"Opening the Qur'an: Introducing Islam's Holy Book" (University of Notre Dame Press) is as a masterful work that offers a comprehensive and extraordinarily readable, step-by-step introduction to the Qur'an, making it accessible to students, teachers, clergy, and general readers.
The University of California, San Diego Libraries have acquired the papers of Ephraim Weed Morse, an energetic and ambitious mover-and-shaker who lived in San Diego from 1850 until his death in 1906, and played a leading role in the development of early San Diego.
The University of Richmond will host the first Civil War sesquicentennial conference April 29. Registration is limited to 2,500 and is now open.
In his newest volume of poetry, Michael Heffernan, creative writing professor at the University of Arkansas, often mixes the lofty and the wacky. The resulting "mildly irreverent" poems rise up from the sometimes-sad circumstances of life.
Many people may not know that this year marks the 400th anniversary of John Milton's birth (he was born on December 9th, 1608). "But Milton remains incredibly relevant to us today," says Shannon Miller, professor and chair of the English department at Temple University.
A national design policy would make the United States more competitive in the global economy and more democratic at home, said design officials at a national two-day summit convened by a University of Illinois at Chicago design anthropologist.
The Grapes of Wrath is not the only Depression-era work worth taking a second (or a first) look at from our current perspective in what some are calling the New Depression. "If it's true that adversity and hardship can bring out creativity," said Miles Orvell, professor of English and American studies at Temple University, "then the Great Depression was one of the great creative periods of our time."
J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism, a center of American University's School of Communication, is calling for a new round of grant proposals to fund New Voices community news start-ups around the country. Eight projects will each receive up to $25,000 in grants during the course of two years. The deadline for this year's proposals is Thursday, February 12, 2009. Eligibility guidelines and the online application are available at the New Voices Web site (www.j-newvoices.org).
University of Illinois at Chicago historian available to provide historical perspective on U.S. presidential inaugural addresses.
As a boy living on a small farm with his grandparents in the Amazon region of Colombia, Juan Carlos Galeano was entranced with the lush, naturalistic and often violent folktales that had been passed down from tribal Amazonians and had evolved through generations of natives and multiethnic newcomers like his relatives.
Pete Souza is a photojournalism professor at Ohio University, and a former White House photographer. His book "The Rise of Barack Obama" documents the rise of the new President Elect from his first day in the U.S. Senate in 2005 up to the 2008 Pennsylvania presidential primary. Souza was granted exclusive access to Obama to capture the life of one of the most recognized political figures of our time.
Why do we need to hold funeral services? To mark a loss? To recognize a death? To remember a life? To start healing? Doug Manning, international grief expert and author, tackles these questions in his book The Funeral: A Chance to Touch, a Chance to Serve, a Chance to Heal.
Arizona State University Professor Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, director of the Jewish Studies program, will be one of 30 representatives of different major faith traditions discussing the world's climate issues at the Interfaith Summit on Climate Change in Uppsala, Sweden, Nov. 28-29.
Digital gaming luminaries will gather at Georgia Tech on December 1 and 2 for Living Game Worlds IV, a symposium featuring gaming pioneers such as Raph Koster, lead designer of Star Wars Galaxies, and Chris Klaus, founder of Kaneva.
Internationally known choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, an esteemed dance professor at The Florida State University and the founder and artistic director of the Brooklyn-based troupe Urban Bush Women, has been named a 2008 USA Wynn Fellow in dance by the philanthropic nonprofit organization United States Artists (USA).
An English professor credits Jamaican grandparents with nurturing her interest in the neglected histories of past generations, especially those of African and Caribbean descent, and preserving the stories for today's learners. Voices from Our America advances cross-cultural understanding in the United States, Caribbean and Latin America.
Moravian College will host an interdisciplinary Undergraduate Conference in Medieval and Early Modern Studies designed to highlight the richness and interdisciplinary nature of medieval studies and early modern studies.
President Jimmy Carter and poet Maya Angelou will speak at the Southeast regional gathering of the New Baptist Covenant, to be held at Wake Forest University April 24-25, 2009. The conference theme is "This is God's Year to Act: Responding to a Society in Crisis."
The Wallace Foundation, the Washington State Arts Commission and the Mayor's Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs today announced an innovative, four-year arts funding partnership designed to foster growth in public arts attendance and to identify, develop and share useful lessons on how arts organizations can reach more people. Nine Seattle arts organizations will receive $6.1 million in grants, and another $1.6 million will support audience building throughout the region.
In his 20 years as a genocide scholar, Samuel Totten has moved beyond cataloging and commemorating past genocides to working to intervene and prevent future genocides.
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