CFP: Journal of Jewish Identities
NEH Teaching Development Grants
Jews for Obama
Ava and Julia on Baking for Obama: at Sivacracy
Gender equity study at UCI
Ellen at ReadyMade Magazine
The Architecture of Happiness
Alain de Botton’s Architecture of Happiness is a humanist’s guide to appreciating built environments. The book is delivered in short sequences — I would dare say “blog-like” in their collaging of photographs with reflections at once historical and personal, if it were not that de Button’s ruminative European sensibility ultimately summons the essay in the grand tradition of Montaigne. Read more …
Joel Stein: An Un-Commencement Address
Joel Stein gives commencement address at Tarbut v’Torah. Read more.
Ambidextrous Interview
Jay's Band
Judaica in the Sistine Chapel Ceiling
Chinese Houses: An Afternoon with Ronald Knapp
This week, the UCI Design Alliance hosted an afternoon with Ronald Knapp, the world’s leading historian of Chinese vernacular housing. Read more …
Manga Shakespeare
Shakespeare and the Question of Time
Universality of Religion, Particularity of Culture?
One Day Conference at the University of California, Irvine
DIY Kids in US News and World Report
DIY KIDS: links and buzz
DIY KIDS is out, and I’m tracking the buzz. read more
D.I.Y. Kids reviewed on Etsy.com
Death of the Hyphen
Greater Shakespeare
D.I.Y. Kids: Interview on Babble
Shakespeare After 9/11: Critical Roundtable
Over lunch at a Shakespeare Association of America meeting, Douglas Brooks and Matthew Biberman invited me to host a critical roundtable on the topic of “Shakespeare After 9/11.” Accepting their invitation meant not only entering into an assignment whose parameters I could not grasp in advance, but also delivering those uncertainties to a circle of prospective interlocutors. Any hostess experiences a certain flutter when she sends out her invitations, and her concerns can only increase when the party she’s organizing is one piece of a larger program.
Conference: Shakespeare in Venice
The Merchant of Menace
Shakespeare paintings by LA artist.
Shakespeare's Bible
Links and text drafts for entry, new Shakespeare Encyclopedia. Comments welcome!!
Thinking w/ Shakespeare
Book abstract: “Thinking with Shakespeare” models a philosophical, experimental, and creative approach to reading Shakespeare designed to reopen the plays to questions of ongoing political, ethical, and aesthetic interest.
Ellen Lupton in New York Times Book Review
Moorpark College Multimedia Festival
UCI Design Alliance
Three Neighbors
Eric Santner, Ken Reinhard, and Slavoj Zizek, authors of The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology, enjoying a barbeque at Studio 28.