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"Arab Spring" / European History / Israel / Journalism / Maghreb / Uncategorized

December 3, 2011

Latest signandsight roundups

I haven’t had the time to catch up with signandsight in recent weeks — but here the site’s most recent posts: Legacy of denial Germany has been rocked by the disclosures surrounding the...

Essays / Europe / European History

December 24, 2010

Orhan Pamuck on Europe

Interesting essay by Orhan Pamuck in today’s Guardian. Below, the opening paras; you can read the whole piece here. The souring of Turkey’s European dream In the schoolbooks I read as a child in...

Book Reviews / Books / Cultural Studies / Essays / European History

December 20, 2010

… the great pile of unread or half read books keeps accumulating, mutating, collapsing, merging, diminishing (ever so slightly), but mainly growing by leaps and bounds. The idea was of course to review them...

Ancient Languages / Cultural Studies / Education / European History / Intellectuals / Language / Obituaries

December 19, 2010

Jacqueline de Romilly (1913-2010)

(”Jacqueline de Romilly chez elle en 2004″, photos Olivier Roller) Jacqueline de Romilly who passed away yesterday at 97, was a magnificent Hellenist & Greek scholar, who collected firsts: the first woman accepted at...

European History / Poet / Politics / signandsight / Uncategorized

November 21, 2010

Oskar Pastior Fortsetzung

Here are this week’s signandsight noticings on the ongoing Oskar Pastior affair: Oskar Pastior’s Securitate past After it emerged that the Romanian-German poet Oskar Pastior (more here) had been working for the Romanian Securitate...

Books / Cultural Studies / European History

November 13, 2010

From Germany: “The Foreign Ministry and the Past”

“The Foreign Ministry and the Past. German diplomats in the Third Reich and in the Federal Republic” by an independent historian commission Former Finance Senator Thilo Sarrazin’s bestseller “Germany is abolishing itself. How we...

European History / Intellectuals / Poets

September 18, 2010

Oskar Pastior as Securitate Informant?

On a number of occasions NOMADICS has spoken in praise of the poet Oscar Pastior, such as on the occasion of him receiving the Büchner Prize posthumously (click here). Pastior was indeed a splendid...

European History / Performance / Poetry / Theater

September 9, 2010

Robert Kelly’s “Oedipus After Colonus”

a new play by Robert Kelly this week in Manhattan, next week in Woodstock– Directed by Crichton Atkinson and starring Carey Harrison as Oedipus Manhattan: Wednesday through Sunday, SEPTEMBER 8-12th at 7PM ‘OEDIPUS AFTER...

Essays / European History / Intellectuals / Israel / Obituaries

August 9, 2010

Tony Judt (1948 -2010)

Tony Judt died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis – Lou Gehrig’s disease — on Saturday. Over the years I have immensely enjoyed the historian’s brilliant and insightful essays (at times acerbic-romantic, at times outrageous-calmly British) ...

Art / European History / Language

August 7, 2010

Grotesque Alphabet

via shivabel again: This late 16th century suite of ornamental letters by Giacomo Paolini is known as ‘Grotesque Alphabet in Mythological Landscapes’. Music by Claudio Monteverdi, ‘L’Orfeo — Toccata’. A – ‘Ateone mutato in...