Oksana Lutsyshyna’s new novel explores a little-known Ukrainian protest movement and the weight of change.
Features
Democracy Then
Classicist Naomi Campa on how studying the past can illuminate the present.
We Have the Best Stories
Ward Keeler on life as an anthropologist.
Blog
Free Time Done Right
What should we moderns take from from both Catullus’s warnings against leisure and his embrace of it?
Polish Club Founder Graduates to International Stage
Nathan Silverstein came to UT Austin from Los Angeles, but it’s easy to see his heart beats in Poland, connected with his heroic ancestors as well as the modern population still reaching to secure democracy.
Politics of Religion, Religion of Politics
Three UT Austin scholars discuss the link between religion and politics, from Obeah in Trinidad to the religious right in the U.S.
Food Sovereignty — and Presentation Practice — at Planet Texas 2050
Third-year COLA student Shannon Henry has never been a fan of public speaking. Yet, in late February, she found herself presenting a poster at Planet Texas 2050 on “Food Sovereignty for a Secure Future.”
Teaching & Learning
Where the Great Books Live
The Jefferson Center for Core Texts and Ideas relies on the great books to prepare its students for the future.
Hunting Oppenheimer
Bruce Hunt regularly teaches a course at UT on the “History of the Atomic Bomb” — and he has a few quibbles with Christopher Nolan’s latest film.
Falling for Vertigo
Students in Doug Bruster’s “‘Vertigo’ In Context” course take film analysis to new heights.
Research
Modeling Disability Justice, One Relative Unit of Forward Movement at a Time
Associate professors Alison Kafer and Julie Minich are using their institutional platform — along with a financial boost from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation — to make waves in the field of disability studies.
Ask An Aqueduct
You’ve seen them on TV and in movies, in History Channel specials and textbooks on antiquity, maybe even on a tour of the Italian countryside. But to archaeologist Rabun Taylor, there’s more to aqueducts than meets the eye.
These Are Not Just Any Greeting Cards
Craig Campbell’s “Greeting Cards for the Anthropocene” don’t look anything like Hallmark.
Books
Eye of Guaraná
Historian Seth Garfield tells the rich cultural and commercial story of guaraná, the world’s most caffeine-rich plant.
The Clothes Make the Manuscript
In “Fashioning Spanish Cinema: Costume, Identity, and Stardom,” Jorge Pérez decodes Chanel suits and starched shorts in Spanish cinema.