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Berea Mccoll Membership Records, Berea United Methodist Church, Mccoll

Methodist Local Church Records

No abstract provided.

John W. "Bud" Fowler In Colorado, California, And Ohio, Mark E. Eberle

Monographs

John W. Jackson Jr., better known as John W. “Bud” Fowler (1858–1913), was a Black baseball player, captain, manager, umpire, and promoter. His baseball career spanned at least 33 years, from 1877 to 1909. In 1878, Fowler became the first known Black baseball player in the major or minor leagues, and he went on to play for a total of 18 minor league clubs with rosters composed predominantly of white ballplayers during the era of racial segregation. He played for numerous teams from New England to southern California and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. Consequently, he …

“‘Normal Is What We Make It, Right?’ Ordinary Aesthetics And Uncanny Twists In Contemporary Tv Series.", Jeroen Gerrits

Comparative Literature Faculty and Student Scholarship

Contemporary TV shows, characterized by their complex narrative form, are designed to reveal the simple. They enable characters and viewers alike to discover the ordinary by coupling the everyday to an underworld populated by criminals, demons, vampires, and other kinds of “lowlifes.” I will argue here that the structure of the Möbius strip, or Escher twist, draws a particular aesthetic appeal at the intersection of these worlds. I call these twists uncanny in the Cavellian sense that the underworld, looking strangely familiar, has the capacity of making the ordinary look unfamiliar, inherently strange, and unstable. Rather than allowing us to …

Transhuman Bodies: A Survey Of Three Avenues Of Societal Critique From Literature With Cyborg, Android, And Clone Subjects, Wesley Sanders

Student Theses and Dissertations

This thesis seeks to explore three different avenues of societal critique using works in Science Fiction which have as their subjects cyborgs, androids, or clones. In the thesis, I begin by addressing the unique way SF literature comments on gender politics through the use of objectified cyborgs and androids, typically with male creators and would be male masters. Following this, I explore the concept of a semiotic liminality surrounding cyborgs and androids and illustrate how that liminality complicates conceptions of what constitutes a living creature. Finally, the thesis shifts to the commodification of the cyborg where I attempt to illustrate …

Guest Artist Recital Series: Cory Mixdorf, Trombone; Miroslava Panayotova, Piano; September 13, 2023, Cory Mixdorf, Miroslava Panayotova

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
September 13, 2023
Wednesday Evening
7:30 p.m.

Incompatibilist Arguments And Compatibilist Rebuttals, Wai Sing Fook

Lingnan Theses (MPhil & PhD)

The issue concerning the compatibility between free will and determinism has long been a hotly debated topic in philosophy. The debate matters because free will is believed to be intimately related to moral responsibility. My research aims at providing a picture of the landscape of one philosophical position on this debate --- incompatibilism. Incompatibilism is the doctrine that claims free will and moral responsibility are incompatible with determinism. A major part of this thesis is a critical survey of three of the most influential (types of) arguments for incompatibilism; they are the Consequence Argument, the Transfer of Nonresponsibility Argument, and …

Does Shakespeare Believe In Sudden Conversions For His Villains?, Robert B. Pierce

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.

“My All The World”: Constance, Motherhood, And Petrarchanism In Shakespeare’S King John, Anne Mcilhaney

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.

“Hell Is Empty And All The Devils Are Here”: Westworld’S New Prospero And His Isle Of Calibans, Jared S. Johnson

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.

A Double Time In Romeo And Juliet: Juliet’S Rapid Maturity, David George

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.

“She Never Yet Was Foolish That Was Fair”: Whiteness As Erasure In William Shakespeare’S Othello, Kathryn Croft

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.

Introduction, Emily Isaacson

Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

No abstract provided.

The Library Wants To Kill You: Places Of Information As Battleground And Sanctum In Halo, Mackenzie Streissguth

Proceedings from the Document Academy

Video games are often a widespread access point for studying information-seeking behaviors, as a large portion of the population (and its youth) play them. Understanding how real-world analogues, like libraries, are portrayed in games can give us insights into how they mirror conflicts of reality. By examining the depictions of information systems and accompanying curators in Halo: Combat Evolved (2001), we can begin to investigate the perceptions of libraries and their antagonism in ludonarratives. Resulting analysis reveals multiple layers of archival hostility that are ultimately upended in later iterations in the game series, changing the nature of the library itself. …

Data Lost, Forbidden Or Controlled?: The Archivists Of Horizon Forbidden West, Ashley Lanni

Proceedings from the Document Academy

This paper discusses the archival and information usage practices of characters within the 2022 video game Horizon Forbidden West. It considers how science fiction settings, particularly those based in post-apocalyptic futures with different technology and information practices, can help us reflect on how contemporary society interacts with information and determines its use. Furthermore, the paper explores the social responsibility informational professionals have toward the world around them through contrasting various groups and characters within the game, positing that the main group's actions are the most morally lauded within the game's narrative.

"I’M Mixing Comic Book Canon And Mcu Canon To Suit My Own Needs": Information Sharing As Community Building In A Fandom In Flux, Alison Harding

Proceedings from the Document Academy

Utilizing the rapidly changing landscape of the Marvel fandom on fanfiction archive Archive of Our Own (AO3) as a research site, this paper presents the findings of a combined autoethnography and digital ethnography of the Falcon and the Winter Soldier community. The work explores the ways in which a fandom community builds itself through information sharing. While the study garnered many findings, this paper primarily focuses on how tags are vital to crafting community identity, while also creating barriers to entry within the Falcon and the Winter Soldier fandom.

The results show that while the broader Marvel fandom can be …

This Sounds Like An Episode Of The X-Files: Analyzing How Twitter Users Interpreted The Covid-19 Pandemic Through The Lens Of Sci-Fi Television, Nicole Neece

Proceedings from the Document Academy

While science fiction has a long-standing habit of predicting future technologies, The X-Files’ focus on anatomical manipulations as a means of control resulted in a plotline that inadvertently mirrored the COVID-19 pandemic which occurred a few years later. The proximity to such a similar, real-world situation resulted in some audiences interpreting their own experiences through the framework of sci-fi television, demonstrating that the discursive environment crafted through the text of The X-Files is continually applicable to contemporary anxieties and paranoia even after the show finished airing. In this article, I argue that The X-Files’ critiques of real-world abuses of …

Fandom, Fanzines, And Archiving Science Fiction Fannish History, Karen Hellekson

Proceedings from the Document Academy

This brief history of science fiction (sf) fandom and fanzines focuses on the creation of a zine culture crucial to the split between written sf and media fandom; it also addresses archival holdings of sf and media zines dating from the 1930s on.

Whittle, Joseph Merle, B. 1933 (Mss 756), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 756. Correspondence and papers of Joseph M. Whittle, a Grayson County attorney who served as U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky from 1986-1993.

Bells Abbeville Charge Conference 2022, Bells United Methodist Church, Abbeville

Methodist Local Church Records

No abstract provided.

Bells Abbeville Property Records, Bells United Methodist Church, Abbeville

Methodist Local Church Records

No abstract provided.

Bells Abbeville Church Council Minutes, 2018-2020, Bells United Methodist Church, Abbeville

Methodist Local Church Records

No abstract provided.

Bells Abbeville Church Council Minutes, 2014-2018, Bells United Methodist Church, Abbeville

Methodist Local Church Records

No abstract provided.

Bells Abbeville Church Council Minutes, 2020-2022, Bells United Methodist Church, Abbeville

Methodist Local Church Records

No abstract provided.

Bells Abbeville Membership February 2023, Bells United Methodist Church, Abbeville

Methodist Local Church Records

No abstract provided.

Is Ai An Actor?, Emily Wirkus

AI Assignment Library

Students are taught a system of marking scripts and monologues using a series of steps to highlight the flow of action, including shifts in objectives and tactics (what the character wants, and the active language describing how they hope to get what they want). Students are challenged to mark a monologue themselves using these criteria taught in class. Students will then upload their monologue into ChatGPT and ask it to score the monologue using the same criteria. Students will compare and contrast the two monologues and evaluate what ChatGPT created that was useful, and what ChatGPT may have missed. Students …

Generative Text Ai: Towards A Personal Ethics Of Use, Merie Kirby

AI Assignment Library

This assignment follows readings and discussions on generative text and art AI, and gives students the opportunity to articulate their own position on the use of these platforms.

In-Class Debate On Chatgpt, Chris Gable

AI Assignment Library

Students are assigned into one of three debate teams, and will argue for, against, or a middle ground on the issue of using AI and ChatGPT in Higher Education. They present their positions in-class, cross-examine each other, and write a final reflection on the experience.

Ai Costume Design Assignment, Kylie Mcdonald

AI Assignment Library

I used this rubric in class to go over the understanding of Chat GPT and how we can use it for costume design. I emphasized that Chat GPT is generated and not reliable in the search for knowledge but can be used to start the creative process. In my assignment, I have created two random picker wheels that the students use to get a character and a play. They use Chat GPT to give them the summary of the play they were randomly assigned using the voice of the character they were assigned. The goal of the assignment is to …

Guest Artist Recital Series: David Zerkel, Tuba; Liz Ames, Piano; September 12, 2023, David Zerkel, Liz Ames

School of Music Programs

Kemp Recital Hall
September 12, 2023
Tuesday Evening
7:30 p.m.

Narrative, Genre, And Interpretation In Achilles Tatius, Theodore Macdonald

Arts & Sciences Graduate Student Theses and Dissertations

Achilles Tatius has long puzzled his readers. This study demonstrates how careful attention to Leucippe and Clitophon’s narrative structure, generic discourse, and thematization of interpretation helps us to better understand not only this work but also the genre of the Greek novel. The first chapter shows how the opening frame of Leucippe and Clitophon “frames” the whole of Clitophon’s embedded narration, by rehearsing the novel’s narrative structure and characterizing Achilles Tatius’ strategies for engaging with his literary predecessors. The second chapter situates Achilles Tatius’ approach to closure within that of the genre, revealing the close link between narrative manipulation and …