Getting started on your publishing journey can be both daunting and mystifying. Editor Ryan Kendall of Duke University Press provides tools to approach the process with confidence and clarity.
Reckoning with aging and mortality, democracy in crisis, the role of the writer, and the fate of books, Thomas Farber presents the latest in his series of creative memoirs that grapple with life and its limits.
The Atlantic Republic of Letters: Knowledge and Colonialism in the Age of Franklin
Offering an alternative intellectual history of early America through the lens of Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia, Diego Pirillo explores the entanglement among books, knowledge, and colonialism.
Concrete Colonialism: Architecture, Urbanism, and the US Imperial Project in the Philippines
During US colonial rule in the Philippines, reinforced concrete was used to the near exclusion of all other building materials. Diana Martinez shows how the material's stability, plasticity, and strength served the shifting imperatives of colonialism.
Martha Feldman (Chicago) talks with James Q. Davies (Berkeley) about Feldman's recently published book on how the legacy of the castrato voice shaped Rome's religious and artistic imagination
The Profligate Colonial: How the US Exported Austerity to the Philippines
Lisandro Claudio explores how the ideology of austerity served as a tool of US empire in the Philippines, casting Filipinos as reckless spenders and presenting monetary discipline as a civilizing force.
Applying for External Funding in the Humanities
This online session for faculty in the arts, humanities, and humanistic social sciences provides an overview of the proposal submission process and the many campus resources for applying to federal agencies and private foundations.
David Henkin shows how baseball offers a capacious space for thinking about such things as spectatorship, success, community, order, and contingency in the modern world.
Michael Roth in Conversation
Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University, is a leading voice in the national debate over institutional neutrality. He discusses his views on the university taking official positions on controversial political issues.
Non-Aligned: Art, Decolonization, and the Third World Project in India
Atreyee Gupta takes a revelatory look at modernism in India, exploring art’s role in decolonization and aesthetic discourse across the Global South.
Sneaking into Print: Mouvance and Narrative Culture in Spain c. 1500
Ignacio Navarrete explores the impact of early printing on narrative literature in Spain, charting the rise of a distinct, new narrative culture.