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Authors Alex Werth and Brandi Thompson Summers on How Sound Shapes Culture, Memory, 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, "Oakland as Subject and Setting: Doing Black Geographies in Place."
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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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How Brazilian Cinema Captured the Moment: A Q&A with Gerd Gemünden

Mar 09 2026
Winner of two Golden Globes, "The Secret Agent" has been nominated for four Academy Awards. The film's critical success underscores the special moment Brazilian cinema is currently enjoying.
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Whether or Not "Sinners" Wins the Oscar, Ryan Coogler’s Genre-Bending Film Signals a New Era for Original Cinema

Mar 06 2026
A Q&A with "Film Quarterly" contributor Anthony Michael D’Agostino
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"I hope 'One Battle After Another' wins a million awards": A Q&A with Peter Coviello

Feb 26 2026
For me, Anderson is a filmmaker who read a book about state terror and counterfascist mobilization and metabolized Pynchon’s "Vineland" into the unlikeliest of things: a movie, a mass-cultural product that wants to think clearly and hard about the here-and-now-ness of an American fascism.
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JAMS Author Interviews: Ruthie Abeliovich, Daniela Smolov Levy, Joanne Cormac, and Benjamin Ory

Feb 18 2026
"Journal of the American Musicological Society" editor Jake Johnson conducts video interviews with the contributors to the journal's Summer 2025 issue.
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Q&A with Sérgio B. Martins, author of "Borderless Painting as Borderless Art"

Feb 13 2026
Author Sérgio B. Martins explains what the trajectory of Antonio Diaz's life and artwork reveals about the history of avant-gardism.
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Erosive Forms and a Climate of Violence in the Work of Juan Rulfo: A Q&A with Mark Anderson

Feb 11 2026
Mark Anderson talks about his ecocritical analysis of Mexican writer Juan Rulfo.
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Mechele Dickerson on Saving the Middle Class

Jan 05 2026
Author Mechele Dickerson explains why everyone should care about the health of the middle class, and what we can do to save it.
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How Hollywood Dramatized the Berlin Airlift: A Q&A with Joseph Pearson

Dec 20 2025
Both propaganda and entertainment, George Seaton’s film, "The Big Lift," released in 1950, starring Montgomery Clift, saw Hollywood dramatize the struggles of post-war Berlin and the Berlin Airlift.
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