The most recent issue of Caribbean Studies features an article by Sociology & LACAS Professor Kelvin Santiago-Valles on Pedro Albizu-Campos’ use of the idea of race. Santiago-Valles, Kelvin. “Our Race Today [Is] the Only Hope for the World”: An African ...
In September 2007, the Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Centre launched a website that allows visitors to view formerly confidential KGB documents online. Kgbdocuments.eu displays documents from various KGB departments, as well as articles detailing the activities of Soviet agencies in ...
Deadline, January 25, 2008 In 2006, the U.S. Department of State established summer institutes for the study of critical foreign languages. These institutes are open to U.S. citizens who are undergraduate or graduate students or those who have graduated since ...
Michigan State University has recently launched a new series of podcasts entitled Africa Past & Present. The podcasts will feature discussions with eminent Africanists on topics related to the history, politics, and culture of Africa and the Diaspora. For instructions ...
Global warming is an increasingly hot (pardon the pun) topic right now. The latest UN Human Development Report, Fighting Climate Change, Human Solidarity in a Divided World is available full-text online. The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently won ...
The great Austrian director, Fritz Lang, is January’s featured director of the month. Born in Vienna, he produced some of early cinema’s most famous films, including the science fiction classic Metropolis, and the suspense film M. With the rise of ...
Since Asian fonts take a lot of space, they usually are not automatically installed in a PC by default. People who need to input Chinese on a regular basis would need to install Chinese font separately and configuring Chinese Input ...
From Telegraph.co.uk: English invades Russian language By Adrian Blomfield in Moscow Last Updated: 2:31am BST 13/09/2007 First came Franglais. Then there was Spanglish. Now start getting used to Runglish, the English-laced argot of “kool” young Russians that has traditionalists weeping ...
The BU Libraries will be hosting a trial to Voprosy Literatury from January 2, 2008 until February 2, 2008. To access please visit the platform at http://dlib.eastview.com or direct URL to this title http://dlib.eastview.com/sources/publication.jsp?id=686 The influential, authoritative Russian journal of ...
From January 2 – February 2, 2008, the BU Libraries will be having a trial of IDC Publishers’ “Muslims in Russia” database. The direct link to the database is: http://www.idc-digilib.nl/c11 This collection introduces the uniquely varied and poorly explored Russian ...