{"nodes":[{"node":{"nid":"85426","title":"Coffee and Conversation with Darya Tsymbalyuk","campus":"Tempe campus","locations":"Ross-Blakley Hall 197","college_unit":"Department of English, Humanities, Humanities at ASU, Humanities Institute, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, School of International Letters and Cultures, School of Social Transformation, Melikian Center","department":"Humanities Institute","field_cost_value":"Free","event_price_level":"Free","asu_events_price_desc":"Free","body_summary":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EJoin Darya Tsymbalyuk, author of\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.politybooks.com\/bookdetai\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","full_body":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EJoin Darya Tsymbalyuk, author of\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.politybooks.com\/bookdetail?book_slug=ecocide-in-ukraine-the-environmental-cost-of-russias-war--9781509562497\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u201cEcocide in Ukraine: The Environmental Cost of Russia\u2019s War\u201d\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E and\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/humanitiesinstitute.asu.edu\/grants-awards\/book-award\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Erecipient of the 2026 Humanities Institute Book Award\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E, for an informal conversation with humanities faculty and graduate students about the intellectual and creative process of developing scholarly work.\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ETsymbalyuk\u2019s work in the environmental humanities moves between scholarly research and critical-creative practice, exploring writing, visual art, filmmaking, and collaborative and public-facing forms of scholarship. 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Parking fees may apply.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the speakers\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003EUnited States Marine Corps veteran \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.philklay.com\/\u0022\u003EPhil Klay\u003C\/a\u003E wowed readers with his short story collection\u0026nbsp;\u0022\u003Cspan\u003ERedeployment,\u0022 which was named \u0022one of the best debuts of the year\u0022 (The Oregonian) and won the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction.\u0026nbsp;Klay\u2019s most recent essay collection \u201cUncertain Ground\u201d reckons with some of our country\u2019s thorniest concerns. The Los Angeles Times reported that \u201cKlay transcends his self-description as \u2018a writer who was once a Marine and writes about war\u2019 to become more of a philosopher. 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A defining work twenty years in the making, \u201cThe Rouse\u201d is a deeply moving, decade- and continent-spanning epic of personal grief, global tumult and grim conspiracy.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChina Mi\u00e9ville\u0027s works are never just one thing. Fantasy, horror, speculative and pulp fiction combine, explode and recombine to make dense tales. His cast of characters are experimental, absurdist and hauntingly surreal from gun-wielding steampunk cyborgs and carnivorous giraffes to insect-like aliens and dark unnamable spirits. They navigate through gritty politically charged terrains with world building trap doors, portals and mazes. You are never quite the same after reading a Mi\u00e9ville novel. Come see why!\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFollowing his lecture, Mi\u00e9ville will be in conversation with ASU creative writing professor and author Matt Bell, who will also moderate a Q\u0026amp;A with the audience. Copies of \u0022The Rouse\u201d will be available for purchase. Light refreshments will be served before the event. Online attendees may\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/video.ibm.com\/asutv\u0022\u003Estream the event on ASU Live\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPlease note the event times:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E4 \u2013 5 p.m. | Pre-event reception and book sale\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E5 \u2013 6 p.m. | Distinguished Lecture\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E6 \u2013 6:30 p.m. | Book sale and book signing\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the book\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMaur\u2019s life has been shaped by loss: an apparently ordinary tragedy. But in its aftermath arise deeper, stranger questions. Their answers may lie within the dark heart and darker history of an old soldier who shares Maur\u2019s obsessions and who is violently pursued by the same unknown, unquiet forces.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESo begins a book unlike any other: at once an encyclopaedic and multitudinous saga of a bloody century and the intimate story of two lives, their loves, regrets, and secrets\u2014and a terrifying journey into infinite mystery.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout the speakers\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.chinamieville.net\/\u0022\u003EChina Mi\u00e9ville\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E is a New York Times-bestselling author of fiction and non-fiction. In 2015 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and in 2018 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for fiction. His work has won various prizes, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Hugo Award and the British Science Fiction Award, and has been shortlisted for the Folio Prize and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. He has previously been Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Warwick University, an Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Law at Birkbeck, University of London, and Writer-in-Residence at Roosevelt University in Chicago, IL. He is one of founding editors of the journal\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/salvage.zone\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ESalvage\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.mattbell.com\/\u0022\u003EMatt Bell\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;is the author most recently of the novel\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.mattbell.com\/#\/appleseed\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EAppleseed\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u0026nbsp;(a\u0026nbsp;New York Times\u0026nbsp;Notable Book) and the craft book\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.mattbell.com\/#\/refuse-to-be-done\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003ERefuse to Be Done\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E,\u0026nbsp;a guide to novel writing, rewriting, and revision. Bell\u2019s next novel is\u0026nbsp;Penitent,\u0026nbsp;forthcoming in 2028 from Doubleday Books. He is also the author of the novels\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.mattbell.com\/#\/scrapper\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EScrapper\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E and\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.mattbell.com\/#\/in-the-house-upon-the-dirt-between-the-lake-and-the-woods\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EIn the House upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E, as well as the short story collection\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.mattbell.com\/#\/a-tree-or-a-person-or-a-wall\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EA Tree or a Person or a Wall\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E,\u0026nbsp;a non-fiction book about the classic video game\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.mattbell.com\/#\/baldurs-gate-ii\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EBaldur\u0027s Gate II\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E,\u0026nbsp;and several other titles. 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