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Timing the Future Metropolis—an intellectual history of planning, urbanism, design, and social science—explores the network of postwar institutions, formed amid specters of urban "crisis" and "renewal," that set out to envision the future of the American city.
Developing Healthy Research is a research project exploring the changes needed to support healthy creative engaged research. We are looking for a Project Assistant with an interest in archives and/or the creative sector to support the delivery of this project. Funded by the Research England Enhancing Research Culture Fund at the University of Leeds, this is an exciting opportunity to be part of a project responding to calls from both the archival sector and the creative industries to develop trauma-informed approaches and embed therapeutic support in engaged research practices.
How does poetry circulate in/through contemporary everyday spaces, and how do the networks of poets, publishers, and readers inform its evolving role in public discourse? The inaugural EAAS Poetry Network symposium aims to examine not only poetry as an individual expression but as a collaborative practice deeply embedded in collective experience. By exploring how poetry engages public spaces, we also hope to address questions of accessibility, inclusivity, and the boundaries of poetic form.
"This fascinating book enriches US women's labor history, complicates histories of Syrian immigration, and foregrounds the ways Syrian American workers resisted US empire. Connecting diverse geographies and modes of production, Stacy Fahrenthold highlights the significance of gendered labor and Syrian American workers in the globalizing US textile and garment industry." —Aimee Loiselle, Central Connecticut State University
“I was fully captivated by this story about women’s efforts to tell their own history. Russell’s engaging narrative reminds readers that public commemorations of Black women’s history are a product of Black women’s history itself--a history of labor, fundraising, intellectual work, and local politics.”--Lynn M. Hudson, author of West of Jim Crow: The Fight Against California's Color Line
Rehab on the Range is the definitive work on the Fort Worth Narcotic Farm. A significant contribution to the untold history of the West, this is a well-told tale of drug use and incarceration in the context of oil boom-and-bust, migratory labor, and settler farm families’ adaptation to the painful rigor of their ways of life. Karibo’s flair for detail brings the institution and its unique brand of moral therapy to life. ~Nancy D. Campbell, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, coauthor of The Narcotic Farm: The Rise and Fall of America’s First Prison for Drug Addicts
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