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Thus Does Gaming Harden The Heart And Swallow Up Every Good Affection, Katelynn

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

The author reviews The Story of Poor Tricket the Gamester which follows the story of "Tricket", a gambler, through the loss of his wife and downfall. The author compares Tricket to the character of Mr. Wickham in Pride and Prejudice, because of the gambling habit that tarnishes his reputation.

“All My Money Is Spent In Buying White Gloves And Pink Persian”: Women’S Fashion In Regency England, Lindsey Puterbaugh

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

This fashion brochure describes women's fashion during the Regency era in England. This brochure was made available at the Pride and Prejudice Bicentennial Conference held at Wright State University in October, 2013.

Crowdsourcing Transcriptions Of Archival Materials, Aaron G. Noll

Graduate History Conference, UMass Boston

Crowdsourcing is a method that has been effectively used to pool the knowledge and skills of large numbers of online volunteers for the creation of information resources utilized by historians, genealogists, and scientists. In recent years, archivists have begun to crowdsource the transcription of their handwritten records. Transcription of such records has traditionally been completed by professional transcribers who are skilled in reading multiple handwriting styles, knowledgeable about the creators and historical context of the records, and can interpret varying record formats and genres. However, increasingly limited resources of time and money have made traditional transcription more difficult to accomplish. …

Recovering A Sordid Past: Public Memory Of Scollay Square, Joan Ilacqua

Graduate History Conference, UMass Boston

Boston’s own entertainment district, Scollay Square, has been eradicated from Boston’s landscape, both physically and in public memory. In its prime, Scollay Square housed dime museums, theaters, burlesque attractions and its answer to Nathan’s hot dogs, Joe and Nemo’s. Eventually, Scollay Square deteriorated and was targeted for urban renewal. At present, Boston’s Government Center and City Hall Plaza occupy what once was a thriving local attraction. Beyond the plaque dedicated to the Howard Athenaeum, a strong public memory of Scollay Square is not evident in Boston. Following the rise and fall of Scollay Square and analyzing rhetoric used to support …

Researching Stonewall Nation: Interdisciplinary Considerations For Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Research, Jacob Carter

Graduate History Conference, UMass Boston

The Alpine County Project, a climactic event in the gay liberation movement when activists took steps to create a self-governing separatist community in a remote region of rural California, is a largely forgotten topic of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) history. Though historical scholarship treated the project marginally within broader conceptual or regional contexts of gay liberation, the project had not been examined comprehensively in its own right. When approaching the topic, the initial historical problem to resolve was determining whether the project was a hoax staged to generate publicity or part of a genuine gay and lesbian separatist movement. …

Born Digital: Event-Driven Archives, Vincent Capone

Graduate History Conference, UMass Boston

The growth of the internet has brought numerous tools and opportunities for archivists to both enhance their collections and reach out to potential patrons. Archives across the globe have begun immense digitization efforts to bring collections into the digital age and make them accessible to a broader audience. But what challenges face new archives whose collections are born-digital? How do these archives prove that they are indeed an archival facility and not simply a memory institution? These questions have risen around numerous digital archives born in the past decade to document and commemorate social events and tragic disasters, including the …

"Harry Will Be The Gentleman" : The Nature Of Men And Their Relations With Women In Regency English Culture, Meredith Ziegler

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

The author compares the depictions of young men's romantic relationships in F. Newberry's The Younger Brother with Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

Pride, My Dear, Nathaniel Berry

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

The author illustrates how Lady Catherine, a character in Pride and Prejudice, exhibits pride the publication Polite Lady; Or a Course of Female Education in a Series of Letters, from a Mother to her Daughter which contained details on proper behavior for the time period.

These Works Of Fancy, Katherine Mullins

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

The author discusses John Burton's Lectures on Female Education and Manners (1793) and compares its views on accomplishment or achievement to the "dichotomous view of achievement in Regency culture" in Pride and Prejudice.

She Heard Him With A Visible Emotion, Victoria Lane

Pride and Prejudice: The Bicentennial

The author reviews and compares the short story The Force of Love (1791) and its warning of the "desirous passion toward the opposite sex" to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

Lincoln Highway: Nation's First Transcontinental Highway, Dennis E. Horvath

Purdue Road School

The centennial of the organizing meeting creating the nation’s first transcontinental highway will be celebrated in July 2013. This is generally considered to be the birth of the federal highway system. The Indiana Lincoln Highway Association will discuss the Lincoln Highway and its upcoming celebration.

Infanticide And The Anxious Silence Of “Language As Such”, Kevin Godbout

Modern Languages and Literatures Annual Graduate Conference

No abstract provided.

Pasolini's Laugh: Joyful Ignorance In The Decameron, Andrea Privitera

Modern Languages and Literatures Annual Graduate Conference

In this paper, I discuss Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron and its 1971 film adaptation by Pier Paolo Pasolini. To be more precise, I focus on the fifth novella of the sixth day, the one about Giotto and Forese, and its audiovisual re-elaboration, which can be seen as a very brief and at the same time very vivid example of Pasolini’s ideas on society, language and communication.

"Duchamping In Game Making": An Analysis Of Pippin Barr's Parodic Computer Games, Devin A. Wilson

Modern Languages and Literatures Annual Graduate Conference

Devin Wilson analyzes some of Pippin Barr's subversive videogames, examining the methods by which they parody game design conventions.

"Words, Words, Words": The Idea Of The Absurd As Method In Hamlet., Anthony Faber

Modern Languages and Literatures Annual Graduate Conference

In this paper I explore the idea that Hamlet develops the notion of the absurd as a method with which to confront his world: however, as art imitates nature, Hamlet's discourse of "an antic disposition" suggests, that he in fact embodies the absurd as constituting a meaningless existence.

Class Movements In The New South Africa: Post-Colonial Politics, Neocolonialism, And Mimicry In Pieter-Dirk Uys’S Macbeki A Farce To Be Reckoned With, J. Coplen Rose

Modern Languages and Literatures Annual Graduate Conference

This paper uses Homi Bhabha’s theory of colonial mimicry to analyze Pieter-Dirk Uys’s MacBeki: A Farce to be Reckoned With. In doing so I posit MacBeki is a colonial mimic, a character who comically imitates European gestures and language. MacBeki’s behaviour throughout the play highlights the dangers of greed and corruption in post-apartheid South Africa and encourages the play’s audience to respond with ridiculing laughter. My paper concludes by arguing that Uys’s play should be read as a hybrid text that draws on European dramatic styles and South African political events, staging a critical response to national uncertainties ahead …

Laughing It Over Inside-Out: How Comedy Casts Its Spell In Aristophanes' Lysistrata, Sarbani Banerjee

Modern Languages and Literatures Annual Graduate Conference

It was an educative event where I met professors and students from other universities and got to participate in some fetching discussions on topics of my interest.

Teika’S ‘Hokekyō Rokubu Kuyō Hyōshi’ Poems (Shūi Gusō #2754 – 2764), Edward Kamens

Waka Workshop 2013

No abstract provided.

Retelling The Story Of A Song: Devotion And Accomplishment In Shakkyōka And Imayō, Ashton Lazarus

Waka Workshop 2013

No abstract provided.

Shunzei’S Lotus: Chronotopic Enfoldment In Nijū Happon No Uta, Riley Soles

Waka Workshop 2013

No abstract provided.

宮沢賢治と釈教歌―「法華歌集」の 「月」をめぐって (Miyazawa Kenji And Shakkyōka: The Figure Of The Moon In Hokke Kashū), Araki Hiroshi

Waka Workshop 2013

No abstract provided.

Preaching The Joyous Dharma: Waka Creation As Ritual Offering In The Sermons Of The Agui Priest Chōken, Ethan Bushelle

Waka Workshop 2013

No abstract provided.

Turkish Shadow Puppetry And The Carnivalesque, Anna (Raff) Miller

Modern Languages and Literatures Annual Graduate Conference

No abstract provided.

Session D-1: African Muslims And The Transatlantic Slave Trade, Steven Buenning

Professional Learning Day

African Muslims played central roles in the largest forced migration in human history; the transatlantic slave trade. This presentation employs primary sources from the online collection of the National Humanities Center and from the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database (Emory University). Participants will engage in close reading of two memoirs of Muslim slaves, as well as three newspaper articles written in 1828. In addition, participants will receive geography exercises. A Powerpoint and a full list of helpful resources are included.

Session E-1: Hiding In Plain Sight, Micah Fogel

Professional Learning Day

Were the plays of William Shakespeare really written by Francis Bacon, who left a coded signature in plain sight? Can spies send messages without using codes and without getting caught? Steganography is the art of hiding messages in plain sight but in a way so that only those in on the secret can find them. We'll learn a few tricks about how to hide messages in pieces of text or sound and image files on a computer.

Session C-4: Common Core Standards In The Ninth Grade History Curriculum: First Steps, Jessica Greenberg

Professional Learning Day

This session will focus on incorporating the Common Core standards into the ninth grade World History curriculum. Challenges surrounding this task will be addressed. These include: getting unmotivated students to engage with more text inside and outside of the classroom, addressing the Common Core reading standards without normed reading assessments to determine growth, and teaching the Common Core persuasive writing standards to students who are not ready to write five paragraph essays. Through a discussion of research-based strategies and actual examples of activities and assignments, this presentation describes first steps any teacher can take to begin the process of incorporating …

Crónicas De Un Nómada: El Humor Como Estrategia Del Recuerdo, Ana Chiarelli

Modern Languages and Literatures Annual Graduate Conference

La primera novela del venezolano A.A. Álvarez, Crónicas de un nómada, memorias de un inmigrante (2009), es la historia contada en primera persona de Carlos Rodríguez, un joven que a temprana edad decide que la emigración es la salida perfecta para escapar de un país que parece derrumbarse ante sus ojos.

La historia de Carlos es contada desde una transterritorialidad que no es sólo espacial, sino que abarca también lo cultural y lo lingüístico, ofreciendo una oportunidad para acercarse a la realidad de los procesos migratorios a través del humor como estrategia para sobrellevar las dificultades de la adaptación, pero …

Session A-2: Lincoln And Douglas: The Debates, The Background And Why What You Say Matters, Lee Eysturlid

Professional Learning Day

This presentation will get at the important meanings and usages of the famous debates for the Senate that took place between Lincoln and Douglas in the state of Illinois. Attendees will gain a working knowledge of the event and explore ways to make use of it in class. Finally, the session will align the materials presented with the Common Core standards dealing with the "integration of knowledge and ideas" as well as "reading and writing for literacy".

Session A-4: National Archives Resources And The Common Core, Kris Maldre Jarosik

Professional Learning Day

Discover the online resources of the National Archives and learn how they can support Common Core standards and help build the literacy skills of your students. We will explore sample U.S. history activities relating to the Civil War, American Indians, and World War II during this session.

Session A-3: Across The Wide Missouri: Illinois & Early Exploration Of The Trans-Mississippi West, Claiborne A. Skinner Jr.

Professional Learning Day

Illinois History is often perceived as a contradiction in terms. Until the arrival of Abraham Lincoln, most folks think that nothing of any note happened here. This presentation will address the French traders and explorers from the Illinois Country who pushed west up the Missouri and Arkansas Rivers in the century preceding Lewis and Clark's more famous jaunt. The two knew of these French travelers only too well and recruited a half dozen Illinois French at Fort Massac and Kaskaskia to show them how to get to the "unknown". The effect these men had on the Plains was profound.