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Dr. Miriam McCormick – Faculty Author Interview
No full textDr. Miriam McCormick, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Philosophy, Politics, Economics and Law, discusses her new book, Believing Against the Evidence: Agency and the Ethics of Belief published recently by Routledge. In this book, Dr. McCormick argues that the standards used to evaluate beliefs are not isolated from other evaluative domains. The ultimate criteria for assessing beliefs are the same as those for assessing action because beliefs and actions are both products of agency
[Rezension zu:] Miriam Havemann: The Subject Rising Against its Author
No full textRezension zu Miriam Havemann: The Subject Rising Against its Author. A Poetics of Rebellion in Bryan Stanley Johnson's Oeuvre. Hildesheim/Zürich/New York (Georg Olms Verlag) 2011 (= ECHO - Literaturwissenschaft im interdisziplinären Dialog, Bd. 13). 427 S.
Mit der Publikation ihrer in der Bochumer Komparatistik eingereichten Dissertation widmet sich Miriam Havemann einem bis vor wenigen Jahren fast in Vergessenheit geratenen britischen Schriftsteller der 1960er und 1970er Jahre, dessen Arbeiten erst mit dem Erscheinen von Jonathan Coes Biographie 'Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson' (2004) und der Wiederauflage vieler seiner Romane neue Beachtung fanden
Miriam Merzbacher-Blumenthal collection 1878-2009 1927-1975, 1995-2003
No full textThe collection includes memoirs, poems, notes, correspondence, photographs and clippings pertaining to Miriam Merzbacher-Blumenthal, to her husband Peter and to her mother Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss. Materials concentrate on the 1940s, when Miriam Merzbacher-Blumenthal and her mother Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss lived in Amsterdam and New York, as well as on correspondence from the 1950s and 1960s.Four extensive manuscripts of a doctoral dissertation on the poet Ilse-Blumenthal-Weiss by Beatrix Marguerre Pollack in addition to background information on the author have been removed to the LBI Manuscript Collection (The doctoral dissertation was published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich, 1994.)Books from the private library of Miriam Merzbacher-Blumenthal, pertaining to German literature and German-Jewish topics, including signed copies by Hermann Hesse, Rainer Maria Rilke, Nelly Sachs and others, have been removed to the LBI Library.Miriam Merzbacher-Blumenthal was born on March 7, 1927, the daughter of Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss and Herbert Blumenthal. The Blumenthal-Weiss family lived in Berlin until 1937, when the parents, their daughter Miriam and her older brother Peter emigrated to Holland. Herbert, who was a dentist, and Peter Blumenthal were deported to Mauthausen and Auschwitz concentration camps and killed. Ilse and Miriam survived Westerbork and Theresienstadt concentration camps. In 1947 they immigrated to the United States.Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss started writing poetry as a child. She was a successful writer, who published several books and exchanged letters with, among others, Rainer Maria Rilke and with her friends Nelly Sachs and Hermann Hesse.Miriam Merzbacher-Blumenthal married Peter Merzbacher in the late 1940s.The couple had two children and lived in New York City until 1961 before moving to Connecticut. Peter Merzbacher was born on December 4, 1910 in Nuremberg, Germany. Most of his family lived in Nuremburg and Munich. After emigrating from Nazi-Germany in 1936, Peter lived in Brazil for 10 years before immigrating to the United States.Finding aid available online.See also the Ilse Blumenthal-Weiss collection, AR 1020.Processeddigitize
Miriam: The Forgotten Heroine of the Exodus
No full textArtykuł podejmuje próbę ukazania wkładu Miriam w proces, w trakcie którego biblijny Izrael wyłania się jako naród. Autor artykułu skupia się na dwóch tekstach: Wj 15,20-21 i Lb 12. Po zaprezentowaniu struktury literackiej wspomnianych perykop i ukazaniu ich powiązań z innymi tekstami ST, autor przedstawia Miriam jako pieśniarkę, prekursorkę liturgii uwielbienia, prorokinię i przewodniczkę ludu. Podkreślając jej cierpienia jako nieodzowny element charyzmatu proroka, autor podkreśla ich wagę dla stwierdzenia autentyczności władzy prorockiej Miriam. Według piszącego, charyzmat prorocki Miriam został przez hagiografa ukazany jako wpajający nadzieję i między innymi polegał na przeprowadzaniu jej rodaków ze świata widzialnego do niewidzialnego, z teraźniejszości w przyszłość i z czasowości w nieskończoność.The study is an attempt to reveal the Miriam’s contribution into process of formation of biblical Israel as nation. Author of deliberations is focusing attention on two fundamental texts, that is Ex 15:20-21 and Num 12. After presentation of the literary structure of selected periscopes – making some important references to other biblical texts of the Old Testament – the author tries to portray Miriam as a singer, a precursor of worship, a prophetess and a guide of the people. Highlighting her suffering as an indispensable element of the prophetic charism, he underlines its importance for verification and authentication of Miriam’s prophetic authority. According to the author, the prophetic charism of Miriam, shown by the hagiographer for the service of hope, consisted, among others, in a “conveying” of her brethren from the visible into invisible world, from the present into the future, and from temporality toward eternity.
Isto é contra a natureza? Decisões e discursos sobre conjugalidades homoeróticas em tribunais brasileiros
Get PDFTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação Interdisciplinar em Ciências Humanas, Florianópolis, 2009Partindo de dados encontrados em pesquisa de campo realizada em quatro Tribunais de Justiça brasileiros, e com o fundamento teórico dos estudos de gênero e antropologia do parentesco, analiso as posições jurídicas e políticas sobre casamento e família, identificadas pela leitura de 185 acórdãos judiciais e interlocução com 25 desembargadores acerca do tema das uniões entre pessoas do mesmo sexo. Considerando as transversalidades entre os discursos jurídicos e as convicções morais e políticas de seus/suas autores/as, a análise aponta, entre outras questões, a forte influência destes fatores sobre a tomada de decisões judiciais relativas ao acesso a direitos sexuais e possíveis implicações na (re) produção de subjetividades marginais ao acesso aos direitos de família. A análise dos discursos de documentos e de entrevistas com desembargadores sobre o enquadramento das conjugalidades homoeróticas ora no conceito de sociedade de fato ora no de união estável demonstra que a tendência jurisprudencial acentua as disputas políticas sobre a interpretação jurisprudencial, concretizadas nas distintas posições assumidas pelos relatores dos tribunais em estudo, e que se materializam basicamente na controvérsia quanto à necessidade de existência de lei específica para tomada de decisão e/ou interpretação da constituição federal como tarefas impostas aos juízes da atualidade para a resolução dos conflitos postos pela demanda de reconhecimento e de redistribuição de direitos. Os resultados apontam ainda para uma tendência que pode ser considerada mais "positiva" do que "negativa" dos tribunais em estudo, se a discussão for relativizada de um ponto de vista da partilha de bens, central nas disputas judiciais. Por outro lado, a maioria dos relatores mantêm o conceito de família num lugar "naturalizado", seja pelas convicções expressas em entrevistas e acórdãos acerca da conversão em matrimônio civil prevista como conseqüência deste enquadramento, seja pela consideração que se faz acerca do valor patrimonial ou não do trabalho doméstico nas relações entre pessoas do mesmo sexo, ou mesmo sobre a posição das crianças junto ao casal de gays ou de lésbicas, gerando conseqüências que por outro lado são reconhecidas como variáveis e instáveis para a vida dos sujeitos que litigam sob o vazio da lei. From data found on field research conducted in four Brazilian Courts of Justice, and the basis of theoretical studies of gender and anthropology of kinship, I analyze the legal positions and policies on marriage and family, identified by the reading of 185 judicial rulings and interlocution with 25 magistrates about the issue of unions between persons of the same sex. Considering the cross between the words legal and moral and political beliefs of his / her author / as the analysis shows, among other issues, the strong influence of these factors on judicial decision-making on access to sexual rights and possible implications for (re) production of subjectivities marginal access rights of the family. The analysis of speeches of documents and interviews with magistrates on the environment of conjugality homoerotic moment in the concept of society in fact now in the stable case law shows that the trend highlights the political disputes on the case-law, implemented in different positions taken by the rapporteurs the courts under study, which is basically materialized in dispute as to the need of specific law in making decisions and / or interpretation of the federal constitution as tasks imposed on judges of today to resolve the conflict posed by the demand for recognition and redistribution of rights. The results also point to a trend that can be considered more "positive" than "negative" study in the courts if the thread is relativised from a sharing of property, central in judicial disputes. Moreover, most of the rapporteurs retains the concept of family in a place "naturalized" is the belief expressed in interviews and judgments about the conversion to civil marriage planned as a result of this framework is the consideration that is about the value or non-domestic work in the relations between persons of the same sex, or even the position of the couple with children of gays and lesbians, creating consequences that the other variables are known to be unstable and subject to the life of that audience in the vacuum of law
The rise of the citizen author: Writing within social media
Get PDFThe concept of the citizen author is defined and explored within the publishing industry. In order to understand what positions the citizen author currently, and potentially could, hold it begins with a historical view of their rise, including concepts of their eighteenth century antecedents. But the focus of this research is on their growth alongside that of social media platforms. This allows for drawing out relationships between genre fiction, publishers, and the citizen author, which provides a more full understanding of the power dynamics involved when publishers, social media, and the citizen authors mix in the current industry climate
First, Lessons in Typography with Dr. Miriam Ahmed
No full textIntersectional research exploiting multi modal methodologies, facilitated by the rapid access frontier of the virtual platform must certainly reposition the world view of graphic design. Here, expanding on the responsible design movement and initial findings of statistical research on the niche of Indigenous American graphic design, we enter the world of the student. We are on a journey through the eyes of two levels of students, university and pre-school, that builds a case for broader exploration beyond standard typographic pathways, quantitative approaches to design research, and a re-evaluation of academic and professional type rhetoric.
We travel into Miriam Ahmed’s virtual classroom and share her recent adventures charting an inclusive course through the Wander Type Project – a fully remote assignment undertaken by her typography students at Nova Southeastern University. She’ll also present the initial findings of statistical research into Indigenous American graphic designers who took the AIGA Design Census and who are likely at the forefront of the responsible design movement.
First, Lessons in Typography, is as it says it is. It is an incursion into the genesis of typography where we trace to the formative years, early childhood. Delving into heritage and culture, a subtle and erstwhile subconscious stream into type awareness is espoused as the bosom of the democratization of design effort. Renewed type rhetoric can provide pathways to explaining and validating the immense worth of a career in design and typography – not just to parents, but to everyone.
As a design and communication scholar and educator, Miriam Ahmed’s work is on the frontier of multi-modal analysis. She reexamines the layers and the hype to unearth one essential truth: we’ve been in this business for a long time and we are here to stay.
Dr. Miriam Ahmed is an Assistant Professor of graphic design at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, FL. She is the author of “Minority, Millennial Graphic Designers Say No to the ‘Road to Hell’” in Design and Culture 12(1): 31-55 (2020), “Perspectives On Responsible Design Among Minority, Millennial Graphic Designers” in The International Journal of Design in Society 12(4): 29-44 (2018), and the essay “Minority Designers – Leading the Charge Toward Responsible Design” in Citizen Designer: Perspectives on Design Responsibility (Second Edition) edited by Steven Heller and Véronique Vienne (2018, Allworth Press with SVA NYC). She presented her students’ typography research at ATypI All Over 2020 and presented her research on “Anatomical Grids” at TypeCon 2019. She was an AIGA DC SHINE 2019-20 mentor and served on the 2020 Advisory Review Panel for the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. She has taught graphic design at Howard University, MICA, and was an Assistant Professor of Visual Communication at the American University in Dubai, UAE. Dr. Ahmed received her BFA and MFA in Graphic Design, and her doctorate in Mass Communications and Media Studies at Howard University, Washington DC. She was a Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Rising Star.
Originally from Trinidad and Tobago, Dr. Ahmed is a globe trotter and values immersion in unfamiliar cultures. She has traveled from Egypt to Europe, Mideast to Japan, Southeast Asia and throughout the US and Caribbean, and hasn’t seen near enough of the world yet
Miriam Coffin; or, The whale-fisherman: a tale,
No full text"Serenade (with music) by the author of Miriam Coffin ... Words by Sheridan": p. [134]-[141]"This present edition is an exact and unabridged reprint of the original work, published in 1834."--Pref.Paged continuously.Mode of access: Internet
Woolfolk, Miriam Ruth (Lamy), 1926-2019 (SC 3343)
Get PDFFinding aid and scan (Click on Additional Files below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3343. “Notes, Sketches of Kentucky’s Covered Bridges” by Miriam Woolfolk, a booklet compiling data on sixteen covered bridges in Kentucky accompanied by sketches of each, and a poem by the author. Includes a brochure, “Covered Bridges: A Vanishing Species,” offering programs by the author on covered bridges and other topics
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