Media Mentions: April 2024

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  1. ‘How the Spanish Empire Was Built’ Review: Imperial Engineering

    A review of Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Manuel Lucena Giraldo's “How the Spanish Empire Was Built: A 400-Year History.” 

  2. Targeting Beauty: Why Russia’s Brutality Aimed Beyond Destroying Lives to Also Obliterate Ukrainian Culture

    Ian Kuijt writes about his experiences and findings documenting cultural destruction in Ukraine by Russians. He concludes that war is just as much about culture as land.

  3. Ellington, Dohnányi and Brahms with the Dover Quartet and special guest, pianist Leif Ove Andsnes

    Daniel Schlosberg joined the program for this event and played his arrangement of “In a Sentimental Mood” by Duke Ellington.

  4. Experts at Rome conference delve into historical abuses of power

    Kathleen Sprows Cummings, a professor of history at the University of Notre Dame and former director of its Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, told CNS part of her work is “to think about saints as a way to … think about who we remember and why.”

  5. Is nostalgia really a ‘dangerous emotion’?

     Felipe Fernández-Armesto writes on nostalgia for The Telegraph.

  6. Allison Rice On Her Book "Worldwide Women Writers"

    Alison Rice discusses her book with Scholastic.

  7. The Last Man by Mary Shelley

    Eileen M. Hunt joins "The Great Books" with John J. Miller podcast by "The National Review"  to discuss The Last Man by Mary Shelley.

  8. The 2024 Guggenheim Fellows Have Been Announced

    Gretchen Reydams-Schils is among the recipients of the 2024 Guggenheim Fellowships.

  9. Sea Control 507 – Islamic Maritime Law with Emilia Justyna Powell and Michael Atkins

    Emilia Justyna Powell joins the "Sea Control" podcast to discuss Islamic maritime law.