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Syllabus: Conservation Of Nature And Culture, David Glassberg

Sustainability Education Resources

This course explores the history of various efforts to conserve nature and culture. Students will learn about the history of environmental conservation, but also to think broadly about what the idea of conservation means in archaeology, historic preservation, and the arts, especially in a time of globalization and climate change. Its fundamental premise is that nature and culture are interconnected; nature cannot truly be conserved without also conserving the culture that has shaped it, and culture cannot truly be conserved without also conserving the natural world on which it rests.

"Amazing Together": Mason Bates, Classical Music, And Neoliberal Values, Marianna Ritchey

Music & Dance Department Faculty Publication Series

We are all connected...one universe...one planet...one ecosystem...thriving as one network...working with one purpose...we are...amazing together

These sentiments, accompanied by images of dolphins, forests, cell-phone towers, and outer space, were projected onto screens encircling the Las Vegas Youth Orchestra as it performed at the 2014 partner summit of Cisco Systems, Inc., a multinational conglomerate specializing in networking technology. The music on offer was The Rise of Exotic Computing, a composition for orchestra and laptop by the 38 year old composer Mason Bates. The piece musically depicts synthetic computing, in which lines of code are replicated without human intervention. Thus, it …

Introduction To Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, Miliann Kang, Donovan Lessard, Laura Heston, Sonny Nordmaken

Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies Educational Materials

This textbook introduces key feminist concepts and analytical frameworks used in the interdisciplinary Women, Gender, Sexualities field. It unpacks the social construction of knowledge and categories of difference, processes and structures of power and inequality, with a focus on gendered labor in the global economy, and the historical development of feminist social movements. The book emphasizes feminist sociological approaches to analyzing structures of power, drawing heavily from empirical feminist research.

Symptoms Of A Cosmic Fluke, Shane Dupuy

MFA Program for Poets & Writers Masters Theses Collection

Symptoms of a Cosmic Fluke is a book of poems.

This Great Filter, John Sieracki

MFA Program for Poets & Writers Masters Theses Collection

A collection of poetry.

South Shore And Everyplace You Don't Belong, Gabe Bump

MFA Program for Poets & Writers Masters Theses Collection

South Shore and Everyplace You Don’t Belong tracks a young man, Claude, raised by his grandmother on Chicago’s South Side. We follow Claude as he experiences tropes familiar to young Chicagoans: segregation, gun violence, gang recruitment, death, police brutality, and crooked politics.

We also follow Claude though universal experiences familiar to all young persons: falling in love, social anxiety, making friends, losing friends, rebellion, and identity crises of all shapes and sizes.

We follow Claude as he experiences America as a young black man.