Vivek Bald discusses his transmedia project documenting the lives of Bengali Muslim ship workers and silk peddlers who entered the United States at the height of the Asian Exclusion Era and quietly settled and intermarried within African American and Puerto Rican neighborhoods from Harlem to Tremé in New Orleans and Black Bottom, Detroit.
From the Neolithic Era to the Apocalypse: How to Prepare for the Future by Studying the Past
Authors Charles C. Mann and Annalee Newitz will talk about how ancient civilizations shed light on current problems with urbanization, food security, and environmental change.
Summary, video, and podcast: “From the Neolithic Era to the Apocalypse: How to Prepare for the Future By Studying the Past”
Charles C. Mann and Annalee Newitz talk about how ancient civilizations shed light on problems with urbanization, food security, and environmental change.
Museum Making: Creating with New Technologies in Art Museums
Hackathons, maker spaces, R&D labs: these terms are common to the world of technology, but have only recently seeped into museums.
Podcast, Jeffrey Hamburger: “Script as Image”
Jeffrey Hamburger surveys the many aspects of medieval script as a pictorial form, using examples from Late Antiquity to the late Middle Ages and beyond.
Script as Image
Jeffrey Hamburger surveys the many aspects of medieval script as a pictorial form, using examples from Late Antiquity to the late Middle Ages and beyond.
Video: Media in Transition 6: “Archives and History”
Scholars of “dead tree technologies” feel increasingly uneasy in a culture overwhelmingly consumed with innovation.
