Assistant Professor of Humanities Dr. Cabrera Geserick recently published his articles “Mercenaries and Filibusters in 19th-Century Latin America” in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History (June, 2024) and “Cultural Imperialism in Latin… Read more
Assistant Professor of the Comparative Study of Religions Dr. Dunja Jelesijevic recently published the chapter essay “The Serpent Dancer: Multiple Identities and Competing Rituals in Noh Play Dōjōji” in the anthology Premodern Monsters: A Varied Compilation of Pre-modern Judeo-Christian and Japanese Buddhist Monstrous Discourses (Vernon Press,… Read more
CCS Assistant Professor of Humanities Dr. Marco Cabrera Geserick presented this week on the topic of Memory and the Filibuster War in Costa Rica this May. Sponsored by the Secretary of Culture of the government of Costa Rica, he talked about “The Rise and Fall of May 1st: Commemoration and Politics in the Memory of the Filibuster War” at the Cultural Historical Juan Santamaria Museum, in Alajuela, on May 3rd, and at the Museum of Popular Culture, in Barva,… Read more
Congratulations to CCS Regents’ Professor Dr. Björn Krondorfer on his recent co-authored article with Katya Tolstay, “Holocaust***Gulag: Repressing, Rescuing, and Regulating Recalcitrant Legacies,” an expanded review of the 2023 symposium of the same title published in the journal Eastern European Holocaust Studies (2024).… Read more
On March 21, Assistant Teaching Professor of Environmental Humanities Dr. Katrina Maggiulli was an invited speaker at the Race, History, and Rock Creek: Invasive Rhetoric panel, hosted by the Rock Creek Conservancy and the National Park Service (Washington, D.C.), which brought together science communication scholars… Read more
CCS Assistant Professor of Humanities and Latin American Studies Dr. Marco Cabrera Geserick recently presented with Chilean artist Dr. Francisco González Castro for the opening of the exhibit “FRANCISCO GONZÁLEZ CASTRO: BODIES, LIMITS & TRANSGRESSIONS” at the Coconino Center for the Arts on April 15, 2024. The presentation discussed the artist’s philosophy, which confronts the body, people who reject the body, and how the body is approached as subject and identity in his creative practice that utilizes video, performance… Read more