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Ophelia: A Prism (2023) Image 16
No full textOphelia: A PrismFebruary 2-5, 2023 Irene and Alan Wurtzel Theater, Oberlin College
By Mieko Gavia \u2711Directed by H. Harvey \u2711
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Ophelia: A Prism (2023) Image 18
No full textOphelia: A PrismFebruary 2-5, 2023 Irene and Alan Wurtzel Theater, Oberlin College
By Mieko Gavia \u2711Directed by H. Harvey \u2711
More information about this productionhttps://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/images_ophelia/1017/thumbnail.jp
Stonewallin\u27 (2023) Image 04
No full textStonewallin\u27April 13-16, 2023Irene and Alan Wurtzel Theater, Oberlin College
Written and directed by Kari Barclay
More information about this productionhttps://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/images_stonewallin/1003/thumbnail.jp
Stonewallin\u27 (2023) Image 09
No full textStonewallin\u27April 13-16, 2023Irene and Alan Wurtzel Theater, Oberlin College
Written and directed by Kari Barclay
More information about this productionhttps://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/images_stonewallin/1008/thumbnail.jp
Revitalizing Legacy Biblical Archaeology Collections The Case of the Oberlin Near East Study Collection
No full textBiblical archaeology collections at colleges and universities are typically remnants of an earlier era of collecting and teaching. These collections nonetheless still hunker, dusty and underused, in many university closets today. What larger stories do their histories reveal, and what good are legacy teaching collections now? In this article a recent Oberlin College graduate and one of his college faculty mentors team up to address these questions and offer practical advice for revitalizing legacy biblical archaeology collections, using the Oberlin Near East Study Collection (ONESC) as a case study
Implications of the loess record for Holocene climate and human settlement in Heye Catchment, Jiuzhaigou, eastern Tibetan Plateau, Sichuan, China
No full textWe examine the Holocene loess record in the Heye Catchment on the margins of the Tibetan Plateau (TP) and China Loess Plateau (CLP) to determine: the region to which the Heye Catchment climate is more similar; temporal change in wind strength; and modification of the loess record by mass wasting and human activity. Luminescence and radiocarbon dating demonstrate loess deposited in two periods: \u3e11-8.6 ka and \u3c5.1 ka. The 8.6-5.1 ka depositional hiatus, which coincides with the Mid-Holocene Climatic Optimum, is more similar to the loess deposition cessation in the TP than to the loess deposition deceleration in the CLP. Grain-size analysis suggests the Heye loess is a mixture of at least three different grain-size distributions and that it may derive from multiple sources. A greater proportion of coarse sediments in the older loess may indicate stronger winds compared with the more recent depositional period. Gravel incorporated into younger loess most likely comes from bedrock exposed in slump scarps. Human occupation of the catchment, for which the earliest evidence is 3.4 ka, postdates the onset of slumping; thus the slumps may have created a livable environment for humans
Tipu and the Turks: An Islamicate Embassy in the Age of British Expansion
No full textIn 1786, several hundred subjects of Tipu Sultan (r. 1782-99), ruler of the kingdom of Mysore in southern India, travelled to the Ottoman Empire on a diplomatic mission. This essay revisits the embassy\u27s travels, and travails, across Eurasia and the Indian Ocean by drawing attention to a rich cache of administrative documents. I suggest that this collection, hitherto unexamined, can illuminate some significant aspects of diplomatic conduct and procedure in Islamicate Eurasia, yet underexplored. The essay accordingly highlights such overlooked themes as the bureaucratic complexities that were involved in long-distance ambassadorial tours, the role ceremonials played in elite intercourse, and the myriad ways in which material culture mediated interstate exchanges. While its significance lies also in how it decentres a dominant scholarly focus on encounters between Europe and its others, scrutiny of this collection, I additionally argue, can enhance historical understanding of how reciprocal relations between Islamicate polities transformed due to growing European influence. As contemporary configurations of imperial power changed in both South Asia and the Middle East, the Mysore-Ottoman embassy hence at once reflected and anticipated the advent of European-and more specifically, British-hegemony in non-European diplomatic contexts
Your Honor\u27s Misdeeds: The Consequences of Judicial Scandal on Specific and Diffuse Support
No full textLegitimacy is a bulwark for courts; even when judges engage in controversial or disagreeable behavior, the public tends to acquiesce. Recent studies identify several threats to the legitimacy of courts, including polarization and attacks by political elites. This article contributes to the scholarly discourse by exploring a previously unconsidered threat: scandal, or allegations of personal misbehavior. We argue that scandals can undermine confidence in judges as virtuous arbiters and erode broad public support for the courts. Using survey experiments, we draw on real-world judicial controversies to evaluate the impact of scandal on specific support for judicial actors and their rulings and diffuse support for the judiciary. We demonstrate that scandals erode individual support but find no evidence that institutional support is diminished. These findings may ease normative concerns that isolated indiscretions by controversial jurists may deplete the vast reservoir of goodwill that is foundational to the courts
Things are looking up: Vertical eye gaze in the environment affects perceptions of emotional valence in sad faces
No full textSuccessful social interactions depend on the ability to quickly evaluate emotional facial expressions. Research has shown that head orientation and eye gaze are informative affective signals. Across four experiments, we explored a novel eye-gaze cue grounded in a consideration of English spatial metaphors, where up connotes positive feelings ( I\u27m flying high ) and down connotes negative feelings ( I\u27m feeling low ). Participants either rated the valence of or categorised a set of sad and happy faces gazing in different directions along the vertical axis. We expected to find a spatial-valence congruency effect, where valence ratings and reaction times would be moderated by whether or not the face was gazing in a metaphor-consistent direction. The results partially supported this hypothesis: sad faces gazing upwards (as opposed to downwards) were rated as happier or more positive (Experiments 1 and 2) and classified slower (Experiments 3 and 4). This was true whether the looking direction was cued by eye gaze in front-view faces (Experiment 1) or by the orientation of profile faces (Experiments 2-4). In addition, this spatial-valence congruency effect was only reliable in the environmental frame of reference (Experiment 4). We found little evidence for a comparable effect of gaze direction on judgements of happy faces, suggesting that eye gaze along the vertical axis may differentially affect judgements of approach and avoidance-related emotional expressions. This has implications for the inferences scholars draw about underlying cognitive representations from observations of conventional metaphorical language