Ayanna Thompson is not a fan of musicals.
So you can guess her reaction when the visionaries behind “Suffs,” a musical about the women’s suffrage movement in the early 1900s, asked her to come on as a dramaturg and consultant to help with casting choices.
Students hoping to study abroad this summer recently submitted their applications and will soon be learning whether they have been selected to expand their language and culture learning with one of Arizona State University's many global experiences.
Arizona State University's School of International Letters and Cultures, in partnership with the Contemporary Chinese School of Arizona and Phoenix Sister Cities, celebrated Lunar New Year last month with a virtual event that showcased the school’s Chinese program and its many connections within the local community.
SPAGrad, the Spanish Graduate Student Association at Arizona State University, held its 25th annual literature conference last month, drawing presenters and attendees from the Spanish program of ASU's School of International Letters and Cultures as well as graduate stude
The 10th annual Rosenbluth Family Charitable Foundation Genocide Awareness Week will be on the Arizona State University Tempe campus from April 4–9. Genocide Awareness Week is a weeklong event seeking to address how our global society confronts violent actions and threats of genocide and related mass atrocity crimes throughout the world.
Investigative journalism and history will converge on March 23 when Arizona State University’s Institute for Humanities Research will sponsor a virtual talk with Abdur-Rahman Muhammad, whose years of reporting led to the exoneration of two men convicted of the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X.
The conversation will take place at 3 p.m. and registration is available.
Over the course of the past several decades, the religious landscape in the United States has changed rapidly, with about 29% of U.S. adults identifying as religiously unaffiliated and a quarter of U.S. adults saying they think of themselves as spiritual but not religious.
Elsie Moore, a beloved Arizona State University faculty member and pioneer in diversity, equity and inclusion, died on Feb. 21 at the age of 72.
“Elsie shared her grace, intellect and love of learning with every person she encountered,” ASU President Michael M. Crow said. “She advanced against intellectual and cultural adversaries with wisdom, understanding and love. She made a difference here at ASU and in our broader world, and will be deeply missed.”
If you jumped on TikTok Monday morning, you might have seen a video of a toddler talking to herself in front of a mirror, a rooster wearing blue pants or a three-minute makeup tutorial: Fun, harmless stuff from the social media site that boasts more than 800 million active users, including 60 million in the United States alone.
But in a panel series held the last two weekends, the focus was not on silly, 30-second videos, but on the experience on TikTok for marginalized creators.
If you’re feeling like recent geopolitical events have that grim, here-we-go-again vibe, you’re not alone. Pundits, politicians and historians have made comparisons to the Cold War, to World War II, even to medieval conflicts.
