In his nearly forgotten book Notes Towards the Definition of Culture, T.S. Eliot observed that “One people in isolation is not aware of having a ‘culture’ at all.” Until I was 12, I lived in western ...
Andrew Jakubowicz was commissioned by a community agency to prepare its submission to the review. He was commissioned by the panel to prepare a paper on research strategy that was included in the ...
I have known Ghassan Hage since the early 1980s, when I first met him when I was director of the Centre for Multicultural Studies at the University of Wollongong. I interviewed him recently for a ...
This Sunday, Bienen and Weinberg freshman Sean Jang will play the violin at Galvin Recital Hall on campus in the 20th Anniversary Concert hosted by the Sejong Cultural Society, a Chicago-based ...
The enormity of Hamas’ 10/7 mass atrocities breaks the heart and scorches the mind. Or so a person of ordinary human decency would think. In a few hours and under the cover of thousands of rockets ...
In mid-March, District 214’s World Religions team hosted its second World Religions Summit, themed “Building pluralistic spaces through religious literacy.” The all-day summit brought together 75 ...
Despite the “Mc” in my last name I’ve never been much for Irish cuisine, but I love bagels and cream cheese — that’s Jewish, you know? My brother-in-law doesn’t understand my aversion to sauerkraut on ...