Speaker’s Book:

• Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

1492: The Reign in Spain Ends in a Military Campaign

Online:

• The Mosque of Cordoba
• Cultural Exchange in the Literatures and Languages of Medieval Iberia – David Wacks

Print:

• Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus, by Orson Scott Card
• The New Spaniards, by John Hooper 
• A History of the Spanish Language, by Richard Penny 

Modern Art and the Cold War: Keep on Splattin’ in the Free World!

Online:

• MoMA, The Bomb and the Abstract Expressionists – Annabell Shark
• Unpopular Front: American art and the Cold War – The New Yorker
• Modern art was CIA ‘weapon’ – Revealed: how the spy agency used unwitting artists such as Pollock and de Kooning in a cultural Cold War – Independent

Print:

• How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art, by Serge Guilbaut &Arthur Goldhammer
• The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters, by Frances Stonor Saunders
• Advancing American Art: Painting, Politics, and Cultural Confrontation at Mid-Century, by Taylor D. Littleton, Maltby Sykes

Works at SFMOMA included in the talk:

• Clyfford Stil – PH-585 – 1952
• Robert Motherwell – Elegy of the Spanish Republic – 1961
• Romare Bearden – Three Men – 1967
• Georgia O’Keeffe – Black Place I – 1944
• Mark Rothko – No.14 – 1960
• Jackson Pollock – Guardians of the Secret – 1943
• Joan Mitchell – Untitled – 1956
• Agnes Martin – Night Sea – 1963 

The Accountant Who Saved Manchuria

Online:

• Secret History of the Mongols, translated by Francis Cleaves
• The Mongols in World History
• Zhao Mengfu Painting Gallery

Print:

• Secret History of the Mongols
• Ancient China by C.P. Fitzgerald 
• Ghenghis Khan: Life, Death, and Resurrection, by John Man 

One Wedding and a Thousand Funerals: Massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy

Online:

• The Woman in Black : The Image of Catherine de Medici form Marlowe to Queen Margot – Elaine Kruse
• A relation of the barbarous and bloody massacre of about an hundred thousand Protestants, begun at Paris, and carried on over all France, by the Papists, in the year 1572 collected out of Mezeray Thuanus
• A true and plaine report of the furious outrages of Fraunce & the horrible and shameful slaughter of Chastillion the admirall – François Hotman
• A mervaylous discourse vpon the lyfe, deedes, and behaviours of Katherine de Medicis : Queene mother: vvherin are displayed the meanes vvhich she hath practised to atteyne vnto the vsurping of the kingedome of France, and to the bringing of the estate of the same vnto vtter ruine and destruction – Henri Estienne

Print:

• The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, by Jouanna Arlette
• The St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre: A Brief History with Documents, by Barbara B. Diefendorf
• The Massacre at Paris, by Christopher Marlowe

Violet Jessop: Sailing Through Crisis

Online:

• Miss Violet Constance Jessop – Encyclopedia Titanica
• The Woman Who Survived All Three Disasters Aboard the Sister Ships: the Titanic, Britannic, and Olympic – Today I Found Out
• Whatever Happened to Olympic, Titanic’s Sister? – Jason Ponic
• RMS Olympic – The Old Reliable – Titanic and Co
• SS Britannic II – Titanic-Titanic

Print:

• Titanic Survivor: The Memoirs of Violet Jessop Stewardess, by Violet Jessop & John Maxtone-Graham

Compulsively Organizing Things for Disaster Information Management

Online:

• The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
• Digital Humanitarian Network
• Digital Response – Aspiration Tech
• Willow Brugh

For each salon, we invite our speakers to share the resources and interesting reading they came across in researching their talk, so that we can all dig more deeply. This reading list was compiled by Odd Salon with Brianne Hughes, James Manion, Arthur Kay, Andrey Tselikov, Tamar Baskind and Willow Brugh. Thank you!