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September 19, 2016
Edited by Marijeta Bozovic, assistant professor of Slavic languages and literatures, and Matthew D. Miller, assistant professor of German at Colgate University (Academic...
September 16, 2016
As political science professor David R. Cameron took the podium before his talk on the implications of Brexit Thursday afternoon, he paused to allow those expecting another...
September 2, 2016
One fall evening in 1880, Russian painter Ilya Repin welcomed an unexpected visitor to his home: Lev Tolstoy. The renowned realists talked for hours, and Tolstoy turned his...
August 24, 2016
From one election cycle to the next, a defining question continues to divide the country’s political parties: Should the government play a major or a minor role in the...
Left to right: Linda Powell stars as Portia, and Adriano Iurresevich portrays Arragon, in a performance of Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" by Compagnia de’ Colombari.
August 19, 2016
This year marks the intersection of two milestones — the 500th year of the formation of the Venetian Ghetto, the area of Venice where Jews were forced to live under the...
July 14, 2016
J. Michael Holquist, professor of comparative literature emeritus and former chair of the Department of Comparative Literature, died at home on June 26. He was 80 years old....
July 13, 2016
Miroslav Volf, the Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology (Yale University Press) More than almost anything else, the author contends, globalization and the great...