Department of Liberal Studies
While on a quarter-long professional leave Winter 2019, Andrea Gogröf of Western's Department of Global Humanities and Religions edited a special volume of Pacific Coast Philology entitled Ways of Seeing: Visuality, Visibility and Vision.
This volume includes her article entitled…
Western’s Department of Liberal Studies will change its name to the Department of Global Humanities and Religions starting this fall.
The department offers interdisciplinary humanities courses and programs; in those, it primarily engages in cultural history and in the academic study of…
The Department of Global Humanities and Religions (formerly the Department of Liberal Studies) will host the University of British Columbia's Don Baker as its 11th Annual Distinguished Speaker at 4 p.m. on Thursday, April 18 in Science Facility 130 when he…
The next Masters of Asian Cinema film is The Music Room, which screens at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 3, 2018 at the Pickford Film Center (1318 Bay St.)
The Music Room was the fourth feature by Satyajit Ray, made just before the last film in The Apu…
For the first time in 10 years, and the third time in its over 115 years of existence, the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), the west coast affiliate of the Modern Language Association, will be meeting in Bellingham, Washington at…
Jonathan Miran, professor of Liberal Studies at WWU, was appointed to serve as General Editor of the journal "Northeast African Studies" (see http://msupress.org/journals/neas/) for the next five years.
Founded in 1979 and published by Michigan State…
Western Washington University senior Zoe Buchli of Issaquah has been awarded a prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to study abroad for the fall 2018 academic quarter.
The Gilman Scholarship is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and provides American students…
Liberal Studies' Lynn publishes three articles on early modern Inquisitions
Kimberly Lynn (Associate Professor and Department Chair, Liberal Studies) had two articles published in one edited collection: “Judges and Shepherds: Inquisitions,” and, with Gretchen Starr-…
The Western Washington University Department of Liberal Studies will host speaker Philip Lutgendorf, professor of Hindi and Modern Indian Studies at the University of Iowa, at 4 p.m. on Thursday, April 19 in Communications Facility 115.
His talk, "‘…
Jonathan Miran (Associate Professor, Liberal Studies) had a book chapter published, “The Red Sea” in David Armitage, Alison Bashford and Sujit Sivasundaram (eds.) Oceanic Histories (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018): 156-181.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/oceanic-…