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July 5, 2018
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Reimagining the Humanities for a Changing Future
"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.Read More
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Oct. 23, 2017
Excavation is underway of Bisbee’s Warren Ballpark, the country’s oldest, for insight into Southwestern life in the early 1900s.
In the grandstands of Bisbee's Warren Ballpark, along the foul lines and beyond the outfield, baseball fans have…
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Oct. 10, 2017
Professor Alejandro Nava published an essay this month in the popular literature news site Lit Hub on the sorrow and exuberance in novelist Ralph Elison's work.
Ralph Elison's Tragicomic Soul was adapted as an excerpt from Nava's recent book, In…
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Oct. 5, 2017
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…
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Oct. 3, 2017
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…
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Sept. 29, 2017
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.
The Sept. 6 training was the third pro-bono…
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Sept. 27, 2017
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:
When humanities scholars look out across the globe and back through the pages of…
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Sept. 19, 2017
"In Search of Soul: Hip-Hop, Literature and Religion," by Alejandro Nava, speaks to themes that span from biblical traditions to contemporary black and Latin music.
In a new book, UA professor Alejandro Nava explores the concept of "soul" from…
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Sept. 14, 2017
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.
With Buddhist traditions becoming more…
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Sept. 12, 2017
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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Sept. 11, 2017
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…
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Sept. 8, 2017
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.
Provencher’s Queer Maghrebi French: Language, Temporalities, Transfiliations (…
Aug. 1, 2017
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…