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Resounding Footnotes Understanding the Pre-Romantics Through the Footer
Get PDFEnglish Department Honors Thesis.Labels can be highly problematic metaphysical entities when they suggest and lead to the creation of unity where little exists. When exactly did the Romantic Period start and stop? Some individual works are certainly seminal to a period, but who were its progenitors and at what point does a collection of eccentricities constitute a new era? It seems to me to be the case that the only answer to these origin issues is to accept that there is an inexhaustible multiplicity of histories, aesthetic regimes, and critical lenses. By highlighting the tensions within the “Romantic” label, I do not wish to declare it impotent, but rather take a sympathetic look at the nomenclature and think about the philosophical problems I will encounter as I offer a revision for how we think of pre-romanticism. I will argue that while sentiment did in fact play a crucial role in the development of Romanticism, it did so as an adversary and not just as an aid. Through the adoption of the term “post-Augustan” as the new era nomenclature, we will free ourselves as 18th century scholars from the critical mindset of “overlooking” that “pre-Romantic” construal provides us.English DepartmentCollege of Arts and Scienc
Successful Practices in Culturally Responsive Educational Programming for Immigrant and ELL Parents
No full textTeaching and Learning Department capstone projectThis paper identifies the need to improve the academic achievement of immigrant and ELL children, particularly those living in conditions of poverty and proposes to do so by increasing parental involvement in children’s academic development by providing culturally responsive parent education programs. The research on the parent education programs targeted for immigrant and ELL parents is reviewed and synthesized in order to identify the culturally responsive components of successful parent education programs.Department of Teaching and LearningPeabody College of Education and Human Developmen
Updating the Theory of Collective Action and the Commons
No full textLecture on "The Commons and the theory of collective action"; Part of the Sustainability Project-sponsored graduate course "The Commons: History, Sustainability, Activism"Dr. Elinor Ostrom gave this lecture on the commons and the theory of collective action on March 1, 2012, which was held in the Black Cultural Center and open to the public. Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom was the first, and to date, the only woman to win the prize in economics, which has been awarded since 1969; Ostrom won in 2009. She was known for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons, and for developing -- along with her olleagues at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University -- the Institutional Analysis and Development framework, which enables them to analyze diversely structured markets, hierarchies, common-property regimes and local public economies using a common set of universal components. Dr. Ostrom passed away from pancreatic cancer June 12, 2012
Conflicting Visions for Water: Common Property or Private Good?
No full textDr. Peter H. Gleick gave this lecture on water, in general, with a focus on bottled water on Feb. 9, 2012, which was held in the Black Cultural Center and open to the public. Dr. Gleick is co-founder and president of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security in Oakland, California. His research and writing address the critical connections between water and human health, the hydrologic impacts of climate change, sustainable water use, privatization and globalization, and international conflicts over water resources. Dr. Gleick is an internationally recognized water expert and was named a MacArthur Fellow in October 2003 for his work. Gleick is the author of many scientific papers and seven books, including the biennial water report, "The World's Water", and the new "Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water".Lecture on water; Part of the Sustainability Project-sponsored graduate course "The Commons: History, Sustainability, Activism
Diane Sasson on Laura Holloway-Langford and Late Victorian Spirituality
No full textIn this podcast, Chris Benda, theological librarian at Vanderbilt Divinity Library, interviews Professor Diane Sasson about her book Yearning for the New Age: Laura Holloway-Langford and Late Victorian Spirituality
Final Report of The Sustainability Project
No full textThe 2011-2012 academic school year marked a series of speakers, courses, road trips,
films, and conferences, which together formed the Program in American Studies
Sustainability Project. Greater than the contribution of any individual event, the yearlong
proceedings heightened the atmosphere of environmental awareness on Vanderbilt’s
campus. Our ultimate goal for this year of programming was to create a campus-wide
conversation that would embolden Vanderbilt's efforts toward sustainability while
deepening our understanding of what we are working toward
Biography of Alfred H. Bartles
Get PDFA brief biography of the composer and Tennessee native Alfred H. Bartles[3] p. ; 28 cm.Blair School of Musi
Vanderbilt Hustler; September 20, 2012
No full textThe official student newspaper at Vanderbilt University
Atrocity, Entitlement, and Personhood in Property
No full textarticle published in law reviewFor a generation since Margaret Jane Radin’s classic article Property and Personhood, scholars have viewed personhood as a conception of property that affirms autonomy, dignity, and basic civil rights, a progressive alternative to traditional, more economically focused property theories. This article presents a fundamental challenge to personhood as a progressive approach to property. It shows that personhood claims often derive from violent and other harmful acts committed in the course of acquiring and owning property. This persistent and pervasive connection between personhood and violence — the “atrocity value” in property — upends core assumptions about the American property tradition and complicates the progressive social function of property law. This article explains why atrocity creates entitlement, drawing from social psychology and accounts of law and violence to show how violence can foster personhood. The article then explores the deep historical roots of atrocity within the American property tradition, which helped establish an abiding cultural value that encouraged personal identification with property. Finally, the article surveys how atrocity continues to foster personhood in an array of contexts involving common ownership, exclusion, and use. Ultimately, personhood emerges less as a progressive value in property than as a challenge that the law has had to negotiate. Property law is often successful in promoting progressive and cooperative goals because courts do not attempt to decide cases on the basis of a personhood value in property