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Taking Offense with Emily McTernan
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Imagine sitting in a staff meeting where one of your co-workers makes a joke about people with disabilities. You’re offended, so you roll your eyes and cross your arms in front of your chest for the rest of the meeting. You might worry that your reaction was pretty insignificant, and didn’t really do any good. My guest, philosopher Emily McTernan, argues that taking offense and showing disapproval, even in small ways, can actually be a force for social good.
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Contact us at [email protected] Links to people and ideas mentioned in the show Emily McTernan, On Taking Offence Amy Olberding, The Wrong of Rudeness: Learning Modern Civility from Ancient Chinese Philosophy Sarah Buss, “Appearing Respectful: The Moral Significance of Manners“ Cheshire Calhoun, “The Virtue of Civility“ Joel Feinberg, Offense to Others Credits
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May 2023 Table of Contents Newsletter - DePauw Scholarship Celebration
Get PDFA celebration of the Faculty Achievement and Author Book Signing event (a collaboration between the DePauw Faculty Development Coordinator and the DePauw Libraries) and the inaugural Senior Research Symposium. The libraries celebrates all faculty and student scholarship by archiving research and creative projects in our institutional repository
Petro Pasts and Solar Futures: An Exploration of Critical, Creative, and Activist Solarpunk Discourse
Get PDFWhile some scholars in the subject of environmentalism may be familiar with the genre of petrofiction, the emerging genre of solarpunk is much less well-known by both academics and average readers alike. It occupies many of the same spaces as petrofiction, as a genre that grapples with modern society’s relationship to energy sources of oil and renewables. However, solarpunk differs from petrofiction in the fact that it goes beyond just a literary genre, reaching out into the worlds of art and activism simultaneously. Not only is the term ‘solarpunk’ used to refer to works of art and literature, but it is also used to describe a type of person. A solarpunk is someone who engages in the critical, the creative, and the activist parts of the movement with the ultimate goals of inspiring hope for the future in themselves and others in the face of devastating climate change (Flynn, ReDes, Solarpunk Anarchist).
Through the completion of this project, I plan to become a solarpunk myself by engaging in the three major aspects of solarpunk discourse. I will do so by writing a critical essay about the genre, writing a short solarpunk fiction piece, and planning a community-based art event as an act of solarpunk activism. Through my critical essay, I plan to further explore the relationship between solarpunk and petrofiction, to discover what qualifies a work as ‘solarpunk,’ and how the definition might be pushed in a different direction in the future. In my solarpunk short story, I will discover what my own vison of a solarpunk future looks like, as inspired by the exploration of solarpunk fiction in my critical essay. Then, I will engage in an act of solarpunk activism by planning and presenting a community-based art project, the Peeler Cup Collective: Solarpunk Futures event, where I will encourage my community members to learn about solarpunk and engage in their own acts of solarpunk activism by taking the time to imagine their version of a hopeful solarpunk future. Through this project, I hope to understand what it means to be a ‘solarpunk,’ as well as showcase the incredible diversity present in solarpunk discourse
The Emotions Behind the Screen
Get PDFThis thesis revolves around the narrative form of Dungeons and Dragons, that the players have true free will, which allows for the highest level of storytelling. By reaching this level, the players are able to freely tackle issues in their life and surrounding them, like testing out negative parts of their personality and finding community during events like the COVID pandemic. This, combined with the recent scandal from DnD’s publisher Wizards of the Coast poses this question: what exactly is DnD, therapy, art, community, or just a game? This thesis hopes to lead the reader to answer this question in their own terms
Code-Switching Among Heritage Spanish Speakers: Attitudes, Practices, and Pedagogical Implications
Get PDFCode-switching is perhaps one of the most salient linguistic practices among Spanish-English bilinguals in the U.S., and therefore widely investigated. (Bailey 2000; Kern 2019; Lipski 2014). While code-switching is typically associated with bilinguals who are highly proficient in two languages (Balukas & Koops 2014; Benevento & Dietrich 2015; Poplack 1980; Rangel et al. 2015), it is crucial to also highlight the code-switching practices of bilinguals who may have unequal levels of proficiency in each language, such as in the case of some heritage language (HL) learners. The present study examines socio-pragmatic functions of code-switching among heritage learners of Spanish. Using data from questionnaires and interviews, this study looks at instances of and attitudes towards code-switching. Findings indicate that code-switching was generally viewed favorably among participants, and commonly practiced by most of the participants in a variety of social contexts. Interview data also suggests that code-switching serves various socio-pragmatic functions for participants. Given the double stigma attached to both code-switching (Rangel et. al 2015) and to Spanish in the U.S. (Showstack 2012)—which often informs HL pedagogy—it is crucial to examine this linguistic practice in the context of HL learners in the U.S. in order to give code-switching a more prominent place and offer further legitimization of this practice, both in and outside the classroom
“The Lovelorn Lady and the Stony Monk: Women, Sexuality, and Imagination in the Kegon engi emak in Introduction to Buddhist East Asia
No full textOffers a variety of pedagogical and theoretical essays designed to assist professors in introducing undergraduate students to Buddhism in China, Korea, and Japan
Tiger Talk 10-25-23
No full textKatie Moore interviews Maggie Volpe from the Field Hockey Team. Broadcast 10-25-23
Tiger Talk 11-15-23
No full textKatie Moore interviews Blake Woodard and Will Kaster from the DePauw football team in their first interview since Monon! Broadcast 11-15-23
