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Helena De Bres on Life-Writing (JP, EF)
How does the past live on within our experience of the present? And how does our decision to speak about or write down our recollections of how things were change our understanding of those memories--how does it change us in the present? Asking those ques
Plutarch as Philosopher and Political Thinker: A Conversation with Hugh Liebert
Plutarch is one of history's most influential authors: his insights were foundational to thinkers ranging from William Shakespeare to Alexander Hamilton, Nietzsche to Montesquieu. Yet, today his writings have fallen out of favor, in part because the genre
Robin Visser, "Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan" (Columbia UP, 2023)
An interview with Robin Visser
The Things We Didn't Know: A Conversation with Elba Iris Pérez
A Conversation with Elba Iris Prez
Rose Miron, "Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions in Public History and Memory" (U Minnesota Press, 2024)
An interview with Rose Miron
Lorenza B. Fontana, "Recognition Politics: Indigenous Rights and Ethnic Conflict in the Andes" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
An interview with Lorenza B. Fontana
Philip Freeman, "Two Lives of Saint Brigid" (Four Courts Press, 2024)
An interview with Philip Freeman
Words of Attack: Rhetoric Against Liberal Democratic Values with James McAdams
With a presidential campaign in the US just around the corner and populist and authoritarian thinkers gaining broader platforms, University of Notre Dame political scientist A. James McAdams shines a light on the terms being used today by the Far Right to