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Nabil Al-Tikriti Presents Paper on Ottoman Scholar Kâtip Çelebi
Nabil Al-Tikriti, associate professor of history and American studies, delivered a paper, “An Ottoman View of World History: Kâtip Çelebi’s Takvîmü’t-Tevârîh,” to the 1st International Kâtip Çelebi...
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Nabil Al-Tikriti Discusses Recent Iraqi Developments, Military-NGO Relations
Associate Professor of History and American Studies Nabil Al-Tikriti appeared on Los Angeles based KPFK’s “Radio Uprising” program on Wednesday, April 15, to discuss the latest developments in Iraq and...
View ArticleSweet Briar College Closure: FAQ’s on what it may mean
Sweet Briar College is a small private liberal arts college for women located in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains. It has 94 full-time faculty, 32 part-time faculty, 177 full-time staff and 47...
View ArticleControl-Alt-Delete (rebooting after the semester)
Spring 2015 is in the books. The grades are done, the graduates are off to new adventures, and the campus is quiet (except for the incessant construction noise). This semester was particularly hard on...
View ArticleReligion in the Digital Age: Course Objectives
Participating in the UMW Domain of One’s Faculty Initiative really helped me think about how to use digital learning in my classroom. That wasn’t an easy task, as I’m of a generation that came of age...
View ArticleReligion in the Digital Age: Schedule planning weeks 1 and 2
Next up in course planning; when and what (also known as the framework of the syllabus). Below is a really rough draft of how I envision the course proceeding in the first two weeks, but by the end of...
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Rape Culture and Institutional Denial as Backlash
I am not alone in feeling overwhelmed and exhausted from the past year at Mary Washington. We’ve had too many deep, hurtful losses: personally, privately, and publicly; we’ve lost loved ones and...
View ArticleDomain of one’s own Feb 4
Just feeling competent to have come right back from the first meeting, going to umw.domains and creating craigvasey.com, installing WP and the multi-site option. Not too sure what to do with a site...
View ArticleBush ’45, Back to My Future?
Bush, As We May Think Vannevar Bush’s (1945) Atlantic Monthy article takes me back to my comfort zone, with the material language of pencil pushing, facsimile, columns, film, and photography. This may...
View ArticleThoughts on V Bush
The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man’s hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. — Bottom, Act iv scene 1 Vannevar...
View ArticleThoughts on V Bush
The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man’s hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. — Bottom, Act iv scene 1 Vannevar...
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Armenian Group Urges Gallipoli Commemoration Boycott
Article Link on Armenian Groups Urging Gallipoli Boycott Boycott Gallipoli, Head to Yerevan Say Turkey Rights Groups By Contributor on February 6, 2015 in Headline, News Turkey Rights Groups Call on...
View ArticleVannevar Bush and the Jetsons and Bell Labs
After reading Vannevar Bush’s seminal (ugh, what a androcentric term) article on the need for integrated access to information, I thought about how my own being owes its existence to the telephone...
View ArticleThe Real Significance Of Vannevar Bush’s As We May Think – Rough Draft, Only...
In his essay entitled As We May Think, Vannevar Bush reflects on how the very technology that was used in destructive ways during a half-decade of war can be used productively in the post-war era and...
View ArticleImagining the Internet
My first thought in beginning this post is that, although this is not the explicit intention of the assignment, being asked to respond to a reading on a blog is a healthy instance of turnabout. I ask...
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