Intersecting crises — the coronavirus pandemic, racial injustice and environmental catastrophes — have destabilized daily life and public institutions, rendering perennial questions about progress increasingly urgent. And yet, rethinking progress is not simply a question of what should be done through scientific or technological know-how; it is also a question of what it means to be human.
Throughout “Twelve Minutes and a Life,” Mitchell Jackson’s stirring essay about the last moments of Ahmaud Arbery’s life, the writer often compares himself with the former high school football star and murder victim.
Arbery was arrested for carrying a gun a year after graduating high school, Jackson tells us, before relaying that he, too, was arrested a few years after high school for a similar offense.
The New York Times caught the attention of many West Coast residents earlier this week when it ran a story about recent efforts to contain wildfires, one of which had grown “larger than Rhode Island.”
As part of National Hispanic Heritage Month, which is celebrated from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 every year, the School of International Letters and Cultures at Arizona State University held a series of events during the first full week of October for its Spanish Heritage Language Awareness Week.
Arizona State University Associate Professor of Arabic Miral Mahgoub al-Tahawy will spend a year teaching and conducting research in Egypt after being named the recipient of a Fulbright U.S. Scholar award.
In recent years, respected humanitarian organizations such as Doctors Without Borders, Feed the Children and Oxfam have come under pressure for being part of what is described as the “White Savior Industrial Complex.” Critics are forcing the organizations to confront the historical legacies of empire and colonialism in their day-to-day operations, media campaigns and collaborations with countries that have poor human rights records.
Anusha Natarajan is a dual major working towards a bachelor’s in history from the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies and a bachelor’s in sociology from the T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, as well as a student in Barrett, The Honors College.
If Shakespeare believed that “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” perhaps he would also be amenable to the idea that his plays, updated with modern English, would still hit the same.
The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Arizona State University is willing to bet on it.
Growing up in New Mexico, Arizona State University Associate Professor Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez fondly recalls chasing after grasshoppers, trying to catch them so she could feed them to the chickens. She and her siblings rode four-wheelers, but she never learned to roller-skate or how to swim.
“There was a pool, but it was 30 minutes away,” Fonseca-Chávez said of the rural community of Bluewater, a small town between Gallup and Albuquerque.
Published in 1882, “Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District with Atlas” was the first monograph produced by the United States Geological Survey.
Written by the “poet of the Grand Canyon,” Clarence Dutton, the work intersected literature, art and cartography. It changed the way the Grand Canyon was viewed and respected, as an iconic geological masterpiece.
