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Replacement of Cakile edentula with Cakile maritima in New South Wales and on Lord Howe Island
No full textTwo species of Cakile (Brassicaceae) have been introduced to Australia and the genus has been a common feature on the beaches of NSW for over 130 years; Cakile edentula has been present for at least 148 years (in NSW since about 1870), while Cakile maritima arrived approximately 114 years ago, (in NSW since about 1969). Collections at CANB and NSW confirm that since around 1970 plants more like Cakile maritima have almost entirely replaced Cakile edentula along the NSW coast. A similar phenomenon is reported for Lord Howe Island
'Pilings of Thought Under Spoken': The Poetry of Susan Howe, 1974-1993.
No full textPhDThis thesis discusses the poetry published by contemporary American poet Susan
Howe over a period of almost two decades. The dissertation is chiefly concerned with
articulating the relationship between poetic form, history, and authority in this body
of' work. Howe's poetry dredges the past for the linguistic effects of patriarchy,
colonialism and war. My reading of the work is an exploration of the ways in which a
disjunctive poetics can address such historical trauma. The poems, rather than
attempting to reinstate voices lifted from what Howe has called "the dark side of
history", are a means of reflecting the resistance that the past offers to contemporary
investigation. It is the effacement, and not the recovery, of history's victims, that is
discernible in the contours of these highly opaque texts. Notions of authority are most
often addressed in the poetry through the figure of paternal absence, which has a
threefold function in the work, serving to represent social authority, an aporetic
conception of divinity and an autobiographical narrative. Alongside the antiauthoritarian
currents in the writing - critiques, for example, of the doctrine of
Manifest Destiny or of scapegoating versions of femininity - my thesis stresses Howe's
engagement with negative theology and with a strain of American Protestant
enthusiasm that has its roots in 17th century New England. The dissertation explores
the dissonance caused by the co-existence in the poetry of elements of political dissent
and religious mysticism. Finally, I consider Howe's engagement with literary history
and authors such as Shakespeare, Swift, Thoreau and Melville. The manner in which
Howe deploys the words of others in her work, I argue, allows for a mixture of textual
polyphony and a more conventional notion of authorial 'voice'
From Julia Ward Howe to Mister Silsbee
No full textabstract: Concerning a letter written in rhymes about Howe's thanks for a new hood, her relief and good wishes towards Silsbee.Curator's Note: Handwritten note reads: Julia Ward Howe 811 H8384PCondition of Original: Glue marks. Previously glued into a book, then removed.Creation Date Details: Undated. Range is the contributor's lifespan
Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Within the Context of Comparative, International and Development Education
No full textCurriculum, teaching and learning should include a component of Comparative, International and Development Education. It is increasingly important for teachers to foster global citizenship, international cooperation and cross-cultural understanding, within the dialectic of the global and the local. By reaching beyond the four walls of classrooms, teachers can gain broader, international perspectives and a deeper sociocultural understanding of curriculum, teaching and learning. Thus, enriching student experience and substantially improving teacher professional development. While there are many potentially significant cross-cultural lessons in teaching pedagogy, teachers have few opportunities. However, through educational exchanges and shared experience, teachers can become introduced to alternative forms of schooling and can learn to think more critically about traditional approaches to education. In this paper, I propose using Comparative, International and Development Education to enhance teacher education and situate my own cross-cultural experiences in curriculum, teaching and learning in Canada and Japan within this context.Not peer reviewedThe published version in the this article is available: Howe, E. R. (2003). Curriculum studies within the context of comparative, international and development education. Canadian and International Education Journal, 32(2), 1–14.CanadaJapancomparative educationteacher educationteacher educatio
American author and scholar LeAnne Howe talks about her novel "Shell shaker" and reads from her another novel "Miko Kings"
No full textAmerican author and scholar LeAnne Howe talks about her novel, "Shell Shaker" which spans centuries of Choctaw culture and history. She reads several passages from the novel and also a short passage from her new, unpublished novel, "Miko Kings," about Indian baseball in 1907 and 1969. She answers questions from the audience. Part of the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers Series for visiting speakers. Sponsored by the Michigan State University American Indian Studies Program. Held in the MSU Main Library
Curriculum, teaching and learning within the context of comparative, international and development education
No full textCurriculum, teaching and learning should include a component of Comparative, International and Development Education. It is increasingly important for teachers to foster global citizenship, international cooperation and cross-cultural understanding, within the dialectic of the global and the local. By reaching beyond the four walls of classrooms, teachers can gain broader, international perspectives and a deeper sociocultural understanding of curriculum, teaching and learning. Thus, enriching student experience and substantially improving teacher professional development. While there are many potentially significant cross-cultural lessons in teaching pedagogy, teachers have few opportunities. However, through educational exchanges and shared experience, teachers can become introduced to alternative forms of schooling and can learn to think more critically about traditional approaches to education. In this paper, I propose using Comparative, International and Development Education to enhance teacher education and situate my own cross-cultural experiences in curriculum, teaching and learning in Canada and Japan within this context.Not peer reviewedThe published version in the this article is available: Howe, E. R. (2003). Curriculum studies within the context of comparative, international and development education. Canadian and International Education Journal, 32(2), 1–14.CanadaJapancomparative educationteacher educationteacher educatio
Mark DeWolfe Howe and the Fight for Racial Equality
No full textThe greatest brutality of our time, wrote Mark Howe, is racial inequality . . . . The apparent simplicity of his statement belies the complexity of feeling and thought which underlay it. There was of course the moral imperative to do away with iniquity. But there was also the historical imperative to bring American law and life into conformity with principles built into our national covenant almost a century ago and still unimplemented. Without the conclusive force of history, morality alone would not–for Howe, lawyer and historian–have justified the corrective action of the Court on which he lavished his relentless scholarship
Mark DeWolfe Howe and the Fight for Racial Equality
No full text"The greatest brutality of our time," wrote Mark Howe, "is racial inequality . . . . " The apparent simplicity of his statement belies the complexity of feeling and thought which underlay it. There was of course the moral imperative to do away with iniquity. But there was also the historical imperative to bring American law and life into conformity with principles built into our national covenant almost a century ago and still unimplemented. Without the conclusive force of history, morality alone would not–for Howe, lawyer and historian–have justified the corrective action of the Court on which he lavished his relentless scholarship
Investigating the function of the retention/retrieval, ERp57-binding and glycan-binding sites of calreticulin in MHC class I antigen presentation
No full textCalreticulin (CRT) is an Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER) resident protein involved in intracellular calcium homeostasis and the folding of newly synthesised glycoproteins. CRT also forms part of the peptide loading complex (PLC) where it assists in Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) class I folding, maturation and peptide loading with the assistance of ERp57. CRT's localisation is kept in check through a C-terminal Lys-Asp-Glu-Leu (KDEL) sequence that retrieves it to the ER through the KDEL receptor. The CRT -/- mouse fibroblast cell line K42 loads MHC class I molecules and presents endogenous antigens to cytotoxic T lymphocytes inefficiently ~Gao et al 2002). Importantly, the trafficking speed of the endogenous class I alleles (H-2Kb and H-2D ) to the cell surface was shown to be faster in K42 than in its CRT +/+ counterpart K4I; furthermore fewer MHC I were incorporated into the PLC in K42 (Gao et aI., 2002), similar to a class I Tl34K mutant that fails to present antigen efficiently (Lewis et aI., 1996). This suggests that CRT influences MHC I trafficking rate and may recruit MHC I to the PLC, ensuring efficient MHC I antigen presentation. In this study, the role of CRT was further dissected using a series of mutant constructs that were expressed in K42 and their effects on MHC I antigen presentation determined. The mutants were designed to address three questions: the role of the c-terminus and KDEL in MHC I retention / retrieval; the importance of the interaction between CRT and ERp57; and the effect of mutation of CRT's glycan-binding site on MHC I antigen presentation. Unexpectedly, the glycan-binding CRT mutant fully restored MHC I antigen presentation, suggesting that polypeptide interactions define CRT substrate specificity. However, efficient MHC I assembly with the PLC was shown to require an interaction between CRT and ERp57. The trafficking rate of MHC I was influenced not just by the KDEL sequence but also by the interaction between CRT and ERp57 and by undefined residues within the 11 c-terminal amino acids of CRT, consistent with a role in MHC I retention / retrieval. Cumulatively, results show that the CRT's c-terminus, KDEL sequence and ERp57 binding site, but not CRT's glycan-binding site, are obligatory for efficient MHC I antigen presentation.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo
Ep. #187 - Mark Nuttall
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.Cymene and Dominic talk about Ok glacier’s 15 minutes of fame on this week’s podcast (e.g. https://slate.com/technology/2019/07/okjokull-iceland-glacier-death-plaque.html), ridiculous hate mail, and what it feels like being in the middle of the news maelstrom. And the first ever Cultures of Energy Everyday Climate Warrior™ award is bestowed upon Daisy Hernandez from Popular Mechanics. Then (15:52) we welcome the marvelous Mark Nuttall (http://marknuttall.com) to the podcast to discuss all that is happening in the Greenland today. We start with his new book (co-authored with Klaus Dodds), The Arctic: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford U Press, 2019) and how Mark thinks about the Arctic as a paradoxical space. We talk about the discourse of the “New Arctic” and its geopolitical implications, the Inuit experience of climate change, self-government and the extractivist politics of the new Greenlandic resource frontier, and the sharpened global gaze resting on Greenland at the moment. Mark tells us about the adaptive resilience of indigenous lifeways in the face of climate change and advancing industrialization and urbanization in the parts of Greenland where he has done fieldwork for decades. We touch on the dramatic changes the Greenlandic capital Nuuk is now experiencing and the tensions between the aspirations to Greenlandic state sovereignty and the Inuit Circumpolar Council and then close with the fascinating stories of Camp Century and Project Iceworm
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