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Tue, 05/28/2024

Spain still struggles over interpretation of its Golden Age

To understand the separatist movements and other political forces that threaten to break Spain apart, it is instructive to see how all sides spin the nation’s Golden Age literary heritage today. That is the premise of the new book “The Currency of Cultural Patrimony: The Spanish Golden Age” by KU author Robert Bayliss.
Wed, 05/01/2024

Contemplating eco-catastrophe through Spanish science fiction lens

The “deep, existential malaise” stemming from fear of impending ecological catastrophe has permeated science fiction around the globe, a KU professor writes in a new journal article.
Wed, 04/24/2024

Study shows long-standing links among disease, race, class, infrastructure

Links – both real and imagined – between race and disease are far older than the COVID-19 pandemic. A University of Kansas researcher says her new study of a 19th-century Cuban aqueduct project during a cholera outbreak demonstrates this.
Wed, 12/20/2023

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 unfamiliar places. ...

Tue, 12/05/2023

Psychoanalytic arguments helped Argentines win abortion rights, scholar says

Tue, 05/30/2023

KU professor, author can comment on appeal of narcocorridos

LAWRENCE — When a city official in Cancun imposed a ban hours before a May 19 concert by pop musicians associated with the narcocorrido, or drug ballad, accusing them of fomenting violence, the ensuing headlines may have brought the genre to the attention of many Americans for the first time. ...

Thu, 10/06/2022

KU researcher gets at building blocks of language through speech prosody

LAWRENCE – Even the author admits that one of the main concepts of his new book is difficult to grasp: “Speech prosody, especially intonation, is something that is very elusive. You think you're holding it back, controlling it, and all of a sudden it escapes," said Antônio Roberto Monteiro Simões,...

Tue, 12/07/2021

KU author questions assumptions about Jesuits’ relationship with Spain

Tue, 10/09/2018

Low-cost, all-digital Spanish-learning program is born

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