{"id":6187,"date":"2022-11-17T14:49:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T18:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/?p=6187"},"modified":"2022-11-17T14:49:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T18:49:42","slug":"university-colloquium-kevin-seidel-mary-ann-zehr-and-steven-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/2022\/11\/17\/university-colloquium-kevin-seidel-mary-ann-zehr-and-steven-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"University Colloquium: Kevin Seidel, Mary Ann Zehr, and Steven Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Kevin Seidel, Professor of Literature in English; Steven Johnson, Professor of Visual and Communication Arts; and Mary Ann Zehr, Writing Instructor and Graduate Writing Coach lead the audience in a visually inspired discussion of several graphic novels and memoirs. The aim will be to heighten our appreciation for Thi Bui&#8217;s illustrated memoir\u00a0<em>The Best We Could Do<\/em>, which is EMU&#8217;s Common Read selection for the 2022-23 year. Bui was born in Vietnam and grew up in the United States.\u00a0<em>The Best We Could Do<\/em>\u00a0tells the story of how Bui&#8217;s becoming a mother led to her learning more about her own parents&#8217; life before their flight to the United States after the end of the Vietnam War.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/11\/17144914\/2022-10-26-colloquium-graphic-novel-panel.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"emu-podcast-embed\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/emu-wordpress-multisite-instance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/11\/17144914\/2022-10-26-colloquium-graphic-novel-panel.mp3\"><\/audio><\/div><p>Kevin Seidel, Professor of Literature in English; Steven Johnson, Professor of Visual and Communication Arts; and Mary Ann Zehr, Writing Instructor and Graduate Writing Coach lead the audience in a visually inspired discussion of several graphic novels and memoirs. The aim will be to heighten our appreciation for Thi Bui&#8217;s illustrated memoir\u00a0The Best We Could....<\/p>","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5106,262],"tags":[4630,5221,4076],"class_list":["post-6187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-university-colloquium","category-university-colloquia","tag-kevin-seidel","tag-mary-ann-zehr","tag-steven-johnson","has-post-thumbnail","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6189,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6187\/revisions\/6189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}