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  ‘We Look Out for One Another’: Collective Survival in the Face of Disaster

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  Chandler Wilkins Urban Institute Washington DC

  February 19, 2026

  learned over decades. Preparation itself had long been a cultural practice. Many described carefully ... all my life,” one resident reflected. “My family has been doing this for years; I learned from my dad ... I didn’t know what was going on,” one resident admitted. Nevertheless, they drew on lessons learned from ...
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  The Mediated Spectacle of the Olympic Fall

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  Brett Siegel The University of Texas at Austin

  March 10, 2026

  training runs in the days leading up to the women’s downhill in Milan Cortina. On the day of the final, ... response to Vonn’s short-lived run was divided in this regard. For some, her willingness to fight through ...
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  Mapping Queer Rhetorical Hauntings

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  Anum Ahmed Texas A&M University

  February 20, 2026

  institution of higher learning, and is perceived as a place for learning, community building, and “cult-like” ...
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  Studying to See

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  Daren Fowler PhD

  March 23, 2026

  those blues universities where you learned everything? Or, can you bring the blues university to work ... separation. Like the woodshedding jazz musician (a mode of practice we learn from cinematographer Chayse ... away to learn, sent away to see elsewhere, sent away to escape. In Peters and Lou, we are tasked with ...
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  One is Never Enough

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  Jenny Gunn Georgia State University

  February 09, 2026

  were surprised to learn that both  Killing Mad Dogs  and  Basic Instinct  featured women-novelist ...
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  Excavations and Confrontations with Labor in Kaori Oda's Aragane

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  Jarred Biederstaedt Georgia State University

  February 11, 2026

  argues, Oda’s course to the production of  Aragane  running through a desire to learn more about coal for ...
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  Redefining Authority: Family Communication and Identity Formation in Avatar: The Last Airbender

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  ChrisLynne Stokes Texas Tech University

  April 06, 2026

  learned to use mentorship instead of dominance to lead. The relationship between Iroh and Zuko ...
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  Soulful Cinema, an Instrument… A Weapon… and Probably a Hat

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  Corey Coach PhD

  March 27, 2026

  that carries energy: a  new  blue  sun. As learned from Peters, there is no sun in the black void of ...
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  “The Instant in Which”: What Big Jet TV Livestreaming and TikTok Cat Videos Have in Common 

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  Jane M. Gaines Columbia University

  January 26, 2026

  plus the hyphenated “live-stream,” and letters run together into one word: “livestream,” all the better ...
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  Introduction to Special Issue on Audiovisual Criticism

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  Jane M. Gaines Columbia University

  January 23, 2026

  leaves out the “affective” dimension. Perhaps we are learning a new kind of critical engagement. And it ...