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Lent 5 One Year Series 2017, Phillip L. Brandt

Sunday's Sermon

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Lent 5 Series A 2017, Phillip L. Brandt

Sunday's Sermon

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( Re ) Claiming History And Visibility Through Rhetorical Sovereignty: The Power Of Diné Rhetorics In The Works Of Laura Tohe, Jessica Marie Safran Hoover

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation investigates the intricate intersections of code switching, trickster discourse and rhetorical sovereignty in the scholarship of Diné author Laura Tohe, as Tohe operationalizes survivance and alliance in complex ways, ways that “actuate a presence” in the face of ongoing attempts to render American Indian peoples absent from American rhetorical, literary, and geographic landscapes. Existing research in American Indian literatures and rhetorics often focus on the need for reclaiming rhetorical sovereignty. Yet, little work has been done to emphasize connections between the use of code switching, translation, and trickster discourse in order to give visibility to past and contemporary …

Samantha Skaller, Viola: A Celebration Of Female Composers (1098-1995) Senior Viola Lecture Recital, Samantha Skaller

Setnor School of Music - Performance Programs

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2016-2017 Scholarship Fund Concert At Royal Palm Yacht & Country Club, Friends Of The Consevatory, Yvonne Lee, Yasa Poletaeva, Kayla Williams, Elizabeth Lee, Amy Nickler, Alla Sorokoleova, Darren Matias, Sohyun Park, Bailey Michelle Collins

Friends of the Conservatory Events

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Global Sounds Concert, Department Of Music, University Of Richmond

Music Department Concert Programs

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Allan Explores African Literature And Its Impact On The U.S., Aldemaro Romero Jr.

Publications and Research

Although for decades now we have become familiar with the vibrancy and impact of African-American literature in this country, little is publicly mentioned about its roots.

Someone who has researched and taught both African and African-American literature is Dr. Tuzyline Allan. A native of Sierra Leone in West Africa, she has been around, academically speaking. Allan obtained her bachelor’s degree in English from Durham University in England, a master’s degree in English from New York University (NYU), and a doctorate in English from Stony Brook University in New York. Today she is a professor in the Department of English in …

„Förderung Und Vermittlung Interkultureller Kompetenz In Deutschen Und Amerikanischen Geschäftsbeziehungen Im Daf Unterricht“, Samantha Wetzel

Undergraduate German Research Conference

Meine Präsentation heute, "Förderung und Vermittlung interkultureller Kompetenz in deutschen und amerikanischen Geschäftsbeziehungen im DaF Unterricht", gibt einen Überblick über ein Forschungsprojekt, mit dem ich mich seit einem Jahr beschäftige. Mit der Hilfe von Dr. Regina Range, meiner Mentorin und Assistant Professor of German an der Universität von Alabama, habe ich versucht, wichtige Unterschiede zwischen den deutschen und amerikanischen Wirtschaftskulturen zu identifizieren. Ziel des Projekts war und ist es immer noch, Möglichkeiten und Strategien zu entwickeln, um diese Einsichten in Lehrpläne zu integrieren.

Außergewöhnliche Argumente Gegen Den Faschismus: Die Blechtrommel Und Amarcord, Alec Parry

Undergraduate German Research Conference

Heute, werde ich mich mit zwei Filmen der Nachkriegszeit befassen, Die Blechtrommel (Völker Schlöndorff, 1979) und der Italienische Film Amarcord (Federico Fellini, 1973).

In beiden Filme erlebt man Deutschland und Italien in den 1930er Jahren. Zu dieser Zeit waren beide Länder von Faschismus geprägt, was auch der Grund ist, warum ich beide Filme und Länder vergleiche. Zusätzlich ähneln sich die Filme bei der filmischen Darstellung des Faschismus. (Ferner, Die Filme sind bemerkenswert für die Nationalkinematographie Italiens und Deutschlands.)

Die Darstellung des Faschismus, der Blick auf die Gesellschaft, die in beiden Filmen vorgestellt wird, wird allerdings, wie ich hier behaupte, von …

„Eine Komparative Analyse Des Einflusses Deutschlands Auf Neutrale Länder Europas Während Des Zweiten Weltkriegs“, Allwin Mcdonald

Undergraduate German Research Conference

The presentation offers a comparative analysis of Germany's influence on neutral countries in Europe during the Second World War, by analyzing four neutral countries: Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway.

Religion And Violence In Jesse James Films, 1972–2010, Travis Warren Cooper

Journal of Religion & Film

This essay analyzes recent depictions of Jesse James in cinema, examining filmic portrayals of the figure between the years of 1972 and 2010. Working from the intersection of the anthropology of film and religious studies approaches to popular culture, the essay fills significant gaps in the study of James folklore. As no substantial examinations of the religious aspects of the James myths exist, I hone in on the legend’s religiosity as contested in filmic form. Films, including revisionist Westerns, are not unlike oral-history statements recorded and analyzed by anthropologists, folklorists, and ethnographers. Jesse James movies, in other words, have much …

“To See My Home Before I Die”: The Trip To Bountiful, Memento Mori, And The Experience Of Death, Margaret Sullivan

Journal of Religion & Film

This article analyzes the portrayal of death in Peter Masterson’s 1985 film The Trip to Bountiful. My claim is that the experience of death, in the film, functions as a tool both for the elderly main character’s increased self-understanding and for her conscious, ethical action. I enter this discussion through an examination of late deconstruction’s ethical turn and the argument that aporetic unknowing, if experienced and endured, leads to the chance for real, authentic action. I then demonstrate how the film depicts such an aporetic encounter with death, and do so, in large part, by focusing on the film’s final …

Satanic Humans: Using Satanic Tropes To Guide And Misguide The Audience, Adam L. Porter

Journal of Religion & Film

One of the differences between Christ and Satan is that the former is clearly described in the Gospels, but the latter is not. Rather, a large number of different stories grew up around the character of Satan over the last 2000 years. Authors and artists can dip into the pool of Satan myths and find different versions of the character they can adapt for their own purposes. I am interested in identifying what satanic symbols have become popular in Hollywood films, so in 2013 I wrote an essay that analyzed several films featuring super-human characters and identified several traits beyond …

Gnosticism, Technology And The Soul In Cuarón's Gravity, Karli Brittz

Journal of Religion & Film

Situated within the Digital Age, where technology and science have made life in space possible, Alfonso Caurón's award-winning space-thriller, Gravity, explores critical notions of the relationship between technology and the soul. More specifically, Cuarón’s depiction of space voyage illustrates the dualistic approach to the soul in relation to technology, especially the gnostic mind/body split and its manifestation in the Digital Age. This intersection between technology and the soul is a notion of increasingly importance in contemporary society, however it is often evaded in literature. Accordingly, it is crucial to analyze and unpack films, such as Gravity, that confront audiences with …

Two-Spirit Mexica Youth And Transgender Mixtec/Muxe Media: La Mission (2009), Two Spirit: Injunuity (2013), And Libertad (2015), Gabriel S. Estrada

Journal of Religion & Film

Independent directors Peter Bratt, Adrian Baker, and Avila-Hanna create differing trans-border queer Indigenous media that resist Eurocentric cic-heteropatriarchy. While Bratt’s feature-length narrative film La Mission (2009) features a masculine Mexica gay teenager who survives fused homophobic and trans*-phobic violence, Baker’s short animation Two Spirit: Injunuity (2013) makes stronger trans* and two-spirit Mexica youth identity affirmations. Avila-Hanna’s short documentary Libertad (2015) offers the clearest transgender narrative of the three films as it focuses on a California transgender Mixtec immigrant activist who is coming of age as a woman with the aid of hormones and gender affirming surgery. This article’s trans*- and …

Superhero Films: A Fascist National Complex Or Exemplars Of Moral Virtue?, Chris Yogerst

Journal of Religion & Film

This paper deals with the "why" regarding our collective desire for superhero narratives. My goal is to build on the many definitions of a superhero and find a framework that we as scholars can use to evaluate how superhero films present inspirational moral virtue and not zealous nationalism of any kind. In the process I want to address the problems with some of the scholarly work done on the connection to superheroes and heroism both historically and immediately after 9/11, particularly those who have argued that American superheroism is a fascist myth, and show how the recent evolution of the …

Global Catastrophe In Motion Pictures As Meaning And Message: The Functions Of Apocalyptic Cinema In American Film, Wynn Gerald Hamonic

Journal of Religion & Film

The steady rise in production of American apocalyptic films and the genre's enduring popularity over the last seven decades can be explained by the functions the film genre serves. Through an analysis of a broad range of apocalyptic films along with the application of several theoretical and critical approaches to the study of film, the author describes seven functions commonly found in American apocalyptic cinema expressed both in terms of its meaning (the underlying purpose of the film) and its message (the ideas the filmmakers want to convey to the audience). Apocalyptic cinema helps the viewer make sense of the …

"I Do Feel The Fire!": The Transformations Of Prison-Based Black Male Converts To Islam In South Central, Malcolm X, And Oz, Kameron J. Copeland

Journal of Religion & Film

Historically, imprisoned Black male converts to Islam have been known for their narratives of redemption and struggles for religious freedom behind bars. While Islam possesses a strong visible presence throughout predominately Black areas of inner cities, it has become a natural feature of Black popular culture in mediums such as hip-hop, film, and literature. By the 1990s, the portrayal of Islamic conversions yielding Malcolm X-style transformations among young Black men, who formerly embodied self-destructiveness, were visible in films featuring Black male protagonists. The prison-based transformations typically involved highly influential Black Muslim leaders improving the social conditions of the inmate, the …

How To Attain Liberation From A False World? The Gnostic Myth Of Sophia In Dark City (1998), Fryderyk Kwiatkowski

Journal of Religion & Film

In the second half of the 20th century, a fascinating revival of ancient Gnostic ideas in American popular culture could be observed. One of the major streams through which Gnostic ideas are transmitted is Hollywood cinema. Many works that emerged at the end of 1990s can be viewed through the ideas of ancient Gnostic systems: The Truman Show (1998), The Thirteenth Floor (1999), The Others (2001), Vanilla Sky (2001) or The Matrix trilogy (1999-2003).

In this article, the author analyses Dark City (1998) and demonstrates that the story depicted in the film is heavily indebted to the Gnostic myth of …

Problem-Based Learning And Two Studies Of The Journal Of Religion And Film: Self-Sacrifice And Music, Ken Derry

Journal of Religion & Film

This article offers a case study for using problem-based learning (PBL) in a religion and film course. PBL is an open-ended, experiential approach to teaching, which requires students to engage with a real world problem in groups. While many university classes are based on a lecture format and variations of that format, PBL asks students to take greater ownership of their learning. The problem drives what students will learn, how they will learn it, and what they produce to assess that learning. Students in a fourth-year PBL class at the University of Toronto Mississauga were given the following problem: analyze …

Amar Akbar Anthony: Bollywood, Brotherhood, And The Nation, Kathryn C. Hardy

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a book review of William Elison, Christian Lee Novetzke, and Andy Rotman, Amar Akbar Anthony: Bollywood, Brotherhood, and the Nation (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016).

Coen: Framing Religion In Amoral Order, Richard Goodwin

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a book review of Elijah Siegler, ed., Coen: Framing Religion in Amoral Order. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2016.

The Innocents (Les Innocentes), Joshua Canzona

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of The Innocents (Les Innocentes) (2016), directed by Anne Fontaine.

Silence, Caesar A. Montevecchio

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Silence (2016), directed by Martin Scorsese.

Hidden Figures, Carol Miles

Journal of Religion & Film

This is a film review of Hidden Figures (2016), directed by Theodore Melfi.

„Zaimoǧlus Sicht Auf Die Kulturspaltung In Deutschland“, Sophia Staerz

Undergraduate German Research Conference

This presentation examines the role of the "guest worker" in Germany, how they assimilated into the German workforce, and the affect on German culture and society.

„Nur Die Tatsachen Sind Richtig Und Wichtig Für Uns“: Neue Sachlichkeit Im Neuen Deutschland, Abigail Kauerauf

Undergraduate German Research Conference

In der Zeit nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg in Deutschland gab es Inflation, Wiederaufbau und ein allgemeines Schweigen nach dem Trauma des Krieges. Nach dem Krieg reflektiert die Kunstbewegung Expressionismus kulturell diese Stille. Im Gegensatz zum Nachkriegsexpressionismus entwickelte sich Neue Sachlichkeit in eine rivalisierende Kunstbewegung, indem sie die raue Realität der Weimarer Republik und des Anstiegs des Dritten Reichs aus. Die Bilder, die Gemälde, die Fotos und die Literatutr der Neuen Sachlichkeit ermöglichen ein Verständnis von gesellschaftlichen Aspekten in Deutschland zwischen den zwei Weltkriegen – ein Deutschland, welches über den Krieg klagte, sich aus der Gesellschaft absetzte, und ein Deutschland, welches …

Relational Power, Music, And Identity: The Emotional Efficacy Of Congregational Song, Nathan Myrick

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

Relational Power, Music, and Identity: The Emotional Efficacy of Congregational Song

The power of congregational song to unify (or divide) people along various lines is well documented. Yet, how this process of uniting or dividing is accomplished has proven necessarily difficult to document. This paper examines the complex and polyvalent factors that contribute to the meaningfulness of congregational music making, seeking to offer a synthetic, conceptual framework with which to engage this often murky milieu.

Employing interdisciplinary research techniques drawn from sociology, ritual studies, and ethnomusicology, I construct a conceptual framework with which to understand the profoundly formative power of …

Review Of Margaret Jacobs. White Mother To A Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, And The Removal Of Indigenous Children In The American West And Australia, 1880–1940, Baligh Ben Taleb

Department of History: Faculty Publications

Settler colonialism is a winner-take-all project, where the colonizer comes to stay, occupies the land permanently, and accepts nothing less than the removal of indigenous nations. Australia and the United States are two salient cases of settler colonies that became settler nations, where settlers used various tactics to dispossess indigenous peoples of their land. One of these brutal methods of colonization, according to Margaret Jacobs’ White Mother to a Dark Race, was the removal of indigenous children from their families and the breaking of the affective bonds that tied indigenous peoples together. Australia’s “protection” policies and the U.S. government’s “assimilation” …

Faith Formation In A Secular Age, Andrew Root

Faculty Publications

Many theologians have focused on faith formation as a means of countering the trend toward disengagement from Christian belief among people today, especially among young adults. Using the insights of Charles Taylor, Andrew Root argues that many such programs are inadequate to the task, because they do not go to the heart of the matter.