Built form and storytelling
Below is an outline of topics for a brief talk at Centennial College, July 27, 2012 for Professor Patrick Michalak’s class. The title for the talk is from an essay with the same title from What we see: Advancing the observations of Jane Jacobs (2010), available on loan from the Toronto Public Library. I much […]
Myth, ritual and the oral (2010)
Update: A Feb. 21, 2014 New Yorker article is entitled: “Why is academic writing so academic?” [End of update] In Myth, ritual and the oral (2010), Jack Goody discusses fiction and non-fiction, the role of narrative in oral and lecto-oral societies, and the history of novels and the theatre. In lecto-oral cultures, one finds […]
Building Stories is an online system designed to inventory historic buildings, structures, and sites across Canada
Building Stories is a system is designed to inventory historic buildings, structures, and sites across Canada. Related resources include the Heritage Resources Centre at the University of Waterloo. A blog at the Heritage Resources Centre features regular updates. News release highlights smartphone applications A news release provides an overview of the project. University of Waterloo website highlights […]
Imagined communities (Benedict Anderson, 1983, 1991) is a classic study of the nation-state concept
As I’ve noted elsewhere, we know little about the personality of Colonel Samuel Smith. Because he built a cabin in 1797, after the American Revolutionary War, on what is now the school grounds of Parkview School at 85 Forty First Street in Long Branch, in the southwest corner of the City of Toronto, his story is […]
The evidence doesn’t back up the Military Revolution thesis: Jeremy Black (2011)
Museums have a relationship to history, a relationship that’s been explored in some depth. In Theorizing Museums (1996), there’s a reference to Timothy Mitchell’s observation that in nineteenth-century Europe, the museum exhibit was constructed as a simulation of external reality, with a clear sense of separation between the reality and the representation. A European museum-goer […]
Natalie Zemon Davis is acclaimed for her pioneering approach to previously unexamined aspects of social history
Natalie Zemon Davis has recently been named a Companion of the Order of Canada in recognition of her “distinguished contributions to the field of history, notably her pioneering approach to previously unexamined aspects of social history.” Among her books are Trickster travels: a sixteenth-century Muslim between worlds, Women on the margins: Three seventeenth-century lives, and […]
Message from Harry Oussoren on behalf of Mimico Lakeshore Network regarding Mimico 20/20 process
The following message, was sent by Harry Oussoren to Matthew Premru of the City of Toronto. Date: June 28, 2012 Subject: MLN Response Dear Matthew: On behalf of the MLN Steering Group, I forward to you and your colleagues in the City of Toronto Planning Department the considered response to various questions posed by the Planning […]
168 Lake Promenade in Long Branch, South Etobicoke, in the City of Toronto
I’m pleased to share with you the following message from Malcolm Archer of the Ratepayers Association of South Long Branch (RASL). Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 Subject: 168 Lake Promenade Once again today, neighbours stood together to oppose the severance of a lot in our beautiful neighbourhood. I wish to thank personally, those who supported […]
Beyond the military revolution: War in the seventeenth-century world (Jeremy Black, 2011)
Jeremy Black is author of many books, three of which I’ll discuss in this blog post: (1) Beyond the military revolution: War in the seventeenth-century world (2011). (2) War and the new disorder in the 21st century (2004) and (3) War and the cultural turn (2012). In Beyond the military revolution (2011), Jeremy Black demonstrates cogency, […]
Culture Days update — Everyone can participate
Subject: Culture Days update — Everyone can participate Culture Days – be involved — September 28, 29 and 30, 2012 Pass this along to everyone and anyone who might want to be part of the Lakeshore Culture Crawl! And remember to upload your events onto the Culture Days website –- If we all use Lakeshore […]