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Graduate Recital: Mallory Konstans, Percussion; October 31, 2015, Mallory Konstans Percussion

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Kemp Recital Hall
October 31, 2015
Saturday Noon
12:00 p.m.

Ensemble Concert: Clef Hangers Fall Concert, October 31, 2015, Clef Hangers

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Kemp Recital Hall
October 31, 2015
Saturday Afternoon
2:00 p.m.

Junior Recital: Michael Pranger, Trumpet; October 30, 2015, Michael Pranger Trumpet

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Kemp Recital Hall
October 30, 2015
Friday Evening
7:30 p.m.

Senior Recital: Sidney Megeff, Soprano; October 30, 2015, Sidney Megeff Mezzo Soprano

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Kemp Recital Hall
October 30, 2015
Friday Evening
6:00 p.m.

Ensemble Concert: Normal Music Ensemble, October 29, 2015, School Of Music

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Kemp Recital Hall
October 29, 2015
Thursday Evening
8:00 p.m.

Ensemble Concert: Guitar And Friends, October 28, 2015, School Of Music

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Kemp Recital Hall
October 28, 2015
Wednesday Evening
7:30 p.m.

Junior Recital: Christine Ewald, Alto Saxophone; October 27, 2015, Christine Ewald Alto Saxophone

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Kemp Recital Hall
October 27, 2015
Tuesday Evening
8:30 p.m.

Student Recital: Convocation Hour, October 27, 2015, School Of Music

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Center for the Performing Arts
October 27, 2015
Tuesday Morning
11:00 a.m.

Institutional Factors Influencing African-American Male Involvement In Undergraduate Student Organizations, John Mark Davenport

Theses and Dissertations

Students attending colleges and universities who have purposeful opportunities to interact with peers and faculty about educational matters and who are challenged with consistent encouragement report higher levels of satisfaction with their collegiate experience and have higher persistence rates than students who do not receive these opportunities (Kuh et al., 1991; Pascarella & Terenzini, 1991; Schroeder & Mable, 1994). In higher education, African-American males are neither retained from admission through graduation at a rate comparable to majority students nor African-American women (AASCU, 1988; ACE, 2008; Harper, 2012). In this study I set out to determine which institutional factors influence African-American …

Senior Recital: Kevin Green, Percussion; October 25, 2015, Kevin Greene Percussion

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Kemp Recital Hall
October 25, 2015
Sunday Morning
10:30 a.m.

Senior Recital: Carly Piland, Flute; October 25, 2015, Carly Piland Flute

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Kemp Recital Hall
October 25, 2015
Sunday Evening
9:00 p.m.

Student Ensemble: American Viola Project, October 25, 2015, Katherine Lewis Director

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Kemp Recital Hall
October 25, 2015
Sunday Afternoon
1:00 p.m.

Faculty Recital: Walking With My Ancestors, October 24, 2015, Ama Oforiwaa Aduonum Playwright/Composer/Choreographer, Kim Pereira Director

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Kemp Recital Hall
October 24, 2015
Saturday
8:00 p.m.

Kemp Recital Hall
October 25, 2015
Sunday
4:00 p.m.

Ensemble Concerts: Normal West High School Wind Ensemble And Isu Wind Symphony, October 23, 2015, Lisa Preston Conductor, Martin H. Seggelke Conductor

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Center for the Performing Arts
October 23, 2015
Friday Evening
8:00 p.m.

Guest Artist: Uriel Tsachor, Piano; October 22, 2015, Uriel Tsachor Piano

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Center for the Performing Arts
October 22, 2015
Thursday Evening
8:00 p.m.

Resistance, The Church, And A Comparison Of Ceramics From Sixteenth-Century Caluco, El Salvador, Alison Denise Hodges

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis examines ceramics from the church of San Pedro y San Pablo, Caluco, El Salvador, to investigate the pressures of Spanish evangelization during the Colonial Period. It compares the church's ceramic assemblage to two privately-owned houses, also within Caluco. Examining choices in ceramic styles for serving food and drink is one way to examine the colonial policies of reducción, which were to instill a regular, commonplace Christian order in everyday life. The materials in question were a large number of Spanish majolicas, as well as 300 locally-made vessels, and form, decoration, and ware was noted for each. The relative …

Faculty Recital: Angelo L. Favis, Guitar; October 20, 2015, Angelo L. Favis Guitar

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Kemp Recital Hall
October 20, 2015
Tuesday Evening
7:30 p.m.

Junior Recital: Cassie Metz, Flute; October 18, 2015, Cassie Metz Flute

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Kemp Recital Hall
October 18, 2015
Sunday Evening
5:30 p.m.

Senior Recital: Anthony Sauer, Baritone; October 17, 2015, Anthony Sauer Baritone

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Kemp Recital Hall
October 17, 2015
Saturday Afternoon
5:30 p.m.

Graduate Recital: Jordan Harvey, Trombone; October 17, 2015, Jordan Harvey Trombone

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Kemp Recital Hall
October 17, 2015
Saturday Afternoon
1:00 p.m.

Student Ensemble: Symphonic Winds, October 15, 2015, Martin H. Seggelke Conductor

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Center for the Performing Arts
October 15, 2015
Thursday Evening
8:00 p.m.

Faculty Ensemble String Quartet: Sarah Gentry, Violin; Wen-Chi Chiu, Violin; Katherine Lewis, Viola; Adriana Ransom, Cello; October 14, 2015, Sarah Gentry Violin, Wen-Chi Chiu Violin, Katherine Lewis Viola, Adriana Ransom Cello

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Kemp Recital Hall
October 14, 2015
Wednesday Evening
7:30 p.m.

Fan The Flames Of Discontent: Contemporary Labor Literature And Social Movements, Ericka Rae Wills

Theses and Dissertations

Fan the Flames of Discontent: Contemporary Labor Literature and Social Movements balances a literary approach to textual analysis with socially grounded reflections on diverse worker organizations. Chapters analyze Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead, Helena Maria Viramontes's Under the Feet of Jesus, and Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day alongside worker-writers' texts and testimonies, such as Fran Leeper Buss and María Elena Lucas's Forged under the Sun / Forjada bajo el sol and The Heat: Steelworker Lives and Legends, a collection of United Steelworkers' Institute for Career Development writings. In each of five chapters, this dissertation respectively discusses how literature …

Ensemble Concerts: Chamber Winds, October 12, 2015, School Of Music

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Kemp Recital Hall
October 12, 2015
Monday Evening
7:00 p.m.

Senior Recital: Kyle Singer, Percussion; October 11, 2015, Kyle Singer Percussion

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Kemp Recital Hall
October 11, 2015
Sunday Afternoon
1:00 p.m.

Student Ensemble: Redbird Road Concert, October 11, 2015, School Of Music

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Blair House, Normal
October 11, 2015
Sunday Afternoon
2:00 p.m.

Life Is Calling ... How Far Will You Go ... Back In The Closet? Identity Negotiation And Management Among Queer, Peace Corps Volunteers, Kate Elizabeth Slisz

Theses and Dissertations

There is little to no research surrounding the experiences of queer, foreign-aid workers. To address this gap, a study was conducted to explore how compulsory heterosexuality affects the social construction of sexuality in societies where queer, foreign-aid workers serve and how this influences their identity negotiation and management processes. Participants consisted of ten self-identified queer, Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs), as well as, the researcher herself who also identifies as queer. Data was gathered through both semi-structured interviews and autoethnographic research. Meaning structuring through narratives was used to analyze the data. Analysis revealed that strategies of silencing, counterfeiting, and lying …

Recital: Violin Studio, October 11, 2015, School Of Music

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Kemp Recital Hall
October 11, 2015
Sunday Afternoon
5:00 p.m.

Ideographs And American Mass Media: Understanding The Narrative On The Israel-Palestine Conflict And Its Influence On Publics, Savanna Lynn Fowler

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis analyzes the American mass media's narrative on the Israel-Palestine conflict to understand the power of ideographs and their influence on specific publics. I focus on two popular ideographs in mass media reporting,and, in order to examine how these ideographs are utilized to construct a narrative for the media's publics, the political ideologies they represent, the agendas they further, and the consequences their narrow use has on developing counterpublics and emerging alternative narratives around the conflict. I focus my attention on the mass media's coverage of a sixteen day Israeli shelling in Gaza and how public consent is acquired …

Guest Artists: Moises Molina, Cello; Jasmin Arakawa, Piano; October 9, 2015, Moises Molina Cello, Jasmin Arakawa Piano

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Kemp Recital Hall
October 9, 2015
Friday Evening
7:00 p.m.