Communist pamphlet on the Berlin Wall

New Historical Express

On 13 August 1961, the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) started building what became known as the Berlin Wall. This sudden development in the Soviet bloc caused Communist Parties around the world to come up with arguments to support this move by the GDR. Here is a pamphlet (probably) distributed by the Communist Party of Great Britain in the early 1960s to defend the Wall.

There is no authorship attributed on the pamphlet. If anyone knows anything more about this pamphlet, please let me know.

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ENGL1101/New Media Literacy, Exploring Forms Assignment

All Is Telling

My students have already built two web-based compositions in our ENGL1101/New Media Literacy course (program description here, composition assignment sheet here). Today, I’ve asked them to locate model examples online of the form they are using for the third checkpoint assignment. Here are the tasks for the day:

• Locate a blog, essay, presentation, or bibliography as your model to study. Post a link to it on Twitter with a short description. Use our class hashtag (#gsunml) and a one of the following tags: #pres, #essay, #bib, #blog. (10 mins)
• Write a short blog post (100 words) describing why you chose that artifact and post the link to Twitter using the hashtags. (15 mins)
• Post questions about the form that your reading raises. Keep both tags. (10 mins)
• Suggest answers or give advice to others using tags from compositions you’ve already completed. (10 mins).
• Open a Storify account, collect…

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One farewell, a decade in the making

All Is Telling

I sent the following email to the faculty, staff, and GTAs in my department this afternoon. It just felt too strange to leave ten years of work behind without some amount of public reflection.

After ten years of being a grad student, a GTA, a staff member, and a faculty member, this week is my final week of work in the English Department at GSU. In the fall I will begin my first job on the tenure track at Southern Polytechnic State University in Marietta. I want to mark this time myself by saying goodbye and thank you to you, my colleagues.

My professional identity, confidence, and pedagogy were, in large part, constructed in this department. I appreciate the inspiration and encouragement that I’ve received from you — too many of you to name here — over the years. Whether in the form of an obscure source idea, a brilliant…

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‘A Peculiar Society’? Ireland, 1970s-1990s

Brief proposals (c.250 words), along with a short biography, should be sent to ireland1970s1990s@gmail.com by 12 December 2014. Papers that link Ireland to the broader international experience of change would be particularly welcome. The selected participants will be informed by 15 January 2015.

Conference organisers:
Sarah-Anne Buckley, Tomás Finn, & Kevin O’Sullivan
Dept of History, NUI Galway

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