50 years after the fall of democracy in Chile: Professor of Spanish discusses legacy of the coup

Fifty years ago, General Augusto Pinochet led a violent coup to overthrow Chile’s elected President Salvador Allende, taking Chile into 17 years of military rule. Assistant Professor of Spanish, Carmen Martin Quijada, who studies and examines literature on Dictatorial and Post-Dictatorial Chile, discussed the legacy of the coup.

Sickness, suffering and supplication: A conversation about health and medicine during the Middle Ages and early modern era in Europe

John Slater and Nicole Archambeau are both historians who study Europe in the 16th and 14th centuries, respectively, looking at the ways in which people understood illness, pursued wellness and worked to heal themselves.