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Read more about License to Travel

Professor Patrick Bixby's "License to Travel" takes the reader on a captivating journey from pharaonic Egypt and Han-dynasty China to the passport controls and crowded refugee camps of today. Along the way, the reader:

Peruses the passports of artists and intellectuals, writers and musicians, ancient messengers and modern migrants.

Sees how these seemingly humble documents implicate us in larger narratives about identity, mobility, citizenship, and state authority.

Read more about Locality and Hybridity in the Sino-Vietnamese Religious Manuscripts in the Hsu Collections

Read more about Though My Child's Eyes: Imaginative Play to Promote Peaceful Behavior in Separated and Divorcing Parents

Read more about The Civil Wars of Jacob D. Green

Read more about Between Familiar and Exotic: East Asian Ethnicities in a 15th-century Korean Travelogue

Read more about Assessing Humanistic Curiosity

Read more about Women’s Bodies, Reproductive Freedom and Government Control: Testimonies from Socialist Romania

Read more about Transnational experience of Japanese American shin-nisei

Read more about Building a Public-Facing Toolkit for Responsive and Responsible Activism about Gun Violence

Read more about NEH Chair Shelly C. Lowe

On February 1, 2023, Shelly C. Lowe, Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities visited the Humanities Institute as the 2023 Distinguished Lecturer for a special talk, Q&A in conversation with ASU Humanities faculty on the future of humanities research and teaching for the state and country, followed by a reception with jazz music.

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