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April 6, 2023

Professor Jiang Wu Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

University of Arizona Department of East Asian Studies Professor and Center for Buddhist Studies Director Jiang Wu is one of 171 scientists, writers, scholars and artists awarded a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship.

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Feb. 13, 2018
The College of Humanities and Department of French & Italian present a discussion on the making of a new anthology of modern Italian poetry and a dual-language reading of selected poems. The reading and discussion will take place at 5:30 p.m.…
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Feb. 12, 2018
The National Center for Interpretation and the Graduate College are pleased to announce the competition for the 2018-19 NCI Graduate Fellowships. Awards: Two cash awards provided by the Graduate College, each consisting of $6,250.00, and one or…
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Feb. 9, 2018
New College of Humanities programs highlight a commitment to delivering a global education.   To meet rising student demand for language instruction, the University of Arizona's College of Humanities is introducing new minors in…
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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…
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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 “…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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,…
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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…