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An interdisciplinary honors major since 1974 Students pursue comparative literary studies and interdisciplinary work in European history, sociology, cultural studies, philosophy, political science, economics, performance studies, visual arts, architecture, or music.
10/09/2015
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Please join us today, Friday, October 9, 2015, from 10:00am-7:15pm at the Alumni House, Amherst College for "Writing the Stepmother Tongue: A Symposium on Translingual Literature"
https://www.amherst.edu/…/european_s…/eustevents/node/615769
09/29/2015
"Babylon/Babelsberg: Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis' Reconsidered" | Amherst College
Please join us today, September 29th at 7pm
in Stirn Auditorium, Mead Art, Amherst College
for "Babylon/Babelsberg: Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis' Reconsidered" with Jürgen Müller.
https://www.amherst.edu/news/calendar/node/615392
Müller examines Fritz Lang's silent film classic "Metropolis" from its origins as a novel to its reception in the political climate of Nazi Germany. Comparing the film to apocalyptic Biblical iconography and other traditional artistic imagery, he connects it further to modernist architecture, and de…
09/28/2015
The Transformation of Athenian Theatre Culture around 400 BC
The Transformation of Athenian Theatre Culture around 400 BC By Klaus Junker The Pronomos Vase and its Context, edited by Oliver Taplin and Rosie Wyles (Oxford University Press, 2010) Abstract: […]
09/25/2015
This is what a 16th century e-reader looked like | Europeana Blog
http://blog.europeana.eu/2015/08/this-is-what-a-16th-century-e-reader-looked-like/
As early as 1588, the Italian military engineer Agostino Ramelli invented a device that allowed people to read multiple books at the same time, without having
09/23/2015
Alexander McQueen on Tim Lewis
http://www.anothermag.com/fashion-beauty/7712/alexander-mcqueen-on-tim-lewis
From the AnOther magazine archive, we resurface this revealing insight from the late British designer on collecting art
09/22/2015
"Writing the Stepmother Tongue: A Symposium on Translingual Literature" | Amherst College
"Writing the Stepmother Tongue: A Symposium on Translingual Literature"
Friday, October 9, 2015, 10:00am-7:15pm
Alumni House, Amherst College
The first independent forum of scholars and writers of translingual literature in the U.S. The field of Translingual literature studies texts written in a non-native language, in two languages, or in a mix of languages. Some of the best known examples are the classics Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Beckett and Joseph Conrad, and among contemporary writers, Ilan Stavans, Nancy Huston, Alexandar Hemon, Ha Jin, and many others. The morning events, the keynote talk (Doris Sommer) and the Panel with Translingual Writers are open for the general audience; the afternoon events are for scholars only.
https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/european_studies/eustevents/node/615769
The first independent forum of scholars and writers of translingual literature in the U.S. The field of Translingual literature studies texts written in a non-native language, in two languages, or in a mix of languages. Some of the best known examples are the classics Vladimir Nabokov, Samuel Becket…
09/22/2015
Mecanoo · Trust Theater · Divisare
http://divisare.com/projects/296641-mecanoo-trust-theater
The interior of the old Lutheran Church, dating from 1793, on the Kloveniersburgwal evokes a sense of spaciousness, echoing the past.
09/21/2015
Of Camera Work and Fine Art
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/18/of-america-work-and-fine-art/
In Camera Work, Alfred Stieglitz sought to promote photography as fine art. To this day, some collectors have gone as far as to mount individual gravures from the fabled publication.
09/18/2015
"Babylon/Babelsberg: Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis' Reconsidered" | Amherst College
Please join us on Tuesday, September 29th at 7pm
in Stirn Auditorium, Mead Art, Amherst College
for "Babylon/Babelsberg: Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis' Reconsidered" with Jürgen Müller.
https://www.amherst.edu/news/calendar/node/615392
Müller examines Fritz Lang's silent film classic "Metropolis" from its origins as a novel to its reception in the political climate of Nazi Germany. Comparing the film to apocalyptic Biblical iconography and other traditional artistic imagery, he connects it further to modernist architecture, and de…
09/18/2015
Books and Print between Cultures, 1500-1900 | September 18-19, 2015, Amherst College
Join us, beginning at 4pm today:
Symposium: Books and Print between Cultures, 1500-1900
September 18-19
Cole Assembly Room, Converse Hall, Amherst College
The symposium will begin at 4pm on Friday, September 18, with an open house at Amherst College's Archives & Special Collections, with Sanjay Subrahmanyam's keynote lecture following at 5:30pm in Cole Assembly Room, Converse Hall. A full day of talks (8:45 am - 5:45 pm) is scheduled for Saturday, September 19. The topics are diverse and cover early modern book / material cultures and practices from East Asia to Latin America.
The symposium is free and open to the public; however, those wishing to attend should register through the symposium website.
https://booksandprint.sites.amherst.edu/
Books and Print between Cultures investigates the role that books (printed books and manuscripts, including maps, scrolls, etc.), prints, and their associated technologies played in mediating and instantiating cultural difference in the early modern period. It approaches these materials as intermedi…
09/17/2015
Amanda Palmer’s Extraordinary BBC Open Letter on the Choice to Have a Child as a Working Artist
http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/08/26/amanda-palmer-motherhood-letter/
"We’re artists -- not art factories." "Being an artist is not just about what happens when you are in the studio," Teresita Fernández
09/15/2015
Information Centre - A safer, cheaper, greener Li-ion for electric cars
European Commission news headlines on the broader subject of research and scientific activities.
09/14/2015
Books and Print between Cultures, 1500-1900 | September 18-19, 2015, Amherst College
Symposium: Books and Print between Cultures, 1500-1900
September 18-19
Cole Assembly Room, Converse Hall, Amherst College
This interdisciplinary symposium will investigate the role that books (codices, rolls, scrolls, and other related media), prints, and their associated technologies played in mediating and instantiating cultural difference in the early modern period. By framing the history of books and prints as meandering and material, this symposium aims to contribute new dialogues to the study of the global early modern.
The symposium will begin at 4pm on Friday, September 18, with an open house at Amherst College's Archives & Special Collections, with Sanjay Subrahmanyam's keynote lecture following at 5:30pm in Cole Assembly Room, Converse Hall. A full day of talks (8:45 am - 5:45 pm) is scheduled for Saturday, September 19. The topics are diverse and cover early modern book / material cultures and practices from East Asia to Latin America.
The symposium is free and open to the public; however, those wishing to attend should register through the symposium website.
https://booksandprint.sites.amherst.edu/
Books and Print between Cultures investigates the role that books (printed books and manuscripts, including maps, scrolls, etc.), prints, and their associated technologies played in mediating and instantiating cultural difference in the early modern period. It approaches these materials as intermedi…
09/13/2015
Never-Before-Seen Childhood Works From David Salle, Dustin Yellin and More
In a new series for T, artists pair a piece of their past with the present.
09/10/2015
How the Universe Works: Stephen Hawking’s Theory of Everything, Animated in 150 Seconds
http://www.brainpickings.org/2013/09/25/stephen-hawking-made-simple-animation/
A Brief History of Time in no time at all. Legendary theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking is among the greatest scientif
09/07/2015
Surrealism for the Masses: Finds from the Art and Artist Files - Smithsonian Libraries Unbound
http://blog.library.si.edu/2015/08/surrealism-for-the-masses/
The world of modern art is at times criticized for a certain reputation of exclusivity and mystery in which the more inaccessible a certain artist or artwork may be, the more valuable and reputable the art becomes. Salvador Dali, the most famed member of the twentieth century avant-garde movemen…
09/04/2015
A Visit to the Icelandic Folk and Outsider Art Museum
http://hyperallergic.com/231493/a-visit-to-the-icelandic-folk-and-outsider-art-museum/
AKUREYRI, Iceland — If you set out from Reykjavík northbound on Route 1, the road that rings around most of Iceland, you will, after give or take five hours, find yourself in Akureyri.
09/03/2015
Gustave Caillebotte: The Painter's Eye
http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/exhibitions/2015/gustave-caillebotte.html
National Gallery of Art
09/01/2015
A Visit Inside One of the Only Hand-crafted Globe Studios in the World
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/08/handcrafted-globes/
Long gone are the days when our first instinct is to migrate to a spinning globe to track the destinations around us or find a specific country. Now we have the power to digitally zoom in and out of the entire earth, utilizing mapping tools like Google Earth. The romanticism tied to these newer
08/31/2015
Lack of Exercise Can Disrupt the Body's Rhythms
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/20/lack-of-exercise-can-disrupt-the-bodys-rhythms/
Exercise may affect our daily movement patterns even more than age does.
08/30/2015
Review: ‘The Girl in the Spider’s Web’ Brings Back Stieg Larsson’s Detective Duo
The Swedish author David Lagercrantz has picked up this series, centered on the punk hacker Lisbeth Salander and her sometime partner, the investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist.
08/29/2015
Smart Specialisation will empower entrepreneurs, innovators in Europe’s regions – Dr Günter Clar...
Industry, researchers and citizens will gain influence in the way regional research funding is allocated as a result of the EU's Smart Specialisation strategy, according to Dr Günter Clar, Chairman of a group of experts who analysed how it is contributing to Europe’s goals for growth.
08/27/2015
IGNANT
Visual artist Januz Miralles explores the fragility of the female body by fusing photography, drawing and painting...
Read more: http://www.ignant.de/?p=93666
08/27/2015
Three Cheers for George Scialabba, with Noam Chomsky—and You’re Invited!
Three Cheers for George Scialabba, with Noam Chomsky—and You’re Invited!
The Baffler is convening a star-studded party to pay tribute to the legendary critic and essayist George Scialabba on the occasion of his retirement from clerical work at Harvard and entry into the uncertain world of writing for his supper. September 10 has been designated George Scialabba Day by th…
08/27/2015
The Art Newspaper
Takashi Murakami reveals surprise debt to Anselm Kiefer http://ow.ly/RrinS
08/27/2015
Van Gogh Museum
Last chance! Ask us your question about Vincent van Gogh: http://bit.ly/125questions #125questions
Image: http://bit.ly/Self-Portrait-VG
08/27/2015
Annual Report on the European Union's Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Policies and their Implementation in 2014
Annual Report on the European Union's Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Policies and their Implementation in 2014
REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL
Annual Report on the European Union's Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Policies and their Implementation in 2014
06/24/2015
MIT's 'cheetah' robot can run and jump autonomously
MIT's 'cheetah' robot can run and jump autonomously
06/24/2015
European Greens
Go Netherlands! A Dutch court has ordered the state to reduce emissions by 25% within five years, to protect its citizens from Climate Change - bit.ly/1JiqCVK
06/24/2015
BBC News
BBC News
Disability protesters try to storm into House of Commons chamber during #PMQs
Latest: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-33241248
06/24/2015
Museu Picasso Barcelona
Anys formatius de #PicassoDalí a Cadaqués / Formación en #Cadaqués / Formative years in Cadaqués http://goo.gl/KSuh3x
06/24/2015
Mead Art Museum
Mead Art Museum
Times & topics for this week's It's Cool at the Mead gallery talks:
Thursday, June 25, 11 a.m. | Ancient Egyptian Art
Sunday, June 28, 2 p.m. | Russian Porcelain
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