Why People Laugh, or, When Did Laughter Meet the Sense of Humor? Animals don't laugh. A guffawing cow has reality only on a label for processed cheese. By contrast, people have always laughed: at births and at funerals, in joy and in sorrow, while viewing scenes of cruelty and acts of kindness, or simply when tickled. But one day laughter became...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Liberman, Anatoly
Created:
2014-04-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Why People Laugh, or, When Did Laughter Meet the Sense of Humor? Animals don't laugh. A guffawing cow has reality only on a label for processed cheese. By contrast, people have always laughed: at births and at funerals, in joy and in sorrow, while viewing scenes of cruelty and acts of kindness, or simply when tickled. But one day laughter became...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Liberman, Anatoly
Created:
2014-04-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Translating the Danube: A Collaborative Linguistic and Cultural Project. Michal Hvoreck√Ω's Dunaj v Amerike (Danube in America) is a novel about journeys: through European history as well as geography, cultural and interpersonal exchanges, mysteries and personal growth. Its main characters, all American retired tourists, travel down the Danube r...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Hudecova, Eva; Hvoreck√Ω, Michal; Lencho, Mark
Created:
2015-04-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Presence of the Past: Memory, Fiction, and the Contemporary Landscape Faulkner said the past is not even past. David Lowenthal among others has said that the past is a foreign country. But in fact the past is all around us and constitutes a big part of our sense of who and where we are. The past is central to people's personal stories, to we...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Ellis, Mary Relindes; Watson, Catherine; Vreeland, Scott; Nunnally, Pat
Created:
2014-10-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Presence of the Past: Memory, Fiction, and the Contemporary Landscape Faulkner said the past is not even past. David Lowenthal among others has said that the past is a foreign country. But in fact the past is all around us and constitutes a big part of our sense of who and where we are. The past is central to people's personal stories, to we...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Ellis, Mary Relindes; Watson, Catherine; Vreeland, Scott; Nunnally, Pat
Created:
2014-10-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The World According to the Bank: an Analysis of World Bank Reports, 1946-2010 Like the post-world-war-II capitalism which it contributed to reorganize and transform, the World Bank seems to have gone through two fundamental periods: the age of reconstruction and infrastructure -- the Trente Glorieuses from the end of war to the mid-Seventies -- ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Moretti, Franco
Created:
2014-10-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The World According to the Bank: an Analysis of World Bank Reports, 1946-2010 Like the post-world-war-II capitalism which it contributed to reorganize and transform, the World Bank seems to have gone through two fundamental periods: the age of reconstruction and infrastructure -- the Trente Glorieuses from the end of war to the mid-Seventies -- ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Moretti, Franco
Created:
2014-10-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
To Embrace Failure? A Multi-disciplinary Re-thinking Our point of departure is the productive failure of single authorship and of representation in Bertolt Brecht's theater, which ultimately led to new forms of collectivity and most famously to the Epic Theater. Yet our panel will inquire more broadly into the virtue of failure. What constitutes...
To Embrace Failure? A Multi-disciplinary Re-thinking Our point of departure is the productive failure of single authorship and of representation in Bertolt Brecht's theater, which ultimately led to new forms of collectivity and most famously to the Epic Theater. Yet our panel will inquire more broadly into the virtue of failure. What constitutes...