Dear readers, Last week I reported on the outbreak of the Thirty Years War following the Second Defenestration at Prague, and the suppression of the Bohemian revolt in 1620-21--the end of the first phase of that protracted European conflict in the early modern period. In this third of my Krumlov-letters (for as the '50s movie…
A decade ago, King’s launched a summer school on computer-assisted reporting. It was 2008, and 14 intrepid journalists came to King’s to learn how to use data to tell meaningful stories. Since then, almost 150 people have enrolled in what are now the King's Summer Schools in Data Journalism. They've come from across Canada—from the…
Read MoreA new King’s study abroad course called Memory, Politics, Place: Berlin’s 20th Century happened last month in Berlin. There, students intensively engaged with the dynamics of memory, remembrance and commemoration of catastrophes in Germany’s twentieth century (Nazism, the Holocaust, the Cold War). Readings focused on pre- and post-World War II Berlin, studies in cultural memory and place,…
Dear readers, This is the second of my Krum'lov-letters', this time having returned from the Czech capital of Prague! Those of you employed by Early Modern Times in its Department of Loyal Subscribers may recall the January 6 post of this humble blog, when I reported on the four hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of…
A new King’s study abroad course called Memory, Politics, Place: Berlin’s 20th Century happened last month in Berlin. There, students intensively engaged with the dynamics of memory, remembrance and commemoration of catastrophes in Germany’s twentieth century (Nazism, the Holocaust, the Cold War). Readings focused on pre- and post-World War II Berlin, studies in cultural memory and place,…
A new web magazine co-founded by two King’s alumni is challenging fashion and feminist norms. Marielle Nicol, BA’13, who studied classics and religious studies, and journalism grad Dina Lobo, BJ(Hons)’16, launched GirlCove.ca on April 30 with their friend Hanna Nicholls. “GirlCove is a new…
On Thursday, May 31, 2018, King’s held its 229th Encaenia ceremony. King’s is proud of this year’s 194 graduates and their accomplishments. Visit the 2018 Encaenia page to see academic award winners, view the ceremony video, read transcripts of speeches and citations and browse through images from the ceremony and festivities.
Dear readers, I write to you from the historic Czech town of Cesky Krumlov! (Apologies for the lack of diacritical symbols--invented by the religious reformer Jan Hus--as they don't appear very well in this blog format: some will protest, of course, but these days everyone's a diacritic.) I'm co-teaching a seminar in Baroque culture and…
The most serious obstacle to interdisciplinary work is the barrier between science and the humanities said Dr. Evelyn Fox Keller, one of King’s 2018 honorary doctorates at a roundtable discussion at King’s on May 30. It was part of grad week activities.
