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Against Monetary Functionalism: A Social Ontology Of Money, James Payne

Honors Program Theses

This paper explores the concepts of individualism and holism in social ontology through an analysis of the ontology of money by integrating insights from the Critical Realist tradition as well as the distinction between metaphysical grounds and anchors. In doing so it examines alternative explanations of money's ontology like the paradigmatic approach of John Searle. The results of the inquiry are then connected in relation to the models of social explanation in mainstream economics.

Libro De Actividades Por El Mes Nacional De La Salud Dental Infantil [Spanish Language Version: National Children's Dental Health Month Activity Book] (2020), American Dental Association Foundation

National Children's Dental Health Month

No abstract provided.

De Alcalá De Henares A Ciudad De México: Ciudades, Universidades Y Preservación Del Patrimono Histórico, Juan Fernandez Cantero

Theses and Dissertations--Hispanic Studies

This dissertation explores the relationship between the city of Alcalá de Henares, Spain and Mexico City, Mexico, in terms of the colonization-decolonization processes of the latter. First, Alcalá de Henares and a few years later, Mexico City, suffered profound urban transformations that led to the construction of the so-called City of God (Civitas Dei). The City of God was a utopia: an urban, philosophical and educational model conceived during the first stages of the early modern period. By following Saint Agustine’s precepts, in his book, The City of God Against the Pagans, cardinal Francisco Ximénez de Cisneros created …

Division, Rose Reyes

Vulcan Historical Review

p. 7

Frontier Building And Franciscan Missions: La Florida In The 17th Century, Steven Filoromo

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 18-22

"Let’S Get Rid Of All Of Them": No Gun Ri And The American Policy Of Shooting Refugees During The Korean War, Erin Marie Starr

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 45-56

Dr. Harriet Amos Doss, Vulcan Historical Review Staff

Vulcan Historical Review

p. 60

Fantasical Mockingbird, Rose Reyes

Vulcan Historical Review

p. 61

The Scottsboro Boys, Casey Dunsmore

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 81-85

Voicemail #1: To Madam C.J. Walker, Taylor Byas

Vulcan Historical Review

p. 90

Love Thy Neighbor, Caroline Myers

Vulcan Historical Review

p. 100

A Historical Essay On Black Women’S Gendered Racial Terror In The Us, Martez Files

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 101-106

Guide To The Kenneth M. Bilby Oral History Collection On Foundations Of Jamaican Popular Music, Columbia College Chicago

CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids

Sound recordings and accompanying logs of oral history interviews conducted by Dr. Kenneth M. Bilby with studio musicians and arrangers active in the creation of Jamaican popular music during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. The collection is open for on-site research use only and cannot be copied or distributed without the permission of Kenneth M. Bilby.

Guide To The Robert A. Harris Collection, Columbia College Chicago

CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids

Robert Allen Harris is a composer, conductor of choral music, and choir clinician. The collection reflects his work as a choir director and professor as well as his published and unpublished compositions, primarily of choral music, recordings, and works from other composers are also present.

Guide To The Alice Rosalee Marshall Collection Of Materials On The National Convention Of Gospel Choirs And Choruses (Ncgcc) And Other Gospel-Related Materials, Columbia College Chicago

CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids

Alice Rosalee Marshall attended many of the NCGCC events, as well as churches in the Chicago area. She recorded services, revivals, and special events at local churches and at the NCGCC conventions. The collection consists of sound recordings on audiocassette of these events, church services, and choir rehearsals and programs and material from the conventions.

Guide To The Guido Sinclair Collection, Columbia College Chicago

CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids

Guido Sinclair was born Sinclair Greenwell, Jr. A jazz saxophonist, he performed with many well-known jazz and rhythm and blues artists. In the late 1970s, he moved to Chicago, Illinois, and later moved downstate to Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. The collection contains original compositions, programs, and interviews, and recordings of performances of his original compositions.

Guide To The Theodore Charles Stone Collection, Columbia College Chicago

CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids

Theodore Charles Stone was a Chicago-based opera singer and journalist who served as president of both the National Association of Negro Musicians and Chicago Music Association. The collection provides insight into the African American operatic music scene throughout the 20th century.

Guide To The Eileen Southern Collection, Columbia College Chicago

CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids

The Eileen Southern Collection contains documents and information that was drawn upon by Southern in her published books and articles and in the journal she and her husband, Joseph Southern, published from 1973 until 1990, The Black Perspective in Music. Also included are papers from when she served as Department Chair of the Afro-American Studies Department at Harvard, as well as correspondence between W. C. Handy and William Grant Still.

View an online exhibit from Harvard University about Eileen Southern.

Crawl Space: Driving Over The Anthropocene In A Jeep, Michael Pesses

CGU Theses & Dissertations

The automobile has long been directly and indirectly connected to human conceptions of nature, yet few studies linger with the act of driving as a practice that contributes to how nature is experienced. I argue that a more nuanced understanding of automobility is necessary for any scholars who study both social practices and environmental sustainability. Following the work of the human geographer Doreen Massey, I explore how relations between humans and non-humans, the social and the natural, ideology and practice work together to produce places specific to space and time. I also argue that American automobility is not simply transportation, …

Symbolic Franco: Spain’S Dictator In The American Conservative Imagination, 1950-1980, Sean Patrick Buchanan

CGU Theses & Dissertations

In the postwar period in the United States, conservative political ideology shifted its primary focus from isolationism and New Deal opposition to strict anti-communism. The conservatism of the 1920s through the 1940s, under the leadership of Robert Taft, would give way to a more modern conservatism influenced by a variety of Catholic and anti-communist intellectuals. As a result of the effort to demonstrate fervent anti-communist sentiments, modern conservatives highlighted and supported anti-communist leaders and figures across the US and worldwide. One particular anti-communist leader that American conservatives openly supported was the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco.

The new catholic conservatives identified …

The Emergence Of Modernity In The Early Aerospace Industry 1950-1970, Lachlan Warwick Sands

CGU Theses & Dissertations

The literature regarding the management of science during the early aerospace industry between 1950 and 1970, and more specifically the period of Lockheed’s transition from aeronautics into aerospace, is sparse and the subject is insufficiently studied. In this dissertation I examine how the practice of science changed in the United States in the decades after World War II. The scientific endeavor in the United States manifested a transformation from an enlightenment-based set of norms to a new modern ethos. For all intents and purposes, the traditional intellectual boundaries between basic science, applied science, and technology dissolved across the majority of …

"Festmachen": Männliche Zauberpraktiken Als Präventivmedicin, B. Ann Tlusty

Faculty Contributions to Books

This essay is part of a larger project examining martial magic – that is, masculine spells aimed at enlisting supernatural powers to become better fighters – as it was practiced by men in Germany between about 1500 and 1900. Here the focus is specifically on men who attempted to make themselves invulnerable using martial spells and blessings. Like many early modern magical practices, martial magic had religious overtones and often involved the abuse of sacred objects; at the same time, it drew heavily on ideas from the field of medicine.

May Day: The Green Vision Of Chicago’S Gilded Age Anarchists, Colin Fisher

History: Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Conflicts Over Local Beliefs: "Feudal Superstitions" As Intangible Cultural Heritage In Contemporary China, Ziying You

All Faculty Articles

This article addresses conflicts over local beliefs in both discourse and practice in contemporary China, especially in the process of protecting local beliefs as China’s national intangible cultural heritage (ICH) in the twenty-first century. These local beliefs were stigmatized as “feudal superstitions” in revolution- ary China and were revived in public since the reform era started in 1978. With influence from UNESCO, the project to protect ICH has spread all over China since 2004, and many local beliefs are promoted as China’s national ICH. Drawing on my ethnographic case study of “receiving aunties (Ehuang and Nüying)” in Hongtong County, Shanxi …

Experiences Of Teaching In Transition: The Move Online, Spring 2020, Matt Schumann

History Faculty Publications

Anyone who experienced the transition to online course delivery in Spring 2020 probably had an opinion on it. Twenty-nine respondents completed this 20-minute survey on technical, emotional, pedagogical, and administrative aspects of the transition, including both faculty and students. The data gathered here offers an enduring testimony of their lived experience, and may inform a variety of pedagogical research.

Secularism In The Arab World: Contexts, Ideas And Consequences, Aziz Al-Azmeh, David Bond

In Translation: Modern Muslim Thinkers

Explores secularism and secularisation in Arab societies since the mid-19th century.

This book is a translation of Aziz al-Azmeh’s seminal work Al-'Ilmaniya min mandhur mukhtalif that was first published in Beirut in 1992. Both celebrated and criticised for its reflections on Arab secularisation and secularism in the modern history of the Arab World, it is the only study to date to approach its subject as a set of historical changes which affected the regulation of the social, political and cultural order, and which permeated the concrete workings of society, rather than as an ideological discussion framed from the outset by …

Lives Of Hindu And Buddhist Saints, Ronald S. Green

Philosophy and Religious Studies

A study of lives of individuals related to Hinduism and Buddhism, who are alleged to be “saints” in stories, biographies and autobiographies. These life accounts are compared to archetypes found in canonical sources including the Ramayana, the Bhagavata Purana, and Buddhist Jataka. The class considers the genre of religious biography/hagiography in such terms as intended audience and practical usage of the texts. Students will examine stories about ancient and modern Hindus and Buddhists from India, China, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia and America.

Guide To The Daniel Bernard Roumain Collection, Columbia College Chicago

CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids

Daniel Bernard Roumain is a classically trained violinist, composer, performer, educator, and bandleader whose work can weaves together funk, hip-hop, classical music, and rock. The collection holds scores of his compositions, programs, photographs, and other documents; some material held includes his work while a student at Vanderbilt University and the University of Michigan.

“Destination Preservation”: Community-Based Cultural Heritage Survey Results, Sarah Collins, Andrew Elder, Carolyn M. Goldstein, Joanne M. Riley

Joseph P. Healey Library Publications

During summer 2019, University Archives and Special Collections (UASC) in the Joseph P. Healey Library at the University of Massachusetts Boston conducted a survey about participatory archiving, or the process of collecting and preserving materials in partnership with their community members. UASC collected survey responses from 208 respondents representing 33 states and the District of Columbia.

The results of the survey will inform the development of an online resource to guide libraries of all kinds and sizes through the process of hosting a participatory archiving event. The project is made possible by a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of …

The Battle Of Alesia, Luke Matias

A with Honors Projects

Report on the Battle of Alesia fought in 52 B.C., featuring explanations of the situation of the Gallic Wars and context leading up to the battle.