Humanities
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The Surveilled Classroom
Professor of Literature Jody Greene was quoted in a story about professors and students who are worried that what they say in class could end up on the internet.
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Learning a second language can protect your brain. Here’s how.
Assistant Professor of Languages and Applied Linguistics Ariel Chan contributed to a National Geographic article exploring the ways in which speaking multiple languages can slow the aging process in the brain.
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How Businesses Can Promote Lactation Benefits Internally
Creating a lactation room tour like the University of California, Santa Cruz did, is a great way to show how you support new parents to the larger community, while giving parents on leave a preview of the space they’ll use when they return.
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Trump Meddles in Honduran Election & Vows to Pardon Ex-President Jailed in U.S. for Drug Trafficking
On a recent broadcast of Democracy Now, Amy Goodman interviewed Research Professor and Professor Emerita of History Dana Frank about President Trump announcing plans to pardon former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who is serving a 45-year sentence for trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States.
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The Art World Chooses Its Favorite Films About Artists
Acclaimed artist, filmmaker, and Distinguished Professor of The Arts and History of Consciousness Isaac Julien contributed an appreciation of Derek Jarman’s film “Caravaggio” (1986) to a feature story about films with artists as protagonists.
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5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Alto Saxophone
Distinguished Professor of History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Eric Porter wrote about the alto saxophonist and composer Arthur Blythe’s ‘Lenox Avenue Breakdown’ as part of a New York Times feature story.
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Book review: Fatefully, Faithfully Feminist
Associate Professor of Literature Zac Zimmer reviewed the book Fatefully, Faithfully Feminist: A Critical History of Women, Patriarchy, and Mexican National Discourse, for Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos Journal.
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Isaac Julien’s ‘All That Changes You’ At Palazzo Te—A Visionary Dialogue Between Myth, Art And The Future
Acclaimed artist, filmmaker, and Distinguished Professor of The Arts and History of Consciousness Isaac Julien was featured in Forbes Magazine, which hailed his “breathtaking new film installation” at Palazzo Te in Mantua, Italy. The installation was commissioned to mark the 500th anniversary of Giulio Romano’s architectural masterpiece.
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Benjamin Breen: How AI is changing higher education
Associate Professor of History Benjamin Breen contributed an op-ed about the impact of AI on learning and teaching practices, including essay assignments, in the latest issue of The Chronicle of HIgher Education.
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Gina Athena Ulysse: rethinking images of Haiti through the lens of photographer Leonore Mau
Humanities Professor Gina Athena Ulysse, an artist and cultural anthropologist, collaborated on the conceptual development of Out of Focus, an exhibition that reexamines how German photographer Leonore Mau’s images of Haiti are presented and interpreted. Drawing on her expertise in Haitian culture and postcolonial critique, Ulysse helped shape the show’s critical framework.
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Challenging the Myth of Firstness: John Rieder explores Zac Zimmer’s “First Contact: Speculative Visions of the Conquest of the Americas.”
Associate Professor of Literature Professor Zac Zimmer’s new book “First Contact: Challenging The Myth Of Firstness” received a detailed and laudatory review in The Los Angeles Review Of Books.
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Isaac Julien: What’s on our cultural calendar this month
Distinguished Professor of the Arts and History of Consciousness Isaac Julien’s new exhibition in Mantua, Italy made the Elle Magazine editors’ picks for the “best design, art, and architecture happenings around.”