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If Buying Isn\u27t Owning, Piracy Isn\u27t Theft: Arguments For and Against Media Piracy for Creators and Consumers
No full textIf Buying Isn\u27t Owning, Piracy Isn\u27t Theft: Arguments For and Against Media Piracy for Creators and Consumers
Presentation by Rich Clewell
12/11/202
2/05/2025 Departmental Recital MM4AD Student Performances
No full textMusic Major For A Day - Departmental Recital
MM4AD Student Performances
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 4:00 PM
Berrong Music Hal
2/14/2025 SWOSU Jazz Festival Count Basie Clinic
No full text2/14/2025 SWOSU Jazz Festival Count Basie Clini
Winter 2025
Get PDFFrom the President
Dear Southwestern Oklahoma State University (SWOSU) alumni, emeriti, & friends –
I hope that this issue of Echoes From The Hill finds you and yours well. Here on the SWOSU Hilltop we are excited as the Spring 2025 semester is underway!
This latest edition of Echoes highlights the happy times we shared together last Fall during our 2024 Homecoming and our 2024 Charitable Hunt! You will also read about our 2024 Athletic Hall of Fame honorees and learn about the many achievements of SWOSU graduates engaged in a wide variety of industries, causes, and sectors throughout the world. As always, we also are honored to use the pages of Echoes to recognize and thank our generous philanthropic partners who have invested their time and treasure in strengthening SWOSU’s work.
At SWOSU, the success of our students remains the core aim of all that we do—because of your investment, your involvement, and your input, we can make a positive impact on their lives and learning. Keep close, keep in touch, and GO DAWGS!
In SWOSU, Diana R. “Diane” Lovell, PhD President, Southwestern Oklahoma State Universit
1/14/2025 Philip Martinson, Trombone and Christopher Evatt, Piano - Faculty Recital
No full textFaculty Recital
Dr. Philip Martinson, trombone
Dr. Christopher Evatt, piano
Berrong Recital Hall, 5:00 p.m. Tuesday, January 14, 202
An Aspirational Cultus? Tolkien Fandom at the Borders of Belief
Get PDFThis paper draws upon fan studies, sociology of religion, and J.R.R. Tolkien’s theory of sub-creation to theorize the religious implications of Enyalië (Quenya: remembrance), the emotionally charged graveside memorial which closes the U.K. Tolkien Society’s annual gathering in Oxford. Employing a framework of religion as sacred worldbuilding, the author argues that Enyalië is best understood as the “secondary liturgy” of the “secondary faith community” that is Tolkien fandom. The paper concludes that Tolkien’s fiction, his community of devoted fans, and the lineaments of religious ritual have combined, in Enyalië, to produce a fan practice which troubles the boundaries between the sacred and the secular, the world(s) of fantasy literature and the world(s) of everyday experience
“Perilous and Fair” in “A Bleak, Barren Land”: A Feminist Responds to Dylan Lee Henderson’s Essay
Get PDFDylan Lee Henderson’s 2023 essay in Mythlore (vol. 42, no. 1) titled “A Bleak, Barren Land’: Women and Fertility in The Lord of the Rings,” claims that “many feminist scholars [since 1971] have condemned Tolkien’s depiction of women as inadequate and denounced Tolkien himself as a misogynist” (88). In my response, I argue that Henderson’s essay reduces a fifty-plus year history of scholarship (much of it by feminists) exploring the complex, contradictory issues of Tolkien’s female characters to a single negative stereotype. I described that stereotype in my 2015 essay in Perilous and Fair (Croft and Donovan) in my conclusion which argued it was more than time to “move beyond the perceived need to defend Tolkien (whether the author, the body of work, or the human being) from the outdated stereotype of ‘feminist critics’ who exist only to rend and destroy” (39). In addition, while Henderson cites a number of essays to support his point, I would encourage those interested in the topic to read the original sources for themselves to get a better sense not only of the scholarship on Tolkien’s female characters
\u3ci\u3eMapping a Sense of Humor: Narrative and Space in Terry Pratchett\u27s Discworld Novels\u3c/i\u3e by Daniel Lüthi
Get PDFEvolution Podcast Project: Evolution, Coevolution, and Symbiotic Relationships
No full textTitle: Evolution Podcast Project Teacher: Dr. Marcella Santos Course: Spring 2025 Evolution (BIOL-4853) Recording Month: April 2025
Sarah Romine and Kara McPherson – Evolution, Coevolution, and Symbiotic Relationship