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Miscalibrated: A Search for Better Outcomes in Legal Punishment, Pretrial Systems, and Beyond
Get PDFThe seeds of this project were sown in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 2017. Having recently graduated high school, I found myself in a studio apartment. I was enrolled at Harrisburg Area Community College and wanted to devote all my time to school so that I could transfer to a nice university. I had signed a lease and had to come up with rent each month. This resulted in an unfortunate reality: given that I was only a high school graduate, it was nearly impossible for me to command an hourly rate high enough to cover my expenses without working at least 30 hours a week. With 30 hours as the minimum workload and a heavy incentive to work as few hours as possible to maximize my academic performance, my life seemed to be defined by a very thin financial margin each month and all the stress associated with it
Exploring Reproductive Autonomy: Underwater Self Portraits: Exhibition View
No full textProject Advisor: John Shimon
Year of Graduation: 2022https://lux.lawrence.edu/artgallery_se2022/1062/thumbnail.jp
Monster Collage: Exhibition View
No full textMaterial: paper on hardboard panel
Dimensions: 24 x 36 inches
Project Advisor: Benjamin D. Rinehart
Year of Graduation: 2023https://lux.lawrence.edu/artgallery_se2022/1058/thumbnail.jp
Saintlike: Exhibition View
No full textProject Advisor: Tony Conrad Year of Graduation: 2022https://lux.lawrence.edu/artgallery_se2022/1054/thumbnail.jp
An Absence of Elephants in the Room: Religion, Philosophy, and Negative Numbers in Albert Girard’s A New Discovery in Algebra
Get PDFIn early seventeenth-century Europe, the lines separating theology, science, and humanism were thin; what the modern reader understands as three distinct spheres of knowledge considerably overlapped with one another. Scientific discoveries and innovations coming from new technologies and foreign lands were laden with implications about theology and the human condition. While bland to all but the most fringe historians of mathematics today, the discovery of negative numbers led to a passionate and occasionally fierce epistemological debate throughout Europe. Falling outside of traditional mathematical knowledge, negative numbers found themselves in a sort of existential limbo; however useful they proved themselves to be, their reality was regularly denied by the united forces of antiquity, Catholicism, and contemporary mathematics. In their efforts to share their new discoveries while constrained by these pressures, Early Modern mathematicians like Albert Girard were implicitly required to serve as mediators in order to formalize and publish their discoveries. While his pamphlet A New Discovery in Algebra seems to be full of contradictions, evasions, and ambiguities, these apparent oversights were in fact tools that allowed Girard to maneuver around obstacles which hampered the spread of discoveries among Europe’s developing community of mathematicians
Jaya Semara
No full textThis lecture on Jaya Semara Indonesian Gamelan (musical work), was recorded in November 2022. The lecture was designed for students and faculty in the First-Year Studies program. This program, a multidisciplinary introduction to the liberal arts, has been a cornerstone of the Lawrence curriculum since 1945.
The lecturer, Sonja Downing, is an ethnomusicologist and a member of the Musicology Department. She is currently co-directing the Global Studies program, and is an interim co-coordinator of academic advising. Her research interests include Balinese gamelan music and dance, traditional music pedagogy, the intersection of gender and performance, and ecomusicology. Her book Gamelan Girls: Gender, Childhood, and Politics in Balinese Music Ensembles explores socio-musical and pedagogical changes due to the recent emergence of all-girls and mixed gender children’s traditional gamelan music ensembles in Bali, Indonesia
