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Seeking Knowledge: The Role Of Social Networks In The Adoption Of Ebooksby Historians, Kim Martin, Anabel Quan-Haase

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

The research objectives are:

1. To investigate how history faculty are adopting Ebooks.
2. To understand the role of social networks in the adoption process.
3. To examine the perceived barriers by historians to Ebook adoption and use.

Aristotle On The Foundations Of Science: A Postmodern Moment, John Thorp

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

No abstract provided.

Cultural Transgression: The Pursuit Of Art And Education, Ann Langeman

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

My research focuses on the transformational role art and education played in my life and seeks to explore broader cultural and educational implications of these experiences.

Social Memory In Athenian Public Discourse, Bernd Steinbock

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

Research Question: Lycurgus' use of King Codrus as historical paradigm

Star As Genre: Actors And Their Externalities In Popular Tamil Cinema, Ganga Rudraiah

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

The star machinery of Tamil cinema presents itself as a nearly unfathomable system that produces stars out of actors and fans out of audience on a grandiose scale. The study is invested in determining a specific mode of star films in Tamil cinema as a unique genre by itself. These films from the southern state of Tamil Nadu in India typically frame and deify the male actor as a star. The star’s image prevails over the narrative, thereby organizing the entire film for the star and not vice-versa. The stars in Tamil cinema are not icons for a genre; rather …

Vladimir Tumanov's Books, Vladimir Tumanov

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

Information about the books on the poster is available here.

Joel Faflak, Joel Faflak

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

My fields of interest are Romantic & nineteenth-century literature & culture; psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic theory, & histories of psychoanalysis & psychiatry; theory & criticism; 18th- & 19th-century philosophy; cultural studies & popular culture; American film musicals.

The Mechanization Of Philosophy Between 1300-1700, Henrik Lagerlund, Benjamin Hill, Helen Hattab, Dennis Des Chene, Calvin Normore

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

Standard histories of the development of modern science and philosophy has it that the mechanical philosophy was driven by changes in physics that then required a re-conceptualization of the metaphysics of substance. We contest that this view is backwards. The revisions of the metaphysics of substance occurred in the 14th century and it underlined the well-known changes in physics in the 15th and 16th centuries, which gave rise to mechanical philosophy in the 17th century.

Input Vs Corrective Feedback In The Acquisition Of Spanish Negation, Yolanda Pangtay‐Chang

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

Input is important and necessary to acquire a language, nevertheless output will tell us in what degree the language has been acquired.

Since other factors such as motivation affect acquisition, what type of feedback is necessary and in what amount to help L2 students correct their proficiency in the target language?

Ellipsis And Agree: Parallelism Effects In Spanish Noun Drop, Joyce Bruhn De Garavito

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

In Spanish it is possible to drop nouns in order to avoid repetition. Noun drop is very productive (Ticio 2001; 2005).

Given the high level of accuracy in gender concord found in previous studies (Bruhn de Garavito and White 2002; White et al 2004, among others) I predict that adult learners of Spanish have the appropriate representation of number and gender in their L2. They will therefore distinguish between these two features under ellipsis.

Writing, Resistance And History: Violent Rewriting In Postresistance African-American And Polish Prose, Agnieszka Herra

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

My core area of research is Polish and African-American prose fiction written during and after civil resistance movements in each respective culture. My main research question will be the extent to which literature in the postresistance period questions the events and the narratives that were part of uniting the society to participate in the civil resistance movement.

Exploring Collaborative Teaching And Learning Models In A University Drama Literature Classroom, Kim Solga, Jennifer Boman, Elan Paulson

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

No abstract provided.

A Test Case In Comparing Textual Evidence With Evidence From Material Culture: Conceptions Of Valhǫll, Russell Poole

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

Medieval Icelandic manuscripts preserve poems that speak of a hall presided over by the warrior-god Óðinn (Odin) and populated by élite Viking warriors who have died gloriously in battle.

Viking-Age picture-stones (bildstenar) erected in memory of the dead on Gotland, a Swedish island in the Baltic Sea, contain depictions of warriors being welcomed to a great hall.

How was this hall envisaged in the Viking Age? Would it have been conceived of as a typical Viking-Age building or as something more exotic?

This poster explores these questions.

Seeing And Seen: Acts Of The Voyeur In The Paintings Of Francis Bacon, John G. Hatch

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

There are a number of characters in Bacon's paintings who seem strangely out of place, peeking in on intimate moments and sometimes turning their attention to us, the spectator of the works. These figures are the more literal representatives of a theme that runs throughout Bacon's work, namely that of the voyeur. My research looks at the numerous perspectives of the voyeur presented by Bacon in an attempt to better understand its rationale in his artistic production.

Dr. Alain Goldschläger, Alain Goldschläger

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

No abstract provided.

Holocaust Literature Research Institute/ Institut De Recherche Sur La Littérature De L’Holocauste, Alain Goldschläger

Research Day (Arts & Humanities, FIMS, and Education)

Founder and director of the Institute, Alain Goldschläger has amassed one of the world’s largest collections of published Holocaust testimonials. The collection is housed at the University of Western Ontario and since its creation, researchers and scholars have come to the University of Western Ontario to use this essential library collection in an effort to gain understanding about the Holocaust (Shoah).

The Institute also created a large annotated database on the Internet for easy access and research by scholars: http://hlri.ca/