The Common Reading Program will host its final live Zoom talk of the 2019-20 year today at noon when Melissa Parkhurst from the WSU School of Music will present “To Sing in a Strange Land: Native American Youth Making Music in the Residential Schools.” Parkhurst will address how Native youth have used music to sustain themselves during their forced relocation to federal boarding schools, as well as how music has continued to have impact when they return home. To access the Zoom link for this this talk, visit CommonReading.wsu.edu/calendar/.
Parkhurst’s talk is the concluding presentation from a year-long slate of approximately 50 programs related to the 2019-20 Common Reading book, Refuge: Rethinking Refugee Policy in a Changing World.
Provost Slinker has selected Trevor Noah’s 2016 memoir Born a Crime as the 2020-21 Common Reading book. Faculty and staff interested in considering use of this book in courses or programs can request an e-copy of the book by visiting https://commonreading.wsu.edu/request-a-copy/
