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The Pandemic And Homiletics 101: A Reflection, Scott Hoezee

CTS Faculty Publications and Creative Activity

The global pandemic of COVID-19 across the year 2020 afforded pastors everywhere an opportunity to engage in some critical reflection on their homiletic practices. The dual challenges of no longer being able to preach to a physically present congregation and of preaching during a time of significant fear, stress, and sorrow revealed to many preachers aspects of preaching of which they had not previously been aware. This article suggests that some of what was discovered during this unusual season provides correctives for the way in which homiletics and preaching have been practised in many places and that some of these …

Inventario Cultural Del Distrito De Monteverde 2017-2019, 2020, Monteverde Institute

Monteverde Institute: Culture, Community, and Health

No abstract provided.

Artifacts Of A Bygone Time: Stephen Sondheim And Pastiche, Rose Mack

Theses & ETDs

Stephen Sondheim has crafted dozens of pieces for the musical theatre stage over his sixty-five-year career. Building on work which explores Sondheim’s musical vocabulary, this thesis focuses on how Sondheim uses pastiche as it relates to remembering the past. By focus on this use of pastiche, two sides appear: pastiche as nostalgia and pastiche as stereotype. I look at two of Sondheim’s musicals in order to demonstrate the opposing sides of pastiche. The first is Follies (1971), which uses a style of music from Broadway during the early decades of the twentieth century in order to elicit nostalgia in an …

Democratic Confederalism As A Decolonial Model For Stateless People, Michael Clevenger

Theses & ETDs

No abstract provided.

The Relationship Between The Notions Of Gender Roles In Flamenco Performances: How Are These Roles Defined In The Flamenco Culture?, Lucille Sanz

Theses & ETDs

Flamenco, as an art form, has developed a gender typecast in which the exhibition of physical movements, vocal interpretations, and the use of customary musical instruments have reflected long-established gender roles and hierarchy of a traditionally patriarchal society. This thesis analyzes how flamenco perpetuates traditional stereotypes of gender, the obstacles artists face within those roles, and how performers are challenging gender differentiation and integrate new gender imagery into modern-day flamenco. In its beginnings, flamenco was not a form of entertainment but instead a way of life where marginalized citizens expressed their fears, joys, and many other emotions via the art …

Examining Female Community Power In The Development Of The Chinese Boys’ Love Genre, Grace Hamilton

Theses & ETDs

In the last thirty years, the Boys’ Love (BL) genre has grown into an international sensation. Featuring gay romances between men, BL evolved from Japanese women’s manga and gained a following of young girls, called “rotten women.” This thesis will explore the developments in the BL genre fueled by the fan community, starting with the conception of BL, then its spread to China, and ending with China’s appropriation of the genre. Since its formation, a large part of the identity of this female community has been its nonconformity, yet the growth of the community in China introduced political stances in …

Living Tarot, Erin Everdale

Theses & ETDs

This thesis will discuss the ways in which the institution of Christian-patriarchy has worked against liminality. More importantly, it will discuss how liminality has been preserved, by necessity, by those marginalized by the symbolic structure of Christian-Patriarchy. Chapter one of this thesis explores processes which generate extra-institutional symbolic meaning at the individual and community levels. Processes explored here for their generative capacity include those of Dianic ritual, feminist devised theater, traumatic recovery, and tarot-card reading. The playful and porous character of the liminal phases of these processes is understood as being fundamental to their meaning-generating effect. The causal necessity of …

Diplomacy, Steamships, And Juries: The Failed Suppression Of The Slave Trade During The Nineteenth Century, Alexis Girard D'Albissin

Theses & ETDs

This thesis argues that the suppression of the illegal transatlantic slave trade in the nineteenth century failed because the policy was never pursued in good faith and had only limited support among the population of the United States. Citizens from the southern slave states continuously violated federal law over the course of the nineteenth century. The extensive role played by citizens in the northern states, and by Britain and France, in the illegal trade has been subsumed by narratives that emphasize northern anti-slavery movements and civil protests against the Fugitive Slave Acts. Chapter one traces the evolution of anti-slave trade …

The Fire, The Forest, And The Witness Watching It: Mitski Miyawaki’S Physical And Musical Embodiment Of Gender, Asian American Identity, And Autonomy, Hayley Vanstrum

Theses & ETDs

This is an examination of musical artist Mitski Miyawaki’s construction of identity within her work and external life, centering themes of gender, race, performance, and public perception. I use a combination of personal accounts, interview quotes, lyrical analysis, and sociological/feminist theory to position Mitski within the realm of social transformation, arguing that her presence within the indie music genre carves out valuable avenues of identity exploration for her young, largely female and Asian American fanbase.

Anti-Gone: Traversing Solo Performance Through Identity, Agency, And Deep Empathy, Eric Auerbach

Theses & ETDs

ANTI-GONE, a solo performance script loosely adapted from Sophocles’ Antigone, explores themes of identity, agency, and performer’s embodiment of character through a conceptual means of “deep empathy”; the capability for an audience to perceive and understand identity through solo performance. This thesis mainly consists of five parts: Introduction, the Performance and Embodiment chapter discussing Anna Deavere Smith’s Fires in the Mirror, a creative script, a process chapter, and conclusion detailing the prospective performance of said script, cancelled due to unfortunate circumstance.

“On The Subject Of Vampyres”: An Academic And Creative Exploration Of John William Polidori’S Life And Legacy, Kari Solum

Theses & ETDs

The worldwide fascination with vampires is a phenomenon that has been occurring for centuries. What many people do not realize is that one man and one novel are responsible for this dramatic shift in the representation of “the vampire” in literature and all resulting media. This thesis is an exploration of historical and literary adaptation and appropriation regarding the life of Dr. John William Polidori, and his novel The Vampyre. Specific focus is brought to the year he spent in service as the personal physician to Lord Byron, including the infamous evening in June of 1816, during the “Year Without …

“Fantastic Tricks Before High Heaven,” Measure For Measure And Performing Triads, Emily Bryan

English Faculty Publications

Reading Measure for Measure through the logic of substitution has been a long-standing critical tradition; the play seems to invite topical, political, and religious parallels at every turn. What if the logic of substitution in the play goes beyond exchange and seeks out a triadic logic instead? This insistent searching for the triad appears most notably in the performance of Measure for Measure by Cheek by Jowl (2013–2019). Cheek By Jowl’s strategies of touring, simplicity, movement, and liberation create a dynamic and ever-evolving performance. This article puts Cheek by Jowl’s performance of Measure for Measure in conversation with C.S. Peirce’s …

Harding Magazine Winter 2020 (Vol. 28, No. 1), Harding University

Harding Magazines

Publication distributed to alumni and friends of the university.

Stories Of Welcome Blanket Makers: Towards A Philosophy Of Craft, Alesia Maltz

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Welcome Blanket was created as a craftivism response to Trump’s call for a border wall. “Imagine if the massive distance of this wall was re-conceptualized and re-contextualized not to divide, but to include. Instead of a wall, a concrete line, to keep people out, what if lines of yarn became 3,500,640 yards of blankets to welcome people in?” The 3,200-blanket goal was quickly achieved and shown in the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago. Then, with enclosed notes from the makers welcoming newly arrived immigrants, the blankets were distributed to refugees and immigrants in several resettlement communities …

Wild Things, Kerry Madden

Nelle (literary magazine)

pp. 94-102

"Let’S Get Rid Of All Of Them": No Gun Ri And The American Policy Of Shooting Refugees During The Korean War, Erin Marie Starr

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 45-56

Birmingham Poetry Review 47 (End Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 233-253

Washington University Magazine, February 2020

Washington University Magazine

No abstract provided.

Towards A Trans Feminist Disability Studies, Niamh Timmons

Journal of Feminist Scholarship

In this article, I investigate the ways in which Transfeminism and Trans Women can be more integrated and entangled within feminist disability studies and Disability Justice, and vice versa. This would make the field a seemingly rich arena for considering the linkages between Trans Women, Transfeminism, dis/ability, and feminism. Yet, the primary texts of the feminist disability studies consistently leave out Trans Women in their analyses. Specific inclusion and highlighting the experiences of Trans Women, especially Trans Women who are disabled, is often missing from disability rights and disability justice projects. This is especially alarming given the way Trans folks, …

On The Pathway To Equity, Inclusion, And Social Justice: Colleges Share Forward Movement, 2020-2021, Illinois State University

Master Plan

All colleges concentrated professional development opportunities for faculty and staff with a lens toward equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI). The Office of the Provost’s GROWTH Change Team, under the leadership of Assistant Vice President for Academic Administration Dr. Yojanna Cuenca-Carlino, assisted colleges in tailoring professional development to the needs of their faculty and staff within the Framework for Inclusive Teaching Excellence (FITE) model.

Guide To The Eileen Southern Collection, Columbia College Chicago

CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids

The Eileen Southern Collection contains documents and information that was drawn upon by Southern in her published books and articles and in the journal she and her husband, Joseph Southern, published from 1973 until 1990, The Black Perspective in Music. Also included are papers from when she served as Department Chair of the Afro-American Studies Department at Harvard, as well as correspondence between W. C. Handy and William Grant Still.

View an online exhibit from Harvard University about Eileen Southern.

Ilium 2020, Taylor University

Yearbooks (1898-Present)

The 2020 yearbook of Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.

Direction Of The Play: The Importance Of Being Earnest, Sabrina Haesche

All Graduate Projects

The following documentation includes the conceptualization, research, implementation, and reflection of the entire production process of THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST in February 2020. The documentation includes both character and visual production research, historical context and significance, as well as the evaluation of the play as a vehicle for speaking to the community of Moses Lake.

How To Be A Mentor In Three Scenes, Jessica L. Roberts

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

No abstract provided.

Bs Management, International Business 2020-21, Arkansas State University - Jonesboro

Bachelor of Science and Education

No abstract provided.

Bs Management, Hospitality 2020-21, Arkansas State University - Jonesboro

Bachelor of Science and Education

No abstract provided.

Bs Engineering Management Systems, 2020-21, Arkansas State University - Jonesboro

Bachelor of Science and Education

No abstract provided.

Bs Marketing, International Business 2020-21, Arkansas State University - Jonesboro

Bachelor of Science and Education

No abstract provided.

University Of South Dakota Zero Waste Atlas Campus Assessment 2020, Post-Landfill Action Network

Sustainability & Environment Projects

In Summer of 2020, the University of South Dakota worked with the Post-Landfill Action Network (PLAN) to support Anna Moore, the Campus Recycling Coordinator and a graduate student in the Department of Sustainability & Environment, to conduct a holistic assessment of the campus’ waste management system. Anna used PLAN’s Zero Waste Atlas Program, a program designed to help campuses assess and streamline campus systems for materials management, to collect the information used to inform this report. This abridged report offers a snapshot of existing policy, programs, and infrastructure, illustrates ideal material flows throughout a campus, and proposes a few broad …

Bse English, 2020-21, Arkansas State University - Jonesboro

Bachelor of Science and Education

No abstract provided.