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Ro Nita Hawes-Saunders To Receive Honorary Doctorate, University Of Dayton

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With approval of its board of trustees, the University of Dayton will bestow an honorary doctorate degree on Ro Nita Hawes-Saunders, CEO of the world-renowned Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, at spring commencement exercises Sunday, May 12, in the University of Dayton Arena.

Moral Courage Project To Unveil Exhibit Chronicling Work At U.S.-Mexico Border, University Of Dayton

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The University of Dayton Human Rights Center will unveil "America the Borderland," an exhibit by the center's Moral Courage Project designed to shine a light on human rights defenders at the US-Mexico border, during a free, public reception 7:30 to 9 p.m. Thursday, April 11, in the Keller Hall atrium on the University of Dayton campus.

University Of Dayton To Honor Human Rights Activists For Investigating, Prosecuting State-Sponsored Killings In Latin America, University Of Dayton

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Central figures in the investigation and prosecution of one of the largest state-sponsored killings in Latin America in the 20th century — the El Mozote Massacre — will be the recipients of an international human rights award from the University of Dayton.

College Faculty In The News: January 10, 2019, University Of Dayton

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

Martha Hurley, director of the Criminal Justice Studies program, recently discussed proposed legislation that would change sentencing regulations, reduce incarceration times and address women's rights issues within the federal criminal justice system.

University Awards Mcintosh Scholarship To Stivers Senior, University Of Dayton

News Releases

Stivers School for the Arts senior Jada Simone Gee, who aspires to be a drama therapist, has been awarded the prestigious W.S. McIntosh Memorial Leadership Award.

Campus Report, Vol. 46, No. 2, University Of Dayton

Campus Report

The publication for faculty and staff of the University of Dayton. Highlights of this issue include: A profile about Shelley Inglis, the director of the University's Human Rights Center; news about the first University of Dayton giving day (April 10, 2019); a schedule of events to celebrate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.; a report from the Diversity Task Force; information about the Global Voices Symposium (Jan., 29-31); upcoming speakers; a description of the University's new chart of accounts; and profiles about the 2019 Lackner Award honorees, Corinne Daprano and Bill Fischer.

Daytonian 2019, University Of Dayton

University Yearbooks

University of Dayton student yearbook. Early yearbooks cover St. Mary's Institute. Annual publication of the Daytonian began in 1923; it was not published in 1929, 1932-1934 and 1944. Short volumes highlighting the graduating class were published in 1930, 1931 and 1945 under different titles.

Honorslink, Issue 2019.1, University Of Dayton

HonorsLINK Newsletter

The Honors Program newsletter, HonorsLINK contains in-depth stories about students and alumni, recent achievements and announcements from alumni, news about current students and a six-month calendar of events.

Bearing Witness To Sexual Violence As A Violation Of Women's Rights, Josh Segalewitz

Joyce Durham Essay Contest in Women's and Gender Studies

On January 21, 2017, masses of people around the globe gathered for one of the largest collections of public protest in history. It is estimated that over seven million people gathered to raise awareness of human rights violations towards several different groups. However, perhaps the largest common trope was echoed time and time again in the phrase, "women's rights are human rights." Conversations surrounding women's rights have been pushed to the forefront of human rights discourse in the recent past, and although there has certainly been a lot of progress towards the universal enforcement of women's rights, the role of …

Beauty In Disability: An Aesthetics For Dance And For Life, Aili W. Bresnahan, Michael Deckard

Books and Book Chapters by University of Dayton Faculty

To what extent does dance contribute to an ideal of beauty that can enrich human quality of life? To what extent are standards of beauty predicated on an ideal human body that has no disability? In this chapter, we show how conceptions of proportionality, perfection, and ethereality from the Ancient Greeks through the 19th century can still be seen today in some kinds of dance, particularly in ballet. Disability studies and disability-inclusive dance companies, however, have started to change this. The disabled person can be beautiful, we will show, in dance and in life, under a disability aesthetics that follows …

Lessons Of Resilience From Our Founding Mothers: An Examination Of Women From 1776 To 1830, Jody A. Kunk-Czaplicki

Journal of Research, Assessment, and Practice in Higher Education

The role of women in American society during its first 50 years (1776-1830) varied. Women, however, built and maintained the Republic but were not granted access to the Academy (Nash, 2005, Kerber, 1997). At the threshold of the Revolutionary War, women served not only their home, family, and husbands, they began to serve the broader country. In the first third of the 19^th century, white women of wealth engaged in political acts of service and in acts of disruption (Kerber, 1997). The rest of this paper examines how women leaders of early America laid the foundation for women’s access …

The Tragical Mystery Book Tour, Bob Eckstein

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

(Editor's Note: Author and New Yorker cartoonist Bob Eckstein recently set out on a book tour of his own devising. He outlines his experience, lessons learned along the way, and what up-and-coming authors might expect from their own tours.)

169th Commencement, Fall

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The Juggler Of Notre Dame And The Medievalizing Of Modernity, Volume 6: War And Peace, Sex And Violence, Jan M. Ziolkowski

Juggling for Mary

This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the Madonna in the crypt; he is saved when the statue, delighted by his skill, miraculously comes to life.

Jan Ziolkowski tracks the poem from its medieval roots to its rediscovery in late nineteenth-century Paris, before …

University Of Dayton Magazine, Winter 2018-19, University Of Dayton

University of Dayton Alumni Publications

The University of Dayton Magazine is published quarterly by the Office of University Marketing and Communications for alumni, parents, students, faculty/staff, trustees and other friends of UD. Articles in this issue include "Funkadelic Dayton," "Dan Curran: Grateful for the Gift of Life," "Restoring the Christmas Spirit," and "Lessons Learned: Reflections on a Life Acquired in and out of the Classroom," along with regular features (President's Commentary, Conversation Pieces, Letters, Commentary, View Finder, Where are you Reading?, Sports, Class Notes, Perceptions, Parting Words, and Connections).

Three Centuries Of Black Catholic Faith, Culture And Activism In New Orleans, Cecilia Moore

Journal of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium

This paper provides an overview of three centuries of black Catholic faith, culture and activism in New Orleans. In particular, it looks at how Catholicism helped antebellum black New Orleanians to build and maintain family ties, how black Catholics as individuals and collectives used their material and spiritual resources to create a religious community, schools, and parishes, and how black Catholic New Orleanians used their faith in conjunction with their religious institutions to fight for social justice and civil rights from the era of Reconstruction through the 1960s.

Setting The Stage For Experiential Learning, Griffin Quinn

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

Matthew Evans has seen how the performing arts translate around the globe through his international work with the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, a culturally diverse troupe rooted in the African-American experience.

A Vampire Bonanza: Recommended Reading And Viewing Ahead Of 'Dracula: Bloodlines', Chris Tangeman

University Libraries Blog Archive

In support of UD's first-year arts immersion into 'Dracula: Bloodlines' and the vampire narrative, a University Libraries staff member has compiled a list of relevant, informative, and entertaining resources.

Speaker Of The Hows, John Branning

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

I know several people who, among their various talents, list availability as a "motivational speaker." That sounds like a pretty sweet gig and I'm thinking of hanging out my shingle. Of course, the first thing I need to decide is: how much can I rake in for one of these talks?

Power And Vulnerability, Dave Larsen

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

University of Dayton faculty and students are sinking their teeth into this year's Humanities Commons theme, “power and vulnerability,” inspired by the Dayton Ballet's October performances of Dracula: Bloodlines.

2018-19 Production Season: Theatre, Dance And Performance Technology Program, Theatre, Dance And Performance Technology Program, University Of Dayton

Dance and Theater Programs

2018-19 Production season for Theatre, Dance and Performance Technology Program.

Campus Report, Vol. 46, No. 1, University Of Dayton

Campus Report

The publication for faculty and staff of the University of Dayton. Highlights of this issue include: priorities for the diversity and inclusion strategic plan; a report on giving in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018; Take a Break with Greg Kennedy, media specialist-in-residence in the Department of Communication; awards; "Dracula Bloodlines," the first-year arts immersion; the Dayton Funk Symposium and Dance Party; the Chaminade Hall visioning process; new faculty; sustainability award; speaker series; and upcoming events.

University Of Dayton Magazine, Autumn 2018, University Of Dayton

University of Dayton Alumni Publications

The University of Dayton Magazine is published quarterly by the Office of Communications for alumni, parents, students, faculty/staff, trustees and other friends of UD. Articles in this issue include "At the Table in God's Kingdom," "The Homesick Red and Blues" and "Sense of Scents," along with regular features (Conversation Pieces, Letters, Commentary, View Finder, Where are you Reading?, Sports, Class Notes, Perceptions, Parting Words, and Connections).

Review: 'Improvising Improvisation: From Out Of Philosophy, Music, Dance, And Literature', Aili W. Bresnahan

Philosophy Faculty Publications

This book review attempts to interpret the meaning and value of Gary Peters’ book in a way that is true to the kind of book, an experimental improvisation, that it purports to be. As such, it grapples with the difficulties of evaluating the merits of a philosophical discussion within a book that claims not to be philosophy and case studies in performance that beg the question of whether they accurately exemplify the (non-)philosophy they are meant to support. Despite these difficulties, this review ends with the conclusion that this book does, in fact, convey something essential about the nature of …

2018-08-31 Minutes Of The Executive Committee Of The Academic Senate, University Of Dayton. Academic Senate. Executive Committee

ECAS Minutes

Approved minutes of a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Academic Senate of the University of Dayton.

Encore!, Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop

Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog

Erma Bombeck: At Wit's End, a one-woman show playing on stages around the country (and Nova Scotia!), is bringing Erma's wit and humanity to a new generation. Audiences are discovering what we already know: Erma's writing is timeless. Here's the complete list of stages that have produced - or will produce between now and spring - this humorous and poignant play by Allison and Margaret Engel.

2018-08-24 Minutes Of The Executive Committee Of The Academic Senate, University Of Dayton. Academic Senate. Executive Committee

ECAS Minutes

Approved minutes of a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Academic Senate of the University of Dayton.

Building Cultural Curiosity, University Of Dayton

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

A new season of professional arts performances begins Sep. 20 at the University of Dayton. ArtsLIVE, the University’s premiere professional performance series, showcases a wide range of disciplines and cultural traditions. The program has served both community and campus audiences since 1961.

Ltc Newsletter, University Of Dayton. Ryan C. Harris Learning Teaching Center

LTC Newsletter

Fall 2018

Our Lady Of The Immaculate Conception Church: Golden Anniversary, 1938-1988

Parish Histories Collection

A booklet commemmorating the 50th anniversary of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception Church of Dayton, Ohio. It reviews the parish's history from 1938 to 1988.