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- Ive spent the last three days at the bottom of the sea,because of you mrs. actress I cant even breathe,Maybe its the alchohal or codine speaking for me,because all I can say is i'll see you around. |
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- Last night, after I had gone to bed, the CNE announced that the regulations for the ratification process for the signatures had been approved with the usual three to two vote by the members of the Board of The Consejo Nacional Electoral (CNE). The CNE also announced the final numbers of the signatures that are valid (1.910.965), those that are considered under observation or had problems (1.192. |
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- Last night, after I had gone to bed, the CNE announced that the regulations for the ratification process for the signatures had been approved with the usual three to two vote by the members of the Board of The Consejo Nacional Electoral (CNE). The CNE also announced the final numbers of the signatures that are valid (1.910.965), those that are considered under observation or had problems (1.192. |
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- The Cubs staked Sergio Mitre to an 8-0 lead tonight, and he delivered six shut out innings in return, allowing four hits and striking out seven. Corey Patterson had the big night offensively, going five for six with two doubles.... |
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- From "Don't Let Excuses Snuff Out Your Dreams" to "Top 10 Tips for an Internet-Friendly Resume". Looks to be an actually useful resource, for those who need to make a resume or get basic career advice. (if this is here, I couldn't find it - if it turns out to be a repost, don't vote! |
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- A dear brother of mine was sharing with another brother in a coffeeshop and was ending off with a prayer in the name of Jesus. A man in his forties or fifties came over suddenly upon the end of the... |
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- I saw today Mayhem with Defiled from Japan and Manatark from Estonia. Fantastic concert |
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- System Utilities - File recovery and Data Recovery Software, Mail recovery, Undelete, Drive Image, Disk Cleaning, Firewall, Security tools for Windows. |
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Dramateatro (Apr 22 2004 02:57 GMT) - Published in Venezuela, 'Dramateatro' is an online journal devoted to the theatre, with a particular emphasis on Latin America. It publishes critical articles and essays on all aspects of the theatre, text and performance, across the centuries. Browsing through the archive of past issues, the user will find articles on such diverse areas as: representations of the home in three US Latino plays; 'fairytales' in the time of the Uruguayan dictatorship (the work of playwright/actress Raquel Diana); |
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- The Proyecto Biblioteca Digital Argentina is an online corpus of literary works from Argentina. The project aims to make available online texts considered representative of Argentinian writing, or to which access may be difficult, and which have passed into the public domain. The texts include: novels; essays; |
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- This Web site from Dr Geoffrey Kantaris (University of Cambridge) contains extensive lecture notes, multimedia resources and seminar papers on various areas of Hispanic and Latin American studies, and will be of great value to both undergraduate and postgraduate students. Papers and articles by Dr Kantaris available online cover the following areas: avant garde/modernism/postmodernism; women's writing and dictatorship (including Cristina Peri Rossi and Marta Traba); post-dictatorship Argentine cinema; |
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- This Web site is an extensive gateway to information and online resources about Mexican cinema. Compiled and maintained by David Wilt, who holds a PhD and has published both books and articles on Mexican cinema, this is an excellent resource for students especially who are seeking supportive material for their Latin American film studies. The site provides a news service with up-to-date information from the Mexican film industry. This section also includes a biography of Mexican film performers, offering brief details about a vast number of actors. The site's links are annotated to some extent and are arranged in the following categories: |
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- This is the Web site for the Centre of Brazilian Studies, based within Oxford University, whose aim it is to co-ordinate and develop postgraduate teaching and advanced research on Brazil across the humanities and social sciences. The Centre runs seminars, workshops and conferences, full details of which are available from the site. Documents detailing the proceedings of past events may be accessed (in PDF format): recent events have focused on themes such as Brazilian cinema, new approaches to Brazilian independence, and race and gender in Brazilian literature. An archive of the Centre's working papers, dating back to 1998, is also accessible: |
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- The Web site, 'El Broli Argentino' is a literary site from Argentina that offers: digital texts (short stories and poetry) of works by major writers; short biographies of a good selection of Latin American writers; and reviews of new publications and summaries of recommended texts. Students will find this site a useful introduction to Latin American - especially Argentinian - literature, and a means of keeping up-to-date with news from the Argentinian literary world. |
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En rodaje (Apr 22 2004 02:57 GMT) - 'En Rodaje' is an online magazine dedicated to Colombian cinema, television and photography. Updated regularly, it offers articles on these areas of the Colombian media, and interviews with actors, producers, directors and photographers. At the time of writing, the magazine featured extended articles on Luis Opina's film, 'Soplo de vida', and the renowned 1998 film, 'La vendedora de rosas' ('The Rose-Seller), and interviews with directors, Ciro Durn and Sergio Cabrera. Of interest also will be an essay tracing the history of cinema in Colombia back to its arrival in the country in 1895, and a complete filmography of Colombian films dating back to 1922. The magazine's essays on television offer an insight into Colombian 'telenovelas' (soap operas) in particular. |
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- The Web site for the Asociacin de Colombianistas will be of interest to and offer good resources for Latin Americanists working on Colombia especially. It offers some useful documentation (PDFs) which includes a bibliography of Colombian novels, and of academic publications from Colombia during the 1990s. It also provides access to an archive devoted to the writer, Manuel Meja Vallejo (containing a biography, interviews, and criticism of his work). Of most interest is the online access to PDFs of the Association's publication, the 'Revista de estudios colombianos'. The full-text of all articles (except the 1986 issue) is available. |
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Verbigracia (Apr 22 2004 02:57 GMT) - 'Verbigracia' is an online magazine dedicated to the literature and the arts, with particular emphasis on Latin America and the Iberian peninsular. Based in Caracas, the magazine is regularly updated with new articles, essays and features. The scope is vast: the user will find essays on, for example, Venezuelan politics and history; Cristina Peri Rossi and poetry; |
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- 'La casa de Asterin' (ISSN 0124-9282) is a peer-reviewed electronic journal from the Atlantic University in Barranquilla, Colombia, which publishes critical essays on primarily Latin American literature and culture. Published online three times a year, the contributions focus on such famous Latin American figures as Julio Cortzar, Jorge Luis Borges, and Gabriel Garca Mrquez alongside less well-known writers and artists, as well as more general themes such as literature in exile and postmodern theatrical poetics. With each issue of the journal is the literary supplement, 'Caribana', which publishes original short stories and poems, and 'El bal de los disfraces', which publishes fiction and poetry for children. There is an index of the journal's articles, organized by author name. Browsing through the contents of each issue is recommended, however, as there are many articles that will be of interest to students and researchers within the field of Latin American studies. |
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- This Web site offers a virtual exhibition of the Coleccin Cisneros, a visual arts project based in Caracas, Venezuela. The Coleccin consists primarily of modern and contemporary art from Latin America, but also includes colonial Latin American art and Latin American landscapes from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century. On the site, the user may explore an exhibition of works (with brief commentary) which is organized according to the following themes: 'Perceptions'; 'Structures'; |
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- This Web site gathers together and provides online access to writings by the academic and author, Professor Julio Ortega. Available here are essays on the work of writers such as: Jos Donoso; Carlos Fuentes; Julio Cortzar; |
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Everba (Apr 22 2004 02:57 GMT) - Everba (ISSN 1668-1002) is a peer-reviewed, electronic magazine devoted to Latin American studies. It publishes critical articles written in Spanish, English or Portuguese on Latin American culture and literature, original creative writing (short stories and poems, but only by invitation from the editors), and makes available audio and video files of, for example, interviews with prominent figures and lectures on relevant topics. The Web site is updated with new contributions four times a year, and Everba also annually produces a printed version of the articles from that year. Each edition of Everba carries a particular theme, for example, the Argentine writer Fina Warschaver (1910-1989) (this edition features digital versions of various writings by and about Warschaver), or more generally, 'time' and 'horror'. Calls for contributions to future issues detail the forthcoming themes, and the user may also access PDFs of past hard-copy Everba editions. |
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- This is the Web site of Memoria Abierta, an alliance of eight Argentine human rights organizations who work to preserve the memory of the period of state terrorism in Argentina (the 1970s, and the years of military dictatorship (1976-1983)). The alliance is currently engaged in four major projects. The Documentary Heritage project organizes and preserves files related to state terrorism, creating an accessible archive. The Oral Archive is a collection of oral testimonies related to state terrorism, and the Photographic Archive collects and preserves images of state terrorism from different sources. The Topography of Memory project aims to make 'visible' those buildings used as clandestine detention and torture centres, preserving them as historical sites in order to promote reconstruction of history and memory. |
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- 'Ajos y Zafiros' (ISSN 1684-7806) is an electronic journal devoted to Latin American literature, with a particular focus on Peruvian literature. At the time of writing, two issues of the journal were available. A number of critical essays appear in each issue on areas such as: the Peruvian poet Blanca Varela; 'periferal' literatures and criticism in Peru; |
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- This is the Web site of the Netherlands Historical Data Archive (NHDA). The NHDA makes available historical data sets for researchers. Its work is to collect, compile and publish said data. All the data sets are freely available. The site, which uses frames, is divided into a number of sections: |
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- This web site has been created by Steven Kreis for high school and undergraduate students. It contains a complete contents of three undergraduate courses in European history and is divided into 90 lectures, from ancient Sumer to the fall of the Soviet-style communism in 1989. All the lectures are divided into four groups: lectures on ancient and medieval European history; lectures on early modern European history; |
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- This web site about Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) consists of a biography and links to primary and secondary resources. Grotius was a lawyer, historian, and political philosopher. He has been described as 'the founding father of international law', and is best known for his treatise 'On the Law of War and Peace' ('De Jure Belli ac Pacis'). The web site links to a full text English version of this work. There is also a short bibliography of Grotius's key publications. |
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- The Hans Christian Andersen website has been developed to house the ongoing research and translation of Andersen's works. Although the Danish writer is famous for his fables, which have been translated and adopted by many writers since they were written, Andersen possessed a quick wit as seen in his letters and response to reviews, which can be found at this site. There is a timetable of his life and works, as well as some texts from his fairytales translated into English, however, the majority remain in Danish. This site is not always easy to navigate. However, it contains reviews, illustrations, and the original tales in the language they were written in. |
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- Nineteenth Century Studies is a journal dedicated to interdisciplinary studies in American, British, European, and Imperial colonies' nineteenth-century history. Essays and reviews in literature, architecture, visual arts, music, science and ideology can be found within this journal. To read the articles a subscription is needed. However, the ability to search the tables of contents (dating back to volume one in 1987) of this journal could be a good starting point for research. Topics come from many scholars in subjects such as Charles Dickens, Imperialism, Cholera, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Nonconmforists, Classicism, Tennyson, Comic Strips, Art Nouveau, Impressionism, and too many others to mention all. |
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- Internet for European Studies is a free "teach yourself" tutorial on the Web, teaching Internet information skills for European Studies. The tutorial is aimed at students, lecturers, and researchers who want to improve their knowledge of the best Internet resources for European Studies. Internet European Studies is one of a set of tutorials within the Resource Discovery Network's (RDN) Virtual Training Suite. The tutorials may also be used to support teaching and training courses. Each course consists of: |
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- This web page attempts to collate the bibliographic details of all journals devoted to eighteenth-century studies extant in the world. In practice, this amounts to nineteen publications in various languages covering most humanities disciplines. For each journal the following information is given where available: the date of the journal's inception; the address at which it may be contacted; |
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