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Robert Cole, Upper School
History Teacher |
“The City as Museum: Shanghai’s
Historical Didactics”
by Robert Cole, an Upper School History Teacher
at Stone Ridge School. This paper
will be presented at the
Seventeenth Annual World History
Association Conference at the
University of London, Queen Mary
College, Mile End Campus, from 25-29
June 2008.
Abstract:
Standing on opposite sides of the Huangpu River in
Shanghai, the colonial architecture
of the Bund and the self-consciously
futuristic structures of the Pudong
development area seem locked in a
permanent mutual gaze. In this
location, Shanghai’s past and future
see each other, and the result is
simultaneously contradictory and
coherent. The stylistic clash
between the stately buildings of the
Bund and the whimsical spires of
Pudong’s skyscrapers is clear
enough, but the juxtaposition of
these structures is also
participating in a concerted effort
to link Shanghai’s “semi-colonial”
past and its post-communist future.
This effort is perhaps most clearly
displayed in Shanghai’s history
museums, which present Shanghai of
the early twentieth century
(particularly the 1920’s and 30’s)
as a mirror in which the city’s
present and future can be seen. This
project studies the ways in which
urban development, museum culture,
and preservation efforts converge in
contemporary Shanghai, creating a
narrative of the city’s past that
supports and reinforces its vision
of the future. |
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Robert Cole, Upper School
History Teacher |
"Power and Performance in
Bombay's Victoria Terminus"
Source: World History
Bulletin, Vol. XXIII, No. 1,
Spring 2007
The author presented his
paper -- winner of the 2006
World History Association [WHA]
Undergraduate Paper Prize -- at the
Sixteenth Annual WHA Conference held
jointly at the University of
Wisconsin, Milwaukee and Marquette
University, June 28-July 1, 2007.
The conference’s dual themes were
"Expanding Horizons, Collapsing
Frontiers," and “The Macro and the
Micro in World History."
Abstract:
The
reshaping of Bombay's urban space
was an integral part of the city's
colonial experience, and the
dynamics of this process of
urbanization directly reflected the
complicated power relationships that
comprised the colonial order. Using
the Victoria Terminus, a monumental
railway station completed in Bombay
in 1888, this study challenges the
habitual narrative of urbanization
that places the will of the
"colonizer" in opposition to that of
the "colonized.” Closer analysis of
the Victoria Terminus reveals the
power relationships of colonial
Bombay, though far from equal, to
have been more complex than the
dichotomized narrative suggests.
This paper illuminates the overlap
and interplay of the several
different forms of agency that
contributed to the terminus’s
creation both as a structure and as
a symbol. |
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Dr. Richard Barbieri, Head
of School,
Writings and Reflections |
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Karl Austin, Middle School
Science Teacher |
USS Alligator:
The Navy’s First Submarine in the
Community and in the Classroom
Source:
Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology (to be published
in Summer 2005)
by Karl Austin, a Science Teacher at Stone Ridge
School. This paper presented at the 35th Annual Meeting of the
Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference, March 2005.
Abstract:
In 1861 the United States Navy began building their first
submarine from a design by Brutus de Villeroi. In 1863 this
technological wonder was sent to Charleston, South Carolina to fight
against Confederate ironclads. As the Alligator was being towed by
the USS Sumpter it encountered a strong storm off the coast of North
Carolina. Due to the strength of the storm the Sumpter’s crew had to
cut the Alligator free, saving themselves but losing the submarine.
In 2004 the search began for the Alligator, with efforts being led
by NOAA, the Office of Naval Research and the Maritime Archaeology
Department of Eastern Carolina University. This paper will discuss
the efforts going into find this historical vessel and the programs
that have been developed to involve communities and classrooms
across the nation. The hope is to create a sense of national
heritage by allowing communities and schools to actively participate
in the search.
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version of the paper |
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Pictured, left to right, are Stone Ridge Middle
School Science
Teacher Karl Austin, RADM Jay Cohen, Chief of Naval
Research,
and Paula Charbonneau '05 aboard the USS Alligator. |
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