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- 16SepLecture by Michelle H. S. Ho/National University of Singapore -- "Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo's Pink Economies"Ho traces the genders manifesting alongside Japanese popular culture in Tokyo, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in cross dressing cafe-and-...
- 19SepJohn Davenport/Fordham University and Allegra de Laurentiis/PHI on "Philosophy and Gaza"Presentations on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and the concept of statehood....
- 25SepProvost's Spotlight Talks: Why Poetry with Rowan Ricardo PhillipsThe Provost's Spotlight Talks feature outstanding university faculty and eminent guests. This fall's talk will feature Rowan Ricardo Philips...
- 25SepSmithsonian Academy Orchestra, under the direction of Kenneth Slowik7 PM, Smithsonian Academy Orchestra, under the direction of Kenneth Slowik, presents Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony performed on period instr...
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Andrew Newman Awarded NEH Grant for Virtual Educators Program
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) recently announced funding for "Making the Good Reader and Citizen: The History of Literature Instruction in American Schools," a proposal submitted by Andrew Newman, Department of English, and Jonna Perrillo, University of Texas El Paso (UTEP). This research project has received funding from NEH in 2021 and 2023.
The institute will examine K-12 educators’ and school reformers’ changing conceptions of what constitutes a “good reader” across the 20th century.