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With Swinish Phrase Soiling Their Addition: Epistemic Injustice, Academic Freedom, and the Shakespeare Authorship Question
Get PDFThis chapter argues that the near-universal exclusion from the academy of the Shakespeare Authorship Question (or SAQ) represents a significant but little-understood example of an internal threat to academic freedom. Using an epistemological lens, this chapter examines and critiques the invidious and marginalizing rhetoric used to suppress such research by demonstrating the extent to which it constitutes a pattern of epistemic vice: that, by calling skeptics “conspiracy theorists” and comparing them to Holocaust deniers rather than addressing the substance of their claims, orthodox Shakespeare academics risk committing acts of epistemic vice, injustice and oppression, as well as foreclosing potentially productive lines of inquiry in their discipline. To better understand this phenomenon and its implications, the chapter subjects selected statements to external criteria in the form of the Association of College and Research Libraries’ 2015 Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, which provides a set of robust normative dispositions and knowledge practices for understanding the nature of the scholarly enterprise. The analysis reveals that the proscription against the Shakespeare Authorship Question constitutes an unwarranted infringement on the academic freedom not only of those targeted by this rhetoric, but – by extension – of all Shakespeare scholars as well
Plague Literature and Thinking through the Coronavirus
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Reducing Hardships: Student Motivations, Educational Workflows, and Technology Choices in Academic Settings
Get PDFObjective – This study examines The University of Manitoba student attitudes toward technology’s role in University study spaces and in their own educational workflows.
Methods - A series of semi-structured group interviews were conducted with current undergraduate and graduate students at The University of Manitoba. Three group interviews were conducted with questions about individual technology and space use while studying in the library, and three group interviews were conducted with questions about group collaboration using technologies and tools in group study spaces. Transcripts were coded iteratively and separately by the researchers, analyzed for interrater reliability, categorized, and reviewed using axial coding to identify major themes. Through continued examination of these themes, a single theory emerged.
Results - The participants expressed a strong need for independence and feelings of control over their workflows, technological tools, and environments. They discussed how interpersonal concerns and anxieties motivated their workflow choices and acknowledged the (often conflicting) motivational forces of personal necessity and personal preference. When examining the motivations behind the selection of technologies and work practices, it became clear that the respondents make technology and workflow decisions in an attempt to minimize their experience of perceived hardships. These perceived hardships could be social, emotional, educational, environmental, or temporal in nature, and the weight of any one hardship on decision making varied according to the individual.
Conclusions - Libraries should be aware of this foundational user motivation and make choices accordingly - identifying and minimizing hardships whenever possible, unless they are necessary to achieve learning or service-specific goals. Additional research is required to help articulate the nuances experienced by particular student demographics. Librarians and future researchers should also consider investigating the potential disconnect between librarian and user attitudes toward technology, the prioritization of user-centered decision-making, and whether or not systematically disadvantaged social groups have different attitudes toward technology and its place in library spaces and academic work.https://journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/perj/article/view/545
The effect of environmental stressors on the development and behaviour of larval Oryzias latipes
Get PDFElevated water temperature and dissolved carbon dioxide (CO2) are two environmental stressors that freshwater organisms face in the Anthropocene. Larval fishes are particularly susceptible to elevation in water parameters, as they are often confined to rearing habitats where temperature and CO2 are nearing species-specific maxima. In this study, 240 freshwater Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes) eggs were exposed to either control conditions (27˚C, ~ 500 μatm pCO2), elevated water temperature (36˚C), elevated CO2 (~1500 μatm pCO2) or both elevated temperature and CO2 (36˚C, ~1500 μatm pCO2). Exposures were applied either during the early, middle or late developmental stages and the morphological and behavioural data was collected ten days post-hatch. I predicted that elevated temperature and CO2 would decrease hatching success, and produce abnormalities in the swim bladder, spine or heart. In addition, I predicted that fish exposed to the stressors would show a change in swimming behaviour. Of the behavioural parameters observed, a significant difference was found in the distance travelled among the larval fish exposed to the treatments. There was no significant change between treatments or time intervals for hatching success, length or morphology. As rising CO2 and warming are likely to have a consequential impact on freshwater species, further research dedicated to understanding the ramification of climate-induced stressors is imperative.Honours Thesis Course, Department of Biolog
Behavioural Responses of Wood Frog (Lithobates Sylvaticus) Tadpoles to Diluted Bitumen
Get PDFThe study of behaviour in ecotoxicology allows for a broader understanding of the effects of pollution in an ecosystem. Amphibians are vulnerable to contaminant exposure, especially during early life stages when they are restricted to a waterbody. Since wood frog (Lithobates sylvaticus) tadpoles are exposed to contamination during diluted bitumen spills, an assessment of the impact of exposure was needed for freshwater systems. As part of the Boreal lake Oil Release Experiment by Additions to Limnocorrals (BOREAL) experiment, diluted bitumen was added to lake mesocosms at the International Institute for Sustainable Development’s Experimental Lake Area near Kenora, Ontario. Water from these mesocosms was transported to separate microcosms in which wood frog (Lithobates sylvaticus) tadpoles were reared from Gosner stage 25. Behavioural assays were conducted every three to four days in a separate arena and video recorded. Space-use, sociality, and activity were quantified across a gradient of exposure to diluted bitumen infused lake water. No relationship between sociality and space use metrics and diluted bitumen concentrations were observed. There was a decrease in activity as diluted bitumen concentration increased, however the relationship between activity and diluted bitumen exposure should be further investigated to determine the physiological basis for this decrease in activity.NSERC Strategic Partnership Grant (STPGP 493786-16), Environment and Climate Change Canada, University of Winnipeg Major Research Grant, and an lntemational Institute for Sustainable Development Experimental Lakes Area Highly Qualified Personnel (HQP) grant.Honours Thesis Course, Department of Biolog
Horse and Herald: Posidippus' Equestrian Angelia
Get PDFPosidippus’ epigrams for equestrian victors (the Hippika, AB 71–88) build on epinician convention by maintaining the central role of the herald’s proclamation— the angelia—in the representation of athletic achievement. In a few of these epigrams, however, Posidippus embeds the horse itself in postvictory rituals. For example, the horse brings the crown to the victor, replacing the figure of the herald who announced and crowned victors; or, in a narrative of the race’s aftermath, the horse, incredibly, chooses the victor. Posidippus’ horses, therefore, act as causal agents for the glory of their owners, and his detailed descriptions transform the horse from flesh-and-blood equine to everlasting (literary) monument.
Les épigrammes de Posidippe sur les victoires équestres (les Hippiques, 71-88 A.-B.) s’appuient sur une convention poétique propre aux épinicies qui maintient le rôle de la proclamation du héraut – l’angelia – dans la représentation de la réussite athlétique. Cependant, dans quelques-unes de ces épigrammes, Posidippe intègre le cheval lui-même au rituel marquant la victoire. Par exemple, le cheval apporte la couronne au vainqueur en remplacement de la figure du héraut qui annonce et couronne les vainqueurs ; ou encore, dans le récit de l’après-course, le cheval choisit, de façon surprenante, le vainqueur. Les chevaux de Posidippe interviennent donc en tant qu’agents causaux dans la gloire de leur propriétaire. Ses descriptions détaillées transforment ainsi l’être de chair et de sang qu’est le cheval en un monument (littéraire) éternel.https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.3138/mous.16.3.00
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, and Something Due: Using Social Media Stories to Decolonize Rare Books and Special Collections
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