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Predicting Genocide And Mass Atrocities, Ernesto Verdeja

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

This article examines several current risk assessment and early warning models to predict genocide and mass atrocities. Risk assessment (RA) concerns a country’s long­-term structural conditions (regime type, state-led discrimination, etc.) that determine overall risk for atrocities. Early warning (EW) focuses on short/midterm dynamics that can serve as triggers. The article evaluates contemporary RA and EW forecast modeling, and asks: How well can we predict mass atrocities and genocide? What are the strengths and limitations to current predictive modeling? Part I examines several quantitative (statistical) RA models and identifies several strengths and limitations in current research. Part II investigates a …

Full Issue 9.3

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

No abstract provided.

Usft Scholar Commons Annual Report: Fy 2014-2015, Chelsea Johnston, Carol Ann Borchert, Jason Boczar

Digital Commons @ USF Publications

In fall 2011, the Academic Resources Unit of the University of South Florida (USF) Library officially launched Scholar Commons, an institutional repository (IR) intended to serve as a virtual showcase for USF’s research and creative energies. Scholar Commons, which can be accessed at: http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/, provides digital preservation and free open access (OA) to scholarly works produced by the USF Community. Our vision is to become a vehicle to drive research communication across academic disciplines.

Through our dedication to and outreach of scholarly communications, we have generated many positive outcomes. This report chronicles our initiatives during the 2014/2015 fiscal year …

Postcard, Goodbye To All That! At Studio@620 In St. Petersburg, Florida, Studio At 620

Postcard Collection

A promotional postcard for Goodbye to All That!, an educational play by Charles Vanover. The play follows Addison Ashland, a teacher who shares her narratives about the challenges of teaching in the Chicago Public Schools system. Directed by Bob Devin Jones, this staged reading is part of a series of educational plays and includes dessert and a panel discussion. The evening will also feature student presentations.

Postcard, Tru At Studio@620 In St. Petersburg, Florida, Studio At 620

Postcard Collection

A promotional postcard for Tru, a one-man play by Jay Presson Allen, directed by Lisa Tricomi, featuring Mark Chambers as Truman Capote. The play takes place in Capote's New York City apartment during the week before Christmas 1975. Mark Chambers delivers a mesmerizing performance as Capote, exploring the author's loneliness, heartbreak, and the fallout from his controversial publication of Answered Prayers.

Postcard, Life Is Mostly Straws At Studio@620 In St. Petersburg, Florida, Studio At 620

Postcard Collection

A promotional postcard for Life is Mostly Straws, a play by Richard Manley, featuring an all-star cast including Kylin Brady, Georgia Mallory Guy, Chris Jackson, and Christopher Rutherford. Directed by Bob Devin Jones, this play explores the relationship between two brothers, David and Noah, who, despite achieving success, still struggle with the trauma of their troubled childhood. The characters wield language as a weapon, with one using it like a scalpel, the other like a bludgeon.

Goodbye To That!: Student Suite: Live Performance For The Juried Symposium "Using An Ethnodramatic Case To Discuss Teaching And Learning In Schools Serving Vulnerable Youth.", Charles Vanover, Andrew Babson

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

Conference proposal, program, and performance photos from the performance of Goodbye to That!: Student Suite at the 30th Annual Conference of the University Council of Educational Administration, Saturday November 20th, 2016, Detroit, MI

Inquiry Theatre: Puzzles Matter More Than Maps, Charles Vanover, Tiffany Harris

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Using Ethnodrama To Understand And Communicate Interview Data: Paper For The Arts-Based Educational Research Sig 2015 Annual Meeting Of The American Educational Research Association, Charles Vanover

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

In this paper, I discuss my efforts to use arts-based methods to understand teachers' work in schools shaped by the No Child Left Behind law and other mass reforms. I describe how the process of writing, rehearsing, and putting up multiple performances of six ethnodramas allowed me to gain a deeper understanding of the data I used as the source material for these productions. Ethnodrama changed my view of what mattered in my data, and this understanding guided my choices as I created the scripts and worked with actors and community members to put up the shows.

Goodbye To All That! Live Performance For The Refereed Session Trustworthiness And Rigor In Ethnodramatic Performance: Abstract, Poster, Program, And Photos, Charles Vanover, Cynthia Lubin Langtiw, Tracie Rogers, Andrew Babson, Martha Kate Trelease, Omar J. Salaam, Vonzell Agosto, Carter A. Winkle

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

This submission contains the abstract, program, poster, and performance photos from the peer reviewed session at The 2016 Qualitative Report Conference at Nova Southeastern University on Friday, January 15th, 2016.

Dancing With Knives: American Cold War Ideology In The Dances Of West Side Story, Daniel Belgrad, Ying Zhu

Humanities and Cultural Studies Faculty Publications

In cultural studies today, there is emerging an interpretive revolution “from below” – that is, a radical reassessment of the politics of cultural forms, based on a recovery of the embodied and affective subject as the center of meaning-making. Making sense of dance performances is therefore methodologically important because of their particular ability to offer insight into these two aspects of subjectivity. As an artifact of Cold War American culture, Jerome Robbins’ choreography in the film West Side Story (1961) enforces an ideological distinction between legitimate and illegitimate forms of violence, through its portrayals of “cool” affect as a necessary …

Magazine Clipping From 'Burg Life, Bob Devin Jones: The Sunshine City's Creative Visionary, 2016, Janan Talafer

Newspaper and Magazine Clippings

An article in the magazine "'Burg Life" about Studio@620 and Bob Devin Jones.

Undergraduate Catalog, 2016-2017, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg.

Undergraduate Catalogs

No abstract provided.

2016-17 Men's Basketball Media Guide, University Of South Florida. Athletic Communications Office, Steven Schoon, Tom Zebold

Men's Basketball Media Guides

The media guide for the University of South Florida Bulls' 2016-2017 men's basketball season. Included are sections on the 2016-2017 season outlook, coaches and staff, player profiles, a 2015-2016 season review, history and records, and information about the University of South Florida Athletics. The Bulls finished the season with a 7-23 record.

Ay 2016/2017 Sec Meeting Minutes, 2016-07-06, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Archives

No abstract provided.

I See! Scotland: Tackling Sectarianism And Promoting Community Psychosocial Health, Eolene M. Boyd-Macmillan, Patricia Andrews Fearon, Amanda M. Ptolomey, Laura J. Mathieson

Journal of Strategic Security

We developed and tested through two studies a new intervention run as a course, I SEE! Scotland, to reduce and prevent Protestant-Catholic sectarianism in Scotland, a historic inter-group conflict expressed in forms ranging from polite to violent, within a wider population that includes those who feel untouched. Designed to reflect the social ecology of Scotland and engage individuals regardless of sectarian involvement, the intervention aimed to increase cognitive complexity, measured as integrative complexity, through participatory theatre and experiential methods. We hypothesised that the confluence of experiential learning to support multiple forms of self, other, and systems awareness with narrative framing …

Increasing Cognitive Complexity And Collaboration Across Communities: Being Muslim Being Scottish, Eolene M. Boyd-Macmillan

Journal of Strategic Security

Being Muslim Being Scottish (BMBS) joins a family of IC interventions, Being Muslim Being British (BMBB) and Being Kenyan Being Muslim (BKBM). Like BMBB and BKBM, the newest family member, BMBS, is designed to increase cognitive complexity management by enabling participants to identify and access a wider range of their own values (value pluralism). Increased cognitive management capacities enable movement from rapid, inflexible, closed, black and white thinking that sees no validity in other viewpoints toward more deliberate, flexible, open thinking that can tolerate shades of grey, and see validity in other viewpoints without sacrificing one’s core values. Piloted …

An Ic Intervention For Post-Conflict Northern Ireland Secondary Schools, Eolene M. Boyd-Macmillan, Claire Campbell, Andrea Furey

Journal of Strategic Security

Without carefully planned, sustained resourcing of children and young people, post-conflict Northern Ireland (NI) may fail to flourish. In May, 2016, MI5 (the UK domestic security agency) increased the security threat level from moderate to substantial for NI related terrorism. For over two years we have been partnership building in post-conflict NI to produce a plan for developing an evidence-based integrative complexity resource for NI secondary schools. Integrative complexity interventions have been shown effective at increasing capacities in a range of contexts, on different conflicts and extremisms, with diverse population samples (evaluated using the cross-culturally validated integrative complexity measurement frame). …

Usft 2016-2017 Usf Libraries Annual Report, Usf Libraries

Library Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

The Weekly Challenger, December 24, 2015, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The December 24, 2015, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Preference Of Chinese Undergraduate Music Majors For Chinese Xi-Qu And Western Opera, Hong Chen

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The purposes of this study were to explore the preference of the Chinese undergraduate music majors (N = 27) for Chinese Xi-Qu and Western opera audiovisual examples, the reasons for preference, influence of familiarity on preference, and the relationship between preference ratings and the emotions as detected by FaceReader. The mixed research method, convergent parallel design, was used to explore this topic in depth. As Xi-Qu and opera integrate multiple art forms, eight audiovisual examples (Xi-Qu, n = 4, opera, n = 4) were selected as the stimuli to show the characteristics of the two genres. The participants watched …

Now, We Hear Through A Voice Darkly: New Media And Narratology In Cinematic Art, James Anthony Ricci

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation explores the intersection of new media and narrative, as it is presented through a cinematic aesthetic. The narrative language of film is analyzed through the theoretical framework of Bakhtin’s concepts of Heteroglossia, Chronotope, and Dialogism. Bakhtin’s ideas of classifying language act as strong tools for demonstrating how cinematic narrative can inform and alter the perception of its spectators. Lev Manovich’s principles of New Media, specifically Variability, Modularity, and Automation are also utilized to demonstrate how cinema is a constantly evolving paradigm.

Chapter one focuses on the theoretical terminology, outlining the conceptual definitions and illustrating their relevance in precise …

Crow's Nest, November 9, 2015, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The November 9, 2015, issue of the Crow's Nest.

Strategic Missile Defense: Russian And U.S. Policies And Their Effects On Future Weapons Proliferation, Diana Marie Nesbitt

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this research is to study the effects that Russian, U.S., and NATO policies of deterrence have on strategic missile defense as well as how these policies and strategic missile defense affect future weapons proliferation. The aspects explored are the current Russian strategic forces and quality, Russian policies and strategies, the Phased Adaptive Approach, and U.S. and NATO policies and strategies. Mitigation of this pressing issue may be through open dialogue, a system to limit future U.S. and NATO interceptors and sensors, and a possible joint data exchange center.

Crow's Nest, November 3, 2015, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The November 3, 2015, issue of the Crow's Nest.

Cave Talk, November 2015, Robert A. Holt

Cave Talk

Contents: 1965 - Celebrating our 50th Year - 2015 -- a Message from our New President Patty Perlaky -- 4th Grader Apologizes to Black Chasm Cavern -- Generations: a Garden Kaleidoscope at Mark Twain Cave -- Speleotherapy Or Natural Cave Therapy -- NCA Buyers Group -- Tennessee Gift Shows -- 2015 Convention Attendee Survey Results -- WNS Report -- Pumpkin Fix at Luray Fudge Company -- Microsoft's Rms P-O-S System -- NCA Insurance Column - NCA Members’ Resource for Insurance Information, News, Education -- a Thank You Note -- Calendar of Events

Review Of Peggy Thompson, (Ed). Beyond Sense And Sensibility: Moral Formation And The Literary Imagination From Johnson To Wordsworth, Elizabeth A. Dolan

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830

No abstract provided.

Arts Alliance Will Lead Ace Pinellas, St. Petersburg Arts Alliance

Marketing, Presentations & Publications

No abstract provided.

Crow's Nest, October 19, 2015, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The October 19, 2015, issue of the Crow's Nest.

Program, The Studio Honors: Community, 2015, Studio At 620

Program Collection

No abstract provided.