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• Marina Warner’s Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights has won the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award in the Criticism category.
• An excerpt from Jerry White’s A Great and Monstrous Thing: London in the Eighteenth Century—on the “ménage of misfits” collected by Samuel Johnson during his 47 years in the great city—was published in PopMatters.
• John Allen, author of The Omnivorous Mind: Our Evolving Relationship with Food, discussed on NPR’s All Things Considered why the brain keeps telling us—problematically!—that “food=love.”
• In the New York Times, Gavin Wright, author of Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South, weighed in on the changes in corporate public support of civil rights issues—once desegregation, now gay marriage.

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February 27: Honoring the Work of Patricia Williams

This Friday, Columbia Law School’s Center for Gender and Sexuality Law will host a day-long symposium honoring the work of Patricia Williams, the school’s James L. Dohr Professor of Law. Each year the symposium honors a senior scholar who has made outstanding contributions to the field of gender and sexuality law, and Williams now joins past honorees Martha Nussbaum, Judith Butler, and Justice…