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জাতির জনক বঙ্গবন্ধু শেখ মুজিবুর রহমান এর ৪৬তম শাহাদাত বার্ষিকী ও জাতীয় শোক দিবস উপলক্ষে ইনডিপেনডেন্ট ইউনিভার্সিটি, বাংলাদেশ (আইইউবি) জাতীয় শোক দিবস ২০২১: জাতির পিতার প্রতি গভীর শ্রদ্ধাঞ্জলি শিরোনামে একটি ভার্চুয়াল ওয়েবিনার ...

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July 21, 2021 The Cervantes Institute, a Spanish government agency dedicated to promoting Spanish around the world, has chosen Barbara Fuchs, UCLA professor of Spanish and English, to receive its inaugural Ñ Prize, honoring her work disseminating Spanish language and culture through theater and literature. The president of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, will join Fuchs on July 22 at UCLA as part of an event to announce the first Instituto Cervantes branch in Los Angeles, which will be the seventh such center in the United States. In October, Spain’s King Felipe VI will present the bronze Ñ Prize ...

The Global Novel: Mediations   Hours: M 5:05-7:45 Nancy Armstrong, Roberto Dainotto Louis Althusser is known to have said that “ideology represents individuals’ imaginary relation to their real conditions of existence.” Assuming that statement is a pretty good fit for traditional literary realism as well, we feel it is time to rephrase this principle for the global novel — which would go something like this: “the global novel represents individuals’ imaginary relation to forms of mediation.” Rather than refer to life beyond the page as one organized around the home, the workpl...

Launch of interdisciplinary projects embody ‘creativity and resilience’ of UChicago faculty The University of Chicago has long championed collaborative research as a promising strategy for addressing complex questions. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit last year, it was not clear how this form of inquiry might need to adapt. What new strategies would humanistic scholars adopt to share, develop and test new ideas online? What empirical data would social scientists be able to gather, and what insights could they glean from fieldwork dramatically constrained by new public he...