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The Tories, Timid, or True Blue project creates an online educational
environment that will allow greater public access to the Old North's
archival collection, with a specific focus on the history of the Church and
its congregants during the American Revolutionary period.
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The project creates advanced tools for researching and visualizing the complete records of the registers of the Comédie Française Theatre Group (1680-1800), the Comédie Française Performance Archive allows researchers to extensively investigate 17th and 18th century French theatre practices. |
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Film Experience (David Thorburn, Martin Marks)
Literature/Music & Theater Arts
The Film Experience project supports one of the core humanities courses at MIT by providing students access to some 100 video clips related to the history of narrative film. |
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The Global Shakespeare project allows students and researchers to explore dozens of Asian theatrical adaptations of Shakespeare plays by addressing the processes of cultural production and East-West interaction on a global and local scale. |
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US-Iran Relations
Collaboration with the Center for International Studies, MIT; Watson Institute, Brown University; National Security Archive; George Washington University
For the US-Iran Relations project, HyperStudio develops an innovative research platform that allows US and Iranian scholars to collaborate on the investigation and interpretation of 1000s of English and Farsi documents to answer the question why improvements in US-Iran relations did not occur despite numerous opportunities. |
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(Cathy Culot)
Foreign Languages and Literatures
This multimedia archive features the personal stories of established and less established Belgian contemporary artists and introduces students of French to Belgian culture and history through Belgian contemporary arts. This online teaching resource increases learning about this trilingual country as it is used as an engine for self-discovery and self-teaching activities by beginning to advanced-level students.
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Cultura Community Site (Gilberte Furstenberg, Sabine Levet)
Foreign Languages and Literatures
The Cultura Community Site is intended to provide a on-line meeting space, including forums and collaboration spaces for all parties interested in the Cultura Project. |
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Contempor@rt (Johann Sadock)
Foreign Languages and Literatures
Contempor@rt is a project on the creation and interpretation of contemporary art by young artists from Quebec and Paris. |
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Marais Museum Project (Gilberte Furstenberg)
Foreign Languages and Literatures
The Marais Museum project presents students and researchers with an archive of more than 550 visual documents and 800+ text documents related to the history of the Marais neighborhood in Paris. |
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German Short Film (Kurt Fendt)
Foreign Languages and Literatures
The German Short Film project offers students a rich repository of contemporary German short film productions, video art, and relevant critical texts. |
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German Radio Art (Kurt Fendt)
Foreign Languages and Literatures
The German Radio Art archive allows students to investigate numerous examples of historical and contemporary German radio plays, sound art, and texts about this highly productive German radio genre. |
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Revolving Doors Project (James Buzard)
Literature
This rich multi-media project explores how the Revolving Door has been used as a metaphor in film, animation, and literature. Original articles about the invention of the revolving door and modern examples provide technical and historical background. |
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The Eurasian History and Memory Visual Archive presents a range of historical documents that explore issues such as Eurasian identity, migration, and social life. |
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Chinese Animation (Jing Wang, Henry Jenkins)
Foreign Languages and Literatures
The Chinese Animation Project aims at providing students with a perspective on the teaching methods of and artworks produced at the Animation School of the Beijing Film Academy and other animation schools in China. |
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Memory and Commemoration (Dagmar Jaeger)
Foreign Languages and Literatures
The digital media repository Gedenken und Gedächtnis is an extensive collection of interviews with authors and their various approaches to the representation of memory and commemoration in the works of literature. |
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Cultura (Gilberte Furstenberg)
Foreign Languages and Literatures
Cultura is a Web-based, intercultural project situated in a language class that connects American students with other students in different countries in order to explore cultural notions form more than one perspective. |
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MIT UPV Exchange (Douglas Morgenstern)
Foreign Languages and Literatures
MITUPV Exchange is an international online community where students from MIT, the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain), and students from other universities share multimedia content about academic and social aspects of their educational experiences. |
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Hip-Hop Japan (Ian Condry)
Foreign Languages and Literatures
This archive provides access to the music and words of Japanese hip-hop artists, as well as some contrasting examples from the worlds of Japanese pop, folk, rock, _enka_ and childrens music. |
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The American Authors Project provides students with media documents that provide a rich background to the works of American authors such as Herman Melville, Toni Morrison, and others. |
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The British Authors archive compiles some 150 texts, images and photographs, related to famous UK writers such as Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf and Mary Shelley. |
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Berliner sehen (Kurt Fendt, Ellen Crocker)
Foreign Languages and Literatures
Berliner sehen is a hypermedia documentary for German Studies that relies on an extensive collection of shared archives and the Internet to form a collaborative learning environment for beginning to advanced-level students. |
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Berliner sehen Exchange (Kurt Fendt, Ellen Crocker)
Foreign Languages and Literatures
Berliner sehen exchange is the on-line collaboration space for educators using Berliner sehen. |
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This archive presents students with a representative sample of early American comics. This project presents comics as a fascinating and beautiful art form that merges the popular with “high art” and allows students and researches to explore how comics have evolved in form and function from their early beginnings. |
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The Digital Dance Archive provides students with a digital workspace to collect and juxtapose critical video clips, dance silhouettes, musical forms, and texts from several contemporary dance works. |
