Beyond its glitz and tawdry glamour, Las Vegas is a real place with real people--it is also a veritable Filipino Town. Of the 2.6 million people building lives and communities in Vegas, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders…
University Forum- Scent: A Natural History of Fragrance
Drawing from her 2022 Yale University Press publication of the same name, Dr. Elise Pearlstine's lecture, "Scent: A Natural History of Fragrance," will engage what anthropologist David Howes calls the "sensory turn" in the…
One of the earliest accusations of demonic magic against John Dee originated in a theatrical setting. In 1547, at a staging of Aristophanes’ Pax at Trinity College, Cambridge, Dee orchestrated a fantastic special effect…
University Forum- Vegas Strong: Honoring 1 October 2017 Survivors, Their Families and Friends, and the City of Las Vegas
Vegas Strong: Bearing Witness 1 October 2017 forum lecture brings together contributors, their families, friends and supporters, both individual and institutional, and provides an opportunity for UNLV to honor the tradition…
University Forum- Democracy and Broken Pipelines in Bolivia—A Neoliberal Story
In January 2000 a pipeline owned by the U.S. energy corporation Enron spilled 29,507 barrels of oil and gasoline into Bolivia's Desaguadero River. The petrochemical mix spread more than 100 miles downstream contaminating the…
University Forum - Contested Americans: Mixed-Status Families in Anti-Immigrant Times
Mixed-status families are front and center in national debates about undocumented immigration and American citizenship. Yet, members of mixed-status families, including adult-age Americans of undocumented parents, are rarely…
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