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Researching How to Teach Research with Dr. Carolyn Forestiere
No full textDirector : Dr. Christine Mallinson. Associate Director: Dr. Philippe Filomeno. Production Assistants: Amy Barnes and Myriam Ralston. Undergraduate production assistant: Jean Kim. Theme music was composed and recorded by Diwan MorelandOn this episode, we hear from Dr. Carolyn Forestiere, Professor of Political Science and co-advisor of the Omicron Eta UMBC chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political science honor society. Dr. Forestiere is the author of Beginning Research in Political Science (Oxford University Press), and has published and presented many research projects in the field of SoTL research (the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning).https://socialscience.umbc.edu/podcast/episode-54
Representing the China Dream: A case study in revolutionary cultural heritage
No full textThis chapter outlines whether the visual representations of the China Dream can, therefore, be described as a manifestation of revolutionary cultural heritage. The China Dream poster campaign features objects and artwork created at 'well known folk art institutions'. A brief look at the aesthetic and iconographic aspects of a small selection of the designs, with consideration of their key influences, will help to situate the visual representations of the China Dream within the historical trajectory of Chinese visual culture under communism. In addition to promoting the revolutionary ideals, there is a pragmatic motive for the official promotion of red tourism. The poster designs assert particular visions of China and the character of the Chinese people generated by the nationalist agenda. They thusly make use of genres and techniques perceived to be uniquely or characteristically China, regardless of their origin in pre-revolution visual culture or post-revolution visual culture
FIT Authors Talks: "The Miracles" with Amy Lemmon
No full textProfessor and Chair of English and Communication Studies Amy Lemmon reads from and talks about her book The Miracles.With lyricism and grace, Amy Lemmon gives us a worldview to live by. The all-too-familiar “wear of sorrow’s rub” is presented alongside the world’s miracles, including the author’s two children. Fearlessly bridging the gap between tradition and artistic innovation, the author moves us forward with her into the unknown, to entertain new relationships with herself, her children, and the world
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Afterword: a conversation with Sue Pearce
No full textThe visual culture of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-76), upon which this chapter focuses – has been, I would argue, an active agent in the development of Western perceptions of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).1 Its interpretation may be problematic. Three aspects are key: the tensions inherent in its display (especially outside the temporal, ideological and geographical context of its creation); its role in mediating (sometimes subverting) official and unofficial histories of the Cultural Revolution; and what it represents (both visually and symbolically), challenging the image of contemporary China promoted in the West by the PRC and received images of China and ‘Chineseness’ in the West. With these issues in mind, this chapter takes a critical look at two contemporary British examples of institutions with collections of Cultural Revolution-era visual culture, using aspects of collecting theory theorised by Susan Pearce. I will delimit the extent of contemporary collecting practice within this subject area, and begin to reveal the tension between material of an explicitly propagandist nature, and representations of Chinese art and culture within an orientalising discourse. While recognising that there are highly practical (and pragmatic) influences upon the collection, interpretation and display of this material, among them the challenges of presenting to audiences the Cultural Revolution as a sociopolitical and ideological phenomenon, and the macro political considerations that collecting and displaying institutions have to take into account when entering into high profile and potentially lucrative (in both terms of financial and intellectual return) relationships with the Chinese cultural authorities (for a closer examination of these aspects see Barnes 2009). After a description of the focal collections, this chapter turns to a particular, theoretical aspect: the challenge that the visual culture of the Cultural Revolution presents to deeply entrenched museal representations of China and the traditional Western canon of art
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Forum: Museums and Mental Health. Introduction
No full text[From introduction] For this edition of Museum Worlds: Advances in Research, we have asked a group of
museum practitioners to respond to a thought-provoking article about a Taiwanese project
that explored the particular needs of visitors diagnosed with schizophrenia. Allegaert, Besley,
Coleborne, Chynoweth, Gale, and Sirik have used Chen et al.’s article as a jumping off point
from which to write on the broader topic of mental health provision in museums’ engagement
programs from their own international perspectives. The forum was convened by Sandra
Dudley and curated by Amy Jane Barnes
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Introduction to Part I
No full textHow have understandings of what constitutes heritage and who controls it, shifted over time? In this opening section, we consider contexts of heritage, both past and present. The first half considers conceptions of heritage during a period when Euro-American perspectives came to dominate global discourse on the subject, particularly through the implementation of international conventions in the mid- to late-twentieth century. It explores the conception of heritage, emerging largely from European contexts, and its codification via various national legislation and international conventions
American Women Writers: Amy M. Clark
No full textA 2011 conversation with the author Amy M. Clark about her life and the inspiration for her work
Dr. Amy Howard – Faculty Author Interview
No full textAmy Howard, executive director of the Bonner Center for Civic Engagement and associated faculty in American studies, discusses her new book, More Than Shelter: Activism and Community in San Francisco Public Housing, published recently by the University of Minnesota Press. Her research and book looks closely at three public housing projects in San Francisco and brings to light the dramatic measures tenants have taken to create communities that mattered to them
Payton, Amy Louise. "Looking Back" radio show on Paytons book on Georgina Stirling.
No full textCBC freelance broadcaster Cathy Porter talking to author Amy Louise Payton about the life of Georgina Stirling, Soprano Premadonna from Twillingate. Payton talks about her interest in the singer and her book on Stirling; Hiram Silk interviews Amy Louise Payton on the program Looking Back about her book Nightingale of the North about Georgina Stirling. Payton talks about Stirling and the history of the Twillingate area
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