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Michael Callen (1955-1993) is not as well remembered today as he deserves to be. But during the peak years of the AIDS crisis, Callen was known the world over not only for his AIDS activism, but for his music. Callen was a gifted singer-songwriter who made a name for himself both as a solo artist and as a member of the gay a cappella singing group The Flirtations. But it was his AIDS advocacy for which Callen made his greatest impact. Callen loved being gay, and he loved sex, celebrating both u...

Apr 14, 2021 As part of their IDEAL fellowships, the scholars will be assigned to the schools and departments corresponding to the fields of their doctorate, and they will teach one course per year while they expand on their research. Each fellow will be given a faculty mentor selected from among Stanford’s Academic Council faculty. The IDEAL fellows also will be involved in organizing a major Stanford conference that will bring together scholars who are at the forefront of the study of race ...

TRIBUTES have been paid to a passionate university professor who had a “significant impact” on all those he taught and worked with. Gabriel Pearson, who was the emeritus professor of the department of literate, film, and theatre studies at the University of Essex, died peacefully last month. He had arrived at the campus in 1965 and went on to inspire generations of students, influencing many through his writing and numerous leadership roles. During his decades of service to the univ...

TRIBUTES have been paid to a passionate university professor who had a “significant impact” on all those he taught and worked with. Gabriel Pearson, who was the emeritus professor of the department of literate, film, and theatre studies at the University of Essex, died peacefully last month. He had arrived at the campus in 1965 and went on to inspire generations of students, influencing many through his writing and numerous leadership roles. During his decades of service to the univ...

The Atlantic In late antiquity, the religion split the Mediterranean world in two. Now it is remaking the Continent. Europe was essentially defined by Islam. And Islam is redefining it now. For centuries in early and middle antiquity, Europe meant the world surrounding the Mediterranean, or Mare Nostrum (“Our Sea”), as the Romans famously called it. It included North Africa. Indeed, early in the fifth century A.D., when Saint Augustine lived in what is today Algeria, North Africa was as m...

With the passing of the internationally respected theological ethicist and emeritus faculty member James M. Gustafson on Jan. 15, the world lost “a towering scholar,” says former Emory President James T. Laney, who led the university’s efforts to recruit him in the late 1980s. Gustafson came to Emory to lead the Luce Seminars, groundbreaking interdisciplinary seminars that not only had a lasting impact on Emory faculty but became a model for other universities.  A native of Michigan, Gus...

History Museum receives county grant for redesign of exhibition Courtesy of Los Altos History Museum Collection As evident in Miss Lamb’s fifth-grade class photo taken at Los Altos Grammar School in 1929, a large population of residents in the area were of Japanese descent. They were forced into internment camps during World War II. The History Museum’s new permanent exhibition personalizes the experiences through oral memoirs and photographs of local residents. The Los Altos History M...

‘From Black Power to BLM: Reimagining Dr. King’s Dream’ The Stanford community is invited to attend a virtual event in celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr., including a panel discussion and a video tribute to Clayborne Carson, the Ronnie Lott Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford. By Kathleen J. Sullivan The Stanford community is invited to attend a virtual event in celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. that will also honor Claybo...

Daniel McNeil 1 POSTS 0 COMMENTS Daniel McNeil is an award-winning writer and Professor whose work brings together History, Diaspora Studies, Cultural Studies, and other fields of inquiry to map the movement of people and ideas within, across, against and outside the nation-state. Following the publication of McNeil’s Sex and Race in the Black Atlantic – a book that disrupts the regimes o...