Go Big Read seeking book suggestions
Once again, the theme for Go Big Read is “contemporary issues” — topics such as technology, climate change, health care, or any other issue that’s spurring conversation. Books can be fiction or nonfiction.
Once again, the theme for Go Big Read is “contemporary issues” — topics such as technology, climate change, health care, or any other issue that’s spurring conversation. Books can be fiction or nonfiction.
Dan Egan’s full-time beat covering the Great Lakes for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has evolved into a book, “The Death and Life of the Great Lakes,” which is this year’s selection for UW–Madison’s common-reading program.
In “The Death and Life of the Great Lakes, Dan Egan writes, “Like generations of the past, we know the damage we are doing to the lakes, and we know how to begin to stop it; unlike generations of the past, we aren’t doing it.”
“The Death and Life of the Great Lakes” tells the epic story of the lakes with an examination of the perils they face and the ways we can restore and preserve them for generations to come.
In nearly a decade, the common reading program has gotten the campus and local communities reading and discussing timely topics, all with a goal of gaining a better understanding of each other and the issues.
A UW-Madison panel will discuss J.D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy” at a Go Big Read Keynote Event at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 9, at Memorial Union’s Shannon Hall.
J.D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy,” the common-reading program’s selection for this year, has people talking as it touches on a wide range of pressing contemporary issues.
Desmond received his doctorate from UW–Madison in 2010. He is an affiliate of the UW’s Institute for Research on Poverty.
Go Big Read is opening up nominations to any book that has a contemporary theme that will lend itself to discussion.
As a graduate student, Matthew Desmond spent countless hours in class at the Sewell Social Sciences Building. On Wednesday morning, he was at the front of the class, leading a discussion about his book “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.”
MADISON – Free tickets are available to the public starting Wednesday, Oct. 5 for this year’s Go Big Read Event featuring author Matthew Desmond. Desmond, a UW-Madison alumnus and author of “Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,” will speak at 7 p.m. Nov. 1 at the Memorial Union Theater. “Evicted” tells the story …
Go Big Read authors are such celebrities on the UW-Madison campus, their keynotes are becoming big-ticket events. To address such high demand, the event will use tickets this year.
“Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,” the best-selling book by UW-Madison alumnus Matthew Desmond, is the selection for the university’s common-reading program.
Attorney Bryan Stevenson, whose book “Just Mercy” about racial inequality and the need for justice system reform is this year’s selection for Go Big Read (GBR), visited campus Oct. 26.
Students from the Wisconsin School of Business use silk-screening techniques to create posters as part of a Just Mercy Printmaking Project. The students designed the artwork after reading “Just Mercy” by Bryan Stevenson, this year’s Go Big Read selection. Photo: Jeff Miller “What if you were labeled as the worst thing you had ever done?” …
Stevenson’s keynote speech is one of the highlights of a semester-long campus and community discussion of his book “Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption.”
Bryan Stevenson is one of the leading voices in America for reforming a justice system that produces strikingly different results depending on a defendant’s race and economic means. Readers across the UW–Madison campus and around the Madison community, including law enforcement, will join that discussion this fall as they confront the contradictions between that system and our nation’s founding principles of equality, freedom and justice.
For thousands of students new to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Wisconsin Experience officially begins when they meet Chancellor Rebecca Blank at the Kohl Center.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu calls Bryan Stevenson “America’s Mandela.” Stevenson has spent his career fighting for racial justice and wants his fellow Americans to realize that something is inherently wrong with the land of the free and the home of the brave having the highest incarceration rate in the world.
For the 2015-16 year, the selection committee for Go Big Read, UW-Madison’s common-reading program, is seeking a book that addresses this theme of inequality in America. Both fiction and nonfiction titles are encouraged for submission by students, faculty, staff and members of the community.