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Symposium: Ravishing: The Rose in Fashion: Nick Knight in conversation with Amy de la Haye
No full textNick Knight and Amy de la Haye engage in a conversation about roses in fashion for The Museum at FIT's 24th academic symposium Ravishing: The Rose in Fashion on April 30, 2021. This virtual event explores how the beauty, mythology, and symbolism of the rose have long influenced fashionable dress. #RoseInFashionNick Knight OBE is one of the world's most visionary, innovative and creative image makers. Working primarily in the realms of fashion and style, these award-winning images have been instrumental in challenging conventional notions of beauty and identity. In order to champion fashion film and develop a forum to explore experimental technologies, he launched what was to become the award-winning SHOWStudio website in 2000. He has developed his passion for posting iPhone photographs of “Roses from my Garden” on Instagram to create major unique artworks that explore AI.Amy de la Haye is Professor of Dress History & Curatorship and Joint Director of the Centre for Fashion Curation at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. She has worked as a curator, interpreting museum collections and archives for thirty years; from 1990 to 1991 she was Curator of 20th Century Dress at the Victoria and Albert Museum. She has published extensively on subjects including British fashion, curatorship and practices of collecting; the Women’s Land Army; subcultures; the Worth archive and is author of the V&A’s "Clara Button" books for children. Her next major project involves working, with Simon Costin, on a series of exhibitions on British folklore costume
FIT Authors Talks: "The Miracles" with Amy Lemmon
No full textProfessor and Chair of English and Communication Studies Amy Lemmon reads from and talks about her book The Miracles.With lyricism and grace, Amy Lemmon gives us a worldview to live by. The all-too-familiar “wear of sorrow’s rub” is presented alongside the world’s miracles, including the author’s two children. Fearlessly bridging the gap between tradition and artistic innovation, the author moves us forward with her into the unknown, to entertain new relationships with herself, her children, and the world
American Women Writers: Amy M. Clark
No full textA 2011 conversation with the author Amy M. Clark about her life and the inspiration for her work
Dr. Amy Howard – Faculty Author Interview
No full textAmy Howard, executive director of the Bonner Center for Civic Engagement and associated faculty in American studies, discusses her new book, More Than Shelter: Activism and Community in San Francisco Public Housing, published recently by the University of Minnesota Press. Her research and book looks closely at three public housing projects in San Francisco and brings to light the dramatic measures tenants have taken to create communities that mattered to them
Payton, Amy Louise. "Looking Back" radio show on Paytons book on Georgina Stirling.
No full textCBC freelance broadcaster Cathy Porter talking to author Amy Louise Payton about the life of Georgina Stirling, Soprano Premadonna from Twillingate. Payton talks about her interest in the singer and her book on Stirling; Hiram Silk interviews Amy Louise Payton on the program Looking Back about her book Nightingale of the North about Georgina Stirling. Payton talks about Stirling and the history of the Twillingate area
Sparrows can't sing : East End kith and kinship in the 1960s
No full textSparrows Can’t Sing (1963) was the only feature film directed by
the late and much lamented Joan Littlewood. Set and filmed in
the East End, where she worked for many years, the film deserves
more attention than it has hitherto received. Littlewood’s career
spanned documentary (radio recordings made with Ewan MacColl
in the North of England in the 1930s) to directing for the stage
and the running of the Theatre Royal in London’s Stratford East,
often selecting material which aroused memories in local audiences
(Leach 2006: 142). Many of the actors trained in her Theatre
Workshop subsequently became better known for their appearances
on film and television. Littlewood herself directed hardly any material
for the screen: Sparrows Can’t Sing and a 1964 series of television
commercials for the British Egg Marketing Board, starring Theatre
Workshop’s Avis Bunnage, were rare excursions into an area of practice
which she found constraining and unamenable (Gable 1980: 32).
The hybridity and singularity of Littlewood’s feature may answer,
in some degree, for its subsequent neglect. However, Sparrows Can’t
Sing makes a significant contribution to a group of films made in
Britain in the 1960s which comment generally on changes in the
urban and social fabric. It is especially worthy of consideration,
I shall argue, for the use which Littlewood made of a particular
community’s attitudes – sentimental and critical – to such changes and
for its amalgamation of an attachment to documentary techniques
(recording an aural landscape on location) with a preference for nonnaturalistic
delivery in performance
X-ray eclipse mapping constrains the binary inclination and mass ratio of swift J1858.6-0814
No full textX-ray eclipse mapping is a promising modelling technique, capable of constraining the mass and/or radius of neutron stars (NSs) or blackholes (BHs) in eclipsing binaries and probing any structure surrounding the companion star. In eclipsing systems, the binary inclination, , and mass ratio, relate via the duration of totality, . The degeneracy between and can then be broken through detailed modelling of the eclipse profile. Here we model the eclipses of the NS low-mass X-ray binary Swift J1858.60814 utilising archival NICER observations taken while the source was in outburst. Analogous to EXO0748676, we find evidence for irradiation driven ablation of the companion's surface by requiring a layer of stellar material to surround the companion star in our modelling. This material layer extends km from the companion's surface and is likely the cause of the extended, energy-dependent and asymmetric ingress and egress that we observe. Our fits return an inclination of and a mass ratio . Using Kepler's law to relate the mass and radius of the companion star via the orbital period ( 21.3 hrs), we subsequently determine the companion to have a low mass in the range and a large radius in the range . Our results, combined with future radial velocity amplitudes measured from stellar absorption/emission lines, can place precise constraints on the component masses in this system
Letter from Amy Narawaki to Mr. and Mrs. A.W. Thomas, December 15, 1971
No full textA holiday letter of greetings on Christmas from Amy Nakawaki [=Emiko Amy Terada] in Stanton, California to Mr. and Mrs. A.W. Thomas in Lawndale, California, which contains basic correspondence.The James H. Osborne Nisei Collection contains mainly correspondence between Emiko and Usami Terada, incarcerees in the Rohwer incarceration camp, McGehee Arkansas, and the Thomas family in Lawndale, California, and photographs of the Teradas and the Thomases. The letters describe the trip from the Santa Anita Temporary Assembly Center to the Rohwer incarceration camp, their lives and conditions in the camp, and their concerns about their properties in Lawndale, California. Also included are photographs taken in the camp, some issues of "The Rohwer outpost," and fliers published during wartime
Writers Talk Featuring Amy Pennington and Social Media Experts
No full textPart one of OSU social media experts Ryan Squire (Medical Center), Debra Jasper (Kiplinger program), and Shaun Holloway (Fisher) discussing the changing landscape of media. Plus, OSU alum Meghan Wynne talks food writing with Urban Pantry author Amy Pennington.The media can be accessed here: http://streaming.osu.edu/knowledgebank/cstw11/Pennington_Amy_Social_Media.mp3Ohio State University. Center for the Study and Teaching of Writin
The racial romance of Amy Levy's "Reuben Sachs"
No full textOn its publication in 1888, Reuben Sachs by Amy Levy (1861-1889) was initially received as being anti-Semitic in both the Jewish and the mainstream presses. Many reviews were scathingly critical, and some singled out the author for special abuse ...Peer reviewedFinal article published
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