Week of Events
HyperCities: The Challenges of Building a Web 2.0 Research and Teaching Platform
HyperCities: The Challenges of Building a Web 2.0 Research and Teaching Platform
HyperCities (http://www.hypercities.com) is a collaborative research and educational platform for traveling back in time to explore the historical layers of city spaces in an interactive, hypermedia environment. Todd Presner (http://www.toddpresner.com/?page_id=2) is Associate Professor of Germanic Languages, Comparative Literature, and Jewish Studies at the University of California Los Angeles. His research focuses on European intellectual history, […]
Medieval Studies Spring Mini-Colloquium: “The Medieval Other”
Medieval Studies Spring Mini-Colloquium: “The Medieval Other”
Papers include: Benjamin M. Liu, Hispanic Studies, UC Riverside: “Medieval Spain’s Asian Other.” This paper will be looking at the figure of resemblance that Foucault identifies as “aemulatio”, in the context of Medieval Spain’s knowledge of and relation to Asia. From Ramon Llull to late-14th and 15th century maps and travel narratives, China and “Greater […]
Obama and the Struggle to Reform U.S. Policy
Obama and the Struggle to Reform U.S. Policy
Skocpol is the author, most recently, of Inequality and American Democracy: What We Know and What We Need to Learn; and The Transformation of American Politics: Activist Government and the Rise of Conservatism. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy. hm 4/27/10