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Silos are out. Integration is in. And the humanities are here to stay. 
6 years ago
College of Humanities Dean Alain-Philippe Durand is the newest member of the Arizona Humanities Council board of directors. Appointed to a three-year term, Durand is the only University of Arizona representative on the Arizona Humanities Council, as...
6 years ago
Join the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies for a special film series at the Loft Cinema to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the Russian Revolution. The events are FREE and open to the public. Monday, October 16th - 7:00PM  October: Ten...
6 years ago
  The UA's National Center for Interpretation hosted 11 International Rescue Committee staff members for an all-day, pro-bono training seminar to improve their work interpret for local refugees. 
6 years ago
Dean Alain-Philippe Durand published a guest column in the Arizona Daily Wildcat, inviting the campus and Tucson communities to the 2017 Tucson Humanities Festival: 
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The University of Arizona's new Center for Buddhist Studies will create a research hub to explore the religious, intellectual, social, cultural and textual traditions of the world’s fourth-largest faith.
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The latest issue of Critical Multilingualism Studies, co-edited by two UA German Studies professors, is released this month.   Issue 5.2 of the interdisciplinary journal explores the topic of “Legitimate Speakers in Contested Spaces.” The journal is...
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A new Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad grant will allow UA faculty members to bring Arizona teachers to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan for a curriculum development trip next summer. University of Arizona faculty members in the Department of Russian...
6 years ago
Denis M. Provencher, head of the department of French & Italian, has received an award from the Association for Queer Anthropology for his newly published book.
6 years ago
The UA’s National Center for Interpretation summer training institute has 38 new graduates.   The Agnese Haury Court Interpreter Training Institute (CITI) has been the country’s premier Spanish/English court interpreter training in the country for...
6 years ago
The UA’s National Center for Interpretation (NCI) will receive a $25,000 sponsorship from the Judicial Council of California to develop a job task analysis survey for sign language interpretation in the legal setting. 
6 years ago
Wenhao Diao, an Assistant Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies, has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays grant to support a project bringing Tucson educators to China. 
6 years ago
The University of Arizona is launching a new degree in world literature, introducing students to various traditions of storytelling, narrative and expression across the world.
7 years ago
A University of Arizona professor on a Fulbright research and teaching fellowship to India was selected by the Fulbright Foundation to help facilitate orientation sessions for scholars interested in opportunities to conduct their research abroad.