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Dr. Monika Siebert – Faculty Author Interview
No full textDr. Monika Siebert, Professor of English, discusses her new book, Indians Playing Indian: Multiculturalism and Contemporary Indigenous Art in North America, published recently by the University of Alabama Press. Indians Playing Indian explores the phenomenon of multicultural misrecognition of American Indians, explaining its sources in North American colonial history and in the political mandates of multiculturalism, and describes its consequences for contemporary indigenous cultural production
A Historical Perspective on Lateral Collapse and Volcanic Debris Avalanches
No full textIn the four decades since the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, debris-avalanche deposits generated by gravitational lateral collapse of volcanoes have become widely recognized. Selected regionally sequenced case studies highlight the evolution of thought regarding these events prior to 1980 in contrast to subsequent research with benefit of insights from the events of May 18, 1980. These typically hummocky deposits, of volcanic materials but lying far beyond volcanoes, had puzzled geologists for more than a century and been interpreted as a wide range of primary and secondary volcanic or non-volcanic features. Contrary to general perception, however, the volcanological literature contained multiple accounts prior to 1980 that recognized the landslide origin of some of these deposits, albeit mostly in regional publications not widely known. The burst of interest in lateral-collapse events after 1980 has led to an average of one regional or global debris-avalanche inventory annually in terrestrial or submarine settings and the recognition of a thousand events from nearly 600 volcanoes. The last major volcaniclastic process to be widely recognized and understood, large-volume debris avalanches originating from lateral collapse of volcanic edifices have been found to be a relatively common occurrence across a wide spectrum of volcanic features and settings
Some Memories of Frank Siebert
No full textDean R. Snow, a professor of anthropology at Pennsylvania State University and author of numerous books and articles on the archaeology and ethnohistory of Native Northeastern America, was once on the faculty of the University of Maine at Orono and was a frequent visitor at Indian Island. He has known Frank Siebert for almost thirty years and has this to say about Frank as colleague and as field worker
The Future of a Free Press
No full text International tensions and possible shifts of power within the United States will bring threats to press freedom which can be offset only by improved press performance. Dr. Siebert, director of the School of Journalism and Communications at Illinois, is author of two books on laws affecting the press. </jats:p
A Penobscot Assessment of Frank Siebert
No full textDr. Eunice Baumann-Nelson is the author of The Wabanaki: An Annotated Bibliography. She was bom on Indian Island, and she became the first Penobscot to get a B.A., and later got an M.A. in Child Psychology and a Ph.D. in Human Relations at N. Y. U. Later still she received an honorary doctorate of Humane Letters from the University of Maine. She served in the Peace Corps in Peru and Bolivia, was the head of the Vassar art library and head librarian at The Museum of the American Indian in New York City. She has long been a student of Native American spirituality and has taught at the University of California, Davis, at Purdue, at Indiana University, the University of Maine, the College of the Atlantic, and the Bangor Theological Seminary. She is now living back where she started, on Indian Island, and teaching at the University of Maine. In the following essay she describes Frank Siebert from her own perspective
Steering Stories: Confronting Narratives of Driving Automation through Contestational Artifacts
No full textIn this paper, we problematize popular narratives of driving automation. Whether positive or negative, these propagate simplistic assumptions about human abilities and reinforce technocratic approaches to mobility innovation. We build on narrative approaches to participatory research and adversarial design, to explore how design-led confrontation can create opportunities for reflection on implicit assumptions and narratives that stakeholders may refer to when discussing and making decisions about automated driving technologies. Specifically, we discuss the results of four focus groups where we used contestational artifacts to promote critical discussions and confront taken-for-granted beliefs among stakeholders. We reflect on the results to distill methodological insight and design recommendations for conducting adversarial participatory design research as a way towards confronting dominant narratives. Together with the methodological approach, the main contribution of this work, we also provide a set of narrative tensions that can be used to question common beliefs surrounding automated driving futures.</p
A adaptação da crônica como transferência de sentidos
No full textThe present work is a reflection on the reading of an adaptation, using the chronicle A mulher que fuma, by Mario Prata. One understands that such a gesture of reading and production may be thought of discursively, in its heterogeneity, based on the notions of translation and transference of senses. Keeping the notion of fidelity at bay, here adaptation is seen as a process while aspects relating to subjectivity and authorship are analyzed. One must consider that the image text as a discourse that particularizes such a transfer of senses, as a new signifying materiality, is read and interpreted by another reader, that who reads moving images, the telereader. Discourse analysis allows one to understand the changes of the senses from one work to the other, stressing the significance of the conditions of production and of distribution for the interpretation of cultural and poetic productions by the subjects.La propuesta de este trabajo es pensar una lectura de la adaptación, a partir de una crónica La mujer que fuma, de Mario Prata. Entendemos que ese gesto de lectura y producción pueda ser pensado discursivamente, en su heterogeneidad, a partir de las nociones de traducción y de transferencia de sentidos. Distanciándonos de la noción de fidelidad, pensaremos la adaptación como proceso y analizaremos aspectos relativos a la subjetividad y autoría. Teniendo el texto de imagen como discurso que particulariza esa transferencia de sentidos, como una nueva materialidad significante que pasa a ser leida e interpretada por otro lector, él que lee imágenes en movimiento, el telelector. El análisis discursivo nos permite comprender los cambios de los sentidos entre una obra y otra, marcando la importancia de las condiciones de producción y vehiculación para la interpretación de las producciones culturales y poetológicas por los sujetos.A proposta deste trabalho é pensar uma leitura da adaptação, a partir da crônica A mulher que fuma, de Mario Prata. Entendemos que esse gesto de leitura e produção possa ser pensado discursivamente, em sua heterogeneidade, a partir das noções de tradução e de transferência de sentidos. Distanciando-nos da noção de fidelidade, pensaremos a adaptação como processo e analisaremos aspectos relativos à subjetividade e à autoria, tendo o texto de imagem como discurso que particulariza essa transferência de sentidos, como uma nova materialidade significante que passa a ser lida e interpretada por um outro leitor, o que lê imagens em movimento, o teleleitor. A análise discursiva nos permite compreender as mudanças dos sentidos entre uma obra e outra, marcando a importância das condições de produção e veiculação para a interpretação das produções culturais e poetológicas pelos sujeitos
Smart Wound Scaffolds: Light‐Controlled Growth Factors Release on Tetrapodal ZnO‐Incorporated 3D‐Printed Hydrogels for Developing Smart Wound Scaffold (Adv. Funct. Mater. 22/2021)
No full textn article number 2007555, Leonard Siebert, Eunjung Lee, Su Ryon Shin, and co-workers develop a 3D printed smart wound scaffold encapsulating growth factors decorated with light-sensitive and antibacterial tetrapodal zinc oxide (t-ZnO) microparticles for the treatment of chronic wounds. The multifunctional pro perties of the smart scaffold combined with light-triggered angiogenic factor release, antibacterial properties, and tissue compatibility enable fast wound recovery
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