Arts and Humanities

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.

Jill Jorden Spitz, a 1989 UA journalism graduate, will talk about ethics and sourcing after Sunday's screening of "Shattered Glass," which kicks off the "Journalism on Screen" series.

In advance of a panel discussion on recent events in Charlottesville, Virginia, Susan Crane and Katie Hemphill shed light on the social and political power of monuments.

An exhibit at UA Special Collections shows that even the covers of books were altered, often to reflect the motives of their owners during a period of religious fervor.

When a caller said, "I think I have a painting of yours," everything changed at the UA Museum of Art, which now has the treasured "Woman-Ochre" by abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning back in its possession. Here's the story of how it happened, with video of last week's preliminary authentication.

Meg Hagyard, a native Tucsonan and alumna of the UA, brings recent experience as senior director of external relations for the Office of Research, Discovery and Innovation.