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Matthew McKeever, \u3ci\u3eProfessor of Sociology\u3c/i\u3e
No full textWolfinger, N.H., & McKeever, M. (2024). Thanks for Nothing: The Economics of Single Motherhood since 1980. Oxford University Press.https://scholarship.haverford.edu/featuredfac/1188/thumbnail.jp
Ying Li: Traveling Light
No full textSolo exhibition on view at Nada East Broadway, New York, NY from January 9-February 1, 2024
American Color Print Society Annual Member Exhibition [group exhibition]
No full textGroup exhibition held November 3-21, 2024, at the Plastic Club, Philadelphia, PA
Print Philly 2024 [group exhibition]
No full textGroup exhibition held April 20, 2024 at the Philadelphia Print Consortium, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
En parler, c\u27est terminer la guerre. : \u3ci\u3eAlgériennes 1954–1962\u3c/i\u3e de Meralli et Deloupy ou quand les femmes sortent du silence
No full textElemental composition and potential toxicity of the riverine macrophyte \u3ci\u3ePodostemum ceratophyllum\u3c/i\u3e Michx. reflects land use in eastern North America
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1570-1700: Challenges to Fortune and the Emergence of Chance
No full textThe seventeenth century has been seen as a transitional period for chance: the notion had been elaborated upon in the previous century but had yet to be enriched by the scientific theories that emerged during the next, despite major breakthroughs in probability theory. Chance was what escaped divine or human intentionality, and attempts were made to explain it, if not to eliminate it, using old intellectual paradigms (providentialism) or new ones (rationalism). Fictionalised and addressed in literature, chance seems to have been seen not only as a factor of coherence but also as a vector of tension.
The chapter shows that fictional treatments of chance are not only the reflection or the sounding board for the ideas of their time, and that they occupy more than an ancillary position, offering perspectives that are both critical and complex. Studying narrative motifs and singular cases arising from various literary genres highlights the efficacy and originality of fictional treatments of chance in the seventeenth century