Events for the Week of: 22-28 March 2021, from Books, Literature, and Spoken Word category

Warwick's will host Donna Leon as she discusses her new book, Transient Desires, in conversation with Jeniffer Thompson. Donna Leon is the author of the highly acclaimed, internationally bestselling Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery series. the winner of the CWA Macallan Silver Dagger for Fiction, among other awards, Donna Leon lived in Venice for many years and now divides her time between Venice and Switzerland.

In his many years as a commissario, Guido Brunetti has seen all manner of crime and known intuitively how to navigate the various pathways in his native city, Venice, to discover the person responsible. Now, in Transient Desires, the thirtieth novel in Donna Leona' s masterful series, he faces a heinous crime committed outside his jurisdiction. He is drawn in innocently enough: two young American women have been badly injured in a boating accident, joy riding in the Laguna with two young Italians. However, Brunetti's curiosity is aroused by the behavior of the young men, who abandoned the victims after taking them to the hospital. If the injuries were the result of an accident, why did they want to avoid association with it?

Admission/Cost: FREE

Location:
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Wednesday, March 24 - 12:00 PM


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In recognition of Black History Month, the San Diego Diplomacy Council is proud to offer a powerful reflection of Isabel Wilkerson's book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Join us online on Wednesday, February 24th at 7 PM PST to discuss the harsh realities of a menacing Caste system that exists and may sometimes thrive in our developed world. Wilkerson offers an unparalleled synthesis of the American way of life by conflating notions of race and caste. Rather than arguing they are synonymic, she writes they often coexist and reinforce each other in a society: Race, in the United States, is the visible agent of the unseen force of caste. Caste is the bones, race is the skin”.

Our co-hosts for this event are the two expert scholars Fern P. Nelson, M.D. and Bashker Bob❠Biswas, Ph.D.

Dr. Nelson, an African American woman native to Detroit, Michigan, has also lived in numerous cities throughout the United States, including Boston, Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, and currently San Diego. Nelson spent the bulk of her career teaching dermatology residents and students, in addition to running her own private practice. She now serves as a member of the San Diego African American Museum of Fine Art, the Balboa Park Conservancy, AND on our very own advisory board. She will share her experiences and reflections in light of the caste system here in America.

Dr. Biswas has an extensive and accredited career working as a professor at just shy of ten universities, including Santa Clara University and the Zain International Graduate Academy. Bashkaralso has first-hand International Business knowledge serving as a Consultant and an International Executive in all continents of the world, covering over 30 different countries. In her novel, Wilkerson draws upsetting parallels between India's treatment of its untouchables, Dalits, Nazi Germany’s treatment of Jews, and America's treatment of African-Americans. She notes, each country "relied on stigmatizing those deemed inferior to justify the dehumanization necessary to keep the lowest-ranked people at the bottom and to rationalize the protocols of enforcement." Due to his experience as both an Indian man and an incredibly accomplished businessman, Dr. Biswas offers the global context needed to comment on such a comparison.

The San Diego Diplomacy Council is honored to provide a platform for these two bright minds to share their expertise and analysis.

Admission/Cost: FREE

Location:
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Wednesday, February 24 - 7:00 PM


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