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Linfieldpdx, Fall 2008, Christopher Kahle

Linfieldpdx Newsletter

Linfieldpdx, an annual newsletter for Linfield College's nursing and health sciences alumni and friends, features stories about alumni, the campus, and programs. Included in this issue:

• notes from the Director, Chair, and Dean
• Simlab
• campus news

Rollins Alumni Record, Spring 2008, Rollins College

Rollins Magazine

Issue Title: "There's No Place Like Home"

Sustaining Indigenous Futures? Welfare Reform And Responsibility For The Other, Cate Thill

Arts Conference Papers

Debates about the provision of welfare over the past decade have been founded upon an increasing concern with the responsibilities of welfare recipients. In Australia, as elsewhere, the emphasis has been on recipients’ responsibility to rise above their circumstances (no matter how constraining) in order to ‘give something back’ to society. This practice of ‘responsibilisation’ has recently been extended to parents and residents of certain remote Northern Territory and Far North Queensland communities, in response to an inquiry into the protection of Aboriginal children from sexual abuse (Northern Territory Government 2007). Parents and community members have an enforceable obligation to …

Playing In The Shadows, Sascha Ettinger Epstein, Marco Ianniello

Arts Recorded or Rendered Works

A group of kids growing up in Wolloomooloo, a notorious public housing estate in the shadow of Sydney's famous skyline, find inspiration after dark when they form a basketball squad to compete in a citywide tournament for underprivileged youth.

A film by: Sascha Ettinger Epstein and Marco Ianniello

Featuring: Jaidyn, Celine, Ainsley, Jerry and Cesar Bassi

Cinematography: Sascha Ettinger Epstein

Sound: Marco Ianniello

Original Music: Caitlin Yeo

Examining Career-Related Mentoring And Managerial Performance Across Cultures: A Multilevel Analysis, William A. Gentry, Todd J. Weber, Golnaz Sadri

Leadership Institute: Faculty Publications

The benefits of the mentoring relationship for protégés have been a primary focus in the mentoring literature. Researchers have recently begun to examine how mentoring can benefit the mentor. The purpose of the present study is to examine whether direct report-ratings of a manager’s career-related mentoring behaviors are related to boss-ratings of that manager’s performance. In addition, this study assesses whether the cultural background of the manager moderates the career-related mentoring–performance relationship via multilevel methodology. Results reveal that managers who are rated by their direct reports as engaging in career-related mentoring behaviors are perceived as better performers by their bosses. …

Intercultural Sensitivity And Conflict Management Styles In Cross-Cultural Organizational Situations, Tong Yu, Guo-Ming Chen

Communication Studies Faculty Publications

Increased cultural diversity in work places has aroused considerable attention to conflict management and intercultural sensitivity. However, few studies have investigated these two concepts together. The present study aims to bridge the gap in this line of research with an examination between intercultural sensitivity and conflict management styles in a hypothetical cross-cultural organizational situation. The results from 253 participants indicate that significantly positive and negative relationships exist among the dimensions of the two concepts. Limitations and directions for future research are discussed as well.

Bells Of Change: Kathak Dance, Women And Modernity In India, Pallabi Chakravorty

Dance Faculty Works

The first critical study of Kathak dance within the discourses of the modern and the global, tracing the arc of two centuries of Kathak: the colonial nautch dance, classical Kathak under nationalism and postcolonialism and 'innovation' and 'new directions' under transnationalism and globalization. It blends various approaches from anthropology, ethnomusicology, and performance, media and gender studies to map the journey of Kathak from baijis and tawaifs to the global stage. The book uses dance as a lens to explore the interaction between the actors and forces of cultural change from power and patronage to television and film.

Early Modern Ecostudies: From The Florentine Codex To Shakespeare., Thomas Hallock, Ivo Kamps, Karen L. Raber

Faculty Books

The essays in this volume interrogate the unique and often problematic relationship between early modern cultural studies and ecocriticism, providing theoretical insights and models for a future practice that successfully wed the two disciplines.

Social Cohesion And Cultural Expressions: The Case Of The Sacred Textiles In The Armenian Orthodox Churches Of Istanbul, Marlene R. Breu, Ronald T. Marchese

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Prologue

The social and cultural history of Armenians is long; indeed one cannot fully appreciate its parameters without deeper investigation. This paper reports on a segment of Armenian history— the sacred historical textiles housed in the Armenian Orthodox Churches of Istanbul, Turkey. These artifacts had never before been studied, although a select few objects produced in Istanbul have been published in books devoted to the Armenian collections in Jerusalem, Etchmiadzin (Armenia), and the Sis collection from Anatolia currently in Beirut, Lebanon. Illuminated manuscripts receive the greatest attention among the historical Armenian religious artifacts, followed by stone, metal and wooden objects. …

Author Biographies

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Author Biographies A-Z

The Centre For Advanced Textiles: A Case Study In Uk Digital Textile Culture, Eulanda A. Sanders

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

If textiles serve as records of a culture’s history and values, how should we approach and evaluate the integration of digitally-created and digitally-produced textiles? How do the application of digital technologies encourage or inhibit cultural expressions?

Government and academic institutions in the United Kingdom (UK) are actively trying to support and invigorate what is being called the ‘research culture’ in the UK, yet the ability to create and maintain sustainable research centres in the creative textile fields have proven to be difficult. Through reflectively analysing the creation, re-evaluation and re-focusing of the Centre for Advanced Textiles (CAT) at Glasgow School …

The Centre For Advanced Textiles: A Case Study In Uk Digital Textile Culture, Eulanda A. Sanders

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Introduction

The faculty and graduate students at the Centre for Advanced Textiles (CAT), located in the Glasgow School of Arts in Scotland, have created a unique academic environment that not only employs culture in design inspiration, but also creates a dynamic academic culture. The team consists of the following five, individuals who are all practicing designers and researchers: Alan Shaw, Industry Coordinator; Vicky Begg, Bureau Coordinator; Helena Britt, a Practitioner/Educator/Graduate Student; and Andrew McDonald, a Research Assistant/Graduate Student and J.R. Campbell, the Research Fellow/Coordinator. Each faculty member and graduate student on this team interacts with each other on various activities …

The Decline Of Literary Criticism, Richard A. Posner

Articles

No abstract provided.

Editorial:The Orleans Public Defenders’ Office:Revamping The New Orleans Criminal Justice System After Katrina, Anne Keith Walton

American University Criminal Law Brief

No abstract provided.

Cinematic Jujitsu: Resisting White Hegemony Through The American Dream In Spike Lee’S Malcolm X, Kristen Hoerl

Scholarship and Professional Work - Communication

Spike Lee’s film Malcolm X (1992) presented Malcolm X’s life story using the narrative framework of the American Dream myth central to liberal ideology. Working from Gramsci’s notion of common sense in the process of hegemony, I explain how Lee appealed to this mythic structure underlying American popular culture to give a platform to Malcolm X’s controversial ideas. By adopting a common sense narrative to tell Malcolm X’s life story, this movie functioned as a form of cinematic jujitsu that invited critical consciousness about the contradictions between liberal ideology and the life experiences of racially excluded groups. Other formal devices …

Capitalizing On Affect: Viagra (In)Action, Kristin A. Swenson

Scholarship and Professional Work - Communication

Recent cultural criticisms of Viagra’s advertisements and promotional materials have argued that rhetorical constructions of Viagra users reestablish a hegemonic masculinity premised on heterosexual standards of traditional gender norms (Baglia, 2005; Bordo, 2000; Loe, 2004). Cultural critics have also noted that Viagra’s promotional materials allow “for alternative readings by potential users who do not fall into the category of the ‘traditional/ideal’ Viagra user” including women and homosexual men (Mamo & Fishman, 2001, p. 14). What most criticisms fail to take into account is that Viagra, like other lifestyle drugs, does not only reestablish cultural constructs of the contemporary gendered body …

Media Literacy In The Digital Age: Implications For Scholars And Students, Barbara R. Burke

Communication, Media, and Rhetoric Publications

Advocates of the practice assert becoming media literate may be the way to take control, and to be better able to identify and control the borders between the real world and the world manufactured by the media. This paper embraces this assertion, and suggests advocating expanding our understandings of media literacy, and creating new strategies for analysis and critique of New Media. To make this argument, the paper will describe American attempts at shaping media education to foster media literacy. Then, a comparison between Campbell’s system and Federov’s modules of media literacy will be offered. Finally, two new elements of …

Presentation: Naming The Unnamed: Intellectual Property Rights Of Women Artists From India, Ruchira Goswani, Karubakee Nandi

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.

Review Of "Politicizing Magic: An Anthology Of Russian And Soviet Fairy Tales" Edited By M. Balina, H. Goscilo, And M. Lipovetsky, Sibelan E. S. Forrester

Russian Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

How American Student Journalists At A College Newspaper Consume, Perceive, And Disseminate News And Information About China, Xiaohua Wang

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

With the increase of cooperation between America and China, the average person's perception of the other country could be an important factor that influences the development of the relationship between these countries. This study was designed to explore how Americans student journalists view China and how these student journalists select the news for a campus newspaper that might influence their readers' perceptions of China. Student journalists not only represent American youth but also act as connectors and filters between a huge flow of information outside and students on campus. A convenience census sample of student journalists at a campus newspaper …

Outside The Frame: Towards A Phenomenology Of Texts And Technology, Anthony Crisafi

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The subject of my dissertation is how phenomenology can be used as a tool for understanding the intersection between texts and technology. What I am suggesting here is that, specifically in connection with the focus of our program in Texts and Technology, there are very significant questions concerning how digital communications technology extends our humanity, and more importantly what kind of epistemological and ontological questions are raised because of this. There needs to be a coherent theory for Texts and Technology that will help us to understand this shift, and I feel that this should be the main focus for …

Humanities Education Then, Now And Why, Marshall W. Gregory

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

The problem of educational metaphors in the humanities is that the metaphors driving the humanities since the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance-metaphors that educators still rely on today-no longer work in the twenty-first century.

Review Of Kenneth E. Bailey, Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies In The Gospels, James F. Mcgrath

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

In his latest book, Kenneth Bailey provides further study of the New Testament Gospels from the perspective that has been his own unique contribution over the past three decades or so.

Art And Literature In A Servant-Leadership Curriculum For Undergraduate Female Students Who Are From Mexican Migrant Farm Worker Backgrounds, Patricia Valdes

International Journal of Servant-Leadership

This paper proposes a university leadership curriculum for undergraduate female students who are from Mexican migrant farm worker backgrounds. The curriculum incorporates the philosophy of servant-leadership and utilizes literature and art to provide media that are congruent with the cultural background of the students. The curriculum's intent is three-fold: a) to improve the capacity of Latina migrant students to be leaders and fulfill leadership roles in organizations and communities; b) to contribute to the understanding of servant-leadership and its possible congruency with the culture of female Mexican migrant students; and c) to add to the current knowledge of leadership in …

The Airy And The Irrational: Elaborating On The Meanings Of The Petimetra From A Selection Of Goya’S Caprichos And The Spanish Periodical El Censor*, Ana Hontanilla

Decimonónica

In the final years of the eighteenth century, a number of Francisco de Goya’s etchings from his collection known as Caprichos visually inscribed the female within the literary production of his time, most evidently perhaps within the satirical publication El Censor.¹ The eighteenth-century Spanish female prototype, depicted in a number of El Censor’s essays and later seen in a few of Goya’s Caprichos, was the petimetra: a cultural invention employed and exploited with misogynist tone. The petimetra was a contemporary fashionably dressed woman, mainly adopting French styles, who may equally have been a member of the …

The Voice, Winter 2008: Volume 53, Issue 2, Dordt College

The Voice Archive

Promoting Politics: Iowa Caucuses Prompt Action on Campus; Return on Investment; Campolo Challenges Comfortable Christians; Korean Exchange Grows; Dordt and Dutch University Offer International Exchange Program; Students Watch Pigs Do the Work; One-Act Festival Makes for Another Grand Weekend; Schelhaas Honored With Highest Regional Theater Award; Collaborative Ag Ed Program Could Ease Teacher Shortage; New Employees; Film Challenge Is Just That; Another Way to Do Business; Career Service is Available; Dordt Expands Nursing Enrollment; Dordt Prairie Is Becoming a Reality; KSP: Kuyper Scholars Thrive on Academic Challenge; Wolthuis Pens Book on Leadership Training; Faculty News; Fall Teams Make Way for …

Transnational Law, Peer Zumbansen

Comparative Research in Law & Political Economy

This chapter traces the development of the concept of Transnational Law since Philip Jessup's Storrs Lectures at Yale Law School in 1955. Jessup had famously challenged the doctrinal and conceptual boundaries of both public and private international law to suggest that another concept be more adequately suited to capture the myriad normative and transactional relations across national borders. "I shall use", Jessup wrote, "the term 'transnational law' to include all law which regulates actions or events that transcend national frontiers. Both public and private international law are included, as are other rules which do not wholly fit into such standard …

New Governance' In European Corporate Law Regulation As Transnational Legal Pluralism, Peer Zumbansen

Comparative Research in Law & Political Economy

The present transformation of European corporate governance regulation mirrors the challenges that have been facing the EUs continuously evolving polity, marked by tensions between centralized integration programs on the one hand and Member States embedded capitalisms, path-dependencies and rent-seeking on the other. As longstanding concerns with remaining obstacles to more mobility for workers, services, business entities and capital in recent years are aligned with post-Lisbon commitments to creating the Worlds leading competitive market, European corporate governance regulation [ECGR] has become exposed to and implicated in a set of highly dynamic regulatory experiments. In this context, New Governance offers itself as …

Exploring Interdisciplinary Prayer Research In A Health Context, E. James Baesler

Communication & Theatre Arts Faculty Publications

Communication, Psychology, and Sociology are three leading academic disciplines engaged in the social scientific study of prayer, the spiritual communication between a believer(s) and God, but rarely do these disciplines collaborate in interdisciplinary prayer scholarship. Possibilities for interdisciplinary prayer research in a health context are explored through a review of the literature and academic interviews. Interdisciplinary linkages in the prayer-health context are organized in an integral "all-quadrant" theoretical model, and an assessment of the viability of interdisciplinary prayer-health research is considered.

The Self-Defensive Cognition Of Self-Defense, Donald Braman, Dan M. Kahan

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

Why do certain self-defense cases - ones, e.g., involving battered women who kill their sleeping abusers, or beleaguered commuters who shoot panhandling minority teens - provoke intense political conflict? The conventional and seemingly obvious answer is that people judge such cases in a politically partisan fashion. This paper, however, suggests a subtler and more complex explanation. Social psychologists have shown that individuals resolve factual ambiguities in a manner supportive of their defining values, both to minimize dissonance and to protect their connection to others who share their commitments. This form of self-defensive cognition, it is submitted, shapes individuals' perceptions of …