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Aug. 17, 2018
Recent news events, from high-level diplomatic relations to immigrant detention, have placed a spotlight on the role that interpreters and translators perform in an increasingly interconnected world. However, the importance and parameters of that…
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Aug. 14, 2018
Jaime Fatás Cabeza, Director of the Translation and Interpretation Program in the UA's Department of Spanish and Portuguese, discussed the fundamentals of interpreting in an interview with the Spanish newspaper Heraldo.
Undergraduate students in…
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Aug. 14, 2018
The UA’s premier adult education series launches its 35th year with a slate of 10 fall classes that span topics from literature and art to hot-button Supreme Court issues to the complexity of the human brain.
Founded in 1984, the Humanities Seminars…
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July 25, 2018
Though Westminster Abbey is the final resting place for Stephen Hawking’s remains, in a fitting tribute, the iconic cosmologist’s voice is continuing into space, beamed toward a black hole.
For a delegation of professors and students from the…
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July 18, 2018
The American Literary Translators Association will have a new home in the University of Arizona College of Humanities.
Without literary translators, Don Quixote would never be known outside La Mancha, Yuri Zhivago wouldn’t have brought his…
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July 5, 2018
"There is no such thing as a starving humanist. These people are employed in all kinds of jobs in all kinds of fields," Alain-Philippe Durand says of a renewed focus on the humanities at the University of Arizona.
By Kristina Makansi, UA…
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June 28, 2018
Three College of Humanities faculty members have been selected as 2018-19 fellows for the UA's Academic Leadership Institute.
Tyler Meier, Executive Director of the UA Poetry Center; Denis Provencher, Professor and Head of the Department of French…
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June 27, 2018
Dean Alain-Philippe Durand and new College of Humanities programs are featured in a new article from the Arizona Daily Wildcat.
Durand outlined the new bachelor's degree in Applied Humanities and explained the importance of the humanities in…
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June 19, 2018
The College of Humanities is pleased to welcome new faculty and staff for the upcoming academic year.
“These are outstanding scholars who represent the breadth and diversity of Humanities scholarship and teaching,” said Dean Alain-Philippe Durand. “…
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June 8, 2018
A new survey from the National Endowment for the Arts finds that poetry is rising in popularity in the United States, to the highest rate on record.
The University of Arizona Poetry Center, part of the College of Humanities, celebrates the results…
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June 6, 2018
The UA’s Center for Digital Humanities has announced its first round of project awards for the 2018-2019 academic year.
Four innovative faculty projects will combine research in a humanities discipline with cutting-edge technology, like data…
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June 1, 2018
Dr. Melissa A. Fitch, a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, will join the Honors College leadership team as Associate Dean of Academic Affairs.
“I have a longstanding commitment to, and connection with,…