Entries from February 2012

Famous Last Encodings

Date February 22, 2012


There are these things in the preparation of the edition that I have been postponing for a year and have to deal with now because all of the other questions are answered. I am really not the postponing type (I think I may even be the *annoyingly* not postponing type of person). I guess I [...]

Getting closer

Date February 20, 2012


Since I have been true to my promise (made to myself) to preserve some of my time to work on my “new book” (e.g. my “Habilitationsschrift”), I did not progress in the encoding of the letter corpora as much as I wanted to. Also, the work on the indices proved demanding (not only in terms [...]

Some thoughts on University Libraries in the 19th century and today

Date February 19, 2012


This is a slightly revised version of the paper I gave at the Conference “The Changing Role of the Humanities in the Academy and Society: Historical and Transnational Perspectives” organized by the Großbritannien-Zentrum of the Humboldt-University in September 2011 (see their blog too), under the title: The University Library and the Humanities: Historical and Contemporary [...]

Intellectual MP3?

Date February 13, 2012


For the last time this term, we had a session of our doctoral seminar  this afternoon. We have had a lot of guests lately but will catch up on our own presentations next term with me presenting my book project and Sabine and Selma talking about their respective dissertations. But for today, Toni Bernhart came [...]

November, 30th 1763 from Comedy Central in Berlin

Date February 8, 2012


(this post is a follow-up to this one and that one.) I spent the whole day on Letter 16 from von Buch to Beausobre. There were several long interruptions, but still. I am not done. And I should be working on it right now, instead of which I am trying to convince myself (by blogging) [...]


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