Marquand Library and the Blue Mountain Project

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-42
Author(s):  
Sandra Ludig Brooke

Princeton University’s Marquand Library of Art and Archaeology is one of the oldest and most extensive art libraries in America. Founder and namesake Allan Marquand was both an art historian and the creator of a ‘logical machine’ that prefigured modern computers. This shared science and humanities heritage is echoed in the Blue Mountain Project, a new digital humanities initiative to which Marquand Library is a major contributor. This article begins with a brief description of the library’s origins and the development of its facilities and collections. It then reports on Blue Mountain, a digital library of the avant-garde that chronicles the emergence of modernity in the literary, visual and performing arts from 1848 to 1923.

Author(s):  
Charles R. Batson

As principal choreographer and dancer for the 1920s avant-garde troupe Les Ballets Suédois (Swedish Ballet), Jean Börlin contributed greatly to the modernist cauldron that was interwar Paris. Founded by the wealthy Swedish arts patron Rolf de Maré in 1920, the Ballets Suédois expanded upon the model of avant-garde collaborative dance theater established by Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes a decade earlier. In the five years until their disbanding in 1925, the Swedes rivaled the better-known Russian company for artistic creativity with such signal works as the 1921 Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel (The Newlyweds of the Eiffel Tower), the 1923 La Création du monde (The Creation of the World), and the 1924 Relâche (Theatre Closed). With twenty-three original choreographies, some 900 performances, and international tours throughout Europe and the United States, Börlin and his company played a significant role in the development and propagation of innovative modernist work, which grew from the interplay among the visual and performing arts. In collaboration with such artists as Jean Cocteau, Darius Milhaud, and Fernand Léger, Börlin helped change the face and forms of dance theater.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
FRANCISCO CARLOS PALETTA

This work aims to presents partial results on the research project conducted at the Observatory of the Labor Market in Information and Documentation, School of Communications and Arts of the University of São Paulo on Information Science and Digital Humanities. Discusses Digital Humanities and informational literacy. Highlights the evolution of the Web, the digital library and its connections with Digital Humanities. Reflects on the challenges of the Digital Humanities transdisciplinarity and its connections with the Information Science. This is an exploratory study, mainly due to the current and emergence of the theme and the incipient bibliography existing both in Brazil and abroad.Keywords: Digital Humanities; Information Science; Transcisciplinrity; Information Literacy; Web of Data; Digital Age.


2014 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 6-11
Author(s):  
Thomas Crombez

The research project Digital Archive of Belgian Neo-Avant-garde Periodicals (DABNAP) aims to digitize and analyse a large number of artists’ periodicals from the period 1950–1990. The artistic renewal in Belgium since the 1950s, sustained by small groups of artists (such as G58 or De Nevelvlek), led to a first generation of post-war artist periodicals. Such titles proved decisive for the formation of the Belgian neo-avant-garde in literature and the visual arts. During the sixties and the seventies, happening and socially-engaged art took over and gave a new orientation to artist periodicals. In this article, I wish to highlight the challenges and difficulties of this project, for example, in dealing with non-standard formats, types of paper, typography, and non-paper inserts. A fully searchable archive of neo-avant-garde periodicals allows researchers to analyse in much more detail than before how influences from foreign literature and arts took root in the Belgian context.


M. Fabius Quintilianus was a prominent orator, declaimer, and teacher of eloquence in the first century ce. After his retirement he wrote the Institutio oratoria, a unique treatise in Antiquity because it is a handbook of rhetoric and an educational treatise in one. Quintilian’s fame and influence are not only based on the Institutio, but also on the two collections of Declamations which were attributed to him in late Antiquity. The Oxford Handbook of Quintilian aims to present Quintilian’s Institutio as a key treatise in the history of Graeco-Roman rhetoric and its influence on the theory and practice of rhetoric and education, from late Antiquity until the present day. It contains chapters on Quintilian’s educational programme, his concepts and classifications of rhetoric, his discussion of the five canons of rhetoric, his style, his views on literary criticism, declamation, and the relationship between rhetoric and law, and the importance of the visual and performing arts in his work. His huge legacy is presented in successive chapters devoted to Quintilian in late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Italian Renaissance, Northern Europe during the Renaissance, Europe from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century, and the United States of America. There are also chapters devoted to the biographical tradition, the history of printed editions, and modern assessments of Quintilian. The twenty-one authors of the chapters represent a wide range of expertise and scholarly traditions and thus offer a unique mixture of current approaches to Quintilian from a multidisciplinary perspective.


Author(s):  
Kathleen Jasonides ◽  
Janet Karvouniaris ◽  
Amalia Zavacopoulou

Innovative since its inception, the ACS Honors Humanities program has a long history of more than 40 years as an interdisciplinary team-taught course that examines essential questions through literature, visual and performing arts, philosophy and history.  This innovative approach has continued to motivate successive teaching teams to modify and enhance a program that challenges students academically, utilizing the best possible resources and taking advantage of new technology. In this article, we present one in-depth case study where we explain how we transformed the Honors Humanities course from Face To Face to i2Flex. We will describe and present examples of how we redesigned the course format and presentation, learning activities and assessment. We present data on student feedback and our findings regarding the benefits and challenges of adopting the i2Flex methodology for this course.


Author(s):  
Laura Lukes

Theme:The Science of Learning: Using Research to Improve Teaching7th Annual ConferenceSeptember 18, 2015 Conference Director:Laura Lukes (Center for Teaching & Faculty Excellence) Advisory & Selection Committee: Boicu, MihaiBoyette, JoannaClare, KatieCressman, RobEby, KimEdwards, CodyGeorge, ChristianGliozzi, MarioGoldman, JonathanHannan, HeatherKoch, LisaKravitz, DavidLawrence, SusanLukes, LauraMallett, KarynOffutt, JeffOlesova, LarisaOwen, JuliePettigrew, KathyReid, ShelleyRogers, PaulSaleem, RajaSaunders, CathyScott Constantine, LynneUsher, BethanyWarren, JohnWest, PatriciaWillis, OdetteWolf, PaigeYigit, Erdal Logistical Coordination:Ashleen Gayda (Center for Teaching & Faculty Excellence)Tamara Day (Events Management) Logistical Support:Office of Events ManagementEvents ProductionMason CateringAndrew Cote (OSCAR)Samira Lloyd (OSCAR)Denise Nazaire (OSCAR) Conference Proceedings:John WarrenJeri WieringaLaura LukesAshleen GaydaEmily LambackChyna Staten (Retroactive)                               Sponsors: BlackboardGeorge Mason University LibrariesGeorge Mason Publishing GroupProQuestUPCEABarnes & Noble College: George Mason Bookstore4-VAThe New York Times in Education Supporters:College of Education and Human Development; College of Health and Human Services; College of Humanities and Social Sciences; College of Science; College of Visual and Performing Arts; Graduate Student Life; Higher Education Program; Information Technology Services; Office of Distance Education; Office of Student Scholarship, Creative Activities, and Research; School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution; School of Business; School of Policy, Government, and International A airs; University Life; Volgenau School of Engineering; Writing Across the Curriculum; and The Writing Center.Volunteers:Dorothy Amoah-Darko, Sam Ashworth, Jesse Capobianco, Cameron Carter, Andrew Cartwright, Zella Christensen, Lynne Scott Constantine, Svetlana Filiatreau, Andrew Finn, Darcy Gagnon, Liesel Hamilton, Caitlin Holmes, Tabine Kamaleddine, Mills Kelly, Joey Kuhn, Ying-Ying Kuo, Shawn Lee, Jaime Lester, Jessica Matthews, Je O utt, Larisa Olesova, Julie Owen, Nathalia Peixoto, Richena Purnell-Sayle, Esperanza Roman-Mendoza, Robert Sachs, Catherine Saunders, Linda Sheridan, Darlene Smucny, Debra Sprague, Carol Stiller, Bethany Usher, John Warren, Gerald Weatherspoon, Margaret Weiss, and the students of TOUR 440.  of Engineering; Writing Across the Curriculum; and The Writing Center. 


2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (8) ◽  
pp. 989-1003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Paltridge ◽  
Sue Starfield ◽  
Louise Ravelli ◽  
Sarah Nicholson

Author(s):  
Kathleen Jasonides ◽  
Janet Karvouniaris ◽  
Amalia Zavacopoulou

Innovative since its inception, the ACS Honors Humanities program has a long history of more than 40 years as an interdisciplinary team-taught course that examines essential questions through literature, visual and performing arts, philosophy and history. This innovative approach has continued to motivate successive teaching teams to modify and enhance a program that challenges students academically, utilizing the best possible resources and taking advantage of new technology. The program consists of two year-long, completely integrated i2Flex ACS Athens Honors diploma courses and three i2Flex 20-week enrichment courses accessible to students anywhere. This chapter presents two case studies which explain the transformation of the Honors Humanities course from Face to Face to i2Flex. The authors describe and present examples of how they redesigned the courses. They present data on student feedback and findings regarding the benefits and challenges of adopting the i2Flex methodology for this program. This chapter is intended as a reference for teachers, teachers in training and professionals who train teachers.


Author(s):  
Miguel Escobar Varela ◽  
Andrea Nanetti ◽  
Michael Stanley-Baker

In Singapore, digital humanities (DH) is inclusive of the larger spectrum of the humanities, including not only its traditional disciplines (e.g., languages and literature, philosophy, law, geography, history, art history, musicology) but also anthropology, heritage studies, museum studies, performing arts, and visual arts. Multilingual, interdisciplinary, and audiovisual projects are particularly prominent. A community is growing around an emergent concept of DH, and it is developing results mainly in society-driven research projects. Although the DH label is relatively new, and DH dialogue across Singapore institutions is at its early stages, Singapore-based researchers have carried out digital research for decades. An increasing number of projects are home-grown, but several projects have also migrated to Singapore recently due to the high degree of mobility at Singaporean institutions. Current trends suggest that the next stage of DH history in Singapore will include the development of more formal institutions and more participation in global DH conversations.


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