Climate Change & Coral Reefs: Global Challenges from a Caribbean Perspective
Presentation About the Speaker James W. Porter is the Meigs Distinguished Professor of Ecology at the University of Georgia and a faculty member in School of Marine Programs, Water Resources and Conservation Ecology. Porter has...
Place, Time, and Memory
...in Washington, DC, from 1968 until the time of his death in 2016. He taught drawing and painting at the Corcoran College of Art and Design. An enormously productive and...
Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey
Interview with Natasha Trethewey Part 2: Trethewey discusses “Signs, Oakvale, Missisippi, 1941” and “Flounder” as well as landscapes in Gulfport and New Orleans Part 3: Trethewey discusses “Monument,” “Elegy for the Native...
Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts
...a woman. The local neighborhood association puts up signs that read, "A Past with a Future." As I see it, the neighborhood's past is rich with gay history, and the...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...Paulus lacks nuance in explaining the complexity and subtlety of the US-Haiti relationship. He also neglects significant recent work by Garry Wills and Ronald Angelo Johnson about the mutually beneficial...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Chip Simone on Atlanta and Photography
...co-founded NEXUS, Atlanta’s first photography gallery, in 1973. Originally from Worcester, Massachusetts, Simone studied at the Rhode Island School of Design with modern American photography master Harry Callahan. Simone’s photos...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...Family enclosure at Waxhaw Presbyterian Church. The front of this memorial is engraved with an armorial design, a portrait of the minister in his pulpit, and a capsule biography: He...
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...of impromptu learning about the virus and measures to contain or counter was necessary. However, pandemic warning signals abounded for years, and many assets CDC needed to function optimally in...
A Mess of Poke
...favorite dire warning comes from Wikipedia: The eating of limited quantities of poke, perhaps of the shoots, may cause retching or vomiting after two hours or more. These signs may...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...collective experiences within a shifting racial hierarchy, Making the Latino South and Ybor City significantly historicize and spatialize Latinx presence in the US South prior to the late twentieth century....