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Book Launch: Art and Feminisms
No full textChairing Panel Discussion for Book Launch: Art and Feminisms at the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) London with Prof Hilary Robinson, Dr Alexandra Kokoli, Dr Basia Sliwinska, and artist Joanna Rajkowska, 16 September 2016. This event celebrated three recent publications from the CREATE/feminisms research cluster, School of Art and Design, Middlesex University: The Female Body in the Looking-glass: Contemporary Art, Aesthetics and Genderland by Basia Sliwinska (I.B. Tauris, 2016), The Feminist Uncanny in Theory and Art Practice by Alexandra Kokoli (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016), and the revised edition of the indispensable Feminism-Art-Theory, edited by Hilary Robinson (Blackwell, 2015). The authors invited me to be the chair for the roundtable, which was joined also by artist Joanna Rajkowska. The roundtable considered the shifting landscape between and across feminism, art practice and theory
Robyn Lyons-Robinson Oral History
No full textRobyn Lyons-Robinson is interviewed by Alexandra Bradley about her experiences at Columbus State Community College
Competing models of socially constructed economic man : differentiating Defoe's Crusoe from the Robinson of neoclassical economics
No full textDaniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe has seldom been read as an explicitly political text. When it has, it appears that the central character was designed to warn the early eighteenth-century reader against political challenges to the existing economic order. Insofar as Defoe’s Crusoe stands for "economic man", he is a reflection of historically-produced assumptions about the need for social conformity, not the embodiment of any genuinely essential economic characteristics. This insight is used to compare Defoe’s conception of economic man with that of the neoclassical Robinson Crusoe economy. On the most important of the ostensibly generic principles espoused by neoclassical theorists, their "Robinson" has no parallels with Defoe’s Crusoe. Despite the shared name, two quite distinct social constructions serve two equally distinct pedagogical purposes. Defoe’s Crusoe extols the virtues of passive middle-class sobriety for effective social organisation; the neoclassical Robinson champions the establishment of markets for the sake of productive efficiency
Ernest Thompson Seton: an unforgettable personality, by Edgar M. Robinson
No full textThis piece, titled “Ernest Thomas Seton: an unforgettable personality”, gives a first hand interpretation of who Ernest Thompson Seton (it is believed that whoever put the cover on this document spelled his name wrong) was through the eyes of Edgar Robinson. Robinson explains what a strong relationship the two of them had and what a strong mentor Seton was to Robinson. Ernest Thompson Seton was an author and illustrator of more than 50 works, and was largely responsible for the American Indian influence in the Boy Scouts of America that offered young people knowledge of an outdoor life based on Native American Indian customs, legends and beliefs. Seton was Chief Scout of the Boy Scouts of America from 1910 to 1915. Edgar M. Robinson was a 1901 graduate from the YMCA Training School, now Springfield college, where he later returned to serve on the faculty as the Honorary Director of Boys Work Courses and the Adviser in Methods and Principles in Work with Boys from 1927-1937.For biographical information on Edgar M. Robinson, see: https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/554
For more information on Ernest Thompson Seton, see: https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/553On the bottom of page number 1 there is a rip, which prevents part of the bottom two lines from being read. On that back of page number one appear the numbers "46757" written in pencil
Robinson Crusoe
No full textDaniel Defoe (c. 1660-1731) was an English merchant, author, and political pamphleteer best known for the classic adventure novel Robinson Crusoe.Cover Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Chapter I-Start in Life -- Chapter II-Slavery and Escape -- Chapter III-Wrecked on a Desert Island -- Chapter IV-First Weeks on the Island -- Chapter V-Builds a House-The Journal -- Chapter VI-Ill and Conscience-Stricken -- Chapter VII-Agricultural Experience -- Chapter VIII-Surveys his Position -- Chapter IX-A Boat -- Chapter X-Tames Goats -- Chapter XI-Finds Print of Man's Foot on the Sand -- Chapter XII-A Cave Retreat -- Chapter XIII-Wreck of a Spanish Ship -- Chapter XIV-A Dream Realised -- Chapter XV-Friday's Education -- Chapter XVI-Rescue of Prisoners from Cannibals -- Chapter XVII-Visit of Mutineers -- Chapter XVIII-The Ship Recovered -- Chapter XIX-Return to England -- Chapter XX-Fight between Friday and a Bear -- Copyright PageDaniel Defoe (c. 1660-1731) was an English merchant, author, and political pamphleteer best known for the classic adventure novel Robinson Crusoe.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
An Arabidopsis cDNA encodes an apparent polyprotein of two non-identical thylakoid membrane proteins that are associated with photosystem II and homologous to algal ycf32 open reading frames
No full textAbstractWe have characterised an Arabidopsis thaliana cDNA homologous to the ycf32 open reading frames present in the Synechocystis genome and the plastid genomes of several eukaryotic algae. The predicted protein is also homologous to a novel protein reported to be associated with photosystem II. The protein is synthesised as a 23 kDa precursor with an N-terminal presequence that appears to be bipartite in structure, and the protein is targeted into the thylakoid membrane of pea chloroplasts. Although the Ycf32 presequence contains an apparent signal peptide, we find that this protein is not imported by either of the standard Sec- or ΔpH-dependent pathways. The mature protein is also unusual in two respects. First, there are two distinct, non-identical copies of typical single-span Ycf32 sequences in the Arabidopsis sequence, separated by an additional hydrophobic region. Secondly, the imported protein runs as a doublet of 6 kDa and 7 kDa polypeptides whereas the mature protein is predicted to be 14 kDa. We speculate that the protein undergoes further maturation once inserted into the thylakoid membrane to yield two separate Ycf32-like polypeptides
2011 Commencement Address: Marilynne Robinson
No full textNovelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson will receive an honorary degree from the College of the Holy Cross and address this year’s graduates during the College’s Commencement ceremonies on Friday, May 27 at 10:30 a.m. on the campus.
The author of three highly acclaimed novels, Robinson has distinguished herself as one of the nation’s most important and influential writers. Interested in the search for meaning and value in life, her work explores themes of faith, forgiveness, hope, and relationships.
Since the publication of her first novel, Housekeeping, in 1980, which earned her the PEN/Ernest Hemingway Award for First Fiction, the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award from the Academy of American Arts and Letters, and a Pulitzer Prize nomination, Robinson has been honored with many of the publishing industry’s most prestigious awards. Her novel Gilead, the story of an Iowa preacher, won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Her most recent novel, Home, a companion to Gilead, won the 2008 L.A. Times Book Prize for fiction and the 2009 Orange Prize for fiction.
In 1990, Robinson received a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writer’s Award, and in 1998, she earned the Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts.
Robinson is also the author of three books of nonfiction, The Death of Adam, Absence of Mind, and Mother Country, an exposé of the environmental damage caused by a nuclear reprocessing plant that was a finalist for the 1989 National Book Award.
A faculty member at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Robinson has also taught at the University of Kent in England, the University of Massachusetts and at Amherst College.https://crossworks.holycross.edu/commence_address/1006/thumbnail.jp
Targeting of proteins into and across the thylakoid membrane
No full textThe assembly of the photosynthetic apparatus utilizes component proteins that are synthesized by two genomes and then targeted into and across the thylakoid membrane. The emerging picture is one of a remarkably complex system of protein trafficking, in which at least four distinct pathways operate within the chloroplast - two for lumenal proteins and two for integral membrane proteins. Some of the pathways can be traced back to the prokaryotic ancestor of the chloroplast, whereas others appear to have arisen more recently - one in response to the transfer of genes to the plant nucleus and another, possibly, in response to the acquisition of new photosynthetic proteins. Remarkably, proteins in three of these pathways are synthesized with clearable signal-type peptides that are almost identical in overall structure, yet that execute entirely different functions. Recent studies have begun to reconcile the function of these targeting signals with the nature of the protein being targeted.</p
Event Invitation: An Evening with Dr. Ken Robinson
No full textInvitation:
Guest speaker, Dr. Ken Robinson, author of “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative, ” will speak on the importance of arts, the development of creativity, education, and the economy. And, introducing the inaugural DaVinci Scholars Awards program
Author-reader relationship at the site of the work
No full textWithin the format of a critical exegesis and four original works of extended prose fiction, this thesis explores the interaction between the author and reader and argues that literary meaning is the outcome of shifts of power between these two entities. It concludes that because these shifts in power are orchestrated by the author, the author is relevant to understanding how meaning is produced
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