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Veterans Interest Newsletter Issue 64
No full textTopics include a shortfall in military recruiting, an update on the Million Veteran Program reaching its goal of one million veterans in the database, commemoration of the 82nd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor including mention of the dwindling veteran population from World War II and the impending loss of their stories, a report from the Congressional Budget Office on the difficulty facing the U.S. when it comes to building warships and other military armaments in a timely manner, and the identification of the remains of World War II gunner Staff Sgt. Franklin P. Hall in France. Also includes statistics on trends in U.S. veteran demographics from the Rand Epstein Family Veterans Policy Research Institute
At the Borders Of Painting: Labor and the Migratory Screen-Art of Ranbir Kaleka
No full textThis analysis reassesses the video-based moving-image works of the Indian artist, Ranbir Kaleka (b.1953) through figures of internal migration. By reading established and newer works in light of Kaleka’s response to the COVID-19 migration crisis in India, the analysis engages Kaleka’s two-decade long practice, situated in the intermedial exchanges between painting and video-art, through the proposition of a ‘migratory aesthetics’ as developed by the Dutch cultural theorist and artist, Mieke Bal. Emerging from the expansion of video-based installation art in the 2000’s, migratory aesthetics is linked, for Bal, to visual and performance strategies that create spatial displacement, entangled emotive intensities, and multi-temporality. Under the sign of the “migratory,” and through an acutely reflexive use of the video and screen apparatus, Kaleka’s work aligns the escalating crisis of citizenship and labour in the current conjuncture, with the de-regulation of India’s markets in the 1990’s. Kaleka’s works acquire both aesthetic and political saliency as images of ‘survivance’ in such a globalist present. By imbuing the migratory figure with the capacity to extend through time, or otherwise, endure through the phenomenological play of displacement, disappearance and reappearance, Kaleka offers us portents of world-making practices. At stake is the social memory of migration, or of minor practices of return and place-making that survive ongoing processes of state-driven expropriation and physical displacement. These, in turn, underpin Kaleka’s artistic interrogations of the cosmopolitical possibilities of a pluralized culture of people, which might repose, like the image itself, in unfinished if elusive actions of gathering-together and enduring.https://doi.org/10.57928/m5zf-zm2
26th Semiannual Assessment of Compliance With Procedures and Guidelines Issued Pursuant to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Submitted by the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence
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The Relationship Between SNAP Participation Levels and Food Insecurity at the County Level
No full textM.P.P.Spending on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) has grown from 60.4 billion in 2019. Despite this increase in spending, food insecurity (the proportion of the population that lacks consistent access to nutritious food) has decreased only modestly from 11.9% to 10.5%. The discrepancy between SNAP spending and food insecurity calls into question the effectiveness of SNAP as an anti-hunger program. Previous studies on SNAP efficacy have found mixed results, but few studies have relied on county-level data across multiple years. This paper uses county-level data to examine the impact of county-level SNAP participation rates on food insecurity
TLISI 2023: In Your Shoes: Engaging Dialogue Across the Curriculum
No full textIn this session, participants will learn more about how In Your Shoes (IYS), a performance-based dialogue methodology created by the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics, can be applied across the curriculum. In the IYS process, participants have deep, open conversations around a given topic and then perform one another’s perspectives. Through this exchange, participants practice close listening and embodiment as a way to understand the perspectives of another. Session participants will practice IYS exercises rooted in call-and-response, theater, and movement techniques. From here, we will discuss how IYS has been applied in different contexts in the last academic year, including the US-China dialogue project, Countering Polarization, and IYS in Appalachia. Lastly, we will share ways for other faculty, staff, and students to get involved with future IYS projects. This session is open to anyone interested in learning more about the IYS experience
Using Neural Network Models for Diacritics Restoration in Māori
No full textM.S.In this thesis, I build a Māori-language corpus of 463,000 words using data crawled from Wikipedia. I furthermore develop a neural network-based system for diacritic restoration and train it on this corpus. A simple initial neural network model yields a word accuracy of 95.87 percent, significantly outperforming a naïve baseline. The success of this basic model suggests that both web-based corpora as well as neural network-based models are viable candidates for diacritic restoration in low-resource languages
Doyle on DeNardis, The Internet in Everything
No full textReview: Denardis, L., (2020). The Internet in Everything: Freedom and Security in a World with No Off Switch. Yale University Press. 288 pages. $32.00. ISBN: 978030023307
TLISI 2023: Toward Reparative Humanism in Higher Ed: Recasting Teaching and Learning Agreements
No full textThis keynote will examine the neuroscience of psychological trauma and how the cyclical nature of trauma impacts our human experience. Specifically, Dr. Imad will deliberate on our collective need to reflect on the things from which trauma alienates us–including our inherent humanity. She will also consider the things healing from trauma requires that we not shy away from–in order to re-member and re-embrace our human wholeness. She will examine the concept of reparative humanism, a philosophical framework that aims to repair or restore the human condition through the application of humanistic principles. These principles emphasize the importance of seeing the “whole” person and include a focus on personal autonomy, self-determination, interconnectedness, social responsibility, and the inherent goodness, value, and dignity of all people.
By considering these aspects, the overarching goal of the session is to foster a deeper understanding of trauma and its consequences and to cultivate a greater appreciation for the importance of healing, humanism, and the transformative power of education in shaping a more compassionate, empathetic, and beautiful world.
Mays Imad, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Physiology and Equity Pedagogy at Connecticut College. Prior to that, she taught in the department of life and physical science at Pima Community College where she also founded the teaching and learning center. A Gardner Institute Fellow, an AAC&U Senior Fellow, and a Mind & Life Institute Fellow, Imad’s research focuses on biofeedback, stress, self-regulation, advocacy, and classroom community, and how these impact student learning and success. A nationally-recognized expert on trauma-informed teaching and learning, Imad is interested in understanding the social determinants of wellbeing and their effects on students’ ability to learn and thrive. She works with faculty across disciplines and institutions to promote inclusive, equitable, and contextual education–all rooted in the latest research on the neurobiology of learning
