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Interview with Rachel Adams, Class of 2020
Get PDFOral history interview with Illinois State University alum Rachel Adams, Class of 2020. The interview was conducted on August 4, 2022 by Ryan Cox, at the time an undergraduate student at Illinois State University. Adams describes initially being attracted to ISU\u27s welcoming environment and its blend of large university resources with a smaller campus feel. She discusses her transition from a social work major to English and history and highlights the supportive faculty members who played important roles in shaping her academic journey, particularly Drs. Susan Kim and Katie Jasper.
Adams also delves into her involvement in the campus community, including her work at Milner Library\u27s Administration Office and her participation in the ISU History Club, where she met her fiancé. Reflecting on the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic during her final semester, Adams expresses gratitude for the understanding and support she received from professors. She also shares insights into her experience as a queer individual on campus, noting the generally inclusive climate while acknowledging occasional encounters with insensitivity.
Post-graduation, Adams joined ISU Career Services, where she found fulfillment in supporting current students and engaging with the campus community. Despite the challenges of transitioning to the working world, Adams remains deeply connected to ISU, actively participating in alumni activities and continuing to appreciate the supportive community that shaped her undergraduate experience.https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/aoh/1042/thumbnail.jp
Author interview: Q&A with Rachel O’Neill on Seduction: men, masculinity and mediated intimacy
No full textIn this author interview, we speak to Rachel O’Neill about her recent book, Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy, which offers an ethnographic study of the ‘seduction industry’. In the interview, she discusses the seduction industry as part of a continuum of mediated intimacy, the ways in which neoliberal rationalities are shaping masculine subjectivity today, how the book relates to contemporary discussions surrounding consent and women’s sexual agency and the particular challenges of undertaking this fieldwork. If you are interested in this interview, you can read a review of Seduction on LSE RB here. Q&A with Rachel O’Neill, author of Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy (Polity, 2018
‘I take, and I am taken, by what belongs to philosophy’: Philosophy and the redemption of democracy
Get PDFThis Structured Conversation is between Dr Shaj Mohan and Dr Rachel Adams. Dr Adams interviewed Dr Mohan – a leading and radical philosopher of the subaltern continent – on his work on anastasis and a world after critique, as part of the Conversations with Global Thinkers series of Science Forum South Africa 2020
Commission in Response to John W Allen Collection, St Andrews University
No full textCommission in Response to John W Allen Collection, St Andrews University
Rachel Adams is the selected artist commissioned to produce an artwork in response to the John W Allen Collection. John Walter Allen was a physicist and academic at the University of St Andrews who was involved in the development of LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) at SERL in the early 1960s. In his later research, he worked on LEDs in photosynthesis, plant health and skin cancer. Adams will make work in response to the Allen collection housed in Archive collections and Museum collections of the University of St Andrews. The subsequently commissioned artwork will enter the Boswell collection of modern and contemporary Scottish art
Episode 3: Rachel Wightman, CSP Staff and Author
No full textIn this episode, CSP\u27s Associate Director of Instruction and Outreach, Rachel Wightman, shares about her new book, Faith and Fake News: A Guide to Consuming Information Wisely, including how she became interested in the topic, what led to the creation of this book, and why this topic is so important today
Rachel Swarns Book Event: The 272
No full textA conversation with Rachel Swarns, author of The GU272: The Families Who Were Enslaved And Sold To Build The American Catholic Church (Penguin Random House 2023). The conversation was moderated by Georgetown Professor Adam Rothman and hosted by Georgetown's Center for the Study of Slavery and Its Legacies
Theodore Clement Steele: A Lecture by Rachel Perry
No full textJoin author and curator Rachel Perry for a lecture on the life and artwork of Theodore Clement (TC) Steele. Perhaps the most well-known artist of the “Hoosier Group,” Steele created impressionist portraits and landscape paintings from his studio in Nashville, Indiana.https://scholarship.depauw.edu/peeler_event/1084/thumbnail.jp
Wanderlust : actions, traces, journeys, 1967-2017 /
No full text"Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Wanderlust: actions, traces, journeys, 1967-2017, UB Art Galleries, September 7-December 30, 2017, Des Moines Art Center, February 18-May 13, 2018. Curator: Rachel Adams"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Excerpt from Wanderlust : a history of walking / Rebecca Solnit -- Actions, traces, journeys / Rachel Adams -- Keep on walking / Lori Waxman -- Trips, tours, traces, trespassings (and other tropes for wandering) / Jane McFadden
North by East: The Adams Administration
No full textShort profile of Portland artists Ryan and Rachel Gloria Adams. Describes their recent rise to prominence and their work, including murals throughout the city and Tachee, Rachel\u27s line of hand-painted children\u27s clothes. Discusses the impetus given their work by the death of George Floyd, and the new focus on Black artists and business owners overall in the wake of that tragedy
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