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JCCTL Mailer - August 10, 2022
Get PDFUpdates on training and support and useful pedagogical resources compiled and sent by the JCCTL on August 10, 2022.
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Upcoming Events: 30 minutes with Kelli Murphy – Effective and Efficient Moodle Course Design Strategies Supporting International and Multilingual Student Writers Practical Ideas for Creating Effective Syllabi Trauma-Informed Approaches in Teaching
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Episode 1: As Pennsylvania Goes, So Goes the Senate?
No full textGettysburg College junior Andrew Lemon hosts a conversation with fellow students Ella Prieto and Maddie Maier on the Pennsylvania Senate election, political polarization, and more in the runup to the 2022 midterm elections
Personal Memories of the Early Analytic Philosophers: Analytic Logic/Synthetic Lives
No full textAnalytic Philosophy began in the first decades of the 20th century at Cambridge with Bertrand Russell, in Vienna with the Vienna Circle of Logical Positivists, and in Berlin with Hans Reichenbach’s Society for Empirical Philosophy. While the story of the rise of this intellectual movement is chronicled in a number of recent and not so recent books, these treatments largely focus on the story of the ideas. Largely missing are the figures themselves, their lives and personalities. Those are saved in the memories of the people who knew them. Analytic Logic/Synthetic Lives is a collection of eleven edited transcripts of oral history interviews collected over twenty years with those who had such memories – the widows, spouses, classmates, and students of these towering figures of 20th century analytic thought. The primary and secondary scholarly literature on the history of early analytic philosophy is plentiful, but the same is not true when it comes to the personal side of these figures. This volume fills that hole by collecting personal remembrances from those who knew them best.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/books/1183/thumbnail.jp
The Faculty Notebook, April 2022
Get PDFThe Faculty Notebook is published periodically by the Office of the Provost at Gettysburg College to bring to the attention of the campus community accomplishments and activities of academic interest. Faculty are encouraged to submit materials for consideration for publication to the Associate Provost for Faculty Development. Copies of this publication are available at the Office of the Provost
Faculty Meeting Minutes - September 1, 2022
No full textMinutes of the Gettysburg College Faculty Business Meeting, September 1, 2022
Interview with James Burkhalter, February 17, 2022
No full textJames Burkhalter was interviewed on February 17, 2022, by Devin McKinney about his childhood, his years as a Gettysburg College student, and his career since graduation.
Collection Note: This oral history was selected from the Oral History Collection maintained by Special Collections & College Archives. Transcripts are available for browsing in the Special Collections Reading Room, 4th floor, Musselman Library. GettDigital contains the complete listing of oral histories done from 1978 to the present. To view this list and to access selected digital versions please visit https://gettysburg.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16274coll2/search
Freedom Within Convention: A Cooperative Analysis of the Zhuangzi and A Thousand Plateaus
Get PDFThe Zhuangzi, a foundational text in Classical Chinese philosophy, presents a notion of ideal humanity that involves a seemingly paradoxical relationship between a liberated existence and the barriers that restrict it. To achieve ideal humanity, one must confront the boundaries and attachments that have coalesced into a web of socio-physical conventions and developed dominion over human thought and action. This paper aims at shedding some light on this tension by offering a comparative analysis of the Zhuangzi and A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari in terms of their conceptions of ideal humanity. While an abundance of time and different philosophical traditions separate these two texts, they share a relational ontology and similar concerns regarding the meaning and praxis of human freedom. These similarities allow for a cooperative understanding of ideal humanity in both texts without ideologically reducing them nor losing sight of the distinct and unique essence of each work. While the Zhuangzi provides a comprehensive reflection on the variability of constraints and conventions that delimit human freedom, A Thousand Plateaus illuminates the nature of this freedom using particular embodiments of the ideal person. Throughout the comparative analysis of both works, I will offer a framework for grasping the paradox of detached existence within a world of lively entanglements
The Charter’s Revolutionary Impact on Gay Rights in Canada
Get PDFThe differing paces of gay rights progress around the globe, even between otherwise culturally and politically similar states, raises important questions regarding why this disparity occurs. Previous literature on the attainment of gay rights protections in Canada have highlighted the great impact had by the addition of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to the Constitution Act, 1982. Additionally, comparative studies have argued that it is the entrenchment of the Charter which has made the crucial difference between the pace of gay rights in Canada as opposed to other states, such as Australia. This paper argues that, despite not having been explicitly enumerated as a protected ground, gay rights have in fact been progressed by the Charter in three ways.
This paper will first review the newly opened path for rights litigation brought forth by the Charter’s empowerment of the courts. Secondly, the conflicting effects that the litigious approach had on the gay rights movement will be considered, with specific note of its effect on the question of gay liberation or assimilation. Finally, this paper will discuss the ways in which the Charter’s impact is still of importance to ongoing and future gay rights cases concerning the balancing of opposing rights, particularly in its recognition of sexual orientation as having similar importance to other protected grounds
Lost Art and Lost Lives: Nazi Art Looting and Art Restitution
Get PDFDuring the Nazi Regime, Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seized an estimated one fifth of all art in Europe and more than 5 million cultural objects before 1945. The Nazis established control over the regime and furthered their racist ambitions through stealing art of any cultural or monetary value to them. They stole “degenerate” art in an attempt to annihilate “racially inferior” races, and “racially pure” art for the glorification of the “Aryan” race. Since the end of WWII, the return of Nazi-looted art to its original owners or their heirs has been an important avenue for remembrance of and belated justice for Holocaust victims and their families. Some have suggested a parallel between lost art and lost lives, where art restitution provides a form of justice. However, the path to justice is not an easy one. Many heirs do not know they have a claim to their family’s stolen art or do not know it still exists, and the claims that go to trial often do not go soundly in favor of the victim or his or her heir. Many museums, galleries, art dealers, and collectors have failed to do proper provenance research, or know the jaded history of their artworks and argue that they received the looted artwork in good faith. In order to highlight the importance of Nazi-looted art restitution and justice for Holocaust victims and their families, this paper focuses on the way art was used by the Nazis as a means of control, the structure of the looting system, and the systems of art restitution. Three artworks seized from Jewish art collectors are used to exemplify “degenerate” and “pure” art, discuss the impact of the legal system on restitution, and emphasize provenance as a means of honoring Holocaust victims. Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, Camille Pissarro’s Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep, and the pair of paintings, Adam and Eve, by Lucas Cranach the Elder illustrate why art collectors, museums, and galleries must confront the vicious Nazi history of such beautiful works of art. Though it will never be possible to return all that was stolen from Nazi victims, the art world can provide justice by doing more thorough provenance research and displaying the provenance information for viewers
Lucretia\u27s Hand: The Influence of Myth and Sexual Violence on Artemisia Gentileschi\u27s Lucretia
Get PDFArtemisia Gentileschi, a female Baroque Artist from the 17th century, was an exceptional artist who dealt with difficult themes and female subjects. While there has been a plethora of analysis of her Judith series, there has been less focus on her Lucretia. I look at Artemisia Gentileschi\u27s Lucretia (c. 1621), through the various narratives of Lucretia and the history of sexual violence to analyze the strength and female agency that is emphasized. I argue that the strength and musculature in the hands of Lucretia emphasize her female agency and autonomy to make a choice following her sexual assault. I highlight Gentileschi\u27s previously under-acknowledge depiction of strong and musculature hands