14 research outputs found
Concurrent Session 3-B
No full textWHO, to America, IS EMMETT TILL: Memorializing Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley and One Community’s Mission to Reconcile with Its Past The Emmett Till Interpretive Center Staff (Daphne R. Chamberlain, Benjamin Saulsberry, Jay Rushing, Jessie Jaynes-Diming) In August 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Louis Till was kidnapped and killed in the Mississippi Delta. Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam were ultimately acquitted of his murder by an all-white, male jury at the Tallahatchie County Courthouse in Sumner. While the local community went silent for 50 years after the trial ended, the American Civil Rights Movement gained momentum and Emmett’s mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, devoted the rest of her life to fighting for justice in the murder of her son. In 2006 just after the 50th anniversary of Till’s murder, the Sumner community began to engage in conversations about how to commemorate his life and tell the truth about what happened to him in the Delta. As a result, the Emmett Till Memorial Commission was founded; and the Emmett Till Interpretive Center was born out of the Commission’s community engagement work and was established in 2015 to interpret the restored Tallahatchie County Courthouse and its role in the Till story, while also working to promote restorative justice and racial healing through memorialization. 2025 marks the 70th anniversary of the murder of Emmett Till which had an impact on Mississippi, the South, and the nation. This workshop will give attention to the origins of the Emmett Till Interpretive Center (ETIC) while also giving testimony to the organization\u27s work in historical preservation, truth-telling, and racial reconciliation. This session will also expound on organizational goals and practices employed for almost two decades to engage various audiences and stakeholders to preserve the history and legacy of Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley through memorial work and youth and public engagement. Memorial Monuments: From Glorified Pasts to Reparative Possibilities RoAnne Elliott, Independent Scholar, Washington County Community Remembrance Project; and Valandra, Professor of Social Work and African & African American Studies, University of Arkansas Memory as a topic of human interest has found its way into the work of many genres since antiquity, but in recent decades, historians and scholars across the humanities and social sciences have lived through what Jay Winter has termed a ‘memory boom’, an explosion of interest in collective memory as an organizing concept for analysis and discourse. This boom is evident in an expanding body of research exploring how organized societies commemorate and memorialize the past. One provocative impact of increased focus on public memorialization in scholarship and in public discourse is a strong pivot away from work that upholds a view of the glorious past and valorous heroes of a nation or community, and into work that subjects this past and its heroes to rigorous examination under the unfiltered light of new, deepened analysis addressing previously muted questions. This work has illuminated events, circumstances, and lived experiences previously dismissed as inconsequential, unknowable, and irrelevant. New inquiries within and beyond the academy have inspired critique of the familiar and treasured narratives through which people remember and make meaning of their personal and collective past, envision the future, and claim the people and places that hold the significance of heritage. In this paper we illustrate memory work that bares entrenched wounds, and offers reparative possibilities, and potential ways forward for the nation and for local communities. The National Memorial to Peace and Justice of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) in Montgomery Alabama, a large scale project, and an off-shoot, small, community memorial project in Northwest Arkansas both memorialize victims of anti-Black racial terror through processes that honor descendants of victims, engage communities, and connect a society’s past racial harm to its present challenges and possibilities. Neither project is a static representation of the past. Chair: Valandra, Professor of Social Work and African & African American Studies, University of Arkansa
Editions des Moulins d'Auvergne.
No full textA very nice pair of volumes from a time when people were not producing many fable books! These were a real find upstairs in the Bookhouse. There is one simple black-and-tan wood-engraving for each of the fifty-two fables in this volume. See my comments under the first volume. Among the best of the illustrations are those of the charlatan (30) and the curé (47). The fables in this volume seem to me preponderantly from the later books of La Fontaine; they include several lesser-known stories.Language note: Frenc
Editions des Moulins d'Auvergne.
No full textSee my comments on the first volume, both paper and hardbound, and on the paperbound second volume. This time through my favorite illustrations were Le Cerf se voyant dans l'Eau (20); La jeune Veuve (32); and Les Poissons et le Cormoran (101). Bois gravés illustrant le texte.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Language note: FrenchLa Fontain
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Translating Medicine: Interview with Harris Solomon, author of Metabolic Living
No full text"Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal" was founded in 2017 by Arden Hegele, a literary scholar, and Rishi Goyal, a physician. Its mission is to develop conversations among diverse people thinking about medical and humanistic ways of knowing ... as a “Department Without Walls” that connects scholars and thinkers from different spheres
Understanding breast cancer stories via Frank's narrative types
No full textWhile breast cancer narratives have become prevalent in Western culture, few researchers have explored the structure of such narratives, relying instead on some form of thematic analysis based upon content. Although such analyses are valuable, Arthur Frank (The Wounded Storyteller, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1995) provides researchers with an additional means of studying stories of illness, through the examination of their structures. In this article, the author applies Frank's work to a phenomenological study of embodiment after breast cancer. Frank's three narrative types are used to enhance understanding of the ways in which stories are culturally constructed, using data collected through one focus group discussion and two in-depth interviews with each of 12 women who had experienced breast cancer. The author then conveys the significance of this form of analysis for future research.Breast cancer Qualitative and narrative
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Neruda in Asia, Asia in Neruda : enduring traces of South Asia in the journey through Residencia en la tierra
No full texttextEven the title Residencia en la tierra, one of the early masterworks of Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda, suggests a subject who stands alone in a world that is his by happenstance, in which he does not permanently dwell and to which he does not naturally belong. Stylistically and politically, too, among Neruda’s work Residencia seems to stand alone. Before Residencia, Neruda’s poetry was deeply personal and, compared to what came later, profoundly standard for its time and place; after the Residencia poems were completed—though before they had all been published— Neruda’s poetry would take a turn for the political that would remain with him more or less for the duration of his career. Indeed, the series presents a paradox for critics: a pivotal moment in his poetic development—what Emir Rodríguez Monegal calls Neruda’s first truly creative work—but also a work seemingly out of sync with Neruda’s later writings and vehemently rejected by the author himself only a few years after its publication. In sum, it is a work that refuses equally to be incorporated or to be ignored. This essay will attempt to carve out a more stable place for Residencia en la tierra in the critical understanding of Neruda’s poetic trajectory precisely by returning it to the place of its genesis. By retracing Neruda’s experiences in South Asia during his sojourn in Burma [Myanmar] and Ceylon [Sri Lanka] as a diplomat in the laste 1920s, the place where the enduring symbolism and ethical framework of the Residencia series were born, I will suggest new modes of reading Residencia that shed light on both why this book is so different from his others and the ways in which they are profoundly linked.Comparative Literatur
Governance territoriale dell'economia in Francia, regno Unito e Italia (articolo in rivista fascia A settore 14/D1)
No full textThe article examines recent changes in territorial governance in France, the United Kingdom and Italy. The author investigates how local competition goods are produced and allocated in three metropolitan areas (Lyon, Manchester and Turin) and in three local production systems (Roanne, Leicester and Prato), and identifies both similarities and differences among the six cases. On the one hand, these six cases share the rise of a process of political devolution, the emergence of mechanisms of local co-ordination among different economic and labour policies, the set up of ‘negotiated policies’ and the increasing adoption of contracting-out practices and of public-private partnership. On the other hand, important differences still persist: local governments, agencies, associations and large firms play different roles in the six cases. Analysing the blurring boundaries between similarities and differences it becomes possible to identify four models of economic territorial governance: local statalism for the Roanne case, agency-led governance for the Leicester and Manchester cases, local neo-corporatism for Prato and strategic planning for Lyon and Turin[...
Additional file 6 of Predicting postoperative surgical site infection with administrative data: a random forests algorithm
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Prilog poznavanju minijaturistike Lovre Dobričevića
No full textA copy of the land register of Kotor commissioned in 1457 by the Venetian Governor of Kotor, Giovanni Balbi, is kept in the Municipal Library of the French city Roanne. The copy was authored by the Venetian notary and chancellor based in Kotor, Giovanni di Luxia. It features illustrations representing St. Trifun, the patron saint of Kotor, the lion of Saint Mark, the symbol of Venice and the coat of arms of the Balbi family. Based on a comparison with a number of other works, the author attributes this illustration to Lovro Dobricevic, a painter who lived and worked in Kotor and Dubrovnik. This piece of Dobricevic's work in a very important legal document of the City of Kotor complements our previous knowledge on the last years of the painter's stay in his native city.Na temelju komparativne analize autorica atribuira Lovri Dobričeviću minijaturu s prikazom sv. Tripuna, lava sv. Marka i grba koja se nalazi u prijepisu iz 1457. ranijeg rukopisa kotorskog katastra iz 1429. godine. Prijepis se čuva u Municipalnoj biblioteci francuskog grada Roannea
A PASSAGE FROM INDIA: LOCATING THE “LIMBO CROSSROADS” IN THE WRITINGS OF ALEJO CARPENTIER, V. S. NAIPAUL AND SALMAN RUSHDIE
No full textThis dissertation explores the notion of “limbo” in two novels of Alejo Carpentier, in conversation with writings by V. S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie. It focuses on Carpentier’s El siglo de las luces (1962) and El arpa y la sombra (1978), Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas (1962) and Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh (1995) and Quichotte (2019). The central argument – that the notion of “limbo” stems from the very act of colonizing, attaches itself to the colonized person’s sense of self, seeps into the very foundation of a postcolonial society and transcends even into a post-truth and posthuman future – is based on close reading of the chosen works through a vantage point nuanced by my own cultural heritage. Such a “limbo”, my thesis argues, stems from both the need to make sense of reality through a metanarrative and also the failure to create such a metanarrative. Without claiming any direct influence of these authors on one another, this study compares the selected texts of three authors from previously colonized geographies through the texts they produce.
The dissertation assumes two “limbo figures” in history and in literature – respectively, Christopher Columbus and Don Quixote – and takes the term “limbo crossroads” as meeting points for intertextual, intercultural, and interdimensional encounters of characters within the selected fictions and, by extension, of their authors. Though significant scholarship has treated each author separately, this dissertation proposes studying them together and, to synthesize such seemingly different authorships, it employs the terms “passage”, “limbo”, “purgatory”, “in-between” and “crossroads”. This study considers postcolonial, decolonial and Global South scholarship along with post-truth and posthuman thought and is indebted to Homi Bhabha’s concept of “in-between”, Gayatri Chakrabarty-Spivak’s essay “Rethinking Comparitivism” and Roanne Kantor’s latest scholarship on the influence of Boom writers on English-language South Asian literature
