
Shabazz Leads Push to Make Juneteenth a State Holiday
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
Growing up in Beaumont, TX, Amilcar Shabazz, professor of Afro-American studies, celebrated Independence Day on June 19—Juneteenth. ...
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Zhongwei Shen’s “A Phonological History of Chinese” introduces scholarship of Chinese researchers to the West
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
A new book by Zhongwei Shen, professor in the East Asian Languages and Cultures program (part of the languages, literatures and cultures department), is the first to integrate Chinese linguistic scholarship into international linguistics at large.

Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies launches new workshop series that connects past, present, and future
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
Grounded Knowledge explores connections between the Renaissance Center’s kitchen gardens, apple orchard, and rare book collection, which includes agricultural treatises, gardening manuals, early modern literature, and early earth science writing.