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Author interview: Q&A with Rachel O’Neill on Seduction: men, masculinity and mediated intimacy
No full textIn this author interview, we speak to Rachel O’Neill about her recent book, Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy, which offers an ethnographic study of the ‘seduction industry’. In the interview, she discusses the seduction industry as part of a continuum of mediated intimacy, the ways in which neoliberal rationalities are shaping masculine subjectivity today, how the book relates to contemporary discussions surrounding consent and women’s sexual agency and the particular challenges of undertaking this fieldwork. If you are interested in this interview, you can read a review of Seduction on LSE RB here. Q&A with Rachel O’Neill, author of Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy (Polity, 2018
Episode 3: Rachel Wightman, CSP Staff and Author
No full textIn this episode, CSP\u27s Associate Director of Instruction and Outreach, Rachel Wightman, shares about her new book, Faith and Fake News: A Guide to Consuming Information Wisely, including how she became interested in the topic, what led to the creation of this book, and why this topic is so important today
Rachel Swarns Book Event: The 272
No full textA conversation with Rachel Swarns, author of The GU272: The Families Who Were Enslaved And Sold To Build The American Catholic Church (Penguin Random House 2023). The conversation was moderated by Georgetown Professor Adam Rothman and hosted by Georgetown's Center for the Study of Slavery and Its Legacies
Theodore Clement Steele: A Lecture by Rachel Perry
No full textJoin author and curator Rachel Perry for a lecture on the life and artwork of Theodore Clement (TC) Steele. Perhaps the most well-known artist of the “Hoosier Group,” Steele created impressionist portraits and landscape paintings from his studio in Nashville, Indiana.https://scholarship.depauw.edu/peeler_event/1084/thumbnail.jp
Letter from Rachel Kawasaki to Dorothy Nakamura and Helen Nakamura Napoleon, July 21, 1991
No full textCorrespondence from Rachel Kawasaki to Dorothy Nakamura and Helen Nakamura Napoleon regarding information about Japanese American claims in the U.S. Court of Appeals.The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications
Letter from Rachel Kawasaki to Dorothy Nakamura and Helen Nakamura Napoleon, July 8, 1991
No full textCorrespondence from Rachel Kawasaki to Dorothy Nakamura and Helen Nakamura Napoleon regarding research related to the redress and reparations movement.The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications
Session 4-A: George MacDonald and His Meanings
No full textGoblinisation: The Marginalization of the Colonial Subject in The Princess and the Goblin and The Princess and Curdie - Rachel Johnson
George MacDonald’s two longer fairy tales, Princess and the Goblin (1872) and The Princess and Curdie (1883) reflect key preoccupations of nineteenth century English society such as the Darwinian discussion, commercialism, wealth creation and materialism. My aim in this paper is to read The Princess and the Goblin and The Princess and Curdie as a reflection of the nineteenth century, essentially ‘Victorian,’ preoccupation with the colonized as ‘other’. I approach this preoccupation through the arguments of similarity and difference as justification for imperial expansion.
What\u27s in a Name? Clues to Understanding MacDonald\u27s Fairy Story Cross Purposes - Marie K. Hammond
Cross Purposes, one of George MacDonald’s earliest fairy tales for children, tells of a girl and a boy who are lured into Fairyland. Alice, the good-natured but snobbish daughter of a squire, does not wish to associate with Richard, son of a poor widow. Yet, when the children are maltreated by residents of Fairyland and when they have difficulty finding their way home, she comes to rely on him. Names chosen by the author for the characters (both human and imaginary) have interesting associations in literature. These names and the title of the story offer clues to understanding what MacDonald was trying to impart, “where more is meant than meets the ear.”
George MacDonald\u27s Lilith as Mystical Document - Charlie Beaucham
In this paper I argue for the interpretation of MacDonald’s fantasy novel Lilith as an artistic embodiment and expression of the teachings of Christian mysticism. My primary purpose is to examine how the symbol of sleep in Lilith represents the role of contemplative introversion in cultivating a state of ethical rectitude, moral vision, and spiritual vitality. I discuss contemplative introversion primarily using the writings of Meister Eckhart, arguably one of the greatest mystics of the Christian tradition. I connect the symbol of sleep with the teachings of Eckhart by presenting it as an example of Carl Jung’s archetypical process of rebirth in which the individual makes contact with the revitalizing powers of the unconscious through an experience of inner darkness and self surrender.
Moderator: Linda Lamber
Session B: Lewis Antecedents
No full textRealism, Fantasy and a Critique of Nineteenth Century Society in George MacDonald\u27s At the Back of the North Wind - Jean Webb
\u27A Sort of a Fairy Tale\u27: Narrative and Genre in George MacDonald\u27s \u27Little Daylight\u27 - Rachel Johnson
What Does the Tabard Inn Have to Do with St. Paul\u27s: F.D. Maurice on Literature - Craig McDonal
Paper Session 1-B: MacDonald and Friends
No full textMutuality in Wonderland: Charles Dodgson, Adopted Member of the George MacDonald Family - Rachel E. Johnson (Presented by Sam Hammond)
Charles Dodgson had a close and long-standing friendship with the family of George MacDonald. When they first met in 1859, they already had several mutual friends and were both influenced by the thinking of F. D. Maurice. When Lewis Carrol wrote down Alice\u27s Adventures Under Ground, the MacDonald children were the first audience to hear the manuscript read aloud. They responded enthusiastically and MacDonald encouraged Carroll not only to publish but to lengthen the narrative. This paper is written with two aims. The first is to examine how the friendship of these two very different men developed to the extent that Dodgson was absorbed into the MacDonald family as \u27Uncle Dodgson\u27. The second is to briefly investigate the resulting cross-fertilization of ideas and experiences, which found their way into the writing of both authors, through parallels, parodies and the exploration of dawning self-knowledge as their protagonists journey towards maturity.
Dodgson and Neuhouser: A Legacy of Logic and Faith - Marie K. Hammond
Charles Dodgson taught mathematics at Oxford University in the second half of the 19th century. He was a good friend to the family of George MacDonald, and like MacDonald, he wrote fantasy stories for children (under the pen name Lewis Carrol). Dodgson\u27s profession, his literary connections, and his stated Christian faith all remind us of our late friend David Neuhouser, in whose memory the colloquium is dedicated. The interests and accomplishments of David Neuhouser and Charles Dodgson spanned the seemingly unconnected fields of mathematics and literature. Both men found ways to incorporate math, science, and logic into their writings about religious topics. In focusing on Prof. Neuhouser\u27s expository papers and Mr. Dodgson\u27s fantasy stories (especially Sylvie and Bruno), one can see that the works of these authors help to dispel the notion that religion and science are at odds with each other.
The (Lost) Virtues of Being a Generalist: Lessons from C. S. Lewis, Wendell Berry and David Neuhouser - C. Christopher Smith
In a world in which professions are becoming increasingly specialized and thus fragmented from one another, the broad range of work from scholars such as C.S. Lewis and Wendell Berry reminds us that another way is possible, one that guides us deeper into the interconnected life of God\u27s creation. In this paper, I will briefly explore both Lewis and Berry as generalists, with an appreciative emphasis on former Taylor University C.S. Lewis Center director David Neuhouser and the ways he taught and modeled a similar generalism. If we are to collaborate with God in the reconciliation of all things, then we will need generalists who have a healthy imagination for how disciplines that typically operate independently might begin to converse and collaborate for the well-being of all creation. By paying attention to generalists like Lewis, Berry and Neuhouser, and by reading broadly and attempting to connect diverse streams of thought, I maintain that the vocation of the generalist in the twenty-first century is not only possible but essential
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