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Mapping American life

By Guest PostApril 28, 2013Culture18th century studies, american experience, book prize, county lines magazine, early american culture, early american fascination, handkerchiefs, jigsaw puzzles, louis gottschalk, mapping american life, martin brueckner, university of delaware, winterthur museum

Winterthur exhibit showcases UD professor’s research on maps and culture

A new exhibit at Winterthur Museum highlights the research conducted by University of Delaware faculty member Martin Brückner, focusing on the important part that maps played in everyday American life from the 1750s to the 1870s.

“Common Destinations: Maps in the American Experience” opened Saturday, April 20, and will run through Jan. 5. Brückner, associate professor of English and of material culture studies at UD, was exploring what seemed to be an early American fascination with maps when he discovered that Winterthur’s collections included numerous examples of maps being used in daily life. He developed the idea for an exhibition from that discovery and his additional research. (more…)

150 Years of Mexican, Mexican American History Now Online

By Guest PostApril 3, 2013Culture, Media150 years, alberto elías, arturo arte moreno, bracero program, chicano, chris kollen, civil rights movement, de occidente, digital collection, el paso, el tucsonense, gadsden purchase, guadalupe castillo, la estrella, los angeles, los angeles angels, mary feeney, mexican, mexican american history, mexican american journalism, mexican american press, mexican cultural, mexican repatriation, old pueblo printers, online, red brown journalism, roberto cintli rodriguez, san francisco, sonora, spanish language, the great depression, the mexican revolution, tucson, ua librarian, united states, university of arizona, veronica reyes escudero, world war

The UA Libraries has just made 150 years of regionally published newspapers documenting the voice of Mexican and Mexican American communities digitally available for the first time.

A new digital collection at the University of Arizona Libraries makes accessible more than 150 years of news coverage documenting the voice of the Mexican and Mexican American community.

Curated, researched and digitized by librarians and archivists, in consultation with UA professors, the collection features 20 significant Mexican and Mexican American publications, many in Spanish. (more…)

Jordanna Bailkin studies postwar Britain in new book ‘The Afterlife of Empire’

By Guest PostMarch 27, 2013Culture20th century, african, afterlife of empire, british children, british history, british perceptions, Britons, child care, decolonization, education, ghana, historical actors, jordanna bailkin, key domains, mental health, new book, nigeria, postwar britain, social phenomenon, welfare

Jordanna Bailkin is a University of Washington professor of history and author of the new book “The Afterlife of Empire.” She answered a few questions about the book for UW Today.

Q: What is the central concept behind this book?

A: I wanted to understand how Britain and Britons were affected by losing their empire, and how they were changed — often in deeply personal ways — by this process of decolonization. (more…)

Perfectly mixed up

By Guest PostMarch 21, 2013Cultureamerica, american philanthropists, andrea davis, aspirational environment, austin, cowboy boots, devon county council, drama, emma payne, exeter, fiona macbeth, ian stewart watson, ma drama students, perfectly mixed up, shannon price, stetsons, texas, transition service, united states, university of exeter, young people

Drama has become a regular activity for Exeter’s young people in care who have joined forces with students from the University of Exeter to stage a play in Austin, Texas. Stetsons and cowboy boots are at the ready as Exeter’s creative gang of performers head to the United States.

This life changing experience will be the first time that the theatre company ‘Perfectly Mixed Up’ travel and perform outside of Devon. Throughout the week long stay the company will perform their show, More than the Sum, and run two workshops with young people in care in Austin, Texas. ‘Perfectly Mixed Up’ are guests of the University of Texas at Austin who have an exchange programme with the Drama department at University of Exeter. (more…)

Exile or Immigrant?

By Guest PostMarch 19, 2013Culture, Politicsamerican authors, anna karenina, born in china, boston university, brandeis university, chinese american author, chinese army, creative writing program, emotion, european works, exile, fathers and sons, first novel, ha jin, immigrant, john steinbeck, liberation army, madame bovary, people, soldier, united states, waiting, willa cather, write in english

Chinese-American author speaks as part of visiting writers series

Acclaimed Chinese-American author Ha Jin came to the United States almost 30 years ago as neither immigrant nor exile, but he experienced elements of both as he struggled to establish a personal identity and carve out a place for himself in the literary world.

On Thursday, March 7, close to 300 people turned out to hear the award-winning writer share his perspective on the contemporary immigrant experience. The lecture was part of a visiting writers series, Transnational Encounters: World-Renowned Authors at the University of Delaware. (more…)

The Vikings: Yale Historian Looks at the Myths vs. the History

By Guest PostMarch 12, 2013Culture, Generalafghanistan, alcuin, anders winroth, anglo saxon army, arab caliphate, arabs, battle, canterbury cathedral, charlemagne court, coast of england, Europe, john clarke ridpath, legendary raiders, middle ages, myths, northern europe, pyrrhic victory, romantic myth, Scandinavia, stanford bridge, the history, the north, the vikings, tom ashbrook, viking age, yale historian

As a lead-up to the forthcoming History Channel series “Vikings,” Tom Ashbrook, host of NPR’s “On Point,” talked with a foremost authority on the subject — Yale’s Anders Winroth — to de-mystify the legendary raiders of the North.

Winroth is professor and director of graduate studies in history. His most recently published book is “The Conversion of Scandinavia: Vikings, Merchants, and Missionaries in the Remaking of Northern Europe” (Yale University Press, 2011). His forthcoming volume, “A New History of the Viking Age,” will be published by Princeton University Press in 2014. YaleNews spoke with Winroth recently about some of the issues raised in his “On Point” interview. The following is an edited transcript. (more…)

Children’s Books

By Guest PostMarch 5, 2013Culture, Educationacting cool, backpack, books, character issues, children, early childhood, invitation slip up, magnolia elementary school, reading specialist, stephanie guzman, sticky fins, university of delaware, young daughter

UD alumna, educator writes books to help children deal with challenges

After Stephanie Guzman graduated from the University of Delaware’s College of Education and Human Development in 2001 as an early childhood education major, her first position was as a second grade teacher at a Title I school.

While Title I schools are designed to improve the academic proficiency for children from disadvantaged areas, Guzman found her students had character issues that needed to be addressed as well. (more…)

The Distance between a Mistake and a Lie

By Guest PostMarch 3, 2013Culture, Generalanimal kingdom, big bang theory, boardwalk empire, cognitive capacity, cultural exchanges, deception, distance, don fallis, emotional buffer, game of thrones, Google, hbo television shows, human condition, intentional lie, lie, mistake, philosophical problems, political bias, popular culture, social beliefs, social epistemology, social interactions, sources of disinformation, structural phenomena, the wire, theory of knowledge, ua researcher, university of arizona, Wikipedia

UA researcher Don Fallis has spent years studying the existence of lies and deception in social interactions and popular culture, developing a framework to better explain the difference between an honest mistake and an intentional lie.

Don Fallis searches for disinformation, the process of intentionally disseminating misleading information, in political dialogue, books, television and film – and he finds examples most everywhere.

That may come of little surprise, given the fictional nature of many entertainment-based cultural exchanges.

But for Fallis, a philosopher who studies social processes and information exchanges, the presence of disinformation – intentional lying, not honest mistakes or misinformation – allows for an important analysis of human tendencies, in fictional form or not. (more…)

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