Name: The Cheuse Lecture of Ideas: Extra[ordinary] Courage: the Politics of Language and Masculinity
Start: 2025-04-01T18:30:00-04:00
Location: Stacy C. Sherwood Community Center

The Cheuse Lecture of Ideas: Extra[ordinary] Courage: the Politics of Language and Masculinity

The Cheuse Center, OLLI, City of Fairfax, & FCPL present the Cheuse Lecture of Ideas -- Extra[ordinary] Courage: the Politics of Language and Masculinity, by Dinaw Mengestu.
In 2023, the Cheuse Center launched its first free public lecture of ideas to enrich public life. This year Dinaw Mengestu will deliver the 3rd public lecture on April 1, 2025 at 6:30pm, at the Stacy C Sherwood Community Center in Fairfax, Virginia. will deliver the 2025 Cheuse Lecture titled: Extra{ordinary} Courage: the politics of language and masculinity. By exploring courage, Dinaw Mengestu will present us with his ideas on the politics of language and masculinity. Through his work the multitudes of men and women at work in the cities and small towns in America become personal and quietly heroic. Dinaw Mengestu is the author of four novels, including Someone Like Us (Knopf 2024), and The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (Riverhead, 2007), all New York Times Notable Books. A native of Ethiopia who came with his family to the United States at the age of two, Mengestu is also a freelance journalist who has reported about life in Darfur, northern Uganda, and eastern Congo. He is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow, among other honors. The lecture is brought to you by the Cheuse Center, Fairfax County Public Library (FCPL), the City of Fairfax & Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI). This lecture series is made possible by the generous support of William Miller & Elisabeth Vermilye.
Details:
Date/Time: April 1 2025, 6:30pm
Location: Stacy C Sherwood Community Center, 3740 Blenheim Boulevard, Fairfax, VA 22030
Program:
Doors open 6pm
6:30 pm: Introductions & 45-minute lecture
7:30 pm: Discussion and questions
8:00-9:00 pm: Book sale and signing
Parking: free. Parking map: https://www.fairfaxva.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/19533/638139572124230000
Bookstore partner: Scrawl Books.
Books they will carry: “Someone Like Us”, “The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears”, “All Our Names” and “How to Read Air”.