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Joseph Orosco presented “Reimagining ‘America’ and Civic Identity Through Chicanx History” at the annual meeting of the Concerned Philosophers for Peace on Oct. 30, 2021.
Stuart Ray Sarbacker presented a lecture entitled “Avatars of the COVID-19 Era: Morphological Limitation and Freedom in Virtual Environments” at the University of Virginia “Prioritizing Presence in a Post-Pandemic World” workshop. Sarbacker also contributed to a collaborative white paper on best practices for student engagement in post-pandemic actual and virtual teaching environments.
Joseph Orosco published “Lessons on Police Brutality from the Chicanx Experience” in the Journal for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, as part of a special collaboration between the journal and the Anarres Project for Alternative Futures.
Nicole von Germeten
Nicole von Germeten, with co-PIs Chris Lindberg and Meghan Naxer, recently won a research fellowship from E-campus. Their project proposes to examine student motivation levels as they engage with the past through a narrative and character-based video games built into the design … Continue reading
Stuart Ray Sarbacker
Stuart Ray Sarbacker presented a lecture entitled “Avatars of the COVID-19 Era: Morphological Limitation and Freedom in Virtual Environments” at the University of Virginia “Prioritizing Presence in a Post-Pandemic World” workshop. Sarbacker also contributed to a collaborative white paper on best … Continue reading
Amy Koehlinger presented 2 papers at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion this weekend: 1) “’Boyology’ and Beyond: the Boy Crisis and the Production of Catholic Masculinities,” and 2) “The Sounds of Silence: Ministry to the “Nones” at a Catholic Shrine in the Pacific Northwest.”
Rena Lauer, gave an invited presentation at the University of Pennsylvania Legal History Workshop on the topic of “Jewish Women’s Wills before 1600: Gender, Religion, and Choice in a Global Republic of Instruments.” She also presented a “Coffee Hour” talk on her research to the fellows at UPenn’s Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies.
Joseph Orosco published “Lessons on Police Brutality from the Chicanx Experience” in the Journal for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, as part of a special collaboration between the journal and the Anarres Project for Alternative Futures.
Ben Mutschler is featured in a narrative episode on inoculation and vaccination in early America on the podcast, “Ben Franklin’s World”.
In support of his book, The Province of Affliction: Illness and the Making of Early New England (Chicago, 2020), Ben has given virtual public talks locally at Grass Roots Books and the Academy for Lifelong Learning and at archives that … Continue reading