Esau McCaulley: It’s Time for a Boycott! Credit…Day Brièrre Dear C0mmons Community, Esau McCaulley, a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, had a piece yesterday […]

Wisconsin Private Colleges Under Fiscal Stress – Cut Programs and Staff! Dear Commons Community, Under severe fiscal stress, Wisconsin’s private colleges are cutting majors and retrenching staff in an effort […]

Xavier Borrero "Black God White Devil"For our last week in class we watched Glauber Rocha’s Black God, White Devil which struck me as a very influential film as it warps the […]

Black God, White Devil – #7A seminal work of the Cinema Novo movement, Black God, White Devil (1964) uses powerful visuals and daring storytelling to address social […]

Janhavi Phansalkar awarded the Dr. Louise Lennihan Arts & Sciences Grant from the Futures Initiative Congratulations to Janhavi Phansalkar, who was awarded the Dr. Louise Lennihan Arts & Sciences Grant!  The award is a part of the Graduate […]

For April 7thRead chapters 6 and 7 in Crowley & Bowern. (They’re pretty short chapters.) There will be a quiz on this reading at the start of c […]

Chai and Chat: Rosanna Young Oh Chai and Chat Reading Series Rosanna Young Oh The Bill & Doris Lippman Visiting Poet Monday, April 7th, […]

HybridizationThe processes of interethnic contact and decolonization, globalizing processes, travel and border crossing, and […]