{"id":5453,"date":"2020-01-20T17:23:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T17:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/writing\/?p=5453"},"modified":"2020-01-20T17:23:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T17:23:41","slug":"dinner-and-a-draft-with-dr-carwil-bjork-james-january-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/writing\/2020\/01\/20\/dinner-and-a-draft-with-dr-carwil-bjork-james-january-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinner and a Draft with Dr. Carwil Bjork-James, January 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Thursday, January 30, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>6:00-7:30 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Dean of the Ingram Commons Residence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Get a great dinner. Get a new perspective on writing. Get to know a professor in a fun, informal setting. Those are three reasons you should attend \u201cDinner and a Draft,\u201d coming up on Thursday, January 30 from 6:00-7:30 pm, at the Dean of the Ingram Commons Residence!<\/p>\n<p>Our faculty guest for the spring semester will be Assistant Professor Carwil Bjork-James. Dr. Bjork-James is a cultural anthropologist whose work focuses on strategies of grassroots autonomy and disruptive protest in Latin America. His book, The Sovereign Street: Making Revolution in Urban Bolivia (UArizona Press, 2020), analyzes the takeover and use of urban space by grassroots social movements, particularly in the cities of Cochabamba, Sucre, and La Paz.<\/p>\n<p>Join the Writing Studio and our host Dean Gresalfi as we share a meal, talk about the challenges and rewards of getting words on the page, and get to know Dr. Bjork-James.<\/p>\n<p>Space is limited so reserve a spot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/writing\/events\/dinner-and-a-draft\/dinner-and-a-draft-registration\/\">here<\/a> soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(*First-year students given priority for this event which is held in partnership with the Dean of the Ingram Commons.)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, January 30, 2020 6:00-7:30 p.m. Dean of the Ingram Commons Residence Get a great dinner. Get a new perspective on writing. Get to know a professor in a fun, informal setting. Those are three reasons you should attend \u201cDinner and a Draft,\u201d coming up on Thursday, January 30 from 6:00-7:30 pm, at the Dean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10951,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","ACF":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10951"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}