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Author: Pamela Haines

Impressions from Paris: Women Creatives in Interwar Years France

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Impressions from Paris studies the contributions of various women artists and writers who lived in Paris during the Interwar Years, from the 1920s to 1940. The “Roaring Twenties” constituted years of experimentation and freedom to test new techniques and lifestyles at a time affected by serious political changes leading to World War II. Their trajectories […]

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Stage Body, Stage Gender: Kabuki Actors and Print Identity in Early Modern Japan: Wednesday, April 12, at 5pm, Ustler Hall Auditorium

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Wednesday, April 12, 2023 5:00 P.M. in Ustler Hall Auditorium   This talk explores the star system that emerged in the context of early modern Kabuki theater, focusing in particular on Kabuki female-role actors, or Onnagata. I propose a revision of established critical discourse about these actors, in which their acting and identities have been […]

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Russia’s Visionaries: Direct Speech

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Russia’s Visionaries: Direct Speech examines the latest thinking regarding Russia’s present position and its anticipated future by leading Russian philosophers, political scientists, economists, and cultural figures, to whom the author refers as “visionaries.” These thinkers position Russia as a global protector of fairness and a safeguard against any single nation’s world hegemony. Despite Russians’ abiding tendency […]

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