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Sunday, October 11
 

1:00pm PDT

The Savage Mind: An American Legacy with David Treuer
Sunday October 11, 2026 1:00pm - 2:30pm PDT
Grace Cathedral
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Co-presented with Grace Cathedral’s The Forum

“Unlike anything I have read…this book will make a mark.” —Percival Everett, Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning author. In the wake of George Floyd’s murder and the January 6 insurrection, as America seemed to be falling apart, New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist David Treuer decided to hold himself and his family together the only way he knew how: he sat down to write a letter. Ranging from Treuer’s upbringing on the Leech Lake reservation in Minnesota to the experiences of his parents, a Jewish Holocaust refugee and the first American Indigenous woman judge, The Savage Mind reveals the terrifying essence of our nation: frontier violence, which has defined our country, our culture, and our very selves. In conversation with Grace Cathedral’s The Very Rev. Malcolm Clemens Young. The Forum is a series of stimulating conversations about faith and ethics in relation to the important issues of our day. Doors at 12:30pm.
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Malcolm Clemens Young

The Very Rev. Dr. Malcolm Clemens Young is the dean of Grace Cathedral. He is the author of The Spiritual Journal of Henry David Thoreau, The Invisible Hand in Wilderness: Economics, Ecology, and God, and The Savage Mind, and is a regular contributor on religion to the Huffin... Read More →
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David Treuer

David Treuer is Ojibwe from Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. His work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Atlantic Monthly, and Harper's. He divides his time between his home on the Leech Lake Reservation and Los Angeles, where... Read More →
Sunday October 11, 2026 1:00pm - 2:30pm PDT
Grace Cathedral 1100 California St, San Francisco
  Nonfiction, FREE

2:00pm PDT

Lesbians Are Elsewhere: Writing the For All Gaze Archive
Sunday October 11, 2026 2:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Clio’s
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This summer, lesbian and queer writers of the Bay wrote in response to the Oakland-based F.A.G. Archive (For All Gaze Archive), a personal collection of queer publications and flyers from 1970–2000s created and run by Sasha Fuentes. Hear our writers perform their responses and hang around to peruse select publications from the archive pulled for this special viewing. Featuring Elena Gross, Sloane Holzer, and curator Jaelynn Walls. Doors at 1:30pm. 
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Jaelynn Walls

Jaelynn Walls is an Oakland-based curator, administrator and author. Their novel The Queer Girl is Going to Be Okay (Levine Querido, 2023) was named a Publishers Weekly Best of the Year YA novel. They have written for Teen Vogue, Artsy, Google Arts and Culture, and was a 2022 Lambda... Read More →
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Sloane Holzer

Sloane Holzer is a writer and artist living in Oakland, California. Her written and creative work has been published in BOMB, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and them. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in Visual & Critical Studies from the California College of the... Read More →
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Elena Gross

Elena Gross (she/they) is an independent writer and curator living in Oakland, CA. She specializes in representations of identity in fine art, photography, and popular media. Her research has been centered around conceptual and material abstractions of the body in the work of Black... Read More →
Sunday October 11, 2026 2:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Clio’s 353 Grand Ave, Oakland
  Nonfiction, FREE
 
Tuesday, October 13
 

7:00pm PDT

Asale Angel-Ajani: Fugitive Archives Launch
Tuesday October 13, 2026 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
Pegasus Books
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Co-presented with Pegasus Books

Asale Angel-Ajani will discuss Fugitive Archives: An American Family and the Myth of Belonging—an incisive, lyrical exploration of one family's history that radically overturns American myths about race, violence, and belonging. In conversation with Carvell Wallace, who has called Fugitive Archives “courageous, impressive, and deeply powerful.”
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Carvell Wallace

Carvell Wallace is the best-selling author of the memoir Another Word For Love — a Kirkus Prize finalist, and Whiting Award winner. As a podcaster he has been nominated for a Peabody and won a Kaleidoscope Award in Journalism. His essays have appeared in the New York Times Maga... Read More →
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avatar for Asale Angel-Ajani

Asale Angel-Ajani

Asale Angel-Ajani is the author of Fugitive Archives: An American Family and the Myth of Belonging, a compelling examination of racial terror and American innocence through her multiracial, working-class family. She also wrote the novel A County You Can Leave and the nonfiction b... Read More →
Tuesday October 13, 2026 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
Pegasus Books 2349 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA 97404
  Nonfiction, FREE

7:00pm PDT

NBCC Presents: The Author/Critic Dilemma
Tuesday October 13, 2026 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
Page Street Co-Writing
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Media sponsorship by Publishers Weekly
Co-presented with National Book Critics Circle & Cita Press

Writers who wear multiple hats, as Virginia Woolf did, will share what they’ve learned from the writer and literary critic extraordinaire as authors/poets/critics today. Their wide-ranging conversation will touch on everything from ethical considerations to the vulnerabilities of being deep in the creative writing process when your strong critical voice rears its ugly head. With May-lee Chai, Jane Ciabattari, Jonathan Leal, Greg Sarris, and moderator Iris Jamahl Dunkle, as well as special guest Jessi Haley, editor of Cita Press, publisher of Luminous Halo: Selected Writings by Virginia Woolf. Doors at 6:30pm.
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Iris Jamahl Dunkle

Iris Jamahl Dunkle is a poet, biographer, and scholar whose work challenges the male-centric narratives of the American West amplifying the often-overlooked voices of women. Her books include USA Today bestselling Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb (University of Calif... Read More →
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avatar for Jane Ciabattari

Jane Ciabattari

Jane Ciabattari is a critic, journalist, and author of Stealing the Fire, an Iowa Short Fiction finalist selected for the Dzanc rEprint series. Her short stories have been awarded three Pushcart Prize special mentions, an East Hampton Shorts award for originality, widely published and anthologized. A former president of the National Book Critics Circle... Read More →
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Jonathan Leal

Jonathan Leal is Associate Professor of English and Affiliated Faculty in the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California. Born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, Leal’s transdisciplinary work spans books, editorial projects, albums, and interdisciplinary... Read More →
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May-lee Chai

May-lee Chai is an educator, critic, and author of twelve books of fiction, nonfiction, and translation, including her new book of essays, My Hungry Ghosts: Essays and Incantations, and the short story collections, Useful Phrases for Immigrants, recipient of an American Book Awar... Read More →
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Greg Sarris

Greg Sarris is the author of Grand Avenue, an award-winning collection of short stories, which he adapted for an HBO miniseries of the same name and co-executive produced with Robert Redford. His second novel, Watermelon Nights, was adapted for a play by the Santa Rosa Community... Read More →
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Jessi Haley

Jessi Haley is the editorial director for feminist open access publishing project Cita Press. She has edited several new editions of work by essential women writers of the past, including writers who have been long neglected. She is the author of the monthly newsletter Cita Press Bulletin, which... Read More →
Tuesday October 13, 2026 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
Page Street Co-Writing 297 Page St, San Francisco
  Nonfiction, FREE
 
Wednesday, October 14
 

6:30pm PDT

Writing The Body: Sports and Identity
Wednesday October 14, 2026 6:30pm - 8:00pm PDT
The Treeline, Sports Basement Bryant
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Former track star and pro-MMA fighter Jenny Liou and outdoor adventure sports veteran Yi Shun Lai–both writers as well as athletes– dig deep into the process of writing about identities and bodies shaped by their dedication to sport. Who are you, when you can no longer compete, or when competing is no longer enough? Are some extremes irrecoverable once they’ve been reached? How might one heal, or insist on being more than just a winner? What does it mean to compete in white and male-dominated sports as Asian American athletes, and how do issues of race and gender play into dominant cultural narratives around individual athletic achievement? In conversation with author and former pro-wrestler Michael Copperman. Doors at 6:00pm. 
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Michael Copperman

Michael Copperman is an assistant professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric and Cultures at Michigan State University. His work has appeared in The Oxford-American, Guernica, The Sun, Creative Nonfiction, Boston Review, Salon, Gulf Coast, Triquarterly, Kenyon Review and Co... Read More →
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Jenny Liou

Jenny Liou is a jiu jitsu black belt, retired MMA fighter, an English professor, the dean of Business and Social Science at Pierce College, and the author of the poetry collection Muscle Memory (Kaya Press 2022). 
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Yi Shun Lai

Yi Shun Lai is the author of A Suffragist’s Guide to the Antarctic, a young adult historical adventure. Her writing has appeared in Brevity, Shondaland, and more; and she teaches in the MFA program at Bay Path University and at Claremont McKenna College. She is also the author... Read More →
Wednesday October 14, 2026 6:30pm - 8:00pm PDT
The Treeline, Sports Basement Bryant 1590 Bryant St, San Francisco
  Nonfiction, FREE
 
Thursday, October 15
 

7:00pm PDT

A 22nd-Century Conservation Ethos for California
Thursday October 15, 2026 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
KALW
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Sponsored by Heyday Books
Co-presented with KALW

California’s landscapes have long been shaped by deep relationships between people and place. But that relationship has changed dramatically over time, especially with the rise of European American settlement and the erasure of Traditional Ecological Knowledge. Panelists Obi Kaufmann, creator of the California Field Atlas series; Laura Cunningham, award-winning author of A State of Change; and earth scientist and professional mountain biker Dillon Osleger examine how modern society has grown increasingly estranged from the natural world. Together, they imagine a new conservation ethos—one rooted in restoration, resilience, and reciprocity—and ask what it would take for Californians to leave the state healthier, more biodiverse, and more ecologically whole at the end of the 21st century than at its beginning. Moderated by Leslie Carol Roberts. Doors at 6:30pm.
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Leslie Carol Roberts

Leslie Carol Roberts is a writer, full professor, and interdisciplinary educator passionate about storytelling, community design, and the power of creativity to address urgent global challenges. She is President of the Northern California Fulbright Association board and has designed and taught graduate... Read More →
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Dillon Osleger

Dillon Osleger is a geoscientist, professional trail builder, public lands policy analyst, and author of Trail Work (Heyday Books, 2026). Dillon's work focuses on the invisible infrastructure of the American West, from snow science to trail restoration to reforestation. A leading voice in public lands advocacy, his projects have highlighted the intersectional nature of trails, climate, history... Read More →
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Laura Cunningham

Laura Cunningham is a life-long artist-naturalist raised in the East Bay, author of A State of Change: Forgotten Landscapes of California (Heyday: 2010), an in-depth exploration of the historical ecology of California. Using field sketches, oil paintings, and explorations around the state, she imagines a past of abundant wildlife shaped by fire, floods, and tribal agency... Read More →
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Obi Kaufmann

Obi Kaufmann is an award-winning author of six best-selling books. Most famously, his 2017 book The California Field Atlas, recontextualized popular ideas about ecology, biodiversity, and geography. His subsequent books—The State of Water: Understanding California’s Most Prec... Read More →
Thursday October 15, 2026 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
KALW 220 Montgomery St, Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94104
  Nonfiction, FREE
 
Saturday, October 17
 

2:00pm PDT

Dorothy Lazard: Behind the Desk at the Main
Saturday October 17, 2026 2:00pm - Sunday October 18, 2026 4:00pm PDT
Museum of the African Diaspora
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Co-presented with Museum of the African Diaspora

Dorothy Lazard’s celebrated 2023 memoir What You Don’t Know Will Make a Whole New World traced the beloved Oakland librarian’s coming of age through books. Now she’s back to tell more of her story, relating her experiences over two decades at the Oakland Public Library. Along the way, she makes a powerful case for the essential role of the public library as a pillar of democratic ideals, and she crafts a tribute to the library workers who have devoted their careers to supporting intellectual freedom as well as to the countless Oaklanders whom she had the privilege of serving. Lazard will be joined in conversation by Pendarvis Harshaw, community engagement reporter at KQED. Doors at 1:30pm.

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Pendarvis Harshaw

Pendarvis Harshaw is a journalist from Oakland, covering arts and culture in the Bay Area for KQED. 
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Dorothy Lazard

Dorothy Lazard worked as a librarian for nearly forty years. In 2000 she joined the staff at the Oakland Main Library where she provided reference services and programming for Oakland's diverse community. From 2009 until her retirement in 2021, she was the head librarian of OPL's Oakland History... Read More →
Saturday October 17, 2026 2:00pm - Sunday October 18, 2026 4:00pm PDT
Museum of the African Diaspora 685 Mission St, San Francisco
  Nonfiction, FREE
 
Monday, October 19
 

7:00pm PDT

Woof: A Celebration of Our Canine Companions
Monday October 19, 2026 7:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Page Street Co-Writing
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Co-presented with LitCamp and Page Street

San Francisco is famously home to more dogs than kids, so let's celebrate our love for all things canine with a reading of fifteen super-short pieces about our furry, tail-wagging friends. There will be dog treats from local suppliers, plus complimentary Prosecco, wine, and fancy nonalcoholic drinks. Note: Much as we would love to see your canine companion, due to the (very) crowded nature of these events, we have to regretfully request they remain at home. The event will be emceed by LitCamp founder Janis Cooke Newman. Doors at 6:30pm.

Moderators
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Janis Cooke Newman

Janis Cooke Newman is the author of a memoir and two award-winning novels. She is also the founder of LitCamp, as well as Page Street Co-working for Writers.
Monday October 19, 2026 7:00pm - 9:00pm PDT
Page Street Co-Writing 297 Page St, San Francisco
  Nonfiction, FREE
 
Tuesday, October 20
 

6:00pm PDT

Living in the Shadow of Silicon Valley
Tuesday October 20, 2026 6:00pm - 7:30pm PDT
SFPL Main Branch, Koret Auditorium
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FREE, $10–$15 suggested donation

Sponsored by Mission Local
Co-presented with Bay Area Book Festival and San Francisco Public Library

Sure, Silicon Valley’s wealth, power, and technological innovation loom large over the entire Bay Area—but what about the rest of us? Tonight we’ll hear from three authors who can share deep knowledge of Silicon Valley’s effects on Bay Area housing, economic inequality, urban planning, and public policy. Investigative journalist Brian Barth (Front Street: Resistance and Rebirth in the Tent Cities of Techlandia), anthropologist Manissa Maharawal (Anti-Eviction: The Fight Against Tech-Led Gentrification in San Francisco), and journalist Jonathan Weber (City on the Edge: Technology, Politics, and the Fight for the Soul of San Francisco) will be joined by architect and urban planner Vinita Goyal. Doors at 5:30pm.

Moderators
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Vinita Goyal

Vinita Goyal is trained as an architect and urban planner and advances regenerative and restorative models that center the leadership of low income communities of color. She serves as Community Investment Director of Full Spectrum Labs, a US-based think tank, incubator, and accelerator, and as... Read More →
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Brian Barth

Brian Barth is an award-winning independent journalist with bylines in the New Yorker, National Geographic, Washington Post, The New Republic and Mother Jones, among other publications. He lives between the Bay Area and California's remote Lost Coast region, where he is developin... Read More →
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Manissa Maharawal

Manissa Maharawal is an assistant professor of Anthropology at American University in Washington D.C. and a member of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project. Her first book Anti-Eviction: The Fight Against Tech-Led Gentrification in San Francisco received the Setha M Low award for Engaged Anthropology... Read More →
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Jonathan Weber

Jonathan Weber was named the Los Angeles Times’s first-ever Silicon Valley reporter in 1990. He was later editor in chief of The Industry Standard, which chronicled—and lived—the first dot-com boom. He served as editor in chief of The Bay Citizen, a local news nonprofit, an... Read More →
Tuesday October 20, 2026 6:00pm - 7:30pm PDT
SFPL Main Branch, Koret Auditorium 100 Larkin St, San Francisco
  Nonfiction, FREE
 
Wednesday, October 21
 

6:30pm PDT

Artificial Intimacy: Sherry Turkle and A.I.
Wednesday October 21, 2026 6:30pm - 8:00pm PDT
YBCA Screening Room
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Co-presented with Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Sherry Turkle has spent decades studying how digital technologies isolate us from one another. Now, in her latest book, Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk To Machines, the psychologist who pioneered our understanding of human-computer relationships explores the seductive and beguiling nature of chatbots presented as “perfect” companions. How does their popularity point to existing wells of deep loneliness in our current culture, and how does increasing reliance on a one-sided digital ear affect users’ ability to maintain offscreen relationships with other humans? In conversation with New Yorker cartoonist Amy Kurzweil, whose graphic novel Artificial: A Love Story suggests an alternate path in which AI isn’t used as a human connection substitute, but rather a tool to support and deepen the real-world relationships we already have. The conversation is part of Free Wednesdays at YBCA, which offers extended gallery hours, hands-on afternoon art-making, and special evening programs—all for free. Doors at 6:00pm.
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Amy Kurzweil

Amy Kurzweil is a New Yorker cartoonist and the author of two award-winning graphic memoirs: Flying Couch and Artificial: A Love Story, which was named a Best Book of 2023 by NPR, The New Yorker, and Kirkus. She is the 2024 winner of the Overseas Press Club’s “Best Cartoon Award... Read More →
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Sherry Turkle

Sherry Turkle is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and
Technology at MIT and the founding director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. A
leading expert in humans’ relationship with digital objects, she continues to revolutionize
ou... Read More →
Wednesday October 21, 2026 6:30pm - 8:00pm PDT
YBCA Screening Room 701 Mission St, San Francisco
  Nonfiction, FREE

7:00pm PDT

California Journeys
Wednesday October 21, 2026 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
KALW
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Co-presented with KALW

Taking the driver’s seat on tonight’s narrative journey through California is Grant Faulkner, whose recent “flash novel” something out there in the distance pairs short, perfectly crystallized prose vignettes with Gail Butensky’s photographs of the American West. Riding shotgun is Irena Smith, whose memoir Troika is a modern-day Odyssey set in California’s Central Coast, as three generations of women share profound family stories and create new ones. As for Angelica Glass, she’ll opt out of driving altogether—her memoir Scavenging Beauty relates her quest to find healing while traversing all the streets in Santa Cruz County by foot. In true travelogue style, their conversation will be accompanied by photos illustrating each author’s journey. Doors at 6:30pm.


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Grant Faulkner

Grant Faulkner is the co-founder of Memoir Nation (and also the co-host of the Memoir Nation podcast), the co-founder of the Flash Fiction Institute, the co-founder of 100 Word Story, and an executive producer on America’s Next Great Author. He has published All the Comfort Si... Read More →
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Irena Smith

Irena Smith is the author of the award-winning memoir The Golden Ticket: A Life in College Admissions Essays and Troika: Three Generations, Three Days, and a Very American Road Trip. Her obsession with how words work began early (as a child growing up in Soviet Russia, she was known to occasionally stand on furniture and recite Pushkin poems), and her writing focuses on migration, memory, motherhood, generational expectations, the petty indignities of middle... Read More →
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Angelica Glass

Angelica Glass had a decades-long career in social work in California, cluminating in directing and helping to design a program that provides support and services to children and families affected by methermphetamine abuse. The mother of two grown sons, she lives with her wife in Santa Cruz... Read More →
Wednesday October 21, 2026 7:00pm - 8:30pm PDT
KALW 220 Montgomery St, Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94104
  Nonfiction, FREE
 
Thursday, October 22
 

6:00pm PDT

California's Diverse Food and Farming Movements
Thursday October 22, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm PDT
Book Club of California
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Co-presented with Book Club of California

Californians tend to think and talk a lot about food—not just who has the best farmers’ markets or where to find the latest Instagram-famous pastry, but also about how the ways we grow, harvest, distribute, and consume food can best serve goals related to climate, social justice, and collective well-being. In his new book, North Stars of Emancipation: California’s Diverse Food and Farming Movements, researcher and activist Antonio Roman-Alcalá finds guidance on all these questions in our state’s grassroots food movements, and in the vision of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and other people who are leading the way. Joining Roman-Alcalá in conversation is one of those leaders, Sara Calvosa Olson, author of Chími Nu’am: Native Californian Foodways for the Contemporary Kitchen. Member/guest reception at 5:30pm.

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Sara Calvosa Olson

Sara Calvosa Olson (Karuk) is the author of Chími Nu’am: Native California Foodways for the Contemporary Kitchen (Heyday, 2023). Her work explores narratives that nourish Indigenous food sovereignty through renewed relationships with California’s oldest foods... Read More →
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Antonio Roman-Alcalá

Antonio Roman-Alcalá is an educator, researcher, writer, musician, and organizer based in Berkeley, California who has worked on sustainable food systems and radical political change for over 20 years. Antonio is currently an Assistant Professor at California State University East Bay teaching Geography... Read More →
Thursday October 22, 2026 6:00pm - 7:00pm PDT
Book Club of California 47 Kearny St, San Francisco, CA 94108
  Nonfiction, FREE
 
Wednesday, November 18
 

7:00pm PST

Saira Mohamed: What a Country Owes Its Soldiers
Wednesday November 18, 2026 7:00pm - 8:30pm PST
KALW
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Co-presented with KALW

Legal scholar Saira Mohamed has focused her career on the ethics of armed conflict and mass atrocity, in particular on the legal obligations of governments around the world to protect and care for their military personnel. At a time when our own leaders publicly extol the contributions of soldiers and veterans but strategically dismantle their support systems, not to mention their sense of safety, these questions—at the intersections of law and ethics—are more essential than ever. Join Mohamed as she discusses her new book What a Country Owes Its Soldiers, deeply informed by her research and arguing compassionately for policies that convey genuine respect for soldiers’ humanity. In conversation with author and long-time New York Review of Books contributor Mark Danner. Doors at 6:30pm.


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avatar for Saira Mohamed

Saira Mohamed

Saira Mohamed is Agnes Roddy Robb Chair in Jurisprudence, Ethics, and Social Responsibility and Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.
Wednesday November 18, 2026 7:00pm - 8:30pm PST
KALW 220 Montgomery St, Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94104
  Nonfiction, FREE
 

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