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Get Home Safe: Art As Resistance, Human Rights Education, And Liberation In Incarcerated Spaces, Marissa Gutierrez-Vicario

Biennial Conference: The Social Practice of Human Rights

Abstract:

In this presentation, Marissa Gutierrez-Vicario will speak about her work with Art and Resistance Through Education (ARTE), a New York-based non-governmental organization that works to amplify the voices of young people for human rights change through the visual arts. ARTE works in public schools, with community organizations, and in carceral facilities. As part of ARTE’s work, the presentation will discuss the joys and challenges of delivering human rights education and arts-based curriculum inside of jail facilities in a post-pandemic world, while simultaneously advocating for abolition as part of the mass incarceration movement within the United States. Also throughout the …

Comic Books, Satire, And The American Police State: Lessons From The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, Jamie Michaels

Biennial Conference: The Social Practice of Human Rights

In the spirit of the #DefundThePolice and #BlackLivesMatter movements, protestors in Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) declared sovereignty over 5½ city blocks. Emboldened by the potential for mass mobilization enabled by the COVID-19 pandemic protestors attempted to establish a racially egalitarian society that would exist without the police, the traditional enforcement mechanism of the white supremacist American state.

This paper explores how Alex Graham’s Dog Biscuits (2021) and Simon Hanselmann’s, Crisis Zone (2021) portray the ways CHAZ protestors utilized absurdity in the face of extreme violence to enact indiffernation—a unique affect comprised of indifference and determination. This affect …

Migration And Mortality: Social Death, Dispossession, And Survival In The Americas, Miranda Cady Hallett, Joseph Nevins, Jamie Longazel, Amelia Frank-Vitale, Alicia Yvonne Estrada, Abby C. Wheatley

Biennial Conference: The Social Practice of Human Rights

This panel presents research from the new edited volume Migration and Mortality (edited by Longazel and Hallett, Temple University Press, 2021). Death threatens migrants physically during perilous border crossings between Central and North America, but many also experience legal, social, and economic mortality. Rooted in histories of colonialism and conquest, exclusionary policies and practices deliberately take aim at racialized, dispossessed people in transit. Once in the new land, migrants endure a web of systems across every facet of their world—work, home, healthcare, culture, justice—that strips them of their personhood, denies them resources, and creates additional obstacles that deprive them of …

Benefits And Leaves Of Absence Handbook For Faculty, 2021, University Of Dayton

Faculty Handbooks

No abstract provided.

Creche Herald Vol. 25, No. 4, Rita B. Bocher

Creche Herald

The Winter 2021 publication features nativity sets and personal reflections from members in the organization; information about nativities and nativity exhibits; and information about the Friends of the Creche annual meeting.

Evaluating Deep-Learning Models For Debris-Covered Glacier Mapping, Zhiyuan Xie, Vijayan K. Asari, Umesh K. Haritashya

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

In recent decades, mountain glaciers have experienced the impact of climate change in the form of accelerated glacier retreat and other glacier-related hazards such as mass wasting and glacier lake outburst floods. Since there are wide-ranging societal consequences of glacier retreat and hazards, monitoring these glaciers as accurately and repeatedly as possible is important. However, the accurate glacier boundary, especially the debriscovered glacier (DCG) boundary, which is one of the primary inputs in many glacier analyses, remains a challenge even after many years of research using conventional remote sensing methods or machine-learning methods. The GlacierNet, a deep-learning-based approach, utilized the …

An Educational Leader’S E-Mails To The Parents During Covid-19 Pandemic, Bilgen Kiral, Corinne Brion

Educational Leadership Faculty Publications

This study was conducted to determine what kinds of e-mails an education leader (school principal) sent to the parents of the students at the beginning, during, and end of the term during the COVID-19 pandemic process. In this study, the expression “educational leader” was used instead of the school principal.

The reason for this is that the school principal fully assumes the role of educational leadership during the pandemic period. The subject of the study is the transformation process in communication due to the pandemic. This transformation is e-mails, one of the digital communication tools that aim to reach everyone …

The Demands Of Encounter In A Globalized Community Of Scholars: Shedding Light On The Place Of Trust In The Ritual Of Knowledge Creation, Simonmary A. Aihiokhai

Journal of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium

As institutions of learning become more diverse in their members and their curricula offerings, it has become necessary to articulate the demands of encounter. A distinction must be made between meeting and encounter. The former refers to a choreographed proximity of bodies. The latter refers to the totality of what it means to be human – a being intricately linked to other beings through life-giving webs of relationships. Therefore, transformative education must be grounded in the ritual of encounters because such a ritual allows for the possibility for new discourses that lead to knowledge creation. Such discourses allow for a …

Cover And Front Matter, Black Catholic Theological Symposium

Journal of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium

Cover, table of contents, administrative information

The Almost Forgotten History Of Claver College, Katrina M. Sanders

Journal of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium

This essay examines Claver College, an African American Catholic College located in Guthrie, Oklahoma, from 1936-1942. The author argues that while there is still much that is unknown about the short-lived college, the institution provided an opportunity for African Americans west of the Mississippi River to access higher education and served as an entre for the Catholic Church into an African American community.

Viability Of Postconsumer Thermoplastics In Consumer Grade Additive Manufacturing, Peter A. Fabe

Honors Theses

Consumer grade additive manufacturing, colloquially referred to as 3D printing, has become a popular means of rapid prototyping and fabrication used by engineers, educators, artists, and hobbyists alike. As companies begin to produce recycled filament as feedstock for fused filament fabrication (FFF) 3D printers, it is important to quantify differences in the mechanical properties of virgin and first-reuse recycled plastics so that users can determine the viability of recycled filament for various end-use applications. This thesis explores the mechanical properties of two common postconsumer thermoplastics, rPLA and rPETG (where rPLA/rPETG denotes 100% recycled PLA/PETG), in comparison to their virgin counterparts …

For The Next Generation, Shea Donovan

Materials from the University of Dayton Magazine Website

No abstract provided.

Humor Writer Of The Month: Kristen Mulrooney, Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

Kristen Mulrooney, an editor of The Belladonna and a grand prize winner of A Hotel Room of One's Own: The Erma Bombeck | Anna Lefler Humorist-in-Residence Program, is our Humor Writer of the Month for December.

Optimizing Hvac Energy Consumption Through Occupancy Detection With Machine Learning Based Classifiers, Vibhu Sharma, Abhimanyu Singh

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Graduate Student Publications

Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems are pivotal for maintaining indoor comfort and air quality in buildings. However, inefficient HVAC operation can lead to unnecessary energy consumption and increased costs. This research explores the application of machine learning (ML) techniques for occupancy detection using environmental factors to optimize HVAC energy consumption. Analyzing a dataset comprising environmental observations like temperature, humidity, light, and CO2 levels alongside occupancy status, we evaluate various ML algorithms, including K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN), Support Vector Machines (SVM), and others, for accurately predicting room occupancy. Additionally, we conduct exploratory data analysis (EDA) using box plots to visualize …

At The Manger 2021, Jillian Ewalt

Marian Library Blog Archive

This popular annual exhibit highlights artists' representations of Christ's Nativity through many cultural lenses using a wide range of media and techniques.

Greater West Dayton Incubator Celebrates Community, Entrepreneurs During Grand Opening, University Of Dayton

News Releases

The Greater West Dayton Incubator, an initiative to support Black, women and other underrepresented business owners, will celebrate the community and entrepreneurs during a grand opening of its public office at 1105 W. Third St. on Dec. 7.

Faculty Of Color And Collective Memory Work: An Examination Of Intersectionality, Privilege, And Marginalization, Rochonda L. Nenonene, Novea A. Mcintosh, Ramon Vasquez

Teacher Education Faculty Publications

As a means of highlighting new possibilities for interrupting White privilege, and supporting and honoring critical community building among faculty of Color in teacher education programs, this paper offers the theoretical and methodological resources of collective memory work as a tool for interrogating teacher education's entanglements in the complex, yet normalized, processes of White privilege. This paper, written by three faculty members of Color, aims to provide hope for an escape from the construction of hierarchies, taxonomies, and White/non-White binaries that establish and enforce arbitrary boundaries that prevent people from different racialized groups from working together to disrupt White privilege …

University Of Dayton Students Organize Art Exhibition, Fundraising Dinner To Promote Community Food Justice, Dave Larsen

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

University of Dayton students are spinning plates — literally — to prepare for Dinner in the Desert Kitchen V: Forage Ahead, an annual fundraising dinner, art exhibition and auction to benefit nonprofit community partners and raise awareness about food justice efforts in Dayton.

University Of Dayton Aviation Historian Janet Bednarek Featured In ‘Wall Street Journal,’ ‘Rolling Stone’ And Other Outlets For Expertise, Bridgett Dillenburger

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

Media outlets including the History Channel, The Wall Street Journal and Rolling Stone magazine are flocking to University of Dayton history professor Janet Bednarek for her expertise on aviation history.

Start Trying To Make Roesch Happen, University Of Dayton. University Libraries

University Libraries Blog Archive

Inspired by the movie Mean Girls (because we're a cool library), we'll have a lineup of services and resources to make finals week grool for University of Dayton students.

New Advice For Thanksgiving Break, Diana Barrett, Brittany House Conrad, Kristen Altenau Keen, Christina Smith

University Libraries Blog Archive

A 1992 press release advised parents to brace themselves for change when their first-year students arrived home for Thanksgiving. Student development staff provide fresh insights for 2021.

Ud Men For Gender Equity Newsletter, November 2021, University Of Dayton. Women's Center

UD Men for Gender Equity Newsletter

In this issue:

1. Welcome Message
2. Upcoming Engagement Opportunities
3. Celebrating Native American Heritage Month

University Of Dayton Sociologist Uses Eggs, Gravity To Demonstrate Social Inequality For Students, Allison Brace

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

By taking a familiar egg drop activity in which students design a “nest” to protect a raw egg from a high fall and adding several class-conscious twists, a sociology professor illustrates the relationships to introduce students to the topic of social inequality and vulnerability.

Finding Comedy In A Hotel Room, Teri Rizvi

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

One bemused writer is penning letters to Erma Bombeck in heaven telling her what she's missing. Another is finishing a satirical anti-parenting book. The third sees an untapped market for a book about the humorous side of widowhood. Meet the grand prize winners of A Hotel Room of One's Own.

Making History: Primary Sources And Black Catholic History Month, Henry Handley

Marian Library Blog Archive

Primary sources and other materials in the Marian Library and the U.S. Catholic Special Collection create opportunities for inclusive teaching and research during Black Catholic History Month and all year.

College Faculty In The News: Nov. 10, 2021, University Of Dayton

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

News agencies across the region, the nation and throughout the world often reach out to our faculty experts for their perspectives on today's issues. This media coverage highlights the service, research and scholarship taking place in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Manscaping Mishaps: Hide Your Razors, Courtney Bennett

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

When my 15-year-old son started sprouting a baby mustache, his sisters promptly campaigned to shave it.

National Science Foundation Awards University Of Dayton Isotope Geochemist $157k To Study Impact Of Extreme Weather Pattern Shifts On Early Humans In East Africa, Dave Larsen

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

The National Science Foundation awarded University of Dayton isotope geochemist Zelalem Bedaso a three-year, $156,776 grant to study seasonal rainfall variability over the last 200,000 years in East Africa to understand the impact of extreme weather on early humans and the ecosystems on which they depended.

Students Tour Pilgrimage Exhibit, Kayla Harris

Marian Library Blog Archive

Nearly 600 University of Dayton students embark on a "Journey of Faith" in the Marian Library gallery.

There’S A Whole Lotta Rhythm Goin’ Round: How Funk Shaped U.S. Copyright, Katherine Leo

Content Presented at the First and Second Dayton Funk Symposia

Rooted in stylized grooves and lineages of musical borrowing, funk can often seem to exist at the periphery of copyright protection. Its influence on Hip-Hop and R&B, particularly through collage techniques involving digital samples, contributed to a rise in the early twenty-first century of infringement disputes. How have these cases shaped copyright protection of music? After a gloss of federal copyright law, this presentation surveys landmark lawsuits involving funk songs and their impact on later cases. Through its interdisciplinary investigation, this presentation reveals how funk cases proved that musical style offers critical context to legal evaluations of musical similarity and …