On Disciplinary Finitude

PMLA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 132 (3) ◽  
pp. 505-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey T. Schnapp
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Architectural History ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti ◽  
Speed Limits ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
The University

The year 2008 was one of fruitful disjunctions. I spent the fall teaching at Stanford but commuting to the University of California, Los Angeles, to cochair the inaugural Mellon Seminar in Digital Humanities. During the same period, I was curating—at the Canadian Center for Architecture, in Montreal—an exhibition devised to mark the centenary of the publication of “The Founding Manifesto of Futurism,” by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. Whereas other centennial shows (at the Centre Pompidou, in Paris, and at the Palazzo Reale, in Milan) sought to celebrate the accomplishments and legacies of Marinetti's avant-garde, the Canadian exhibition, Speed Limits, was critical and combative in spirit, more properly futurist (though thematically antifuturist). It probed the frayed edges of futurism's narrative of modernity as the era of speed to reflect on the social, environmental, and cultural costs. An exhibition about limits, it looked backward over the architectural history of the twentieth century to look forward beyond the era of automobility.

Design and Social Change: An Architectural History of the University of California, Santa Barbara

2021 ◽  
Vol 84 (2) ◽  
pp. 240-255
Author(s):  
Julia Diane Larson
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Architectural History ◽  
University Of California ◽  
World War ◽  
Santa Barbara ◽  
University Archives ◽  
History Of ◽  
Architecture And Design ◽  
The University

ABSTRACT The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), campus as it stands today appears as an architectural mash-up of midcentury modern institutional buildings, both low rise and high rise; a smattering of World War II–era wooden buildings; 1970s-style double wide trailers; and new science buildings built by a who's who of internationally famous architects. In this case study, the author shows how the UCSB campus's architectural history mirrors the post–World War II boom in educational facilities throughout California and the social, cultural, and architectural history of the region as a whole. The key to discovering this history is archival research, both at the University Archives at the UCSB Library, as well as at the architecture-specific Architecture and Design Collection at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum on campus. In this case study, the author explains how the architectural history can be traced through the archival records to more fully understand the history of the campus.

Acute Respiratory Distress in a Child After Steroid-Induced Pancreatitis

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-318
Author(s):  
Barry H. Goldberg ◽  
Jerry M. Bergstein
Keyword(s):  
Acute Pancreatitis ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Respiratory Distress ◽  
Lupus Erythematosus ◽  
Joint Pain ◽  
Rare Complication ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Remission Maintenance ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

Acute pancreatitis is a well-known but rare complication of corticosteroid therapy in both children1-3 and adu1ts.4,5 In adults, respiratory insufficiency may follow the onset of acute pancreatitis.6-8 This report describes a child with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in whom acute respiratory distress developed after steroid-induced pancreatitis. CASE REPORT A 12-year-old girl with SLE in remission (maintenance therapy, 60 mg of prednisone on alternate days) was admitted to the University of California Los Angeles Hospital with a one-week history of fever, dysuria, facial rash, and joint pain. A urinary tract infection was detected and the patient was placed on a regimen of antibiotics.

From Witchcraft to ‘Grande Hystérle’ Three Hundred Years of Psychiatry

1991 ◽  
Vol 159 (6) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Allan Beveridge
Keyword(s):  
History Of Medicine ◽  
Social History ◽  
Science Studies ◽  
University Of California ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Senior Lecturer ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Social History Of Medicine

Witchcraft and Hysteria in Elizabethan London (£45, 149 pp., 1991) is edited with an introduction by Michael MacDonald, Professor of History at the University of Michigan. George Cheyne: The English Malady (1733) (£40, 370 pp., 1991) is edited with an introduction by Roy Porter, Senior Lecturer in the social history of medicine at the Wellcome institute for the History of Medicine, London. The Asylum as Utopia (£40, 240 pp., 1991) is edited with an introduction by Andrew Scull, Professor of Sociology and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego, Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the Nervous System by J. M. Charcot (£45, 438 pp., 1991) is edited with an introduction by Ruth Harris, Fellow of Modern History at New College, Oxford. All four titles are published by Tavistock/Routledge, London, in a series of facsimile editions.

scholarly journals The Irish in American Cinema 1910 – 1930: Recurring Narratives and Characters

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas James Scott
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
University Of California ◽  
American Cinema ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Domestic Servant ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ethnic Comedy ◽  
The University ◽  
Common Character

This paper will consider cinematic depictions of the Irish between 1910 and 1930. American cinema during these years, like those that preceded them, contained a range of stereotypical Irish characters. However, as cinema began to move away from short sketches and produce longer films, more complex plots and refined Irish characters began to appear. The onscreen Irish became vehicles for recurring themes, the majority of which had uplifting narratives. This paper will discuss common character types, such as the Irish cop and domestic servant, and subjects such as the migration narrative, the social reform narrative and the inter-ethnic comedy. It will also briefly consider how Irish depictions in the 1910s and 1920s compared to earlier representations. While the emphasis will be on films viewed at archives, including the University of California, Los Angeles Film and Television Archive, or acquired through private and commercial sellers, the paper will also reflect on some films that are currently considered lost.

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