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Center for the Humanities Newsletter

Welcome to the Center for the Humanities bi-annual newsletter archive.

Spring 2012 | PDF Newsletter

Gary Ferngren: Faith and 'physic' linked for millennia
Norma Cardenas: There's more to Tex-Mex than meets the palate
Rebecca Olson: Early tapestries figured on page and stage
Shiao-ling Yu: Writer employed drama to spur resistance
Stuart Sarbacker: Yoga: deep ecology or power builder?

Fall 2011 | PDF Newsletter

Amy Below: Climate change creates virtual chasm between nations
David Robinson and William Rossi: Plant found by Thoreau launches fall lectures
Hannah Gosnell: Emotional growth played role in historic water agreement
Jonathan Kaplan: Claims for genetic 'race' differences on rise again
Miranda Paton: Genetic equations alone can't explain evolution
Patti Duncan: 'Rescue' of women and children feeds cultural stereotyping

Spring 2011 | PDF Newsletter

David Bernell: U.S. response to Cuba rooted in history, not current reality
Deanna Paniataaq Kingston: Inupiaq use Google, blend cultures
Keith Scribner: Novel explores memory 'fabrications'
Susan Meyers: Migrants see education as a form of self-defense

Fall 2010 | PDF Newsletter

Anita Helle: 'A mag photo before I was'
Fina Carpena-Méndez: Gangs play role in new identities
Liz Stillwaggon Swan: Horning Fellow pursues 'natural history of the mind'
Sebastian Heiduschke: 'Propaganda' films a hit in unified Germany
Shelley Jordon: Pogrom survivor remembered through animation

Spring 2010 | PDF Newsletter

Janet Lee: Australian never ceased passionate writing
Stacy Smith: 'Unfree' in early California, A different view of Reconstruction
Susan Shaw: Making the 'best' of feminist theology

Fall 2009 | PDF Newsletter

Evan Gottlieb: Gothic novels helped Britons think like world citizens
Hyua-yu Li: Chinese embrace change to stay in power
Jeffrey Sklansky: 'The money question' was hot 200 years ago
Susan Jackson Rodgers: Novel looks at three women, three generations

Spring 2009 | PDF Newsletter

Ben Mutschler: Citizenship debate helped define 'disabled'
Hung-yok Ip: Mohist nonviolence requires 'letting of of self'
Mark Porrovecchio: Pragmatism with Schiller more honest & useful
Tracy Daugherty: Passion for poetry & stars drove 'Dante's Astronomer'
William Robbins: 'A better place because of this good man'

Fall 2008 | PDF Newsletter

Christopher Phelps: Tracing ‘Strike’ in U.S. Intellectual History
Matthew Lassiter: White suburbanites painted as heroes & victims
Matthew Rubery: Novelists found treasure in agony columns, shipping news
Neil Davison: Feminized Jew a potent subject and symbol
William Uzgalis: Debate over consciousness goes back centuries

Spring 2008 | PDF Newsletter

Bryan Tilt: How to define 'environmental justice' in China
Joan Gross: 'Freegans' & forager form new foodways
Linda Leavell: New biography reveals major role for poet's mother
Peter Betjemann: A way of working, a way of being
Robert Sahr: Brain research raises political questions
Stephanie Ross: Bad art may have philosophical lessons to teach

Fall 2007 | PDF Newsletter

Aaron Wolf: Spiritual lessons may aid in water disputes
Marjorie Sandor: 'Mad' Queen Juana sinpires novella
Neil Browne: William Carlos Williams: 'No ideas but in things'
Richmond Barbour: Shakespeare at sea--cultural 'supercargo'

Spring 2007 | PDF Newsletter

Elizabeth Campbell: 'Deadly nightshade' gained favor with Victorians
Nabil Boudraa: Francophone landscape is more than scenery
Nancy Rosenberger: Women resist motherhood, alarm the nation
Steven Hackel: Fr. Serra--saint or conquistador?

Fall 2006 | PDF Newsletter

Alison Futrell: Archetpal 'barbarian queens' shape texts and art
Ashna Graves: You've got to have a corpse
Calyx: Art celebrates Calyx anniversary
Eric Gleske: Antique map show to live again in film
Kayla Garcia: Translating The Book of Mourners
Tara Williams: Chaucer invented 'womanhood' to fill language gap
Zaragosa Vargas: Mexican Americans caught in 50s 'witch hunt'

Spring 2006 | PDF Newsletter

David M. Robinson: Emerson Society celebrates Center director
Evan Gottlieb: Romantic literature helped form British identity as global power
Jon Lewis: New breed of digital 'pirates' challenges film industry
Kristin Barker: Study follows frustrated patients in chatrooms
Nicole von Germeten: Old Spanish Main provides lesson in colonialism
Sarah Henderson: Civil society is alive in Russia but it is not well
Wendy Madar: Weston book leads to documentary film
William Husband: No true Russian word for wilderness

Fall 2005 | PDF Newsletter

Adam Rome: Modern America is rooted in nature reform
Charlotte Headrick: Filling the gap in Irish theatre history
Julie Green: I would appreciate the food hot
Kirsi Peltomaki: Visual art manifested as events, gestures or acts
Robin Schulze: Poets reimagined nature to fit scientific age

Spring 2005 | PDF Newsletter

Ben Mutschler: New England: 'Province of Affliction'
John Tolan: Saint's Visit to Sultan is Recast to Suit the Times
Keith Scribner: Novel Links Family Mythology & Myths of Nation
Laura Rice: Don't Try to Do Good With 'Contempt in Your Heart'
Michelle Szkilnik: The Plight of a Warrior in Changing Times
Susan Shaw: Baptist Women Create Powerful Identities
Vreneli Farber: Theater Offers Insights into Post-Soviet Russia

Fall 2004 | PDF Newsletter

Huy-yu Li with Li Rui, Mao's former secretary in the late 1950's.: Stalin's book, 'sacred' to Mao, provided short cut to uniformity
Joseph Mtisi: Tea growers provide insights into Zimbabwe social justice issues
Julian Meldon D'Arcy: Football literatures deserves better
Lisa Ede: Roll over New York review - Make way for Danny Yee
Steven Rubert: Colonial culture a 'cause' of illness

Spring 2000 |

Daniel Alexandrov: Nabokov carried tradition of gentleman naturalist into mid-century
Karen Hooker: Life stories as well as theories needed to understand aging
Neil Davison: Racism, gender, ethnicity bound up in notions of 'the Jew'
Paul Delany: No such thing as innocent seeing in photographs
unknown: Ten Research Fellows invited to Center for 2000-01
unknown: Paris street scenes and Asian prints come to Center
unknown: Changing of the office guard - again!