... Invited to speak at Tsinghua University in Beijing, Richard Brodhead gave a lecture on interconnected knowledge and the twenty-first-century university. Chinese-American relations twenty-first-century university Tsinghua University Beijing 2014 ...

... Richard Brodhead gave the keynote address commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the National Endowment for the Humanities, delivered at Loyola University in Baltimore, Maryland, on September 25, 2015. Gothic architecture campus construction Duke University campus Convocation 2015 ...

... After the Bandung conference, Wright gave an extended interview for the cultural column Gelanggang , one of the main mouthpieces for the writers and intellectuals with whom Wright associated in Indonesia. Much of the interview deals with Wright’s development as a writer and his views...

... Describes a talk that Rosemarie gave to one of Rachel’s African American studies classes, in which she discussed the love that forms the foundation of southern culture (black and white), the importance of gratitude and forgiveness, and people like Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Clarence and Florence...

... gave married men preference when assigning posts that awarded better pay, immediate access to provision grounds, and the right to live in unattached housing to allow them to support and protect their dependents. Commanders associated the batch-living aldeia , the barracks where miserable...

... of address, its myriad subtle ways of connecting with viewers, and its formal strategies of including the audience within its representations. As a local production of New York public television, Soul! gave voice to progressive critiques subject to censorship on commercial television. Its first season also...

... in which two distinct models of the same molecule were published side by side, an event that gave modelers the opportunity to explore the indeterminate nature of molecular life. This chapter argues that in response to these ontological and epistemological challenges, protein crystallographers cultivate...

... Written at the end of the colonial period by one of the most powerful colonial magistrates in the Audiencia (high court) of Charcas, this letter could serve as a manual for virtuous conduct by women. Juan José Segovia gave his daughter a highly detailed body of precepts about the proper...

... involved knitting for “the needy,” be they needy in Finland or “out there in the world.” Many participated in advertised craft projects like Mother Teresa blankets and Aid Bunnies because this gave them a legitimate reason to seek out human connection. They found such connection (even if precarious...

... gave rise to paraliterary texts that reworked the conventions of imported cinema and to local productions that staged crime and adventure narratives in Rio’s iconic spaces. The serial craze reconfigured local understandings of cinema’s specificity, giving rise to the notion of the truc , a French...

... to reports of lectures he gave to Indonesian audiences after his conference attendance, the Indonesian press reports constitute a previously untapped record of Wright’s Indonesian travels. Among the excitement and activity generated by the conference, both among Indonesia’s political elite and the crowds who...

... armies led by Bolivar in the 1820s forced liberations that led to long debates about whether the heartland should be one nation or two. Trials of union gave way to separation between Peru and Bolivia in the 1840s as both searched for commercial prosperity that might fill empty treasuries. Cuzco...

..., published by Secker and Warburg amid the Spanish Civil War and the Moscow Trials. Finally, the introduction looks at the inspiration James’s work gave to later generations of socialists in the twentieth century and its relevance for the twenty-first century. Included in the introduction are also rare images...

... heroes who gave a distinctive Guaraní identity to the natural world as well as to the social and cultural order. Wandering far and wide, they mastered the hunting techniques needed to survive and developed the Guaraní warrior ethos. Their relationship with the dangerous and powerful tiger family is both...

..., in opposition to the world of politics, careers, and honor in the public sphere. They remember the distinctive spaces that women occupied, and how administering their possessions and even those of their husbands gave them greater autonomy. While the women recognize that they were the owners of the land...