Studying Our 'Spooky' Links With the Land

From: Forward | Date: April 7, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

Susan Miron
Forward
04-07-1995
Studying Our `Spooky' Links With the Land.

The witty, ebullient, intellectually omnivorous Simon Schama wears his erudition lightly. At the Jerusalem Book Fair, as the keynote speaker at the Aspen Forum on the Future of History, the peripatetic Mr. Schama mischievously proposed electronic conferences -- "let's call it Interquibble" -- that would force historians to eschew any pretense that they were actually interested in the academic content of their annual meetings. "These are essentially tribal gatherings at which gossip is exchanged, the pecking order of the ...

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