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Contemplating eco-catastrophe through Spanish science fiction lens
LAWRENCE – The “deep, existential malaise” stemming from fear of impending ecological catastrophe has permeated science fiction around the globe, a University of Kansas professor writes in a new scholarly journal article.
Study shows long-standing links among disease, race, class, infrastructure
LAWRENCE — Links — both real and imagined — between race and disease are far older than the COVID-19 pandemic.
International Collections Librarian forging a path as a scholar, connector, mentor
Milton Machuca-Galvez understands the merit of self-sufficiency, a quality that has proven worthwhile throughout a career that has included transporting essential supplies into remote mountain ranges, as well as decades of research, teaching, and academic leadership in sometimes new and unfamilia
Psychoanalytic arguments helped Argentines win abortion rights, scholar says
LAWRENCE – In Argentina, perhaps the most psychoanalyzed country in the world, the rhetoric of psychoanalysis proved important in the push for a 2020 federal law that guaranteed free and safe access to abortion through 14 weeks of pregnancy.