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Welcome to spring 2026

Happy New Year, Sun Devils! Welcome to 2026 and a new semester. Whether you are new to ASU or ready to graduate this semester, here are a few resources to help you meet your goals. Give your research...

Seated on couches in front of North mural in Labriola Center: Mirra Keeto, Enrico Binardi, Mimmo Bonanni. Photo taken by Lainey Tsosie.

I Am a Line of Words: Drawing Identity Across Cultures Diné, Pima, and Italian Visual Languages

Art exhibit reception and interview with Mirra Keeto This blog post begins with a description and photographs of the art exhibit reception, followed by an interview with Mirra Keeto at the end. As I...

ASU GIS day

ASU GIS Day

Celebrate GIS Day at ASU! Join the global celebration and discover how Geographic Information Systems shape communities and the world. Hosted by ASU's School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Pl...

Portrait of Mirra Keeto

ASU grad showcases family, cultures in library art exhibit

Mirra Keeto blends Indigenous roots with Italian Renaissance influences in 'I Am A Line of Words' Keeto graduated from ASU’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts and The College of Liberal Art...

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To understand the present, we must study the past

And to study the past, we must have access to as much material as possible. This includes primary sources like manuscripts and material objects, but also the scholarship and ancestries of thought that...

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Expanding open access in the humanities, education and beyond

What if a university’s research wasn’t locked behind paywalls? Through open-access publishing, researchers and scholars can make their work available to everyone. Open access removes barriers to impo...

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Celebrating the Journal of Surrealism and the Americas

The "Journal of Surrealism and the Americas" (JSA) at Arizona State University was one of the first multidisciplinary scholarly online-only journals dedicated to the surrealist diaspora and Indigenous...

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Bilingual Press relaunches with a new open access initiative

The Bilingual Press | Editorial Bilingüe (BP | EB), a pioneering publisher of Chicano and Latino/a/x literature since 1973, is relaunching under new leadership with a bold new open access initiative: ...

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Leaders in education open access journal publishing

This year’s Open Access Week theme, Who Owns Our Knowledge? is fitting considering the present moment, when commercial interests and backlash to diversity and inclusion initiatives threaten to widen a...