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Liquid Borders: Toward a Close Examination of Migratory Issues

At at time when there are more people on the move than ever before — there are 70.8 million displaced people around the world, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees — it’s critical to elevate facts, analyses and an understanding of the historical context of global migration. Latin American Studies program director Mabel Moraña introduces the Liquid Borders/Fronteras Líquidas conference, taking place Oct. 2–4, which will gather interdisciplinary and internationally recognized authorities in the field of migration studies.

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On George Sanchez

George Sanchez has helped shape a new generation of academics who have promoted connections with nonacademic organizations, the focus of his talk in 2019 James E. McLeod Memorial Lecture on Higher Education, “Bridging the Divided City: Preparing Students for a New Los Angeles” (3 pm, Sept. 27). In advance of that event, scholar Mary Ann Dzuback writes about Sanchez’s longtime commitment to preserving the multiethnic and multiracial stories of a community in Los Angeles.

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One Sweet Dream: ‘Abbey Road’ at Fifty

Senior Lecturer Matthew Shipe looks back on “Abbey Road” as the album reaches the 50th anniversary of its debut. In it, he finds not just a recording but a record of the times.

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A Literary Anatomy: Student Exhibit Analyzed ‘Frankenstein’ Book by Book

Students enrolled in Corinna Treitel (History, Medical Humanities) and Amy Pawl’s (English, Children’s Studies) “Frankenstein” courses turned a literary “dissection” of Mary Shelley’s famous novel into an exercise in public humanities. Here, Treitel, Pawl and collaborator Cassie Brand (University Libraries) write about the process of helping students stage an exhibition at Olin Library that brought out their very best work.

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The human fingerprint maps our identity, the ties that bind us, the lingering traces we leave on this earth. As humanists, we explore the durability as well as the fragility of the human condition — opening windows onto worlds near to home and oceans away, worlds we interpret through stories and images, poems and performance, history and narratives, sounds and silence. At Washington University in St. Louis, the Center for the Humanities facilitates the labor of humanists by nurturing innovative research, transformative pedagogy, and vibrant community engagement locally and globally.

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Divided City Graduate Student Summer Research Fellows’ Presentations

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Class of 2021 Kling Fellows Announced

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