Love, Death and Digital Memorials
Crossposted from my HASTAC blog; you can find my original post here at the HASTAC site. The University of Iowa’s Digital Studio for Public Humanities‘ …
Crossposted from my HASTAC blog; you can find my original post here at the HASTAC site. The University of Iowa’s Digital Studio for Public Humanities‘ …
(Originally published in The Daily Iowan, February 13 2013) One day when I was five years old, my teacher led my class across the playground …
The European Studies Group here at Iowa normally trends towards modern history, so its talks and seminars often put me outside of my historical comfort …
Next month, the University of Iowa will host “Rewiring the Classroom”, a forum on digital pedagogy for the college classroom. I’m really excited to have …
It’s been something of an Anglo-Saxon long weekend here at the University of Iowa! On Friday, of course, we had Hilary Fox’s lecture on mental …
Image above: London, British Library MS Cotton Cleopatra C. VIII, f. 11. Ira (Anger), holding a shield, strikes with a sword at Patentia Yesterday we …
On Wednesday afternoon, the Iowa Forum for Graduate Medievalists was host to its first guest lecturer—which meant that I, as the IFGM’s current president, was …
On October 13, I was back in the Senate Chamber of the Old Capitol, this time to hear a talk given by Jim Leach (pictured right), …
For the past two days, the Old Capitol here has been host to A World of Citizens: Women, History, and the Vision of Linda K. …
Yesterday I attended the 14th Medieval Dublin Symposium—the first one I’ve been able to attend in a while, and indeed the first time I’ve set …