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Oct. 26, 2017
The landmark University of Arizona Poetry Center is named one of 25 must-see buildings in Arizona by USA Today.
The Helen S. Schaefer Building, opened in 2007, is a 17,500-square-foot facilty designed by Line and Space LLC, bringing a…
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Oct. 26, 2017
With the 1968 backdrop of Cold War politics and the Vietnam War, a group of politically engaged young academics established the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars, or CCAS, promising to rethink the divide between East and West. …
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…