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Life is too short to be serious all the time: Donald Duck presents unconventional motivations for publishing in academia
No full textIn this food for thought article, we introduce the ‘Donald Duck Phenomenon’ to consider ten unconventional reasons for publishing in academia. These include (i) symbolic immortality, (ii) personal satisfaction, (iii) a sense of pride, (iv) serious leisure, (v) cause credibility, (vi) altruism, (vii) collaboration with a friend or family member, (viii) collaboration with a hero, (ix) conflict or revenge, and (x) for amusement. The article was inspired by the lead author’s social media search for a co-author with the surname ‘Duck’. Through LinkedIn, the lead author, Associate Professor William E. Donald, who is based in the UK and specialises in Sustainable Careers and Human Resource Management, found a collaborator, Dr Nicholas Duck, based in Australia and specialises in Organisational Psychology. While the collaboration may appear somewhat ‘quackers’, per one of Donald Duck’s famous phrases, “Life is too short to be serious all the time, so if you can’t laugh at yourself then call me… I’ll laugh at you, for you”. We hope that this article offers some interesting insights, particularly for academics at the start of their scholarly journey, and acts as a way to stimulate conversation around unconventional reasons for publishing in academia
Book review: Ribbon Societies in Nineteenth-Century Ireland and its Diaspora by Kyle Hughes and Donald M. MacRaild
No full textIn the 1810s, Ribbon societies appeared in Ulster, emerging from the aftermath of 1798, Defenderism and the sectarian tensions of the late-eighteenth century. Throughout most of the nineteenth-century Ribbonism, and anxieties about it, reached into multiple aspects of Irish society, yet very few people ever openly admitted membership and almost all evidence of Ribbon activities lies in police and court records. Varieties of Ribbonism have generated very rich historiography, but most historians have framed their studies within a particular chronological or regional framework. This engaging book by Kyle Hughes and Donald MacRaild presents the first full-length study that ranges across the nineteenth century and investigates multifaceted dimensions of Ribbonism in Ireland and the diaspora
Invisible Diaspora? English Ethnicity in the United States before 1920
No full textThe article presents an examination into the English population of the United States during the 19th and early 20th centuries, examining their ethnic identity as a diaspora community. Introductory details are given noting the relative lack of attention given to English Americans as an ethnic group. Topics addressed include reasons behind the invisibility of the English immigrant identity in the U.S., the existence of English ethnic organizations, and an overview of their activities
Author and literary critic Donald Shaw
No full textAuthor and literary critic Donald Shaw, b&w.https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon_photo_morgue/1399/thumbnail.jp
English Associational Culture in Nineteenth-Century North America
No full textDuring the nineteenth century, European emigrants to the United States and the British Empire laid down many markers of their ethnicity. In so doing they demonstrated a desire to maintain traditional culture as a strategy for integrating into their new homes. Collective self-help and care for the wider national group lessened the risks of alienation and struggle. Among the immigrants’ many efforts was a plethora of clubs, societies and organizations that combined national pride and ethnic celebration with collective self-help and charity. Such associations were both sites of local collaboration and foci for broader networking. The Irish, Scots, Welsh, Germans and many others formed societies bearing the names of their national saints in what were clear reminders of origins. The English were no different. They formed societies named for their patron saint, or else for Albion or England. None of these names could but enhance the knowledge of origins. The English also met on their saint’s day to celebrate England, to hear tales of her history, and to describe the personification of national values in the mytho-poetic persona of Saint George himself. These essentially modernist uses of the saint contrasted with medieval veneration and exploration of St George, but nevertheless utilized him as focal point for identity and activity, a coalescing force. This chapter explores a little-understood feature of English ethnicity through the lens of diaspora, arguing that in terms of public identification and social formation, the English formed a diaspora too
Donald Elder papers
No full textDonald Elder (1913-1965) was an editor with Doubleday, Doran and Co., which published the English translation of José Joaquín Fernandez de Lizardi's The Itching Parrot in Katherine Anne Porter's name. He was also the author of Ring Lardner, A Biography. The collection consists of correspondence between him and Porter. Important subjects include writers and writing and Porter's personal interests and opinions, as well as The Itching Parrot and Ship of Fools
"Letter with No Address" - Poem by Donald Hall
No full textDonald Hall reads his poem "Letter with No Address," an epistolary poem written for his late wife, the poet Jane Kenyon. Hall is a former U.S. Poet Laureate and the author of 16 books of poetry, as well as fiction.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/85036/1/letterwithnoaddress_donalhall.mp
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Letter from [Donald Hata] to Michi Weglyn August 25, 1977
No full textThis letter from Donald Hata to Michi Weglyn thanks her for her time and effort in her response to his student's request for assistance and information about the "Peruvian internees." He also informs her that the review he wrote of her book had just been published in the "Journal of American history," and also updates her on his promotion to full professor at the university.Collection of notes, articles, correspondence, photographs, and term papers collected by Yukio Mochizuki, a student at CSU Dominguez Hills, while researching Japanese American incarceration and Japanese Peruvian internment during World War II
Transnationalising ‘Anti Popery’ Militant Protestant Preachers in the Anglo Irish World
No full textNineteenth-century popular anti-Catholicism may not have reached the intensity of the Gordon Riots of 1780, but it was nevertheless sustained and hostile. Whilst a deep-rooted anti-Catholicism shaped the British psyche, a specific anti-Irish dimension also reared its head in response to epic migrations from the neighbouring island. This, in turn, saw traditions of intolerance spread around the globe as British and Irish re-peopled vast territories. For a time, specifically in the few decades after the 1840s, anti-Catholic traditions were supported by a new brand of public theatre that became popular and financially rewarding. In one way, the emergence of a public style of no-popery entertainment was an effect of mass migration, shared, ingrained Protestant identities, and urban modernity. By examining press reportage, contemporary writings and the works of specific preachers, this article examines the global patterns of posturing and violence that marked the careers of itinerants like Charles Chiniquy, Baron de Camin, Fr Gavazzi and John Sayers Orr, paying particular attention to the way these preachers and their supporters affected global Irish Catholic communities throughout the Anglo-world.© 2014 Religious History. This is an author produced version of a paper published in the Journal of Religious History Association, uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self- archiving policy. The final published version (version of record) is available online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9809.12109/epdf. Some minor differences between this version and the final published version may remain. We suggest you refer to the final published version should you wish to cite from it
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