Jonathan Lewis' WeblogResearch, teaching and personal stuff.Crispin Bates- (Found July 2, 2008 ) We went to Cafe Paulista in Ginza, and then the sorasio bar at the top of the Dentsu building in Shiodome with Crispin, historian of India, professor at Edinburgh University and hardcore Mac user. In 2002-2003 he was a visiting researcher at the University of Tokyo, where we met by chance on some stairs. This time, on the last day of his winter visit to Japan, he gave us some useful information about visiting India, as well as explaining the subtle ties of UK government targets for higher...http://homepage.mac.com/jonathan_lewis/blog/2004/02/19#CrispinB01 Mercury Tower- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Two representatives from Tts Sangy visited my office for lunch, together with my colleague Masanori Nait who is in charge of setting up our institute's new multimedia center. The center will be in the newly completed Mercury Tower (whose name, as another colleague has already pointed out, becomes quite scary when translated into Japanese,with connotations of poisoning. The ultimate "sick office") The multimedia center will have three elements: a satellite dish to receive signals from as..http://homepage.mac.com/jonathan_lewis/blog/2004/02/19#Mercury1 Encyclopedia of Scotland- (Found July 2, 2008 ) As I was pottering around in my office late this afternoon a phone call from the sports sociology office gave me a good excuse for a walk. Waiting for me in the sportSoc office was the formidable Masatoshi Kimura of Kanagawa Prefectural Junior College of Foreign Languages. He is putting together a Japanese-language Encyclopedia of Scotland, and had come to Hitotsubashi to ask Prof. Uchiumi to write some entries on Scottish sport. It remains to be seen what kind of contribution I will be...http://homepage.mac.com/jonathan_lewis/blog/2004/02/13#encyclopedia1 La iglesia anglicana- (Found July 2, 2008 ) En la decimosexta centuria el Rey Henry VIII de Inglaterra estaba casado con Catherine de Aragn, pero quera divorcarse. El Papa dijo non, por que se recelaba del sobrino de Catherine, el Emperador Carlos V. Henry declar que el y no el Papa fuera la cabeza de la iglesia en Inglaterra. Ay ms informaciones en esta pagina.http://homepage.mac.com/jonathan_lewis/blog/2004/05/13#anglicanChurch1 "After Britain" by Tom Nairn- (Found July 2, 2008 ) I am only a quarter of the way through this book, so just an impression or so. Now I know where the term "Ukania" comes from! It's a nod to "Kakania," the name given to the Austro-Hungarian Empire by Musil in his novel The Man Without Qualities. Nairn's finding of parallels between the UK in 2000 and the Austro-Hungarian Empire a century before is fascinating, but I'm not sure that the persistent reference to Musil's novel is helpful. The novel brought the parallel to Nairn's attention...http://homepage.mac.com/jonathan_lewis/blog/2004/05/19#afterBritain1 Blair's Troubles and Scottish Independence- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Chapter Two of "After Britain" is a speech given by Tom Nairn in January 1999 on the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the Scottish National Party. Nairn sees the nearly three centuries of Scottish existence under the Treaty of Union as a long and shameful anomaly soon to be in the past. Suddenly, he says, Scottish people are realizing that Britain does not have to exist, and that they can be entirely free of the schizophrenic mood-swings between hard-headed acceptance of the Union...http://homepage.mac.com/jonathan_lewis/blog/2004/05/21#afterBritain2 Un viaje escocs- (Found July 2, 2008 ) En Junio 2004 viaj a Escocia con cuatro de mis estudiantes. Quisimos andar de la costa oueste de Escocia hasta la costa este. Nos encontramos en Glasgow y fuimos en autobus a Mallaig en la costa oueste. Pasamos una noche en un albergue y la prxima maana cogimos un barco para ir a una pennsula que se llama Knoydart. Se puede ir al Knoydart solo en barco o a pie. Desde la salida llovi mucho y la tierra era mojada. A veces tuvimos que pasar por una cinaga y nos botas fuieron mojadas. Los...http://homepage.mac.com/jonathan_lewis/blog/2004/07/09#viaje Stovies- (Found July 2, 2008 ) This is a draft version, in English, of an entry about stovies that I'm writing for a Japanese encyclopedia of Scotland. I may have to make changes when writing the Japanese version. Stovies are simple, filling dish served in many pubs in north-east Scotland. It is also available in Aberdeen as fast foodaccording to my informant in the bakery on School Hill it always sells out very quickly. To make stovies, heat some dripping up in a heavy pan, then put in the pan a layer of sliced...http://homepage.mac.com/jonathan_lewis/blog/2004/07/08#stovies RRS Discovery- (Found July 2, 2008 ) This is a draft version, in English, of an entry about the Discovery that I'm writing for a Japanese encyclopedia of Scotland. I may have to make changes when writing the Japanese version. The Royal Research Ship Discovery was built to carry the National Antarctic Expedition of 1901-04. Discovery had an exceptionally thick wooden hull to withstand the pressure of ice, three square-rigged masts, and a coal-fired steam engine. The ship was approx. 52m long and had a displacement of approx..http://homepage.mac.com/jonathan_lewis/blog/2004/07/07#discovery Robert Thomson- (Found July 2, 2008 ) This is a draft version, in English, of an entry about Thomson that I'm writing for a Japanese encyclopedia of Scotland. I may have to make cuts when writing the Japanese version. Robert William Thomson (1822-1873). Inventor and engineer. Born Stonehaven, Kincardineshire. Thomson rejected careers in religion and commerce in favor of mechanical and civil engineering. After training in Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh he became a railway engineer in London, where at age 22 he...http://homepage.mac.com/jonathan_lewis/blog/2004/07/02#thomson |