Page 2 - Human Ties Features News Today

A midcentury surge of schoolteachers, trained as agents of rural progress, brought modern education to even the most remote areas of the Andean provinces of Peru. Faculty Fellow Javier García Liendo offers a preview of his book in progress, “The Children of Indigenismo: Schoolteachers and the Making of Popular Modernity in Peru.”

Curator Skye Lacerte pulls out three comics from the D.B. Dowd Modern Graphic History Library to illustrate the impact of challenged comic books. (Related event: Banned Comic Books panel discussion, Thurs., Sept. 22.)

With his new book project, humanities center Faculty Fellow and philosopher Casey O’Callaghan taps a range of sources — from scientific literature to philosophical theories to memoirs — to explore how our senses shape what matters to us.

“Many of us know a good deal about what we might call the signature events of the midcentury Black freedom struggle — the events that have been ‘iconized’ in photographs,” says Paige McGinley, associate professor of performing arts and a Faculty Fellow in the Center for the Humanities. “But what is less well known is how ordinary people prepared to do extraordinary things.”

After compiling more than 100,000 records from the earliest days of the American Republic, Faculty Fellow Peter Kastor seeks to reconstruct and understand the federal government at the moment of its creation. With his book and database project currently underway, he is chronicling how the Founding Fathers faced the daily challenges of running a new and complex government.

The 2015 founding of the Women’s Mosque of America (WMA) in Los Angeles gave Muslim women in the U.S. something they hadn’t had access to before: the minbar, the platform from which a sermon is given. With her forthcoming book, scholar Tazeen Ali explores the dynamism of Islam and the women who interpret it, who approach the Qur’an as a tool to resist social hierarchies, build community and empower themselves.

Share Michael R. Allen, a lecturer in the American Culture Studies program and senior lecturer in architecture, landscape architecture and urban design at the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, is also an academic researcher, historian, design critic, public artist, critical spatial tour guide and heritage conservationist in private practice. He reviews the latest book by Jenny Price, a public writer, artist and environmental historian and current research fellow at the Sam Fox School. A...

By Nancy Y. Reynolds Share Nancy Y. Reynolds is associate professor of history in the Department of History, and an affiliate faculty member of the Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies and of the Department of Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies. Participants and pundits hailed it as the social media revolution. When Egypt’s January 25 uprising followed Tunisia’s start to the Arab Spring in 2011, it seemed to erupt from a new technology of political organizing. The Face...

Morning session  9:00–9:45 am - Timothy Moore (Washington University in St. Louis): “Women and their voices in Plautus’ Rudens” 9:45–10:30 am - Julia Beine (Ruhr-Universität Bochum): “‘Something of great moment is about to happen’: Plautus’ Rudens in translation and performance by the Ladies’ Literary Society of Washington University” 11:00–11:45 am - Judith Hallett (University of Maryland): “ Ultra veritatem muliebris vis: women classicists in the dawning o...