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Acquiring Leonardo: American Cultural Politics and the Legacy of World War II
No full textThesis (B.A. in Art History, Minor in Business and Creative Writing)--John Cabot University, Fall 2024.Leonardo da Vinci is famous for his genius and is historically recognized as the ultimate “Renaissance man.” His three known secular portraits are just as acknowledged, with the Mona Lisa, the Lady with an Ermine, and the Ginevra de’ Benci demonstrating a progression of his skill in his career. One portrait, however, stands out. The Ginevra de’ Benci is the sole Leonardo da Vinci in America, located at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. But how did she arrive there, and when? For the first time, this thesis examines the Ginevra de’ Benci in terms of her political significance in the United States. By analyzing sources from art history, museum studies, legal studies, and museum archives, this thesis endeavors to demonstrate the political tools used by the National Gallery of Art in the painting’s acquisition. It seeks to examine how the painting served as a tactic to build a national consciousness of art during the post-World War II era. It considers the ways America collected art at a significant pace in order to become a new capital of the art world. This analysis will focus on American intention and narrative, studying the ways in which a “national” gallery of America supported a political “savior” position on art after the devastating Second World War
Well-Cooked Turnips Make Good Stew: Investigating Rembrandt’s Approach Toward Copies (1625-35)
No full textThesis (B.A. in Humanistic Studies)--John Cabot University, Fall 2024.This thesis takes a new look at Rembrandt and his studio’s approach toward copies within the decade of 1625-35. It traces the development of Rembrandt’s practice from copying his teachers, to drawing close inspiration from his contemporaries, to then being copied by his students. Rembrandt also utilized successful elements of his own compositions in other paintings and possibly created second versions of his canvases. Reasons for Rembrandt’s practice of copying are proposed, such as expanding and capitalizing on the sitter’s profile. Copies made to emulate and improve the original can, in some cases, be used to reveal Rembrandt’s ability to paint in both a rough and a smooth manner
Preliminary evidence of an affirmative mindfulness, acceptance, and compassion-based, non-randomized group intervention with follow-up for sexual minority individuals (Free2Be)
No full textSexual minority (SM) individuals present lower levels of mental health compared to their heterosexual peers. This study aimed to explore the preliminary evidence of a manualized 13-week, face-to-face affirmative group intervention for SM individuals based on mindfulness, acceptance, and compassion-focused techniques (Free2Be). In a single-armed trial design, nine participants received the intervention and were assessed in three moments (baseline, post-intervention, and three-month follow-up). Sexual minority-related stress processes, psychopathological symptoms, and general adaptive and maladaptive psychological processes were assessed. Group comparisons and individual reliable change index analyses were performed. Overall, the results were significant/reliable in the expected direction: an increase in general adaptive psychological processes and a decrease in sexual-minority-related stress processes, psychopathological symptoms, and
general maladaptive psychological processes. These changes remained stable over time. Stigma consciousness, shame related to sexual orientation, and fears of self-compassion did not present any relevant change. Self-compassion increased in the post-intervention and decreased in the follow-up, presenting an unstable trajectory. Results suggested that the Free2Be is an intervention with benefits for sexual minority people
A Liberal Arts Guide to Academic Writing in the Age of AI: Crafting Meaning, Empowering Students. Making the Most of Artificial Intelligence Tools to Enhance the Liberal Arts Approach in Academic Writing
No full textThe advent of generative Artificial Intelligence (genAI) and large language models (LLMs) will require a sea change in how and what we teach students of all levels. Research strongly suggests that most university students are regularly using it in our courses, so it is incumbent on us to establish norms and best practices in our classes regarding AI use, ethics, and literacy.
This strengthening guide provides modular lesson plans for an advanced university-level English Composition course that focuses on the teaching of critical reading and writing as well as information literacy. This guide provides:
• practical lessons that address genAI and LLMs and its interaction with Liberal Arts approaches to teaching and learning;
• genAI tools to use and suggestions about when to use them in class; and
• assignments and assessment rubrics.
We argue that the appropriate response to advancements in these technologies lies in the foregrounding of the liberal arts approach and the direct use and exploration of these new tools to enhance that perspective. This requires a shift in teaching that moves from product to process and focuses on critical reading and writing in shorter collaborative bursts that build toward a final written project rather than production of full-length assigned papers to be completed by students at home on their own.
This guide was written by an interdisciplinary team of instructors and reference and instruction library professionals at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy. The project was completed in partnership with Parami University through the Open Society University Network and supported in part by a grant from the Open Society Foundations
On the emergence of cooperative industrial and labour relations
No full textWe explore the long-run determinants of current differences in the degree of co-operative labour relations at the local level. We do this by estimating the effect of the medieval communes –that were established in certain cities in Centre-Northern Italy towards the end of the 11th century – and that contributed to the emergence of a co-operative attitude in the population on various proxies for current co-operative labour relations. Conditional on a large set of firm and municipality level controls, as well as a full set of province fixed effects, we find that firms located in municipalities that had been a free medieval commune in the past have higher current probabilities to adopt two-tier bargaining structures and to be unionized. We also report instrumental variables (IV) and propensity score estimates that confirm our main results
From Profits to Purpose: ESG Practices, CEO Compensation and Institutional Ownership Ciaburri
No full textPurpose – Based on stakeholder, agency and institutional theory, this study aims to examine the role of institutional ownership in the relationship between environmental, social and governance practices and CEO compensation.
Design/methodology/approach – Utilizing a fixed-effect panel regression analysis, this research utilized a panel data approach, analyzing data spanning from 2014 to 2021, focusing on US companies listed on the
S&P500 stock market index. The dataset encompassed 219 companies, leading to a total of 1,533 observations.
Findings – The analysis identified that environmental scores significantly impact CEO equity-linked compensation, unlike social and governance scores. Additionally, it was found that institutional ownership acts
as a moderating factor in the relationship between the environmental score and CEO equity-linked compensation, as well as the association between the social score and CEO equity-linked compensation. Interestingly, the direction of these moderating effects varied between the two relationships, suggesting a nuanced role of institutional ownership.
Originality/value – This research makes a unique contribution to the field of corporate governance by exploring the relatively understudied area of institutional ownership’s influence on the ESG practices–CEO
compensation nexus
On Upward-Planar L-Drawings of Graphs
Get PDFIn anupward-planar L-drawingof a directed acyclic graph (DAG)each edgee= (v,w) is represented as a polyline composed of a vertical segment with itslowest endpoint at thetailvofeand of a horizontal segment ending at theheadwofe.Distinct edges may overlap, but must not cross. Recently, upward-planar L-drawingshave been studied forst-graphs, i.e., planar DAGs with a single sourcesand a singlesinktcontaining an edge directed fromstot. It is known that aplanest-graph, i.e.,an embeddedst-graph in which the edge (s,t) is incident to the outer face, admits anupward-planar L-drawing if and only if it admits a bitonicst-ordering, which can betested in linear time.We study upward-planar L-drawings of DAGs that are not necessarilyst-graphs. Asa combinatorial result, we show that a plane DAG admits an upward-planar L-drawingif and only if it is a subgraph of a planest-graph admitting a bitonicst-ordering.This allows us to show that not every tree with a fixed bimodal embedding admits anupward-planar L-drawing. Moreover, we prove that any directed acyclic cactus witha single source (or a single sink) admits an upward-planar L-drawing, which respectsa given outerplanar embedding if there are no transitive edges. On the algorithmicside, we consider DAGs with a single source (or a single sink). We give linear-timetesting algorithms for these DAGs in two cases: (a) when the drawing must respect aprescribed embedding and (b) when no restriction is given on the embedding, but theunderlying undirected graph is series-parallel. For the single-sink case of (b) it evensuffices that each biconnected component is series-parallel
Painter and Partisan: Mapping Renato Guttuso’s Journey as an Anti-Fascist Artist, 1938-1944
Get PDFMaster of Arts in Art History -- John Cabot University, Spring 2024.Renato Guttuso is one of the leading figures of Italian modern art, known for hispolitically engaged paintings and involvement within the Italian Communist Party. His longcareer has solidified this legacy, though it is the early stages of his career and politicalinvolvement which remain pivotal to understanding it. From 1938 to 1944, Guttuso’s artworkand personal political involvement underwent immense change and marked his entrance intoto politicized, anti-Fascist artwork.This project will create a map of his political engagement in his life and artistic careerduring this period, from his first major political painting to his explicitly anti-Fascist imageryfollowing the Second World War. It will create this genaeology by looking at how his styledevelops over the period, reflecting his allegiance tot he avant-garde and increased boldness inhis protest. It will discuss his utilization of an established revolutionary language within arthistory to create his own voice for dissent, and how he makes that voice louder throughouttime, establishing his own style and tradition for political artwork
Reversed Populism: A Strategic Response to Right-Wing Populism
No full textThesis (B.A. in International Affairs, Minor in Legal Studies)--John Cabot University, Fall 2024.Populism, traditionally associated with divisive right-wing rhetoric, has evolved to include progressive and inclusive adaptations. This study examines the shifting paradigms of populist rhetoric by contrasting right-wing populism, as exemplified by leaders like Giorgia Meloni and Donald Trump, with a new wave of “Reversed Populism” championed by figures such as Kamala Harris, Pedro Sánchez, Emmanuel Macron, and Donald Tusk. While right-wing populists use nationalism, cultural nostalgia, and binary narratives to galvanize support at times through disinformation and emotive appeal, reversed populists reclaim those very same tools to speak out in the name of fairness, social justice, and democratic participation. Showcasing speeches, social media strategies, and policy designs, this study highlights the transformative potential when facing modern challenges as a unifying force for the protection of democratic integrity
