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The DH Toolkit: A Collaborative, Open, and Extensible Experiment in Pedagogy.
No full textIn the summer of 2020, librarians and undergraduates at Gettysburg College collaborated virtually to develop the DH Toolkit, a collection of digital learning objects for Digital Humanities tools and concepts. This lightning talk will discuss the collaborative framework for creating the toolkit and its future in DH pedagogy at Gettysburg
03. Humor in the Zhouyi
Get PDFIt was the 1969-1970 school year at Cal Poly, Pomona, when I signed up to study some philosophy under Dick Richards, on the advice of my brother Byron. I was in the middle of a radical renovation of my worldview at the time, having dropped out of college. The rocket science major didn’t work out, once I realized that all the jobs were military, and the math major had suffered from an epiphany while trying to differentiate inverse hyperbolic trig functions on two hits of acid. I needed to switch to some more primitive human endeavors, where it wasn’t so very far to the creative frontier. Both philosophy and psychology fit that bill: those guys didn’t have a clue, except maybe Nietzsche and Maslow. I wouldn’t find out about the Stoics, Epicureans, and Cynics until later. Neuroscience wasn’t really invented yet. [excerpt
00. Introduction
Get PDFOne of the most wonderful aspects of the job of university professor is that one’s occupation is based on an area of personal expertise that shapes one’s Being. So it is with Richard C. “Dick” Richards, who, amongst other areas of specialization, is a philosopher of love. Richard’s Being is one deeply entrenched in love. There is, of course, the romantic love he long shared with his recently passed wife Marty, but there is also the love of many, many students and colleagues, both in and beyond the department at California State Polytechnic University at Pomona, and undeniably his love for poetry, humor, and the philosophy to which he dedicated so many years. Most of all, though, is (as cliché as this sounds), his love of life. Few people so embody the virtues they discuss, living so vitally and thereby affecting the lives of so many who come in contact with them, even briefly, that this love is shared by so many. This volume is intended as a testament to that love given and now redirected back toward Richard C. Richards. [excerpt
You Know One of Us
Get PDF**Trigger warning: sexual assault
I am afraid of my bed.
I am also afraid of heather blue shirts. Men’s voices make me jump. I am constantly scanning crowds, always looking for the closest exit. I sit with my back to the wall. I no longer eat at Servo for lunch or dinner, or walk down a specific pathway as a shortcut home. Instead, I take the long way through the middle of campus to get back to my room. If I see someone with the same haircut or wearing similar clothes, I start to tremble. Unexpected touches from male friends, acquaintances, and strangers make me jump away in fear. [excerpt
Embryonic Development of the Pharyngeal Arch Arteries in Mammals
Get PDFThe pharyngeal arch arteries (PAAs) in mammals undergo asymmetric remodeling to give rise to the major blood vessels. The first and second PAAs form rudimentarily in mammalian embryos and eventually regress as the third, fourth, and sixth PAAs predominate. Cell migration, proliferation, and apoptosis drive the remodeling process, stimulated by a number of underlying molecular mechanisms. Sonic hedgehog, Hox genes, Tgfβ2, Tbx1, and a number of transcription regulators all influence PAA morphogenesis. Tbx1, which is found in the deleted region of Chromosome 22 in DiGeorge Syndrome patients, forms anterior-to-posterior and medial-tolateral gradients in the developing PAA system to promote remodeling. The transient and rudimentary presence of the first and second arteries may help establish the Tbx1 gradient, recruit cardiac neural crest cells, contribute to formation of the other arches, and advance craniofacial development
Women in State Legislatures and State-Level Abortion Restrictions
Get PDFThis research paper explores the relationship between women in state legislatures and state level abortion restrictions. This relationship is explored, and then tested against the amount of democratic legislators, the conservatism, of the public, and the religiosity of the public using a linear regression. While the findings are complex, they show that women do have an impact on state level abortion restrictions in some instances
Featured Piece
Get PDFThis year’s feature piece was written by Professor Scott Hancock, who is Chair of the History Department. He focuses on African American experiences before the Civil War, especially in law
COVID-19: The Industrial Prison Complex and Black Bodies
Get PDFCOVID-19 has exposed a variety of issues and insecurities in our world since its eruption in 2020. While it is heavily discussed, debated and researched, much of the virus’ impact is not covered in communities and areas where marginalized bodies suffer disproportionately. One of the most undermined and blanketed populations in our country during the time of the pandemic (and for decades before) is the prison population, which has seen soaring cases and deaths since the virus first touched down in the states. Much of the prison population consist of black men and women and sadly mirror the same health inequalities their non-incarcerated peers face everyday due to racial disparities within medicine, education, job status and housing. An institution that should be designed to rehabilitate convicts as a positive contribution to society has once again been caught in its blatant strategy to hold black bodies captive with an unfair and racist blueprint to further racial equality. This paper serves to analyze what has led to these disproportionate cases and deaths within prisons and how the industrial prison complex and the long history of racist incarceration policies and agendas have exacerbated the effects of the COVID-19 virus on incarcerated men and women
Gendering Graffiti in Brazil
No full textGender expressions in a person’s daily rituals or representations in the media are critical in understanding gender relations. Studies on representations have generally focused those presented in textbooks and in advertisements. However, studies rarely examine gender representation in graffiti. In his analysis of advertisements, Goffman argues that advertisers do not create the ritualised expressions they employ but draw upon what we already know, and thus rendering readable images. Using the same logic, I posit that graffiti artists also base their images, at least in part, on socially readable and acceptable representations of gender. This effort may not be conscious and deliberate, but consistent with the social constructionist perspective, is an attempt to draw upon that with which we are familiar. As such, graffiti (like advertisements) become a source of data that we can analyse to examine gender representation. Examining graffiti in Brazil, I find graffiti with human images are present in two forms: cartoons, and life-portraits. Hyper-feminisation and sexualised images of women are prevalent. In contrast, images of men are less sexualised, particularly in terms of nudity. In addition, both the portrayal and interpretation of these images reflect a heterosexual bias