TomorrowTalks place thought leaders of today in conversation with the changemakers of tomorrow: our students. Each distinguished speaker explains how they use writing to address our most pressing challenges.

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TomorrowTalks with Siddharth Kara

March 24 | noon MST | Zoom

Pulitzer Prize Finalist, two-time PEN America Finalist and New York Times bestselling author Siddharth Kara, will discuss his latest book "The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery," which follows the 1781 slave ship whose crew threw 132 enslaved Africans overboard to claim insurance money, sparking a landmark legal case that became a pivotal moment in the abolitionist movement by forcing a public debate on whether enslaved people were cargo or human beings.
 

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TomorrowTalks are a student-engagement initiative led by the Division of Humanities in The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at ASU and hosted by ASU's Humanities Institute and the Department of English in partnership with Macmillan Publishers and in collaboration with AZ Humanities. From 2020-2024, the program was hosted by the Department of English.

For more information, please contact Humanities Institute Director Ron Broglio.