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a little help here?
So you all know the term "orientalism," right? Invented by Edward Said to indicate the western European set of ideas and images and metaphors and stories about the Middle East which supported formal and informal colonialism between the mid-nineteenth and the mid-twentieth century, right? A very handy term - once you know what it is, you start to ( Read more... ) -
is anybody out there?
Hello, hellllloooooo ...
well I see that there will be more Potter ... something ... from JK Rowling, and that seems as good a reason as any to dust this journal off.
Besides I meant to tell you all about this amazing book project which I got to write a chapter for, Harry Potter and History. I've never had more fun doing academic work than ( Read more... ) -
I know it's been six months and who knows if you're still reading but if you are
So much going on, so little of it anything I got around to talking about here. And right now I am in Mexico City, where I haven't spent significant time in years, and there's so much to talk about with that, and I have all these new projects and all these students whose work is so interesting and and and ( Read more... ) -
hilarity ensued
So last month I posted something about how I would be away for a while, don't break the internet while I'm gone, the usual. My old friend
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things that happen
I am supposed to be getting a replacement computer from Spork very soon. I have been in the state of supposed to be getting a replacement computer for some months now. There has already been the ritual grovel at the IT office, and a lengthy discussion of voice recognition software. There has been no communication from the IT office at all, ( Read more... ) -
Holy cow, two posts in one week
Futbol and/or human rights fans, check this out ( Read more... ) -
Carlos Monsivais
I haven't been posting much - a torn rotator cuff is keeping me away from the keyboard for a while longer, as it has for months. But I had to note the passing of Carlos Monsivais, the greatest Mexican intellectual of his generation, the scholar in whose footsteps I have been bumbling along since I began working as a historian, a writer of such wit ( Read more... ) -
Note to self: How to have the best class ever
So, it's all over but the grading for this semester at my weird but beloved university, and I'm sad about it, because although my graduate class (Modern Cultural History, theory and method) was wretched and the second-year undergraduate class (Latin American History, 1450 to the present) was just so-so, the fourth-year undergraduate class - a ( Read more... ) -
How could Gail Collins be even more awesome than she already is?
New York Times columnist Gail Collins, who lately has replaced Paul Krugman in my heart as The Pundit Who Secretly Is My Hot Girlfriend/Boyfriend, has revealed something very important about herself, something that makes me love her even more: she's a Buffy fan. Look, here's the link, see for yourself! Leave a comment 23