June 24, 2009
A cool shout out to Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, with excerpts. *Prof Henry Jenkins, your paradigm is wanted on line one: http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/jun/08/art-collaboration-dance-theatre-music “These are strange days… READ MORE
June 8, 2009
Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers, winner of ForeWord’s Book of the Year Gold Award for Biography, was recently the subject of a… READ MORE
June 3, 2009
Religion Dispatches has a very thorough and scintillating interview with Danya Ruttenberg, author of The Passionate Torah: Sex and Judaism, up on their website. I found the story of Rahab… READ MORE
May 28, 2009
An article from the NY Daily News… Teens are using technology like cell phones to push the boundaries of flirtation, says Dr. Kathleen Bogle, sociology professor and author of “Hooking… READ MORE
May 27, 2009
Chronicle Weekly wrote up a brief tale from Susan Schweik’s The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public. Excerpt below, full story here. On patrol in Omaha in 1974, a police officer… READ MORE
May 13, 2009
Hasia Diner talks about one example of early Jewish-American Holocaust remembrance from her book, We Remember with Reverence and Love.
May 8, 2009
From an article at Salon… “I am a first-generation ‘Star Trek’ fan, and I’ve long argued that many of my deepest political convictions emerged from my experience of watching the… READ MORE
April 27, 2009
Reverent, Relevant, Rebellious Rabbi Is Judaism sexy? Ask the rabbi—as long as the rabbi is Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg, editor of The Passionate Torah: Sex and Judaism (New York Univ., June)…. READ MORE
April 22, 2009
Here’s a round up of stories about the book President Obama received from Hugo Chavez, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo… READ MORE
April 15, 2009
Longer than our usual posts, this article from the Chronicle of Higher Education looks at the emerging field of Biocriminology. One of the leading scholars quoted in the article is… READ MORE
Six Classics of Queer Literature