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And So The Judge Returns: Blood Meridian Workshop at the University of Warwick
No full textPulitzer Prize winning author Cormac McCarthy’s work has become required reading in literary criticism, and yet no syllabus appears to provision for the in-depth discussion his texts, particularly the 1985 novel, Blood Meridian: Or, the Evening Redness in the West, require. The ‘And So the Judge Returns: Blood Meridian Workshop’ at the University of Warwick emerged from the idea to provide a space that facilitates such a discussion. Designed to bring academics and non-academics of all ages together in one space, the workshop quickly developed from a small, Warwick-based event into a live-streamed and recorded international conference with a significant audience based in the United States. The workshop reaffirmed the interest in the novel’s enigmatic antagonist Judge Holden and motifs such as the landscape and violence. Less traditional ideas of the judge were also discussed, such as reading the judge as fraud or as weary of chaos and perpetual violence. The workshop succeeded in creating a space to share thoughts and ideas and continue the academic discourse on the novel. Speakers included Dr Nicholas Monk and Dr David Holloway, both established McCarthy critics; Peter Josyph whose artistic engagement with McCarthy’s work and career his highly respected among critics; and Dr Dan O’Hara, expert in American Studies. Ronan Hatfull and Katja Laug represented the younger generation of McCarthy critics. Live-streaming also afforded insights into the academic discourse to the mostly non-academic online audience. The article provides a summary of the day’s events and the links to the edited recordings
Social distinction and the written word : two provincial case studies, Warwick and Draguignan, 1780-1820
No full textThis is a comparative study of two countries, England and France, two county towns,
Warwick and Draguignan, and two families of the trading-manufacturing sort. It
argues that, during the period around 1780-1820, the acquisition of a certain form of
education, which included an emphasis on fluent reading, writing, and grammar.
preferably Latin grammar, became as important as the acquisition of capital. This
cultural capital gave its new owners a self-perceived distinction which allowed them to
consider themselves and to be considered by others as different.
Even if local, regional, and national differences are taken into account, this
comparative study shows that this new perception developed as a transnational
phenomenon, a form of culture sallS jrolltieres, even during the times of enmity and
almost uninterrupted wars between Britain and France which characterise this period.
This process had begun earlier in the eighteenth century, when the idea of a public
opinion and its premise of equal interaction amongst its proponents was 'invented'; but
it was facilitated by the French Revolution with its legacy of the notion of equality, and
therefore of the importance of communication in forging democracy. The written word
was the chosen means to achieve this.
It is argued that this distinctive culture, in the production and consumption of which
women played a considerable part, gave voice and a social and political consciousness
to those who began to see themselves as the 'middle class'
Joseph L. Rhoades and Eliza C. Davis's wedding invitation
No full textAn invitation and envelope sent to Helen P. Start for the wedding of Joseph L. Rhoades and Eliza C. Davis on December 18, 1913, in Warwick, Maryland
Joseph L. Rhoades and Eliza C. Davis's wedding invitation
No full textAn invitation and envelope sent to Helen P. Start for the wedding of Joseph L. Rhoades and Eliza C. Davis on December 18, 1913, in Warwick, Maryland
Macroecology and meiobenthos: Reply to Warwick (2014)
No full textWarwick (2014; Mar Ecol Prog Ser 505:295-298) suggests that my claim that the biology of marine metazoan benthos may scale continuously with body mass (Bett 2013; Mar Ecol Prog Ser 487:1-6) is an overstatement. His alternative hypothesis is that there is a ‘step-change’ in allometric relationships between the meio- and macrobenthos. I continue to propose that simple null hypotheses for standing stock size spectra and species size spectra of the metazoan benthos, consistent with metabolic theory and macroecology, offer parsimonious solutions. For standing stock and species size spectra I present field data that conform to these null hypotheses. Data from other studies, such as those suggested by Warwick (2014), may be difficult to place in the macroecological context, as those studies are constructed or presented in a different manner (e.g. they lack data on the number of individuals identified). I suggest that it may be useful to consider ‘evolutionary species size spectra’ separately from ‘macroecological species size spectra’. Both are valid testable hypotheses, and are not necessarily contradictory
The causal manipulation and Bayesian estimation of chain event graphs
No full textDiscrete Bayesian Networks (BNs) have been very successful as
a framework both for inference and for expressing certain causal hypotheses. In this paper we present a class of graphical models called
the chain event graph (CEG) models, that generalises the class of discrete BN models. This class is suited for representing conditional independence and sample space structures of asymmetric models. It retains many useful properties of discrete BNs, in particular admitting
conjugate estimation. It provides a flexible and expressive framework
for representing and analysing the implications of causal hypotheses,
expressed in terms of the effects of a manipulation of the generating
underlying system.We prove that, as for a BN, identifiability analyses
of causal effects can be performed through examining the topology
of the CEG graph, leading to theorems analogous to the Backdoor
theorem for the BN
Luce Irigaray
No full textLuce Irigaray is the Director of Research in Philosophy at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique de Paris. A doctor in linguistics and philosophy, a leading cultural theorist, an experienced therapist and author of more than 30 books on a range of subjects, Luce Irigaray truly is an interdisciplinary thinker. Thanks to support from the French Embassy in London, the Institute of Advanced Study, the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender, the Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP), and the Departments of English and History, she visited the University of Warwick on 7 June 2013. A lecture and roundtable discussion was attended by students and academics from many different departments, forming questions and ideas across and beyond disciplines. The day concluded with a reception and animated conversations that carried on until late in the evening. Before leaving Warwick, Luce Irigaray kindly agreed to give an exclusive interview to ‘Exchanges’, some of which is included in this discussion of her ideas
And So The Judge Returns: Blood Meridian Workshop at the University of Warwick
No full textPulitzer Prize winning author Cormac McCarthy’s work has become required reading in literary criticism, and yet no syllabus appears to provision for the in-depth discussion his texts, particularly the 1985 novel, Blood Meridian: Or, the Evening Redness in the West, require. The ‘And So the Judge Returns: Blood Meridian Workshop’ at the University of Warwick emerged from the idea to provide a space that facilitates such a discussion. Designed to bring academics and non-academics of all ages together in one space, the workshop quickly developed from a small, Warwick-based event into a live-streamed and recorded international conference with a significant audience based in the United States.
The workshop reaffirmed the interest in the novel’s enigmatic antagonist Judge Holden and motifs such as the landscape and violence. Less traditional ideas of the judge were also discussed, such as reading the judge as fraud or as weary of chaos and perpetual violence. The workshop succeeded in creating a space to share thoughts and ideas and continue the academic discourse on the novel. Speakers included Dr Nicholas Monk and Dr David Holloway, both established McCarthy critics; Peter Josyph whose artistic engagement with McCarthy’s work and career his highly respected among critics; and Dr Dan O’Hara, expert in American Studies. Ronan Hatfull and Katja Laug represented the younger generation of McCarthy critics. Live-streaming also afforded insights into the academic discourse to the mostly non-academic online audience. The article provides a summary of the day’s events and the links to the edited recordings
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Visual attention and perceptual categorisation
No full textProcess models of categorisation have been developed to account for the interactions between perceptual processes and decisional processes in categorisation. The formalised relation between perceptual and decisional processes described in the extended generalised context model (K Lamberts, 1995, 1998) has been shown to provide a good account of time course data from categorisation tasks as well as other tasks such as perceptual matching and recognition. In a set of four experiments the assumption in the extended generalised context model that visual attention has a negligible influence on perceptual and decisional processes was examined. Experiment 1 and 2 examined whether visual attention could influence perceptual processing and Experiment 3 and 4 examined whether visual attention could influence both perceptual and decisional processes in categorisation. Contrary to previous findings Experiments 1-4 demonstrated that visual attention can have a large influence on perceptual processing in categorisation. Consistent with previous results it was found that visual attention does not influence decisional processes in categorisation and that there are multiple systems of attention controlling decisional and perceptual processes in categorisation. In Experiment 5 and 6, the extended generalised context model was extended for application to visual search tasks. Experiments 5 and ~ examined whether this new model could account for the time course of similarity effects in visual search. The new model provided a good account of the time course of similarity effects and display size effects. The implications of these findings are discussed in relation to the research on perceptual and decisional processes in categorisation and alternative theories of visual search.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo
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