There is no place like Ireland- and I was there for the first time in late April 2018 while presenting at a conference hosted at the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences at National University Ireland- Galway. This wonderful event brought together digital humanists, artists, and creative developers from around the … Continue reading Transient Topographies Reflection- Moore Institute- National Univ. Ireland- #Galway
Notes on Exuberance- #Dance
<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/269287353">BackForth</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/criticalcreative">Christy</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p> In some religions dance is integral to attaining a higher level of consciousness. Dancing is transformative. It is the release of feeling, the engagement with sound, the perception of tones acting on the body. I am dancing here because I am happy. The semester is done. Commitments … Continue reading Notes on Exuberance- #Dance
Moving in the world #Travel
<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/269127853">Moving in the World</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/criticalcreative">Christy</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford and Genteel Poverty- Victorian Musings
The Benthamites Manage the Poor: The New Poor Law The New Poor law of 1834 “represented a Malthusian challenge to the eighteenth-century policy of providing allowances to men whose earnings were insufficient to support their families.”[1] The old poor law had been based on the notion that the state should give working fathers a … Continue reading Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford and Genteel Poverty- Victorian Musings
July 2017 in the Great Dismal Swamp
I was accompanied by Fred Wurster, hydrologist with the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in Suffolk, VA. It was early July and although there was a faint wind, once we entered the thick brush of the swamp, the biting flies began to attack us. Fred, being a kind person, lent me his bug coat … Continue reading July 2017 in the Great Dismal Swamp
#OAH18
This was my first OAH and I'd always heard great things about this conference gathering. I was fortunate enough to have two panels accepted and I was able to present on one ("Forms of Freedom") as graduate students can only be on one panel at a time per meeting. I saw many historians receive awards … Continue reading #OAH18
#Leeds
With a colleague at Leeds Beckett University and a local historian the Lord Mayor of Leeds hosted us today at Leeds Civic Hall where we discussed ways to commemorate the life of abolitionist George D. Thompson. Thompson was the amanuensis for Moses Grandy's narrative of enslavement. Thompson's antislavery work is important to my dissertation research. … Continue reading #Leeds
