by Natalie Kopp | Aug 2, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
Yesterday was our CURI final symposium, and the team loved sharing our research from the past ten weeks with the St. Olaf College community. Just because CURI has ended, though, this project is by no means over. We hope to broaden, enlarge, and advance this project...
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 Philip Claussen | Jul 29, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015, Philip Claussen
Paris has long been known as an international city – a place were people from all around the world gathered to live, work, and make art, among many other activities. Most of the “foreigners” we’ve focused on through this project have been artists and musicians who...
by Natalie Kopp | Jul 27, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
Downton Abbey fans anyone? If so, you might recall that the fifth season starts in 1924 (nice coincidence, eh?). And you might remember the season’s second episode when Robert reluctantly agrees to install a “wireless” (radio) in order to hear King George V’s speech...
by Natalie Kopp | Jul 27, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
Despite the fact that we call them “silent films,” films of the 1920s were by no means silent. To a modern audience, we may be bored when watching old silent films, but it’s easy to forget that we are experiencing them out of context. In addition the to intrigue...
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...