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SUMMARY:From Pitch to Publish in the Public Humanities
DESCRIPTION:Join award-winning writers and journalists Lauren Markham and Chris Feliciano Arnold for two days of panels and workshops.\n\n\n\nFrom Pitch to Publish in the Public Humanities\nWhen: February 2–3\, 2026\nLocation: Royce 314\nFree and open to the public. \n\nToday\, it is vital that scholars’ work is made widely available and accessible to the public. Is your research part of the public discourse? Do you have stories the public at large would benefit from knowing? Do you want to reach a broader audience\, an audience beyond the peer-reviewed academic outlets? Do you want to learn how to pitch your specific story and research to non-academic publications? We have invited two writers and journalists\, Lauren Markham and Chris Feliciano Arnold\, to offer insights on the public humanities writing\, pitching\, and publication process in a series of panels\, workshops\, and individual feedback sessions. \nPublic Events\nMonday\, February 2\, 10:30AM–12:00 PM (Royce 314)\nWorkshop: “Enliven Your Prose with Research Details: Public Workshop with Chris Feliciano Arnold and Lauren Markham.” \nDiscover how vivid storytelling and well-chosen details can transform scholarly work into engaging\, resonant prose. This hands-on workshop explores how to integrate research into narrative writing—making complex ideas accessible without sacrificing depth or rigor. Through interactive exercises\, close reading\, and discussion\, participants will learn strategies for bringing their data\, fieldwork\, and analysis to life on the page. \nMonday\, February 2\, 4:00–5:00 PM (Royce 314)\nConversation: “Pitching and Working with Opinion Editors with Chris Feliciano Arnold and New York Times Opinion Staff Editor Isvett Verde.” \nExplore strategies and best practices for effectively pitching and collaborating with newspaper editors on op-eds and opinion pieces. Gain insight into the editorial process\, from crafting compelling and concise pitches that capture an editor’s attention to understanding the nuances of tone\, timing\, and topic relevance. This session will cover how to balance academic rigor with public accessibility\, navigate editorial feedback\, and establish long-term relationships with editors to amplify scholarly perspectives in the media. \nTuesday February 3\, 4:00–6:00 PM (Royce 314)\nPanel: “Writing for the Public in Times of Peril\, a panel with Chris Feliciano Arnold\, Lauren Markham\, The Atlantic Senior Editor Honor Jones and VQR Editor Paul Reyes.” \nThis panel of authors and editors will address the crucial role of academics in bridging the gap between scholarly research and public discourse during times of crisis\, uncertainty\, and societal upheaval\, including the ethical\, intellectual\, and practical challenges that scholars face when translating complex ideas into accessible language for broader audiences. Refreshments will be provided. \nPanelist & Writer Bios\n \nChris Feliciano Arnold is the author of The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First-Century Amazon (Picador 2018). He directs the MFA in Creative Writing program at Saint Mary’s College of California. \n \nLauren Markham is an award-winning writer and journalist based in California whose work regularly appears in outlets such as Harper’s\, The New York Review of Books\, The New York Times Magazine and VQR\, where she is a contributing editor. She is the author of the award-winning The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life\, the California Book Award shortlisted A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging (2024) and the recently-released Immemorial. \n \nIsvett Verde is a staff editor in the Opinion section of The New York Times\, where she helps shape conversations on immigration\, culture and identity. She is also an adjunct professor of Latinx Media studies at The City College of New York. She earned a B.A. in French from Florida International University\, and an M.A. in Spanish-language Journalism from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. Her writing has been featured in the anthology titled\, “Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness.” \n \nHonor Jones is a senior editor at The Atlantic\, and previously at The New York Times Opinion section\, where she edited cover stories and special issues for the Sunday Review. She is also the author of a novel\, Sleep. \n \nPaul Reyes is the editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review\, where he develops a variety of content\, including investigative reporting\, essays\, photography portfolios\, poetry\, criticism\, and fiction. Before joining VQR\, he was a senior editor with The Oxford American. His work as an editor has led to two National Magazine Awards (as well as several nominations)\, the Overseas Press Club Award\, inclusion in the Pushcart Prize anthology along with regular appearances in the Best American anthologies. His book\, Exiles in Eden\, an investigative narrative of the 2008 housing crisis\, was praised as “a wrenching chronicle of our new hard times” (Publishers Weekly) and “an engrossing memoir of American dreaming and financial devastation” (Mother Jones). His essays and reporting have appeared in VQR\, The Oxford American\, Harper’s\, The New York Times\, Literary Hub\, Mother Jones\, and elsewhere. His writing has earned him a Literature Fellowship in Nonfiction from the National Endowment for the Arts\, a nomination for the Harry Chapin Media Award\, and a nomination for the National Magazine Award in Feature Writing. \n  \nCosponsored by: \nCenter for the Study of Women|Streisand Center\, Division of Social Sciences\, Division of Humanities\, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Creative Activities\, School of Music\, School of Arts and Architecture\, and School of Theater\, Film\, and Television.
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SUMMARY:Fire Tender Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, February 10\, 2026\n12:15–1:15 PM\nCenter for the Study of Women|Streisand Center (Google Maps)  \nJoin us for a screening of Fire Tender\, directed by Roni Jo Draper (Yurok) and Marissa Lila\, followed by a discussion. \nFire Tender tells the story of Yurok tribal members returning to traditional fire practices as an essential form of land stewardship. The film centers on Margo Robbins—grandmother\, cultural educator\, healer\, and Indigenous fire practitioner—who is leading efforts to restore Yurok fire sovereignty: the right to use fire for tribal land care\, a practice outlawed under settler colonial policies. Through her work\, Robbins challenges more than a century of environmentally destructive anti-fire policies that have endangered Yurok lands and restricted access to the natural resources necessary for clean water\, food\, and traditional lifeways. \nSeating is first come\, first served. No registration required.\nAttendees are welcome to bring their lunch for the 30-minute screening and discussion to follow. \nThis event is part of programming for Thinking Gender 2026: “Feminist & Queer Ecologies.” Register for the conference. \nAbout the Filmmakers\nDirector: Roni Jo Draper\, PhD (Yurok\, she/they)\, is an emerita professor in the Department of Teacher Education at the David O. McKay School of Education\, Brigham Young University\, where she taught courses in multicultural education\, women’s studies\, and literacy. Dr. Draper began her work as a scholar investigating disciplinary literacies and seeking to uncover the texts and literacies needed to participate and learn in disciplinary settings such as mathematics\, science\, and the arts. Her work has appeared in various journals for researchers and teachers including the Harvard Educational Review\, the American Educational Research Journal\, the Journal of Teacher Education\, the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy\, and the Mathematics Teacher. Currently\, her research interest has focused on the challenge to prepare teachers to create classrooms that allow our most minoritized children to thrive. She is a former high school mathematics teacher and is proud of her work serving students at risk of not completing high school. In her recent work\, she has turned to Indigenous storytelling to share stories that center the lives of Indigenous peoples. She has produced the film Scenes from the Glittering World\, about the lives of three Navajo young people attending a remote high school on the Navajo Nation. Draper is also the writer\, producer\, and director of the documentary Fire Tender\, which centers on the lives of Yurok fire practitioners.  \nCo-director: Marissa Lila (she/they) is a Thai-American documentarian who grew up in Hong Kong and Thailand and is now based in Salt Lake City. As a multicultural filmmaker\, she directs and produces projects with characters who cross boundaries set by dominant cultures or identities. Lila’s projects have been selected to play at international film festivals (DOC NYC\, Camden\, IFF\, Big Sky Documentary FF\, and MountainFilm). Two projects she produced\, Transmormon and Oxygen to Fly\, went viral with over 160 million total views. These projects were featured in The Huffington Post\, New York Times\, The Atlantic\, People Magazine\, and Dazed. Lila is co-founder of OHO Media\, a creative content agency for which Lila creates documentaries and documentary-based branded content. Lila directed\, produced\, and wrote for the docu-reality television series The Generations Project\, for which one of the episodes she produced won a Regional Emmy. Lila also spent six years creating educational content to increase equitable outcomes for students inclusive of race\, ethnicity\, language\, cultural\, sexual orientation\, or ability. \nProducer: Jenn Lee is an immigrant from Taiwan who grew up in Utah and has worked over 20 years in social impact. Besides Fire Tender\, she has produced and supported award-winning narrative and documentary films such as “The Dating Game” (2025)\, “Home Court” (2024)\, “Mija” (2022)\, “The Dilemma of Desire” (2020)\, “Jane and Emma” (2018)\, and LGBTQ+ films “Pray Away” (2021) and “Faithful” (2017). Prior to film work\, she was a UCLA graduate student studying gender (sex-ratio) imbalance in China and attending Thinking Gender conferences.\nLearn more about the film.
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