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Abandoned Growth, Courtney Cathers

The Oval

No abstract provided.

Twelve Years, Stacia Hill

The Oval

No abstract provided.

Loudness In The Library: Empowering Students To Think Critically About Identity And Bias, Anshu Wahi, Allie Bruce, Jamie Steinfeld

Progressive Education in Context

Describes how an unplanned, informal discussion about how race and identity are depicted on book covers evolved into a year-long investigation with a class of 11 and 12-year-olds where the interests and comments of the students drove the curriculum.

Transpersonal Space/Time Through The Arts, Lisa Herman

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

As transpersonal researchers and practitioners work to articulate the meaning of transpersonal individually and collectively, I suggest conceptualizing transpersonal space/time as real in a physically felt sense. This embodied knowing is best practiced and expressed through the arts. The premise is situated within a larger field using the term liminal as a parallel meaning construct for transpersonal I present my own work referencing a range of disciplines where scholars and practitioners using the terms liminal, transpersonal and others, artfully express their understanding of extra-ordinary experience. A personal example through creative writing is offered demonstrating the way my body/mind inquiring into …

The Missionary Manual: A Handbook Of Methods For Missionary Work In Young People's Societies, Amos R. Wells

Books

No abstract provided.

Social - To Save: A Book Of Suggestions For The Social Committees Of Christian Endeavor Societies And For The Home Circle, Amos R. Wells

Books

No abstract provided.

Sunrise At Roanoke, Roger Lowe

Original Compositions

Music for flute and harp

This piece was inspired by the beautiful sunrises over Albemarle sound at Roanoke Island off the coast of North Carolina. This music, in the timeless style of the Impressionist composers makes a wonderful concert or recital piece. If no harp is available, the accompaniment may be played on the piano.

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Eduardo Lalo Folio, Eduardo Lalo

Corresponding Voices

Paístexto and other texts by the poet Eduardo Lalo, appearing in their Spanish originals and in English translations by Tere Paniagua, Pedro Cuperman, Sofia Marquez, and Rafael Escribano in collaboration with the author.

Deadline: Ethics And The Ethnographic Divorce, Lisa M. Tillmann Ph.D.

Faculty Publications

In the summer of 2009, the author receives a call from a New York Times reporter about her book Between Gay and Straight. The book portrays her (now-ex) husband’s and her integration into a network of gay male friends. “Deadline” explores tensions between private and public as the private turmoil of divorce clashes with the public construction of the author’s marriage and with her determination to continue the social justice work of Between Gay and Straight.

Woman Working At Quarry, Brian Hoffman

AWE (A Woman’s Experience)

No abstract provided.

Nature, Technology, And Ruined Women: Ecofeminism And Princess Mononoke, Wendi Sierra, Alysah Berwald, Melissa Guck, Erica Maeder

English Faculty/Staff Publications

This article examines the popular anime Princess Mononoke through the lens of ecofeminism. In particular, we provide a close reading of the two female lead characters, San and Lady Eboshi, to demonstrate the problematic gender tropes that are often woven into films about ecological issues.

Deep In The Burbs : A Participatory Action Research Project Exploring How The Social Trinity Impacts Spiritual Formation In Suburban Elca Congregations, Steven P. Thomason

Doctor of Philosophy Theses

Deep in the Burbs is a participatory action research project that gathered members from three upper-Midwest suburban ELCA congregations to explore how engagement with the social Trinity might impact the research team’s ideation or praxis of spiritual formation. The research team pursued this question through the practice of Dwelling in the Word—specifically in select passages from the Upper Room Discourse (John 13-17)—various modalities of communicative learning, and communicative action projects in the community. The data indicate three major themes that became important to the research team: the essential nature of relationships, the necessity of reflection, and the awareness of the …

Book Review: On Goldman's The American Jewish Story Through Cinema, David B. Levy

Touro University Libraries Publications and Research

The author provides a review of the book The American Jewish Story through Cinema, written by Eric Goldman.

Book Review: Rav Hisda's Daughter, Book 1: Apprentice: A Novel Of Love, The Talmud, And Sorcery, David B. Levy

Touro University Libraries Publications and Research

The author presents a review of Rav Hisda's Daughter, Book 1: Apprentice: A Novel of Love, the Talmud, and Sorcery.

Book Review: New Heavens And A New Earth: The Jewish Reception Of Copernican Thought, David B. Levy

Touro University Libraries Publications and Research

The author reviews the book New Heavens and a New Earth: The Jewish Reception of Copernican Thought.

Book Review: Scientific Controversies: A Socio-Historical Perspective On The Advancement Of Science, David B. Levy

Touro University Libraries Publications and Research

The author reviews the book Scientific Controversies: A Socio-Historical Perspective on the Advancement of Science.

Book Review: Science, Reason, Modernity: Readings For An Anthropology Of The Contemporary, David B. Levy

Touro University Libraries Publications and Research

The author reviews the book Science, Reason, Modernity: Readings for an Anthropology of the Contemporary.

Book Review: Dislocated Memories: Jews, Music, And Postwar German Culture, David B. Levy

Touro University Libraries Publications and Research

The author reviews the book Dislocated Memories: Jews, Music, and Postwar German Culture.

Book Review: Words Without Music: A Memoir, David B. Levy

Touro University Libraries Publications and Research

The author reviews the book Words Without Music: A Memoir.

Rodcon, Program, 2015, University Of Northern Iowa

RodCon Documents

Saturday, March 28, 2015 - 11:00am to 4:00pm

Program distributed at the event.

Welcome to the 2nd Annual Rod Library Mini Comic Con. The event is free and open to the public. Our goal is to provide an open forum for discussion about the theme of a networked society focused on popular culture, comics, and gaming. Our panel presentations are also focused on providing a forum for discussion about the complex issues of race, gender, class and social justice in popular entertainment. To see your entry, use the hashtag #RodCon15

Mirror Gazing For Cultural Bereavement: A Mixed-Methods Study Into The Impact Of A Restricted Sensory Environment Meditation Process (Psychomanteum) On Culture Shock In Expatriates, Samuel W. Root

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

Thirteen expatriates experienced an individual 2-3 hour psychomanteum process, including pre- and post-meditation interviews based on cultural bereavement theory, mirror gazing in a restricted sensory chamber, art work, and follow-up surveys. Repeated measures of negative affect were administered at pretest, posttest, and follow-up periods. Correlational analyses revealed significant reductions in total culture shock and mood disturbance at follow up. Extraversion, home country, and importance of religion/ spirituality were significant covariates in change on total culture shock scores at posttest. Qualitative analyses revealed four categories of effects: clarified emotional conflicts, letting go, shifted perspectives, and reviewed success factors. The psychomanteum process …

Keeping The State’S Secrets: Ireland’S Road From ‘Official’ Secrets To Freedom Of Information, Michael Foley

Books/Book chapters

The introduction of the Freedom of Information act in Ireland in 1997 was a profound change for a state, a civil service and political system far more comfortable with official secrets. It has had a transformational effect on relations between citizen and the state, and has been useful for journalists despite many challenges. After its introduction it was then amended, with high costs and limitations imposed. It has subsequently been amended again to restore much of its previous powers.

When Justice Demands Inequality, John Thrasher, Keith Hankins

Philosophy Faculty Articles and Research

In Rescuing Justice and Equality G.A. Cohen argues that justice requires an uncompromising commitment to equality. Cohen also argues, however, that justice must be sensitive to other values, including a robust commitment to individual freedom and to the welfare of the community. We ask whether a commitment to these other values means that, despite Cohen’s commitment to equality, his view requires that we make room for inequality in the name of justice? We argue that even on Cohen’s version of egalitarianism equality, freedom, and welfare are not always compatible. Justice will require trade-offs between these values. Sometimes, equality will need …

Overflowing Power In Self-Ownership: Finding Freedom In Toni Morrison’S A Mercy, Darby Witek

The Corinthian

Toni Morrison uses tragic stories of young girls to display societal themes throughout her novels. Morrison’s work in A Mercy follows the same trajectory, although Morrison uses girls of many different backgrounds to display her ideas. Morrison sets the time of her novel in late seventeenth century America, before slavery is constructed in the same racial binary many think of today: white masters and black slaves. Placing A Mercy in the early ages of American slavery allows an exploration of bondage defined by class rather than race, creating a larger space for agency to prosper—since station is not defined by …

Group Sizes Of Upper Paleolithic Cave Artists, Leslie Vangelder

Walden Faculty and Staff Publications

Since the first cave art was discovered two central questions have plagued the research. “Who made the art?” and “Why?” Multiple theories have been raised and explored, however, few lacked hard data to be able to narrow down to the individual level of artist and intention. Recent research focused on the study of finger flutings – lines drawn with hands and fingers in the soft surfaces of caves – has yielded a wealth of forensic data about their creators. While there is still no definitive way to know if the fluters are also the artists of the painted and engraved …

The Louvain Library And U.S. Ambition In Interwar Belgium, Tammy M. Proctor

History Faculty Publications

This article analyzes the ordeal that became the ‘Louvain Library Controversy' in order to demonstrate competing visions of postwar memory and reconstruction that emerged in the 1920s. As a country trying to mediate between the claims of its larger neighbors (Germany, France, and Britain), Belgium provides an excellent window into the climate of postwar Europe and US intervention. I argue that the controversies that surrounded the Louvain Library reconstruction reflect three main themes that plagued European–US relations in the 1920s: first, US pretensions as Europe’s cultural protector; second, US economic power over debt and reparation questions; and last, the question …

The Oval, 2015 - Staff Issue

The Oval

No abstract provided.

Patchwork, Stacia Hill

The Oval

No abstract provided.

Eilean Donan, Erika Tibbetts

The Oval

No abstract provided.

Scarlet Front Door, Nicole Schulz

The Oval

No abstract provided.