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In Living Color: Newly Discovered Film Shows The Colby Of 80 Years Ago, Laura Meader
In Living Color: Newly Discovered Film Shows The Colby Of 80 Years Ago, Laura Meader
Colby Magazine
In 1935 Frederick Kinch began making home movies using Kodak’s newly introduced 8 mm camera. He filmed his children, a few hunting trips, and his alma mater—Colby. The film he spliced together from two trips to Waterville has recently surfaced, providing rare moving images of both downtown and Mayflower Hill campuses.
Welcome To Broadway: The Sound Inside Costar Will Hochman ’14 Talks About Chasing Your Dream—And Ending Up On Stage With Mary-Louise Parker, Abukar Adan
Colby Magazine
Will Hochman ’14 made his Broadway debut last month in the New York Times critic’s pick The Sound Inside with Tony Award-winning co-star Mary-Louise Parker. Hochman first appeared in the two-person play, about the relationship between a Yale creative writing professor and her student, last year at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Freelance journalist Abukar Adan ’17 sat down with Hochman in his dressing room at Studio 54 to discuss his debut, his time at Colby, and his journey to the big stage.
A Good Place For Moral Philosophy: Associate Professor Lydia Moland On The Good Place And Why All Of Her Students Should Be Haunted, Gerry Boyle
Colby Magazine
Associate Professor of Philosophy Lydia Moland recently moderated a WBUR CitySpace event featuring producer Michael Schur and actor William Jackson Harper of the NBC comedy The Good Place. The award-winning show is about a character, Eleanor, who is mistakenly sent to “the good place” in the afterlife and then has to figure out how to become a better person. Moland spoke with Colby Magazine Editorial Director Gerry Boyle ’78 about television, morality, and how the most important ideas should fit on a bumper sticker.
A New Definition Of American Art, Bob Keyes
A New Definition Of American Art, Bob Keyes
Colby Magazine
A designated institute dedicated to creativity and scholarly research is a new endeavor for Colby. These kinds of institutes typically are associated with large museums and universities, said Lee Glazer, the institute’s founding director and formerly a curator of American art at the Smithsonian Institution. “We’re still figuring out some of the details, but the vision is evolving,” she said.
This Caught Our Attention, Colby College
This Caught Our Attention, Colby College
This Caught Our Attention, Colby College
Colby Magazine
Jackson Pollock, Composition with Masked Forms, 1941. Oil on canvas, 27 3⁄4 x 49 3⁄4 in. Colby College Museum of Art.
For The Love Of Music: Yuri Lily Funahashi Shares The Gift Of Collaboration, Mareisa Weil
For The Love Of Music: Yuri Lily Funahashi Shares The Gift Of Collaboration, Mareisa Weil
Colby Magazine
A virtuoso is quietly going about her business in the classrooms of the Bixler Art and Music Center. Yuri Lily Funahashi, accomplished chamber musician, assistant professor, and Music Department co-chair, is strengthening and inspiring her students’ relationship with music.
Q&A Tanya Sheehan: On Photography, Human Migration, And What Their Intersection Does And Doesn't Tell Us, Colby College
Q&A Tanya Sheehan: On Photography, Human Migration, And What Their Intersection Does And Doesn't Tell Us, Colby College
Colby Magazine
William R. Kenan Jr. Associate Professor of Art Tanya Sheehan is the editor of Photography and Migration, a timely collection of essays about photography and its role in portraying this ongoing humanitarian crisis (See P. 38). At Colby she launched the Photography and Migration Project, which draws connections between global migration and Waterville’s history as a destination for immigrants. She spoke to Colby Magazine Managing Editor Gerry Boyle ’78 about the ways photographs shape our perception of migration.
Deep North: Assistant Professor Of Women's, Gender, And Sexuality Studies Sonja Tomas Pushes Students To Confront The Uncomfortable, Mareisa Weil
Colby Magazine
Many of those white students are uncomfortable, Thomas said. “I hear a lot of, ‘I don’t want to say something if it’s not on the right track.’ I have to push back and say, ‘Silence is not a right track either.’”
Bassam Khabieh: Syrian Photojournalist, Bassam Khabieh
Bassam Khabieh: Syrian Photojournalist, Bassam Khabieh
Colby Magazine
Bassam Khabieh is the 2018 Oak Human Rights Fellow at Colby. A Syrian photojournalist, he has documented the conflict there, including the siege of Ghouta, where he and his family lived.
Past And Future: Climate Experts Consider Where Our Planet Has Been And Where It Is Going, Colby College
Past And Future: Climate Experts Consider Where Our Planet Has Been And Where It Is Going, Colby College
Colby Magazine
In this, the second installment of the Colby Climate Project series, we explore the work of members of the Colby community who working to address this monumental environmental challenge.
Golden Mountains: Pike's Peak, Western Capitalism, And The Making Of The Colorado State: 1858-1876, Jason T. Dunn
Golden Mountains: Pike's Peak, Western Capitalism, And The Making Of The Colorado State: 1858-1876, Jason T. Dunn
Honors Theses
Explores the nonlinear imposition of capitalist ideologies in Western systems, using the Pike's Peak Gold Rush and development in Colorado from 1858-1876 as a case study.
Beyond Realism: Reading The Ongoing Wounds Of Enslavement In Beloved And Kindred, Stephanie Fawell
Beyond Realism: Reading The Ongoing Wounds Of Enslavement In Beloved And Kindred, Stephanie Fawell
Honors Theses
In an introductory chapter, I synthesize a genealogy of African Diasporic thinkers that challenge traditionally conceptualized bounds of realism and modernism both aesthetically and intellectually. In the chapters that follow, I look closely at Morrison’s Beloved and Butler’s Kindred, as well as the scholarly discussions surrounding the elements in these novels that stretch the bounds of conventionally defined realism. In both novels the linearity of time and concreteness of space is challenged: in Beloved, the ghost of Sethe’s child continues to haunt her family after her death and then physically manifests as Beloved, crossing a mysterious bridge between …
The Transcendental Foundation Of Kant's Cosmopolitanism, Daniel J. Ellison
The Transcendental Foundation Of Kant's Cosmopolitanism, Daniel J. Ellison
Honors Theses
Scholarship on Kant’s philosophy of history has insufficiently considered its place in the larger system of transcendental idealism. In this project, I argue that Kant’s guarantee of progress in history is grounded in his universal characterizations of human nature, which he makes both explicitly, as with the notion of “unsociable sociability” put forth in “Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Perspective,” and implicitly, as with what I term a responsiveness to reasons. These characterizations are grounded, I claim, in an attribution of reason which is always already achieved to the constitution of human beings, which emerges out of …
Una Deconstrucción Espacial: Movimiento Maricas Bolivia Y La Resistencia Indígena Cuir, Cooper J. Bussberg
Una Deconstrucción Espacial: Movimiento Maricas Bolivia Y La Resistencia Indígena Cuir, Cooper J. Bussberg
Honors Theses
El legado (neo)colonial ha intentado borrar las experiencias Indígenas cuir en Abiayala. Sin embargo, existen cambios a esta historia. Grupos activistas se están adaptando a retos distintos por medios diferentes. Movimiento Maricas Bolivia es una organización activista de La Paz, Bolivia que ejerce activismo en su canal de YouTube donde publican varios videos informativos alrededor del tema Indígena cuir. En este proyecto, yo aplico una perspectiva teórica trans- Indígena hemisférica para aproximar a un entendimiento mejor de la resistencia Indígena cuir de Movimiento Maricas Bolivia. Utilizo varios críticos de los estudios Indígenas de varios sitios de Abiayala para promover la …
Gold Mining Districts And Path Dependence, Jason T. Dunn
Gold Mining Districts And Path Dependence, Jason T. Dunn
Honors Theses
This paper applies quantitative spatial analysis to the long-term impact of Western gold rushes, studying the effect of 19th century US mineral districts on modern (2010) population density, as a proxy for long-term economic growth. OLS regression estimates show positive effects for areas adjacent to historic mining districts. Census tracts within 15 miles of a mineral district but not containing one are 29.8% more dense than other tracts. Additionally, capital-intensive/large-scale mining was more persistent than labor-intensive/small-scale methods, and path dependence is achieved mainly through agglomeration. This research corroborates historical arguments focusing on the development of Western infrastructure for long term …
Socrates And The Divine Mission Of Political Friendship, Ronahn I. Clarke
Socrates And The Divine Mission Of Political Friendship, Ronahn I. Clarke
Honors Theses
Plato is widely regarded as an authoritarian political thinker on account of Socrates’ endorsement of rule by philosopher kings in the Republic. Yet the Republic should not be mistaken for a political treatise or the entirety of Socrates’ political theorizing. Each of the Socratic dialogues is concerned with the political endeavour of reorienting souls within communities of souls toward virtue via philosophical discussion. This project examines the Lysis, the Gorgias, the Symposium, the Republic, and other dialogues in the context of the philosophical mission Socrates establishes in the Apology. Socrates’ philosophical work expresses a …
Ganar Local: La Política Cantera Del Athletic Club Y La Construcción De Lo Vasco, Sam Orenstein
Ganar Local: La Política Cantera Del Athletic Club Y La Construcción De Lo Vasco, Sam Orenstein
Honors Theses
El Athletic Club de Bilbao es un club único en el fútbol español debido a su política cantera. Esta política declara que para jugar por el Athletic Club, hay que ser vasco. Este concepto, que cuestiona quién es vasco, cómo se expresa, y cómo contamos la identidad nacional, es un pilar central de esta tesis. Esta tesis analiza la cantera en su habilidad de definir qué es ser vasco, lo cual tiene implicaciones más anchas para el fútbol y nacionalismo en España. Sugiero que la cantera es un agente activo en la construcción de una definición de ser vasco que …
Convolutional Audio Source Separation Applied To Drum Signal Separation, Marius Orehovschi
Convolutional Audio Source Separation Applied To Drum Signal Separation, Marius Orehovschi
Honors Theses
This study examined the task of drum signal separation from full music mixes via both classical methods (Independent Component Analysis) and a combination of Time-Frequency Binary Masking and Convolutional Neural Networks. The results indicate that classical methods relying on predefined computations do not achieve any meaningful results, while convolutional neural networks can achieve imperfect but musically useful results. Furthermore, neural network performance can be improved by data augmentation via transposition – a technique that can only be applied in the context of drum signal separation.
The Museum As A Mirror: Reinterpreting And Delinking American Landscape Art From Colonial Narratives, Blythe C. Romano
The Museum As A Mirror: Reinterpreting And Delinking American Landscape Art From Colonial Narratives, Blythe C. Romano
Honors Theses
Art museums have recently been looking at their existing collections with heightened scrutiny, revisiting their decision to display colonial works uncritically in their gallery spaces, and reconsidering the idea that there is such a thing as a unified art historical canon. These conversations regarding reinterpretation are necessary for all museums that choose to display art with problematic histories, as this information is owed to visitors -- especially within the settler colonial context. The Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine is one site where such collection and gallery “reinterpretation” has begun to be implemented and discussed. For example, in …
Ethnicity And Education: College Attendance Patterns Among Early 20th-Century Maine's Immigrant Community, Jacob M. Nash
Ethnicity And Education: College Attendance Patterns Among Early 20th-Century Maine's Immigrant Community, Jacob M. Nash
Honors Theses
I examine the college attendance patterns of second-generation Russian-Jewish immigrants in Maine in the early 20th century relative to other ethnic groups using individual-level Census records. I employ the Abramitzky, Boustan, and Eriksson (ABE) algorithm to track second-generation Jewish, Italian, French Canadian, English Canadian and European immigrants from the 1910 Census to the 1940 Census. My logistic regression analysis indicates that second-generation Jewish immigrants in Maine attended college at significantly higher rates than their peers of similar background in every other ethnic group. While I cannot evaluate them, I also discuss potential explanations for the disparity in college attendance …
Artificial Reefs: A History, A Science, A Technology, Mairead D. Farrell
Artificial Reefs: A History, A Science, A Technology, Mairead D. Farrell
Honors Theses
Over the past 60 years, artificial reefs have expanded beyond the definition of a technology, and in turn have developed into a unique branch of marine science. To better emphasize this growth and separation, a brief history of artificial reef development and usage in chapter two shows some of the key shifts over time in this technology’s purpose and the materials used to achieve that goal. Likewise, to indicate the scientific development of artificial reefs as a branch of marine science, their usage for discovery and research is recorded in chapter three, along with the exponential increase in published scientific …
Comunidad Y Contagio: La Narrativa Del Brote De Covid-19 En España, Samantha Lee
Comunidad Y Contagio: La Narrativa Del Brote De Covid-19 En España, Samantha Lee
Honors Theses
La pandemia global de COVID-19 inició inesperadamente el enero del año 2020. Mientras que el nuevo coronavirus impactó a personas de todo el mundo, hay una narrativa particular del brote que se ha ocurrido en España. Las consecuencias corpóreas del virus han tenido mayores impactos en el tejido social, económico, político y cultural de España. Por resultado, hay una narrativa del brote que es específica a los valores, experiencias, suposiciones y creencias de personas en España. Esta historia de la pandémica se ha escrito a través de las redes sociales, así como los funcionarios de salud pública, profesionales medicales, autoridades …
The Tetralemma Of Nothingness, Samuel O. Sessions
The Tetralemma Of Nothingness, Samuel O. Sessions
Honors Theses
Grammatically, the question is rather simple. It is when we set out to answer the question that it suddenly becomes complex. What is nothing? Its very asking seems almost impossible because the ‘is’ within it brushes up against its meaning, producing paradox. How do we even begin to get at a something that is not a something? Immediately, you remark how similar this task is to a child chasing fairies in the forest or hunting for ghosts in the attic. Will we be doomed from the outset? If so, then what is the point? Our many predecessors have had varying …
El Mar Y La Gente: Hacia Una Contextualización De Lo Indígena En El Botón De Nácar, Jonathan Braden Taylor
El Mar Y La Gente: Hacia Una Contextualización De Lo Indígena En El Botón De Nácar, Jonathan Braden Taylor
Honors Theses
El presente trabajo analiza las ramificaciones ontológicas, epistemológicas, y políticas del botón de nácar, un documental hecho en 2015 por el cineasta Patricio Guzmán. El siguiente análisis busca poner esta obra cinemática en el contexto de la formulación y el desarrollo del estado-nación chileno, lo cual ha ocurrido a expensas de las personas indígenas de la zona. Se observa que se emplea significación verdaderamente descolonizada en representaciones y discusiones de espacios acuáticos, lo cual engendra avances teóricos que utilizo para contextualizar el filme. Se sostiene que los efectos políticos de dicha significación descolonizada se ponen en marcha productivamente cuando son …