The College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

The biggest threat to authoritarianism, according to UVA historian William Hitchcock’s new history of the leadup to World War II, is the refusal to stay silent.

A National Endowment for the Arts grant will support exhibitions, discussions and public programs that use the celebrated 19th-century writer and poet’s connection to UVA to promote reading, scholarship and community engagement.

From Mexico to Morocco, a global conference is celebrating the poetry of associate professor of Spanish Fernando Valverde, whose nearly three decades of work has been published in more than 20 countries.

The philosophy and data science professor will study how people and artificial intelligence systems shape one another’s values over time.