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Whether of 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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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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Thirty Years of “Pacific Historical Review”: New Articles on Gray Wolves, US-Pacific Expansion, Iberian Transpacific Trade

Feb 03 2026
Preview the new Winter 2026 issue of "Pacific Historical Review."
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UC Press welcomes The Chemical Educator to its portfolio of journals

Jan 22 2026
The Chemical Educator is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing excellence in chemistry education.
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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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Late Antiquity and the Paleosciences: New Frontiers

Dec 15 2025
From studies of fossilized pollen, which shed light on peoples’ use of the land, to the recovery of ancient human genomes, which help us reimagine group identities, social cohesion, and migration, the paleosciences now contribute regularly to the study of Late Antiquity.
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Bracero Stories: A Q&A with Michael Snodgrass

Nov 14 2025
Learn more about Michael Snodgrass's research into the bracero guest worker program.
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"Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos" Annual Lecture: Separation of Church and State in Mexico

Nov 07 2025
Watch this year's "Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos" Annual Lecture featuring Pablo Mijangos y González, a preeminent historian of the Catholic Church and the law in Latin America.
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