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Oy It's The Cosmetics, Stupid: Or How Estee Lauder Changed The Post 9/11 World, Marleen S. Barr Dec 2013

Oy It's The Cosmetics, Stupid: Or How Estee Lauder Changed The Post 9/11 World, Marleen S. Barr

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Professor Sondra Lear, the protagonist of my novels Oy Pioneer! (2003) and Oy Feminist Science Fiction (in press) – and some of my short fiction – appears in this story. I trot out Sondra whenever I imagine coping with reality in terms of science fictional premises. Sondra, then, is a Walter Mitty fantasy version of me. Yes, spending one’s professional life as a science fiction scholar is exceedingly interesting and exciting. But it does have its limitations. I can’t hang out with the feminist extraterrestrials who form the crux of my academic pursuits. I can’t beam up and down, time …


Celebrating 200 Years Of Pride And Prejudice (1813): Austen-Inspired Literature For Young Adults, Christina Miller Dec 2013

Celebrating 200 Years Of Pride And Prejudice (1813): Austen-Inspired Literature For Young Adults, Christina Miller

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Annotated bibliography of Jane Austen-inspired books for young adults.


Knowledge Studies, Jay Bernstein Nov 2013

Knowledge Studies, Jay Bernstein

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No abstract provided.


Grace Ellen Mccrann Memorial Lecture: “The Present Defenceless State Of The Country”: Gunpowder Plots In Revolutionary South Carolina, Philip G. Swan Jr. Nov 2013

Grace Ellen Mccrann Memorial Lecture: “The Present Defenceless State Of The Country”: Gunpowder Plots In Revolutionary South Carolina, Philip G. Swan Jr.

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These are bullet points for a talk given as part of the LACUNY Grace Ellen McCrann Memorial Lecture based on the article entitled “The Present Defenceless State of the Country”: Gunpowder Plots in Revolutionary South Carolina published in The South Carolina Historical Magazine.


The Evolution Of Dinner: A Review Of Three Squares: The Invention Of The American Meal By Abigail Carroll, Claire Stewart Nov 2013

The Evolution Of Dinner: A Review Of Three Squares: The Invention Of The American Meal By Abigail Carroll, Claire Stewart

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Food historian Abigail Carroll’s debut book, Three Squares: the Invention of the American Meal, explores the historical reasons why we eat what we do, and when. Combing through a range of primary sources, she analyzes how Americans' eating choices have been determined by changing economic circumstances. A book review by Claire Stewart.


The Tacuinum Sanitatis: A Medieval Health Manual, Loren D. Mendelsohn Nov 2013

The Tacuinum Sanitatis: A Medieval Health Manual, Loren D. Mendelsohn

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No abstract provided.


Can Enlightenment Be Traced To Specific Neural Correlates, Cognition, Or Behavior? No, And (A Qualified) Yes, Jake H. Davis, David R. Vago Nov 2013

Can Enlightenment Be Traced To Specific Neural Correlates, Cognition, Or Behavior? No, And (A Qualified) Yes, Jake H. Davis, David R. Vago

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The field of contemplative science is rapidly growing and integrating into the basic neurosciences, psychology, clinical sciences, and society-at-large. Yet the majority of current research in the contemplative sciences has been divorced from the soteriological context from which these meditative practices originate and has focused instead on clinical applications with goals of stress reduction and psychotherapeutic health. In the existing research on health outcomes of mindfulness-based clinical interventions, for example, there have been almost no attempts to scientifically investigate the goal of enlightenment. This is a serious oversight, given that such profound transformation across ethical, perceptual, emotional, and cognitive domains …


Uncreative Influence: Louis Aragon’S Paysan De Paris And Walter Benjamin’S Passagen-Werk, Václav Paris Oct 2013

Uncreative Influence: Louis Aragon’S Paysan De Paris And Walter Benjamin’S Passagen-Werk, Václav Paris

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This paper looks at the role Louis Aragon’s 1926 novel Paris Peasant played in the composition of Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project. How we might theorize the literary appeal of the Arcades Project, as evidenced in contemporary poetry and visual art; and, more broadly, what is the relation between the aesthetics and the philosophy or politics in Benjamin’s text? The model I propose is one of a Bloomian “anxiety of influence.” By looking at Benjamin’s earlier writings and his correspondence with Theodor Adorno and Gershom Scholem, we see not only that Benjamin’s work shared much with Aragon’s brand of Surrealism, but …


Mission Work, Conversion, And The Italian Immigrant In Turn-Of-The-Century New York City, Alexandra A. De Luise Oct 2013

Mission Work, Conversion, And The Italian Immigrant In Turn-Of-The-Century New York City, Alexandra A. De Luise

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Anson Phelps Stokes Italian Free Library was an example of an ethnic library located in an Italian enclave of New York City in the 1890s to 1910s. It served a need in helping educate and Americanize Italians living in that area, while also indoctrinating them into Protestant faith by its library director, Pastor Antonio Arrighi.


The Queer Dialectic Of Whitman’S Nation: "Let" In “Respondez”, Václav Paris Oct 2013

The Queer Dialectic Of Whitman’S Nation: "Let" In “Respondez”, Václav Paris

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This article considers Whitman's "Respondez" - perhaps his strangest poem. It seeks to explicate the poem by looking at his shifting use of the word "let." The article draws on studies of queer theory, nationalism, modernism, to reveal an unfamiliar and far more radical Whitman than we are familiar with.


Le Nature Degli American Studies, Cindi Katz Oct 2013

Le Nature Degli American Studies, Cindi Katz

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Al “Futures of American Studies Institute” di Dartmouth del 2003 lanciai una provocazione sulle “geografie immaginate” dell’americanistica. Volevo mettere in discussione sia le celebrazioni romantiche del “luogo” in quanto elemento in qualche modo autentico e particolare, minacciato da un mondo sempre più globalizzato e controllato dalle multinazionali, sia l’esaltazione della “delocalizzazione” nelle società in rete, negli “spazi di flusso”, nella mobilità senza attrito. Suggerivo che queste, come altre geografie poco studiate, si sposano troppo facilmente con molte correnti dell’eccezionalismo americano.


Queer Pedagogical Desire: A Study Guide, Matt Brim Oct 2013

Queer Pedagogical Desire: A Study Guide, Matt Brim

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This essay explores the queer pedagogical desires that attended my writing of the Study Guide for the documentary film United in Anger: A History of ACT UP (Jim Hubbard, 2012). The analysis takes up Robyn Wiegman’s central question in Object Lessons, “What is it we expect our relationship to our objects of study to do?”, which is of particular importance to the discipline of queer studies insofar as the field is oriented around the desire to meld social justice with critical pedagogy. The queer professor’s desire in the case of the Study Guide-as-object was to create a text that …


Patterns Of Anti-Muslim Violence In Burma: A Call For Accountability And Prevention, Andrea Gittleman, Marissa Brodney, Holly G. Atkinson Aug 2013

Patterns Of Anti-Muslim Violence In Burma: A Call For Accountability And Prevention, Andrea Gittleman, Marissa Brodney, Holly G. Atkinson

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In this report, the authors documents how persecution of and violence against the Rohingya in Burma has spread to other Muslim communities throughout the country. Physicians for Human Rights conducted eight separate investigations in Burma and the surrounding region between 2004 and 2013. PHR’s most recent field research in early 2013 indicates a need for renewed attention to violence against minorities and impunity for such crimes. The findings presented in this report are based on investigations conducted in Burma over two separate visits for a combined 21-day period between March and May 2013.


Gender And Resistance: Afro-Brazilian Women's Anti-Naming As Recovery From Trauma In Conceição Evaristo' "Eu-Mulher" And Ponciá Vicencio, Sarah S. Ohmer Aug 2013

Gender And Resistance: Afro-Brazilian Women's Anti-Naming As Recovery From Trauma In Conceição Evaristo' "Eu-Mulher" And Ponciá Vicencio, Sarah S. Ohmer

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No abstract provided.


Nietzsche, Agency, And Responsibility: “Das Thun Ist Alles”, Christa Davis Acampora Jul 2013

Nietzsche, Agency, And Responsibility: “Das Thun Ist Alles”, Christa Davis Acampora

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This article examines Robert Pippin’s most recent contributions to debates about Nietzsche’s views about agency and freedom in his Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy. In particular, I focus on his elaboration of Nietzsche’s claim, quoting Goethe, in On the Genealogy of Morality that “das Thun ist Alles”—the deed is everything. I highlight what I consider to be particularly promising features of Pippin’s expressivist reading of Nietzsche, suggest ways it might be developed even further, and indicate how such views about agency are relevant to Nietzsche’s anticipation of overcoming morality—particularly the sort that links value with intention—and to …


Translations From Allada And Experience D'Edward Lee, Versailles By Gérard Gavarry, Gérard Gavarry, Katina Rogers Jul 2013

Translations From Allada And Experience D'Edward Lee, Versailles By Gérard Gavarry, Gérard Gavarry, Katina Rogers

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At the heart of Gérard Gavarry’s writing are the questions of what power language holds, and what remains beyond the reach of expression. The two translations included here, excerpts from Allada (P.O.L, 1993) and Expérience d’Edward Lee, Versailles (P.O.L, 2009), share little with each other in terms of setting or structure, but explore similar questions of the role and limits of language in relation to defamiliarization, power, and fear. The inventive reflection on the nature of language, identity, and power that, woven into the fabric of the novel, makes Gavarry’s work some of the most compelling fiction coming out of …


Amanda Knox And Bella Figura, Denise Scannell Guida Jul 2013

Amanda Knox And Bella Figura, Denise Scannell Guida

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No abstract provided.


The Intellectual And Curricular Spaces Of Knowledge Studies, Jay H. Bernstein Jun 2013

The Intellectual And Curricular Spaces Of Knowledge Studies, Jay H. Bernstein

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The words “knowledge” and “information” are sometimes used interchangeably, but the connection between them is complex and problematic. Knowledge is a mental product gained from engaging with information. All educational subjects, scholarly disciplines, occupations, and activities produce knowledge as well as information. Because libraries encompass potentially all subjects, professional vision in librarianship would benefit from an examination of knowledge that transcends the methods and topical concerns of individual disciplines. An interdisciplinary (or transdisciplinary) framework in which to view knowledge was pioneered in the post-Sputnik age by Fritz Machlup and Michael Polanyi. Their insights have stimulated scholars to develop research, publications, …


Kirk T. Pistol Closely Encounters Enormous Flight Changes At The Last Minute--Sans Starship: A True James Gunn Appreciation Story, Marleen S. Barr Jun 2013

Kirk T. Pistol Closely Encounters Enormous Flight Changes At The Last Minute--Sans Starship: A True James Gunn Appreciation Story, Marleen S. Barr

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This is a short story honoring Science Fiction Grand Master James Gunn.


Justice In New York, An Oral History, Jeffrey A. Kroessler Apr 2013

Justice In New York, An Oral History, Jeffrey A. Kroessler

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Justice in New York, an Oral History was created in 2006 to record interviews with criminal justice leaders in New York, including judges, prosecutors, police officials, defense attorneys, and justice advocates.


The Choral Works Of Hamish Maccunn (1868–1916), Jennifer Oates Apr 2013

The Choral Works Of Hamish Maccunn (1868–1916), Jennifer Oates

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This article provides an overview of the partsongs of Hamish MacCunn and places them within the context of British choral music in the nineteenth century. A complete list of MacCunn's partsongs are included. To access the embedded sound files, access the article via the American Choral Review homepage.


Global Futures And Government Towns: Phosphates And The Production Of Western Sahara As A Space Of Contention, Mark Drury Apr 2013

Global Futures And Government Towns: Phosphates And The Production Of Western Sahara As A Space Of Contention, Mark Drury

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The study of natural resources lends itself to theorizing the politics of nature and the politics of time. The space of Western Sahara, where both remain highly contested, provides an opportunity to consider the ramifications of resources in political conflict at different historical moments. Drawing from environmental histories of North Africa and the Sahara, as well as the anthropology of time, the author focuses on two historical moments. The first, from 1945 to 1972, concerns the discovery of phosphate deposits during the Spanish colonial period and the implications of this discovery for political authority in the Sahara more broadly. The …


Postcards From The Beach, Cheryl Hogue Smith Jan 2013

Postcards From The Beach, Cheryl Hogue Smith

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This article questions the hiring practices of underprepared students, whereby the least qualified teachers teach the most vulnerable population of students.


Negotiating Uncommon Spaces: Fostering Common Ground In A Summer Bridge Writing Classroom, Nicola Blake Jan 2013

Negotiating Uncommon Spaces: Fostering Common Ground In A Summer Bridge Writing Classroom, Nicola Blake

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This article describes a summer bridge writing course that engages students who are actively transitioning from high school to college. The summer bridge course curriculum supports students’ meaning-making efforts through a variety of text-based writing activities which helps students begin the process of critical inquiry: extending arguments, poking holes in theories, and putting these theories in conversation with multiple voices from the real world. The writing activities in the program create a common ground for students where they can encounter texts and discover their own voices. Fostering open-endedness in students is a gradual process, and students acquire critical inquiry skills …


Montage And Memory: Articulations Of Literary Modernism In Alain Resnais’ Early Films, Ria Banerjee Jan 2013

Montage And Memory: Articulations Of Literary Modernism In Alain Resnais’ Early Films, Ria Banerjee

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The fascination that literary modernism has with thingness, that essential static being of inanimate objects, has been the subject of much critical attention. This paper seeks to add to that body of criticism by looking at Alain Resnais’ films, specifically referring to Night and Fog, Hiroshima Mon Amour and Muriel as examples of cinematic modernism which further complicate modernism’s obsessive re-configuration of the status of things in relation to the human lives that exist among them. By the turn of the twentieth century, a concern with the limits of human perception of the world was at the fore. Buffeted …


Here We Come To Save Tomorrow: A Conversation With Dr. Marleen S. Barr, Marleen S. Barr Jan 2013

Here We Come To Save Tomorrow: A Conversation With Dr. Marleen S. Barr, Marleen S. Barr

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This is an interview with Marleen S. Barr conducted by The Octavia E. Butler Society.


La Sátira En Bartolomé Leonardo De Argensola, Adrian Izquierdo Jan 2013

La Sátira En Bartolomé Leonardo De Argensola, Adrian Izquierdo

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No abstract provided.


Stage As Street: Representation At The Juncture Of The Arts And Justice, E. Gabriel Dattatreyan, Daniel L. Stageman Jan 2013

Stage As Street: Representation At The Juncture Of The Arts And Justice, E. Gabriel Dattatreyan, Daniel L. Stageman

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Arts educators working with court-involved youth face a set of complex and imbricated challenges. First, how do we gain the interest of the young people we would have participate in what we imagine are col-laborative and mutually generative projects? Second, how do we mediate representational tensions when the project is not solely therapeutic but has a broader public pedagogical purpose—to disrupt the simplistic and pathologizing discourses of poverty and violence that so often capture young men and women of color in the United States? (Bourgois, 2002; Noguera, 2008). Third, and not least, how do we navigate the institutional settings where …


Democratizing Indian Popular Music: From Cassette Culture To The Digital Era, Peter L. Manuel Jan 2013

Democratizing Indian Popular Music: From Cassette Culture To The Digital Era, Peter L. Manuel

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The history of Indian popular music constitutes in itself a significant development in modern culture, as this set of genres—especially but not only in their Bollywood forms—have been cherished by hundreds of millions of listeners not only in South Asia but internationally as well. At the same time, the trajectory of Indian popular music represents a dramatic case study of media culture as well, as its patterns of ownership, consumption, and even musical structures themselves have been conditioned by technological changes. Most striking is the way that a highly monopolized, streamlined, and homogeneous popular music culture dominated for several decades …


Music Cultures Of Mechanical Reproduction, Peter L. Manuel Jan 2013

Music Cultures Of Mechanical Reproduction, Peter L. Manuel

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Popular musics arc best understood as comprising those genres whose styles have evolved in an inextricable relation with their dissemination via the mass media and their marketing and sale on a mass-commodity basis. While much popular-music activity takes place independently of the mass media, other essential aspects of popular-music production and marketing arc inevitably inseparable from technologies of mechanical reproduction, which perforce condition aspects of music culture in general. Hence, just as one could speak of military cultures based around the stirrup, or later the firearm, or agrarian cultures based on the hoe, the ox, or the tractor, so do …