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1. CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PUBLIC LECTURES

• Richard Fleischer. Soylent Green." Große Werke des Films, University of Augsburg, City Library (17 July 2024)

• “Sarah Emma Edmonds. Bible Seller and Crossed-Dressed Spy.” American Studies Lecture Series, Univ. Augsburg (21 Nov. 2023)

• “A.F. Hill: A One-Legged Soldier and his Remarkable Peregrinations afer the Civil War.” Conference on “Narrating, Representing, Reflecting, Disability. 21st Century ‘American’ Perspectives,” DFG project (W. Raussert) on “Mental Illness as Cultural Narrative: Contemporary Literature from the Contact Zones between the U.S., Canada, and the Caribbean,” Univ. Bielefeld (13 June 2023)

• “A Contested Field. Agnes Denes Growing Wheat in Manhattan.” Green Hour Brown Bag Lunch, Univ. Augsburg (6 June 2023)

• “American Harvests.” D-A-CH Victorianists Conference on “Ecocritical Perspectives of the 19th Century.” Online (9 Dec. 2022)

• “Kunst in Zeiten des Klimawandels.” Panel participation, together with Dr. Isabel Greschat, VHS Ulm (24 Nov. 2022)

• “Wheatscapes zwischen Abstraktion, Krieg und Verheißung.” Tagung zu “Kulturen im Anthropozän. Eine interdisziplinäre Herausforderung.” Univ. Innsbruck (1 July 2021)

• “Harvest in Manhattan. Wheat Farming on an Urban Landfill.” DGfA Annual Conference on “Part

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  Books for Long Winter Nights

  Books are having a moment. Sales of physical books are up, independent bookstores are showing signs of growth, and even Amazon is opening brick-and-mortar bookstores. So we polled faculty and staff, asking for their suggestions for good books to help us make it through the dark months ahead—curling up on the couch, throw blanket at the ready. We have a rich selection of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction—everything from mysteries, magical realism, and fantasy to biography and history, travel in the Middle East, and two takes on Hiroshima.

  If you have other suggestions, let us know at now@tufts.edu, and we’ll post an update.

  FICTION

  The Art Forger, by B.A. Shapiro. This novel is a clever mix of several genres: mystery, suspense, art history, and a little romance. The plot centers on the heist of paintings from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. The heroine, Claire Roth, is a struggling artist who makes her living painting copies of famous works. Technically, she is a professional forger, but there’s nothing illegal about what she does for a company called Reproductions.com. Then the owner of a major art gallery approaches her with a risky request: that she produce a copy of an originalDegas, reputedly one stolen from the G