Pico’s 900 Theses A digital edition of the 900 Theses of Pico de la Mirandola (“Conclusiones Nongentae publicae disputandae”, Rome 1486), published in Latin and English, with an annotation feature available to scholars who are part of the Pico Project. The project, which is part of Massimo Riva’s research on publishing, using and teaching with … Pico’s 900 Theses
Romanian Love Charms A structural analysis of Romanian love charms. Sanda Golopentia had constructed a corpus of Romanian love charms on the Brown mainframe over 10 years ago. This was implemented by Allen Renear using Waterloo Script, and was used to typeset a book analyzing the love charms. Since then, she has been expanding the … Romanian Love Charms
Social and Intellectual Context of Luise K. Gottsched A site about the influences, context and life of Luise Kulmus (Gottsched), an 18th German poet who played a significant role in bringing the ideas of the English Enlightenment to Germany. The site also contains texts and letters by Kulmus. Katherine Goodman studies the 18th c. poet … Social and Intellectual Context of Luise K. Gottsched
Theater that Was Rome A digital collection of views and maps from Rome of the 16th-18th c. and a website with further information about individual prints in a selection of the books. This digital collection features a selection of works from the extraordinary collection of Vincent J. Buonanno ’66, focused on views and maps of … Theater that Was Rome
Underground Rhode Island A collection of oral histories and supporting materials about the arts in 20th c. Rhode Island. These materials formed part of an exhibit, and continued to grow as a digital collection. In the spring semester of 2004, the students in Paul Buhle’s oral history class investigated the arts in 20th c. RI. … Underground Rhode Island
Writing Vietnam Website The Writing Vietnam conference was held at Brown University on April 21-23, 1999. After the conference, STG, designed and created a website to disseminate the narratives, discussions, and other materials generated by the conference. Professor Elizabeth S. Taylor organized the conference Writing Vietnam at which writers of fiction, memoir, poetry, journalism, and … Writing Vietnam Website
prospect Website E-journal of selected student writing from Brown’s Creative Nonfiction courses. In 1999, Creative Nonfiction was a relatively new course at Brown in which students who show potential for writing to professional standards explore the genres of literary journalism, historical narrative, personal essay, and short performance pieces. Prof. Beth Taylor asked STG to design … prospect Website
Control and Freedom A website to accompany Wendy Chun’s Control and Freedom, which strives to enrich and illustrate points from the book. Wendy Chun’s Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (MIT Press, 2006) examines the relationship of control and freedom in the way we think of networks and the internet. Chun wanted … Control and Freedom website
A & L Tirocchi Dressmakers Project A website to accompany the RISD Museum exhibition, From Paris to Providence: Fashion, Art, and the Tirocchi Dressmakers’ Shop 1915-1947, including scholarly essays and narrative text on fashion and social history, databases of artifacts and information about the clients and workers associated with the shop, and curricular materials for … A & L Tirocchi Dressmakers Project
Aravaipa The Aravaipa project presents a set of primary sources documenting the Camp Grant Massacre of 1871, together with commentary and contextual information. The Aravaipa project arose out of research by Karl Jacoby on the Camp Grant Massacre of 1871, exploring the complex cultural and historical perspectives on this event through a set of primary … Aravaipa
