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Union Presbyterian Seminary Hosting African Odyssey Exhibit Feb 2016

Union Presbyterian Seminary Hosting African Odyssey Exhibit

Joanne Braxton

This article published by the The Progess-Index, speaks about Dr. Braxton's exhibit at Union Presbyterian Seminary. The free exhibit and gallery explores the history of the transatlantic slave trade, its resounding effects on Africans in the Americas, and its representation in literature and the humanities. The exhibit, titled African Odyssey, featured photographs taken by Dr. Joanne M. Braxton, director of the College of William & Mary's Middle Passage Project and its 1619 Initiative, during a visit to Ghana, Ivory Coast, and Senegal.


Nelly's Iconography Of Greece, Katerina Zacharia May 2015

Nelly's Iconography Of Greece, Katerina Zacharia

Katerina Zacharia

No abstract provided.


Postcards From Metaxas' Greece: The Uses Of Classical Antiquity In Tourism Photography, Katerina Zacharia May 2014

Postcards From Metaxas' Greece: The Uses Of Classical Antiquity In Tourism Photography, Katerina Zacharia

Katerina Zacharia

No abstract provided.


The Young White Faces Of Slavery, Mary Niall Mitchell Jan 2014

The Young White Faces Of Slavery, Mary Niall Mitchell

Mary Niall Mitchell

No abstract provided.


Anti-Haitian Rhetoric And The Monumentalizing Of Violence In Joaquin Balaguer's Guía Emocional De La Ciudad Romántica, Medar Serrata Dec 2012

Anti-Haitian Rhetoric And The Monumentalizing Of Violence In Joaquin Balaguer's Guía Emocional De La Ciudad Romántica, Medar Serrata

Medar Serrata

This essay compares four editions of the book Guía emocional de la ciudad romántica, by the Dominican author and politician Joaquin Balaguer. The book, a celebration of Santo Domingo’s monumental architecture, evokes the topos of the romantic poet who strolls down the streets of an ancient city admiring the remnants of the past. A closer examination, however, reveals a text deeply invested in the monumentalizing of violence—a text that portrays the dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo as the savior of the nation. Moreover, the metaphorical stroll that the reader is invited to take reenacts the movement of history in order to …


Soundscapes Of Disaster And Humanitarianism: Survival Singing, Relief Telethons, And The Haiti Earthquake, Elizabeth Mcalister Oct 2012

Soundscapes Of Disaster And Humanitarianism: Survival Singing, Relief Telethons, And The Haiti Earthquake, Elizabeth Mcalister

Elizabeth McAlister

This essay first listens, on one hand, to music made by Haitians, for Haitians, close to the epicenter, in the direct aftermath of the Haiti 2010 earthquake. On the other hand, it considers music made by (mostly) North Americans for (mostly) other Americans, in telethon performances far away in New York and Los Angeles and London, weeks after the event. I argue that Haitians used music, and particularly religious singing, self-reflexively, in a culturally patterned way, to orient themselves in time and space, and to construct a frame of meaning in which to understand and act in the devastated Haitian …


Interview For Kathimerini National Newspaper (In Greek), Katerina Zacharia Jan 2011

Interview For Kathimerini National Newspaper (In Greek), Katerina Zacharia

Katerina Zacharia

No abstract provided.


Hellenism, Katerina Zacharia Dec 2009

Hellenism, Katerina Zacharia

Katerina Zacharia

No abstract provided.


Hellenisms (Iii), "Reel" Hellenisms: Perceptions Of Greece In Greek Cinema (Ch. 12), Katerina Zacharia Aug 2008

Hellenisms (Iii), "Reel" Hellenisms: Perceptions Of Greece In Greek Cinema (Ch. 12), Katerina Zacharia

Katerina Zacharia

No abstract provided.


Hellenisms (Ii), Herodotus' Four Markers Of Greek Identity (Ch. 1), Katerina Zacharia Aug 2008

Hellenisms (Ii), Herodotus' Four Markers Of Greek Identity (Ch. 1), Katerina Zacharia

Katerina Zacharia

No abstract provided.


Hellenisms (I), Introduction, Katerina Zacharia Aug 2008

Hellenisms (I), Introduction, Katerina Zacharia

Katerina Zacharia

No abstract provided.


Notes For Michael Cacoyannis' Cabaret Version Of Aristophanes' Lysistrata, Katerina Zacharia Sep 2006

Notes For Michael Cacoyannis' Cabaret Version Of Aristophanes' Lysistrata, Katerina Zacharia

Katerina Zacharia

No abstract provided.


Plurality Of Discourses In Euripides' Ion: Euripides As Thinker And Dramatist (In Greek With English Summary), Katerina Zacharia Feb 2003

Plurality Of Discourses In Euripides' Ion: Euripides As Thinker And Dramatist (In Greek With English Summary), Katerina Zacharia

Katerina Zacharia

No abstract provided.


Sophocles And The West: The Evidence Of The Fragments, Katerina Zacharia Dec 2002

Sophocles And The West: The Evidence Of The Fragments, Katerina Zacharia

Katerina Zacharia

No abstract provided.


Rosebloom And Pure White, Or So It Seemed, Mary Niall Mitchell Aug 2002

Rosebloom And Pure White, Or So It Seemed, Mary Niall Mitchell

Mary Niall Mitchell

No abstract provided.


“Drawing Difference: The Women Artists Of Madriz And The Cultural Rennovations Of The 1980s", Gema Pérez-Sánchez Dec 2001

“Drawing Difference: The Women Artists Of Madriz And The Cultural Rennovations Of The 1980s", Gema Pérez-Sánchez

Gema Pérez-Sánchez

No abstract provided.


The Rock Of The Nightingale': Kinship Diplomacy And Sophocles' Tereus, Katerina Zacharia Dec 2000

The Rock Of The Nightingale': Kinship Diplomacy And Sophocles' Tereus, Katerina Zacharia

Katerina Zacharia

No abstract provided.


Book Review Of Lee, K.H., Euripides' Ion., Katerina Zacharia Dec 1998

Book Review Of Lee, K.H., Euripides' Ion., Katerina Zacharia

Katerina Zacharia

No abstract provided.


Euripides' Hippolytus, Thiasos Production, Triennial Classics Conference, Cambridge, Katerina Zacharia Dec 1997

Euripides' Hippolytus, Thiasos Production, Triennial Classics Conference, Cambridge, Katerina Zacharia

Katerina Zacharia

No abstract provided.


Euripides' Orestes, University College London Production, Katerina Zacharia Dec 1997

Euripides' Orestes, University College London Production, Katerina Zacharia

Katerina Zacharia

No abstract provided.


Book Review Of Meagher, R.M., Euripides’ Bakkhai, Katerina Zacharia Dec 1996

Book Review Of Meagher, R.M., Euripides’ Bakkhai, Katerina Zacharia

Katerina Zacharia

No abstract provided.


Reversed Heroism And Heroic Perversion In Euripides' Medea, Katerina Zacharia Dec 1995

Reversed Heroism And Heroic Perversion In Euripides' Medea, Katerina Zacharia

Katerina Zacharia

No abstract provided.


The Marriage Of Tragedy And Comedy In Euripides' Ion, Katerina Zacharia Dec 1994

The Marriage Of Tragedy And Comedy In Euripides' Ion, Katerina Zacharia

Katerina Zacharia

No abstract provided.