fine cut festival of films" is generously provided by the bridges larson foundation and by the national endowment for the arts, on the web at arts.gov. [woman shuddering] [faucet drips] [drip] [drip] [drip] [rapid footsteps] [silence] [faucet drips] [drip] [indistinct p.a. announcements] [door shuts] doctor: you ok? woman: mm-hmm. doctor: ok. open. [woman exhales] doctor: mm-hmm. remove. woman: mm-mm. this one. uh, please? doctor: ok, good. ahh. i'll see you next week. woman: that's it? doctor: there's not much-- woman: it's getting worse. i keep forgetting things, even my son's name, and i have my-- i have my company retreat this weekend, and i need it to stop. doctor: ok. let's try this. i want you to, every night, read a page of this book. [clears throat] and copy down what you remember. think of it as exercise but for brain. it might help. you're young. it's strange. perhaps if you gave me more details of your medical history. woman: thank you, doctor. i'll--i'll be leaving now. [siren sounds in distance] [operatic singing on soundtrack] [clank, click] [singing continues] [singing stops] [mac

fine cut festival of films is generously provided by the bridges larson foundation and by the national endowment for the arts, on the web at arts.gov. [woman breathing heavily] mama? [baby fussing] [indistinct chatter] [person coughing] [man speaking on tv] [phone chiming] [engine sputtering] [men speaking indistinctly] shh. [zhao coughing] [birds chirping] [brake screeches] [brake screeches] [coughing] [both exhale] [zhao coughing] [coughs] [zhao coughing] [engine sputters, stops] [zhao coughing] [zhao coughing] [breathing heavily] [secret blows] [baby fussing] [girl vocalizing oradio] snowie: hey. [girl vocalizing] [clattering] girl: there. [indistinct]. there we go. oh. you probably want some tea, huh? this cup for you. this means we have to leave, doesn't it? [door closes] [indistinct chatter] man: next. name? name? i see you're a little slow, huh? well, no worries. we got wk for people like you, too. i'll just need to get some form of identification. unfortunately, that's just not gonna cut it. man 2: come on, feller. some of us ain't got all day. is this some kind of joke? beat it. moron.

fine cut festival of films" is generously provided by the bridges larson foundation and by the national endowment for the arts, the web at arts.gov. teacher: by the end of this week, i want you all to choose one thing unique about you and write one paragraph about it. on friday, everybody will share with the class. so who can tell me what it means to be unique? amelia? amelia: being unique means being different from everyone else. teacher: very good. other ideas, anyone? girls: ♪ let's go swing a rope again, up and up and down again swing it out and swing it in down and up and down again let's go swing a rope again up and up and down again down and up and up and down 'cause everyone can find-- ♪ boy: let me guess. amelia and jane. both: nope. jane: got any ideas? amelia: we've been to new york. jane: so has sunny. amelia: we've been on the drop of death. jane: lots of people have been on the drop of death. both: we like to sing. amelia: wait, jane, i don't think we can put that. jane: why not? amelia: because we both like to sing. jane: so? amelia: so it's not unique. jane: you like to draw. amel

fine cut festival of films" is generously provided by the bridges larson foundation and by the national endowment for the arts, on the web at ts.gov. woman:o i can ahead a, , dive io what wfound in threport. we did nd that you have dyslexia and that that is pointing to a lot of the difficulties you have when it comes to reading, and we also found that you have difficulties th attention, so we did nd adhd, so we would say that that is also contributing to a lot of the difficulties that you're likely having. is there anything that you wanted to add, dr. nulty, before i move on? nulty: one thing that's important to recognize is the faguing faor of d. it's li your brain is having to rk hardethan oth people' to block out the dogs barking and the cars going by and just whatever noises there are, and you're capable of blocking them out but at a cost, and that's cognitive fatigue. woman two: right. mm-hmm. this is 16 pages of things about my brain. ok. so the reason i'm here is because "afton is currently struggling to meet her foreign language requirement in her undergraduate studies at usc." understate

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[applause] like to think the national endowment for the arts and the plan for the time today to explore both of these books which explore ocean science as well as s personal stories they both take us on personal journeys whether navigating or struggling before pushing forward. my own career path started in the ocean it is the choice and i am so excited to get into this together so ask each of them to make a provocative statement to get all of you thinking because in the final 15 minutes we will take questions from you. i will hand the floor over to them in turn and then we will talk. of the time today you can get the book signed. provocative statements or questions? julie? >> the story of the coral reef is one of struggle. we know that so currently predictions are that by 205099 percent of the coral reef will be lost on the planet and if that's the case what can we as terrestrial people who live appear on land do to make that less invisible? >> in 2011 we got the first video of a a giant squid in the deep-sea. the first time we were able to record this creature in his own environment. i

[applause] we would like to thank the national endowment of the arts and our plan for our time today is to explore both of these books which explore ocean science while that's never came tistruggling despairing forward. my own career path start and ocean conservation so it's a personal joy to explore these things. and i am so excited to get into this together. so our plan is i'm going to ask each of them to make a provocative statement or ask a question to get all of you thinking. in the final 15 mins of the session today we will take questions from5 you. look at those brains thinking i'm going to turn the show over to them and turn to talk about their books and will talk for 15 minutes or so before he died in it. at the end of the time today you will be able to get books signed by your two t authors. so provocative statements for questions. julie let's start with you. >> the story of the coral reef is one of struggle. think we all knowra that. and so my question is currently predictions are that by 2050, 99% of the coral reef will be lost on our planet. and if that is the case, what

a stegner fellow, stanford and a radcliffe fellow at harvard and holds fellowships from the national endowment for the arts and the poetry foundation. welcome. our illustrious group. a lot of work, a lot of water, high. the books. we love that. what's up, miami? yeah. i haven't been back since the pandemic, so it's like, thank you for inviting me back. it's been great. and incredible career. and lee, i feel so honored to be here. i just a lot of gratitude. that's because i finally out exactly where i needed to be. if i some if you saw me this morning when i was trying to find where i needed to be, i was a very grumpy. i was like, what is this many people? but honestly, what a beautiful community event that so many people. miami, this is such an incredible cultural event, the city of miami. and i'm so glad that it remains such an important part of your city. so kudos you make that happen. i mean, not the organizers. i mean. yes, the organizers really. it's your tone turn out so. thank you so much. so i i'm the author of a memoir once i was you a memoir of love and hate and tour in america that

a stegner fellow, stanford and a radcliffe fellow at harvard and holds fellowships from the national endowment for the arts and the poetry foundation. welcome. our illustrious group. a lot of work, a lot of water, high. the books. we love that. what's up, miami? yeah. i haven't been back since the pandemic, so it's like, thank you for inviting me back. it's been great. and incredible career. and lee, i feel so honored to be here. i just a lot of gratitude. that's because i finally out exactly where i needed to be. if i some if you saw me this morning when i was trying to find where i needed to be, i was a very grumpy. i was like, what is this many people? but honestly, what a beautiful community event that so many people. miami, this is such an incredible cultural event, the city of miami. and i'm so glad that it remains such an important part of your city. so kudos you make that happen. i mean, not the organizers. i mean. yes, the organizers really. it's your tone turn out so. thank you so much. so i i'm the author of a memoir once i was you a memoir of love and hate and tour in america that

andrew card served with the national endowment to democracy, interim chief executive officer, president of franklin pierce university, acting dean of the bush school of public service at texas a and m and senior government role under three us presidents including white house chief of staff to george w. bush, and secretary to george h w bush. we have executive director of fiscal institute of international affairs. he has been it distinguished professor on diplomacy at georgetown, vice president of worldvision, a veteran who served in the gulf war, us special envoy to the darfur process and most especially administer of international development. today they have edited and produced transforming our world, george h w bush and american foreign policy, a collection of essays from well-known foreign-policy practitioners who participated in unfolding international events in the administration. i to make sure everyone knows we will have time to take some audience questions near the end of the program. if you have questions please submit them to event@wilsoncenter.org. please include your name a

levine has received fellowships from the national endowment of the humanies and the -- awarded him the hubble medal for the lifetime achievement in american studies. now let's hear from robert levine. thank you for joining us. gh what i do in the book so i'm thank you for that kind introduction. it is a real honor to be here. i'm going to do a slideshow. i will talk through what i do in the book. i'm going to share my screen. okay, so, this is the cover of the book. again, i want to thank david ferriero for the kind introduction. the thing i really like about this cover is, underneath the red is a page from the articles of impeachment. i think that is kind of cool. i like the pictures and the whole color scheme. the large aim of the book is to provide a black perspective on the early years of reconstruction, 1865 to 1868, on andrew johnson and on the impeachment itself, that occurred in 1868. most of the standard studies of the impeachment focus on the white radical republicans. i wanted to bring to life the african american perspective on reconstruction and impeachment by focusing on

and from the ford foundation the national endowment for humanities and the arts council and the w.e.b. du bois institute and the ranking fellow so please join me to welcome to our roundtable today. >> i thrilled to be here i can ask for more brilliant and wonderful colleagues so it's a pleasure. and my thoughts immediately went and the author of a brilliant and biography of a person and a series of biographies of black women to trouble or complicated ideas of success to encounter real obstacles of career ambitions to be creative and productive. i'm very interested in the way memory is made if they are luminary the most successful or decorated black women author for generation and what happens to that person and how does that happen? i want to start by thinking we can set literary literally happens at a conference with a were passing the novel around and that is literally how i got back into print it circulated at the conference every time i learn a new lesson. such an important book because it's one of the earliest novels that we have where we are committed to the experiences and the

levine has received fellowships from the national endowment for the humanities and the guggenheim foundation in 2014. the american literature section of the modern language association awarded him the hubble medal for lifetime achievement in american literary studies. now, that's here from robert levine. thank you for joining us. and thank you for that kind introduction. it's real honor to be here. i'm going to do a slide show and kind of talk through what i do in the book so i'm gonna to share screen. and let's see. okay, so this is the cover of the book and again, i want to thank david dario for the kind introduction. i think i really like about this cover. is that underneath the red is a page from the articles? of impeachment. i think that's kind of cool. plus i like the pictures and and the whole color scheme. so the large aim of the book is to provide a black perspective on the early years of reconstruction 1865 to 1868 on andrew johnson and on the impeachment itself, which occurred at 1868 most of the standard studies of the impeachment focus on the white radical republicans. i wanted

this program is presented with support from the national endowment for the humanities and in partnership with princeton university's, charming and beyond, most of our rahmani center for iran and persian gulf studies and labyrinth books. tonight's event will run for about one hour. dan sheffield, interim director for the sharmeen and bijan moss of our rahman center, will join author reza aslan in conversation about his new book, an american martyr in persia the epic life and tragic death of howard baskerville. following their conversation, we will reserve about 15 minutes for a question and answer session. there will be an opportunity to purchase copies of the book after the program from labyrinth. thank you very much. they will be $30 and mr. aslan has said he'll be happy to sign the books afterwards. reza aslan is an internationally acclaimed writer producer and scholar of religions. he is the author of the number one new york times bestseller zealot and editor of tablet and pen literary landscapes from the modern middle east. he lives in los angeles, california, just a few housekeeping

writing different standards at the national and state levels, participating in the national endowment for the humanities institute on separation of church and state. harvard divinity schools religious institute. these are generalizations, all say that. first, that's a great question. what is missing for our students and how might a more informed understanding of the mayflower compact build civic illiteracy? because that's what we're trying to do, that's what we need. doctor alan was talking about that beforehand here. and informed understanding, before going off of understanding the religiosity of the document, i think that something that needs to be put out there. that we need to understand the religiosity. and it is rooted in that christian nature. now, i get it, most teachers are fearful of that. there are a variety of reasons. they're afraid to teach about that because they're afraid of pushback from parents and students, maybe they're not comfortable with that religious literacy piece. possibly there in trade they're going to be biased to their own religious tradition, so they're

she has received fellowships from the ford foundation, the national endowment for humanity, the mcdowell colony, the vermont arts council and w.e.b. dubois institute at harvard university. and andrew carnegie fellow emily bernard lives with her family in vermont. please join me in welcoming emily bernard to our roundtable today. >> thank you for the introduction and thank you for letting me be here today. i'm glad to be here. i couldn't ask for more brilliant and wonderful colleagues than the ones i'm sharing this panel with today so it'sa pleasure . i received the notice about this topic and my thoughts immediately went as our ideal first in life and thinking about a lot lately in no small part because of the passing of our beloved and brilliant collie valerie boyd who is the author of brilliant wonderful biography of kirsten that eyesight so often in my work and i'm writing about person for my book project which is a series of biographies about black women where i want to in some ways trouble or complicate conventional ideas about success, women who literally made a way out of no way a

know writing different standards at the national and state levels and participating in the national endowment or the humanities institute on separation of church and state and harvard divinity schools religious literacy institute. so so these are gentlenizations so i'll say that so first, i mean, that's a great question. like what is what's missing for for our students and and how my more informed understanding of the mayflower compact build civic literacy because that's what we're trying to do and that's what we need. i think dr. allen and we were talking about that beforehand here, so i really informed understanding if we're going off. of understanding the religiosity of the document and i think that's something that needs to be pushed put out there is that we need to understand the religiosity and as rooted in that christian nature now i get it most teachers are fearful of that because they're well, they're a variety of reasons. i mean they're afraid to teach about that because they're afraid of push back from parents and students. maybe they're not comfortable with that religious literacy

she has received fellowships from the ford foundation, the national endowment for the humanities, the macdowell colony, the arts council, and the w.e.b. dubois institute at university. a 2020 andrew carnegie fellow, emily barnard, lives her family in vermont. so please join me in welcoming emily bernhardt to our roundtable today. thank you so much, dr. word for that introduction and thank you for making it possible for me to be here today. i'm thrilled to be here. i couldn't ask for more. brilliant and wonderful colleagues than the colleagues. i'm sharing this panel with today. so it's a real pleasure. when i received the notice about this topic, my thoughts immediately went to zora neale hurston, who i've been thinking about a lot lately. not in no small part because of the recent passing. our beloved and brilliant colleague valerie boyd, who's the author of a brilliant, wonderful biography of hurston that i consult often in my work and i'm writing hurston for my upcoming book project, which is a series of biographies about black women where i want to in some trouble or complicate co

the same thing is happening now in ukraine, read what the atlantic council, which owns the national endowmentukraine win. and at the same time , let's hope that the russians do not take advantage of such a weapon that can wipe ukraine off the face of the earth, and they certainly have a lot, they don’t need a couple of missiles that the ukrainian nuclear power plant will destroy , imagine chernobyl multiplied ten times, but let's play a game where the lives of ukrainians are at stake and let's hope that they won't do it. let's keep refusing to negotiate with putin and stick to our line for as long as we can. maybe at some point we will be able to jump off this burning train. putin can destroy ukraine, but we still let's try our luck, because we are strong, so no peace negotiations, we will continue to play with ukrainian lives. and it may not destroy them. here it is the official policy of the west and the united states vladislav nikolayevich but, probably, the truth, the way it is, it is not quite so after all. uh, there is an understanding that russia will never allow. uh exceed the measure

the same thing is happening now in ukraine, read what the atlantic council, which owns the national endowmentssians do not use such weapons that can wipe ukraine off the face of the earth, and they certainly have it and they don’t need much a couple of missiles that the ukrainian nuclear power plant will destroy imagine chernobyl multiplied ten times, but let's play a game, where the stake will be the lives of ukrainians and let's hope they don't. let's keep refusing to negotiate with putin and stick to our line for as long as we can. maybe we can jump off this burning train at some point. putin can destroy ukraine but we'll still try our luck because strong so no peace talks we'll continue to play ukrainian lives. and they may not be destroyed. this is the official policy from the west and the united states today and, in principle, all these years, starting from 13 , ukraine has been used, you know, as anti-russia, that is, although we understand that people live there who think they speak russian. and this is the flashing that they did, backed up by those weapons, which they supply it is, u

for what functions it is endowed with, this is precisely the moment for which the entire belarusian national assembly is being formed in order to maximally reflect the various points of view that exist in our society. even this discussion itself showed that this task is being carried out. the belarusian people's assembly will bring together 1200 caring belarusians who are ready to devote their personal time. for the common good, deputies of politics , representatives of the authorities and civil society will jointly make key decisions for the development of the state. for the safety of people in the pool , a new fire station was opened for the holiday on november 7. it was built in less than a year in the densely populated airport microdistrict, there are 95 multi-apartment residential buildings, where about 38,000 citizens live. there are also several commercial facilities with a mass stay of people and enterprises where they work with chemically hazardous substances, so it was decided to locate an emergency unit in the immediate vicinity. during 7-8 months, built in a ligature of the new o

a stegner fellow, stanford and a radcliffe fellow at harvard and holds fellowships from the national endowment for the arts and the poetry foundation. welcome. our illustrious group. a lot of work, a lot of water, high. the books. we love that. what's up, miami? yeah. i haven't been back since the pandemic, so it's like, thank you for inviting me back. it's been great. and incredible career. and lee, i feel so honored to be here. i just a lot of gratitude. that's because i finally out exactly where i needed to be. if i some if you saw me this morning when i was trying to find where i needed to be, i was a very grumpy. i was like, what is this many people? but honestly, what a beautiful community event that so many people. miami, this is such an incredible cultural event, the city of miami. and i'm so glad that it remains such an important part of your city. so kudos you make that happen. i mean, not the organizers. i mean. yes, the organizers really. it's your tone turn out so. thank you so much. so i i'm the author of a memoir once i was you a memoir of love and hate and tour in america that

putin's motivations and the history that helped shape them, andrew weiss, carnegie endowment vice president and former national security council staff, state department, and defense department official has written a new graphic novel with art by brian box brown called "accidental czar: the life and lies of vladimir putin." thanks so much. welcome back to the newshour. >> thanks for having me. correspondent: there are a lot of books about putin, but none that, as far as we could tell, that is a graphic novel. why did you write a graphic >> --a graphic novel? >> vladimir putin is a fascinating character and he's been in the public eye for more than two decades. but a lot of this is deliberately either shrouded in mystery, like what makes the man tick. and a lot of it's constantly being embellished. and i thought it was really important to pull the myths apart and try to tell people who vladimir putin actually is, but situated in a bigger context. being able to stretch things out and show people what the institution of being the czar is and how putin in many ways has become a latter day czar, was a key driving fo

for what functions it is endowed with, this is precisely the moment for which the entire belarusian nationalo maximally reflect the various points of view that exist in our society. even this discussion itself showed that this task is carried out by the powers of the navy impose a serious responsibility. for all the delegates to approve the main directions of foreign and domestic policy, the military doctrine, the concept of national security. in total, among the powers of 16 most important points are the participants of the dialogue platforms. all articles of the bill were worked out in detail. proposals on thirty-nine articles of bills were discussed and worked out all over belarus. native meeting forty- two, that is, you can estimate these volumes. in fact, the proposal had a very concrete constructive character, if the content is a criticism of certain norms that are laid down in the draft, then at the same time, proposals were made on how, in the opinion of the author, certain problems can be solved among the proposals voiced at the discussion platforms, there were theses about the need

for what functions he is endowed with just this very moment for the sake of which the entire belarusian nationaler to reflect the various points of view as much as possible.

wow, the americans have proudly endowed themselves with unlimited power, declaring that they are the leader of the nationslusively, with never bet against america at such a time will never come, because for us the united states of america is nothing unattainable the main power of the usa in the last 80 years, the money printing press in their hands at the beginning imperceptibly, but then more and more clearly americans turned the dollar into a financial cudgel, and most importantly, in the pursuit of world domination, they began to print their dollars uncontrollably and dispersed, inflation unprecedented since the second world war, only in the last 2 years they stamped approximately the same amount of dollars. how much for the previous 40 years five and nine trillion. this is 38% of the money supply. however, despite the gigantic money emission of the efficiency of the economy , labor productivity does not grow, the incomes of the population, their standard of living from 100 dollars that are printed every day with a nose and, conditionally speaking, they print, of course, trillions of dollars. uh, so ou

endowed chair info history. and directs the ralph j bunche center for african-american studies. one of the nation'sding experts on race, immigration and mass incarceration she is the author of write these down if you haven't, history of the u.s. border patrol with university of california press publishing 2010 asf well as unquestioned rebellion. university of north dakota press 2017 and of course today's book "bad mexicans: race, empire, and revolution in the borderlands" which is just out of the press got it right what was it published? >> may 10. >> five days after simcoe demaio. [applause] y yes, yes, thank you. she also leads a very important program she will tell us a little bit about it. big data research documenting the human cost ofn incarceration in los angeles. for historical and contemporary work, she was standing 2019 at macarthur genius fellow. she is also an elected member of the society of american historians, the american academy of arts and sciences, and pulitzer prize board. just all-around genius here. [applause] is so much for being here. >> no, thank you for being here. >> so w

national publications as the wall street journal and, the washington post, and particularly for our conversation here today. prior becoming an academic, todd had been a nuclear policy analyst at the carnegie endowment for international peace. so we have a great group here to talk about the moment and we got here and i would start with aaron. you as coauthor of the volume, but also someone who had spent so time looking at the nixon administration and the saw process and thinking about where nixon had come from to that moment. could you lay out the landscape us in terms of where arms control had been up to that point? nixon came in january 1969. what were the efforts that a variety of administration had taken to control the bomb? what the status of the bomb, the the proliferation of nuclear arms around the world, particularly with the superpowers and and how did nixon himself approach those matters on the one hand? but his thoughts about arms control on the other that your questions, of course, get at the very core of the book. so i'll try to just give a snapshot here. let me preface all my remarks today, though. i'm here in the capacity a nonresident fellow since i do have my position at the pentago