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Towards a Performative Migratory Aesthetics in Work by Womxn-Identifying Practitioners in the United States, 1970–2018
No full textTowards a Performative Migratory Aesthetics in Works by Womxn-Identifying Practitioners in the United States, 1970–2018 traces ritual—repeated performative actions across time—in performance, theater, and social practice works by womxn-identifying contemporary artists and collectives working in performance. Using an interdisciplinary methodological approach, including art historical formal analysis, performance studies concepts of embodiment, and decolonial theoretical analyses of socio-cultural landscapes, I theorize, in part through the work of Mieke Bal, what I term a “performative migratory aesthetics.” In such a theorization, I argue that the migratory conditions of movement, memory, heterochrony, and contact double as ritualized strategies of performance, serving to construct liminal identities in 1970s works by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Ana Mendieta, and Adrian Piper, which then persist and transform throughout the 1980s–2010s in performances by Urban Bush Women, Spiderwoman Theater, Tania Bruguera, and Tania El Khoury.
A burgeoning discourse concerning art about migration has emerged concurrently with the so-called 2010s “migration crisis;” however, this discourse focuses on representational art. The current discourse temporally and geographically locates the emergence of the contemporary “migration crisis” in Europe, rather than a factor within worldwide globalization, and rarely centers the gendered experiences of the immigrant global minority—womxn-identifying people. In contrast, my research begins with a theoretical matrix for a “performative migratory aesthetics” apart from the rhetoric of crisis that analyzes the linked migratory conditions and ontological performance properties of movement, memory, heterochrony, and contact. It is accompanied by four chapters of chronological associative case studies featuring migratory conditions doubling as ritualized strategies in performance art, theater, dance, video, and social practice emerging in the wake of the landmark U.S. legislation, the 1965 Immigration and Naturalization Act, during the onset of increased global mobilities
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Get PDFJurists and Orators: Rhetorical and Legal Perspectives on the Roman Family
No full textRoman legal advocacy and legal expertise have long been viewed as two different fields of occupation with different intellectual aims and have therefore been assumed to have had little interaction with one another. More recent scholarship, however, has questioned this dichotomy between orators and jurists. In my dissertation, I build on this work to explore the precise nature of the relationship between Roman rhetoric and Roman legal thought during the classical period of Roman law. I will study oratory, in particular Quintilian’s Minor Declamations, side by side with Roman legal texts in order to ascertain connections between rhetorical training and juristic writing. Specifically, I will focus on Roman family law, as many of Quintilian’s declamations are devoted to this topic and there is also a large body of juridical evidence that is roughly contemporary. In addition, I will draw on non-literary sources such as papyri and inscriptions. My overarching goal is to shed light on the intersections between rhetorical education, juristic reasoning, and social norms, as well as to elucidate the role that declamation played in the expansion and professionalization of Roman legal practice. At the same time, I hope to deepen the understanding of Roman family dynamics as well as the relationships and power structures between individual members by investigating how they played out in the courtroom, both imagined and real. In so doing, I intend to contribute to the ongoing exploration of declamation as an important venue for constructing Roman identity and propagating key social norms and values
The Indivisible System: Modeling The Metal-Pterin-Dithiolene System In Molybdenum And Tungsten Cofactors
Get PDFMo and W enzymes are ubiquitous in living organisms and crucial for sustaining life. Mo and W enzyme variety is diverse, but they contain a highly conserved aspect of functionality in these enzymes, the pyranopterin-dithiolene (PDT) ligand. A total of eight possible electron redox equivalents occurs between the metal center and PDT, making the molybdenum cofactor (Moco) and the tungsten cofactor (Tuco) the most redox rich cofactors in all of biology. This research focuses on the development of new pterin-dithiolene synthetic modeling systems for Moco. The knowledge gained from the characterization of these compounds is applied to the enzymes, furthering our understanding of the role of the PDT. This work focuses on three projects, each investigating modifications on an established synthetic model complex. The first project chapter focuses on protonation of the pterin ligand and its electronic effect on the dithiolene and metal center. In the second project chapter, methylation of the pterin-dithiolene ligand induces a stable, cyclic pyranopterin and highlights the asymmetry of the dithiolene. In the last project chapter, the synthetic procedures for a novel monomeric, mono-pterin-dithiolene with a W metal center were developed and compared to the analogous Mo model complex. The projects together highlight the chemical connection between each portion of the metal-pterin-dithiolene system. A modification to one portion will also impact the others, strengthening the importance of Moco/Tuco model investigations on the entire system
Skin Deep: Racial Categorization in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick
Get PDFThis thesis engages skin as a site of racialization and changeability in Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick. Throughout the novel, Ishmael close reads the skins of those around him to fit his vision of the narrative. Lots of skins are sewn together to create a single white skin. He classifies characters into neat categories in an attempt to destroy their ambiguity, but Ishmael himself contains and develops racial ambiguities that he fears. Melville’s narrator fails to force all of his characters into his story because of the counterstories fundamentally engrained in the skins he attempts to violate