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Faculty In The News: June 20, 2016, University Of Dayton Jun 2016

Faculty In The News: June 20, 2016, University Of Dayton

College of Arts and Sciences Newsroom

Read highlights of recent media coverage of College of Arts and Sciences faculty research, scholarship and commentary.

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Solar Developing Egypt, Salma Talaat Jun 2016

Solar Developing Egypt, Salma Talaat

The Undergraduate Research Journal

Despite the ongoing debate on the usefulness of solar energy, it cannot be denied that Egypt has a high solar availability, and its energy can be used for water pumping, telecommunications, electrification, etc. Unfortunately, little has been done over the years to secure this sustainable type of energy. My paper will confirm my opinion of the importance and effectiveness of solar energy. It will also focus on how solar electricity will ensure electrification and the supply of safe drinking water. For millions around Egypt, electricity and safe drinking water are unavailable. Hence, harnessing the power of the sun through solar …

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Happy Spells? Constructing And Deconstructing A Private-Law Perspective On Subsidiarity, Peer Zumbansen Jun 2016

Happy Spells? Constructing And Deconstructing A Private-Law Perspective On Subsidiarity, Peer Zumbansen

Law and Contemporary Problems

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Towards An Anglophone African Literature Praxis: A Case Of A Literary Linguistic Conundrum And The Teaching Of African Letters, Michael Andindilile Jun 2016

Towards An Anglophone African Literature Praxis: A Case Of A Literary Linguistic Conundrum And The Teaching Of African Letters, Michael Andindilile

Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

This article attempts to bring together various strands vital in the study and teaching of Anglophone African literature in an increasingly globalised world, which no longer has the luxury of ignoring the rich literatures from this unique continent often given an unwarranted bad name. It looks beyond the literary-linguistic conundrum to examine how the most can come out of the interpretation and teaching of Anglophone African literatures, primarily drawing on examples from Chinua Achebe’s oeuvre. It primarily argues that the increasingly transnational world has heightened the need to study and teach literatures from traditionally non-English contexts in the language, English, …

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Religious Rites And Ceremonies As The Expression Of Local Identity And An Opportunity For Local Development: The Case Of The “Fòcara” Di Sant’Antonio Abate” In Novoli (The Bonfire Of St Anthony Abbot) In A Small Town In The Salento Peninsula In Southern Italy, Anna Trono Jun 2016

Religious Rites And Ceremonies As The Expression Of Local Identity And An Opportunity For Local Development: The Case Of The “Fòcara” Di Sant’Antonio Abate” In Novoli (The Bonfire Of St Anthony Abbot) In A Small Town In The Salento Peninsula In Southern Italy, Anna Trono

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

Religious ceremonies play an important role when understood as an opportunity for improving the image of a city, improving the socio-economic situation and promoting regional development. These are the objectives of the local administration in Novoli, a small town in the Salento peninsula in Puglia, south-eastern Italy. The most important religious, social and tourist event of the year in Novoli is the feast of Saint Anthony Abbot, which falls on the 17th of January. The festivities continue for many days and include religious rites, street lights, exhibitions, food stands, popular music and brass band concerts, markets and conferences. There are …

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Event As Spiritual Pilgrimage: A Case Study Of The ‘Cherish’ Christian Women’S Conference, Ruth Dowson Jun 2016

Event As Spiritual Pilgrimage: A Case Study Of The ‘Cherish’ Christian Women’S Conference, Ruth Dowson

International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

In examining an aspect of the eventization of faith (Pfadenhauer, 2010), this article considers an annual women’s conference, ‘Cherish’, a church-led event. Due to the pressures on the space available in its former home in the organising church’s campus, the growth in the event’s popularity has resulted in the church organisers moving the event venue to a commercial arena. The research questions the extent to which this popular conference meets the criteria of the academic characteristics of pilgrimage, and aims to clarify to what extent the thousands of women who attend the Cherish conference experience the event - and their …

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Grant-Writing, Spike Gildea, Margaret Florey Jun 2016

Grant-Writing, Spike Gildea, Margaret Florey

CoLang 2016 Workshop Syllabuses

This course provides an overview of the key national and international funding agencies. The essential information that is commonly required by funding agencies is reviewed and explored section-by- section. Students will practise writing sections of a mock proposal and will receive feedback about what works and what doesn’t in grant applications. Ethical and intellectual property issues are discussed and we examine the requirements for carrying out effective projects consistent with community protocols.

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Project Planning, Margaret Florey Jun 2016

Project Planning, Margaret Florey

CoLang 2016 Workshop Syllabuses

This workshop provides a sound foundation in project planning and development. It is aimed primarily at those people who are relatively new to planning language projects. Over four sessions, participants will identify the project goals and objectives, proposed outcomes, the target audience, and the project team members and their skills and roles. They will map out the activities and projected timeline together with a preliminary implementation plan. We will explore strategic plans and look at how each step of a project fits strategically into wider goals for the language. We consider ethical issues, community protocols and regulations that need to …

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Ethnography In Language Documentation And Revitalization, Sarah Shulist, Faun Rice Jun 2016

Ethnography In Language Documentation And Revitalization, Sarah Shulist, Faun Rice

CoLang 2016 Workshop Syllabuses

This workshop will focus on training participants to use ethnographic methodologies in the development and implementation of projects for both language documentation and revitalization. The target audience includes community linguists and academic linguists with an intermediate to advanced level of knowledge about language programs, but without any extensive training in anthropology and ethnography. The goal is to provide this group of language activists with an additional set of tools for use in enhancing the efficacy and comprehensiveness of their documentary and revitalization work.

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Documentation Of Orature, Imelda Udoh, Uwemedimo Iwoketok Jun 2016

Documentation Of Orature, Imelda Udoh, Uwemedimo Iwoketok

CoLang 2016 Workshop Syllabuses

Orature is an amalgamation of two words: oral and literature. It depicts the creative impulse of the society it evolves from. This artistic expression includes proverbs, riddles, extemporized poems/songs, folktales, childlore, etc. The general observation is that attention has been given to aspects of Orature by adults almost to the exclusion of children’s artistic expression. There is no doubt that some aspects of our collective Orature has been put in print. However, much more is yet to be documented. It is also often not considered that both adults and children draw their experiences from the same setting, they employ the …

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Life In Communities, Spike Gildea, Jorge Emilio Labrada Jun 2016

Life In Communities, Spike Gildea, Jorge Emilio Labrada

CoLang 2016 Workshop Syllabuses

Given the widely recognized danger the world’s languages face at the present time, there has been a major expansion of language documentation and linguistic description, which requires what has been traditionally referred to as linguistic fieldwork. We generally prepare our students to undertake this work through field methods courses but “[w]hile we generally do a very thorough job of teaching how to elicit and analyze data, we often forget to tell them that there is a personal and practical side to fieldwork that can very well derail their research if they are not prepared for it.” (Macauley, 2004:194). The overall …

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Teaching And Leaerning An Indigenous Language, Hishinlai' Peter Jun 2016

Teaching And Leaerning An Indigenous Language, Hishinlai' Peter

CoLang 2016 Workshop Syllabuses

Students will be able to (1) listen and participate in the discussin of an Indigenous language learner as he speaks about his experiences in learning his ancestral language from the language classroom; (2) understand the basis of the language classroom, and expectations of the students from the teaching perspective; (3) understand and participate in the revieiw of the curriculum of the class; (4) understand the basis of lesson plans ad be able to create them to support language learning goals; (5) understand how to engage students in the process of acquiring the language; and (6) understand the role of grammar …

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Spatial Visualization And Language Documentation, Kristine Hildebrandt Jun 2016

Spatial Visualization And Language Documentation, Kristine Hildebrandt

CoLang 2016 Workshop Syllabuses

Maps and atlases (collections of maps) can be an important and extremely useful part of the toolkit for examining and interpreting variation and change in language documentation and in projects aimed at maintenance, promotion or revitalization. They allow for orderly and illuminating generalizations to be drawn from often unruly distributions of patterns. They also allow for a birds-eye view of patterns across large populations or large geographic and temporal spaces. Although maps cannot tell the whole story behind languages and varieties, they are one way in which we can provide context or approach explanation for interesting or unexpected patterns or …

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Integrating Experimental Methods, Language Documentation, And (Linguistic) Theory, Seunghun Lee, Michal Temkin Martínez Jun 2016

Integrating Experimental Methods, Language Documentation, And (Linguistic) Theory, Seunghun Lee, Michal Temkin Martínez

CoLang 2016 Workshop Syllabuses

Language documentation and linguistic theories mutually benefit from cooperation - data from documentation propels linguistic theories, and different theories can inform the collection of language materials. A wide array of rich, naturally occurring data collected in language documentation settings has long informed and been used for the basis for typological assertions and to further linguistic inquiry (Palosaari and Campbell 2011, Himmelmann 2012). On the other hand, O’Grady et al. (2009) use psycholinguistic theory and methods to aid in the documentation and assessment of language fluency that can be used for revitalization efforts. Additionally, the integration of experimental methods in language …

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Transcription, Eno-Abasi Urua Jun 2016

Transcription, Eno-Abasi Urua

CoLang 2016 Workshop Syllabuses

Transcription, the written representation of spoken human language, is vital to any language documentation and revitalization project. This hands-on workshop introduces participants to a variety of different transcription methodologies for various purposes. The workshop primarily focuses two types of transcription: (i) phonetic transcription using the International Phonetic Alphabet and (ii) discourse transcription where elements of well-known transcription systems are introduced (Conversation Analysis – developed at UC Santa Barbara). The workshop emphasizes the nuts and bolts of these transcription systems and how to apply transcription practices to documentation and revitalization projects.

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Unangam Tunuu, Anna Berge, Moses Dirks Jun 2016

Unangam Tunuu, Anna Berge, Moses Dirks

CoLang 2016 Workshop Syllabuses

This workshop prepares the student for the 3-week practicum focusing on fieldwork on a sleeping or less accessible language using archival materials; the language we focus on (for both the workshop and practicum) is Unangam Tunuu (Eastern Aleut, ISO 6390ale). The workshop class will cover the language and cultural history, linguistic structure, the history of language documentation and description in Unangam Tunuu, and the main resources and foci of previous linguistic research. Students will be required to do the readings and to familiarize themselves with leading articles or reference books in the field, in particular with the Aleut Dictionary and …

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Talk It Up! — Integrating And Prioritizing Conversational Data In Documentation, Nicholas Williams, Kristine Stenzel, Barbara Fox Jun 2016

Talk It Up! — Integrating And Prioritizing Conversational Data In Documentation, Nicholas Williams, Kristine Stenzel, Barbara Fox

CoLang 2016 Workshop Syllabuses

This course will introduce participants to some of the basic methodological and theoretical issues related to recording and analyzing everyday conversations. We will discuss specific contributions of naturalistic interactions to understanding aspects of linguistic structure, social interaction, and culture and explore how interactional data can be better integrated into language documentation projects.

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Working With Archival Materials, Susan Gehr, Megan Lukaniec Jun 2016

Working With Archival Materials, Susan Gehr, Megan Lukaniec

CoLang 2016 Workshop Syllabuses

As more languages become dormant each year, there is a growing need to develop and disseminate research methods for working with archival documents. This workshop is aimed primarily toward beginning and intermediate participants who either are currently working with or intend to work with archival materials. The workshop will focus primarily on providing and developing skills to accomplish research and revitalization goals through the use of archival documents. Therefore, there will be hands on practice in class as well as regular assignments for participants. These assignments will allow students to begin working with these materials during the workshop itself, to …

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Design Culture And Contemporary Education, Therese Uri Jun 2016

Design Culture And Contemporary Education, Therese Uri

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This qualitative situational analysis study charted the implications and potentialities of embracing a design culture within contemporary education. Fifteen design philosophers, instructors, and practitioners provided data using situational analysis grounded theory methodology (Clarke, 2005) to examine three levels of inquiry. Data was interpreted using traditional grounded theory coding (Corbin & Strauss, 2008) and charted on three maps: situational, social world arena, and positional. As the study progressed, the “in vivo code” of integrating differences became the most developed concept of the study. The “in vivo code” also addressed the central quest of the study as well as what remains to …

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Why Making Matters—Developing An Interdisciplinary Research Project On How Embodied Making May Contribute To Learning, Marte S. Gulliksen Jun 2016

Why Making Matters—Developing An Interdisciplinary Research Project On How Embodied Making May Contribute To Learning, Marte S. Gulliksen

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper presents an ongoing project to develop a future study of embodied making, particularly when carving green wood. Making activities such as woodcarving have been studied using phenomenological, experiential, observational, analytical, and reflective methodologies, among others. These studies have documented many aspects of embodied making and its consequences for the person, product, and process. Neuroscientific methods have recently generated knowledge on the anatomical and functional aspects of embodied making. The project is built on the assumption that it is possible to develop an interdisciplinary study combining these different methods, with the potential to confirm and expand current knowledge on …

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Exposing Charities To Design-Led Approaches Through Design Research, Laura Warwick, Robert Djaelani Jun 2016

Exposing Charities To Design-Led Approaches Through Design Research, Laura Warwick, Robert Djaelani

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper discusses the value of using design research to expose Voluntary Community Sector (VCS) organisations to design-led approaches. The discussion is based on the findings from two qualitative, exploratory doctoral inquiries into the relevance and applicability of adopting a Design for Service (DfS) approach to effect transformation in VCS contexts. Using Action Research and a case study structure, the DfS approach was introduced and applied within four VCS organisations in succession. The research findings have provided valuable evidence and insight into design’s capacity to incite transformational change, and the challenges of doing so, at a critical time for the …

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Word To Image – Image To Word The Contribution Of Visual Communication To Understanding And Dialog, Michael Renner Jun 2016

Word To Image – Image To Word The Contribution Of Visual Communication To Understanding And Dialog, Michael Renner

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Translation, understood as an interpretation of experience, opens a broad field of inquiry into a variety of disciplines. Hans-Georg Gadder’s description of hermeneutics as a language-based methodology to develop understanding, insight, and agreement within a group, serves as the starting point to analyze the practice of visual communication as a form of interpretation, negotiation, and insight. In a first step, the paper discusses the process of drawing and its relationship to interpretation. The classification of drawing as a gestural activity establishes a link to recent anthropological theories, which see gestures as precursors of the human language. Through an analysis of …

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Designing Participation For Commoning In Temporary Spaces: A Case Study In Aveiro, Portugal, Janaina Teles Barbosa, Maria Hellström Reimer, João Almeida Mota Jun 2016

Designing Participation For Commoning In Temporary Spaces: A Case Study In Aveiro, Portugal, Janaina Teles Barbosa, Maria Hellström Reimer, João Almeida Mota

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Western contemporary cities are investing in interactive spaces that promote passive participation through consumption. At the same time there are collaborative networks emerging in those urban areas enabling new forms of participation for the common good. One of the questions design research can raise is how design practices can assist in creating spaces that facilitate processes of commoning. This paper focuses on participatory processes in temporary spaces through the aesthetic experience. The concepts of “commons/commoning” and co- creation are examined from the perspective of Design for Social Innovation, Design Activism and Participatory Design. In this sense, this paper aims to …

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Towards Translation Design A New Paradigm For Design Research, Giovanni Baule Jun 2016

Towards Translation Design A New Paradigm For Design Research, Giovanni Baule

DRS Biennial Conference Series

In this paper we explore the concept of translation, starting from the assumption that it constitutes an essential reference for design culture. We assume that a designer (and in particular a communication designer) is a “translator”, since he realises a continuous process of mediation, transfer and re-transcription between the systems of departure and arrival. This perspective leads us to suppose that the application of the “translational paradigm” within the design domain can generate new design sensitivities and new research opportunities into language and into the processes of transferral between different supports and media. We believe that design has specific affinities …

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Design And Interdisciplinarity: The Improbable Introduction Of “Fundamental Physics” In A Design School, Annie Gentes, Anne-Lyse Renon, Julien Bobroff Jun 2016

Design And Interdisciplinarity: The Improbable Introduction Of “Fundamental Physics” In A Design School, Annie Gentes, Anne-Lyse Renon, Julien Bobroff

DRS Biennial Conference Series

This paper analyzes the introduction of fundamental physics in design education as a pedagogical method that brings interdisciplinarity into play. It presents the framework of three workshops that took place in a design school. For each workshop, a theme was chosen by the designers and the professor of physics: superconductivity in 2011, quantum physics in 2013 and light and optics in 2014. The authors suggest that introducing physics in a design curriculum was thought in terms of an “a fortiori” education program that would help practitioners to draw pertinent questions and responses whatever the situation. The authors suggest therefore that …

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Design As Symbolic Violence. Design For Social Justice, Joanna Boehnert, Bianca Elzenbaumer, Dimeji Onafuwa Jun 2016

Design As Symbolic Violence. Design For Social Justice, Joanna Boehnert, Bianca Elzenbaumer, Dimeji Onafuwa

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Design embeds ideas in communication and artefacts in subtle and psychologically powerful ways. Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu coined the term ‘symbolic violence’ to describe how powerful ideologies, priorities, values and even sensibilities are constructed and reproduced through cultural institutions, processes and practices. Through symbolic violence, individuals learn to consider unjust conditions as natural and even come to value customs and ideas that are oppressive.Design functions as symbolic violence when it is involved with the creation and reproduction of ideas, practices, tools and processes that result in structural and other types of violence (including ecocide). Breaking symbolic violence involves discovering how it …

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Beyond Impact: Understanding And Communicating The Value Of Collaborative Design Research, Simon Bowen, Roger Whitham, Chris Speed, Simon Moreton, Mariza Dima Jun 2016

Beyond Impact: Understanding And Communicating The Value Of Collaborative Design Research, Simon Bowen, Roger Whitham, Chris Speed, Simon Moreton, Mariza Dima

DRS Biennial Conference Series

How can the value of design research programmes be understood and communicated beyond the immediate economic measures of impact often requested by funders? This has been a central concern for four UK Knowledge Exchange Hubs for the Creative Economy, and representatives from each Hub will illustrate how their research programmes have approached this challenge to open a discussion and elicit the experiences of others.Through a dialogue between catalyst speakers’ and participants’ perspectives, the conversation will explore and propose complementary descriptions of design research value (‘beyond impact’) and practical considerations for its demonstration.

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What Do Designers Have To Offer When Facing Societal Challenges?, Mascha Van Der Voort, Jacob Buur, Thomas Binder, Per Linde, Robert-Jan Den Haan Jun 2016

What Do Designers Have To Offer When Facing Societal Challenges?, Mascha Van Der Voort, Jacob Buur, Thomas Binder, Per Linde, Robert-Jan Den Haan

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Objects, artifacts, things. All these words are part of design, sometimes as synonyms, sometimes with different meanings. Since the establishment of design schools, designers have been trained to create new or improve existing products; we are good at designing these objects, artifacts and things. However, when we as designers involve ourselves in societal challenges, when we engage in designing for social innovation, how can we use our expertise of designing objects?We will investigate this main research question in this conversation through interactive case study reviews, introduced by the catalysts, and bold propositions. Participants will be asked to take position on …

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The Future Of Design Education, Sapna Singh, Liz Sanders, Terry Irwin, Pieter Jan Stappers, Nicole Lotz, Erik Bohemia Jun 2016

The Future Of Design Education, Sapna Singh, Liz Sanders, Terry Irwin, Pieter Jan Stappers, Nicole Lotz, Erik Bohemia

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Design as a discipline has evolved and is expanding its impact from individual physical objects and spaces to experiences and organizations. An emerging question is 'how will the increasing influence of design impact the future of design education and create value for its stakeholders as well as for the discipline of design?' Probably a more critical question is 'how can or should design education prepare future designers for this expanding sphere of design influence?'Design education is at the crossroads and faces an uncertain future. some say “If design is to live up to its promise it must create new, enduring …

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Introduction: Aesthetics, Cosmopolitics And Design, Alex Wilkie Jun 2016

Introduction: Aesthetics, Cosmopolitics And Design, Alex Wilkie

DRS Biennial Conference Series

No abstract provided.

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