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
Faculty Research
Congratulations to Dr. Björn Krondorfer on his latest publication!
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
Faculty news: Dr. Katrina Maggiulli at Rock Creek Conservancy and the National Park Service.
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
Faculty news: Dr. Marco Cabrera Geserick at Coconino Center for the Arts
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
MSI exhibit featured on JackCentral and in the Arizona Daily Sun
The Martin-Springer Institute exhibit “Disappearance: Portraits of Absence” was recently featured on JackCentral and in the Arizona Daily Sun. CCS majors and minors contributed to the research and curation of the exhibit under the supervision and guidance of CCS faculty Regents’ Professor Dr. Bjorn Krondorfer and Martin-Springer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow Pedro Gonzales Corona.
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CCS at the CAL in Action Showcase on March 7
CCS students and faculty represented the department at the CAL in Action Showcase on March 7, 2024! Dr. Becky Pratt-Sturges, Dr. Diana Coleman, and Dr. Gioia Woods set up and worked our table filled with swag and flyers with CCS majors Joce Dolezal and Ella Conner as well as CCS intern Colin Grosvenor. Dr. Woods also moderated the featured panel, Entangled Spaces: Past, Present, & Future with the CAL 2023-2024 Arts & Humanities Fellows, which included CCS Assistant Teaching… Read more