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Food Matters: Alonso Quijano’S Diet And The Discourse Of Early Modern Food In Spain, Carolyn Nadeau

Carolyn A Nadeau

Planning For Campus Collections 2013, Ludmilla Pavlova-Gillham, Elizabeth Dumont, Dennis Swinford

Ludmilla D Pavlova

During the Campus Master Planning effort the need to better understand and plan for the UMass Amherst collections was identified and an ad-hoc committee was created to help advance a better understanding of the existing collections and how best to plan for the future. The committee was comprised of Directors/ curators of campus academic collections, Campus Planning staff and other related campus professionals. The first task of the committee was to develop a basis for creating a planning framework for the academic collections. The Committee defined existing collections and set a framework and common language that enabled the classification and …

Infectious Texts: Modeling Text Reuse In Nineteenth-Century Newspapers, David Smith, Ryan Cordell, Elizabeth Dillon

Elizabeth Maddock Dillon

Texts propagate through many social networks and provide evidence for their structure. We present efficient algorithms for detecting clusters of reused passages embedded within longer documents in large collections. We apply these techniques to analyzing the culture of reprinting in the United States before the Civil War. Without substantial copyright enforcement, stories, poems, news, and anecdotes circulated freely among newspapers, magazines, and books. From a collection of OCR’d newspapers, we extract a new corpus of reprinted texts, explore the geographic spread and network connections of different publications, and analyze the time dynamics of different genres.

From Philosopher To Cultural Icon: Reflections On Hu Mei's "Confucius" (2010), Joseph Lee, Ronald Frank, Renqiu Yu, Bing Xu

Joseph Tse-Hei Lee

No abstract provided.

The Landscapes Through Which We Travelled, Scott Abbott

Scott Abbott

A translation of an homage to Austrian author Peter Handke on his 70th Birthday

Folktales From Habi'ina, Katnantu District, Eastern Highlands Province, Terence Hays

Terence Hays

The people of Habi'ina village live on the northern slopes of Mount Piora in the Dogara Census Division of the Kainantu District, Eastern Highlands Province. Like other Papua New Guineans, they possess a rich oral literature and tell each other stories for a wide variety of reasons. All stories are called huri, but several different types can be distinguished.

Peter Handke And The Language Of War, Scott Abbott

Scott Abbott

No abstract provided.

Voyage By Dugout Or The Play Of The Film Of The War, By Peter Handke, Scott Abbott

Scott Abbott

No abstract provided.

Affliction Fiction: Brian Evenson's Dark Work, Scott Abbott

Scott Abbott

No abstract provided.

Printing Technology In The Hand-Press Era, Mark Mcdayter

Mark McDayter

This portion of The Printer's Devil Project is devoted to an exploration of the material culture and processes involved in the production of printed works in the handpress era (roughly 1475 to 1850), with a particular focus upon the second half of the seventeenth century. Eventually, these pages will address a wide variety of aspects of print production in the period, including papermaking, type creation, printing, binding, and bookselling, as well as provide an introduction to a variety of other aspects of book history relating to the period. Individual pages relating to the mechanics of printing are arranged in a …

Digital Humanities: A Resource List, Mark Mcdayter

Mark McDayter

This web site has been designed to provide a quick and simple reference source for information about, and resources for, the theory and practice of Digital Humanities. While it has been assembled for the particular use of scholars and students working in the Digital Humanities at Western University, it is open to anyone, and (it is hoped) will prove a particularly useful resource for those new to the field.

Instructional Blogging: Links And Resources, Mark Mcdayter

Mark McDayter

a list of online and print resources, articles, and posts relating to the use of student blogs for instruction. These are intended as a supplementary resources for those taking the workshop on “Getting Started with Scholarly Blogging: Blogs as a Research and Teaching Tool in the Humanities.“ This list is updated and augmented periodically.

Things I Didn’T Know That I Didn’T Know About Student Blogging, Mark Mcdayter

Mark McDayter

An expanded and referenced version of a presentation on the subject of student blogging in postsecondary education. Includes a discussion of blogging rubrics for students and criteria for evaluation.

Research Blogging: Links And Resources, Mark Mcdayter

Mark McDayter

A list of online and print resources, articles, and posts relating to the use of blogs for research work. These are intended as a supplementary resources for those taking the workshop on “Getting Started with Scholarly Blogging: Blogs as a Research and Teaching Tool in the Humanities.“ The list is updated and augmented periodically.

Complete Newspaper, Magazine, Tv, Radio, Podcast, And Blog Press Coverage, Laura Kina

Laura Kina

Visit the artist website for a comprehensive list of popular press coverage from 2002-present: http://www.laurakina.com/press.html

Exhibition Essay And Retrospective - "Laura Kina: A Many-Splendored Thing", Laura Kina

Laura Kina

Larry Lee. “Laura Kina: A Many-Splendored Thing.” Foundation for Asian American Independent Media 15th Annual Asian American Showcase catalogue. 2010. April 2 - May 30, 2010 Gene Siskel Film Center A retrospective featuring over thirty selected paintings, drawings and textiles (1995-present) from her Refrigerator, Hapa Soap Opera, Loving, Aloha Dreams, and Devon Avenue Sampler series as wellas some early and new works on exhibit for the first time. Kina's art collectively embraces "ikigai" or the Japanese belief of "a sense of life worth living" and reflects her "postcolonial pop aesthetic" as a multiracial Okinawan Jewish artist/educator/scholar living in a South …

Cover Image And Featured Artist - Zeek: A Jewish Journal Of Thought And Culture, Laura Kina

Laura Kina

Kina, Laura “Sugar.” ZEEK: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture. Winter 2010. Cover image and p.62-65.

John Varriano’S Tastes And Temptations: Food And Art In Renaissance Italy - Book Review, Timothy Tomasik

Timothy J. Tomasik

No abstract provided.

Joan Fitzpatrick’S Food In Shakespeare: Early Modern Dietaries And The Plays - Book Review, Timothy Tomasik

Timothy J. Tomasik

No abstract provided.

Ensaladas Calientes Y Carnero Verde: Imágenes De La Vianda En La Poesía Satírico-Burlesca De Francisco De Quevedo, Carolyn Nadeau

Carolyn A Nadeau

Art Series - Devon Avenue Sampler, Laura Kina

Laura Kina

Devon Avenue Sampler (2009-2011) is a portrait of a diasporic South Asian/Jewish community in Chicago, IL. This textile series, which uses indigo dye and khadi fabric, was hand embroidered by artisans from a fair trade women’s organization in Mumbai, India. View the series: http://www.laurakina.com/devon.html

Killing Kanoko: Selected Poems Of Hiromi Itō, Jeffrey Angles

Jeffrey Angles

Itō, born in 1955 in Tokyo, is one of the most important and dynamic poets of contemporary Japanese literature. After her sensational debut in the late 1970s, she emerged as the foremost voice of the wave of women's poetry that swept Japan in the 1980s, writing about the female body, sexuality, abortion, migration, and international displacement with a frankness that revolutionized the way that poetry was being written in Japan. To date, she has published more than a dozen collections of poetry, several novels, and numerous books of essays. This book provides the first retrospective of Itō's career in English …

Art Series - Aloha Dreams, Laura Kina

Laura Kina

Aloha Dreams (2007) In this mixed media painting series and installation, Kina examines her Orientalist impulse for heritage tourism. Looking nostalgically at her family’s history as Okinawan sugar cane plantation workers on the Big Island of Hawaii, she ultimately finds herself through mediated pop images of paradise and in the very real space of a Midwestern Vietnamese nail salon. View the series: http://www.laurakina.com/aloha.html

Art Series - Loving, Laura Kina

Laura Kina

Loving (2006) Inspired by the 1967 Supreme Court Case, Loving v. Virginia, that overturned this nation’s last anti-miscegenation law, Kina examines issues of color in black and white. Kina drew life-size charcoal portraits of ten “Bi-Racial Baby Boomers” as representative of the larger mixed race community and movement in the United States. To view series: http://www.laurakina.com/artwork.html

When Terrabytes Meet Terra Firma: Scholarly Information Digitization And Distribution, Thomas Bacher

Thomas Bacher

As scholarly communication changes, key areas concerning digitization, standards, and cooperation between university libraries and university presses are cornerstones to a better understanding of the future distribution of information. Content issues play a key role in this discussion due to the growth of information avenues, the expansion of subject areas, and the way information can be distributed. In this new digital environment, however, social issues ranging from the feel of books to the outcome of coding options will play a major role in the acceptance of some types of content containers. While clear answers are not yet evident, some future …

Rump: Or An Exact Collection: An Electronic Edition., Mark Mcdayter

Mark McDayter

A digital edition of the two-volume miscellany *Rump: Or An Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs Relating to the Late Times* (1662), and related works, this resource will ultimately provide access to all available 17th-century versions of the 209 poems in the 1662 volumes, as well as a rich array of contextual information that will permit each version to be read in the context of its original historical context.

Art Series - Hapa Soap Opera, Laura Kina

Laura Kina

Hapa Soap Opera (2003) There’s romance in the air in these love triangles featuring an all hapa cast. Drawing inspiration from Bollywood movie posters, Kina painted large-scale portraits of mixed Asian Americans from across the United States. View the series: http://www.laurakina.com/hapa.html