by Natalie Kopp | Jun 17, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
While watching the 1924 ballet, Le Train Bleu, with the rest of the CURI team the other day, I was surprised at how light-hearted, playful, and funny it was. Particularly after watching Ballet Mécanique and other 1920s art cinema, Le Train Bleu was certainly a...
by Natalie Kopp | Jun 16, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
Today, June 16, is the day known to James Joyce fanatics as “Bloomsday.” The literary holiday is named after Leopold Bloom, the main character of Joyce’s one-day novel and masterpiece Ulysses, which takes place on June 16, 1904 (and which, need I remind you, was first...
by Philip Claussen | Jun 16, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015, Philip Claussen
Most of us, I would assume, are familiar with the old mnemonic device “five W’s and an H.” I remember learning it in 1st grade, and thought it was both painfully boring and absurdly obvious for something that we had to learn in school. I would much...
by Natalie Kopp | Jun 15, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
One of the best parts of this project so far has been at once contributing to and developing the project while also stepping back and looking with curiosity and to see how it develops in the hands of my team members. It has been through actually working on the project...
by Katharina Biermann | Jun 15, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
If you’ve been following our progress for a little while now (and of course you have, otherwise I’d be talking to an empty room), you might have a few questions as to what exactly we are trying to do in this project and, my personal favorite category, how....
by Breanna Olson | Jun 15, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
When I tell people I’m working on a project called “Mapping the Musical Geography of 1924 Paris” I usually get a polite response of “that sounds…interesting,” (refer to the facial expression below), and a prompt diversion of the conversation. To be...
