The Unbearable Heaviness of Antiquity: Museum Architecture in Modern Greece
Dr. Eleni Bastéa, UNM May 14, 2017 Most travel to Greece, actual or imagined, includes visits to museums and archaeological sites. Deep inside, we all yearn to come closer to the country’s ancient and celebrated past, to be transported to the legendary ages of Minos...
Russia: 100 Years Later
Dr. Richard Robbins, UNM & Dr. Marina Oborotova, CFIS/AIA May 5, 2017 The Russian Revolution, begun one hundred years ago, cast a long shadow across the twentieth century. Although the attempt to “build communism” ended in failure, the impacts of this...
Was Iraq a Bad Idea?
Dr. Sara Pursley, New York University March 31, 2017 Iraq has been a site of near continuous warfare for almost three decades. This has often been blamed on something inherently wrong with “Iraq” itself, based on the assertion that it is a British-created entity in...
Swaziland: Africa in a Nutshell?
Ann Harris Davidson, CFIS-AIA April 9, 2017 Swaziland is seldom referenced in international news but it encapsulates much of both the positive and negative views of Africa; in some ways, it is “Africa in a nutshell”, but small can be stunning, as...
The Roots of Harlem’s Second Renaissance
Dr. Brian D. Goldstein, University of New Mexico March 12, 2017 In the last four decades of the twentieth century, Harlem, New York—one of America’s most famous neighborhoods—transformed from the symbol of midcentury “urban crisis” to the most celebrated example of...
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