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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.