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The Writer as Memory Activist

Antonia Wimbush explores how cultural works preserve the overlooked memories of Caribbean migration to France through the BUMIDOM program and challenge France’s national narrative.

July 2, 2025
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The Shanghai Museum, the Giant Panda, and Environmental Awareness in China

By Li-Chuan TAI In 1869, when French Lazarist Father Armand David (1826–1900) “discovered” the giant panda in Moupin, Sichuan province of Southwest China, no other Westerners had ever encountered one, and even Chinese people outside of the area had very…

Teri Williams
July 23, 2021

The Writer as Memory Activist

The Shanghai Museum, the Giant Panda, and Environmental Awareness in China

The Writer as Memory Activist

Translating Bréhier: How did The Theory of Incorporeals in Ancient Stoicism come to be?

Feeling the Rainbow: LGBT Rights and Reforms

Q&A with Daniel Behar, author of Syrian Poets and Vernacular Modernity

Trans media’s expanding horizons