Cultural History of the Emotions
After my paper on masculinity and anger in early modern revenge tragedies at the ESSHC conference in Lissabon, I was invited to what promises to be an exciting workshop on the cultural history of the emotions in the early modern period in Umeå, Sweden this October. The call for papers is open until 15 May:
Cultural History of Emotions in Premodernity Read the rest of this entry »
Del.icio.us as a research tool
My system of keeping track of interesting sites is quite muddled. I use old-fashioned bookmarks in my browser; sticky notes with urls can be found lingering in the corners of my Apple Dashboard; I mail interesting links to whoever I think is interested; I stick links into WordPress posts I think I might at some point write about a subject; I use the nifty research tool Zotero to keep track of research links; and I haphazardly use del.icio.us - but that hasn’t kept me from growing a collection of tags that already looks too unwieldy to me.
If you are like me, then Wess Daniels’ Tips for using Delicious in (doctoral) research may be the thing for you. The post is full of useful tips on organizing your tabs, using the notes feature, and combining your use of del.icio.us with tumblr and DevonThink.
See also how de.icio.us is changing academic research and the del.icio.us blog itself for ideas on the use of social bookmarking in education.
h/t: Academhack
