Extra Credit opportunity: Friday at 1pm Wednesday, Apr 22 2009

Thought you might be interested in this — and if you write your reactions down and turn them in to me, it’s good for 10 points extra credit [roughly 1/4 of a quiz]

Department of Modern Languages holds symposium on cultural constructions

News Release — 20 April 2009

ARLINGTON – The University of Texas at Arlington Department of Modern Languages stages a symposium on “Cultural Constructions III: Connections” from 8:30 a.m. until 6 p.m. Friday, April 24.  The symposium will be held in Room 200, Trimble Hall, 700 S. West St.

The “Connections” theme is broadly defined …

The keynote lecture by Associate Professor John Garrigus is scheduled for 1:15 p.m. and is titled “Poisons, Powders, and Guns: Slaves Strike Back in Saint Domingue (1758) and Jamaica (1760).” Garrigus’ lecture is sponsored by the Mustaque Ahmed Festival of Ideas, a program designed to enhance interaction between presenter and audiences.  Another highlight is the OneBook panel discussion from 10:30 a.m. until noon, moderated by Associate Professor Christopher Conway.

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How to get accents on your computer Friday, Feb 27 2009

Here’s a site that helps you figure out how to put in accents — in papers, or in GoogleEarth.

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Here’re the 4 historical maps of Canada Monday, Feb 9 2009

As promised, here are the overlay maps of Canada. See the YouTube tutorial in the previous post to learn how to import them into Google Earth.

This is a pretty big file — 33Mb! So be patient downloading it if you have a slow connection. You may want to download this at school and save it to a USB drive.

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Class video: The French Wars of Religion Monday, Feb 2 2009

This is the video, from the film Queen Margot, that we saw in class. It shows the enormous tensions between two groups of noble warlords, rallying around Protestant or Huguenot and Catholic religious causes.

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Samuel Champlain, Father of New France. Monday, Feb 2 2009

See the John Carter Library Exhibition on Champlain here at this link.

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Wednesday, Jan 28 2009

The UTA homepage is saying that campus will be closed until noon on Wednesday, Jan. 28, because of the freezing rain. So — we’ll get together on Friday. I’ll have the first Book Guide for you — to Greer’s book on the Jesuit Relations.  Until then — drive safely!

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Welcome to The French Atlantic! Sunday, Dec 28 2008

It’s December 29, 2008.  The syllabus and class schedule are posted, on the left!

If you don’t already know about GoogleEarth, the free software program from Google, go ahead and download it to a computer near you. You can also find it on the computers in the UTA library. You’ll need to sign-up for a Google account, if you don’t already have one. When you get the account, I recommend you check out Google Reader, and subscribe to this blog, so you won’t have to always remember to do it.

See you in class! — Dr. G.

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