It was Dominique Bourel’s 60th birthday yesterday. Though he is not too strongly involved in the German academical system, he knows enough people in it to be entitled to a jubilee “Kolloquium”. Maybe because he is not a German Professor, he was given not the full 3-days-of-very-long-lectures-programme, but a 3-hour-firework retracing the life paths of [...]
Entries from January 2012
Happy Jew for the Happy Few
January 26, 2012
Places not to be
January 20, 2012
The first letters I encoded in the past few days are not really representative of the rest of the corpora, but they forced me to deal with interesting problems concerning the architecture of our index of places. Here’s a sample: Après la rupture de l’<placeName ref=”#l0004″>Espagne</placeName> et de l’<placeName ref=”#l0005″>Angleterre</placeName> la guerre paroit se perpetuer [...]
Materiality on a Scooter (@ Ribaltone’s with Toni Bernhart)
January 19, 2012
When I was 12, I discovered in an old family house (which used to be, in the 18th century or so, a post house) a whole bunch of papers – pictures, household accounts, letters – retracing the family history. I put it all in a trunk and thought I should either bring it to the [...]
How critical should critical be? (Corpus Part Three)
January 14, 2012
I am polishing two papers connected to Louis de Beausobre, whose correspondence is the third of the four corpora we will edit first (at least part of it). As good an occasion as any other to post on that corpus and the edition problems I am seeing coming. Louis de Beausobre was born in 1730 [...]
Missing Link
January 5, 2012
This week, we had the honor and the pleasure to welcome Helga Meise in our group, for a fruitful and Ersamus-sponsored exchange of ideas – including an intervention of her in our BA-class on Romantic German female writers (awesome presentation on Sophie von La Roche’s Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim and its importance in German [...]
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