Month: October 2014

November events focus on healthy living, historic travel, and more

Our November calendar is full to brimming, with events from the west coast to the east on topics ranging from generic drugs to Maryland geography.  As always, we invite you to support these events and help spread the word. Three cheers to JHUP authors and staff--and the busy month ahead! 3 November 2014, 6:00 pm…

November events focus on healthy living, historic travel, and more

Our November calendar is full to brimming, with events from the west coast to the east on topics ranging from generic drugs to Maryland geography.  As always, we invite you to support these events and help spread the word. Three cheers to JHUP authors and staff--and the busy month ahead! 3 November 2014, 6:00 pm…

Confronting the world, shaping national identity

Guest Post by Dane A. Morrison ISIS, Ebola, globalization, the Ukraine. State-sponsored terrorism, globally transmitted disease, worldwide economic disruption, fraught relations with overseas powers. The New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, and FOX News shout this constellation of dangers to even the casual, cowering observer. In response, we imagine better times and think of these troubles…

Confronting the world, shaping national identity

Guest Post by Dane A. Morrison ISIS, Ebola, globalization, the Ukraine. State-sponsored terrorism, globally transmitted disease, worldwide economic disruption, fraught relations with overseas powers. The New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, and FOX News shout this constellation of dangers to even the casual, cowering observer. In response, we imagine better times and think of these troubles…

Are venture capital funded MOOCs a good idea?

Guest post by Bill Ferster The pressure from skyrocketing costs and competition from e-learning efforts at universities have made online educational technology a source of much discussion. Teresa Sullivan, the president of the University of Virginia, was summarily fired in a coup d’etat in 2012 (and subsequently rehired because of protests from an outraged faculty…

Taking to the streets and to the internet in Hong Kong

Guest post by Catie Snow Bailard After four weeks of protest and occupation, which at times have drawn tens of thousands of participants, face-to-face talks between government officials and protest leaders appear to be yielding results. Chinese officials have promised both to issue a public report documenting the protesters' sentiments and to provide a platform for discussing electoral issues…

Taking to the streets and to the internet in Hong Kong

Guest post by Catie Snow Bailard After four weeks of protest and occupation, which at times have drawn tens of thousands of participants, face-to-face talks between government officials and protest leaders appear to be yielding results. Chinese officials have promised both to issue a public report documenting the protesters' sentiments and to provide a platform for discussing electoral issues…

Facing the Challenge Offered by Graphic Medicine

Guest Post by Susan Squier and J. Ryan Marks Since its beginning, the journal Configurations has fostered “the multi-disciplinary study of the relations among literature and language, the arts, science, medicine, and technology.” Those are the words of editors Melissa Littlefield and Rajani Sudan when they assumed the editorship two years ago. The pair promised the journal…