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A Bewitching Assignment

From “Witches and Wizards” Seminar for Freshmen to “American Literature” with Professor Armbruster When you grow up in New England you have to learn about […]

Blogging for Credit

Student blogs are dynamic records of learning experience. Several classes have blogs, we will feature them here. For example,  “Sustainability, Energy, and Technology” honors seminar […]

Student Projects

First year students are engaged in a variety of projects. They write film and theater reviews, graphic novels, and science reports. They conduct interviews and […]

“From Jazz to Jay-Z” Looks at ‘Frank Stewart’s Life in Jazz’

Quentin Miller’s SF 1178 “From Jazz to Jay-Z: Black Music and Literature” course visited a retrospective of the jazz photography of Frank Stewart at the Cooper Gallery at Harvard University. Of Stewart, the Cooper Gallery writes:

Frank Stewart’s deep investigation of his African American roots through music, coupled with his intimate back- and on-stage access, offer a rich view of the jazz world via a post-modern vision that is firmly rooted in diverse artistic traditions. Jazz legends and younger stars — Miles Davis, Ellis Marsalis, Dianne Reeves, Cassandra Wilson, Etienne Charles, and Cécile McLorin Salvant among them — are featured in eighty photographs. They include gelatin silver prints and large-size digital compositions created since 1973 by Stewart, lead photographer for Jazz at Lincoln Center and the 2017 winner of the Jazz Journalists Association Award for Career Excellence.

 

“Curators, Collections, and Exhibits” at the Charlestown Navy Yard

Eric Dewar’s SF 1182, “Curators, Collections, and Exhibits,” visited the Charlestown Navy Yard to tour the archive and collections maintained by the National Park Service. Their holdings include objects from the Boston National Historic Park, the Charlestown Navy Yard, and archaeological collections from excavations in Boston. They also toured the public exhibits at the USS Constitution Museum.

 

“Rebel Girls” Attend Harvard Bookstore Reading

Elif Armbruster’s SF 1180 “Rebel Girls and Nasty Women” headed to Cambridge during the Fall 2019 semester to attend a reading and Q&A by Boston College professor Lori Harrison-Kahan. Harrison-Kahan edited The Superwoman and Other Writings by Miriam Michelson, which is the first collection of newspaper articles and fiction written by Miriam Michelson (1870-1942), best-selling novelist, revolutionary journalist, and early feminist activist. 

 

“Revolutions in Thought” visits the Museum of African American History

The “Revolutions in Thought” Seminar for Freshman” visited The Museum of African American History on Beacon Hill on October 4. This is the site of the oldest  African American church building in the nation, the birthplace of the American abolitionist movement, and home to an exhibit of photos of Frederick Douglass — the most photographed American of the nineteenth century. Our trip enriched student understanding of the revolution in thought that led to the condemnation and abolition of slavery.

 

*Photos by Jacob Michael Pimenthal

 

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