by Nathan Smith | Jun 21, 2011 | Fay Jones School of Architecture, Italy, Landscape Architecture, Study Abroad
The study abroad program has officially ended, but I haven’t blogged since Rome! Here are a few images from the Rome studio project mentioned in previous blogs. Jumping from place to place and a general lack of free wireless has kept my internet use to a bare...
by Nathan Smith | May 25, 2011 | German, Honors thesis, J.William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, Research
In my Honors thesis, I analyzed the Jewish identity in selected works of the two contemporary German-Jewish authors, Barbara Honigmann and Gila Lustiger. As children of survivors, both writers push for a new Jewish identity, one that is not based on the victim...
by Nathan Smith | May 24, 2011 | Fay Jones School of Architecture, Italy, Study Abroad
My feet hurt! The sun is hot, and I feel like a tourist. For the previous 5 days we toured practically all of ancient and middle age Rome. Many, many unbelievable sites all inundated by tour groups and Germans on holiday. I am glad to be starting work. My studio is in...
by Nathan Smith | May 20, 2011 | Fay Jones School of Architecture, Study Abroad
The bags are packed and I’m ready to go. I’m giving the blog a quick test-run so that uploading photos and scans of drawings will be easy once overseas. I have decided not to take a computer of my own (mostly to keep baggage and worry to a minimum),...
by Nathan Smith | May 16, 2011 | Drama, J.William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, Research
Honors drama student Will Eubanks was able to cut tech cues by almost half in a recent campus production of Shakespeare’s Othello – thanks to research supported by an Honors College undergraduate research grant. He reports on the project below: Over the...
