Focus on Arts and Ecology

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We have some extraordinary speakers joining the next few Nation Conversations. Next week, we’ll be joined by the youngest State Senator in the history of Maine, Chloe Maxmin, who will explain how a climate change champion managed to win a rural red district. In April we’ll meet San Francisco’s District Attorney Chesa Boudin in a conversation about parenting and prison with author Sylvia A. Harvey and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen talking about his own experience as an immigrant and anti-Asian violence through history. We hope you will join us! 

Each session will include ample time devoted to audience questions and engagement. Tickets are $10 and go directly to supporting The Nation’s journalism. If you have any questions, please email us at events@thenation.com.

Upcoming Nation Events

Chloe Maxmin: How a Climate-Justice Champion Can Win Office in Rural America

If you think the “Green New Deal” is toxic to Democrats in Republican-leaning districts, you might want to talk to Maine’s youngest State Senator, Chloe Maxmin. In November, she unseated the state’s GOP Senate minority leader in rural, working-class District 13. Two years earlier, in her first run for office, Maxmin won a seat in Maine’s lower chamber from her deep-red House district, and then went on to introduce a Maine “Green New Deal” bill with the endorsement of the state’s AFL-CIO. As Senator, Maxmin’s work is focused on bipartisan, community-based efforts for free rural broadband, quality education and healthcare, effective transportation and state policies designed to sustain natural resources. Join us for a vital conversation with Maxmin, hosted by Katrina vanden Heuvel, on her work in Maine and how it connects to social justice struggles coast to coast. 

March 24 | 9:00 AM PT | 12:00 PM ET

Chesa Boudin and Sylvia A. Harvey: Parenting from Prison

For San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, his mother and father were radical not for their militant New Left politics but for the extraordinary lengths they took to parent him while incarcerated. Boudin detailed what this meant for him personally in The Nation’s first-ever special issue on parenting. Boudin will be in conversation with Sylvia A. Harvey, author of The Shadow System: Mass Incarceration and the American Family, and a longtime expert on the intersection of race, class, policy, and incarceration. Boudin and Harvey will share stories of parental love strong enough to scale prison walls and talk about how Boudin’s experience with his parents’ imprisonment has informed his groundbreaking work as San Francisco’s District Attorney. Join us for a conversation with Boudin and Harvey, moderated by Dani McClain and hosted by Katrina vanden Heuvel. 

April 15 | 9:00 AM PT | 12:00 PM ET

Viet Thanh Nguyen: Challenging Colonialism in Literature

The Vietnamese-American author Viet Thanh Nguyen’s first novel, The Sympathizer, a spy thriller set against the backdrop of the Vietnam war, won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. His recently-released The Committed is the sequel to his celebrated debut and has been receiving widespread notice coast to coast. The Sympathizer established Nguyen as both a literary star and an advocate for displaced people around the world. Nguyen will be in conversation with Katrina vanden Heuvel talking about his own experience as a refugee in America, how we’ve seen anti-Asian violence through history, and some of the ways he thinks people can help their communities. 

April 21 | 9:00 AM PT | 12:00 PM ET