Facing History and Ourselves hosted a Day of Learning “Reimagining Self and Others” at Harvard Law School on May 10, 2013. This is a summary of the “When Identities Turn Violent” segment featuring historian of genocide Omer Bartov and sociologist of religion Jose Casanova. Omer Bartov on Nationalism and Violence […]
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Ed and I met with the Accessibility and Usability team yesterday, part of MIT’s Information Services and Technology (IS&T), one of the departments on campus that makes the institute go. We met with Katherine Wahl and Chris LaRoche, usability consultants, and Stephani Roberts, accessibility consultant. They work as consultants with […]
Facing History and Ourselves hosted a Day of Learning “Reimagining Self and Others” at Harvard Law School on May 10, 2013. This is a liveblog of the opening presentation by Anthony Appiah, a philosopher at Princeton University, whose latest book is The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen. Appiah begins […]
VizThink by Willow Brugh Artist and designer Lize Mogel came to the Center for Civic Media to discuss “Counter-cartography” a practice that uses maps and mapping to challenge the mainstream narrative of a site or history, from a political or activist perspective. Artist Lize Mogel creates and disseminates counter cartography, […]
Did you know there’s a level of Dots Per Inch after which your eye simply cannot see any difference? Any added level of detail isn’t perceptible to you unless you select an area to zoom in on, changing the inches over which the dots are distributed. This is what came […]