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Authors Alex Werth and Brandi Thompson Summers on Crafting from Sound, Culture, and Place

May 20 2026
Authors Alex Werth and Brandi Thompson Summers offer perspective on cultural geography and Black belonging in Oakland on the AAG panel, "Subject and Setting: Doing Black Geographies in Place."
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How Prisons Manage Gender Boundaries—and How That’s Changed Over Time

May 20 2026
Author Joss T. Greene traces how changing prison systems have shaped the treatment of transgender prisoners across decades.
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Palestine and the Political Awakening of Lamine Yamal

May 19 2026
Author Khaled Beydoun on how football phenom Lamine Yamal’s decision to raise the Palestinian flag during Barcelona’s title parade signaled a bold embrace of political identity and solidarity.
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"Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos" Announces the 2024–2025 Christian Zlolniski Award Winners

May 13 2026
The 2024–2025 Christian Zlolniski Award recognizes outstanding early-career scholarship on Mexican Catholic women’s activism and representations of narco violence in contemporary Mexican cinema.
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"Journal of Religion and Popular Culture" Offers Select Free Content during Implicit Religion Conferences

May 13 2026
We've removed the paywall from a selection of articles from JRPC in conjunction with IR UK and US.
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An Exclusive Look at “Self-Realization Nation”

May 12 2026
An excerpt from John Kapusta's new book, "Self-Realization Nation."
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Chiptune in the Twenty-First Century: Memory Power

May 11 2026
Rooted in the emergence of video game audio technology, chiptune is a form of electronic music that blossomed into a means of self-expression and global phenomenon toward the end of the twentieth century.
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National Petroleum Reserve Oil Drilling Project Case Study Wins 2025 CSE Prize Competition

May 11 2026
“The Willow Project and Environmental Justice” balances economic, ecological, and cultural considerations while foregrounding environmental justice concerns.
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New from Pacific Historical Review: Black Schools in the West, Stopover Migration, and Labor Relations in Vietnam

May 06 2026
Preview the new Summer 2026 issue of "Pacific Historical Review."
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Q&A with Tara Mulder, author of "A Womb of One's Own"

May 05 2026
Author Tara Mulder on her unique perspective as a classicist and daughter of a homebirth midwife and how she reconstructed ancient women's lost stories of childbirth and pregnancy.
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