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Oct 19, 2006

More Noted Things




Library lust and sex libris: a calendar of beauties one could fall in love with at first sight. Thanks to David Sonenschein for the tip.

Elizabeth Grant at AHA Today calls attention to MIT's OpenCourseWare site. Here are the History Department's offerings, 2003-2005: syllabi, bibliographies, and more.

Rayyan Al-Shawaf,"Modernity, Middle Eastern-Style," Books & Culture, September/October, reviews Jean Said Makdisi's Teta, Mother, and Me: Three Generations of Arab Women.

Abu Aardvark's Marc Lynch and other blogging Middle East experts, including Juan Cole, have launched a collaborative effort, Qahwa Sada.

In"Numbers Game," the controversy over the Lancet study of civilian casualties in Iraq leads Tim Burke to discuss his approach to quantitative studies in history.

Cliopatria's contributing editor, Thomas G. Palaima, objects to Nike's new commercial,"Football is Everything." Thanks to Doug Lederman at Inside Higher Ed for the tip.

Finally, Reject the Koolaid points out that our colleague, Hugo Schwyzer, is #2 on RateMyProfessor's"hotness scale" – so hot that no other history professor comes even close. But Hugo has his detractors and they've been stealing his chili peppers. Leave Hugo's chili peppers alone!



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Hugo Schwyzer - 10/20/2006

... alas, Ralph, it's not working. I am in full-fledged retreat, stripped of my chilies like... like... actually, I don't know quite what it's like.


Jonathan Dresner - 10/19/2006

I noticed on the MIT page that there's only one Asian history course listed, Peter Perdue's survey of East Asia's recent (half-millenium is recent in Asian history, folks, and it's a pretty present-heavy course) history. Don't get me wrong, it looks like fun. But MIT has other Asian historians, and none of them appear to be participating. Wonder if that's accidental, or a side effect of the recent unpleasantness.