The Walla Walla Public Library’s Big Idea Talks features authors, poets, innovators, scholars, and artists who share their expertise, experiences, and passion to generate community conversation.

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Anyla Dior McDonald's interview with The Listeners Project: Queremos Escucharte is available at https://arminda.whitman.edu/islandora/anyla-dior-mcdonald-interview-tia-kramer-and-jara-moreno-arostegui-0 

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• Big Idea Talks: Powerful Stories: The Search for Healing and Empathy in our Community (Zoom chat transcript)

Listen to recorded Big Idea Talks

• Big Idea Talks: Powerful Stories: The Search for Healing and Empathy in our Community (English)
• Big Idea Talks: Historias Poderosas: La Búsqueda de Sanación y Empatía en Nuestra Comunidad (Español)

• Human Rights Through the Lens of Literature - Week 1
• Human Rights Through the Lens of Literature - Week 2
• Human Rights Through the Lens of Literature - Week 3
• Human Rights Through the Lens of Literature - Week 4
• The Value of Bilingual Education
• Climate Change 102: What We Can Do
• Everything She Didn't Say / Jane Kirkpatrick
• Great American Read: The Fellowship of the Ring
• Big Idea Talks: The Writing Life
• Big Idea Talks: Pride and Prejudice
• Big Idea Talks: Charlotte's Web
• Tessa Hulls: She Traveled Solo: Strong Women in the Early 20th Century
•  Wonders Of Weird with Kelly Milner Halls 
• Craig Johnson: author of the Longmire series. Foundry Vineyards
• Big Idea Talks: Past, Present, Future of Public Broadcasting with Kerry Swanson
• Wildfire Fire Readiness in SE Washington: Be Prepared!
• Red Badge Veteran's Stories with Warren Etheredge
•  Big Idea Talks: Johanna Stoberock
• Big Idea Talks: Winter Reads novel Turtles All the Way Down with Nikki Sharp
• Big Idea Talks: Aaron Bobrow-Strain The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez
• Big Idea Talks: DACA 

Handouts for Human Rights Through the Lens of Literature -  Big Idea Talk

• Week One Reading List edited
• wk 1 - Ferlinghetti Constantly risking absurdity of Mind
• wk 1 - Moore, Marianne Poetry
• Wk 1 - Barzilay, Vered Cohen The Tremendous Power of Literature
• wk 1 - Heaney, Seamus Poetry's Power Against Intolerance
• wk 1 - Levinas, Emmanuel The Name of a Dog
• wk 2 - Week Two Readings
• wk 2 - Dylan, Bob John Brown
• wk 2 - Levinas, Emmanuel Responsibility for the Other
• wk 2 - Levinas, Emmanuel Ethics and Spirit
• wk 2 - Whitman, Walt Vigil strange I kept on the field one night
• wk 3 THIRD GATHERING
• wk 3 Pagis, Dan Draft of a Reparations Agreement and Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway Car
• wk 3 Ozick, Cynthia The Shawl
• wk 3 Levi, Primo This side of good and evil
• wk 3 Levi, Primo On the Bottom, This Side of Good and Evil, October 1944
• wk 3 Forche, Carolyn The Colonel
• wk 3 Corso, The bomb
• wk 3 Delbo, Charlotte Thirst
• wk 4 FOURTH GATHERING
• wk 4 Whitman, Walt Reconciliation
• wk 4 - Cisneros, Sandra Woman Hollering Creek
• wk 4 - Ball, Olivia No-Nonsense Guide to Human Rights
• wk 4 Slaughter, Joseph Codicil Intimations of a Human Rights International
• wk 4 Delbo, Charlotte Prayer to the Living to Forgive them for Being Alive
• wk 4 Kristof, Nicholas Save the Darfur Puppy