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Web Based Services Provided By University Libraries Of Brics Nations: A Comparative Study, Asifa Ali, Masood Ahmad Bhat, Shabir Ahmad Ganaie

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The developments in information and communication technologies (ICT) and their subsequent absorption in library and information science (LIS) have forced information professionals to change the way they are functioning at present. Because of their popularity with the users, an overwhelming attention is being given to the web-based information services in libraries .The web 2.0 technologies have rapidly gained huge popularity and as such, the university libraries, being the heart of the highest seats of learning, need to equip themselves with all the possible web based, i.e. web 2.0 and allied services. The present study made an endeavour to …

Fall Commencement Program, December 14, 2018, Coastal Carolina University

Commencement Programs

Program of Commencement Exercises at Coastal Carolina University.

Guest Editor's Introduction, John Lowe

The Southern Quarterly

One of the consequences of situating the U. S. as part of the circumCaribbean is that it creates an opportunity to examine important subjects—such as slavery, agricultural production, trade patterns, immigration, diaspora, travel writing and tourism—through a more comprehensive lens. Numerous slave owners had plantations in both the lower South and on the islands. Maroon culture created by runaways were common across the circumCaribbean, be they in lowland swamps or mountain retreats. Runaways also found refuge with Native Americans, leading to intermarriage and cultural exchange. Transnational studies are beginning to clear away artificial barriers separating the peoples and cultures of …

Depaul Digest

DePaul Magazine

Breaking the Bars: Panel discussions and a personal story address Latinos and mass incarceration in the United States; Campus Events; Alumni Events; Alumni Impact Report 2017-18; When Flipping Burgers Was an Art: Before Mig Macs and the Golden Arches, there was the Skaleski Staggered System; How to Negotiate to Get What You Need; Milestones; Favorite Hangout Spot Around the Lincoln Park and Loop campuses.

Milwaukee Model Symposium Program Book, Emilia Layden, Lisa Sutcliffe

MKE Model Symposium

This Program Book contains full event descriptions and participant biographies for the symposium The Milwaukee Model: Envisioning the Role of the Arts in Criminal Justice Reform.

Insights: Fall 2018

Insights

From the Dean: The Transformative Arts; Spring Alumni Reception; Social Justice at the Heart of Criminology Degree; Your Book Club as Data: Studio CHI; Behind the Lions: Spring Art Institute Event; LAS's Fulbright Competitive Edge; The Origins of the LAS Motto; In Brief; Faculty Publications; "Write Your Heart Out" Reveals Intensity of Teen Relationships; Humanity Among the Ice Floes; Personal Stories, Public Impact

Unlv Magazine, Marta Meana, Tiffany Pereira, Juliet V. Casey, Jason Scavone, Keyonna Summers

UNLV Magazine

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Kenyon Collegian - September 6, 2018

The Kenyon Collegian

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Jailangkung: Indonesian Spirit-Basket Divination, Margaret Chan

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Chinese spirit-basket divination, which dates to the fifth century, would have been lost to the world had it not been reincarnated as Indonesian jailangkung. The term is the homophonic rendition of the Chinese cai lan gong [菜篮公, vegetable basket deity] and unambiguously links the Indonesian practice with the Chinese. Contemporary Chinese divinatory methods have replaced the clumsy basket planchette with the handier tri-forked branch or a pen held in the medium’s hand, but a spirit-basket still features in jailangkung and remains the key element in involutions of the prototype. For example, Nini Thowong’s spirit-possessed doll, is essentially an anthropomorphic effigy …

Um Project Featured On National Coalition Website, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

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Will To Remember: Counter-Archives In The Work Of Alvarez, Danticat, And Díaz, Megan Elizabeth Feifer

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation argues the essays, fiction, non-fiction, and non-profit work of authors Julia Alvarez, Edwidge Danticat, and Junot Díaz produce counter-narratives that when assembled, create a counter-archive of the Rafael Leonidas Trujillo dictatorship and its lasting effects. To support this claim, I analyze the various genres and medias they employ throughout the late 20^thand early 21^st centuries as redressing not only the “official” state history of the dictatorship, but also the overarching construction of history with a capital “H”. Through a close reading of form and the thematic concerns present in their work, I demonstrate how they …

(Re) Mapping The Black Atlantic: Abject Blackness And Arabness Across The Atlantic In African-American, French And Maghrebian Literature, Hicham Mazouz

Open Access Dissertations

This dissertation draws on a wide range of U.S. and Francophone postcolonial theories and criticism, including that of Omi and Winant on Racial Formation, Julia Kristeva on abjection and Pascal Blanchard on the construction of the "indigène". My research aims at critically envisioning how the "racial formation" of the North African subject within the French colonial (and post/neo-colonial) realm was part of an ideological process of Arabness. This can be also conceived in a structural homology with the notion of Blackness in the U.S., and how this constructed racialization was transferred to and mediated by post-colonial Maghrebian literature. My dissertation …

Human Papillomavirus Infections In The Southern And Other United States Regions, Dudith Pierre-Victor, Mary Jo Trepka, Dionne Stephens, Tan Li, Timothy Page, Purnima Madhivanan

Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice

Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is the most common sexually transmitted infection worldwide and has been linked to several cancers, including cervical cancer. In the United States, the Southern region has a disproportionate burden of cervical cancer, and research about the epidemiology of HPV in the region is scarce. This study estimates the prevalence and correlates of HPV infection among 14–59 year-old females.

Data from 4,250 females aged 14–59 years collected during the 2007–2010 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) were used. We estimated the prevalence of HPV infection for the South and the rest of the country. We performed …

Buletin Jabatan Sejarah, No. 8, 2018, Department Of History University Of Malaya

Archival Material (2010s)

No abstract provided.

Contested “Chineseness” In Transnational Narratives: Works By Post-1979 Chinese/American Immigrant Writers Ha Jin And Geling Yan, Ping Qiu

Open Access Dissertations

This dissertation aims to claim immigrant literature as an essential part of Chinese American studies. It responds to the challenge by considering how “Chineseness” is negotiated, challenged, and transformed in the literary texts produced by both writers. I argue that “Chineseness” as presented by post-1979 immigrant writers Ha Jin and Geling Yan is a transnational process of defamiliarization, radicalization, and transformation. In their work, new immigrant writers are self-consciously and strategically positioning themselves as both insider and outsider. They engage in, negotiate, and challenge the troubling term “Chineseness” as defined in either U.S-centric/Eurocentric or Sinocentric points of view. For writers, …

Performing Arts: Dance, Music And Theatre, Saint Mary's College Of California

Undergraduate Academic Catalog

No abstract provided.

Xavier University Of Louisiana’S Faculty Development For Integrative Pedagogy And Assessment Practices (Core Curriculum Enhancement Initiative), Kim Vaz-Deville

CCE Documents

As a University committed to student success and thus to effective pedagogy, we are eager to adopt approaches to teaching that call upon students to explore the breadth of knowledge and methods of understanding. We also honor the science of pedagogy and thus are methodical in approaching teaching innovation. This grant proposal from Xavier University’s College of Arts and Sciences seeks support for faculty development that will accelerate the change that has already begun, thanks to Mellon's investment in Xavier through the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Faculty Development (CAT+FD). The goal is to make the previous investments …

Inherent Multiculturalism: An Ancient Chinese Practice Becomes A Part Of The Indonesian Everyday, Margaret Chan

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Several methods are used to trace cultural transfer between countries. The time-honoured methods are chronicles of early travellers and archaeology. We can also look to epigraphs and loan words. Present-day ethnic communities also suggest earlier settlements. Edward B. Tylor proposed the world distribution of games as anthropological evidence. Tylor's method combined with an archaeology into the Everyday provides evidence of earlier cultural transfer and present-day applications of the game enables analysis to draw socio-cultural knowledge of inter-ethnic, inter-cultural reception to foreign influences in host societies.

“Home Sweet Home”: Displacement And Belonging In Post-1960s Diasporic Chinese Literature, Melody Yunzi Li

Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations

Situated at the intersection of Sinophone and Diaspora Studies and focusing on the rhetoric of “home,” my dissertation explores the ways in which Chinese immigrant Sinophone writers and Anglophone writers in the U.S. construct “imaginative homes” in response to the absence of their physical homes. Through detailed analysis of works by Yu Lihua (Again the Palm Trees, 1967), Yan Geling (The Criminal Lu Yanshi, 2011; A Woman’s Epic, 2006), Pai Hsien-yung (Taipei People, 1971), Shi Yu (New York Lover, 2004), Chen Qian (Listen to the Caged Bird Sing, 2010), Rong Rong (Notes of a Couple, 2004) and Ha Jin (A …

Kenyon Collegian - May 3, 2018

The Kenyon Collegian

No abstract provided.

Review Of Michael Budde's "Scattered And Gathered: Catholics In Diaspora", Michael M. Canaris

Institute of Pastoral Studies: Faculty Publications and Other Works

A review of Michael L. Budde's book Scattered and Gathered: Catholics in Diaspora written by Michael Canaris.

Brother Outsider: Queered Belonging And Kinships In African American Men’S Literature, 1953-1971, Debarati Biswas

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Brother Outsider: Queered Belonging and Kinships in African American Men’s Literature, 1953-1971 builds on the work of women-of-color feminists since the late 1960s and queer-of-color critique in the works of José Esteban Muñoz, Robert Reid-Pharr, Roderic Ferguson, and Nadia Ellis, in order to chronicle the emergence of a queer tradition in mid twentieth century African American men’s literature. Through literary analysis and archival research on marginal figures of African American culture during this period, this dissertation proposes that the black pulp novels of Chester Himes, Robert Deane Pharr, Clarence Cooper Jr., and Iceberg Slim perform a queer critique of and …

Spring 2018

Insights

Blueprint for LAS students; Advisory council retreat calls for voicing our success; Quick starters; Actively engaged intellectuals; Intellectually engaged activists; LAS interns exceed expectations at museums; In brief; For your bookshelf; Showcasing knowledge for a decade; Genius grant; Anti-violence program creates community leaders

Black In Beijing: How Transient Black Foreigners Create Community In China, Myhana M. Kerr

Anthropology Honors Projects

This ethnography describes how Black people adapt to life in China and how they deal with the various meanings imposed on their bodies by Chinese society. In five chapters, I describe why Black people move to China, how they form relationships and find communities, and how Black people interact with Chinese society. In China, one’s Blackness is salient because it is the defining attribute that sets people of African origin apart. Moreover, even though most Black expatriates are only in China for a temporary period, there are more Black people traveling to China overall, creating a critical mass to demonstrate …

The Inkwell, Armstrong State University

The Inkwell

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Professor Rip Van Winklestein Applies For A Teaching Job ... And Finds His Disciplines (And Much Of Social Science) Have Disappeared, Brooks Duncan

Catalyst: A Social Justice Forum

What if you woke up one day and found that your entire discipline, to which you had sacrificed years of your life, had suddenly disappeared … not because it had become obsolete but because it had been replaced by advocacy and indoctrination, and that nobody seemed to notice or care, as if it had happened by design? It happened to me….

From London With Love

DePaul Magazine

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Cross-Cultural Counseling & Education Conference For Research, Action & Change [Conference Program], Cross-Cultural Counseling And Education Conference For Research, Action, And Change

National Cross-Cultural Counseling & Education Conference for Research, Action & Change (2016-2024)

Official Conference Program

The East Asian Technical Services Model At The University Of California, Berkeley, Haiqing Lin, Deborah Rudolph, Peter Zhou

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

Jeal No. 166 Full Issue

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.