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Zoë Charlton: The Domestic
No full textZoë Charlton’s grandmother, Everlena Bates, was a domestic worker in Northern Florida. Charlton pays homage not only to her grandmother in her recent body of work, but also to the long history of African-American women’s labor in white families’ homes throughout the South. Although her grandmother did not speak often or directly about the conditions of her employment, Charlton nonetheless is keenly aware of the injustices, possible abuses, and intimate labor endured by black maids, housekeepers, and nannies who worked endlessly long hours and with little pay through the twentieth century. The collages and large-scale installation in Charlton’s exhibition The Domestic at Schmucker Art Gallery examine the notions of caretaking across racial and class lines, the fragility and failings of a home, and the complications of gender and sexuality in relation to this intensely bodily domestic work.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/artcatalogs/1030/thumbnail.jp
The Holy Bible
No full textIn celebration of National Library Week 2019, Musselman Library held its sixth annual Edible Book Festival. Library staff, faculty, and students created many book-inspired treats to share with the campus community. Entrants were awarded prizes in the categories of best taste, best look, puniest, and best in show. The above creation is by Rose Taylor.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/edible/1093/thumbnail.jp
All Quite on the Western Bundt
No full textIn celebration of National Library Week 2019, Musselman Library held its sixth annual Edible Book Festival. Library staff, faculty, and students created many book-inspired treats to share with the campus community. Entrants were awarded prizes in the categories of best taste, best look, punniest, and best in show. The above creation by Lauren Bradford was voted Best in Show in 2019.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/edible/1083/thumbnail.jp
The Limited Reign of Saturn\u27s Rings
Get PDFSaturn’s rings—stretching tens of thousands of miles above its equator but no more than a few hundred yards thick—mark an ancient debris field of orbiting ice shards, the remains of a moon-sized object that strayed too close and was torn to pieces by Saturn’s intense gravitation. Astronomers have debated when the rings formed and how long they will stay in orbit. Recent observations from large, land-based telescopes and orbiting spacecraft reveal that Saturn’s rings are remarkably young and are dissipating at a rapid rate. [excerpt
You\u27ve Gotta Read This: Summer Reading at Musselman Library (2019)
Get PDFEach year, Musselman Library asks Gettysburg College faculty, staff, and administrators to help create a suggested summer reading list. The result is You’ve Gotta Read This!—a booklet filled with fiction, nonfiction and film recommendations that we hope will offer a reading and viewing go-to list for the summer and beyond.
The 2019 collection has suggestions from 173 employees who offer 258 recommendations of favorite books, films, and television programs that will satisfy a wide range in reading and viewing tastes and genres.
This year’s booklet includes several special features. Two of our regular columnists return once again: James Udden with his latest picks in film and TV, and Allen Guelzo who shares his recommended books on free speech in the context of the American college campus. Library staff share their favorite books of poetry; multilingual and international faculty recommend favorite works available in translation; Professors Joanne Myers (English) and Kathy Cain (psychology), and Kim Davidson and Jeff Rioux from the Center for Public Service, discuss literature by and about immigrants; and finally Professors Felicia Else (art history) and Kay Etheridge (biology) recommend their picks for the best books on unique and wonderful curiosity cabinets.
Everyone’s curiosity is promised to be fulfilled in these many and varied recommendations. Happy summer and happy reading!https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/summerreads/1017/thumbnail.jp
Gettysburg Heartthrobs: the 10 Most Attractive Officers
Get PDFWhile the author received many names that deserved to be on this list, he regrettably had to choose only ten. That being said, please sit back, relax, and prepare to fall in love with the officers of Gettysburg this Valentine’s Day
Critically Assessing Forms of Resistance in Music Education
Get PDFIn their classrooms, music educators draw upon critical pedagogy (as described by Freire, Giroux, and hooks) for the express purpose of cultivating a climate for conscientização. Conscientização, according to Paulo Freire (2006), “refers to learning to perceive social, political, and economic contradictions and to take action against the oppressive elements of reality” (p. 35). This consciousness raising is a journey teachers pursue with students, together interrogating injustices in communities and the world in order to transform the conditions that inform them. Learning to perceive social, political, and economic contradictions often leads to multiple forms of resistance in and out of music classrooms. This chapter explores the following question: What do critical forms of assessment look like in music classrooms that use critical pedagogy and embrace resistance to foster conscientization
Invisible Intersex: How Discourse Serves to Perpetuate Violence
Get PDFCritical discourse analysis surrounding intersex individuals makes it is clear that the violence against intersex individuals stems from a sense of othering due to the silence surrounding the public discussion and representation of intersex individuals. Additionally, the current discourse serves to create a circular argument of blame instead of serving to decrease the violence done upon intersex individuals. This research serves to explore the discourse surrounding intersex individuals and propose social and institutional ways of working to end the stigma surrounding intersexuality
Heritage Spaces in a Global Context: The Case of Singapore Chinatown
No full textChinatowns are heritage spaces that are historically and geographically specific. Chinatowns are commonly leveraged as heritage attractions in tourism. In this paper, we used data from semi-structured interviews conducted in summer 2018 in Singapore to examine how locals and tourists view Singapore Chinatown. Our results suggest heritage and commercialization are two major themes regarding Chinatown. Both locals and tourists see Chinatown’s heritage value, though their interest levels vary. Their views on commercialization differ: locals see it as a loss of heritage whereas for tourists, it homogenizes Chinatowns. We recommend placing Singapore Chinatown in a global context to amplify its distinction