Wednesday, 27 August 2025

The Consecrated Eminence: NOMECH: Animality and Indigeneity in American Automotive Culture

NOMECH: Animality and Indigeneity in American Automotive Culture

[Daniel Bowman of the University of Stavanger in Norway visited the Native American Literature collection in the Archives & Special Collections in the summer of 2024 and again in 2025. He selected these items and drafted labels for a small display in Frost Library during the summer of 2025; the content of that display is reproduced here. All of the materials included in this exhibit are available for use in the Archives & Special Collections.] The NOMECH project examines fiction by Indigenous American authors for literary representations of animals, automobiles, and the natural environment. The project develops a novel approach […]

Wednesday, 6 August 2025

The Consecrated Eminence: 80 Years Later: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki August 6 & 9, 1945

80 Years Later: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki August 6 & 9, 1945

In our era of instantaneous world-wide news coverage, it is difficult to comprehend that it took many years for detailed accounts and images of the August 1945 nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to reach a global audience. During the Allied occupation of Japan from the end of the war until 1952, reporting on the effects of the atomic bomb was strictly prohibited. A groundbreaking piece in The New Yorker in 1946 provided the first detailed coverage in the American press. "The Hiroshima Panels" -- a series of paintings begun by Japanese artists Iri and Toshi Maruki in 1950 -- […]