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Three-dimensional artwork comes alive when experienced in the flesh, says art historian Nathaniel Jones. Guiding us around the Vatican Museums’ statue of the mythical Laocoön, he describes the storytelling twists and turns the sculpture reveals when viewed dynamically — an effect impossible to capture in a static representation.

What does it mean to be mentally healthy? The answer has changed over time, says philosopher and historian of science Anya Plutynski. Her research on early 20th-century “mental hygiene” practitioners shows that some providers of the era sought to establish factors and skills that boosted patients’ mental health and prevented symptoms of mental illness from arising. That’s a

What happens when we inhabit the world of a famous story and the story seeps into our own? By analyzing performances of Shakespeare’s plays and Greek tragedies in four 21st-century contexts — a reconstructed historical playhouse, open-world theatre, virtual reality and augmented reality — Assistant Professor of Drama Elizabeth Hunter proposes a new theory of spectatorship in

The year 2023 began with a series of news reports that the College Board — the nonprofit education testing organization responsible for creating Advanced Placement (AP) courses and the SAT exam — was engaged in a back-and-forth with the state of Florida over its newest offering, AP African American Studies, that eventually led to a pared-back curriculum. While the state

어와우리 벗님네야, 이내말삼 드러보소 (“Hello my friends, please listen to what I am about to tell you”). For more than 500 years, Korean women have invited listeners to relieve moments of their lives — excursions, celebrations, concerns and more — chronicled in the form of ‘kasa,’ a verse narrative. Scholar Ji-Eun Lee (East Asian Languages & Cultures) dives into their stories as part of a

When the final episode of ‘Derry Girls,’ set in late 1990s Northern Ireland, dropped last fall, it presaged an important milestone – the inevitable remembering the Good Friday Agreement referendum, sparked by its upcoming 25th anniversary. Irish literature PhD candidate Ian Clark walks us through the series’ complicated relationship with the Troubles and what it says about how

With funding from a RDE Cross-Training Grant, migration studies scholar Tabea LInhard returned to the classroom, this time in a student’s seat, to bolster her understanding of immigration law and its impact on the populations she studies.

Every March, humanities scholars and practitioners have the opportunity to talk directly to the congressional offices that that decide how much of the federal budget supports programs such as the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Department of Education’s international education programs. Laura Perry, assistant director for research and public engagement in the

Sunita Parikh reflects on the 2022 FIFA World Cup, which intertwined thrilling sport and controversial politics.

Sixty years after its fight for independence from France, Algeria maintains a low profile in the Western world. Graduate Student Fellow Lacy Murphy (Art History and Archaeology) takes a close look at French designer Henry Dormoy’s 1930 poster that celebrated the centennial anniversary of the conquest of Algeria to offer an explanation of the country’s skepticism of the West.