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12/14/17: Summer of Love @ Bill Graham & the Rock & Roll Revolution...
offering remarks on and leading a discussion of the pbs documentary summer of love, thursday, 14 december 2017, 6:30 pm. Concert promoter Bill Graham onstage before the final show at the Fillmore East...
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Syllabus: Approaching Digital Humanities
Introduction to Digital Studies: Approaching Digital Humanities IPLS 420-0-50 – Hybrid Online/Seminar Winter Quarter 2018 Instructor Dr. Michael Kramer, Associate Director of the Digital Liberal Arts,...
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01/05/18: Digital Humanities and Pedagogy—Three History Projects in the...
Digital Humanities and Pedagogy—Three History Projects in the Classroom @ American Historical Association Conference, Washington, DC, Friday, 05 January 2018. Session Abstract Digital Humanities and...
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Teaching Philosophy
My goal as a teacher is to help students develop skills of analysis and communication grounded in a deeper understanding of the past. A consistent theme in all my courses is engagement with primary...
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US History Surveys US History Since 1865 US History Since 1893 US History Since 1945 Lecture Courses and Seminars US Cultural History, Civil War to the Present US Intellectual History, Civil War to the...
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The Political Is Personal
daniel ellsberg on one path to radicalization. A friend of mine told be that he had been a Trotskyist, a labor organizer. And I thought, hmm, how does one come to be a Trotskyist? He said, “Oh, it’s...
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Going Down in History
Francisco de Goya, El Tres de Mayo (1814). History to the defeated doesn’t even say “alas,” it just cuts them dead. — Ferdinand Mount, “Good Lord”
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Don’t Mess With the Mess
Donald Judd, Ohne Tite Stack (1968-69). The history of art and art’s condition at any time are pretty messy. They should stay that way. — Donald Judd
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CBC Band @ The Fillmore Far East, 1971
the woodstock transnational: poster for cbc band at the fillmore far east, 1971. CBC Band poster, The Fillmore Far East, Saigon, Vietnam, 30 April 1971. An amazing vintage poster from 1971 of the CBC...
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Syllabus: Cultural Criticism in the Digital Age—Historical & Contemporary...
Winter 2018 Cultural Criticism in the Digital Age: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Ellen Willis, ca. 1968. …A statue has never been set up in honor of a critic! — Jean Sibelius Inside the...
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Syllabus: The Computerized Society—US Digital Culture Since World War II,...
Winter Quarter 2018 The Computerized Society: US Digital Culture Since World War II Dr. Michael J. Kramer Visiting Assistant Professor, History and American Studies The scenario of the computerization...
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Skin Deep
rosy simas danse, skin(s) @ northwestern university, 2 december 2017. Rosy Simas danced with a group of performers during a rehearsal of her new piece, Skin(s). Photo: Jerry Holt. I. Blanketed We, the...
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Dancing Abilities
claire cunningham & jess curtis,the way you look (at me) tonight @ flynn center for the performing arts, 3 february 2018. Claire Cunningham and Jess Curtis in The Way You Look (At Me) Tonight....
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03/17/18: Michael J. Kramer, “When Mississippi John Hurt’s Head Moved:...
when mississippi john hurt’s head moved: glitching region & race at the 1964 berkeley folk music festival @ current research in digital history 2018, roy rosenzweig center for history and new...
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02/20/18: DLA Behind the Scenes Series: Analog Music >> Digital History:...
analog music >> digital history: sights & sounds from the Berkeley folk music festival project @ ctlr lounge, davis library, middlebury college, tuesday, 20 february 2018. Mance Lipcomb @...
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04/27/18: Full Time Woman: Alice Stuart in Conversation & Concert @ Pop...
alice stuart in conversation & concert @ mopop pop music conference, 27 april 2018. Gripping the handlebars, clad in leather, the woman with the frizzed-out perm sits astride a motorcycle. She...
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Analog Music >> Digital History: Sights & Sounds From the Digital Berkeley...
slides & notes from “behind the scenes” talk @ center for teaching, learning, & research, middlebury college, 20 February 2018. As you arrived, we were listening to Jesse Fuller, the great...
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Words
Words are enchantments and dominions. Even numb, blowaway verbiage knits us more tightly into the weave of our experience. Words give formidable, unyielding shape to certain pieces of our life. Poets...
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