To mark the 75th anniversary of Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire, Professor of English Gary Richards led the discussion of that play in the One Book, One Festival series at the Louisiana Book Festival on Saturday, October 29, 2022, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. This was his tenth time to participate in that series at […]
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of Political Science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently presented an online lecture, “Examining Nonvoters and their Perspectives,” to a pre-election meeting of The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation and the Black Women’s Roundtable.Farnsworth also received several recent media mentions, including:Early Voter Turnout in Virginia […]
Elizabeth Freund Larus, Professor Emerita of Political Science and International Affairs, was a featured guest on the WION Wide Angle special program ” Xi Jinping: Decoding one-man rule” on October 27. Professor Larus claimed that Hu Jintao’s abrupt removal from the CCP’s 20th Party Congress indicates that Chinese leader Xi will not tolerate factional disagreements […]
Associate Professor of Psychology Laura Wilson, who studies how trauma affects survivors, spoke with The Washington Post for an article titled “These School Shooting Survivors Are Building Remarkable Networks of Friendship and Support.” In the article, Wilson is quoted as saying, “Someone else who’s been through this will say to you, ‘I know you’re probably not […]
After a nearly nine-year hiatus, India and the European Union resumed negotiations on a Free Trade Agreement earlier this year. Ahead of the October negotiations, The London Story, a Brussels-based, India-focused think tank invited Surupa Gupta, professor of Political Science and International Affairs, to participate in an online panel titled “India’s Domestic and Foreign Policy: […]
