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To Swallow the Stars
Full text linkThrough abstract paintings of illuminated voids, Catie Dillon explores ideas of interconnectedness. In To Swallow the Stars , she traces the layers of her process, examining the function of gesture, color, light, and space as a means to capture the ineffable
You are not a good photographer
Full text linkThis paper examines the medium of photography as a dynamic space for exploring the interplay between reality, memory, and imagination. It positions photography as an imperfect medium that operates on the boundary between predictability and uncertainty, embracing its inherent limitations as a source of creative potential. By addressing the tension between subjective experience and objective reality, this study redefines photography as a tool for continuous questioning and reinterpretation, highlighting its role in navigating the gaps between what is seen and what is imagined
Resurrection in the Regensburg Pendant: Materials and Iconography, Devotional Object as Sacred Jewelry
Full text linkThe Regensburg butterfly (1310-1320), an exquisitely crafted reliquary pendant, was found in the head of a fourteenth-century crucifix in 1991. The locket’s butterfly shape—and the ways in which the butterfly serves as a metaphor for Christ’s redemption—remains a fascinating window into late medieval Christianity and devotional practices in the medieval world
The Farthest I Can Sense Time
No full textThis thesis examines the experiences of immigration, identity, and language through the lens of diasporic memory and intergenerational storytelling. At its core lies Communion of Empty Mouths (2024), a multi-channel video installation exploring the physical, communal, and ephemeral dimensions of language development and loss. The work juxtaposes live animation, tactile materials like ceramics, and experimental soundscapes to delve into the ancestral and embodied nature of linguistic expression.
Anchored in Yiddish poet Celia Dropkin’s text My Hands and inspired by familial narratives, the thesis critiques hierarchical and gendered dimensions of language, focusing on Yiddish as a diasporic medium of resistance and reorientation. Bridging theoretical perspectives, including queer phenomenology and postcolonial linguistics, with intimate artistic practices, this project challenges societal norms of language and representation. By foregrounding unsocialized voices and creating spaces for embodied expression, The Farthest I Can Sense Time reclaims fragmented, diasporic histories, proposing storytelling as an act of linguistic and cultural reclamation
shapes that hide their shadows
Full text linkshapes that hide their shadows concerns itself with the mutability of memory. The complexities of girlhood to womanhood, and the way we are shaped by place and space, are explored through the artist recounting childhood memories connected to her grandparents\u27 hometowns. Divided into three different sections, the artist discusses drawing as medium, creating a lexicon through using visual symbols, and the logistics of building your own archive
Ultraviolent
Full text linkHow do you reconceive yourself in a society that has failed you? Jin Mateo Kim\u27s works examine the reckoning of self-conception in postwar youth subculture of the 1960s
False Awakenings
No full textThis paper discusses the boundary between dreams and reality, and offers some unconventional techniques for discerning the difference. It describes Knauss’s various performance rituals developed around a case study that traces the genealogy of a ringtone. This study attempts (and fails) to use cultish thinking as a means of deprogramming and poisonous distraction as a cure for attentional assault
Building Bridges of Knowledge
Full text linkBuilding Bridge of Knowledge (BBK) is a CUNY-wide faculty fellowship project, aiming to help students use generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools ethically, responsibly, and effectively. Funded by Lumina Foundation in 2024-25, the project was executed by the CUNY Innovative Teaching Academy (CITA) of the Office of Faculty Affairs at CUNY Central Office, with 25 Faculty Fellows in five disciplinary areas (Education, Health, Humanities, Social Sciences, and STEM) chosen from across CUNY’s senior and community colleges. Each disciplinary cohort was led by a CUNY faculty member with expertise in the use of AI. The final materials, described and linked in this booklet, will be shared across CUNY and beyond, to foster collaboration and knowledge-sharing across institutions, and to help ensure that the ethical use of generative AI becomes a cultural norm among college students
Analysis of rare events in healthcare intervention using department of defense data: intravenous immune globulin therapy for bullous pemphigoid
Full text linkIntroduction
Rare events data have proven difficult to explain and predict. Standard statistical procedures can sharply underestimate the probability of rare events, such as intravenous immune globulin therapy (IVIg) for bullous pemphigoid. Methods
This retrospective cross-sectional study used Department of Defense TRICARE data to determine factors associated with IVIg therapy among bullous pemphigoid patients. We used prior and weighted correction methods for logit regression to solve rare event bias. Results
We identified 2,720 individuals diagnosed with bullous pemphigoid from 2019 to 2022, of which 14 were treated with IVIg. Patients who received IVIg therapy were younger (65.07 vs. 75.85, P =.0016) and more likely to be female (13 vs. 1, P =.0036). The underestimation with the standard regression model for event probabilities ranged from 11% to 102% using the prior correction method and from 15% to 107% using the weighted correction method. Conclusion
Rare events are low-frequency, high-severity problems that can have significant consequences. Rare diseases and rare therapies are individually unique but collectively contribute to substantial health and social needs. Therefore, correct estimation of the events is the first step toward assessing the burden of rare diseases and the pricing of their therapies
Community-Level Analysis of Anti-Asian Hate Crime
Full text linkMotivated by the surge in anti-Asian hate crimes during the COVID-19 pandemic, this study examines the community characteristics associated with the likelihood of their occurrence from 2020 to 2023 through interracial conflict and social disorganization perspectives. Analyzing data from the New York City Police Department and the American Community Survey across 2,198 census tracts, we find that communities with higher levels of Asian population, racial heterogeneity, and residential instability have higher odds of experiencing anti-Asian hate crime. However, concentrated disadvantage and defended neighborhoods (White, Black, and Hispanic) are not significant across all estimated models. These findings have important implications for both research and policy