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22 results for "Modern"

22 results for "Modern"

Nicolau Sevcenko

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Academic Degrees: B.A., Ph.D.: University of São Paulo, Brazil

Research Interests: Modern Brazilian Culture, particularly the Relationship between Society and Culture; 20th-Century Brazil; Modernity and Post-Modernity

Daniel Aguirre Oteiza

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Academic Degrees: A. B., Universidad de Salamanca; Diploma of Higher Studies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University

Research Interests: Modern Spanish Peninsular Literature (18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st -centuries); Spanish Civil War...

Paura di cambiare. Crisi e critica del concetto di cultura

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by Francesco Erspamer Donzelli, 169 pp., € 16.00 JOHN WELSH - The Invention of Culture It is a conversation all too familiar for anyone involved in the humanities. It happens most frequently in situations of involuntary socialization—parties, receptions...

TERRORISM REVISITED

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Eduardo Ledesma TERRORISM REVISITED Modernisme, Art, and Anarchy in the City of Bombs Abstract: Explosively charged and violently disparate terms such as Modernisme (Modernism), Anarchy and Culture–or cultural resistance–find a common space in the City of...

Sylvaine Guyot

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Academic Degrees: École normale supérieure (Paris); Licence, Classics, Paris Sorbonne; Agrégation in Classics; MaîtriseD.E.A., French Literature, Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle; Ph.D, French Literature and Performing Arts, Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle.

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Francesco Erspamer

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Academic Degrees: Laurea in Lettere, Diploma di perfezionamento, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”

Research Interests: Renaissance culture; intellectual history; modern and contemporary Italian novel; literature and politics.

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Giuliana Minghelli

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Academic Degrees: Studied at the University of Pisa; M.A., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Research Interests: Modernism; Film and Visual Studies; Questions of Landscape, Memory and National Identity; Italian Popular Culture

Current Research Projects:

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The Future of Nostalgia

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by Svetlana Boym Basic Books, 404 pp., $22.00 CHRISTOPHER BROWN - Riddles for Longing “Somewhere on the frontier, the ghost of Dostoevsky meets the ghost of Mickey Mouse. Like the characters from The Possessed, they exchange wry smiles.” Thus concludes...

RLL Students Visit Barcelona

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Students in the Catalan studies program visited several cultural sites during a 7-day trip. The trip gave students the opportunity to experience in situ the language and culture they have been learning in the classroom. It was an unforgettable and intense...

The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire

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by Raymond Jonas Harvard University Press, 413 pp., $29.95 JOHN WELSH - Empire defeated Robert E. Lee’s Confederate Army marched a remarkable 135 miles from Chancellorsville, Virginia to the battle of Gettysburg. Napoleon’s Russian Campaign, an arduous...