Two Russian Foundational Collections at Columbia University Library: Witte & Warburg

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Lyubov Ginzburg
Keyword(s):  
Columbia University ◽  
University Library

The World-Revealing Goblet: Reading Farhād Mīrzā’s Geographical Treatise Jām-i Jam as a Lithograph

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 409-449
Author(s):  
Zeinab Azarbadegan
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Persian Literature ◽  
The Past ◽  
University Library ◽  
Political Networks ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
Geographic Knowledge ◽  
The World

Abstract This article examines a copy of Farhād Mīrzā’s Jām-i Jam (the World-Revealing Goblet) published in 1856 in Tehran and kept at Columbia University Library offsite storage. It demonstrates the dual importance of this book in geographic knowledge production and as part of the library of Saʿīd Nafīsī, one of the most prominent Iranian scholars of Persian literature. Methodologically, the paper offers various ways to study a single lithograph to decipher larger historical processes in histories of education, translation, and print. First, it analyzes the paratext to expose scholarly and political networks in order to examine the genealogy of geographic knowledge production in mid-nineteenth century Qajar Iran. Second, it studies the content and translation practices employed by Farhād Mīrzā to offer novel strategies for analyzing dissemination and reception of new ways of production and categorization of geographic knowledge as well as methods utilized in composition of pedagogical geography books. Finally, it discusses how cataloging practices affect current scholarship and lead to rendering certain texts “hidden.” It therefore illustrates how the study of Farhād Mīrzā’s Jām-i Jam, a book aspiring to reveal the world, can expose much about scholarly practices not only in the past but also the present.

Institutional Dreams

2014 ◽  
Vol 83 (4) ◽  
pp. 988-996 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Lardas Modern
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Public Places ◽  
Short Answer ◽  
University Library ◽  
Coney Island

InInstitutional Dream Series (Sleeping in Public), 1972–73, Laurie Anderson slept in eight different public places in order to measure their institutional impression. In her experiment Anderson used dreams—ostensibly her own—“to see if the place can color or control my dreams.” The short answer was—yes.Institutional Dream Seriesis an exploration of the self as medium. In sleeping and recording her sleep on the beach at Coney Island, in the halls of night court, at the bureau of immigration and naturalization, and in the women's bathroom at Columbia University Library, Anderson's performance suggests that vulnerability to bureaucratic structures and organizational schemes is not something to be avoided but studied. For there is pleasure, fear, and wisdom to be found in such exposure.

scholarly journals Epistemologia na Ciência da Informação: a visão de Mortimer Taube

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (88) ◽  
pp. 185
Author(s):  
Keitty Rodrigues Vieira ◽  
Cezar Karpinski
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Library Of Congress ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
University Library ◽  
Duke University ◽  
University Of Chicago Press

Frente a la discusión epistemológica del área, este artículo tiene como objetivo discutir los enfoques epistemológicos identificados en la producción científica de Mortimer Taube. Por lo tanto, este artículo identifica específicamente los enfoques epistemológicos que sirvieron de base para la producción científica de Taube y problematiza los constructos teóricos de este autor. Metodológicamente, el estudio se caracteriza por ser cualitativo, exploratorio, bibliográfico y documental, sin delimitación cronológica, y basado en la hermenéutica para la interpretación y redacción de los resultados. Las fuentes utilizadas fueron seleccionadas de acuerdo con su especificidad y debido a la participación de Taube con tales instituciones: Association for Information Science and Technology, Duke University, Library of Congress, Columbia University, Digital Journal Storage Library, NASA Library, Biblioteca Nacional, University of Chicago Press Journal y Library Quarterly. De los 264 documentos recuperados, 124 fueron leídos y analizados y conforman el corpus de este artículo. Los resultados muestran que los enfoques epistemológicos que impregnan la obra de Taube son el Positivismo Lógico y la Filosofía Analítica, y que su posición epistemológica puede ser identificada por el enfoque de Epistemología Crítica.

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