by perkin1 | Jun 9, 2017 | CURI Summer 2017
This morning, my research team and I presented our goals for this summer’s iteration of the Musical Geography Project at the CURI Symposium. Now that we’ve had to consolidate our ideas for the project and present them in public, we have a much...
by Siriana | Jun 9, 2017 | CURI Summer 2017
Project Overview My colleagues and I want to change the way you think about music using Musical Geography. But what exactly is Musical Geography? As we understand it, Music Geography is the exploration of the intersection of time, space, and sound using mapping...
by lacy1 | Jun 9, 2017 | CURI Summer 2017
It’s amazing how it can take almost two weeks to really develop the goals of a project. I have discovered that it is through active work that we seem do the best learning and growing. I think even after these last weeks of intensive research, we will still be...
by emmanu1 | Jun 9, 2017 | CURI Summer 2017
This morning, we for the first time gave an introduction of our project in a room filled by faculty and students, all doing research in various areas of the humanities and social sciences. We spent about 6 minutes talking about our project’s goals, methodology,...
by emmanu1 | Jun 2, 2017 | CURI Summer 2017
Making maps today once again proved to be a very helpful experience. In fact, as proven in yesterday’s readings, making maps is not only done for the fact that they offer a visual representation of things but also because they often times help make arguments or...
by perkin1 | Jun 2, 2017 | CURI Summer 2017
In her article “How to Play with Maps,” Bethany Nowviskie writes that “one cannot ‘play with maps’ without playing with the truth” (107). We like to think that maps represent an “objective” reality, that “solid,...
