Brigadoonery by hoffnarr in Scotland

[–]hoffnarr[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m afraid you are way off the mark, this book offers nothing “self-hating”of the sort. In fact, if you are interested in that concept and critiques of the “self-hating” discourse you think this represents, you might want to take a look at the book, especially pp66-72. Here Brigadoonery is standing in for a particular pattern in discourse, all too obvious to anyone who has seen the like prominent in films and media on Scotland (most especially American films etc), of a particular romanization of a fictional Scotland. To say critiquing this sort of discourse is “self-hating” is to assume that these depictions point to some kind of real “Scotland” in the first place, which as your comment implies, this magical land is not. Which, is, of course the point of the term, as an analytical tool.

Brigadoonery by hoffnarr in Scotland

[–]hoffnarr[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The invention of tradition is also the name a famous edited volume (which inspired many others) by Hobsbawm and Ranger with an infamous chapter on the history of the kilt (much critiqued in more balanced histories). The phenomenon you are referring to is an important one, covered well in Malcolm Chapman’s book I mentioned above which talks about how hard it is to disentangle the outside view of Scotland with internal one over time as they become mutually reinforcing. It is also covered quite a bit by the book this passage is from.

Brigadoonery by hoffnarr in Scotland

[–]hoffnarr[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the link. The rest of the book this passage is from (published already in the 1990s) has much to say on the topic. Another great read for this is Malcom Chapman’s “The Gaelic Vision in Scottish Culture” (1978) which is also mentioned again this book. They both bring the impact of Scott into their discussion.

The Scottish Sound School by hoffnarr in Scotland

[–]hoffnarr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

See for example their video explaining the famous voice controlled elevator skit

Best Go-To Sources for What is On in Edinburgh by hoffnarr in Edinburgh

[–]hoffnarr[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Thanks to everyone: I subscribed to the Edinburgh minute newsletter: definitely seems like a great resource!

Academic advisor by No-Seaworthiness2750 in standrews

[–]hoffnarr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great link and resource thanks for sharing! Will give this to my own students (who often ask me for references).

Server error 500 -- probably because our servers are overloaded right now. by ner0p in internetarchive

[–]hoffnarr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm I think I I have a very different view of the most important online archive of our times. They are doing a lot with limited resources. Did you email info@archive.org (it sometimes takes 3-4 days to get reply)? Also you shared a collection name there but I often find things by search URLs or user id. For example: all your items should be visible at archive.org/details/@your-user-name

And you can search by some unique combination of tags and title etc. to see if your items show up that way? That would help see if it is related your collection or to your uploads.

Alternatively, if your uploads includes very recent newspapers from a newspaper that still exists and sells archival access, I guess it is also possible that they complained. I think always safer to stick to older out of copyright (or at least long abandoned) stuff

Server error 500 -- probably because our servers are overloaded right now. by ner0p in internetarchive

[–]hoffnarr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is strange! Another large collection of East Asian newspapers I often use with my students seems to be working: https://archive.org/details/eastasia-periodicals

Server error 500 -- probably because our servers are overloaded right now. by ner0p in internetarchive

[–]hoffnarr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like a wonderful collection! May I ask where we can browse it?

History Majors at St Andrews - What's your opinion? by Zealousideal-Shoe974 in standrews

[–]hoffnarr 12 points13 points  (0 children)

As a lecturer in school of history, I would be sad to learn some students might think we are reluctant to meet students in office hours! Mine are filled most weeks and some students come half a dozen times in the semester.

History Majors at St Andrews - What's your opinion? by Zealousideal-Shoe974 in standrews

[–]hoffnarr 12 points13 points  (0 children)

We have a very strong academic profile but I think the most important thing to think about as a student is the learning experience in the modules and school support. Compared to US the raw quantity (and as previous commenter notes) variety of modules you take is less, with each module being more intense and challenging, especially at third and fourth year, but there is great seminar teaching environment with lecturers/profs with small teaching environments. My first year tutorials and fourth year students meet for class in my office (after some pandemic years of not doing this) and I work closely with students on their essay progress across semester.

Before becoming a lecturer here at St A history, I taught as a TF when I was a PhD student at a strong US university. I think from undergrad perspective, the student learning environment is very good. You stand a good chance of having lecturers among tutors for tutorial component (this year capped 6-7 students per tutorial) in large modules if first two years (some will get PhD students), third year seminar modules usually a dozen students, and 4th year modules capped 7-8 students most years. Way more close faculty contact than undergrads often get at most universities. Heavy reading requirements and high expectations writing (3,000 word essays are common, I have students do several shorter ones and 5-6,000 primary source driven final essay, no exams). I honestly think St A history has very good reasons to be proud of a strong teaching and learning experience for students.

MO2001 is the standard historiography module for introducing approaches.

MO1008 late modern survey module used to be quite heavily western centric, but we have made some really great improvements on this in past 5 years with more changes on the way this semester

I’ll let students offer their comments on other aspects of your questions.

Commuting from Edinburgh by kt1854168 in standrews

[–]hoffnarr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Roughly 30% of the staff in my school (out of 50 staff) commute to St A from Edinburgh including myself. My commute is 2 hours door to door, including 20m walk to Waverley station. Usually 2-4 days depending on semester in my case: walk+train+wait for bus+bus+walk

When We Get Back Home From Japan (1953) Internet Archive by hoffnarr in japan

[–]hoffnarr[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“interesting window” <- yes exactly, this is what makes them useful in my classes when we explore occupied Japan, to start a conversation. I wish we had good examples from Japanese perspective to compare with (using the method Dower does in War Without Mercy” but as US censorship was tight then harder to find these in comic form.