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Ursula Burns signing the Book of Members
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APR 22, 2021

Honoring Excellence, Electing New Members

The election of new Academy members in 2021 provides an opportunity to recognize extraordinary people who help solve the world’s most urgent challenges, create meaning through art, and contribute to the common good from every field, discipline, and profession.
Seamus Heaney at a turf bog in Bellaghy with his father's coat, hat and walking stick and additional shots in the Bellaghy bog, 1986. Bobbie Hanvey, photographer.
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Seamus Heaney - His Words, His Voice

Listen to Seamus Heaney read his poem “From the Frontier of Writing” along with commentary about its inspiration. This is an excerpt from a compete transcript and recording of his evening at the Academy.
“Looking Backward. They Would Close to the New-Comer the Bridge That Carried Them and Their Fathers Over” (1893) by Joseph Ferdinand Keppler (1838–1894).
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New Dædalus Issue Explores Immigration, Nativism & Race in the United States

The criminalization of immigrants in America has been a decades-long project advanced by Democrats and Republicans alike with Donald Trump's campaign a sharp turn toward explicit nativism. The essays in the Spring 2021 issue of Dædalus offer a bleak assessment of how we got here, but some still find room for optimism.

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