Most institutions in North America now acknowledge the importance of diversity in the workplace and in education, and have established dedicated, organizational programs dedicated to promoting and implementing diversity. ...
Professor Joshua A. Fogel, Canada Research Chair at York University, is a historian of modern China and Japan whose scholarly expertise ranges from the history of ideas to Sino-Japanese relation. In this lecture, he will ...
From at least the mid twelfth century until the Expulsion in 1290, England hosted a community of active rabbinic scholars. Although much of their literary heritage has been lost, several treatises and dozens of responsa ...
Juan Arturo Brennan is a leading radio and TV host, and film critic based in Mexico City. He is the music critic for the daily La Jornada and a reviewer for Pauta magazine, the most important Mexican journal on musical ...
What types of changes occurred in musical traditions around the Mediterranean during the shift from Late Antiquity to the European Middle Ages (which corresponds to the 'Golden Age' of Arabo-Islamic civilization)? And what ...
Almost all environmental problems are human problems at some fundamental level. The clash of human and natural systems often results in complex, seemingly intractable predicaments that challenge scientists seeking to ...
Professor Walls works in literature and science and has a continuing interest in the German natural scientist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt. Her books include
The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the ...