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Assembling the February 24 Archive

Assembling the February 24 Archive

Since the war began, Professor Steven Seegel has tweeted about 12,000 times. He plans to keep going, with the help of international colleagues in the digital humanities, for as long as necessary, in order to build what he’s calling “The February 24th Archive.”

Features

A Love Letter to Black Austin

A Love Letter to Black Austin

Interview with Lisa B. Thompson and Richard Reddick on Their New Black Austin Matters Podcast Black Austin Matters, a new podcast from KUT and KUTX Studios, aims to give voice to the daily experiences of Black Austinites, while deepening mutual understanding throughout the broader Austin community. We spoke to its hosts and co-producers, College of […]

A Community of Scholars and Students Responds to the War in Ukraine

A Community of Scholars and Students Responds to the War in Ukraine

As Director of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREEES) and a historian of Eastern Europe, I am writing to share with you how the faculty and students of our center are responding to this horrific moment.

Blog

A Love Letter to Black Austin

A Love Letter to Black Austin

Interview with Lisa B. Thompson and Richard Reddick on Their New Black Austin Matters Podcast Black Austin Matters, a new podcast from KUT and KUTX Studios, aims to give voice to the daily experiences of Black Austinites, while deepening mutual understanding throughout the broader Austin community. We spoke to its hosts and co-producers, College of […]

Q&A with RANE Eurasia Analyst Matthew Orr

Q&A with RANE Eurasia Analyst Matthew Orr

Matthew Orr is a Eurasia analyst at RANE, a risk intelligence company that provides geopolitical information and consultation to consumers and corporate clients with business interests around the globe. Prior to starting at RANE, Orr received dual Master’s degrees in Global Policy Studies and Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at The University of Texas […]

Q&A with Mykhaylo (Misha) Simanovskyy, Graduate Student and Donetsk Native

Q&A with Mykhaylo (Misha) Simanovskyy, Graduate Student and Donetsk Native

Misha Simanovskyy is a native of Donetsk, Ukraine and a first-year graduate student pursuing a dual master’s degree in Global Policy Studies and Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

Fighting from Within

Fighting from Within

A Q&A with 2020 Diehl Prize winner and public school teacher Yulissa Chavez. A child of immigrants who had no formal education, Chavez has long been passionate about public education and combatting systems of oppression and poverty.

Books

Book Excerpt: A Time to Gather by Jason Lustig

Book Excerpt: A Time to Gather by Jason Lustig

The Nazi Party’s rise to power and the concomitant exclusion of Jews from public life led to a somewhat surprising strengthening of Jewish institutions, the Gesamtarchiv included.

Leaf Through a Good Book

Leaf Through a Good Book

Keep your to-read list up-to-date with our fall book list, featuring a selection of titles from College of Liberal Arts faculty members and alumni.

Commentary

Shakespeare’s Returning Warriors – and Ours
Alan Warren Friedman

Shakespeare’s Returning Warriors – and Ours

If it is wise, every society that sends its young citizens off to war will find a way to reassimilate them when they return.

Supreme Court poised to put Boston Marathon bomber back on death row
Jeffrey Abramson

Supreme Court poised to put Boston Marathon bomber back on death row

In a legal marathon running alongside the real Boston Marathon, the Supreme Court heard oral argument this week about whether to re-instate the on-again, off-again death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, for his role in planting the deadly bombs near the 2013 Marathon finish line.

Changing your mind about something as important as vaccination isn’t a sign of weakness – being open to new information is the smart way to make choices
Art Markman

Changing your mind about something as important as vaccination isn’t a sign of weakness – being open to new information is the smart way to make choices

Culturally, this is an era in which people are held in high esteem when they stick with their beliefs and negatively labeled as “flip-floppers” or “wishy-washy” when they change what they think.

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