facility:university of nottingham

Anglo Saxon remedy kills hospital superbug MRSA
▻http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27263-anglo-saxon-remedy-kills-hospital-superbug-mrsa.html

The project was born when Freya Harrison, a microbiologist at the University of Nottingham, UK, got talking to Christina Lee, an Anglo Saxon scholar. They decided to test a recipe from an Old English medical compendium called Bald’s Leechbook, housed in the British Library. (...)

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After nine days of stewing, the potion had killed all the soil bacteria introduced by the leek and garlic. “It was self-sterilising,” says Harrison. “That was the first inkling that this crazy idea just might have some use.”

#ail #santé #résistance_aux_antibiotiques #staphiloccoque_doré

Cartography and cultural revolution : maps, modernity and the New Soviet man - The University of Nottingham

▻http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/home/events/cartography-and-cultural-revolution-maps,-modernity-and-the-new-soviet

Personne ne peut y être, bien sur, mais c’est pour référencer l’auteur et le suivre.

Dr Nick Baron, Department of History, presents ’Cartography and cultural revolution: maps, modernity and the New Soviet man’.

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This talk will explore the role and meaning of cartography in early Soviet culture, with a particular focus on the Stalin period. With reference to the depiction of maps and mapping in film and the visual arts, it argues that Soviet cartography was an important element of the revolutionary project to create the ’New Soviet Man’, operating as a model, metaphor and means of social transformation.

#ex-urss #soviétisme #espace_post_soviétique #homo_soviéticus

About « Experimental Geographies

Le site d’un géographe radical expériental

▻http://experimentalgeographies.wordpress.com/about

I’m a Lecturer in Cultural and Historical Geography in the School of Geography at the University of Nottingham having joined the school at the beginning of October 2004. I was actually born in Fredericton, New Brunswick though I grew up in Calgary. I moved to Vancouver to study and spent the better part of 10 years at the University of British Columbia. I also lived in Germany while I was working on my PhD spending time in Berlin, Heidelberg, and Mainz. I’m currently working on two book projects. One focuses on the historical and political geography of the German Hausbesetzerbewegung (squatter movement) from the 1960s onwards. The other explores the relationship between landscape and representation in contemporary photographic practice.

I thought I’d set up this blog as an attempt to experiment with and think through different geographical approaches to aesthetics and politics.

#cartographie-radicale #géographie-radicale