Healthy democracy fosters an exchange of ideas across experiences and knowledge. One way to offer a platform for this is to root discussion in shared reading and collaborative understanding. Engaged Reading is offered to promote learning and inquiry across populations at the University, through common texts. Inspired by the expansive reach of the KU Reads / Common Book program, and curated with goals of generous and generative conversation, this series will feature excerpts and texts presented with discussion stewards.

‘Time is a Mother,’ by Ocean Vuong

Discussion led by Akiko Takeyama (Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies/Center for East Asian Studies) and Megan Kaminski (English/Environmental Studies). It is not necessary to have attended the September 26 event with Ocean Vuong, hosted by The Commons.

Twenty copies of the book are available to the first attendees, courtesy of the KU Libraries. To claim your spot at the event, email thecommons@ku.edu.

Supported by the Hall Center for the Humanities, KU Libraries, the Spencer Museum of Art, the Institute for Policy & Social Research, and The Commons