The City Performs: An Architectural History of NYC Theatre

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The Humanities Department cordially invites you to February's Works-in-the-Works event A talk by Profs. Ting Chin and Christopher S. The City Performs: An Architectural History of NYC Theatre. In this presentation, we will discuss our teaching collaboration in the interdisciplinary course History of the Theatre: Stages and Technology. Faculty, staff, and students are invited. Refreshments served, no

Love in the Poetry of St. John of the Cross and Antonio Machado

The Humanities Department cordially invites you to March's Works-in-the-Works event Two Spanish authors propose different ideas of love. St. John of the Cross, a 16th-century mystic, is devoted to spiritual, divine love. Antonio Machado, a 20th-century secular writer, focuses instead on the experience of physical, human love. Examined together, their poems dramatize the eternal conflict

Una cita con la cita. The Cross-cultural Values of Citations in Postgraduate Research Works

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Citation processes are shaped in a textual context that characterizes the academic discourse within each genre, such as disciplinary community or cultural framework The interplay between the citation processes and context in turn generates new knowledge between the writer and reader. In this presentation, I discuss the cross-cultural differences in citations used in their research

Performance and Protest in Saving the Whales: A Talk by Sarah Standing

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The Humanities Department presents…………… A Talk by Sarah Standing Beginning in the mid-1970s, Greenpeace’s “Save the Whales” Campaign became a successful weapon against international whaling. Today, oceanic warming causes shifts in whale migration, uncertain feeding patterns, and the consequent loss of vitality. In this presentation, I investigate the efficacy of the “Save the Whales” campaign

Ending Stereotypes on The College Campus – An Unending Journey

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The Humanities Department cordially invites you to September's Works-in-the-Works event   A talk by Prof. Zheng Zhu   Ending Stereotypes on The College Campus – An Unending Journey This talk will examine negative perceptions of Latinx people and cultures in U.S. academic institutions and the response to these harmful biases in the play Las Memorias,