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Lipstick, by Eileen G'Sell (Washington University) and Videotape, by Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy. 

Monday, October 5, 7pm | Humanities Commons, BAC 1031

Author readings & discussion from two of the latest Object Lesson series books (Bloomsbury Press): Lipstick and Videotape. 

Presented by Miami University English Department and the Creative Writing Program. 

Friday, October 16, 12:30 pm | MMH 12

Join Dr. Richard Hirsh '65 for pizza and conversation. Dr. Hirsh has had a long career as the founder of Radiology Mammography International, and has worked across the globe to improve access to healthcare. 

Tuesday, October 6, 1:15 pm | BAC 1042

Join students of HST/LAS 319 Revolutions and Social Movements in Latin America for the first in our Revolutionary Debate Series: The Cuban Revolution. 

Four teams will engage in two debates, and draw on historical evidence to argue different positions on the legacy of the Cuban Revolution. Open to the public. 

Wednesday, October 14, 6:30 pm | Zoom (link)

Info Session 

GIC faculty Jose Amador and Damon Scott are co-directing a Spring Break trip to the Andean Highlands. This study abroad opportunity is embedded in an honors-only course on Indigenous community-based development and the global work of the Tandana Foundation, an Ohio-based nonprofit. The course, ITS 365H, is a three-credit sprint course exploring how international development works through collaboration with Kichwa communities in Ecuador's Indigenous highlands near Otavalo. 

For more about the course and how to apply, please visit Abroad with Miami University in Ecuador: Community Development and Sustainable Futures. 

Course Meeting Dates:
Course Dates: 2/17/2027 - 4/14/2027
Travel Dates: 3/19/2027 - 3/28/2027

The course is open to students in good standing in the Honors College. This "Sustainability and Resilience" and "Global Health and Wellness" Signature Inquiry course fulfills core requirements for the ITS major and minor and counts as two Honors experiences. No prerequisites apply, and students may register for other ITS365 offerings concurrently.

Recently, students from Cristina Alcalde's CRE/SJS 287 class (Anti-Racism Social Movements) visited the King Library special collections to learn more about Freedom Summer '64. In 1964, Miami University was the training ground for the Mississippi Summer Project, a campaign designed to increase voter registration among Black Mississippians in the Civil Rights-era south. Three civil rights workers were murdered in that effort. The university archives and memorial sites preserve the history of Miami's role in the Civil Rights events of that summer. 

Students in Elena Jackson Albarrán's class HST 240F (History through Food: Mexico) have learned about indigenous foodways of the Americas through a range of campus field trips and guest visits.  

In the Upham Hall courtyard, they harvested native pawpaws.

They enjoyed a pawpaw breakfast in the Hefner Museum, while learning a comparative lesson about Spanish colonial impressions of native fruits.

In Boyd Hall, they learned about the ethnobotanical properties of maize from graduate student Jacob Woodard, followed by a visit to Mexico's "arid north" at the greenhouse. 

A guest visit from Myaamia Center representatives George Ironstrack and Cam Shriver gave them hands-on access to miincipi, the tribe's proprietary land race of maize. 

On Friday, September 25, brought its expertise to Bachelor Hall's Humanities Hub Open House with “Wondering the World: A Global Pub Trivia,” a lively celebration of student research and creativity. Alumni and students learned about faculty and student accomplishments while competing in a trivia contest that tested their knowledge of global geography, history, and cultures. As the photos show, it was a lot of fun!

Juan Carlos Albarrán, Helen Sheumaker, and José Amador in the History In Public (H.I.P.) Exhibition Space, Bachelor 2011.

On Wednesday, September 30, the WGS program hosted a Community, Careers, Connections event, with interactive activities to affirm and orient attendees for their present and future plans. There was a labyrinth for meditative centering, networking and planning activities, and many friendly faces. 

José Amador, Damon Scott, and Kenna Neitch, along with Naaborle Sackeyfio formed the Mellon grant committee that organized this event. 

Cristina Alcalde published a poem titled “Ideología de Género” in the journal Anthropology and Humanism (volume 51, number 2). 

Elena Jackson Albarrán published the chapter "Entre diarios y astronautas: Una aproximación íntima a la infancia propia documentada," in the volume Las infancias en tiempos de nuevas desigualdades e incertidumbres [Childhoods in Times of New Inequalities and Uncertainties], published in September 2026 with Teseo Press in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In it, she reflects on the methodology of working with child-produced historical sources and the relativity of studying childhood across national, political, and generational contexts. 

Elena Albarrán (center) with fellow Mexican historians Susana Sosenski (L) and Sonia Robles (R), at the port of Veracruz, Mexico

Elena Jackson Albarrán presented at the VII Reunión International de Historiadores de México conference this September in Veracruz, Mexico. The conference, held every four years, convenes historians of Mexico from the U.S., Mexico, and Canada in panel presentations that mix national representation, chronological focus, and thematic perspectives. Veracruz was an auspicious location for the conference, known as "Four Times Heroic" for withstanding four foreign invasions (Spain, France and the U.S [twice!]). Albarrán's presentation on Mexican press reception of Tío Sam iconography reflected the popular sentiments some of those historical episodes. 

In Cristina Alcalde's household, feline family members Milo and Felix take a moment to model their version of work-life balance (i.e., observing the humans, napping).

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