Arts, Architecture and Humanities

Jonathan Hagel, an assistant teaching professor of history at the University of Kansas, is a plaintiff in a case against the state of New Jersey about the handling of the Charles Lindbergh archive. The lawsuit seeks to force the state police to allow DNA testing on envelopes used to send a series of ransom notes in the infamous Lindbergh baby kidnapping case and trial.

Kansas City's Te Deum choir will feature works by Forrest Pierce, professor of composition at the University of Kansas School of Music, in concerts May 31 and June 1 in the Greater Kansas City area.

Paul Scott, University of Kansas professor of French, sees zombie television shows influencing the successful resistance to martial law in South Korea during a 2024 attempted coup. Scott has penned a chapter titled “Neither Human nor Monster: The Rise of the K-Superzombie” in the new book “The Post-Zombie: Essays on the Evolving Undead.”

In a new play-within-a-play by Darren Canady, professor of English at the University of Kansas, a misguided director determines to put on an all-white production of Ntozake Shange’s 1976 play “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf.”

Over the past decade, Dave Tell has become one of the nation’s leading academic experts on the commemoration of the 1955 lynching of Black teen Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi. Now, one of his scholarly articles has inspired a new collaboration titled “Artist’s Project: Memorializing a Site of Sensitivity in Mississippi: Redemption and Reconciliation in the Shadows of Emmett Till.”