by Katharina Biermann | Jul 31, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
Back when I was studying ballet (many, many years ago), we were taught to end each class with the révérence. A kind of closing bow, the révérence acknowledges the end of a period of collaboration (between students and teachers, fellow participants of the same...
by Katharina Biermann | Jul 21, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
Good manners never go out of style, or so they say. Unfortunately, that particular proverb neglects the fact that even that most conservative aspect of society – social etiquette – necessarily evolves. Otherwise no one would publish updated and revised...
by Katharina Biermann | Jul 14, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
A Tale of Two Countries In our project, we have focused mainly on events centered within the Parisian city limits. Every now and then, though, it helps to widen our perspective in order to see the larger context of the mapping project. Of particular importance during...
by Katharina Biermann | Jun 30, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
Dear future CURI students (for this project, at least), A few words of advice. As you’ve undoubtedly realized by now, finding information is relatively easy. Plugging into the spreadsheet in a usable fashion, though, may be turning out to be slightly more...
by Katharina Biermann | Jun 24, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
The Trouble with the Methodology A few posts back, I made a few comments on the methodology. Hopefully, between that and the rather more lucid explanations provided by my colleagues, you, dear reader, have some coherent notion of what our project...
