Penelope’s wonder encapsulates both her amazement and an act of speculation, of reckoning her position among others in her social world.

In a conversation with our editor, Stephanie Kirk, director of the Washington University in St. Louis Center for the Humanities, discusses her efforts to support humanities students pursuing careers beyond academia.

Chastened by global war, a group of American foreign policymakers in the mid-1940s turned to ideas of rebalancing transnational patterns of resource use more equally to prevent future world wars. Although this vision was ultimately defeated, their story offers lessons for today amid calls for climate reparations to address global inequality, climate crisis, and militarized geopolitics.

In this book, David Fedman examines Japanese imperialism through the lens of forest conservation in colonial Korea (1905-1945). Chapter 1 outlines what he calls the "imperialization" of forestry in Mejii Japan, i.e., the transformation of forest management into the building blocks of capitalism, sites of emperor worship, and symbols of national prestige.

Stephen traces the trajectory of her work with speakers of various Mesocamerican Indigenous languages in Oregon over the past few years.

Using updates to the entry for octopus in a classic work of marine biology as an example, Cohen explores how people and the physical planet are intertwined, and argues that their entanglement opens the opportunity to bridge long-standing disciplinary divisions.

Shelby's lecture examines what role intellectuals from oppressed groups should play in the struggle for their group's liberation.