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The spring semester courses feature a wide range of subjects, spanning the globe from China to Africa and human history from antiquity to the turbulence of 1968.
In a new book, UA historian Fabio Lanza examines the intellectual history of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars and how it can inform U.S.-China relations today.
Professor Robert Schon is excavating Bisbee's Warren Ballpark, which is almost as old as the World Series itself, to gain insight into Southwestern life in the early 1900s.
Halloween's ghosts are a reminder of the day's origins in Celtic history. Despite its pagan start, or perhaps because of it, Halloween also played a role in religious history as Reformation Day.
The UA's Hanson Film Institute will present "Off the Street," which documents a summer art camp created in response to civil unrest after the death of Martin Luther King Jr.
The festival, which begins next week, will examine moments of principled defiance, quiet dissent and thundering discord throughout history — and the changes they created.
Graduate Stacy Howard's film will be screened at a large indigenous film festival, while three other graduates' films have been chosen for a national public television series.
Alejandro Nava's book "In Search of Soul" explores the nuances in the meaning of soul, particularly its sacred and profane dimensions, and seeks to explain what is common to both.
Movies and TV shows set in the 1980s, such as "IT" and "Stranger Things," are proving hugely popular in 2017. UA film expert Bradley Schauer says they're drawing two types of audiences: those nostalgic for their younger years and those intrigued by a retro, "pre-modern" time.
The UA will draw on existing faculty expertise in East Asian studies and religious studies to promote academic research on the traditions of the world's fourth-largest faith.
