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Technology and Vannevar Bush, Fifty Years Later G. Pascal Zachary - Columbia University Press Blog
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A Tactical Weapon in the Battle to Teach the History of Racism in American Classrooms - Yale University Press
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| | Shelley Fisher Fishkin- Teaching America's past and present in all its complexity has never been an easy task, but this challenge has become more difficult than ever, as more than... READ MORE
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Pushing Play: What Makes the Portable Cassette Recorder Interesting? | Sounding Out!
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| | One of my earliest memories of sound recording is one of my earliest memories, period: an isolated image of my own index and middle finger trying to push down the "record" and "play" buttons on my father's portable cassette tape recorder. More prominent than the visual element of this memory is the haptic one: I...
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Iranian Nationalism & Nostalgia: Fragment on a research interest - Keanu Heydari
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| | On 15 October 2021, I delivered a short presentation at the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Workshop on "Violence, Witnessing, and Recovering the Archives" entitled, "Nostalgia, Diaspora, and Iranian Neo-Monarchists." My talk focused on the political and cultural functions of nostalgia by a segment of the contemporary Iranian diaspora, particularly in the United States. In thinking here through nationalism and nostalgia in the American case, I hope to explore in my dissertation the ways in which memory was and is utilized, revised, and weaponized by the Iranian diaspora in France.
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Depoliticising through Expertise: The Politics of Modelling in the Governance of Covid-19 The Global
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| ByAnnabelle Littoz-Monnet - Epidemiological models have played a decisive role from the outset in determining the public policy response to Covid-19, especially in the imposition of quarantines and lockdowns. This emphasis on epidemiology, however, may have resulted in the silencing of alternative voices - from philosophers and anthropologists to general practitioners - and the possibility of alternative solutions for managing the public health emergency.