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Early photographic work exhibited in 'All in the Family', UK Art Museum, University of Kentucky and 2nd Story, Lexington, KY
No full textEarly Photographic work was exhibited in 'All in the Family,' UK Art Museum, (July 16 – November 23, 2024) and 2nd Story, 522 West Short Street, Lexington (July 16 – October 12, 2024), University of Kentucky, College of Fine Arts. Co-curated by Stuart Horodner and Leah Kolb. This was a two-venue exhibition exhibiting works by emerging and established artists who have used their relatives (parents, children, siblings, partners) as subject matter to examination love and intimacy, acceptance and forgiveness, rituals and routines, and illness and loss. Selections offered a broader definition than blood relations, including aspects of chosen families and the significance of pets. The show provided opportunity to consider who and what we value, and the related joys and challenges that are part of the equation. The exhibition title was taken from the American television sitcom that aired on CBS for nine seasons, between 1971 – 1979. The TV show broke ground in its depiction of issues previously considered unsuitable for US network comedies, including racism, homosexuality, women’s liberation, religion, abortion, menopause, impotence, and the Vietnam War. Many of the works were part of the Museum’s permanent collection. Additional art was borrowed from studios, galleries, and collections. Besides Billingham, artists included Edgar Tolson, Elinor Carucci, Gaela Erwin, Tommy Kha, Rolf Koppel, Guy Mendes, and Marilyn Minter, Rachael Banks, Tyanna Buie, Rockwell Kent, Tony Tasset, Russell Lee, and Baldwin Lee; Robert Morgan, Aaron Skolnick, James Baker Hall, Barbara Pollack, and Chris Verene, Bill Adams and others
Deciding for others: local public good contributions with intermediaries
Get PDFGiven that pure public goods' broader use is often limited by distance, congestion, or borders, local public goods are prevalent. The decision for the provision of these local public goods is often made by individuals who do not get to consume them. It is, therefore, not clear whether the classic free-riding problem result holds in this framework. We study the provision of a local public good where the public good contribution decisions are made by non-local intermediaries who neither contribute from their own endowment nor directly benefit from the local public good. Each intermediary decides for only one public good beneficiary. Intermediaries make decisions under two compensation mechanisms where their incentives are either non-aligned (fixed), or aligned (variable), with those of the beneficiaries they represent. We find that the use of intermediaries, regardless of the compensation mechanism, significantly increases contributions to the provision of the public good
Do words compete as we speak? A systematic review of picture-word interference (PWI) studies investigating the nature of lexical selection
Get PDFThis review synthesizes findings from 117 studies that have manipulated various picture-word interference (PWI) task properties to establish whether semantic context effects reflect competitive word retrieval, or are driven by noncompetitive processes. Manipulations of several PWI task parameters (e.g., distractor visibility) have produced contradictory findings. Evidence derived from other manipulations (e.g., visual similarity between targets and distractors) has been scarce. Some of the manipulations that have furnished reliable effects (e.g., distractor taboo interference) do not discriminate between the rival theories. Interference from nonverbal distractors has been shown to be a genuine effect dependent on adequate lexicalization of interfering stimuli. This supports the swinging lexical network hypothesis and the selection-by-competition-with-competition-threshold hypothesis while undermining one of the assumptions of the response exclusion hypothesis. The contribution of pre-lexical processes, such as an interaction between distractor processing and conceptual encoding of the target to the overall semantic context effect is far from settled
A social practice perspective of Ireland’s lobster cultural food heritage
Get PDFThe research examines integrating the Slow Food Movement (SFM) with Ireland’s lobster industry, emphasising preserving local culinary heritage as crucial for Sustainable Food Systems. This heritage includes both tangible elements, like agricultural practices and intangible ones, such as traditional food preparation. Slow food aims to protect these traditions from the homogenisation of food production. Using Social Practice Theory, the research analyses lobster consumption in Ireland, underscoring its symbolic importance in Irish culture to develop a novel framework adapted from the Social Practice Framework. The study combines qualitative interviews and secondary data analysis to explore lobster’s role in Irish culinary heritage and its potential for promoting sustainable seafood consumption. Results from the study highlight the critical role of Irish lobster fishing communities in maintaining cultural food heritage, with traditional practices contributing to ecological and economic sustainability. The SFM influences lobster consumption, supporting sustainable and culturally important food practices. This research underscores the intricate link between tradition and sustainability, suggesting a model to balance cultural integrity with sustainable practices, contributing to a more culturally informed and environmentally conscious food consumption approach
Authentic activities for making mathematicians
No full textOne of the goals of an undergraduate degree in mathematics is to transform students’ perception of mathematics from calculations with the rote application of formula to the reflective, creative problem-solving that is highly valued in academia and other professions. This can be achieved by incorporating authentic mathematical activities (i.e. the kind of task a maths graduate can expect in the workplace) into the design and delivery of undergraduate programmes.
The Middlesex maths team have implemented a variety of novel teaching and learning methods into their specialist maths provision to achieve this aim. Our approach includes the use of generative artificial intelligence; extended, vague, problem-solving assignments; open-ended statistical analyses; student choice in assessment; reflective components; and technology embedded throughout the degree programme.
In this talk we discuss the implementation, benefits and challenges of these authentic mathematical activities, focusing on their effect on students’ perceptions of mathematics during their studies. We use questionnaires to determine how students’ perceptions of mathematics change while doing these activities and provide a thematic analysis of the reflective components of students’ assessment
Masters and slaves: black artists and the ownership of sound recording copyright
No full textIn recent years, black artists have been at the forefront in claiming and proclaiming ownership of sound recording copyright. This ownership has economic value, as it can position artists to gain higher royalty shares and have greater control over the work. It also has symbolic value, as it represents triumph over the corporatised recording industry. This chapter addresses this subject through a historical and etymological lens. Firstly, it looks at how this form of intellectual property became associated with the ‘master’ recording and how legislation has successively been oriented towards different types of master: disc and cylinder masters; tape masters; digital masters. Secondly, the chapter looks at sound recording rights. Although there are differences by territory, all countries are unified in orienting legislation so that record companies can be considered the original owners and therefore have control. Thirdly, the chapter documents how, despite the criteria of sound recording laws, it has become increasingly common for artists to claim ownership. Moreover, as indicated above, artists of colour are at the forefront of this movement. Finally, this chapter addresses the symbolic value of ownership. Black artists have reversed the language of master rights to portray themselves as having been the recording industry’s slaves. This formulation has led companies to revise both the economic and linguistic terms of their recording contracts
The challenge of improving work health and safety in global supply chains: Institutions and evidence of effectiveness
Get PDFThe challenges for work health and safety (WHS) posed by global supply chains (GSCs) are well known. In a comprehensive review of the literature on the effectiveness of private and public regulatory measures upon relations within and around these chains, this article explores ways to improve prevention practices and their outcomes for WHS. It concludes there are a range of regulatory approaches utilised to achieve improvements but to be effective they require politically supported interventions and better orchestration at global and national levels. Whether, as recent literature suggests, the 2022 amendment adding WHS to the International Labour Organization’s Declaration of Fundamental Principles and Rights is able to serve as a catalyst for this remains to be seen. Without such support and the political will to drive interventions, however, the analysis suggests that the current operational weaknesses of regulatory approaches to supporting WHS in GSCs are unlikely to be remedied
EDI and postgraduate research: report on the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion review of postgraduate research at Middlesex University
Get PDFMiddlesex University, as an institution committed to improving EDI in all areas of teaching and research, commissioned this review of its practices and processes, which was carried out by a team of internal researchers (Dr Rima Saini and Dr Bianca Stumbitz), led by Nico Pizzolato, in collaboration with Advance HE (in particular Dr Panagiota Sotiropoulou). A wider steering group, including colleagues and PGRs from across the University who are particularly invested in EDI, was consulted twice and contributed to the design of the project
Barbenheimer: mass appeal cinema and the evolution of the blockbuster
No full textReflections on the philosophical import of the Barbenheimer cultural phenomenon