that's the basic narrative. once the idea exists and i might read a little more, once that idea exists it can easily attract other ideas to itself to grow i more robust that narrati. among them being some of the other has started gotten inside so we have to clear out the other from in here. now you have the potential of some real problems. let me get into, this sort of thing you can see the patterns of this sort of thing happening in history in various places and in various contexts. one of them would be i would say what happened after the crusade. the crusaded during and after the crusade. let me see if i can find it. when the crusade started europe was the place where everybody lived in some local spot on hardly anyone went 100 miles from home during their whole life. there were a lot of little places did when the crusade started this was a project that drew people from all parts of this very fragmented europe and they found themselves bumping shoulders with others and what they experience was this marvelous t

, global narrative? or a collection of more harmonious narratives. and if so, do you have any suggestions about how to facilitate that? [laughing] >> yes to the first part and no to the second part. [laughing] and really i think no person could make the change happen. it's a process that's going on and i think partly we have to be patient with the fact that new narratives, i don't come into existence by agency or in sideways. lots of little ideas have to flow together. i will only say this, however, that when one looks out at the experience, political experience of the society at any current time, that the thing that can is onlynd there'd another narrative. so it was important to be responding to the things that are supporting emotionally a narrative you don't like, and drawing on the common experiences and crafting a new narrative that explains it all but goes in a different direction. >> i think what we will do, you know, is -- probably people have little questions they want ask when they comeeo to get

and they fought hard against it one of the narratives are out there. in the story when that's all they are hearing in the national media. so yes it is really hard and the work i do is all about narrative shifting and how they take those that are inaccurate and false and incomplete and complicated them and twist them in the way of him just trying to rebuild the economy. i don't have an answer. i wish i did. i wish i was able to just flip a switch and see okay but i haven't figured it out yet. i'm working on it and lots of other people are working on it. we are trying constantly. >> [inaudible] >> an upside to the downside. the >> sorry to put you on the spot. it's very connected to organizing in the region that comes from coal mining and those that organized the. that was the color of the movement because of his being colored of [inaudible] >> which geologically and geographically is the same. but certainly not much to till the land. you could just keep coding and i'm curious your perspective on that. there is the mapping in terms of geology, sure the m

maybe someday our complex stories will overpower the simpler, false narratives about our place. until then we will be waiting to clean up any new messes while simultaneously building our brighter future, despite the narratives telling us we can't do it and that we are not worth it. we simply t no better. more than anything, we've had enough of those lies. thank you. [applause] [applause] >> well, i first heard about this book in the summer of 2016 i'm sure that's the case with a lot of people here. not because i have a spot at the bookstore, well, i'm from southern appalachia and i teach history at a university that sometimes acknowledges it isn't appalachian sometimes it doesn't. and i teach that history. when the book started circulating the summer of 2016 that had the word hillbilly in it, a bunch of people had asked me if i had read this book. for the first half of this some more nothing except every one asking about of these see if you things on the internet, finally sometime in august someone send me a copy and asked me to it review it. in a moment i'm going to read a port

i also think the narrative on the rightist analytics fleet wrong. we certainly need better policy for those workers. but there is ample economic opportunity for many of those workers in the currentic economy, certainly more so than the public debate would suggest. highly, i would say i think they would respond better to a different message. and we need some of our leaders to give that a shot. >> host: which i to weigh on this? >> guest: i would like to weigh in on that it is true men in the median, idle thing anyone disagrees with that where there's been significant wage growth for women. you put them together there's a different story. economically they rise above women been hugely beneficial with our economy labor force access knowing denies that pair what's at stake here is something about the fact the capacity, you got some people on the right and some does only focus on men. there's a good reason why that is wrong. we need to take seriously the capacity of men to be a bread winner in the traditional sense it's significantly less than it was tod

with a couple other assertions that the narrative matters and we need to do more to advance the dream for the next generation. so very briefly, went to give richer the opportunity to respond and then have discussio discussion, i can't cover all that but i will do the best i can. i thought it would be better to have real disagreement than me come appear in lecture for an hour. the economy is delivering for workers in the bottom 10 percent have grown over the median over the last several years the unemployment rate without a high school diploma is further below the long-term average than college graduates currently. not supervisory workers are growing faster than overall average wages. the argument from the gains that it is rigged against workers who are not at the very top and not supported by the data. right now currentlyeri the recovery is reaching wide rtswath including the least skilled and least experienced and most vulnerable workers. the next argument of stagnant wages this is a graph of wages this is a graph of the wages of non- supervisory workers in manufacturing reason and c

and also i think that when it comes to inspiration point it's that like there's narratives about that very able as narrative about that we came our disabled lives this inspire us not the stable so i think that was a very powerful one and to be described in this way disabled person inspires every one of them by dint of their very presence changing lives cindy you work a lot with kids and you are saying that these stereotypes are harmful for children can you explain why oh it hugely harmful for children i have like i mentioned i will periodically read a book that i took a library get sent to me that has a harmful portrayal of disability and often it's hard for me to read sometimes it's like almost physically hard for me to read because it's so invalidating of my existence and my realities and like i'm an adult you know i have my own kids i have a fairly like robust of contact but when a kid is reading things like that they don't have any of that framework built up and they themselves and the difficult kid in the usually still coming to understand what their disability means and how it's

narrative about it ok i guess yeah i guess let ourselves let me just say when 6 years of what. underlying assumption the underlying assumption when anybody says your disability doesn't define you is a disability beg i'm going to push back against their right to get the disability s. and i was just giving it to my little sliver of time because i want to share with your thoughts about a cow fan as she is a film and t.v. critic and she puts a really interesting point into our conversation here it is i think it's fatal to have creators and storytellers who have disabilities or who know people with disabilities well if there is family members or has friends involved in the portrayal of characters with disabilities otherwise you're viewing one particular segment of their perspective and you're doing a disservice to this audience my 10 year old son has spinal bifida and i can tell you there's a huge difference between being born with a disability and developing later in life and it's important to show we all have things that make us different and make a special. while i have to slow l

they wrote travel narratives, informational logs, and memoirs.at spoke about cultured of different groups. living and fighting abroad was a source of inspiration and challenge for the military officers of the 18th century. in north america these individuals were adopted by tribes, and embraced local ways of war. they coupled with native women, depended on native medical practices, and traded their rations for moccasins. associations away on the indian subcontinent, they lead indian mercenaries and sultans and other local authorities. they collaborated with african princes to ensure a supply of a security of french slave trading posts and ships. such experiences could not but transform these men confirms or debunking stereo types about others. and the culture and society. like their counter parts who never left europe, they were at sea in the colonies and they recorded their observations, wrote reports for the navel and war ministries, and offered treaties with the people they ber acted. bub lished works convey interest, cultural adaptation, and t

responsibilities lie and which country should lead the fight against it china is out to shift the narrative from its initially slow response the way it censors kept a lid on the story to the collective efforts since then to bring down the infection rate beijing has also borroughs a page from moscow's playbook using mainstream and social media platforms to spread conspiracy theories and model perceptions in washington a campaign to brand covert 19 thats. chinese virus is being led by the man at the top president donald trump this story has grown into a debate about competing ideologies a global one played out through the media of what the world will look like once the pandemic is over and which political system which superpower will be best placed to lead our starting point this week is the geo political battle over narratives around covert 90. 3 superpowers are waging an information war over the corona finds the american version of the story with 19 is the war on violence it's chinese in origin the government there failed to act quickly enough and the blame for the pandemic lies sold at chi

the lead our starting point this week is the geo political battle over narratives around covert 90. 3 superpowers are waging an information war over the corona finds the american version of the story covert 19 is the violence it's chinese in origin the government there failed to act quickly enough and the blame for the pandemic lies sold at china's door i talk about the chinese fires and they made it this way came from beijing's counter narrative americans may have planted the virus in will hong no one really knows moscow meanwhile is taking a backseat while allowing its media apparatus to amplify theories including conspiracy theories that pit washington and the west against. sitting in the middle of it all the united nations where the secretary general is playing un peacekeeping or common enemies of but our enemy is also a growing sense of music formation so to overcome these riders we need to urgently promote science and we also need to promote hope and over the spread of the vision the u.n. secretary general is called misinformation surrounding a virus as a global threat and i abs

media narrative, i interesting, pessimism danger is greater to the left than the right. more and more government investments, where does the money go? the government has done well in the last few years. it is closer to home. we should be honest something of an intellectual glamour of pessimism and polemicist him. the investable world his polemic. my hero said in the middle of nineteenth century it is thought essential any man who knows anything think ill of it. the study of people looking at book reviewers, some are negative and some are positive. the review is negative, much cleverer than the reviewers. and if in the policy think tank, to justify our solution, is very great indeed. and the share of public attention and get more people signing up. the incentives are strong. which i agree with. it is reasonable and modulated and responsible but without loss of intellectual brilliance but rather the other way around. i congratulate him on his work. [applause] >> congratulations on a great book and great commentary. i want to give you a chance to respond to richard. >> know

does it change the narrative if indeed he was not an enslaved man? in fact, nell and the other black abolitionists who were using attucks in their activism, i don't believe nell was aware of the runaway ad until about 1860. he starts writing about attucks. he's certainly aware of attucks by 1839. he's communicating in 1841, writing letters with randall phillips, white abolitionist, a mentor in some ways, about attucks. to the 1840's, his first writings in the 1840's and then 1850's, he does not identify -- i might be wrong but i don't think he identifies him as someone who might be enslaved. so, i don't think it would have made a difference because the identity of someone who was a self liberated former slave was not really part of the narrative that nell started to construct in the 1840's. does that make sense? >> of course, but the advertisement that you're referring to doesn't use the word slave in the notice. and there's an earlier advertisement for fugitive named michael johnson. and some of us would argue that johnson is actually jonason, which

and in the standard narrative we used in the u.s., we say world war ii began in september 1939 whenadolf hitler invaded poland and then we have the other half, the other part of world war ii which we conventionally refer to as the pacific war and that began in december 1941 which japan attacks on the u.s. at par harbor. what i'm doing with this trilogy basically is to rewrite what we call that second part of world war ii, to call it an asia-pacific war, not simply the pacific war and that is specifically intend today write in into the history, what i call the arc of asia and in 1937 the ark ran east across china to japan and also ran southeast to what is now called indonesia demand the region there were over a billion people. yet among the well population and region most of the people lived in colonialism and there were only four nation states that would claim and japan actually had sovereignty and mongolia which was the soviet satellite and had no real sovereignty and china which had highly compromised sovereignty. everywhere else it was a colonial institution, the one, special cas

this is an engrossing narrative account to show the civil war and indian war and the western expansion are all interconnected and rightsetteors specifically about self-determination and fight for control of the region summer very well known to us orhers like juanita a navajo rito - - reader who stories were lost to history until now. with those individualal actions in the midst of a larger conflict. and indeed it is history keeping the reader turning the pages a writer and historian living in lincoln is written about the civil war and american culture for several publications including the new york times and smithsonian magazineor ba in history of literature from harvard and phd in american studies from the university of iowa. from texas tech and cal state fullerton also the author of ruination. and then to read a passage or two please help me to give a warm welcome to megan kate nelson. [applause] >> thank you for coming out on this cold and dreary night. before we begin we also meet tonight of the traditional lands of the indian people. so that was taken place in new mexico. and texa

who is making money off of the trump country narrative. it's not the people in appalachia. it's, you know, unfortunately, i wish they did make more money, it's not the people who are actually writing them. it's the people who are telling people to write them and advertising on the back of them and who benefit from them in an expedient way by disguising their politics and by doing this slight of hand that says that poor people are what is holding our country back, not rich people. it's always the poor people who fail society and not the other way around. so that's my concern when i think about narratives in appalachia, it's the stories that we tell ourselves that help us make sense of the world and my place in the world and your place in the world and we have almost very little control over them in this moment in time and i'd like to change that. >> something that came up in a conversation, elizabeth and i had a couple of days ago, is the bankruptcy filings of the west virginia gazette mail and one of the incidents we talked about connected to that is there's a meeting of co

cults to really focus on and think about this as a poky team when that narrative starts to snowball it becomes almost like a belief across the organization a collective. of crystal palace the inflicted his 1st defeat as liverpool coach and failed crystal palace. of course liverpool plenty of games against but it's always a close affair the psychological barriers are clear to see. his most feared opponent harry potter. or mike tyson who could never beat evander holyfield's. who can just never get the better of gerry. and captain ahab against the white. i would soon see my job soon as having a miss was from lunch and i'm sure that's right in the bundesliga bio and have a problem with blood but. it is based on statistics. in the seventy's glass behind byron both won multiple german titles byron success continued the foals haven't won the league since 1957 which they could be buyers equals they could at least become their bogey team since the summer of 2014 no bundesliga side is one has many points against germany's most successful club. and they've scored more goals against biron than any

when a team goes into a game and has certain expectations influences the narrative that you completely strongly hypothesize is that we're going to. focusing on the fact that we have one they're going to be creating a bunch of in a picture. proved in a 2015 palace travel to liverpool and ruined and other special moment the legendary stephen gerard's last home match. after 26 years of the club and over 700 professional games lost his last game in front of the home crowd at anfield. it's a group of. cults to really focus on and think about this as a poky team when that narrative starts to snowball it becomes almost like a belief across the organization. of crystal palace they inflicted his 1st defeat as liverpool coach and failed crystal palace. and of course liverpool also won plenty of games against but it's always a close affair the psychological barriers are clear to see. it's like his most feared opponent harry potter. or mike tyson who could never beat holyfield . who can just never get the better of cherry. and captain ahab against the white dick. i will soon see my job soon the sh

it is fascinating, very well researched and i that there is a narrative flow to it and it is very troubling i have to say that that is the purpose of the book i think. i would like to announce unfortunately our event in two days with ambassador dennis ross was another expert in the middle east is unable to come to the collegcollege station. he had a family emergency and so the lecture will be postponed until later. kim ghattas is an emmy award-winning journalist who covered the middle east for 20 years for bbc & financial times. she reported from iraq, saudi arabia, syria, lebanon and the war between israel and hezbollah earning an emmy for international news coverage. she's also reported on the state department and on american politics regularly traveling with secretariesg of state including condoleezza rice and hillary clinton and john kerry. she's been published in the atlantic, the "washington post," the foreign-policy and is currently in non- resident scholar at the carnegie endowment for international peace in washington.oo her first book is a "new york times" bestseller. she regularl

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we have a lot of good narrative history but those y different ways. and it was cool just to see how people could experiment with that. and that would require to allow testing for tenure but yes that will be hard. i do hope this is a sign and one of the things it is not except for the first chapter to take a chapter from the middle and to read it. is like taking a chapter from the novel in theno middle. so it's like you are in the middle of the action. from theu read beginning and with those high school teachers if they can assign this book to students in a way to read it from beginning to end. and those challenges if people are reading it for class. and how they work that into the syllabus but hopefully for those who are just readingng it. and then hoping that they can devour. >>. >> thank you for coming. [applause] [inaudible conversations] . . . . the event staff where we host close to a thousand author events each yea t

if we let them turn that into a narrative, you are now giving up mass in the world, yes it will have an effect. there are some backlash to the diplomacy by sending out the supply and it's coming from people who are reminded them that they might not have needed the masks had it not started in wuhan. i go back, this is not the first time we've had this problem with stars. this is going to have to be a time when there's a wreck and for china and to the united states yes, he is right, we should've responded more quickly but now that we are responding, were seen the strikes of her decentralized. >> i'm getting a lot of questions about china and the world health organization in taiwan, john asked the following specific question, do we now have leverage with the chinese relative to their isolation of taiwan. >> this is a very important point, it is something -- when i secretary of state we fell on hard times to get the chinese to allow taiwan to be omitted to the w.h.o. because he said as the health organization. we don't have to suggest that taiwan is a separate country and want to be part

i think 36 year years prior and you know a lot of that narrative was focused not on his professional record of his expertise as a judge but rather on whether or not an accuser that had to be believed even though their cues are had to wait more than 3 decades to come forward you said that these victims with culture is a relatively new phenomenon but in the american context at least it seems to have no statute of limitations with the more recent movements for social justice for dealing with sexual harassment and all these kinds of things this is one of the issues that again i think in terms of her thinking in moral terms there's often people often don't think of like where are the limits of things that you know how far back in the past we should we go all these things are are relevant i think but i would also just want to kind of point out distinctions you know so whether people are talking about you know. an accusation of you know an attempted rape or something like that is somewhat different than than somebody you know just just complaining about a slight to that it was unintentional

i think we have a lot of really good narrative history think you can write narrative history in different just be really cool to see how people could experiment with that. of course within academic history that would require departments allowing such things for tenure which it's like yes, that's can be hard. i do hope that this is assignable for students because one of the things that it is not is exert double. except for maybe the prologue on the first chapter you can't really take a chapter from the middle and photocopy it for your students and have them read it, it will make no sense. it would be like taking a chapter from the novel in the middle and saying, here, read this. it's like you're in the middle of the action. you've already learned things about the people, you already i'll be interested to see from my colleagues who are high school teachers if they are able to assign this book to students in the way where they can read it from beginning to end. i think that's one of our challenges, right, is if people are reading it for class, like how do you get the it up? how do you work i

does it change the narrative if he was not an enslaved man? and the other black abolitionists who were using him, i don't believe nell was aware of the runaway at until -- runaway ad until 1860. he starts writing about attucks. he is aware of attucks by 1839. he is communicating in 1841, writing letters that randall , allips, white abolitionist mentor in some ways. to the 1840's, his first writings in the 1840's and then identify --oes not might be wrong but doesn't identify him as someone who might be enslaved. i don't think it would have made a difference because the identity of someone who was a self liberated former slave was not really part of the narrative nell started to construct in the 1840's. >> of the advertisement you are referring to -- but the advertisement you are referring to doesn't use the word slave in the notice. there is an earlier advertisement for fugitive named michael johnson. some of us would argue johnson onason which the duced toher anre johnson. but if the mother is a free, native woman, he would not have been born

as this occurred in voltaire's narrative events, the cruelty was far beyond battle. crimes were perpetrated not only by enemies, but the very states for which a military man had been willing to lay down his life in combat. i have lingered on this textual example because it foreground several issues i will speak about this evening. first, this is set in the seven years war. revenge, they say, is a dish best served cold in the decade or so between the close of the seven years war and the initiation of french aid for the american cause allow the french to hit back at england to rebalance the system of global imperial power. second, the humiliating loss not only fueled, in part, the french engagement in the french of -- revolution, but it contributed to growing national prejudice in france. between the wars of louis 14th and the french revolution, france experienced a dramatic military decline that stunned not just the armed forces, but the entire nation. important political aims were met, but france suffered military defeats all over europe as they march to their armies

the narrative of the first volume ends with the forces on the island 1942.ow the greatest life begins. volume two is going to continue through to august the ninth 1944 and volume three will pick up september 1944. but it's going to go and considerably to the discussion about what happens to the postwar period as i get back to the theme of what is going to happen when it influences literally where we are today. we have been very patient and appreciate your attention and i think we will now throw it open to some question. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. ladies and gentlemen if you have a question i will bring the microphone to you. my short answer would be i'm not sure that there were many that could have shortened the war. there were a lot that could have lengthened it without any trouble. i gave a talk about the canal into one of the things i emphasize is difficult it had been triumphant and at that point in time. >> we hav >> we have a question in the back. >> i want to ask about the soviet aid in the late 30s and early 40s. for the most couple of years

half believes migrants are still in doubt of jobs and how he cares so there is a lot of victimhood narrative floating around. sound you know these things are a matter of degree and so the question would be is there any kind of stopping point so this this kind of oppression of victimhood and narrative can be useful in certain situations we all want to end and oppression and discrimination and things like that but is there is there any kind of stopping point for this kind of narrative and will as you're saying like will then become. the way of governing other institutions so you know it starts you know with with this kind of activism i don't know the answer to whether the u.s. has the institutions in place i'm to resist what could could possibly happen the facts of trying to organize a whole society around the fighting fighting inequality but. for now you know it seems to be holding but the question is about the future right so if people who embrace this kind of narrative and this kind of moral culture then become judges and become you know you know in positions of power and those kinds of thi

and things like that but is there is there any kind of stopping point for this kind of narrative and will as you're saying like will then become. the way of governing other institutions so you know it starts with with that this kind of activism i don't know the answer to whether the u.s. has the institutions in place to resist what could could possibly happen the facts of trying to organize a whole society around the fighting fighting inequality but. for now you know it seems to be holding but the question is about the future right so if people who embrace this kind of narrative and this kind of moral culture then become judges and become you know you know in positions of power and those kinds of things i guess my fear would be that they would. you know reinterpret the things that are in place now to put some limits on it right now free speech jurisprudence is very solid in the united states for instance so it's there won't be censorship but there could be in the future if people decide well actually that's an exception to free speech if it if it furthers and justice now one of the m

the enlightenment is perhaps best understood as a narrative for other historical times.cording to this narrative that grew out of the quarrel, and here i quote historian dan edelstein. the present age was enlightened because the philosophical spirit of the scientific revolution had spread to the educated classes. institutions of learning and even parts of the government. participants in the military saw themselves as actors in history of progress and they sard a conviction that the functioning of the armed forces and the conditions of warfare more generally needed to be improved. in the name of advancement in these areas, agents of the military enlightenment applied a critical philosophical spirit, to acquire a deeper understanding of war and the military and then to propose an implement, a myriad of reforms. the military enlightenment was in part philosophical, contemplating the nature of war and its nature of conduct, the relationship between military service and citizenship and the costs of war in economic, political, moral, physical and emotional terms. it was also p

who is making money off the narrative, it's not the people on appalachia. it's no not the people that actually writing thebut actualle telling people to write them and who are advertising on the back of them and who benefit from them and get away by disguising their politics and giving the sleight-of-hand ... but guess what is holding the country back, it's always the poor people that decide, isn't the other way around. so that is my concern when i think about appalachia because it is the stories we tell ourselves to help make sense of the world and my place and your place in the world. we have very little control over them at this moment in time, and i would like to change that. .. >> from contemporary reporting and dialogue and to be largely absent from those things. and then in the previous conversation to consider yourself an expert and then to write about. >> so you talk to people who wants to talk to me and social workers and to have stories they want to tell. and in talking about two west virginia university in appalachia the narrative on foster is a