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Marxist Literary Group Summer Institute on Culture and Society

 

Marxist Literary Group Summer Institute on Culture and Society: This year's special topic was "Representation, Marxism and the Global Spaces of Politics."  The Keynote Speakers…

Annual Department Awards

              Marilyn R. Waldman Award for best essay by an undergraduate :  Tamira Stephens, “Media Discourse and the…

Presidential Fellowship Award

Brian Murphy, Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Studies, has been awarded the Presidential Fellowship for 2013-14.

Hugh Urban Awarded NEH Fellowship

Honduras Human Rights Delegation Report: Observations from the National Primary Elections of Nov. 18, 2012

 Katey Borland and Allison Fish discussed the current political situation in Honduras given the upcoming elections. The focus of their research is on primary elections held on November 18, 2012…

Teaching Learning Conversation - Philosophy of Pedagogy

This event was a roundtable discussion on the purpose and power of education led by PhD student, Seth Josephson. We had conversations inspired by Freire, hooks, and others. We…

Ruby Tapia: "Everything Human Has Been Scraped Off These"

On Friday, November 2nd, former Comparative Studies faculty member, Ruby Tapia gave a talk titled, "'Everything Human Has Been Scraped Off These': Migratory Flesh and Cross-Border Fiction in a Case…

Nina Berman: Land, Charity, and Romance: Transnational Dynamics of German Migration to Kenya

I am working on an interdisciplinary study that will be based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, archival research, statistical data collection, and analyses of cultural representations and public…

Hugh Urban Interview: "The Church of Scientology"

Steve Paulson's interview with Comparative Studies Professor Hugh Urban will air on September 30.  Professor Urban has recently published The Church of Scientology:  A History of a New…