81 research outputs found
Peace photographies:A short introduction
No full textTom Allbeson is Reader in Media and Photographic History at the School of Journalism, Media and Culture (Cardiff University, UK) and co-editor of the Journal of War and Culture Studies. His research concerns media history and visual culture in contemporary Europe with specialisms in photojournalism and conflict, visual culture and reconstruction, collective memory in post-conflict societies, and urban history. He is the author of Photography, Reconstruction and the Cultural History of the Postwar European City (Routledge, 2020) and co-author of Conflicting Images: Histories of War Photography in the News (Routledge, 2024).Pippa Oldfield is Senior Lecturer in Photography at Teesside University, UK, and former Head of Programme at Impressions Gallery, Bradford. She is the author of Photography and War (2019) and has curated numerous exhibitions on the topic of conflict and its aftermath, including Bringing the War Home: Photographic Responses to Recent Conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan and No Man’s Land: Women’s Photographic Viewpoints on the First World War...
Hidden Women: uncovering the veil of silence during the partition of Punjab
No full textDr Pippa Virdee of De Montfort University uncovers the hidden voices of Muslim women during the partition of the Punjab, India in 1947. Using first-hand accounts, Dr Virdee reveals how women, often sheltered from private and public spaces, created their own space during this complex and traumatising time.
This talk was part of The National Archives’ Diversity Week, a series of events and activities aimed at promoting equality and diversity in how we work and what we do.http://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/author/dr-pippa-virdee
Felon Disenfranchisement and the History of Women’s Voting Rights
No full textPippa Holloway is the Douglas Southall Freeman Chair in History at the University of Richmond. She is the author of Living in Infamy: Felon Disfranchisement and the History of American Citizenship (2014) and Sexuality, Politics, and Social Control in Virginia, 1920–1945 (2006). She is also the editor of Other Souths: Diversity and Difference in the U.S. South, Reconstruction to Present (2008). Her research on felon disfranchisement was supported, in part, by a Soros Justice Fellowship from the Open Society Foundations. She teaches courses in U.S. history, focusing on southern history, incarceration, LGBT history, and historical research methods. Her current research examines the right of those charged with crimes or convicted of felonies to testify in court.
This event was sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, the Center for the Humanities, and the Suffrage Centennial Committee
Elizabeth Beachbard (c.1822–1861): America’s First Woman War Photographer?
No full textDr. Pippa Oldfield, Senior Lecturer in Photography, Teesside University, United Kingdom
Elizabeth Beachbard (c.1822–1861): America’s First Woman War Photographer?
The history of war photography has been dominated by men. Feminist photo historians have challenged this view, bringing to light outstanding women such as Gerda Taro in the Spanish Civil War and Lee Miller in the Second World War. Miller’s and Taro’s frontline photojournalism fits the masculinist canon of “authentic” war photography, but this mode has excluded most women. What happens if we go beyond the limits of the genre? Who else might come into view?
In this paper, I present the first dedicated research into Elizabeth Beachbard, a forgotten photographer who worked in Louisiana during the American Civil War (1861–1865). I chart her trajectory from an ambrotype portrait studio in New Orleans to a makeshift cabin in a military camp in rural Louisiana, where she photographed Confederate soldiers during the summer of 1861. It\u27s a tale of twists and turns, including court cases, bigamy, a measles epidemic, and a devastating fire. One of my biggest finds is new evidence for an ambrotype hitherto unattributed to Beachbard, which constitutes only the third surviving example of her work.
While questions of gender are central to my paper, I shall not be arguing for essentialist notions of “feminine” photography. Instead, I highlight the gendered constraints of the epoch showing how Beachbard navigated social, political, economic and legal structures. It is ironic that portraiture, one of the few professions open to “respectable” women, was how Beachbard entered the masculine territory of a wartime army camp.
Elizabeth Beachbard could not be considered a war photographer in the conventional sense. Nonetheless, she worked in a military arena, made pictures of soldiers in wartime, and lost her life in the activity. She should be seen as a pioneering figure in the history of women’s photography: perhaps, even, as America’s first woman war photographer.
Dr. Pippa Oldfield is a curator and photo-historian with research specialisms in photography, gender and conflict. She is Senior Lecturer in Photography at Teesside University, UK, and former Head of Programme at Impressions Gallery, one of the UK’s leading photography spaces. Pippa has curated numerous touring exhibitions including ‘No Man’s Land: Women’s Photography and the First World War’ (2017-2019). She is the author of Photography and War (Reaktion 2019) and is currently working on her new monograph, Ungentle Camera: War and Women’s Photography for University of Texas Press
Evoking the Possibility of Presence:Textual and Ideological Effects of Linguistic Negation in Written Discourse
No full textThis thesis explores the textual and ideological effects of linguistic negation in written texts. It argues that when language users process negation, understanding its use in context is as much about the possibility of presence as it is about the actuality of absence. This gives rise to a variety of effects in texts from contributing to the construction of fictional characters to potentially influencing readers’/hearers’ view of the world they inhabit. This thesis brings together research on the theoretical aspects of how negation works to present a new approach to linguistic negation in written discourse. It also demonstrates how this approach can be applied in the analysis of the conceptual practice of negating. The approach presented is made up of three main elements; negation is presuppositional, is realised through a wide variety of linguistic forms beyond the morphosyntactic core forms (not, no, never, none, un-, in-, and so on) and includes semantic and pragmatically implied forms. These two elements combine to give rise to implied meaning in context. Having outlined this approach to negation, it is then applied in the analysis of literary and non-literary texts to explain the textual and ideological effects that arise from its use
Paraphrase als Kommentar und Kritik zu Gerhart Hauptmanns Und Pippa tanzt.
No full textPresentation copy of the author with a mounted portrait of the author.Mode of access: Internet
Private International Law Aspects of Freezing Injunctions
No full textThe Commercial Court in London is frequently dealing with applications for a freezing injunction. The vast majority of academic literature and court decisions directly or indirectly adopt the view that freezing injunctions have stood the test of time and are so frequently granted in commercial litigation that there is no need for any serious concern about their scope, let alone the need to identify and question the legitimacy of the justifications for their existence. Contrary to the traditional view, this thesis has identified equipage equality as the primary function of freezing injunctions. This recognition that freezing injunctions seek to establish a level-playing field in litigation has led the author to conclude that the current scope of the relief is excessively claimant-friendly and involves illegitimate interference with the sovereignty of foreign states. Taking into account the tactical reasons for seeking a freezing injunction, the author challenges the current interpretation of the substantive preconditions for granting the relief. Their current interpretation does not strike a fair balance between the interests of the parties. The author argues that these concerns are exacerbated by the current international scope of freezing injunctions due to the insufficient regard for the principles of public international law. The encroachment on the jurisdiction of foreign states undermines equipage equality by enabling claimants to make multiple applications for interim relief in respect of the same assets. In the light of the above, the author has sought to make a range of proposals to restrict the scope of freezing injunctions with the aim of bringing the relief in line with equipage equality
Dealing with difficult authors
No full textThere is considerable literature about the responsibilities of authors and editors in regard to ethics, integrity and but there is little information on how to manage editor-author relationships when serious disagreements occur and the one party starts to behave in an unacceptable manner. This article is based on a recent experience and presents some thoughts and suggestions for editors on managing relationships between editors and the authors when authors start to behave badly
Sustainability and Cost Assessment of Lithium Battery Health Management Strategies for Electric Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
No full textIn this research, a sustainability and cost assessment of battery health management strategies applied to Lithium batteries of an electric Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (eUAV) is performed. A mission-based strategy is proposed with the aim to elongate battery lifetime. With this strategy, the battery is charged to the estimated State of Charge (SOC) level required to complete the next flight. The mission-based strategy is compared to two other strategies: the SOC 100% strategy that always fully charges the battery before flight, and, the SOC 80% strategy that charges that battery to 80% before flying. The three strategies are tested for a variety of flight distances. The battery model is simulated using Python Battery Mathematical Modelling (PyBaMM). A Monte Carlo (MC) simulation is run to review the response to uncertainties in initial battery compositions and operating conditions. Ultimately, the strategies are evaluated on environmental impact, financial costs and flying efficiency. The results show that the mission-based strategy outperforms the SOC 100%, yielding lower emissions and costs and higher flying efficiency performance. However, depending on the range flown, the SOC 80% shows environmental, cost and flying efficiency benefits that challenge the relevance of implementing a mission-based battery health management strategy.Aerospace Engineerin
Quotas, Citizens, and Norms of Representation
No full textThe author gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Leverhulme Trust, who funded this research via a Research Fellowship grant
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