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Villette, Female Political Agency, and the French Revolution of 1848
No full textThis essay reads Charlotte Brontë\u27s Villette (1853) as a response to questions about women\u27s public agency that were raised by the French Revolution of 1848, in which women played prominent roles. The actress Rachel, the inspiration for Villette\u27s Vashti, became the most notorious female activist of the Revolution when she performed La Marseillaise in support France\u27s Second Republic. As I demonstrate, Brontë engages directly with Victorian journalistic accounts of these performances. Here, and in other episodes focused on women leaders, such as \u27Madame Beck\u27 and \u27The Cleopatra\u27, Brontë seeks to expose the linguistic and iconographic conventions around female political power that diminish women\u27s agency in the process of representing it. Brontë\u27s awareness of the pervasiveness and intractability of these conventions explains the novel\u27s final scepticism about women\u27s ability to exercise political power. Although Villette\u27s protagonist, Lucy Snowe, indulges in fantasies of political power, she satisfies these fantasies not in the public realm but in a politicized private realm, where she re-enacts Napoleonic-era political conflicts with her imperious lover, M Paul. My aim in analysing Brontë\u27s engagement with 1848 is to understand Villette\u27s politicization of romance. For Brontë, I argue, women\u27s exclusion from the political is tantamount to their exclusion from history, and Lucy\u27s strategic political re-enactments function as both critique of and compensation for this exclusion
The great auto de fe at santiago de los caballeros, or how to achieve historical empathy with cultural heritage through virtual reality
No full textThe project The Great Auto de Fe in Santiago de los Caballeros consisted of an interactive virtual recreation of this historical event that occurred on March 11, 1554 in the city today known as Antigua, Guatemala. A binational research team from Mexico and the U.S. made up of historians, architects and animation engineers, in the space of five weeks, created the historical settings, characters and interactivity necessary to offer the public this immersive experience. The project was presented within the framework of an international exhibition The images of the Maya gods in the 16th century: The meeting of two worlds, located at the Centro de Formacion para la Cooperacion Española in Antigua, the site of a former 17th century Jesuit College. This article presents the details of the workflow used, the social and cultural implications observed, as well as the results of the satisfaction surveys applied to approximately 80% of the users who had access to this experience
Islands in the Sun: Lawfare and Great-Power Competition in the Indo-Pacific
No full textThis thesis examines the U.S.-Japan Mutual Defense Treaty and its future considering the recent developments in the international security environment. The 2018 National Defense Strategy brought back an emphasis on Great Power Competition, fundamentally transforming the role of U.S. alliances to address new challenges. In the 2021 budget, the Pacific Deterrence Initiative (PDI) has prioritized the People’s Republic of China as the number one pacing threat to theUnited States, drastically shifting international focus away from the Middle East and towards East Asia. In conjunction with funding new capabilities through the PDI, the U.S. will need to conceive new legal doctrines to govern how it competes in this new strategic environment. The rise of gray zone activities, competition that occurs in between the traditional binary of war and peace, has elevated the significance of the laws governing military operations. China in particular has been refining its gray zone capabilities in the East and South China Seas, creating new military, political, and economic challenges for the U.S. and Japan. Addressing these challenges will be critical in managing conflict, deterring adversaries, and establishing nuclear stability in the Indo-Pacific
Accessibility as a Foundation for an Equitable Digital Civic Engagement Infrastructure
No full textIndividuals and organizations in both higher education and civic engagement have become increasingly aware of their obligation to foster a sense of belonging among students and support historically under-represented populations within their work. As part of this effort, we argue the civic engagement infrastructure—a term we use to capture the full range of organizations and associated resources directed toward improving civic engagement within higher education that stem from actors both on and off campus—must pay more attention to digital accessibility. We document this need by establishing the degree higher education institutions rely on off-campus organizations and resources in civic engagement programming as well as campus’ legal and ethical obligations to provide accessible digital content to students. To assess the current status of digital accessibility with the civic engagement infrastructure, we performed accessibility audits on the websites of eleven organizations that contribute in varied ways to voter mobilization efforts on college campuses. Our findings reveal accessibility barriers in the content and embedded into the page templates used for these sites. We close with a discussion of the responsibility content creators, content sharers, and decision makers have to meet accessibility standards; how on- and off-campus actors fit into these roles; and, provide guidance on how to move forward with this work
Review of The World: A Brief Introduction by Richard Haass (New York, NY: Penguin Press, 2020)
No full textA review of The World: A Brief Introduction by Richard Haass (2020
Accounting Implications of Blockchain: A Hyperledger Composer Use Case for Intangible Assets
No full textBlockchain technology, commonly associated with bitcoin cryptocurrency, attracted large amounts of investment, attention, and analysis. In addition to attracting the attention of investors, speculators, and regulators, implications for financial practitioners and organizations are increasingly apparent. Financial transactions, property transfers, audit and attestation services, supply chains, and numerous other areas of industry are continuing to integrate blockchains into operations. This paper bridges the gap between the technical concept of blockchain and relevance to the accounting field. By distilling technical components of blockchain into understandable components, practitioners and other users of this research are poised to better understand, explain, and apply salient concepts. This paper proposes a Hyperledger Composer use case method through which practitioners and researchers can familiarize themselves with blockchain concepts using an interactive demonstration of an accounting integration for intangible assets. Addressing the growing need for increased awareness, this paper builds a necessary skillset with blockchain technology and applications
A PheWAS Model of Autism Spectrum Disorder
No full textChildren with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) exhibit a wide diversity in type, number, and severity of social deficits as well as communicative and cognitive difficulties. It is a challenge to categorize the phenotypes of a particular ASD patient with their unique genetic variants. There is a need for a better understanding of the connections between genotype information and the phenotypes to sort out the heterogeneity of ASD. In this study, single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and phenotype data obtained from a simplex ASD sample are combined using a PheWAS-inspired approach to construct a phenotype-phenotype network. The network is clustered, yielding groups of etiologically related phenotypes. These clusters are analyzed to identify relevant genes associated with each set of phenotypes. The results identified multiple discriminant SNPs associated with varied phenotype clusters such as ASD aberrant behavior (self-injury, compulsiveness and hyperactivity), as well as IQ and language skills. Overall, these SNPs were linked to 22 significant genes. An extensive literature search revealed that eight of these are known to have strong evidence of association with ASD. The others have been linked to related disorders such as mental conditions, cognition, and social functioning.Clinical relevance— This study further informs on connections between certain groups of ASD phenotypes and their unique genetic variants. Such insight regarding the heterogeneity of ASD would support clinicians to advance more tailored interventions and improve outcomes for ASD patients
The Introductory Psychology Census: A National Study
No full textNearly all undergraduate psychology programs in the United States (99%) offer an Introductory Psychology (IP) course (Norcross et al., 2016). Yet, there is a surprising dearth of information relating to the learning outcomes and course designs employed in IP, nor is information readily available regarding the training and support of those who teach it. Over the past 12 years, American Psychological Association (APA) working groups have made recommendations intended to strengthen IP but no empirical data are available concerning the efficacy or impact of those recommendations. This national census of IP instructors, conducted by APA’s Introductory Psychology Initiative (IPI), surveyed instructors of the course nationally to investigate how past IP recommendations have been implemented and to develop a baseline understanding of the current state and structure of the IP course. The census was structured in four parts, paralleling the four subgroups of the IPI: Student Learning Outcomes and Assessment; Course Models and Design; Teacher Training and Development; and Student Success and Transformation. We provide an overview of who teaches the course, how it is taught, how instructors’ teaching skills are developed and supported, and the extent to which evidence-based learning strategies are incorporated into the IP course
Anthony Trollope: Novelist of the Democratic Revolution
No full textAnthony Trollope uses the characters and drama of his semi-political Palliser novels to pursue the ends of Alexis de Tocqueville\u27s political science in a lighthearted yet serious way. Describing himself as an advanced conservative Liberal, Trollope claims that his political theory is expressed most fully in the Palliser novels. Preoccupied with the phenomenon Tocqueville designates the democratic revolution, the novels emphasize the historical tendency towards equality, consider its social and political implications, and intimate how traditionally aristocratic England might respond to it. While he endorses the justice of the democratic revolution, Trollope shows that it is accompanied by such disadvantages as a decline in human excellence and greatness. Realistic depictions of character arouse sympathy for his view that by adopting a posture of prudent liberalism toward the advance of equality, the English could both reform their aristocratic institutions and rely on those institutions to mitigate the excesses of democracy