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Remotely Mexican: Recent Work By Gabriel Orozco, Carlos Amorales, And Pedro Reyes, Jodi L. Kovach

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

This dissertation contributes to an understanding of contemporary art practices from Mexico City, as they are received in Mexico and abroad, by interpreting the meaning of local and global sources in recent work shown in Mexico, the U.S., and Europe by three internationally established, contemporary artists from Mexico City: Gabriel Orozco, Carlos Amorales, and Pedro Reyes. These three artists established their careers in the 1990s, when, for the first time, Mexican artists shifted from a national plane to a global realm of operation. Through three case studies of recent bodies of work produced by these artists, I show how each …

Methodological Nationalism, Migration, And Political Theory, Alexander Sager

Philosophy Faculty Publications and Presentations

Political theorists of migration have largely operated within a conceptual scheme that treats the nation-state as the natural political unit for analysis at the expense of transnational, regional, and local analyses. Migration is discussed in the contexts of nation-building or in an international framework of autonomous, sovereign states. I show that this paradigm of “methodological nationalism” ignores transnational networks, associations, and organizations and global social and economic structures. This in turn, blinds political theorists to questions of agency and structure and to causal relations that entail moral responsibilities. My aim is to show how debates on migration and distributive justice …

Anna Oehler: Mission Literature, Lisa Jensen, Dr. Cindy Brewer

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Thank you for awarding me the ORCA grant. I have used it to travel to Vienna, Austria with Professor Brewer to research the works of Anna Oehler. Anna Oehler was a mission author of children’s literature in the early 1900s. Her work is important because it provides insights on the racial positions of Europeans at this time.

Depictions Of Manualist Deaf Women In Deaf Magazines, 1900-1950, Jennifer Campbell Matthews, Dr. Rebecca De Schweinitz

Journal of Undergraduate Research

In the United States around the early to mid-19th century a debate about the best method to teach the deaf arose which only intensified into the 20th century. The debate consisted of pure oralists who believed that the deaf should be taught speech and lip-reading to the exclusion of signs, manualists who believed that sign-language was a valuable tool for the deaf and should be included, and a number of people who fell somewhere in between the two extremes. For the two decades before and after the turn of the 20th century most deaf leaders as well as a majority …

Scientific Superstions: The Rationale Of Harvest Rituals In Anglo-Saxon Medicine, K. Jane Hughes, Dr. Glen Cooper

Journal of Undergraduate Research

I originally applied for an ORCA grant in order to further my research toward my Honors thesis — a cultural study of Anglo-Saxon medicine. I realized that I would not be able to create a viable paper on the subject with the limited sources available to me in an already limited field. To this end, I put the money toward BYU’s Direct Enrollment program at Cambridge University, where I would have access to the imposing University Library as well as the chance to work one-on-one with an expert on my subject. This was the most rewarding – and also the …

The General’S Last Gift To The Empire: Douglas Macarthur And The Rearming Of Japan, 1945-1950, Clifford David Gravett, Dr. Aaron Skabelund

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The purpose of this research was to establish the role of General Douglas MacArthur in the process of rearming Japan following World War II. My question was how MacArthur’s opinions regarding Japanese military evolved during his tenure as Supreme Commander for Allied Forces in the Pacific (SCAP) and head of the occupation of Japan. Documentary evidence demonstrated that MacArthur maintained a stance of permanent disarmament for Japan from 1945 to 1950. The most telling evidence of MacArthur’s interest in an unarmed Japan was his insistence that a no-war clause be included in the 1947-1948 revisions of the Japanese constitution. On …

Research In The Sacred Space Of The Archive: Moving From Undergraduate Training To Professional Duty, Laura Judd, Paul Kerry

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Archives function as a sacred space of the scholar. They preserve the fragile remains of the past, offering access only to the most respectful readers. Perhaps this is why, for the undergraduate history student, the relationship between historian and archive often remains veiled. A typical history student at BYU interacts with the archive mainly through information collected in books; for that student, the archive is understood abstractly as a source of historical knowledge. As my undergraduate education drew to a close, I had the opportunity in July of 2008 to visit some of the most well established archives in the …

Forgotten Music From The 18th And 19th Centuries: Rediscovering Neglected Works Through The Creation Of A Modern Performance Edition, Fidel Perez, David Day

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The written violin repertoire is vast, yet the amount of published material is relatively limited to performers. Available viola repertoire is even narrower. A person can easily find pieces by the most famous composers, such as Beethoven, Mozart and Bach, in a music library. These pieces, however, represent only a mere fraction of actual written material. There are many lesser-known composers whose works have been virtually ignored. The number of pieces available to us in modern day editions is probably only half of what has actually been written; many of those still unpublished pieces have gone totally unknown, with only …

Displacing The Poor: Photographs Of Richmond’S Vanishing Working Class, Aachary Taylor, Daniel Barney

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The renovation of deteriorated urban neighborhoods, otherwise known as gentrification, has been happening in Richmond, Virginia’s inner-city neighborhoods at an alarming rate over the last four years. This renewal has brought explicit benefits to those in its reach. For one, it has helped restore neglected and under-managed properties. It has also brought added social and cultural amenities to the city as a whole. These changes have come with a price however, as Richmond’s gentrified inner-city districts inevitably experience drastically higher rent and property taxes as a result of escalating property values. These surges in value have brought proportionally high taxes …

The Literacy Project, Mathew Miller, Doug Mckinlay

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Illiteracy has long been the focus of numerous humanitarian organizations that all have the same basic goal: eliminate illiteracy and provide the basic education necessary to increase the overall quality of life. In other words, if people can read they can learn and through learning they are better equipped to improve their third-world conditions. The initial goal of this project was to provide the means by which people in the third-world can learn to read in a new, cost effective way. We are positioning the project as a revolutionary resource for NGO’s, third world educators and individuals.

Understanding Oral Arguments Of The U.S. Supreme Court, Sebastian Dunlap, Edward Carter

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not there is a statistically significant pattern to the questions posed by justices of the U.S. Supreme Court when hearing oral arguments before the court.

The Creation And Reception Of La Reine Topaze By Victor Massé Documented In Manuscripts, Reviews, And Auxiliary Sources, Lindsay Weaver, David A. Day

Journal of Undergraduate Research

In our modern day, the Hollywood film industry is arguably the most popular source of entertainment available to our society. For the well-to-do Parisian of the nineteenth-century, his equivalent was the strange business of opera.

Companion For Concert Studies For Trumpet, Benjamin Taylor, Dr. David Brown

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The primary goal of this project was to compose a companion duet for eight of the sixteen etudes in Concert Studies for Trumpet, providing a pedagogical tool for use in the trumpet studio at BYU. The remaining eight etudes were already completed as part of a similar project last year. Now that the entire set of sixteen duets are complete, I plan to submit the project for publication.

“Untitled” Aka “Unhinged”, Nicholas Stentzel, Jeff Parkin

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Over the past year I have had the privilege to direct a senior film project entitled “Unhinged,” it is the story of Phillip, a struggling artist who is attempting to complete a final painting for his gallery opening. However, as he works his girlfriend, Mary, continually distracts him and because of his neglectful attitude she finally leaves him. Phillip soon realizes that it is Mary’s presence in his life that allows him to find his true voice.

Zodiac Ensemble, August 29, 2013 [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. School Of Music.

Music Recital Programs

Program of a music recital given by faculty, students, or guest artists from the School of Music at the University of Northern Iowa.

The Consolidation Of The Consociational Democracy In Lebanon: The Challenges To Democracy In Lebanon, Micheline Germanos Ghattas

Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation looks at democracy in Lebanon, a country that has a pluralistic society with many societal cleavages. The subject of this study is the consolidation of democracy in Lebanon, described by Arend Lijphart as a "consociational democracy". The research question and sub-question posed are:

1- How consolidated is democracy in Lebanon?

2- What are the challenges facing the consolidation of democracy in Lebanon?

The preamble of the 1926 Lebanese Constitution declares the country to be a parliamentary democratic republic. The political regime is a democracy, but one that is not built on the rule of the majority in numbers, …

Lifting The Veil Of Violence: The October Crisis, 1970., Jef R. Palframan

Oglethorpe Journal of Undergraduate Research

This work explores the uses of violence during the October Crisis of 1970 in Québec, Canada. The author questions the current state of historiographical approaches to the October Crisis and posits a new approach. Violence, seen as a language, permeates the events surrounding the kidnapping and later murder of Pierre Laporte. The reaction of the Québécois public at large is examine in response to the uses of violence by the belligerent parties. The work concludes that the FLQ did not possess the requisite capacity for violence to effectively compete with the Canadian Federal Government and other insights into the legacy …

Shadows In Time: A Study Of Temporal Metaphysics Through Hard Science Fiction And Its Restrictions On The Past And Future, Lindsey E. Mitchell

Oglethorpe Journal of Undergraduate Research

Through a series of essays, this body of work explores the varying theories concerning the nature of time and how each theory affects the possibility and outcome of time travel. Following these essays, a collection of short stories focuses on what the author considers the most probable theories concerning time and expands on how they might affect a time traveler's decisions and fate.

Horror-Comedy: The Chaotic Spectrum And Cinematic Synthesis, Marisa Manuel

Oglethorpe Journal of Undergraduate Research

No abstract provided.

Programming Sketches: A Bricolage Approach To Teaching Computer Programming In Design Education, Juhong Park

Learn X Design Conference Series

Many architecture schools have started to teach computer programming as part of their design education. Their main pedagogies follow a conventional computer science approach, which has a high failure rate and is less effective for novice learners. This paper describes a novel approach to developing a curriculum, "Programming Sketches", to teach computer programming to architecture students in the context of design education. A bricolage-based approach with an atelier learning environment was explored. Instead of focusing on learning the knowledge of computer programming language, students were prompted to develop their own ways of transforming design thinking into a programming structure with …

The Shortcomings Of A "Diverse" College Campus, Chelsea E. Broe

SURGE

“What is the diversity like at Gettysburg College?” As a tour guide, I get asked this question a lot. It’s a tricky question to answer: On one hand, I know that this is probably the family’s way of inquiring about race on campus without having to use such a taboo word, but on the other, my Diversity Peer Educator training chimes in and I want to challenge my questioner’s assumptions about what diversity even means. [excerpt]

Union And States’ Rights: A History And Interpretation Of Interposition, Nullification, And Secession 150 Years After Sumter, Neil H. Cogan

University of Akron Press Publications

Edited by Neil H. Cogan, who is a well-versed legal scholar of constitutional law, civil rights, and civil and criminal procedures, this volume is a collection of papers on a central issue of governance in the United States; namely, what is the power of the States to object to and cancel Federal law with which they disagree. For eighty-one years, from the ratification of the Constitution to the end of the Civil War, this issue of State power was the central issue of governance. Chapters address the history and legal arguments for three assertions of such State power: interposition, nullification, …

The Emergence Of The Digital Humanities, Steven E. Jones

English Faculty Publications

The past decade has seen a profound shift in our collective understanding of the digital network. What was once understood to be a transcendent virtual reality is now experienced as a ubiquitous grid of data that we move through and interact with every day, raising new questions about the social, locative, embodied, and object-oriented nature of our experience in the networked world.

In The Emergence of the Digital Humanities, Steven E. Jones examines this shift in our relationship to digital technology and the ways that it has affected humanities scholarship and the academy more broadly. Based on the premise …

Morality, The Sacred And God In Ghanaian Hip- Hop, Harry N. K. Odamtten

History

The adoption of Hip-Hop by the world’s youth is a turning point in the history of youth culture in particular and global public culture in general. The embracing of Hip-Hop in the West African country of Ghana is exemplary of this worldwide transformation. The indigenous Ghanaian version of Hip-Hop is Hip-Life. This Ghanaian musical genre is a combination of Hip-Hop and High-Life. High-Life is also a Ghanaian genre with West African and Afro- Diaspora roots. It emerged in Ghana as part of the anti-colonial struggle in West Africa, and has spawned of many varieties until the emergence of Hip- Life. …

From Conception To Completion: A Summary Of Process And Progress, Shelley Mendenhall, Gary Barton

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The final results of my BFA show were much different than my original intentions. I had initially set out to create a series of triptychs using monotype, drypoint, collage, and drawing procedures, but I ended up abandoning the triptych format altogether.

The Declaration Of Independence And Early American Religious Rhetoric From The Puritan Political Sermons, Ryan D. Nelson, Dr. Neal Lambert

Journal of Undergraduate Research

For this work, I attempted to look closer at the influence that the early Puritan political sermons had upon the writing of the Declaration of Independence. Although an interesting topic to study in general, I found it necessary to consistently revise my research to become more specific. Since the Puritan political sermons are hard to come by, I analyzed the political sermons from the best compilation up to date; that from Sandoz. 1

Looking Back On Revolution: Post-Revolutionary Political Sentiment As Depicted In The Francophone Literature Of Modern Tunisia, Quinn Mecham, Dr. Dilworth Parkinson

Journal of Undergraduate Research

I began this research project with the intention of briefly surveying all of the major literature of post-revolutionary Francophone North Africa and extracting the domestic political themes from each text. I soon realized that this was an extraordinarily difficult if not impossible task for several reasons: 1) The corpus of texts is extremely large and without adequate bibliography; 2) The corpus of texts is largely unavailable with many relevant texts out of print; 3) The political themes treated in these texts are not ordinarily accessible through brief survey because of their gothic, abstract, and deeply symbolic nature.

Repairing The World: Sam Fried, Holocaust Survivor, Jim Fried, Waitman Wade Beorn

History Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

A speech by Jim Fried to the Rotary of Omaha about his father, and Holocaust survivor, Sam Fried. Forward by Waitman Wade Beorn.

The Scholarship Of Teaching: Threshold Concepts And Research Informed Design Education, Jane Osmond

Learn X Design Conference Series

This paper considers the growing body of established scholarly research culture in the creative arts: which, it is argued, is in the process of ‘catching up’ with more established disciplines such as science, history and economics. This slow growth is linked to the need for practitioner-focused lecturers within the discipline, some of whom have little engagement with scholarly theory before entering the academy. The paper then goes onto consider the introduction of a particular theory - the threshold concept framework - to a cohort of industrial design staff at Coventry University and outlines some of the main impacts on both …

August 27, 2013: 2013-2014 Distinguished Alum, James Griffioen, Department Of English

Gleanings: Department of English Blog Archive

No abstract provided.