Public Lectures

Friday, September 22, 2006
1:30pm

About the presenter

Jan Reiff is Associate Professor of History and Statistics at U.C.L.A. She has published Structuring the Past: The Use of Computers in History (1992) and co-edited The Settling of North America: The Atlas of the Great Migrations into North America from the Ice Age to the Present (1995). She has also co-edited the prize-winning Encyclopedia of Chicago (2004) and its 2005 online edition. Professor Reiff is currently working on a book titled Industrial Towns, Suburban Dreams, Urban Realities: Pullman's Communities, 1880-1981.

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Video segment 1
Hypertextual thinking and the early development of The Encyclopedia of Chicago

Video segment 2
Networks, "intertwingled" communities, and the structure of the encyclopedia

Video segment 3
Date pages, interpreting the city through cross-references, and differences between the print and electronic versions of the encyclopedia

Video segment 4
Using QuickTime to provide a a sense of where people are, Chicagoans taking "ownership" of Millennium Park, and closing remarks.

Video segment 5
Q and A: Fitting events which at first seem isolated into the encyclopedia

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Encyclopedia of Chicago

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Interview

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