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SA+AH professor Kaira M. Cabañas’s Learning from Madness: Brazilian Modernism and Global Contemporary Art was published by the University of Chicago Press. On account of this scholarly work, Yve-Alain Bois, Institute for Advanced Study, writes: “Kaira Cabañas’s study is an efficient antidote to what she calls the ‘monolingualism of the global’—the current tendency in modern and contemporary art institutions to welcome the art of the ‘other’ but only as framed by Western cultural codes…. She focuses on the extraordinary case of Brazil, where works of art produced by psychiatric patients were given a status similar to those of professional artists…. Goethe’s motto, ‘What is inside, is...

For many African states, reports of diminishing fisheries are increasingly common particularly for fish species that are highly targeted in commercial, artisanal and recreational fishing sectors. The challenge is further exacerbated by the presence of limited data and information on the stock status for majority of these fisheries. In addition, there is limited capacity to conduct comprehensive fisheries stock assessments in coastal and island states which directly impacts the sustainable management of fisheries resources.

Consequently, there is an urgent need to develop and improve expertise in data collection and quantitative fisheries assessment. This was the major motivation...

Mo ki yin oo, inú mi dùn láti rí gbogbo yin. Oruko mi ni Amanda Baret. In the preceding sentence I said "Hello everyone it is nice to meet you all. My name is Amanda Baret" in Yoruba. Or you can call me Arike which means one to take care of.

I had the greatest opportunity to travel to Ibadan, Nigeria in summer of 2018 as part of the Fulbright Hays Yoruba Group Project Abroad (YGPA). YGPA is determined to provide students who take any Yoruba language course an opportunity to learn Yoruba at an advanced level by immersing students in the realm of Yoruba culture. Which includes the, traditions, customs, Yoruba films, and it’s delicious food! Through these daily cultural...

Source: UF News

Somewhere in the middle of the South Pacific, the search is on for a rare butterfly. Armed with an oversized net and a machete, Emmanuel Toussaint has just two weeks in February to locate the species from deep within the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia. If he finds it, it will be only the third reported sighting in history. The Marquesan snout butterfly, Libythea collenettei, is the sole endemic butterfly known to exist on the islands. Only five samples have ever been collected.

Toussaint, a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Florida's Florida Museum of Natural History, is no...