Here in the United States we are at the center of a global pandemic and the greatest political turmoil in generations. What sparks political engagement? In Boccaccio's Decameron, Pampinea berates her peers for accepting second-class status, and demands that they reorganize their society to ensure their survival. In this bonus episode, J.M.Meyer interviews Karen Alvarado, Erin Bogert, and Cassandra Vaz about what sparked their political engagement, and how they can imagine a more just post-pan...
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Here in the United States we are at the center of a global pandemic and the greatest political turmoil in generations. What sparks political engagement? In Boccaccio's Decameron, Pampinea berates her peers for accepting second-class status, and demands that they reorganize their society to ensure their survival. In this bonus episode, J.M.Meyer interviews Karen Alvarado, Erin Bogert, and Cassandra Vaz about what sparked their political engagement, and how they can imagine a more just post-pan...
3. Nephilia introduces us to an unusual perspective on faith (Day 1, Story 2)
Decameron 2020: Survival through Stories
12 minutes
5 years ago
3. Nephilia introduces us to an unusual perspective on faith (Day 1, Story 2)
In the second story of the first day, Nephilia tells the tale of a virtuous man who is begged to convert from the Jewish faith to the Christian religion. After visiting the corrupt clergy of Rome, he makes a surprising decision. Building off of the previous episode, Neiphila concentrates on the themes of virtue, faith, and organized religion. A heads up and a bit of a warning: the premise of Boccaccio's story is that everyone knows that that Jews need saving by Christians. That is obvi...
Decameron 2020: Survival through Stories
Here in the United States we are at the center of a global pandemic and the greatest political turmoil in generations. What sparks political engagement? In Boccaccio's Decameron, Pampinea berates her peers for accepting second-class status, and demands that they reorganize their society to ensure their survival. In this bonus episode, J.M.Meyer interviews Karen Alvarado, Erin Bogert, and Cassandra Vaz about what sparked their political engagement, and how they can imagine a more just post-pan...
