Hi HASTAC Community,
Below is a meditation on (rather than straight-up review of) Gregory Ulmer's “Avatar Emergency,” an essay published in DQH. I've posted one such meditation in the past; please feel free to comment below!
Jan 172013
2012: The End of the World?
infographics, Religion
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Dec 202012
With Russian and Chinese populace gripped by fear of the 2012 Mayan apocalypse this Friday 21st 2012, we thought it might be time to update our End of The World? infographic exploring evidence from both skeptics and believers..
» See it on the Guardian Datablog.
Brief Introduction (Games, Religion, CSCL, Digital Media and Learning, Digital Ethnography)
digital ethnography, games, Religion
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Oct 022011
Hello, Fellow Scholars of the 2012 Class --
I am a PhD Candidate in Education and Jewish Studies at NYU/Steinhardt, specializing in Digital Media and Games for Learning
Just a few words to introduce my interest and research areas - looking forward to collaborating with you on papers, conferences, research projects.
Games/Simulations and Game Design
Judaism and Education
Religion
Digital Video Ethnography
CSCL
DBR
ARGs in Education
Oct 022011
Note the correction I posted regarding more girls playing web-based games (it is from a Jenkins article, not the Pew study)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joshua-stanton/torah-games-bringing-torah-...
(video content on the huffington post)
For many Jews, the Torah seems inaccessible. It is distant historically, culturally and linguistically. The Biblical figures seem far removed and unapproachable and the scenes and vignettes do not seem applicable to everyday life.
Dec 252010
Special Collections has acquired two unique items of great interest for the study of manuscript production and illumination and the transition from handwritten manuscripts to printed books in the first century after the invention of printing. One of the new acquisitions is a Prayerbook in Latin and French, c. 1500-1520; the other is a printed Book of Hours, c. 1515-1530.
Left: Unfinished Prayerbook, f.36v, Two Angels Holding Scrolls
Right: Printed book of Hours, f.12v, Four Cardinal Virtues
The Prayerbook has several distinct features: there are decorations inspired by the Gőttingen Model Book, produced in Mainz in the mid-15th century and used in manuscripts and early incunabula in the Lower Rhine; the text and illustrations are incomplete, enabling study of the work patterns in a medieval scriptorium; there is an initial of St.-Trond (infrequently depicted), suggesting an original provenance in the diocese of Liege; and linguistic evidence in the vernacular portions suggests that the Prayerbook or this part of it was made for a woman.
Unfinished Prayerbook, f.13, Historiated initial O (43x43mm) of St. Trond the Abbot, who holds a cross.
A scroll identifies the Saint: Sancte Trudo ora pro me.
Unfinished Prayerbook, f.24v, Crucifixion
The woodcuts in the Book of Hours (printed in Paris by Gillet Hardouyn, ca. 1515) are heavily painted by hand and are accompanied by added gold architectonic frames. The volume is so lavishly illuminated that is was most likely done by an artist active in the production of illuminated manuscripts, rather than a “colorist” employed by printers to create something that looked like an illuminated manuscript.
Printed Book of Hours, f.26, Nativity
The style resembles artists active in the workshop of Jean Pichore, who contributed designs for the large miniatures, which come from several different series of prints over different years.
Most of the smaller woodcuts are adaptations by the Master of the Très petites Heures of Anne of Brittany.
Printed Book of Hours, f.36, Fight Into Egypt
Dec 232010
The Margaret Burton Collection
The Margaret Burton Collection, recently inventoried by the University of Chicago Library, contains the papers of Margaret Burton, daughter of University president Ernest DeWitt Burton. Ms. Burton, apparently a well-traveled graduate of the University, was a missionary to China and Japan in 1909 and published several books on the subject.
Margaret Burton
This collection contains some of her correspondence, one example of which shows that Ms. Burton made some very high-ranking friends in her travels. The envelope that the letter came in, marked “From the Headquarters of the Generalissimo,” is the most arresting sign of its importance.
The letter itself, written in 1937, is written by none other than Madame Chiang Kai-shek. It reveals that she and Margaret Burton were close friends and corresponded regularly at the time. The letter is also notable for the almost eerie comments made on the international situation at the time. She writes: “…out in this part of the world the ambitions of the Japanese Army leaders are likely at any time to start a conflagration the result of which there is no foretelling. The day of treaties seems almost to have passed… but I must confess that I have lost a lot of faith in what is called international justice, as well as in the sanctity of treaties.” The letter gives valuable insight into the sense of foreboding that prevailed before World War II, as well as the close friendship shared by Margaret Burton and Madame Chiang Kai-shek.
Discovered by Laura Alagna
Just got home from tonight’s class…
Celts, day of digital humanities, DayofDH, dh, dhh10, digital humanities, Druids, English, History, Literature, Methodology, Religion, UQAM
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Mar 192010
Just got home from tonight’s class. Interesting presentation on the #Celts by my colleague. Very different approach than mine #DayofDH #UQAM
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