Kurt has written widely about democratization and methodological themes. He also has had a recent article in PS about the tenure process.
Science, Culture, and the Human after World War II
Our work on this topic seeks to bridge the divide between medieval and early modern studies by taking a long view of three questions surrounding particular uses of vernacular languages and broader processes of vernacularization in this period: How did changes in technologies of communication, such as the rise of letterpress printing, intersect with the uses of vernacular languages? How were the structures of "vernacular theology" transfigured during the period leading up to and following the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation?
From the heads and tails of individual notes to the foreheads and feet of song stanzas, medieval musical writings are replete with body parts. Sometimes the terms are used by convention, or in the service of simple mnemonics. But in other cases, the reasons for acts of musical anthropomorphization are less clear. Tracing the rhetoric of musical animation from the treatises into the realm of musica practica can give us fresh insight into some of the best-known songs of the later middle ages.
Domietta Torlasco works at the intersection of film theory and practice and is currently an Associate Professor
of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature at Northwestern University, where she is also affiliated with the
Screen Cultures Program. She is the author of The Time of the Crime: Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Italian
Film (Stanford University Press, 2008) and the digital film Antigone’s Noir (2008-09). Her second book, The
Heretical Archive: Digital Memory at the End of Film is forthcoming with University of Minnesota Press in
2013.
A campaign emerged in early 20th-century Bangkok which sought to control the acquisition of political power by the city’s growing migrant population and cultivate support for the absolute monarchy. Bangkok eventually developed into two cities that shared the same space: the capital of a sovereign nation-state under the authority of a ‘Thai’ absolute monarchy and a thriving port populated mostly by ‘Chinese’ migrants who were governed by extra-territorial laws.
This presentation analyzes the terrific results of politically engineering cataclysm organized by one the most cruel dictators in the world – Joseph Stalin, in his war against Ukrainians – the biggest national minority in Soviet Union. With this lecture Dr. Davydenko wants to pay tribute to the millions of victims of Great Famine (also known as Holodomor). Soviet authorities succeeded in carefully hiding the fact of the famine and destroyed the 1932-1933 archives but could not erase it from the memories of Ukrainians who survived.
Elizabeth Wood is Professor of Russian and Soviet History at MIT where she has taught since 1990. A specialist in Soviet and Russian gender relations and performance issues, she is the author of two monographs, From Baba to Comrade: Gender and Politics in Revolutionary Russia (Indiana University Press, 1997) and Performing Justice: Agitation Trials in Early Soviet Russia (Cornell University Press, 2005). Her current work centers on the performance of power under Vladimir Putin in Russia today.
The Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) conducts the AmericasBarometer surveys that currently cover 26 countries in the Americas. LAPOP has conducted over 500 surveys of public opinion, mainly focused on democracy, in many countries in Latin America, but has also included projects in Africa and the Balkans.
