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Politics - talk by Jonathan Burrows
No full textSUMMARYPolitics was a research talk written for the Inventur#2–Contemporary Dance and Performance Conference at Tanzhaus NRW Düsseldorf, June 2nd 2017. This talk formed part of a panel on Social Practices and the Inherent Politics of Dance, chaired by Jonathan Burrows and Dan Daw, with guest speakers Bojana Kunst and Joe Moran. It is now published as part of A World of Muscle, Bone & Organs: Research and Scholarship in Dance, edited by Simon Ellis, Hetty Blades and Charlotte Waelde, published by CDaRE, 2018. The talk was also shared again as part of a seminar at the New Theatre Institute of Latvia on February 15th 2020.The aim of the research behind this talk was to begin the process of an examination into the often spoken relationship between dance practice and the political. The research and outcome of this talk covered two main elements of the relationship between dance and the political: the tendency of dance performers to describe their experience of dancing as being a form of freedom; and the tendency of practitioners to also assume a separation between their activities and the possibility of co-option or appropriation by economic or political forces. The talk echoed a research by Jonathan Burrows, Simon Ellis and Efrosini Protopapa, which began by trying to identify contradictory arguments for the value of dance, focussing on the question 'If the value of dance is that it has no value, what might this mean in a historical moment that calls for action?'. These questions sit centrally to current developments in the field, led by a younger generation many of whom are already invested as activists in parallel to their artistic work. It identifies crucial ways in which diverse dance artists might continue to build strength together to question current notions of cultural, political and economic value in dance, and support positive commonal resistance within each other's practice.CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION- Credits:text by Jonathan Burrowscommissioned by Inventur#2–Contemporary Dance and Performance Conference at Tanzhaus NRW Düsseldorf- First presentation:Inventur#2–Contemporary Dance and Performance Conference at Tanzhaus NRW Düsseldorf, June 2nd 2017- Also presented at:New Theatre Institute of Latvia, February 15th 2020- Published as part of : A World of Muscle, Bone & Organs: Research and Scholarship in Dance, edited by Simon Ellis, Hetty Blades and Charlotte Waelde, published by CDaRE, 2018</p
Politics - talk by Jonathan Burrows
No full textSUMMARYPolitics was a research talk written for the Inventur#2–Contemporary Dance and Performance Conference at Tanzhaus NRW Düsseldorf, June 2nd 2017. This talk formed part of a panel on Social Practices and the Inherent Politics of Dance, chaired by Jonathan Burrows and Dan Daw, with guest speakers Bojana Kunst and Joe Moran. It is now published as part of A World of Muscle, Bone & Organs: Research and Scholarship in Dance, edited by Simon Ellis, Hetty Blades and Charlotte Waelde, published by CDaRE, 2018. The talk was also shared again as part of a seminar at the New Theatre Institute of Latvia on February 15th 2020.The aim of the research behind this talk was to begin the process of an examination into the often spoken relationship between dance practice and the political. The research and outcome of this talk covered two main elements of the relationship between dance and the political: the tendency of dance performers to describe their experience of dancing as being a form of freedom; and the tendency of practitioners to also assume a separation between their activities and the possibility of co-option or appropriation by economic or political forces. The talk echoed a research by Jonathan Burrows, Simon Ellis and Efrosini Protopapa, which began by trying to identify contradictory arguments for the value of dance, focussing on the question 'If the value of dance is that it has no value, what might this mean in a historical moment that calls for action?'. These questions sit centrally to current developments in the field, led by a younger generation many of whom are already invested as activists in parallel to their artistic work. It identifies crucial ways in which diverse dance artists might continue to build strength together to question current notions of cultural, political and economic value in dance, and support positive commonal resistance within each other's practice.CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION- Credits:text by Jonathan Burrowscommissioned by Inventur#2–Contemporary Dance and Performance Conference at Tanzhaus NRW Düsseldorf- First presentation:Inventur#2–Contemporary Dance and Performance Conference at Tanzhaus NRW Düsseldorf, June 2nd 2017- Also presented at:New Theatre Institute of Latvia, February 15th 2020- Published as part of : A World of Muscle, Bone & Organs: Research and Scholarship in Dance, edited by Simon Ellis, Hetty Blades and Charlotte Waelde, published by CDaRE, 2018</p
WIT Diversity Talk with John Ellis
No full textSudeshna Datta Cockerill, CERN Ombudsperson, will interview John Ellis, a renown British theoretical physicist with a long career both at CERN and externally. John Ellis has also been awarded several prizes for his work in physics. Among many other outstanding roles and positions, he was Division Leader of the Theory Division at CERN from 1988-1994. John Ellis is currently Clerk Maxwell Professor of Theoretical Physics at King's College London
Jonathan Ned Katz Author Event: The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adam
No full text“The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams,” interview with author, Jonathan Ned Katz, moderated by Emily Weiner (WWU) and organized by Congregation Beth Israel
Contemporary Literature. Analysis of Jonathan Bazzi's novels
No full textopenDopo una breve panoramica della letteratura italiana degli ultimi vent’anni si analizzano i due romanzi di Jonathan Bazzi "Febbre" e "Corpi minori" dai punti di vista formale, stilistico e tematico. Si discute inoltre il rapporto tra social media, autofiction e autore; nel capitolo 4 si riporta l'intervista che Bazzi ci ha gentilmente concesso, in cui questi argomenti vengono ripresi.
Si individuano alcune differenze che i testi mostrano rispetto alla letteratura moderna, e gli aspetti che hanno in comune con quella contemporanea; nel fare questo si accennano quindi alcune caratteristiche della società che li ha prodotti.The paper starts off with a brief overview of the contemporary Italian literature; then the reader is guided through an analysis of Jonathan Bazzi's novels, "Febbre" ("Fever") and "Corpi minori" ("Minor bodies"), both translated in English and published by Scribe. The relationship between author, autofiction and social media will also be discussed; in chapter four the reader will find the interview Bazzi kindly granted us
Population genetics and ecology of rare bumblebee species in the UK
No full textThe population genetic structure of three rare and declining bumblebee species, Bombus muscorum, B. humilis, and B. sylvarum was examined using microsatellite markers. We find evidence of significant genetic structuring in both oceanic island populations of B. muscorum and in fragmented mainland populations of B. jumilis and B. Sylvarum. In the former species we find that all populations greater than 10km apart are significantly differentiated from one another suggesting dispersal above this distance is infrequent. Evidence of genetic bottlenecks was found in populations of both B. muscorum and B. humilis. All three species show reduced genetic diversity relative to the common B. pascuorum and fragmented UK populations of B. sylvarum show reduced genetic diversity relative to a continental population. Effective population sizes were found to be low in B. humilis and B. sylvarum, especially so in the latter species. Diploid male production was observed in all three rare species, but was infrequent. We propose that diploid male production is not an appropriate measure of inbreeding depression for social Hymenoptera. Why some bumblebee species have declined in the face of agricultural intensification while others have not is not well understood. Diet breadth of rare species was examined as a possible explanation of this. To some extent all three rare species studied show a narrow diet breadth. We hypothesize that this is because as these species emerge late, they must specialize on plants with higher quality pollen in order to raise the brood more quickly. Following losses of floral diversity, agricultural intensification has than affected these species more greatly.</p
Administration and Curricula of the Introductory Graduate Music Research Course
No full textThe introductory research course is an integral part of many graduate music programs, yet there have been few studies that discuss its curricula across institutions. A questionnaire was sent to instructors of the course to identify shared pedagogical approaches among North American schools of music. The survey was divided into sections that prompted respondents to identify issues discussed in the course, including the types and titles of resources, research methodologies, and library use topics. With a response rate of over 40 percent, the survey also contains valuable data concerning the professional identifications of instructors, assignments used for grading, common textbooks, perception of the course’s efficacy, and more. Shared features of the course included the importance of electronic resources; the minimal use of Internet-mediated instruction formats; a strong preference for English-language materials; and a focus on resources such as databases, style guides, collected works, monuments of music, and thematic catalogs over and above others such as repertoire guides, discographies, directories, and iconographies.Peer reviewedThis publication first appeared in Notes Volume 71, Number 3, March 2015, pp. 448-478. This material may not be copied or reposted without explicit permission. Copyright 2015, Jonathan Sauceda
Citizen participation in news
No full textThe process of producing news has changed significantly due to the advent of the Web, which has enabled the increasing involvement of citizens in news production. This trend has been given many names, including participatory journalism, produsage, and crowd-sourced journalism, but these terms are ambiguous and have been applied inconsistently, making comparison of news systems difficult. In particular, it is problematic to distinguish the levels of citizen involvement, and therefore the extent to which news production has genuinely been opened up. In this paper we perform an analysis of 32 online news systems, comparing them in terms of how much power they give to citizens at each stage of the news production process. Our analysis reveals a diverse landscape of news systems and shows that they defy simplistic categorisation, but it also provides the means to compare different approaches in a systematic and meaningful way. We combine this with four case studies of individual stories to explore the ways that news stories can move and evolve across this landscape. Our conclusions are that online news systems are complex and interdependent, and that most do not involve citizens to the extent that the terms used to describe them imply
To what extent is Lemuel Gulliver in Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift a reflection of the writer with regard to political and religious views, and attitudes toward women and the concept of family?
No full textThis extended essay is an examination of the extent to which the protagonist Lemuel Gulliver in Gulliver’s Travels is a reflection of Jonathan Swift. It involves the exploration of this research question in terms of politics, religion, attitude to women and family; with references to this piece of literature and some secondary resources when necessary. The quotations from published literary criticism are either refuted by examples from the novel or supported in the light of evidence from the novel. Other secondary resources include Swift’s two other prose works, The Modest Proposal and A Letter to a Very Young Lady on Her Marriage, which are referred to briefly for clarification of the evidence. The purpose of this study is to analyse in what ways and to what extent the protagonist is an author-surrogate in the abovementioned ways.
This essay is comprised of two sections, namely “politics and religion” and “women and family”, each focusing on a particular aspect of the investigation. In the first section, Swift’s political and religious standpoint is discussed extensively in order to correctly evaluate Gulliver’s paradigm. By making connections between the beliefs of the author and those of Gulliver, the relation between the two is established to support the claim of this essay. In the second section, the female figures in the novel and Gulliver’s perception of them are inspected. The plot is also taken into consideration in this part of the inquiry although the central focus is on the persona.
In the conclusion, it is validated that Gulliver is a reflection of Jonathan Swift with regard to political and religious vision, and attitude towards women and family, by juxtaposing and assembling the main elements of personification of Gulliver and Jonathan Swift’s personal ideas and experiences
Does Māori art history matter?
No full textThis essay, the edited text of a lecture presented by Deidre Brown and Ngarino Ellis and written by these two authors in collaboration with Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, outlines a methodological approach to their larger project: the writing of a Maori history of Maori art. In 2013 these three scholars began a three-year Marsden-funded project entitled 'Toi Te Mana: A History of Indigenous Art from Aotearoa New Zealand'. The present publication points towards that much larger study. Sadly, Jonathan Mane-Wheoki died as this text was being prepared; it stands as a tribute to his many years of work towards its ambitions
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