News from Former Fellows
2008
Wendy Call
2009 Distinguished Northwest Writer in Residence
Reading & Reception
Hosted by the English/Creative Writing Department of Seattle University
Wendy Call is co-editor of Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers’ Guide (Plume, 2007). She is currently teaching the seminar “Reading and Writing Literary Journalism in the Americas” as Seattle University’s Distinguished Northwest Writer in Residence for Nonfiction. Wendy was a Fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs in Oaxaca, Mexico from 2000-2002.
Wed, January 28, 2008
4:00 pm • reading
5:00 – 6:00 pm • book signing & reception
Wyckoff Auditorium, Banana Engineering Building
One block west of 12 Ave and E Columbia St. on the Seattle University Campus, Seattle, WA 98122
For more information and directions visit: www.wendycall.com
Free and open to all
Bryn Barnard
Exhibit: September 29, 2008 to January 30, 2009
The Global Health Odyssey Museum in Association with the Smithsonian Institution presents Outbreak: Plagues that Changed History an exhibit of illustrations and writing by Former fellow and ICWA Trustee Bryn Barnard. This exhibit is drawn from his 2005 book for middle-school children, which vividly portrays the history of public health. From influenza to smallpox, from tuberculosis to yellow fever, the symptoms and paths of the world's deadliest diseases are examined, along with how the epidemics they spawned changed the course of human history in surprisingly powerful and unexpected ways. Barnard poses provocative questions such as “Did the Black Death create Europe’s middle class?” and “Did cholera make modern cities?” to create a compelling narrative about infectious disease, public health, and medicine. Diseases don't affect just one person's life—sometimes they change the world.
At the Global Health Odyssey Museum, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, N.E. at CDC Parkway, Atlanta, Georgia 30333. Tel: (404) 639-0830.
www.brynbarnard.com
Chenoa Egawa (September, 2008)
Former Fellow and Lummi Tribal member Chenoa Egawa hosts the program from hosts the program from the Jamestown S’Klallam reservation near Sequim, WA. During the program’s open and interwoven throughout the various segments, NWIN provides coverage of the 2008 Executive Council Winter Session of the National Congress of American Indians. NWIN partners with crews from Native American television out of Washington D.C. to ask the top Tribal leaders, “what is the most important issue facing Indian Country today?”
www.opb.org/programs/program.php?id=18559
Gregory Feifer (August 2008)
“South Ossetians Rally For Joining Russia” Moscow Correspondent, NPR Former Russia Fellow Gregory Feifer reports for NPR from Moscow, covering Russia’s resurgence under President Vladimir Putin and the country’s transition to the post-Putin era. He files from other former Soviet republics and across Russia, where he’s observed the effects of the country’s vast new oil wealth on an increasingly nationalistic society as well as Moscow’s rekindling of a new Cold War-style opposition to the West.
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93866203
Thomas C. Goltz (August 2008)
The Russian/Georgian Conflict and Its Impact on Azerbaijan
On-going series: Crisis in the Caucasus - 2008 azer.com/aiweb/categories/caucasus_crisis/index/goltz_index.html
Selected publications by Thomas C. Goltz
2006 Assassinating Shakespeare (Saqi Books, London)
2006 Georgia Diary (M.E. Sharpe, Armonk NY)
2003 Chechnya Diary (St Martins/Tom Dunne)
2000 ‘Remembering a Winter of Discontent,’ Washington Quarterly, Summer
www.thomasgoltz.com
Neil Asher Silberman (May 25, 2008)
Former fellow Neil Asher Silberman, writing in the Washington Post Outlook section, objects to the caricature of archaeologists in the latest Indiana Jones movie.
Kay Dilday (February 27, 2008)
Former-fellow Kay Dilday, who investigated race relations and identity in Morocco and France until last year, argues in The New York Times that the term “African American” should be retired in favor of the term “black.”
Andrew Rice (January 27, 2008)
Former Africa Fellow Andrew Rice writes about the dangers to native species of cattle in Uganda in a recent New York Times Sunday Magazine article.
Pramila Jayapal (January 23, 2008)
Former Fellow and Hate Free Zone Executive Director, Pramila Jayapal, was selected by The Women’s Media Center as a member of its first class of participants for the Progressive Women’s Voices Program.
