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Non-Producing Skills in Early Modern East Asia: Skill-Material-Knowledge Entanglements Beyond Innovative Production

Join the Department of History and the Asian Studies Center for Non-Producing Skills in Early Modern East Asia: Skill-Material-Knowledge Entanglements beyond Innovative Production Questions to be explored: How did everyday skills and material lifecycles coevolve and what are the characteristics of the knowledge that stemmed therefrom?… Continue Reading Non-Producing Skills in Early Modern East Asia: Skill-Material-Knowledge Entanglements Beyond Innovative Production

Non-Producing Skills in Early Modern East Asia: Skill-Material-Knowledge Entanglements beyond Innovative Production

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Join the Department of History and the Asian Studies Center for Non-Producing Skills in Early Modern East Asia: Skill-Material-Knowledge Entanglements beyond Innovative Production.   Questions to be explored: How did everyday skills and material lifecycles coevolve and what are the characteristics of the knowledge that… Continue Reading Non-Producing Skills in Early Modern East Asia: Skill-Material-Knowledge Entanglements beyond Innovative Production

Presentation: Soviet Dreams’ and the Lake Placid Archipelago: Labor, Mobility, and Usability in the 1980 Olympics

Emily Joan Elliott will present her research on the afterlives of the Lake Placid and Moscow 1980 Olympic Villages as part of the Back to the Future: A 1980s seminar series, sponsored by York St. John University. In Soviet Dreams’ and the Lake Placid Archipelago:… Continue Reading Presentation: Soviet Dreams’ and the Lake Placid Archipelago: Labor, Mobility, and Usability in the 1980 Olympics