Snow Theory

a German Studies blog

Sunday, September 17, 2023

Reading very old newspapers

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  How I moved into the eighteenth century. I have always preferred spoilers, I cannot stand dramatic tension, suspense kills me, so I have d...
Wednesday, March 23, 2022

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The Legacy of Enlightenment Race Theory March 24 – 25, 2022   Organized by: Daniel Purdy, Pennsylvania State University Sponsored by: Max Ka...
Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Broken Up Translations between New York City and Buenos Aires. "Todo lo que se olvida en un instante" (Everything That Is Forgotten in an Instant)

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  Seen at the 2021 MOMA Film Festival online: In watching this film, the first thrill was that of recognition: hearing my old Bronx Science ...
Friday, June 22, 2018

Nazis and Cowboys at the Border

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Americans, it seems, cannot help drawing analogies between current politics and Nazi Germany. The potential for similarities is on everyone...
Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Academic Colds

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Academic Colds  The undergraduate cold comes as the convulsive culmination of a five-week run of all-nighters, talking, reading, , find...
Wednesday, February 7, 2018

What's in a name

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  Snowtheory: when a blanket of ice suspends normal operations, leaving us free to ponder what we will for a few hours before the everyday w...
Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Everybody Knows

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Everybody knows, so we can all agree that Leonard Cohen was a careful student of modern song, as Bruce Springsteen is.  When you sing ...
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