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Archiving - 2

Sunday, February 26, 2006

My two entries earlier this week focused on conferences and archives. Before I move on to more interesting themes like the much postponed series of postings on Hariscandra, I wanted to add a set of comments on both those themes.
Last week, Naim saab suggested that my first question in my earlier posting on Archiving wasn’t [...]

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Archiving Truth

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

How is (historical) truth to be archived?
Scott Shane reports in The New York Times on a seven year old secret program at the National Archives, as part of which Intelligence Agencies have been reclassifying thousands of publicly available documents and removing them from public access. Also see this note edited by historian Mathew M. [...]

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Conferencing

Monday, February 20, 2006

Back in a cold Chicago from sunny and warm northern California. Well, it was cold and raining in San Francisco too. Sepoy and I complained about the weather much but soon after landing in Chicago, we realized there is cold weather and then there is cold weather.
As I was busy all of last week, [...]

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Recording wrestling

Tuesday, February 14, 2006

First, enjoy these award winning wonderful photographs by Tomasz Gudzowaty and Judit Berekal. They were taken at the Gopalaswamisvara Garadi (wrestling ring) in Naalabeedhi, Sunnadakeri, Mysore.

Now seriously, I have spent my entire life in and around universities, hanging out with writers and thinkers. In all these years, I have never come across [...]

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In the company of historians

Sunday, January 8, 2006

There is something different to be in the company of historians at AHA, even for those of us who live our lives among historians. Everywhere on the streets of downtown Philadelphia, at the convention center, in cafes, restaurants and hotels, they were conspicous by their sombre mood, unsmiling visage and the burden of carrying the [...]

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On Matters History and Blogging

Saturday, January 7, 2006

In the spirit of the panel on Academic blogging that I attended at the American Historical Association Annual meeting, I must do this posting immediately. How can a historian not take his responsibility to create new myths seriously?
The Round Table entitled Were All the World a Blog: History Bloggers and History Blogging featured a diverse [...]

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