by Isabel Kramlinger | Jan 16, 2019 | DUR January 2019
I cannot believe we have reached the halfway point of our month-long DUR course. There are only two more weeks to gather and finalize data before sending our maps out into the growing world of digital humanities. In order to learn more about the spread of H. T....
by west3 | Jan 15, 2019 | DUR January 2019
In an attempt to better understand the life and impact of HT Burleigh, my group has decided to look at his influence through the lives of three of his most notable mentees and contemporaries: Paul Robeson, Marian Anderson, and Roland Hayes. Each of these influential...
by Carolyn Nuelle | Aug 4, 2016 | CURI Summer 2016
A couple of weeks ago, I spent 14 days in Paris, looking in several archives for documents and sources that would help us in our research. I was armed with a list of gaps in the data about Second Viennese School performances, an iPad and a digital camera, a list of...
by Philip Claussen | Jul 10, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015, Philip Claussen
As some may already know, I have spent the past two weeks in Paris, researching vigorously with the help of the Bibliothèque Nationale, the national library of France. While my research experience here has been for the most part incredible, from time to time it has...
by Louis Epstein | May 27, 2015 | CURI Summer 2015
It’s been a full day: morning and afternoon at the British Library, evening at the opening events of the conference I’m attending here. Highlights included: – Looked at letters written to Walter Leigh, an English composer who died fighting the...