September 4, 2024
On March 12, 2020, I gave a book talk at California State University, Bakersfield, celebrating the release of Weird Al: Seriously. I began that book because I had wanted to confront prejudices against funny music—ideas that humor in music was somehow less significant than so-called “serious” music or classical music….
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,…
September 13, 2023
From Film Quarterly, Fall 2023, Volume 77, Number 1
Bruno Guaraná
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….
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,…
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… 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….
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 …
Professor of Folklore and Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations Dan Ben-Amos died at the age of 88 on March 26.
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….
