474 research outputs found
Marcia Langton and Peter Robb in conversation
No full textFollowing a Monthly profile on Indigenous academic Marcia Langton by author Peter Robb (\u27Midnight in Sicily\u27, \u27M\u27, \u27Street Fight in Naples\u27), Langton and Robb come together on stage at the Sydney Writers’ Festival for an intimate conversation about the common themes of their lives: difficult early years in Australia, exciting times abroad and life back in Australia subsequently. Presented by the Sydney Writers’ Festival, May 2011
A calm and peaceful land
No full textUPEI 091; [sound recording] / P. Batchilder, M. Hennessey, C. Perry.; 2 sound cassettes (125 min.; Contents : Introductions (Grant & Robb) -- The Belfast riots (Batchilder) -- "The artist" (Hennessey) -- Rum running days (Perry).; Introduction : William Grant ; Andy Robb.; Recorded at the Confederation of the Arts Centre, 13 March 1977.; The Belfast riotsSource type: Electronic(1
Matters of life and death. by Peter Robb
No full textThe author joins Doctor John McCarthy and his team in Australia's most successful intensive care unit
Robb M. Thomson
No full textRobb M. Thomson
Inducted: 2000
Citation: For leadership of research on failures of and failure avoidance in materials and management of the NIST postdoctoral program.
Tenure: 1971-1995
Birth: 1925, El Paso, Texas
Education:
University of Chicago, MS, 1950
Syracuse University, PhD (Physics), 1953
Positions held:
Senior Research Scientist, Institute for Applied Technology
Program Coordinator for Failure Avoidance
NIST Post Doctoral Program Director
NBS/NIST Fellow, Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory
Post retirement: Emeritus Fellow
Honors:
U.S. Department of Commerce: Silver Medal, 1980; Gold Medal, 1987
Memberships:
American Physical Society (Fellow)
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Society for Metals
American Institute of Metallurgical Engineers
Publications:
Author of technical papers, book chapters and encyclopedia articles on the theory of imperfections in solids and their mechanical properties and one book: Physics of Solids, McGra
John Donald Robb’s Imperative to Collect: Towards an Archival Ethnography of the Robb Archive of Southwestern Music
No full textJohn Donald Robb (1892-1989) was a mid-career and extremely successful New York City lawyer when he decided to radically alter his career path in 1941 by becoming head of the University of New Mexico’s Music Department and completely devoting himself to music as a composer, educator and pioneering collector of folk music. This project is focused on this last facet of his adventurous and multi-faceted professional life. His impressive collection of approximately 3,000 songs and oral histories is housed at the University of New Mexico’s Robb Archive of Southwestern Music. Why did Robb devote so much time and effort to gathering this collection of music field recordings? Why did he deem his efforts important? What did he think his efforts would yield for the communities he studied and the society at large? What pleasures, victories, disappointments and frustrations did the process of collecting provide him at the personal level—as a collector, as a scholar, as a family man and as an musician? What impact did his passion for collecting have on his professional and personal life? Important clues to answering these questions are in the myriad lectures, notes, correspondence, interviews, autobiographical writings, and oral histories that are part of the J.D. Robb Papers, 1915-1989 at UNM’s Center for Southwest Research. This project is simultaneously a biographical exploration of Robb and a first step towards an archival ethnography of the Robb Archive of Southwestern Music.
Raquel Z. Rivera is Affiliated Scholar of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College in New York City. Co-editor of the anthology Reggaeton (Duke University Press 2009), she is also author of New York Ricans from the Hip Hop Zone (Palgrave Macmillan 2003) and numerous articles on Latino popular and folk cultures. Her areas of scholarly interest also include race and ethnicity, nation and diaspora, and the intersections between Latino and Africana studies.
Raquel was awarded the Greenleaf Visiting Library Scholar travel grant for October 31-November 21, 2011. This grant is made possible by a generous gift to the LAII from Dr. Richard E. Greenleaf, and is intended to provide scholars who specialize in Latin America the opportunity to work with one of the largest and most complete library collections on Latin America in the United States.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/greenleaf_scholars/1004/thumbnail.jp
The music of Miriam Gideon during the McCarthy era, including a complete catalogue of her works
No full textThis thesis considers the musical response of the American composer,
Miriam Gideon to political events during the McCarthy era. It examines the
interrelationships between politics, society and culture and considers how these are
reflected in two works, Epitaphs from Robert Burns (1952) and Altered Steps to
Altered States (1953) that Gideon composed during this period. Specifically, this
thesis focuses on Gideon’s transition from teaching and composing music within an
academic setting to preparing for life in a musical world, without support from
mainstream academic institutions.
Following the Introduction, Chapter 2 documents the rise of anti-communist
practices on campus at Brooklyn College and City College, New York City where
Miriam Gideon held music teaching posts. It reconstructs the personal events that led
to the loss of both of these appointments and examines how and why this occurred. It
is argued that Gideon entered a period of ‘inner exile,’ and this concept and its
consequences for Gideon are explored in Chapter 3. An examination of her private
diaries demonstrates that the effects of the McCarthy era were not only physical, but
also psychological and social.
Chapters 4-6 consider Gideon’s music through the perspective of inner exile
and aim to show that the music that she wrote was a reflection of her experiences.
Gideon’s return to academia in 1955 and her rehabilitation back into the academy are
discussed in Chapter 7. A complete list of Gideon’s compositional output is included
and is organised chronologically, alphabetically and by genre. This thesis examines
new documents not previously available to scholars, and includes interviews
conducted by the author with Gideon’s former students and colleagues
Is Foreign-Owned Capital a Bad Thing to Tax?
No full textThe aging population has raised at least two concerns about tax policy. First, taxes will need to be increased to cover higher public-pension and medical-care expenses when baby boomers have retired. Second, taxes can be cut in the meantime, as the government realizes the "fiscal dividend" that accompanies its debt reduction program (that has been motivated by the aging population development). This paper uses a simple endogenous growth analysis to examine these issues. It is assumed that sales tax increases are infeasible on political grounds. Two conclusions emerge: the income tax rate levied on domestic residents should be cut during the debt-reduction period, and the tax rate on foreigners whose capital is operating in Canada should be increased later on when the bulk of the baby boomers have retired.fiscal policy, endogenous growth, open economy
[Review of the book Six crucial decades: Times of change in the history of the Maritimes, by John G. Reid]
No full textA Note on Income Distribution and Growth
No full textMany analysts expect the aging population to lead to a reduction in the growth of living standards. Income inequality – a problem that has been accentuated by the payroll tax hikes that were necessary to fund the public pension as the population ages – is becoming an increasing challenge at the same time. As a result, policy-makers need to pursue initiatives that can simultaneously address both our efficiency and our equity objectives. With the challenge of the aging population, it is all the more important that we not rely on fiscal policies that involve a trade-off between growth and equality. This paper identifies a strategy for tax policy that meets these objectives.fiscal policy, endogenous growth, efficiency and equity
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