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Reflections On Deep Time: From The Big Bang To The End Of Planet Earth, Daniel E. Schafer

Belmont Humanities Symposium Journal

Historians are well-known students of time. As a professional historian, I study events that occurred roughly a century ago. While their interest in specific time periods may vary, all historians engage with the question of change over time. Historians traditionally limit themselves to the age of written records—the last several thousand years or so—though we are always happy to supplement our study of documents with statues, ruins, paintings, artifacts and other debris of the past. As we go back to earlier periods, we increasingly rely on our archeologist friends to supplement our study of written records. For the very earliest …

Front Matter, John Paine

Belmont Humanities Symposium Journal

Title Page, Contents, Editor's Note

Stop-Time: Present, Past, And Future Walk Into A Bar…. It’S Tense, John Paine

Belmont Humanities Symposium Journal

I will discuss primarily how three Western thinkers and writers approach human time. St. Augustine articulates the plight of human beings caught in ever-fleeing time in Book XI of his Confessions. J.-J. Rousseau in his Reveries finds an answer to the fleeting nature of time in reaching moments of being when he is entirely present to himself. Marcel Proust “finds time again” in bringing into focus present and past time in his novel In Search of Lost Time. Interspersed with discussion of these works will be apposite examples of how other poets and thinkers have dealt with the human condition …

Introduction, Maggie P. Monteverde

Belmont Humanities Symposium Journal

The impetus for this year’s symposium “Worlds Enough and Time” began for me more than forty years ago, while I was working on my senior thesis on “Concepts of Order and Chaos in Anglo-Saxon Poetry” and happened to notice that the idea of time underlying one of the poems was quite different from my own. So, as I prepared to write this introduction, I found myself returning to the starting point of my interest: the Anglo-Saxons. Surely, I thought, one of their famous riddles must have as its answer, Time. Not that I could find. So I tried to write …

Time-Travel And Redemption At Hogwarts: Redemptive Actions Made Possible By Time-Travel In Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, Ann Coble

Belmont Humanities Symposium Journal

This presentation first defines “redemptive actions” and then explores a range of redemptive acts carried out by Harry Potter and his friends at Hogwarts in the 3rd installment of the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling. When Harry and Hermione go back in time, they choose to act in ways that not only rescue their friends from death but also show love to at least one enemy. Note: this paper is full of spoilers!

Where In The World Is Sir Cloudsley Shovell? Or How To Find Your Way When You Are All At Sea, Michael E. Jackson

Belmont Humanities Symposium Journal

Sir Cloudsley Shovell had a reputation as an excellent seaman; he would not have risen to the level of Admiral of the Fleet if it had been otherwise. He was using all of the techniques for determining location that were available at the time, but ultimately they were not good enough, leading to the worst disaster in English maritime history.

Writing Out Of Time: A Look At The Memoirs Of Virginia Woolf And Vladimir Nabokov, Andrea Stover

Belmont Humanities Symposium Journal

My title is meant to suggest a paradox: We lose time with each word we write until eventually we will be out of time altogether, but we also create a sense of timelessness when we write, that exists out of and beyond time. So I guess writers are both running out and getting out of time. To get to the heart of this paradox, I’m organizing this talk around four impossible questions that I certainly won’t presume to answer. Instead, I’ll focus on the challenges these questions raise for writers, especially memoir writers.

No Abiding Place: Jane Austen In Space And Time, Douglas Murray

Belmont Humanities Symposium Journal

Like all literary criticism, my contribution to this collection is autobiographical. This packing and unpacking—performed with a mixture of repentance and achievement, nostalgia and forecast, regret and hope—recalled no one so much as (you guessed it) Jane Austen, who in her brief 41 years had to pack and unpack as often as most modern academics. This statement—that Jane Austen moved about—contradicts our notion of the woman.

What Time Is It In Paradise?: Examining Time Inside Eternity In Paradise Lost, Allison Rau

Belmont Humanities Symposium Journal

What does Milton wish to show us in Paradise Lost? He writes nothing cavalierly. Every single phrase, every single word is deliberate, intentional, and, above all, strategic. Volume after volume has been written on the most minute aspects of his specificity of language; Peter Herman has published an entire article on the use of the conjunction “or” in Paradise Lost. As such, while it may be easy to gloss over the numerous long series of descriptive historical and mythological references in the poem, thinking them merely colorful rather than important, one need only glance through the research of Sherry Lutz …

Gas Attack! The Strange New Temporality Of Warfare After Wwi, Kai Evers

Belmont Humanities Symposium Journal

Two things permeated Berlin in summer 2014: the heat—air conditioning remains a rarity in the German capital—and the memory of the First World War. Museums, libraries, art galleries, and cultural institutes cast a wide net of exhibitions across the city. Even for a centennial, their number and variety surprised: the First World War in children’s literature, in photography, in Latin America, in music, in the media of coin and medal, in early sound recordings, in surrealist art.

World Without Time, Eva Brann

Belmont Humanities Symposium Journal

The theory is, first, that time is not a being, a thing, or a substance in the world, nor does it operate as a power, a force, or a destiny in our lives. It has no external existence, and all speech attributing reality to it is unwittingly metonymic, meaning that the word “time” is used by a sort of obtuse poetry for processes that have better names of their own. The theory has a second element, namely that it would be a better world, and we would be better off, if more people thought that time was unreal and spoke …

Generations Enough, And Time, John Niedzwiecki, Meg Streams

Belmont Humanities Symposium Journal

Since the Enlightenment, scientific inquiry has shown that the immensities of time and space humans have always sensed, worshipped, and feared are not immune to measurement. Despite the anxieties of a variety of “establishments” through the years, for many people, measurement and greater understanding has not stolen creation’s wonder, but rather increased it. Quantitative science gives us an ability to put numbers on extreme quantities, whether on the vast scale of interstellar or intergalactic distances, geological or cosmological time, or the micro-scale of tiny probabilities. Yet we have no natural intuition for such numbers. If we don’t make an effort …

Back Matter, John Paine

Belmont Humanities Symposium Journal

Contributors' Notes

That Time Of Which We Know Nothing, Maggie P. Monteverde

Belmont Humanities Symposium Journal

The subject of time, our differing perceptions, experiences, and expressions of it, has interested and at times obsessed me for over forty years now, and I realize that the topics being pursued by many of our speakers not surprisingly resonate with many of my own questions and preoccupations with this subject. Where, then, with such a body of memory and thought, to begin this essay intended to situate those issues in literature and language?

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Inscribed Cotton Ikat From Yemen In The Tenth Century Ce, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

More than a thousand years ago, Baghdad was capital of the Islamic empire under the Abbasid caliphs, and Yemen was a flourishing center of agriculture and trade. Among its famous products were dyestuffs, and cotton cloth with warp stripes, patterned using techniques of compression resist. As the strength of the Abbasid caliphate declined and claims to power gained hold in the provinces, regional artistic styles began to emerge. The rulers of Yemen adopted one of the prerogatives of the Abbasid caliphs, bestowing honor by rewarding their subjects with inscribed textiles called tiraz. From burial sites in Egypt, many such textiles …

Robert Hillestad, Professor And Fiber Artist, Marilyn Delong

Department of Textiles, Merchandising and Fashion Design: Department Information

Dr. Hillestad has been a member of the Costume Society of America since 1978 and has participated in many annual Symposia. Dr. Hillestad has multi-faceted abilities—he is a superb design educator as well as an active fiber and apparel artist—and he integrates the two roles of educator and artist expressively, superbly, and elegantly. Dr. Hillestad is professor emeritus at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. In 1997, The Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery on the Lincoln Campus of the University of Nebraska was named in his honor upon recommendation of the faculty in the Department of Textiles, Clothing and Design and the …

African Poetry Book Fund-African Poetry Library Manual: How To Manage And Set Up The Library., Lorna M. Dawes, Charlene Maxey-Harris

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

The African Poetry Library Initiative, an initiative of the African

Poetry Book Fund, is a collaborative venture to establish

accessible and user-friendly small poetry libraries on the African

continent to support aspiring and established poets and to give

them access to contemporary poetry in books and journals, and

to serve as a resource for poets interested in publication in Africa

and around the world. The initiative will be guided by

collaboration between US and UK publishers of poetry, literary

arts organizations, poet’s libraries and literary journals and

African libraries, writers co-ops or cultural centers, and poets and

will be coordinated …

Sinan’S Screens: Networks Of Intersecting Polygons In Ottoman Architecture, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

An often overlooked characteristic of Sinan’s architectural production of the 16th century is the use of low screening walls and windows carved of marble with pierced openwork or tracery to let in light and allow for air circulation. Typically these screens display polygonal networks often with intersecting polygons. This paper explores aspects of these carved patterns, which have antecedents in earlier Islamic architecture, attributing particular significance to this architectural feature in the works of Sinan and three successors whom he had trained. These slabs (and their counterparts in forged iron) may be considered études, serving as opportunities for the training …

La Nación En Llamas: Representaciones Femeninas Del Nacionalismo Vasco Durante La Guerra Civil Española, Iker González-Allende

Spanish Language and Literature Papers

En los conflictos bélicos, a la mujer se la ha relacionado tradicionalmente con la retaguardia, erigiéndose como modelo de víctima inocente y del sufrimiento de la población civil debido al hambre, las penurias y los bombardeos, así como la soledad y la incertidumbre causadas por la ausencia del esposo y/o los hijos. Ahora bien, la separación entre el frente y la retaguardia y la caracterización de esta última como el único espacio de las mujeres resultan en realidad un mito, puesto que durante las guerras la población civil es víctima de numerosos ataques, y los pueblos y las ciudades terminan …

El Ex-Hombre: Masculinidad Y Exilio En La Poesía De Juan José Domenchina, Iker González-Allende

Spanish Language and Literature Papers

This article analyzes the representation of masculinity in Juan José Domenchina’s poetry of exile. The article argues that, during his last 20 years of life in exile (1939–1959), Domenchina shows in his poetry a contradictory masculinity. On the one hand, he reaffirms normative masculinity by rejecting pompous demonstrations of suffering, describing himself as stoic, tough, strong-willed and independent, and praising nostalgically Castilian men’s hypermasculine behavior. On the other hand, Domenchina’s poetry also testifies to his feelings of emasculation, since he calls himself an “ex-man”, shows his masculine fragmentation with the figures of the doppelganger or shadow, identifies himself with a …

Now & Then (Volume 29, Issue 02, 2014), Center Of Excellence For Appalachian Studies And Services, East Tennessee State University

Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine

Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine, Volume 29, Issue 02, published in 2014. The theme of this issue is Music in Appalachia. This issue reflects on the role music has in shaping personal identity, community life, and regional tradition. It brings together historical accounts and contemporary reflections that connect early folk practices, recorded sessions, and festival traditions with present day performance and reinterpretation. Attention is given to the movement of music between rural and urban spaces, the blending of influences across racial and cultural lines, and the persistence of locally rooted styles alongside global connections. Personal narratives emphasize music …

Downtown Clare Historic District National Register Of Historic Places Nomination, Kenneth Lingaur

Historic Preservation Final Projects

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Urban Dignity - Global Dignity: What Is It? How Do We Achieve It? (Part 1), Evelin Lindner

Journal of Urban Culture Research

Unity in diversity is at the centre of dignity. It means that people of all classes and colors intermingle in a spirit of mutual care and respect. Traditionally, throughout the past millennia, uniformity in division has been practised almost everywhereon the planet: to strengthen their competitive advantage over enemy out-groups, in-groups maintained a strictly unequal domination of higher beings over lesser beings. Unity in diversity is a more complex concept as it requires the readiness and ability to consider everyone else as equal in dignity, and it calls for the skills to enter into dialogue with equals. As long as …

Creating Dance In The Hatha Yoga Concept, Nualravee Junloon, Naraphong Charassri

Journal of Urban Culture Research

This article explores the integration between yoga concepts and the art of dance. It aims to discuss the genesis of a dance performance inspired by Hatha Yoga and specifically its concept of balancing hot and cold power. The terms Hatha Yoga and the art of creative dance and other terms related to Hatha Yoga concepts are accordingly discussed. Six areas of inquiry were considered in this research project. They were: a survey of source documents, expert interviews, the standard criteria of Thai national artists, audience evaluations, student dance workshops, along with other media and online information. The resulting dance creation …

Rematerializing: Interviews With Emerging Artists About Physicality, Pattern And Textile Techniques, Caroline Hayes Charuk

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

This paper will be a presentation of emerging Bay Area artists who draw upon textile materials, forms, and processes, but who refuse the label of ‘textile artist’ in favor of a more ambiguous relationship. References to textiles may be foundational for the work, or brought in as a means to an end. The conceptual basis of their work is contained within its physicality, and they acknowledge (or knowingly set aside) histories of handwork. Each artist has a practice that necessarily slides on a line between the dematerialization of conceptual art and a rematerialization that recognizes haptic experience as indispensable and …

Maguey Hammock: A Weaving Of Resistance And Persistence In Puerto Rico, Soraya Serra Collazo

Textile Society of America: Symposium Proceedings

Textiles are primary technology to almost all societies. Puerto Rico and the Caribbean are no exceptions. There is an object that has been weaved in the region since pre-Columbian times and it is still passing through the fingers of local artisans. Hamaca, an invention of the American inhabitants,² is an indigenous voice incorporated into many languages. It was in the Caribbean, where Europeans saw its utility, and it was quickly incorporated as the best way of sleeping in their transatlantic voyages. Its production has spread throughout the world and today it is made in many countries. In Puerto Rico …

Now & Then (Volume 30, Issue 01, 2014), Center Of Excellence For Appalachian Studies And Services, East Tennessee State University

Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine

Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine, Volume 30, Issue 01, published in 2014. The theme of this issue is Civil Wars in Appalachia. It uses the sesquicentennial of the American Civil War to examine conflict, division, and reconciliation within the region. It presents historical accounts and personal narratives that document the impact of the war on families and communities, including loss, displacement, and long lasting social divisions. The issue also connects nineteenth century conflict to ongoing disputes over land, resources, and authority, illustrating how struggles over ownership and identity have persisted in different forms. Attention is given to military …

Test 2096a: New Holland T9.600, Nebraska Tractor Test Lab

Nebraska Tractor Tests

ABOUT THE TEST REPORT AND USE OF THE DATA The test data contained in this report are a tabulation of the results of a series of tests. Due to the restricted format of these pages, only a limited amount of data and not all of the tractor specifications are included. The full OECD report contains usually about 30 pages of data and specifications. The test data were obtained for each tractor under similar conditions and therefore, provide a means of comparison of performance based on a limited set of reported data. EXPLANATION OF THE TEST PROCEDURES Purpose The purpose of …

Eastern Michigan University Undergraduate Catalog, 2014-2015, Office Of The Registrar

Undergraduate Catalogs

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