The National Council for Black Studies and the Ford Foundation are offering a two and one half day institute this summer for PhD students. The application deadline is February 15, 2009. For more information and an online application, go to ...
In honor of Chinese New Year, Chinese director Yimou Zhang is highlighted this month. Books on Chinese film can be found by doing a subject search in the catalog under “motion pictures–china”. Books and videos by and about Yimou Zhang, ...
The End of the Journey By Sarah Wildman Posted Friday, Jan. 9, 2009, at 7:12 AM ET BERLIN—More than half of Valy’s letters were datelined “Bergstrasse 1, Babelsberg, Potsdam.” But after the war, as with many German streets in both ...
By Allison Rudd on Tue, 6 Jan 2009 Archives New Zealand has posted online the portraits of more than 40 Chinese men who lived in Otago in the late 19th century and the early part of the 20th century. The ...
Former Royal Academy secretary speaks out against returning stolen works By Arifa Akbar, Arts Correspondent Friday, 9 January 2009 He is a child of Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe who has risen to become a leading light of Britain’s art ...
The trial service via eKorean Studies which started in May last year has been extended until March 31, 2009. eKorean Studies is an integrated and comprehensive service with objective of making electronic resources in the field of Korean studies accessible ...
The very first issue of the Memoria/Memory/Mémoire/Memória, the official newsletter of LACCHA (Latin American and Caribbean Cultural Heritage Archives) Roundtable is now available! The newsletter provides information relating to archival collections from Latin America, the Caribbean and their Diaspora communities ...
HAVANA – Cuba on Monday began accepting requests for electronic access to more than 3,000 documents from Ernest Hemingway’s home on the island, including the unpublished epilogue of “For Whom the Bell Tolls” and coded messages the author sent when ...