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Michael Connelly Interview: 9/11, City of Bones, and Lost Light
No full textAn interview with American crime author Michael Connelly, exploring the role of crime narratives as outlets for critical engagement with the politics of the war on terror and the associated neoconservative narrativising of 9/11. The discussion principally delves into Connelly’s first two post 9/11 Harry Bosch novels; City of Bones (2002) and Lost Light (2003)
Aging, Privacy, and Home-Based Computing: Developing a Design Framework
No full textApplications for "aging in place" focus on supporting elders and informing the caregiver but often at the risk of abrogating privacy. The authors developed and tested various prototypes to create a privacy framework for designing home-based computing for seniors.United States National Science FoundationAM
Interview with John Connelly--April 6, 2018
No full textInterview Themes
0:00: Introduction
1:10: Connelly's attraction to Central Europe
2:10: Experiences and cultural interests in West Germany, the Soviet Union, and Poland
3:30: Anecdotes and conversations with people living in East Germany, complications with speaking publicly about the regimes and people’s internalized expectations about their behavior
5:05: Border changes over time and states' control over citizens
6:35: Differences between Germany and Poland in attitudes toward the state and beliefs about the state
7:35: Customs authority as politicized vs. not politicized position in Germany vs. Poland
8:00: Different attitudes toward the past; existence of a unified German state vs. unified Polish state
8:30: Differences in material conditions of Poland/East Germany
9:00: Infrastructure that made it possible for him to live in Germany/Poland
10:20: Grad school in the US and summers researching in Europe
11:00: People who influenced Connelly's intellectual development in 70s and 80s, relevant courses
13:25: Center for European Studies
13:50: Lessons learned from mentors--a critical approach to German history, a mental map of the East European past, accurate and painstaking approach to source criticism
16:00: Linguistic skills of other scholars, most East European scholars know at least Slavic languages
16:30: People with multiple languages
18:20: Shifts in historiography toward intellectual preoccupations (i.e. nationalism, authoritarianism, totalitarianism)
19:10: Shift away from totalitarian theory especially after 1989 in Germany and Central Europe
20:20: Nationalism studies since the 70s/80s
21:30: Shatter zones
22:10: Critical attitude to Yugoslavia
23:00: Nationalism constructed
24:00: Herderian influences in Europe
24:50: Development of ideas of nationalism
25:30: How historiography feeds off trends
26:00: Nationalism as the history of ideas, social history
27:00: Earlier writings of nationalism and subsequent corrections
27:40: Historical events as red herring or fruitful reevaluation
28:00: Wars in Yugoslavia and their impact on views of extreme nationalism
29:20: Historical work, the emergence of populism, the 1920s assumption that democracy would take root naturally
31:00: Liberalism
32:00: Nazi Germany's economics of fascism and the legacy of war
33:00: Tim Snyder on neo-populism, inequality
34:00: German fascism in Bohemian Austria, Nazi party creation, Romania and Hungary
35:30: Italy, the Depression, the rise to power of the Nazis in Germany
36:25: Poland's current political situation, the blind spot of the liberal elite, market economy, election
38:00: Origin of research projects; multinational contexts
39:00: Science and Stalinism in Poland
41:00: 3-country comparison, Harvard advisor
41:30: Emphasizing differences within comparative history
42:00: Afterlife of the model
43:20: Cross-border studies
45:10: Current book project, From Enemy to Brother, origins
47:00: Converts from Judaism in the Czech Republic
47:50: Austro-fascism
48:20: Relationship between historiography and morality
49:00: Evolution of Catholic thought away from anti-Judaism
51:00: Narrative arc of intellectual interests: questions of identity, groups/individual
52:40: Motivations for writing the history of Eastern Europe
54:30: Nationalism as a political phenomenon and movement
57:20: Progress of the book
57:50: Chapter on the 19C, Congress of Berlin
59:30: Areas in the field that could benefit from more development
1:00:30: Liberal nationalism, why does this produce Fascist/not-Fascist outcomes
1:01:40: Philosophy of history, Church history, technology
1:04:20: Graduate training, strategies
1:06:00: Accessible writing for East European history
1:07:00: Area studies trajectory and significance for field of history
1:08:40: East Europeanists' dominance in European field and implicationsInterview with John Connelly, Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. The interview was conducted at Berkeley on April 6, 2018. To access the audio of the complete interview, click here. Connelly completed his BSFS at Georgetown and his MA and PhD at Harvard. He is the author of three books: Captive University: The Sovietization of East German, Czech, and Polish Higher Education, 1945-1956 (2000), which won the George L. Beer Prize of the American Historical Association in 2001; From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933–1965 (2012), which won the John Gilmary Shea Book Prize of the American Catholic Historical Association in 2013; and most recently From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe (2020).Special thanks to Cindy Zeng (Brown University, class of 2020) for preparing an inventory of the interview.1_2c6zzum
Vernon Naturalists club taking a break while camping at Peter's Lake in the Kootenays
No full textGroup includes: Dorothy Connelly, Bill Pull, Jim Connelly, Kay Bartholomew, Verna Bill, Patrick Mackie, Ray Worley
Twice through the heart
No full textDramatic scena for mezzo-soprano and 16 players, duration 30 minutes, commissioned by the John S. Cohen Foundation. Text by Jackie Kay, based on the story of a woman who has been jailed for killing her abusive husband.
This work was premiered on 13 June 1997 by Sally Burgess (mezzo-soprano) and the Orchestra of the English National Opera conducted by Nicholas Kok at the Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Aldeburgh. It has since been performed in Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Austria, Australia, Canada, and the USA, the most recent performance taking place on 21 June 2021 in Hamburg with Katrin Wundsam (mezzo-soprano) and the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra.
Twice Through the Heart has also been recorded, by Sarah Connelly (mezzo-soprano) and the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Marin Alsop, see https://www.lpo.org.uk/recordings-and-gifts/38-cd-turnage-orchestral-works-volume-2.html. This recording is also available on the LPO's YouTube channel (for the first three sections see the video tab below)
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No full textUnited Cerebral Palsy open house and reception / 3058 Dauphin Square / 2 pictures / Michael Collins / Mike Dow / Stephanie Kennedy / Bill Seifert / Kay Ladd / Guy L. Rutledge Jr. / A. Richard Ely / David Connelly / [Work order included
Curious realism: Dada and Die neue Sachlichkeit in 1920s Karlsruhe
No full textThis dissertation recovers the historical specificity of the terms and tactics that defined German realism after Dada. It focuses on a trio of artists—Karl Hubbuch, Rudolf Schlichter, and Georg Scholz—who studied together at the Karlsruhe Academy before World War I. Their innovative and immersive forms of realism, forged in the print workshops of the regional academy and later revised in dialogue with modernist networks in Berlin, challenge art historical understandings of the relationship between Dada and Die neue Sachlichkeit (The New Objectivity). Where realism had traditionally demanded distance and observation—a sober, level head and a practiced hand—the Dadaist heritage called for a politics and a poetics of total immersion. This dissertation tracks the legacy and the lingering traces of Dadaist strategies in the realist production of the German 1920s, examining how these pictorial modes signified in specific political, institutional, and regional contexts. It thus repositions a set of representational drawings, prints, photographs, and paintings that are usually valued for their fierce optical clarity, rather than for their emphatic, tactile made-ness. Chapter One establishes the challenge to realism posed by Rudolf Schlichter and his colleagues in the secessionist Gruppe Rih, whose members met as students at the Karlsruhe Academy between 1908 and 1914. Their disparate artworks performed a syncretic language of mental instability and formalist naiveté that sought to upend painterly norms in Karlsruhe. Chapter Two traces the modernist dialogues between Karlsruhe and Berlin through the drawn and printed montages of Karl Hubbuch, who developed an embodied form of somnambulist realism that was inspired by silent films and serial novels of the 1910s and 20s. Chapter Three examines the persistence of such mass cultural models and modes of vision in the satirical work of Georg Scholz, whose politically strident brand of painting and printmaking engaged with post-Dada narratives in Berlin. Chapter Four demonstrates that a return to the academy transformed the painterly and pedagogical practices of both Hubbuch and Scholz after 1925, interrogating a realism under pressure to signify in response to the environment of unstable vision and subjectivity created by previous avant-garde interventions.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Shannon Connell
Encountering Buddhism
No full textThis session is part eight of an eight part series running through the 2017-2018 academic year titled Encountering Religious and Cultural Traditions: A Series Fostering Religious Literacy and Interreligious Understanding. In this session, Ben Connelly will teach about the lived experience of Buddhism (especially the Zen tradition) as well as address some common misconceptions and stereotypes people have about it.
Renowned scholar of religion Wilfred Cantwell Smith argued that in order to “understand Buddhists, we must not look at something called Buddhism but at the world so far as possible through Buddhist eyes.” Likewise, in order to understand Judaism, Hinduism, and so on, we must not look at Judaism, Hinduism and so on, but at the worldviews of Jews, Hindus, and so on. In his New York Times Bestseller, Religious Literacy, Stephen Prothero writes “I am convinced that one needs to know something about the world’s religions in order to be truly educated,” and argues that “you need religious literacy in order to be an effective citizen.” This year-long series aims to foster religious literacy and interreligious understanding by examining the world through the eyes of religious scholars and practitioners from various traditions. They will share their own lived experiences of their traditions and also address common stereotypes and misconceptions.
Ben Connelly is a Soto Zen Buddhist teacher and Dharma heir in the Katagiri lineage. He also teaches mindfulness in a wide variety of secular contexts including police and corporate training, correctional facilities, and addiction recovery groups. He is the Author of Inside the Grass Hut: Living Shitou’s Classic Zen Poem , (Wisdom Publications, 2014) and Inside Vasubandhu\u27s Yogacara: A Practitioner’s Guide (Wisdom Publications, 2016), and he writes for Tricycle and Experience Life magazines. Ben is based at Minnesota Zen Meditation Center and travels to teach across the United States. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
This program is sponsored by the Jay Phillips Center for Interfaith Learning at the University of St. Thomas, cosponsored by the Office for Spirituality at the University of St. Thomas, and in is in collaboration with the Project for Mindfulness and Contemplation at the University of St. Thomas. To make an accessibility request, call Disability Resources at (651) 962-631
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