October 11, 2023
The trailer for Meghan O’Hara and Mike Attie’s In Country (2014) opens with archival footage of the Vietnam War accompanied by a voice-over whose source is quickly revealed to be that of a man dressed in fatigues…. READ MORE
September 25, 2023
Arab–Latin American Business Elites and the Politics of Global Imaginaries
Triumphant capitalism has in our time engendered a new global class that lives and works in a borderless world,… READ MORE
September 13, 2023

From Film Quarterly, Fall 2023, Volume 77, Number 1
Bruno Guaraná
The trailer for Meghan O’Hara and Mike Attie’s … READ MORE
August 23, 2023

Patricia Zimmermann, Charles A. Dana Professor in the Department of Screen Studies, Media Arts, Sciences and Studies at Ithaca College and director of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival died the morning of Aug…. READ MORE
July 25, 2023

The idea that globalizing economic elites had detached themselves from the state and developed a shared, cosmopolitan class consciousness was so commonsensical that it seemed hegemonic when, just over a decade ago,… READ MORE
July 21, 2023
Blog post by Kathleen Rice
I am an anthropologist and currently co-lead a research project entitled “Ukuvula Isango: Opening the Gate to Women’s Empowerment and Post-Pandemic Reconstruction in Rural South Africa[KR1] .” Ukuvula Isango… READ MORE documents women’s pandemic precarity through longitudinal life history interviews,
July 17, 2023

As a registered dietitian nutritionist, I am constantly working with my clients on what types of foods to bring into the house that will best nourish them and their entire family…. READ MORE
June 14, 2023

Ronald L. Baker died June 1 in Indianapolis at the age of 85.
Baker was a founding member of the AFS History and Folklore Section and edited … READ MORE

Professor of Folklore and Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations Dan Ben-Amos died at the age of 88 on March 26.
Ben-Amos began teaching at Penn in 1967…. READ MORE

As Railroads, Art and American Life: An Artist’s Memoir moved through publication the idea of a
book signing tour seemed inviting. The presentations would underscore the book’s theme: art
helps us understand that railroads provide a culture far more than just another form of
transportation…. READ MORE