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  1. 8 hours ago

    Sports are the most popular spectator events in history. This volume shows how sports shape societies and individuals. The essays offer critical insights & historical case studies from historians, theorists, literature scholars, and athletes

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  2. 10 hours ago

    The 11-M terrorist attacks in Madrid marked a critical cultural and political shift in Spanish society. Jill Robbins shows how poetry helped reflect this new sensibility defined by new and undefined modes of communication and memorialization

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  3. Apr 2

    Jewish poet Sarra Copia Sulam was an intellectual in Venice, famous for her erudition, powerful intellectual network & work on the immortality of the soul. Her career later sank because of slanderous charges against her integrity

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  4. Apr 2

    We hope everyone is staying safe and healthy during this trying time. We look forward to seeing you all at Congress in 2021.

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  5. Apr 2

    "Like today’s crisis, medieval writers struggled to make sense of the disease. Whatever the result, “… so much misery ensued,” wrote another English author, it was feared that the world would “hardly be able to regain its previous condition.”"

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  6. Apr 1

    Life in the time of Corona #3: Orwell’s Politics and the English Language

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  7. Apr 1

    Along with other radical reformers in 13th-century France, Philippe of Cahors was a major figure in both secular & ecclesiastical government during the reign of Louis IX (Saint Louis). This volume is the 1st study of his remarkable career

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  8. Apr 1

    This book explores the influence of Young Europe on the Polish, Slovak, Czech and Ukrainian intelligentsia in the first half of the 19th century with special emphasis on the democratic principles and humanistic ideals of the group

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  9. Mar 31

    The 11-M terrorist attacks in Madrid marked a critical cultural and political shift in Spanish society. Jill Robbins shows how poetry helped reflect this new sensibility defined by new and undefined modes of communication and memorialization

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  10. Mar 31

    In the 1930s, while a student at wrote a series of 8 essays on the philosophy and theology of history. These essays foreshadow a number of the major themes in his life’s work & are now together for the first time

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  11. Mar 30

    Esyllt Jones, the author of Influenza 1918: Disease, Death, and Struggle in Winnipeg offers some insight on the coronavirus pandemic and how it will differ from the 1918 influenza epidemic.

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  12. Mar 29

    This Pilgrim Nation is a story of belonging. The book looks at how Portugal leveraged its diasporic citizens to build and maintain a larger Portuguese family across the world, while also examining Portugal’s complicated history

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  13. Mar 29

    At a time when social scientists are asking why nations & democracies fail, Gasparo Contarini’s 16th-century account of the Republic of Venice helps modern readers understand what made Venice the longest-lived self-constituted republic

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  14. Mar 27

    This volume examines the impact of Vatican II from the 60s to the 2000s, the dismantling of neo-scholasticism and the secularization of consciousness in society and how those issues affected the titular congregation and the province of Manitoba

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    Mar 27

    Here's Episode 2 of "Life in the Time of Coronavirus", with editor and Miles Nadal JCC Board Member, Natalie Fingerhut. In today's episode, she discusses Timothy Snyder's handbook: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.

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  16. Mar 27

    Listen to Shoshanna Keller discuss her new book, Russia and Central Asia, on .

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  17. Mar 26

    The 11-M terrorist attacks in Madrid marked a critical cultural and political shift in Spanish society. Jill Robbins shows how poetry helped reflect this new sensibility defined by new and undefined modes of communication and memorialization

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  18. Mar 25

    Life in the Time of Corona: UTP editor, Natalie Fingerhut, offers short takes on books that are relevant to our current, troubled moment. Today, she discusses Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.

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  19. Mar 25

    Migration and the Media examines Chinese migration to Italy as it was debated in the news media between 1992 and 2012 by exploring what this event allowed stakeholders to achieve within Italian media, politics, and popular culture reporting

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  20. Mar 23

    This book examines how Ukrainian women's prose re-asserted itself after the collapse of the USSR. These women established themselves as cultural critics and paved the way for the first generation of non-Soviet female writers after them

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