. FREE, $20 suggested donation
Book sales for this event coordinated by Feldman's Books.
Authors and Participants
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Polina Barskova

Polina Barskova is a scholar and a poet, author of thirteen collections of poems and three books of prose in Russian. Her collection of creative nonfiction, Living Pictures, received the Andrey Bely Prize in 2015 and which has been translated into German and English. She edited the... Read More →
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Ulia Gosart

Ulia Gosart (Popova) is a scholar, writer and human rights activist. She grew up in Ukraine, and studies in Kiev University of Culture and Arts, Ukraine; her PhD is from UCLA. She teaches at the School of Information at San Jose State University. Since the start of the full-scale... Read More →
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Patrick Hunt

Patrick Hunt is an award-winning archaeologist, explorer, author, and National Geographic grantee. He earned his Ph.D. in Archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology, University College London (University of London), and has taught at Stanford University for over thirty years. Hunt... Read More →
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Jess Semaan

Jess Semaan is a queer Lebanese poet, psychotherapist, group facilitator and speaker. She researches, writes and speaks on subjects of healing from complex trauma, immigration, war and belonging. Her first poetry book Child of the Moon sold over 15,000 copies. Her second book Your... Read More →
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Tobias Wolff

Tobias Wolff’s books include the memoirs This Boy’s Life and In Pharaoh’s Army: Memories of the Lost War; the short novel The Barracks Thief; the novel Old School, and four collections of short stories. He has also edited several anthologies, among them Best American Short Stories... Read More →
Friday October 18, 2024 6:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
Feldman's Books
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