Midsummer Customs in Morocco

A midsummer night's dream

It's your first Gordon conference. You've milled around at Logan Airport with hundreds of other scientists and scrambled onto the big green buses. You've made the compulsory stop at the New Hampshire State Liquor store and watched scientists you've idolized buy two fifths of Jack Daniels that they plan to finish by Thursday. night. You've checked in at the school that looks like a minimum secur...

Midsummer Combinatorial Workshop 2012

Names and References in Midsummer Night’s Dream

Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream is about true love and felicitous marriage as essentials of both natural and social order. With three interwoven plots, Shakespeare’s names and references reflect three types of sources, each with associative possibilities relevant to the basic themes. The main plot is about Athenian nobles whose names draw symbolic meaning from Greek mythology. It focuses ...

Customs and Desirable after Childbirth, in Islam

  Children are a precious gift from God, and the blessing of a child is a special time in a person's life. All cultures and religious traditions have certain ways of welcoming a newborn child into the community; also, each culture and religion has its own customs and traditions for the birth of a child. During and after the birth of a Muslim child, there are certain rituals the mother and fathe...

A Midsummer Night's Dream (with flying robots)

Seven flying robot “fairies” joined human actors in the Texas A&M production of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The production was a collaboration between the departments of Computer Science and Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Theater Arts. The collaboration was motivated by two assertions. First, that the performing arts have principles for creating belie...