E320M PORTFOLIO - ROGER MORGAN

“Our geographical knowledge, and even our commonest knowledge of the position of places,” is understood “by reference to the sides of our bodies.”
      --Emmanuelle Kant

The Sorbonne Projects

For my two class projects comparing and contrasting an Ancient European University with my own, I chose the Sorbonne in Paris. For Project 1 I visited the Sorbonne in 1550 and met up with Francois de Montcorbier, reknowned thief and student. We walked around his campus discussing architecture and student life and then we time-travelled back to UT in 2004. For Project 2 I revisited the Sorbonne in the 1890's and hooked up with world famous scientist Madam Curie when she was only a student named Marie Sklodovska. She took me on a tour of the newly renovated "New Sorbonne" and clued me into the lifestyle of a budding college student of her time.