6:00pm to 7:30pm
Virtual Zoom
Social Cohesion Dialogue
Erica Armstrong Dunbar, author of Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit Of Their Runaway Slave Ona Judge and Noé Alvarez, author of the memoir Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America’s Stolen Land will engage in conversation with communities at and beyond ASU about critical issues of race, freedom, power, memory, flight and self-determination.
Program Schedule:
Virtual Book Discussion Groups | January – February
Participate in a 75-minute online book discussion group facilitated by ASU faculty and community partners. Select the “Book Group” tab for more information and to register.
Virtual Public Dialogue | Thursday, February 18
Join Center Director Lois Brown, PhD and authors Dunbar and Alvarez for an interactive online and public dialogue about the compelling issues and intersecting themes that emerge in Never Caught and Spirit Run. Attendees can pose questions of the authors in advance when they register and during the livestreamed dialogue.
Author Bios
Noé Alvarez
Noé Alvarez was born to Mexican immigrant parents and raised working-class in Yakima, Washington. He holds degrees in philosophy and creative writing from Whitman College and Emerson College, respectively.
He studied conflict analysis, peacemaking, and conflict resolution at American University and in Northern Ireland, received a fellowship at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, and researched U.S. drug policy, military aid, and human rights issues in Colombia’s Putumayo jungles.
He lives in Boston, where, until recently, he worked as a security officer at one of the nation’s oldest libraries, the Boston Athenæum.
Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Erica Armstrong Dunbar is the Charles and Mary Beard Professor of History at Rutgers University. Her first book, A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City, was published by Yale University Press in 2008.
Her second book, Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge was a 2017 finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction and a winner of the 2018 Frederick Douglass Book Award. She is also the author of She Came to Slay, an illustrated tribute to Harriet Tubman.
Register - Public Dialogue
Virtual Zoom
Thursday, Febuary 18
6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. MST
Free | Online | Open to the Public
Registration Information:
- Complete a registration for each attendee
- The same email and contact information can be used for multiple registrations. Those who provide duplicate registrations will be contacted.
- If you have any questions, please contact the CSRD at 602-496-1376 or by email at csrd@asu.edu
Register - Book Groups
Participate in a 75-minute online book discussion group facilitated by ASU faculty and community partners. Think aloud with a diverse group of readers about Erica Armstrong Dunbar’s Never Caught and Noé Alvarez’sSpirit Run and be part of an inspiring dialogue on critical issues of race, freedom, power, memory, flight and self-determination with diverse participants.
Free | Online | Open to the Public
Books will be provided to all registered participants. Hard copies or electronic copies of Never Caught and Spirit Run are available and will be provided free of charge to all registered participants. All time slots are in Mountain standard time.
Book Discussion Group Schedule
| Date | Time (MST) | Facilitators | Location | |
| Tuesday, January 19, 2021 | 10am – 11:30am | Virtual Zoom | ||
| Wednesday, January 20, 2021 | 10am – 11:30am | Virtual Zoom | Register | |
| Wednesday, January 20, 2021 | 6pm – 7:30pm | Virtual Zoom | Register | |
| Wednesday, January 27, 2021 | 10am – 11:30am |
Virtual Zoom (Spirit Run Only) |
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| Thursday, January 28, 2021 | 10am – 11:30am | Virtual Zoom | Register | |
| Sunday, January 31, 2021 | 2pm – 3:30pm | Virtual Zoom | Register | |
| Tuesday, February 2, 2021 | 10am – 11:30am | Virtual Zoom | Register | |
| Thursday, February 4, 2021 | 10am – 11:30am | Virtual Zoom | Register | |
| Sunday, February 7, 2021 | 2pm – 3:30pm | JT Roane | Virtual Zoom | Register |
| Wednesday, February 10, 2021 | 10am – 11:30am | Lois Brown | Virtual Zoom (Never Caught Only) |
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| Wednesday, February 10, 2021 | 6pm – 7:30pm | Virtual Zoom | Register | |
| Thursday, February 11, 2021 | 6pm – 7:30pm | Virtual Zoom | Register |
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