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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 unashamedly. In 1983, soon after his own AIDS diagnosis, Callen published

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 and ethnicity. “I am delighted to welcome our first IDEAL Provostial fellows to Stanford,” Drell...

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 university Gabriel, who leaves behind wife Sue, son Casper, and daughter Olivia, was head of the departm...

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 university Gabriel, who leaves behind wife Sue, son Casper, and daughter Olivia, was head of the departm...

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 much a center of Christianity as Italy or Greece. But the swift advance of Islam across North Africa ...