In his latest work, The Paradox of Paradise: Creative Destruction and the Rise of Urban Coastal Tourism in Contemporary Spanish Culture, Nichols delves into the evolution of urban coastal tourism in Spain, revealing how destinations like Torremolinos and Benidorm transformed...
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Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters is a feature documentary that traces the remarkable history and legacy of one of the most important works of art to come out of the age of AIDS...
The Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Washington hosts an annual literary and storytelling series. Sacred Breath features Indigenous writers and storytellers sharing their craft at the beautiful wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Intellectual House on the UW Seattle campus. Storytelling offers a spiritual...
Join us for a talk with Paris Papamichos Chronakis on his new book The Business of Transition – Jewish and Greek Merchants of Salonica from Ottoman to Greek Rule. This event is co-sponsored by UW's Hellenic Studies Program.How did the cosmopolitan...
Taiwan is a unique site of innovation in disability rights. Despite being barred from becoming a States Party to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) according to the diplomatic exclusion faced by Taiwan, it...
What is the best way to live a flourishing life? How does one make ethical choices? And what should we concretely do to live in a fuller and more inspiring way? Questions such as these were at the heart of...
Join us for a free livestream talk and discussion on What Was Intelligence What Was Intelligence and What Comes Next? as part of our Trump in the World 2.0 Winter Lecture Series on the international impact of the second Trump...
The traditional role of history and philosophy of science (HPS) in the science classroom is to stir some “human interest” into the pedagogic mix. HPS has been the stuff of the sidebar, where textbook authors put information that they regard...
Over the past five centuries, empires have used partition and division to justify and advance colonialialism. We can see that ongoing history of colonial rule and racial violence exploding around the world today—from Palestine to Minnesota and beyond. How might...