Issues: Spring 2024
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Modeling Disability Justice, One Relative Unit of Forward Movement at a Time
Alison Kafer and Julie Minich are using their institutional platform — along with a financial boost from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation — to make waves in the field of…
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Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez Has Some Questions For You
An experienced journalist turned university professor, Rivas-Rodriguez is leading CMAS through its largest oral history project yet
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Law, Societies, and Justice for All
UT’s Initiative for Law, Societies, and Justice unites scholars, researchers, students, and community organizers in the pursuit of a more equitable criminal justice system
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The Re-Enfranchised, in Theory and Practice
Political scientist Hannah Walker explores how to bring the formerly incarcerated back into political participation.
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Kingship, Godship, Scholarship
Azfar Moin locates the roots of secularism in the sacred kingship of Emperor Akbar
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Taking the Liberal Arts on the Offensive
How do you sell the liberal arts in a world where they’re frequently portrayed as on the decline and on the defensive?
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Poetry, Goats, Revolution
Oksana Lutsyshyna’s new novel explores a little-known Ukrainian protest movement and the weight of change
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Free Time Done Right
What should we moderns take from from both Catullus’s warnings against leisure and his embrace of it?
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Eye of Guaraná
Historian Seth Garfield tells the rich cultural and commercial story of guaraná, the world’s most caffeine-rich plant
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Where the Great Books Live
The Jefferson Center for Core Texts and Ideas relies on the great books to prepare its students for the future
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Hunting Oppenheimer
Bruce Hunt regularly teaches a course at UT on the “History of the Atomic Bomb” — and he has a few quibbles with Christopher Nolan’s latest film
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Falling for Vertigo
Students in Doug Bruster’s “‘Vertigo’ In Context” course take film analysis to new heights.
