Saw Sideways Saturday night with John and Smita. Enjoyed it immensely. Paul Giamatti was great. The New Yorker today had a short profile on him in the “Talk fo the Town” section. He’s Bart Giamatti’s son.
Books, mead, and a movie
Smita recommends a novel about a slave ship builder called Sacred Hunger.
Saw Sideways at Kendall Square tonight with John and Smita. Great flic.
Before the film we started a batch of mead with the wild blackberry honey from Washington State, Snoqualmie Valley Honey Farm in North Bend, WA.
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Books to get at McIntyre’s
left behind to get next month: Wagley and Harris, Minorities in the New World, in “anthropology”/W, and Rachel Harding, A Refuge in Thunder: Candomble and Alternative Spaces of Blackness in “Brazil.”
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Catalina Laserna
Cataline Laserna stopped by today to meet me and invite me to her panel discussion next week of the digital divide project with Pittsburgh schools. She wants to start one in Boston. Recommends “culturally responsive pedagogy” as a model to use in my grant application. See BBN, Concord Consortium, Vitrual High School, Knowledge Forum software, Learning in Motion (she’s mvoing to this from MUSE), Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (supprt Learning in Motion).
laserna@fas.harvard.edu
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~elaserna
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planning the sophomore tutorial
Breakfast with Steve Caton to talk about planning the Sophomore tutorial. He explained that he converted the course from a dog-and-pony show to a core theory/canon course when he took over at Wing Tutor. Lucia Volk and Ben Penglase are the previous instructors. I’m toying with the idea of using McGee and Warms, chapters from The UnTV and the 10 mph car, Trouillot’s Global Transformations: Anthropology and the Modern World, plus an ethnography or two.
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first post
Today is my birthday, the first day of my post-41 life, and the first day I’ve been able to get MovableType working on this box.
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