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Feb. 8, 2018
In 1968, then-University of Arizona President Richard Harvill connected with an English instructor and graduate student named Frank Pialorsi about running a summer English program for international students.
When Pialorsi asked for some advice about…
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Feb. 5, 2018
David Gramling, UA associate professor of German Studies, won the 2018 American Association for Applied Linguistics Book Award for The Invention of Monolingualism.
The AAAL awards books “that make an exceptional contribution to the field as a whole…
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Feb. 1, 2018
The College of Humanities and Africana Studies Program have a full slate of events in February to celebrate Black History Month.
Author, attorney, motivational speaker and business executive Daisy M. Jenkins will deliver a talk on Feb. 8 called “The…
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Jan. 29, 2018
First up is Moscow, where the 2018 World Cup offers students the opportunity for an interdisciplinary education in intercultural competence, collaboration and critical thinking.
The worldwide popularity of soccer makes for an automatic exchange…
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Jan. 25, 2018
The UA’s Center for Buddhist Studies announces four lectures in the spring 2018 Pu Yin Buddhist Studies Lecture Series.
Professor Albert Welter, head of the East Asian Studies Department, will give the inaugural lecture on Hangzhou Buddhism, and the…
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Jan. 24, 2018
The Woven Words project, which connects two of Tucson’s enduring cultural institutions, will be unveiled at a Jan. 28 poetry reading.
A collaboration between the University of Arizona Poetry Center and the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Woven Words…
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Jan. 23, 2018
The College of Humanities is hosting a spring workshop series in online course design, open to any interested COH faculty members and graduate assistants.
The sessions will be led by Carmen King de Ramírez, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Online…
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Jan. 23, 2018
The UA College of Humanities presents Zoketsu Norman Fischer — poet, author, essayist, translator, cultural critic, former coabbot of the San Francisco Zen Center, founder of Everyday Zen, and one of the leading contemporary teachers and voices of…
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Jan. 22, 2018
The College of Humanites and Department of French & Italian is hosting the first Arizona Graduate Conference in French.
Registration deadline is Feb. 1. Register at the conference website.
The conference will begin Friday, Feb. 23 with a public…
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Jan. 22, 2018
An expanded partnership between the UA’s College of Humanities and Office of Global Initiatives will focus on intercultural competence as part of a strategic effort to increase study abroad engagement and produce globally competitive graduates.
As…
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Jan. 16, 2018
By Jordyn Stinnett, UA Office of Global Initiatives
Accolades are abundant for David Soren, Regents’ Professor of Anthropology and Classics at the University of Arizona. He was named 2018 Undergraduate Teacher of the Year by the Archaeological…
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Jan. 16, 2018
The College of Humanities is now accepting nominations for Spring 2018 awards.
NOMINATION DEADLINE: Friday, March 2, 2018
1) College of Humanities Distinguished Teaching Award
The Distinguished Teaching Award recognizes teaching excellence at all…