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A visitor from the East is the latest alga to foul LI waters<\/strong> <\/a>
\nNewsday<\/em>
\nAn invasive alga species native to Asia has been documented in the Great South Bay and elsewhere on Long Island\u2019s shores, turning the water red and creating surreal scenes where it\u2019s washed up along ice-logged waterways.
\nRanging in color from orange to pink to reddish brown, depending on its health, the alga has a delicate, branching form that it loses out of water.
\nIt\u2019s not harmful to humans but can reduce oxygen levels in water when it dies out. It can also take in nutrients relied upon by other native species, reducing the diversity of local species.
\nThe alga is usually found in shallow waters 10- to 15-feet deep and can be fragile, dying out and rising to the surface as seasons change, said Craig W. Schneider<\/strong><\/a>, a biology professor at Trinity College<\/strong> in Connecticut.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s not toxic,\u201d said Schneider, who was among the first to document the species in the region\u2019s water when it appeared in Rhode Island in 2007. \u201cIt\u2019s a pest more than it is a severe problem.\u201d
\nNative to Asian Pacific waters, the fast-growing and mobile alga known as Dasysiphonia japonica gained a hold in Europe before hitting the Northeast, perhaps hitching a ride in the ballast of a ship or attached to a hull.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s pushed its way all the way down to New York City,\u201d Schneider said. \u201cWe got invaded by an invasive.\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n

Constellating Queer Spaces<\/strong> <\/a> <\/a>
\nUrban Omnibus<\/em> (A publication of the Architectural League of New York)
\nDefining and representing what might be understood as \u201cqueer space\u201d is no easy task: myriad sites may be associated with individual and collective histories, but the creation of a shared story sets limits on what\u2019s included. Nowhere is that challenge more richly laid bare than in New York City, and no one knows it better than Jen Jack Gieseking<\/strong><\/a>, author of the forthcoming book A Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queer Women, 1983-2008<\/em>. In this interview, Gieseking draws our attention to the ever shifting, often contradictory constellations of LGBTQ+ spaces \u2014 urban and rural, destructive and triumphant \u2014 asking not only what they share, but also how they might be shared with those interested in the queer spaces that are yet to come\u2026
\nJen Jack Gieseking<\/strong><\/em><\/a> is an urban cultural geographer, feminist and queer theorist, environmental psychologist, and American Studies scholar engaged in research on co-productions of space and identity in digital and material environments. His second book project, <\/em>A Queer New York, will be accompanied by an interdisciplinary digital project, \u201cA Queer New York: Mapping Lesbian and Queer NYC History.\u201d He is Assistant Professor of Public Humanities in American Studies at Trinity College<\/strong> in Hartford, Connecticut. Along with Jay Shockley , he contributed to the National Park Service\u2019s 2016 report, <\/em>LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History.<\/em><\/p>\n

Christopher Hager: I Remain Yours \/ Common Lives in Civil War Letters<\/strong> <\/a>
\nNew Books Network<\/em>
\nIn I Remain Yours: Common Lives in Civil War Letters<\/em> (Harvard University Press, 2018), Christopher Hager<\/strong> <\/a>trains our attention to \u201cthe cell-level transfers that created the meaning of the Civl War.\u201d He follows the correspondence of a group of soldiers, and their family members, many of whom had never written letters before in their life. These people were largely illiterate. They had to learn how to spell as they were trying to compose their thoughts on paper. Yet Hager leaves their letters \u2018uncorrected.\u2019 In their struggle to put their feelings and thoughts into words\u2014a struggle we also feel in reading those words\u2014the words themselves gain an immediacy and directness. They grow in importance for being chosen. The repetition of phrases throbs with feeling. The emotional dynamics of union and disunion\u2014the fear of being forgotten, the assurance of love, no matter the soldier\u2019s side in the war\u2014congeal around individual words, phrases, even marks on the page. As they write, both soldiers and their family members realize that they\u2019re at war together, tending to the relationships that comprise their everyday lives, and warding off the threats to them\u2026
\nChristopher Hager<\/strong> <\/a>has previously explored the lives of ordinary Americans through their writing, including diaries kept by slaves. His first book, <\/em>Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing, won the 2014 Frederick Douglass Prize for the best book of the year on the subject of slavery. Hager is Charles A. Dana Research Associate Professor of English at Trinity College<\/strong> in Hartford, Connecticut where he teaches courses in American literature and culture from the nineteenth century to the present.<\/em><\/p>\n

Seth Markle – A Motorcycle on Hell Run: Tanzania, Black Power, and the Uncertain Future of Pan-Africanism 1964-1974<\/strong><\/a> [Podcast]
\nNew Books Network<\/em>
\nToday we talked to Seth Markle<\/strong><\/a> about his book, A Motorcycle on Hell Run: Tanzania, Black Power, and the Uncertain Future of Pan-Africanism 1964-1974<\/em>, published by Michigan State University Press in 2017 as part of the Ruth Simms Hamilton African Diaspora Series. Providing extensive insight into the importance of Tanzania in the emergence of a new form of Pan-Africanism in the 1960s, Markle conveys both the character of modern nationhood in Tanzania as well the activists in the diaspora who shaped and were affected by it. Markle highlights the international connections that defined the African Diaspora and Pan-Africanism throughout the 1960s and 70s. His book is a story about the networks and friendships that tie together Julius Nyerere\u2019s Tanzania to the pivotal figures and ideas of the twentieth century, including Malcolm X, A.M. Babu, Stokely Carmichael, and Walter Rodney\u2026
\nSeth Markle<\/strong><\/a> is an Associate Professor of History and International Studies at Trinity College.<\/strong> He also serves as the Director of the Human Rights Program; Coordinator of the International Studies Program\u2019s Africa concentration and Interdisciplinary Minor in African Studies and is the Faculty Advisor to Trinity\u2019s International Hip Hop Festival.<\/em><\/p>\n

Opinion: Honoring GIs and veterans who fought for peace in Vietnam<\/strong><\/a> – By Paul Lauter<\/strong><\/a>
\nNorthJersey.com
\nIt\u2019s 50 years after the Tet Offensive and the My Lai massacre \u2013 a good time to reflect upon the legacies of the Vietnam War. Most of us of a certain age served in Vietnam, know veterans who did, or, like me, worked in the front lines of the peace movement.
\nI spent eight years during the war, not in the jungles and rice paddies of Vietnam, but in the troubled streets of America and in the offices of Resist, the American Friends Service Committee, and the United States Servicemen\u2019s Fund. There I helped young men, especially active duty soldiers, find ways to oppose a war that they had come to despise.
\nSadly, many Vietnam veterans remain haunted by memories of villages set on fire, civilians burned by napalm and other chemical weapons, or whole territories carpet-bombed. Thousands of our veterans were exposed to Agent Orange, a dioxin that left not only Vietnamese, but many veterans and some of their children, disabled by a neurological disease that mimics severe cerebral palsy\u2026
\nPaul Lauter<\/strong><\/a>, a resident of Leonia, is the Allan K. & Gwendolyn Miles Smith Professor of Literature (Emeritus) at Trinity College<\/strong> Hartford, Connecticut.<\/em><\/p>\n

Conversation with Samuel Kassow<\/strong> <\/a>
\nWMASS Jewish Ledger<\/em>
\nThe timing could not have been more offensive. On Feb. 2 \u2014 International Holocaust Remembrance Day \u2014 the Polish Senate passed a bill criminalizing statements linking Poland to the murder of Jews that occurred on its soil during the Holocaust. The move was an attempt to lay blame for the crimes that left more than one million Polish Jews dead during World War II squarely on German Nazis.
\nThe bill states that anyone who uses the term \u201cPolish death camps\u201d or \u201caccuses, publicly and against the facts, the Polish nation, or the Polish state, of being responsible or complicit in the Nazi crimes committed by the Third German Reich \u2026 shall be subject to a fine or a penalty of imprisonment of up to three years.\u201d The law applies to both Polish citizens and foreigners\u2026
\nFor insight into this new law, as well as a look at the complicated relationship between the Poles and the Jews, the Ledger spoke with Dr. Samuel Kassow<\/strong><\/a>, the Charles H. Northam Professor of History at Trinity College<\/strong> and author of several books, including Who Will Write Our History? Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n

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