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Concurrent Session 4-C
No full textPiously Remembering the Dead Lucas Dunst, Master\u27s student, Department of Philosophy, Georgia State University Contemporary arguments in favor of an ethical duty to remember the dead, have focused their attention on the surviving preferences of the dead. These arguments begin from the observation that most people prefer to be remembered after they die, and then argue that these preferences survive death and impose a duty of fulfillment on the living. This version of the duty is directed toward the antemortem person; the duty to remember the dead is a duty owed to the person who was once alive on account of the preferences that they held while they were alive. For this reason, the duty is often classified as a duty of justice since it has to do with the fair treatment of other living, or at least formerly living, members of one’s community. I argue that this approach to defending an ethical duty to remember the dead is misguided. When the duty is grounded in the preferences of the antemortem person, the existence of dead people who lacked any preferences about being remembered after death brings it into conflict with everyday practice directed toward the dead. We act as if the duty to remember the dead is unaffected by whether or not the dead preferred to be remembered in a variety of cases, and a philosophical theory of the duty to remember the dead should be able to accurately capture the contours of this everyday practice. In order to accomplish this goal, I propose an alternative theory which grounds this duty not in the surviving preferences of the antemortem person, but in the sacredness of the postmortem person. This account of the duty to remember the dead constructs that duty as a duty of piety, directed toward a proper recognition of the sacredness of that which remains after a person’s death. Doing What Another Would Want (VIRTUAL) Russell McIntosh, PhD student, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley Doing what another would want you to do is a familiar and valuable motivation. We often relate in this way to the dead, as when we continue their traditions or memorialize their accomplishments. But it resists explanation, for three reasons. First, to understand doing what another would want, we must identify the relevant counterfactual. Second, doing what another would want is distinct from the more thoroughly explored phenomena of doing what is good for another, respecting another’s preferences, and acting for another. Third, the value of doing what another would want is opaque, especially if it is distinct from the above phenomena. I defend a conception of doing what others would want as acting from empathetic concern. I argue doing what another would want is valuable because, first, another’s wants are a guide to their good; second, when one’s target has appropriate concerns, doing what they would want enables the flourishing of objects whose flourishing is good simpliciter; third, and least obviously, by trying to see the world from another’s point of view, we affirm the value of our relationship with them. When we do what the dead would want by continuing their traditions and memorializing their accomplishments, we affirm the value of our relationship with them. Affirming the value of a relationship is in part a response to existing value and in part a decision to confer value on the relationship. Doing what another would want thus exhibits distinctively relational value. Chair: Vikas Beniwal, MA Candidate, Philosophy, University of Mississipp
Concurrent Session 3-B
No full textWHO, to America, IS EMMETT TILL: Memorializing Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley and One Community’s Mission to Reconcile with Its Past The Emmett Till Interpretive Center Staff (Daphne R. Chamberlain, Benjamin Saulsberry, Jay Rushing, Jessie Jaynes-Diming) In August 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Louis Till was kidnapped and killed in the Mississippi Delta. Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam were ultimately acquitted of his murder by an all-white, male jury at the Tallahatchie County Courthouse in Sumner. While the local community went silent for 50 years after the trial ended, the American Civil Rights Movement gained momentum and Emmett’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, devoted the rest of her life to fighting for justice in the murder of her son. In 2006 just after the 50th anniversary of Till’s murder, the Sumner community began to engage in conversations about how to commemorate his life and tell the truth about what happened to him in the Delta. As a result, the Emmett Till Memorial Commission was founded; and the Emmett Till Interpretive Center was born out of the Commission’s community engagement work and was established in 2015 to interpret the restored Tallahatchie County Courthouse and its role in the Till story, while also working to promote restorative justice and racial healing through memorialization. 2025 marks the 70th anniversary of the murder of Emmett Till which had an impact on Mississippi, the South, and the nation. This workshop will give attention to the origins of the Emmett Till Interpretive Center (ETIC) while also giving testimony to the organization\u27s work in historical preservation, truth-telling, and racial reconciliation. This session will also expound on organizational goals and practices employed for almost two decades to engage various audiences and stakeholders to preserve the history and legacy of Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley through memorial work and youth and public engagement. Memorial Monuments: From Glorified Pasts to Reparative Possibilities RoAnne Elliott, Independent Scholar, Washington County Community Remembrance Project; and Valandra, Professor of Social Work and African & African American Studies, University of Arkansas Memory as a topic of human interest has found its way into the work of many genres since antiquity, but in recent decades, historians and scholars across the humanities and social sciences have lived through what Jay Winter has termed a ‘memory boom’, an explosion of interest in collective memory as an organizing concept for analysis and discourse. This boom is evident in an expanding body of research exploring how organized societies commemorate and memorialize the past. One provocative impact of increased focus on public memorialization in scholarship and in public discourse is a strong pivot away from work that upholds a view of the glorious past and valorous heroes of a nation or community, and into work that subjects this past and its heroes to rigorous examination under the unfiltered light of new, deepened analysis addressing previously muted questions. This work has illuminated events, circumstances, and lived experiences previously dismissed as inconsequential, unknowable, and irrelevant. New inquiries within and beyond the academy have inspired critique of the familiar and treasured narratives through which people remember and make meaning of their personal and collective past, envision the future, and claim the people and places that hold the significance of heritage. In this paper we illustrate memory work that bares entrenched wounds, and offers reparative possibilities, and potential ways forward for the nation and for local communities. The National Memorial to Peace and Justice of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) in Montgomery Alabama, a large scale project, and an off-shoot, small, community memorial project in Northwest Arkansas both memorialize victims of anti-Black racial terror through processes that honor descendants of victims, engage communities, and connect a society’s past racial harm to its present challenges and possibilities. Neither project is a static representation of the past. Chair: Valandra, Professor of Social Work and African & African American Studies, University of Arkansa
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No full textMemorialization, AI, and Transitional JusticeColleen Murphy, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Roger & Stephany Joslin Professor of Law, College of Law, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Author of The Conceptual Foundations of Transitional Justice (2017) Dr. Murphy works in the fields of moral, political, and legal theory. She’s the author/so-author of over 70 articles in the field and has co-edited several interdisciplinary collections. Her work focuses primarily on political reconciliation and transitional justice as opposed to entrenched injustice
Mindful Monday | Guided Journaling
No full textThis week\u27s Mindful Monday guest is Carissa Chandler from the University Counseling Center. She explains the benefits of guided journaling and how it can improve mindfulness.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/umvideo/1138/thumbnail.jp
1974. Books and ephemera located on nightstand in William Faulkner\u27s upstairs bedroom at Rowan Oak
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First Female Photographers in Argentina. 1840-1875
No full textCarlos G. Vertanessian, Collector and Historian of Photographs of Uruguay and Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina
First Female Photographers in Argentina. 1840-1875
The daguerreian period in Argentina remains understudied, particularly involving women\u27s contributions, between 1840 and 1875. My research tries to fill this gap by exploring early female practitioners within the context of contemporary European and American daguerreian artists. Following the daguerreotype’s 1840 arrival to the region, women played a pivotal role in socially adopting this technology as a new way of self-representation. Antonia Brunet de Annat, a French miniature painter, emerges as Argentina’s first female daguerreian artist. Her multifaceted career spanned painting, teaching, and photography, including acquiring a daguerreian studio in 1854 – a very competitive period in the market – when she was a widow and had a daughter to look after. Yet little was known about her life and career until now.
The mid-1850s saw increased photographic activity, driven by foreign artists introducing new technologies and sparking competition. Consequently, galleries hired more employees, including women. My research has identified at least four more professional female photographers active until the mid-1870s, including Javier Monzon\u27s wife, who specialized in portraits of women and children. I have attributed several carte de visite portraits to her and traced her life and contributions.
Optic Views Galleries (1852-1862) often coincided in the same room with photo studios, and served as spaces for female socialization and education, offering portrait services by day and entertainment by night, including paper photography displays. This research brings a more comprehensive understanding of women\u27s contributions to Argentine photography during the daguerreian period. Studying early female daguerreotypists in Argentina and Latin America holds immense significance, uncovering hidden histories and perspectives that challenge dominant photography narratives. By celebrating women’s achievements in the face of adversity, this research enriches our understanding of Latin America’s cultural heritage. Elaborating on early female daguerreotypists inspires a nuanced understanding of the region\u27s cultural landscape, and women’s empowerment. My findings will be published in a 2024 book as part of an ongoing project.
Carlos G. Vertanessian: A collector, researcher, and historian of Photographs of Uruguay and Argentina, from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Authored 3 books, and curated 2 largest public daguerreotype collections. As a board member, received the 2023 Daguerreian Society Fellowship Award
1974. William Faulkner\u27s Rowan Oak Study Room
No full textWilliam Faulkner\u27s Rowan Oak Study Room. Features a selection of the outline for A Fable on the wall.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/faulkner_library_timeline/1021/thumbnail.jp
Artificial Intelligence Task Force Meeting Recording - 04.04.25
Get PDFA recording of the February 7, 2025 meeting of the Artificial Intelligence Task Force. Presentations include New state law forming AIR (AI Regulation Task Force) (Robert Cummings, Academic Innovation), CS graduate student presentation (Teresa DiMeola, Computer Science), and MySylly- Taking the Guesswork out of Coursework (Scott Ledbetter & William Korman, CME Undergraduate Students).https://egrove.olemiss.edu/innovation_recordings/1002/thumbnail.jp
Digitization of HPTLC chromatograms for chemometric analysis
No full textHPTLC has been a major analytical tool for the botanical industry for many years. Its strength has been the ability to provide multiple chromatograms for parallel visual comparison of standards and samples. It’s weakness has been the lack of digitization to allow objective chemometric analysis of the data. Two studies are presented: analysis of 3 species of Echinacea (E. angustifolia, E. palida, and E. purpurea) and analysis of cranberry supplements, fruits, and juices (35 supplements, 8 dried fruits, and 4 juices). Accurate comparison of the patterns of the chromatograms required pre-processing: removing initial and final peaks, derivatization, alignment of samples (within and between plates), sample normalization (sum of square of intensities = 1.0), mean centering, and scaling (division by square root of the standard deviation). Comparison of quantitative values did not use sample normalization. The Echinacea species were easily differentiated as 3 distinctly separated clusters in a 2-dimensional plot (PC2 vs PC1) with inconsistencies in the chromatographic peak shapes appearing in the 3rd dimension (PC3). Cranberry fruit, juice, and supplements were easily distinguished as were the different compositions and concentrations of the supplements. Use of soft independent class analogy (SIMCA) allowed statistical analysis of the significance of the chromatographic differences. Application of off-the-shelf chemometric methods to digitized HPTLC data provides an easy approach to in-depth analysis of chromatographic data