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間, Lele Dai

Theses and Dissertations

LeLe Dai makes contingent participatory public interventions using sensory materials such as sound, flickering light, and water. This paper examines their works through the lens of Chinese character Jian (間), meaning “gap/slit/incision,” to investigate the concept of “in-betweenness.”

We Can Do It! But Should We? Reflecting On Projects And Priorities, Claire Du Laney Dunker, Wendy Guerra, Amy Schindler, Lori Schwartz

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

What happens when you combine archivists and non-archivists with good intentions, unprocessed collections, institutional push to seek grants, competing pressures and deadlines? At the University of Nebraska at Omaha Archives and Special Collections, this familiar scenario occurred during a period focused on prioritizing Latinx collections including personal papers, Office of Latino and Latin American Studies Records, and oral histories. During our presentation, we will share how archivists attempted to wrangle multiple funding streams to meet processing, outreach, and digitization goals while internal and external forces took a toll. These included stakeholder expectations, the complexities of student employment, campus events, and …

Volume Cxliii, Number 21, May 3, 2024, Lawrence University

The Lawrentian

No abstract provided.

Representing The Climate Crisis: Aesthetic Framings In Contemporary Performing And Visual Arts, Susanne Thurow, Helena Grehan, Maurice Pagnucco

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

This chapter reviews the representation of climate change in performing and visual arts over the past ten years, canvassing the aesthetic exploration of the climate emergency in selected international works by surveying emergent narrative themes, key dramaturgical shifts and aesthetic strategies. Discussing the limitations of anthropocentric conventions, it investigates innovative approaches and their capability to generate knowledge about the dynamics of Earth processes and humanity’s embeddedness and interference with them. Looking to novel experimental work currently in development at The University of New South Wales (UNSW)’s iCinema Research Centre, we speculate how these emergent aesthetics may be further developed to …

The Activist Corner - Ecojustice Insights From The Field, Coralie Boulard, Lucas Zabotin

Green Humanities: A Journal of Ecological Thought in Literature, Philosophy & the Arts

No abstract provided.

Notes On Contributors

Green Humanities: A Journal of Ecological Thought in Literature, Philosophy & the Arts

No abstract provided.

Meet The Writers

Prologue: A First-Year Writing Journal

No abstract provided.

Spring Commencement Program, May 2, 2024, Coastal Carolina University

Commencement Programs

Program of Commencement Exercises at Coastal Carolina University.

Vol.51 N.41 May 2nd 2024, Voice Media Ventures

Black Voice News

No abstract provided.

Student Film Festival 2024 Playbill, Providence College

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

John Bowab Studio Theatre

Student Film Festival 2024

Thursday, May 2, 2024, 7pm

Festival Director: Ben Sweeney

Managing Director: Erin Schmidt

Department Chair: David Cabral

Technical Director: Trevor Elliott

Assistant Technical Director: Gabriel Luxton

Academic Administrative Coordinator: Ali Boyd

Production Administrative Coordinator: Barry Dejasu

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

Father Kenneth Gumbert

COMPETING FILMS

Arnaldo Castro ’25, “Manny X” (8:37)

Colin Prancl '24, “The Transportation Revolution: Beta Cloth” (4:46)

Patrick Solosky '25, “Perspectives: Remembering 9/11" (10:20)

Jack Wilmott '24, “REMINISCE” (10:35)

Colin Prancl '24, “Swell” (7:27)

John Zygiel '24, “Evil at 11” (12:37)

JURY DELIBERATIONS …

The Indiana Statesman, May 2, 2024, Indiana State University

Student Newspaper

Trump trial continues into second week; Georgia enforces federal immigration law; LGBTQ youth and suicide

Lavender Graduation 2024, University Of Mississippi. Center For Inclusion And Cross Cultural Engagement

Lavender Graduation

No abstract provided.

2024 Undergraduate And Graduate Commencement, Lindenwood University

Commencement Programs

2024 Lindenwood University Commencement program.

Student Film Festival 2024 Poster, Providence College

Playbill and Promotion

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film

John Bowab Studio Theatre

Student Film Festival 2024

Thursday, May 2, 2024, 7pm

Utah State University Commencement, 2024 - Main Campus, Utah State University

Commencement Programs

2024 Commencement Ceremony for the Main Campus of Utah State University.

The Archives Magazine, 2024, Kayla Coghlan, Lillian Stadtmueller, Kara Armstrong, Katie Shank, Linda Zuniga, Abigail Miller, Lynda Feustel, Jacob Mankos

Kutztown University Archives

No abstract provided.

Validating A 3d-Printed Endovascular Simulator For Use In Training Surgical Residents, Paarth Jain, Jeremy Zack, Lauren Schlegel, Eva Varotsis, Robert S. Pugliese, Michael Nooromid, Babak Abai

Department of Surgery Faculty Papers

Objective: Three-dimensional (3D)-printed endovascular models can be an accessible alternative to expensive, state-of-the-art endovascular simulators but currently lack the rigorous validation needed to be dependable educational tools. This study describes the manufacture of a 3D-printed endovascular model of an aorta and determines the construct validity and preliminary content and face validity of the model. Methods: A 3D-printed aorta was created using segmented data from a patient computerized tomography scan and a FormLabs 3B 3D printer with FormLabs Clear resin. Participants were asked to perform two tasks from a femoral access point: catheterize the contralateral common iliac artery and the superior …

Faculty Senate Chronicle May 2, 2024, Heather Loughney

The University of Akron Faculty Senate Chronicle

Minutes for the regular meeting of The University of Akron Faculty Senate on May 2, 2024.

Jazz And Innovation: The Art Of Covers, Cyon Sailor

Honors College Theses

This paper explores the relationship cover music and Jazz standards have with innovation. Icelandic Jazz singer, Laufey, is used as a case study after the author covers one of her original songs and applies fundamental truths of musical reinterpretations to her versions of Jazz standards.

Using A Novel Approach To Explore Women's Caesarean Birth Experience, Linda J. Deys, Valerie Wilson, Sara Bayes, Shahla Meedya

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

How a woman experiences birth is influenced by how she is treated, and who has power and control in the birthing environment. Focus on 'delivery' of an infant disregards the transformative event for the woman, with poorer physical and psychological outcomes. New evidence is needed to understand how to prevent trauma and improve maternal wellbeing.This paper presents a feminist methodology to view the lived experience of caesarean birth. Feminist birthing theories integrated with a phenomenological perspective provide insight for those working in maternity care and create a novel framework for researchers considering the position of women in a medicalised healthcare …

The Cowl - V. 88 N. 8 - May 2, 2024

The Cowl

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Vol. 88 No. 8 - May 2, 2024. 28 pages.

A Transcription Of Johannes Brahms’S Piano Quartet No. 1 In G Minor Op. 25 For Modern Wind Band, Christian Blake Carichner

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This project contains a transcription of Johannes Brahms’s Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25 for wind band. The dissertation project includes documentation regarding the transcription process, as well as historical background and references for Brahms, Arnold Schoenberg - who originally transcribed the quartet for symphony orchestra — the relationship between Brahms and Schoenberg, the influences on Brahms which led to this original composition, and the viability of the piano quartet as a chamber music ensemble. Brief analyses of the 4th movements of the orchestral transcription, along with the original work, are presented to contextualize the transcription process.

Harmful Vs Helpful: A Gen-Z View On Dance Fitness​, Peyton Winsett, Sarah Maloney

Student Scholar Symposium Abstracts and Posters

Having experienced the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic as GenZ, this research is a means to explore a topic that is relevant to current collegiate dance students and their studies. With the increase in fitness media influencers during the mass isolation periods of the Pandemic, many dancers gravitated toward these unique forms of cross-training. The unlimited access to these abundant resources raises the question of the quality of training dancers were/are getting in mass consumption. This study includes an exploration of the validity of these exercises and the frequency of use within the dance community. These topics will be explored …

Beneath The Mask: The Performance Of Blackness And Economies Of Caricature In American Fiction, Terri Bowles

Markets, Globalization & Development Review

In American Fiction (2023), written for the screen and directed by Cord Jefferson, satire, drama and comedy frame a knife-sharp examination of America’s cultural reproductions of stereotype and caricature. The film, based on Percival Everett’s novel Erasure, explores the fraught professional position of Thelonious “Monk” Ellison (Jeffrey Wright), a professor-author pressed to write a bestseller amid family upheaval and financial strain. Monk’s resulting novel, a gritty send-up of urban tropism drafted in a fit of fury and frustration, exploits America’s fixation on commodifying and flattening Blackness—and becomes an instant hit. This review explores the film’s interrogations of race, class and …

Can Marketing Transcend Entrenched Gender Biases?, Thinh Nguyen

Markets, Globalization & Development Review

Through a feminist lens, Maclaran and Chatzidakis (2022) challenge conventional assumptions about gender, emphasizing its performative nature shaped by social practices rather than inherent traits. This commentary extends analyses of key themes such as gender performativity, the male gaze, and subject-object binaries within marketing. It critiques how marketing strategies reinforce existing power imbalances and systemic biases rooted in historical narratives. The writing also reflects on media interpretations of gender issues through films like 'Turning Red' and 'Barbie'. By contextualizing gendered marketing within broader societal frameworks, this writing contributes to ongoing dialogues in media studies, sociology, and gender studies, highlighting the …

Theater As An Experiential Destination: Exploration Of Themed Entertainment Design Techniques For Theatrical Productions, Yunzhu Chen

Theatre and Dance Honors Projects

The paper investigates the integration of methods used in theme parks into theater productions to create experiences that foster returning patrons. Through examining their existing presence and other possible applications in theatrical performances, the research demonstrates how themed pre- and post-show environments, dynamic audience mobility, and techniques such as detailing and focusing can enhance narrative immersion in ways that traditional theater may not, potentially increasing reoccurring attendance. Additionally, the creative component of the project illustrates the implementation of these methods in staging the classic short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman as an immersive theatrical production.

Conflicting Ethe In _Anna Karenina_: A Reexamination Of Tolstoy’S Complex Female Protagonist, Hannah Diles

Honors Theses

Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina depicts the world as an endless array of choices and experiences to which one assigns meaning to. His characters, like real people, must navigate their world of complex ethical systems using their own moral ethos. Readers and critics alike critique Anna as a heroine for living out her moral ethos, pitting it against the social and feminist ethos of late 19th century upper class Russian society. Anna’s story is either interpreted as a cautionary tale or Anna is portrayed as a feminist heroine who tragically died for love. Throughout this paper, I argue that Anna is …

Simulacra And Historical Fidelity In Digital Recreation Of Lost Cultural Heritage: Reconstituting Period Materialities For The Period Eye, Trent Olsen, James Hutson, Charles O'Brien, Jeremiah Ratican

Faculty Scholarship

The advancement of digital technologies in art history has opened avenues for reconstructing lost or damaged cultural heritage, a need highlighted by the deteriorated state of many artworks from the 1785 Salon. Grounded in the concept of the “Period Eye” by art historian Michael Baxandall, which emphasizes understanding artworks within their original historical and cultural contexts, this study proposes a subfield focused on Reconstituting Period Materialities for the Period Eye. This methodology bridges comprehensive historical research with generative visual artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, facilitating the creation and immersive virtual reality viewing of artworks. Beyond mere visual replication, the approach aims …

Houston Cole Library Annual Report | January - December 2023, Houston Cole Library

Library Annual Reports & Newsletters

The Houston Cole Library Annual Report details Library collections, services, events, faculty activities, and more for the past calendar year.

Masks Program, Collin College

Theatre Programs

Program for Masks.