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2022

2021

Past Big D Reads event recordings

Athena’s Accommodation: Can a City Heal?


On April 6, The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, in collaboration with Big D Reads, held an event focused on Jim Schutze’s book, The Accommodation. This event sought to place The Accommodation in dialogue with an ancient Greek tragedy, Aeschylus’s Oresteia. Each text concerns the possibility of a city’s recovery from a painful history of intergenerational trauma. There was a discussion in which we – together – sought the wisdom of Athena in our own attempt to transcend – to some degree– the injuries of the past. Watch the recording, below.

Cause-Minded Conversation: The Accommodation

In mid-September, Communities Foundation of Texas partnered with Deep Vellum Publishing and KERA to host a Cause-Minded Conversation on The Accommodation, featuring author Jim Schutze and forward writer John Wiley Price. The conversation was moderated by CFT's Noelle LeVeaux and was live streamed and recorded from the historic Pittman Hotel grand ballroom.

North Dallas Chamber of Commerce: Experiencing DEI Series featuring journalist Jim Schutze


In June of 2021, Jim Schutze, longtime Dallas journalist, political observer and author spoke to the historical context of race relations in Dallas and discuss the premise of his book, The Accommodation, first published in 1987.