Beyond Carnival Welcome to the companion website to the 2001 edition of James N. Green’s book Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Brazil, published by University of Chicago Press. This website was developed by students at Brown University working with James N. Green (Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Professor of Latin American History) and is hosted … Beyond Carnival
Boccaccio’s Decameron The Decameron Web was begun in 1994 as a participatory hypertext project used to teach the Decameron. In 1997, STG encoded the text of the Decameron in SGML, and delivered it via a search engine. The Decameron consists of a hundred stories in Italian, told from the point of view of ten young … Boccaccio’s Decameron
Brasiliana Collection Brazil has long been a subject of interest at Brown University Library. In 1912, the Library acquired the private collection of Col. George Earl Church (1835–1910), a noted engineer, explorer, soldier and investor from New Bedford, Massachusetts, also known as one of the lead engineers behind the Madeira-Mamoré Railroad project, a plan to … Brasiliana Collection
Brazil Under Vargas Getúlio Vargas (1882-1954) is arguably the most important Brazilian political figure of the twentieth century. From a wealthy landholding family in the south, Vargas became interim president in 1930 and then ruled the country until 1945. In 1937, he created the Estado Novo [New State], an authoritarian regime that relied on nationalism … Brazil Under Vargas
Catskills Institute Website of the Catskills Institute, documenting the importance of the Catskills in American Jewish Life The Catskills Institute website was developed by Phil Brown and his colleagues at the Catskills Institute to disseminate information about conferences and the photographs, ephemera, memorabilia and memoirs they have collected. Additionally, the site collected queries about people … Catskills Institute
Chronicles of Brunonia The “Chronicles of Brunonia” presents historical narratives of life at Brown University, spawned by the archival documents in John Hay Library and written by undergraduates. Most of the narratives here were written in creative nonfiction workshops taught by Beth Taylor in the Nonfiction Writing Program in the Department of English. ‘Chronicles of … Chronicles of Brunonia
Clyde Davenport An early website incorporating music and image, about the Kentucky fiddler, Clyde Davenport. Clyde Davenport is an old-time fiddler and banjo player from south-central Kentucky. In 1990, Brown University ethnomusicologist Jeff Titon recorded music and interviews with Mr. Davenport and his family. He then created a multimedia, hypertextual, Hypercard stack with links to … Clyde Davenport
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
Cultural Correspondence A digital edition of Cultural Correspondence, a critical review of popular culture, born from the collapse of the New Left and hopes for a new beginning of a social movement, intermittently published in Providence from 1975 to 1985. Website Status: Completed Cultural Correspondence is a project of Sociology Contributors to this project include … Cultural Correspondence
Educating Change Powerfully illustrated through the lives of three Mexican/Chicana women – Ramona Medina, Socorro Gomez-Potter, and Yolanda Almaraz-Esquivel – Educating Change documents a history of Mexican women’s migration and activism, and considers its relevance for today’s US Latino communities, including Providence. Educating Change is a project of the Center for Study of Race and Ethnicity … Educating Change
