In 1819, Thomas Jefferson sketched plans for a planetarium spanning the dome of the University of Virginia’s Rotunda Library. Due to ballooning costs, insurmountable technical hurdles, and delays in the Rotunda’s construction, however, Jefferson’s proposed celestial dome was never realized.
*This volunteer transcription effort serves as an antecedent to what will eventually become a digital critical edition known as The Essential Julian Bond, a project of UVA's Center for Digital Editing.
About the Project:
Slavery and the University of Virginia School of Law is a project of the UVA Law Library that examines UVA Law’s historical connections to the institution of slavery from the Law School’s founding in 1819 to the outbreak of the Civil War. This work builds on the President’s Commmission on Slavery and the University with a particular focus on the inclusion of slavery in UVA’s legal curriculum.
In the cataclysmic nine years from 1914 to 1922, tsarist Russia disappeared from the map, fragmenting into regions, cities, and villages as an entire empire split into battle zones. Crushed by the Germans in World War I, Russia declined economically and demographically.
This project explores how new recording technologies such as immersive video, spatial audio, and motion capture can be used to document, preserve, and transmit embodied cultural practices of aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory regions of Australia.
Working closely with the community, the project team will capture communities’ ceremonial dances and music to help archive and preserve their cultural heritage.
