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Interview with Scott Robinson (a.k.a Cadillac Seville)
No full textInterview with Scott Robinson (a.k.a. Cadillac Seville) by Austin Pierce Collier following the Morehead Pride Festival on August 27, 2016
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ShelfLife@Texas September 2015 Blog Archive
No full textCONTENTS: Save the Date! “Invisible Austin” Launch Party and Panel Discussion is this Friday at BookPeople -- Q&A with Samuel Garcia, Author of ‘How Goats Can Fight Poverty’ -- Faculty Authors Showcase their Works at the 20th Annual Texas Book Festival || BOOKS MENTIONED IN CONTENTS: "Invisible in Austin: Life and Labor in am American City" by Javier Auyero -- "How Goats Can Fight Poverty" by Samuel Garcia -- "The Wind in the Reeds: A Storm, A Play, and the City That Would Not Be Broken" by Wendall Pierce -- "Negroland" by Margo Jefferson -- "Reagan: The Life" by H.W. Brands -- "Destiny of Democracy: The Civil Rights Summit at the LBJ Presidential Library" by Mark K. UpdegroveDivision of Campus and Community Engagemen
A 'blessed asylum' or a utopian vision : the viability of a Protestant nunnery in early nineteenth-century England
No full textIn 1694, Mary Astell proposed the establishment of Protestant nunneries in England; in 1809, Helena Whitford reiterated the theme; yet, it was Lady Isabella King in 1816 who sought to put this radical idea into effect. A single, Irish, evangelically influenced gentlewoman, a younger daughter of the Earl of Kingston, she established the Ladies’ Association, a ‘conventual’ home for eighteen distressed gentlewomen at Bailbrook House in Bath in 1816, securing support for it from such influential figures as Queen Charlotte, William Wilberforce and Robert Southey. When Bailbrook House was sold in 1821, she relocated the Ladies’ Association to Clifton in Bristol, where its eventual failure in 1835 shattered her vision of establishing a national scheme of conventual homes that would benefit future generations of women.
Limited attention has yet been paid by historians to the role elite women played in creating and managing philanthropic institutions in the early nineteenth century, particularly those aimed at assisting other women in an urban setting. Some historians of philanthropy, such as Frank Prochaska, have identified an ‘explosion’ of early nineteenth-century female activity; however, elite women’s charitable contributions have tended to be understood as rural, concentrating on family estates. Kim Reynolds, who has addressed Victorian elite women’s philanthropy in an urban setting, maintains it functioned simply as a strand of elite women’s work.
This dissertation draws upon a previously unstudied collection of papers compiled and annotated by Lady Isabella King, which span the existence of the Ladies’ Association, in order to explore the nature of Lady Isabella’s involvement in this philanthropic venture and her understanding of her role. Thus it not only seeks to recover Lady Isabella as an important historical figure in the development of early nineteenth-century philanthropic ventures, something for which she was recognised by her contemporaries, but also to
examine the structure of her unique experimental institution and cast some light on the sorts of women who became its residents. By doing so, it provides a case study in the development and practical application of a philanthropic ideal. It examines the ways that Lady Isabella, quite a conventional elite single woman, used her status, her location and her networks to create and maintain the institution for nearly twenty years. It provides a valuable opportunity to examine a number of the problems she faced in establishing and running the institution, given the social and gendered milieu in which she was operating, and the strategies she employed to achieve her ends.
I argue that Lady Isabella’s elite status provided her with the wealth and access to influential social circles to make a difference, that her single status added independence to devote time to her cause and while she was initially beset with self-doubts about her competence to author and manage the project, she gradually gained confidence as she developed ways to implement and manage the institution. At the same time the groundbreaking nature of the Ladies’ Association, the consequent public criticism and a growing discordant atmosphere among the residents of the institution lead to its closure in 1835
INDIGENOUS LAND TENURE AND LAND USE IN ALASKA: COMMUNITY IMPACTS OF THE ALASKA NATIVE CLAIMS SETTLEMENT ACT
No full textThrough the utilization of qualitative methods such as archival analysis, semi-structured interviewing, comparative and extended case studies, and observation, this paper closely examines two related Alaska Native communities. Our purpose is to document the impact of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 (ANCSA) on land tenure, land use, and community structure. In all, 41 interviews were conducted, focusing on the following issues: (1) the role of the tribal government in relation to the regional and village corporate structure; (2) the recent changes in traditional land uses; and (3) how group decisions are made regarding land management and distribution of resources. By locating ANCSA within a broader context of economic, political, and cultural globalization that seeks to substitute traditional collective rights in land with individual tenure in a "free market" economy, the findings of this research may carefully and cautiously be applied beyond North America to other indigenous-state struggles regarding control of land and resources.United States. -- [Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act], Indians of North America -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Alaska, Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- Alaska, Indians of North America -- Alaska -- Claims, Indians of North America -- Land tenure -- Alaska, Indians of North America -- Alaska -- Government relations -- History, Land Economics/Use,
Computational Dimensionalities of Global Supercomputing
No full textThis Invited Paper pertains to subject of my Plenary Keynote Speech at the 17th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI 2013) held in Orlando, Florida on July 9-12, 2013. The title of my Plenary Keynote Speech was: "Dimensionalities of Computation: from Global Supercomputing to Data, Text and Web Mining" but this Invited Paper will focus only on the "Computational Dimensionalities of Global Supercomputing" and is based upon a summary of the contents of several individual articles that have been previously written with myself as lead author and published in [75], [76], [77], [78], [79], [80] and [11]. The topics of these of the Plenary Speech included Overview of Current Research in Global Supercomputing [75], Open-Source Software Tools for Data Mining Analysis of Genomic and Spatial Images using High Performance Computing [76], Data Mining Supercomputing with SAS™ JMP® Genomics ([77], [79], [80]), and Visualization by Supercomputing Data Mining [81].
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[11.] Committee on the Future of Supercomputing, National Research Council (2003), The Future of Supercomputing: An Interim Report, ISBN-13: 978-0-309-09016- 2, http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10784.html
[75.] Segall, Richard S.; Zhang, Qingyu and Cook, Jeffrey S.(2013), "Overview of Current Research in Global Supercomputing", Proceedings of Forty- Fourth Meeting of Southwest Decision Sciences Institute (SWDSI), Albuquerque, NM, March 12-16, 2013.
[76.] Segall, Richard S. and Zhang, Qingyu (2010), "Open-Source Software Tools for Data Mining Analysis of Genomic and Spatial Images using High Performance Computing", Proceedings of 5th INFORMS Workshop on Data Mining and Health Informatics, Austin, TX, November 6, 2010.
[77.] Segall, Richard S., Zhang, Qingyu and Pierce, Ryan M.(2010), "Data Mining Supercomputing with SAS™ JMP®; Genomics: Research-in-Progress, Proceedings of 2010 Conference on Applied Research in Information Technology, sponsored by Acxiom Laboratory of Applied Research (ALAR), University of Central Arkansas (UCA), Conway, AR, April 9, 2010.
[78.] Segall, Richard S., Zhang, Qingyu and Pierce, Ryan M.(2009), "Visualization by Supercomputing Data Mining", Proceedings of the 4th INFORMS Workshop on Data Mining and System Informatics, San Diego, CA, October 10, 2009.
[79.] Segall, Richard S., Zhang, Qingyu, and Pierce, Ryan (2010), "Data Mining Supercomputing with SAS™ JMP® Genomics", Proceedings of 14th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics: WMSCI 2010, Orlando, FL, June 29-July 2, 2010
[80.] Segall, Richard S., Zhang, Qingyu, and Pierce, Ryan (2010), "Data Mining Supercomputing with SAS™ JMP® Genomics", Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (JSCI), Vol. 9, No. 1, 2011, pp.28-33.
[81.] Segall, RS, Zhang, Q., and Pierce, RM (2009), Visualization by supercomputing data mining, Proceedings of the 4 th INFORMS Workshop on Data Mining and System Informatics, San Diego, CA, October 10, 200
Re-inventing Harmony in Electroacoustic Music: A commentary on my Recent Music
No full textRe-inventing Harmony in Electroacoustic Music reflects on research regarding structuring pitch-based material in my music written between 1999 and 2010. The selected works illustrates the process leading up to my research based on psychoacoustic consonance and dissonance and my strategies to create a new kind of harmony – a harmony based on concrete sounds with inharmonic spectra.
The discussion will refer to pieces by composers who have worked with harmony based on the analysis of sound spectra; instrumental and mixed works by spectralist composers such as Grisey, Murail and Saariaho and electroacoustic works by Harvey and others.
I will address the importance of research in the psychoacoustic field, in particular, research by
William A. Sethares regarding inharmonic spectra and scales and how it has affected my works
The virtual image : Brazilian literature in English translation
No full textThe
aim of this thesis is to
examine
how the virtual
image
of Brazil
and
its literature is
constructed
in the Anglo-American world. To this
end, a survey of
Brazilian literary
works
in English translation was
carried out.
Having
gathered this data, it became
possible to establish
correlations
between the historical
moments when such translations
were made, when their number
increased,
and the events occurring at
those times in the international
panorama, as well as to look into the
role of sponsors, publishers and translators in the
selection and
production of such translations.
The data
also allowed a profile of
Brazilian literary
works
in
English translation to be drawn. It became
possible to suggest that
such works
fall into four
main categories:
`authorial
works',
'topical
works',
`ambassadorial
works'
and `consumer-oriented
works'.
In
order
to look
more closely
into how the translation process
has helped to
shape
the
virtual
image
of Brazilian literary
works
in
the Anglo-American world, an analysis of a sample of
translations
of
such works was made. Included in this
sample were
the translations
of works
by Machado de Asis, by Indianist
and
Regionalist
wirters,
culminating
in
an examination of translations of
GuimarAes Rosa's
works.
Having looked
at these aspects of
the translation
process, what
remained
to be done
was to investigate
to what extent
Brazilian
literary
works
in English translation
are read
by the English-
speaking public.
To this
end, a survey of availability and
library
readership was undertaken. Finally,
a reading experiment was carried
out
in
which native speakers of
English
were asked to read the short
story
'A terceira
margem
do
rio',
by GuimarAes Rosa.
The
conclusion attempts to pull all these threads together and
to indicate directions for further
research
Origins of the Great Inflation
No full textThe Great Inflation from 1965 to 1984 is the climactic monetary event of the last part of the 20th century. This paper analyzes why it started and why it continued for many years. Like others, it attributes the start of inflation to analytic errors, particularly the widespread acceptance of the simple Keynesian model with its implication that monetary and fiscal policy should be coordinated. In practice, that meant that the Federal Reserve financed a large part of the fiscal deficit. This paper gives a large role to political decisionmaking. Continuation of inflation depended on political choices, analytic errors, and the entrenched belief that inflation would continue.Inflation (Finance) ; Economic history ; Monetary policy
Archaeology of Trobriand knowledge: Foucault in the Trobriand Islands
No full textThis thesis holds that the application of the archaeological
method, developed by the French philosopher Michel
Foucault, to the field of anthropology reveals a hitherto
hidden primitive episteme. Such a project represents a
rejection of a search for a fundamental Truth, available
through the traditional figures of rationality, either
vertically in history or horizontally across cultures. The
form of reason posited by this project does not have a
constant and universal occurrence but is given in the discontinuous
figures of the episteme. The quest for a single
manifestation of the conditions of validity in reason is
replaced by a study of the conditions of possibility of the
truths, discourses and institutions of a primitive peoples.
The conditions of possibility for the emergence of the
elements of primitive knowledge and practices are available
through the application of the explanatory unities of the
archaeological method. These unities replace the traditional
explanatory role of the subject, with all of its psychological
baggage, which has a central role in modern theories of
rationality. The subject-knowledge link that dominates
traditional anthropological analyses is replaced by a powerknowledge
link that postulates the two axes of discursive
and non-discursive concerns. The discursive axis is concerned
with the objects, concepts, statements and discursive
formations of primitive knowledge while the non-discursive
axis is concerned with the systems of power that propagate
and sustain those discourses. These two axes constitute the
nature of the archaeology employed in this study.
This thesis is sustained by both negative and positive
evidence. The negative evidence takes the form of an antisubjectivist
thrust where the subject-dependent explanatory
unities of the tradition are replaced by the positivistic
elements of archaeology. The positive evidence primarily
takes the form of a detailed analysis of the presence of the
guiding codes of the episteme amongst the Trobriand Islanders
that give rise to their primitive knowledge and practices.
In this area, I make extensive use of Malinowski's
ethnographic observations for their breath of detail and
application without employing his subject-dependent psychobiological
conclusions. Further, I am proposing a transformative
position such that orality becomes a feature of the
episteme rather than its condition of possibility.
The guiding codes of the Trobriand episteme take the
form of enclosed oppositional figures that are everywhere
related to space. The Trobriand episteme provides the conditions
for the emergence of primitive discourses and orders
the experiences of the Trobrianders. The guiding figures of
the episteme are based in a form of complementary opposition,
causation as vitality and a dogma of topological space
that give rise to primitive knowledge which is a form of
divination. A significant part of this dissertation is taken
up with an examination of the detail and limitation of these
figures where ideas from Levy-Bruhl, Hallpike, and others
are employed to produce the most appropriate configuration
for my project. A particular form of language as the manipulation
of real signs, rather than ideational signs, has its
possibility in this configuration which has consequences for
the type of knowledge produced. The form of knowledge appropriate
to the presence of such a model of language is magic.
Writing has no possibility for emerging in this episteme
and, therefore, there are significant consequences for the
type of knowledge that can be maintained and propagated in a
context which must utilise static tradition to the detriment
of reflection.
An archaeological analysis of the Trobriand Islanders,
focusing on discourses on sex and marriage, the nature of
tabooed sexual acts, economic relations arising out of
marriage and the role of the polygamous chief, the nature of
love-magic and magic in general, reveals a shared possibility
for all of these discursive realms in the figures of the
episteme. These discourses are regulated by the presence of
a fundamental opposition between a brother and his sister.
This opposition forms the motif for primitive problematizations
and constitutes a vulnerable boundary which is the
appropriate focus of taboos relating to sex and food,
amongst others.
This primitive episteme characterises the unity of the
experiences of the Trobrianders. This experience is discontinuous
with our own and does not involve a role for the
individual ego. This project represents a worthwhile contribution
to an understanding of human experience and knowledge
in general which does not seek to reduce the natural diversity
of man to just the monotonous experience of modern man.
In conclusion, I tentatively speculate about the appropriateness
of the Trobriand figures for primitive experience in
general
Introito. Historias. Revista de la Dirección de Estudios Históricos Num. 76 (2010) mayo-agosto
No full textDemocracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education (1a., ed. rústica), Nueva York, The Free Press, 1966, p. 148.Donald W. Meinig, A Life of Learning: Charles H. Haskins Lecture, Nueva York, ACLS (Occasional paper, 19), 1992, pp. 18-19.Gracias a las conversaciones con Robert A. Pois en la Universidad de Colorado, me inicié en los ensayos de Louis O. Mink durante los primeros años de mi carrera. Su obra “The Autonomy of Historical Understanding”, en History & Theory, vol. 5, núm. 1, 1966, pp. 24-47, todavía viene a mi men- te cuando pienso en mis acercamientos al estudio histórico y al desafío de una visión combinada, comprehensiva. Con “sinóptico”, Mink quería decir “la comprensión de un evento complejo ‘al considerar las cosas reunidas’ en un juicio total y sinóptico que no puede ser reemplazado por ninguna técni- ca analítica”, p. 42.Lesley Byrd Simpson, Many Mexicos, Nueva York, Putnam, 1941 (primera de muchas ediciones).The Second Tree from the Corner, Nueva York, Harper & Brothers, 1954, p. 173.Donna Pierce, Rogelio Ruiz Gomar y Clara Bargellini, Painting a New World: Mexican Art and Life, 1521-1821, Denver, Denver Art Museum, 2004, p. 83.Jonathan Z. Smith, Imagining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1982, p. 52.Octavio Paz, El ogro filantrópico: historia y política, 1971-1978, México, Joaquín Mortiz, 1979, p. 49.Francisco de Fuentes y Carrión, Sermón de la Assumpcion de Nuestra Señora, en su propio día: predicado en Guadalupe, con la circunstancia de su milagrossa aparición, patente el SSmo. Sacramento por aver concurrido en el último día de el jubileo circular nuevamente concedido a esta muy noble ciudad, y corte de México; y su primera vez en Guadalupe celebrado, México, en la Imprenta de Francisco Ribera Calderón, 1707; Miguel Tadeo de Guevara, Visita sin despedida, que hizo Maria Santisima de Guadalupe al reyno, para la estabilidad y firmeza de la Iglesia americana. Oracion panegyrica, que en su insigne y real Colegiata predicó el dia de la celebridad de su aparicion, 12 de diciembre del año pasado de 1780, México, Zúñiga y Ontiveros, 1781. Artículo publicado en Dallas Morning News, 12 de diciembre de 1995, p. A.1, durante la crisis económica que siguió a la administración de Salinas de Gortari; Jeannette Rodríguez, Our Lady of Guadalupe: Faith and Empowerment Among Mexican-American Women, Austin, University of Texas Press, 1993, p. xiii.Letters of E.B. White (ed. revisada), Nueva York, Harper and Collins, 2006, p. 669J. H. Hexter, The History Primer, Nueva York, Basic Books, 1971, pp. 80 y 207-216.Tomado de la conferencia de McNair pronunciada en Maine Historical Society, Portland, Maine, 24 de junio de 2007.Primicia de un trabajo que en su versión inglesa esperamos ver publicado a principios de 2011, esta “Introducción” a Shrines and Miraculous Images: Essays on Religious Life Before the Reforma, nos fue generosamente enviada por el autor para su publicación en Historias
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