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French film screening March 26 at Fayette campus
3/19/10
The public is invited to attend a free film screening at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus titled "Les Voix/Voies Feminines: Feminine Voices/Feminine Paths" in honor of Women's History Month. The screenings will take place from noon to 4 p.m. March 26, in Swimmer Hall in the Williams Building on campus. The films being shown are "War Dance" and "What I Want My Words to Do to You."
'The New Bibliopolis,' by Willa Silverman, reviewed
8/18/08
From the papyrus scrolls of ancient Egypt to the illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages to the mid-fifteenth century invention of the printing press, people have long endeavored to improve book production techniques and make text more portable, durable and affordable.
Seeds of Discovery
9/1/02
My brother handed me a small package, his eyes shining. "You just never know what you'll discover out there," he said, having returned east after six months in California's Sequoia National Park.
I unwrapped the tiny package. Inside rested a pinecone, the size of an egg and the color of hot cocoa. A pattern of oblong triangles formed its bumpy ridges. The cone was hard and dense—not brittle as I expected—and it smelled of campfires.
Keepers of History
5/1/02
Who holds your history?
In West Africa, written history is something new. African history was written in European languages during the colonial era beginning in the late 1800s, and has been around in Arabic for centuries. But societies in the Sahel and Savanna regions of West Africa have long kept their own history, in their own languages, orally, in the form of epics.
Imagine relying on someone's memory to hold your people's history. In many parts of West Africa, this job is carried out by the griot.
Gules Crusily and Fess Dancetty Or
9/1/96
Braveheart was a good film," Gerard J. Brault graciously admits, but not an especially accurate one. "The Scottish noblemen don't seem to have any coats of arms in the movie," he notes with disappointment. "And we know, at that time"—the turn of the 14th century—"that some of them did."
French film screening March 26 at Fayette campus
3/19/10
The public is invited to attend a free film screening at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus titled "Les Voix/Voies Feminines: Feminine Voices/Feminine Paths" in honor of Women's History Month. The screenings will take place from noon to 4 p.m. March 26, in Swimmer Hall in the Williams Building on campus. The films being shown are "War Dance" and "What I Want My Words to Do to You."
'The New Bibliopolis,' by Willa Silverman, reviewed
8/18/08
From the papyrus scrolls of ancient Egypt to the illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages to the mid-fifteenth century invention of the printing press, people have long endeavored to improve book production techniques and make text more portable, durable and affordable.
Seeds of Discovery
9/1/02
My brother handed me a small package, his eyes shining. "You just never know what you'll discover out there," he said, having returned east after six months in California's Sequoia National Park.
I unwrapped the tiny package. Inside rested a pinecone, the size of an egg and the color of hot cocoa. A pattern of oblong triangles formed its bumpy ridges. The cone was hard and dense—not brittle as I expected—and it smelled of campfires.
Keepers of History
5/1/02
Who holds your history?
In West Africa, written history is something new. African history was written in European languages during the colonial era beginning in the late 1800s, and has been around in Arabic for centuries. But societies in the Sahel and Savanna regions of West Africa have long kept their own history, in their own languages, orally, in the form of epics.
Imagine relying on someone's memory to hold your people's history. In many parts of West Africa, this job is carried out by the griot.
Gules Crusily and Fess Dancetty Or
9/1/96
Braveheart was a good film," Gerard J. Brault graciously admits, but not an especially accurate one. "The Scottish noblemen don't seem to have any coats of arms in the movie," he notes with disappointment. "And we know, at that time"—the turn of the 14th century—"that some of them did."