October-November 2017

Dear Friends: I spent most of October on the East Coast of the US working on Songs of Slavery and Emancipation (see July/August news for background: http://matcallahan.com/?p=575). I met historians in Poughkeepsie, musicians and filmmakers in Brooklyn and had several...

September 2017

Dear Friends: I want to announce the publication of a new book, A Critical Guide to Intellectual Property. With Jim Rogers, I co-edited this collection of essays on a topic vital to our times. Please visit the publisher’s page for more information:...

July-August 2017

Songs of Slavery and Emancipation The big news is that, in June, Songs of Slavery and Emancipation was awarded a grant by the city of Schaffhausen. The project was launched two years ago (see: February 2015 news http://matcallahan.com/?p=162) and headway was made last...

May-June 2017

Dear Friends: Yvonne and I will be performing at the James Connolly Festival in Dublin May 11th at 7:30pm. I’ll be giving a talk about my book, The Explosion of Deferred Dreams, May 12th at 2pm. Dublin, Ireland Here are the details of the two events: Mat...

February-March-April 2017

Dear Friends: As everyone reading this site is already aware, my new book is now available. In December I launched the book in the San Francisco Bay Area both because that is where the events discussed in the book originally took place and because the commemoration of...