One of my students in this summer’s grad seminar (a comparative look at 1989 in Eastern Europe and China) alerted me to a story in yesterday’s New York Times about the popularity of Ustaše regalia among some fans of the Croatian rock star Marko Perković. In the article, Nicholas Wood writes that at a recent…
Get Yourself In Training
Episode 8 of our Digital Campus podcast is up and available for your listening enjoyment. In this episode we discuss the issue of how digital humanists (and computer scientists with an interest in the humanities) ought to be trained. We also spend some time wondering how college and university Chief Information Officers (at least those…
Old Blogs Down
In order to avoid an exploit of WordPress by hackers, I have taken down all of the blogs from my classes in previous semesters, except the one from my most recent Western Civ class–largely because this one attracted a lot of attention from bloggers interested in what I did with Wikipedia. If you are looking…
Justice of a Sort (cont’d)
Yesterday I wrote a post about the International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Today’s papers carried the hopeful news that the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC)–the Cambodian equivalent of the ICTY–may finally get underway, now that international and Cambodian judges have agreed on their procedures for the tribunal. Getting…