Arts & Humanities

The university's Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry has formed a binational partnership to support Nogales artists in visually interpreting the realities of being from and living on the U.S.-Mexico border.

This year, UArizona and its marching band, the Pride of Arizona, celebrate the 70th anniversary of "Bear Down, Arizona," the song that accompanies nearly every Wildcats celebration. The first public performance of the song took place at a pep rally on Sept. 20, 1952.

The university will establish a new Center for East Asian Studies that will join three other longstanding centers on campus. The centers will receive the funding over the next four years.

Beyond being the namesake of the UArizona Poetry Center building, Schaefer made decades of contributions to arts and cultural programs that were felt across Southern Arizona.

The April 26 event in Washington, D.C., will ask "How Free is Speech on Campus, and Does it Matter?" The discussion, which will be livestreamed, is part of the College of Humanities' Fearless Inquiries Project.

Jeehey Kim studies Asian photography, with a specific focus on funerary photography – the practice of taking people's portraits for use at their eventual funerals.

World's fairs introduced us to Heinz ketchup, the Ferris wheel and countless other innovations. Lisa Schrenk is a UArizona scholar who studies world's fairs and their cultural impacts.