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    Christina and Me

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    Bestselling Maine author Christina Baker Kline tells the background story of why she chose to write her novel Christina\u27s World which is based on the relationship between Maine artist, Andrew Wyeth and his muse, Christina Olson

    Christina Gillis, author of Writing on Stone: Scenes from a Maine Island Life,

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    Christina Gillis, author of Writing on Stone: Scenes from a Maine Island Life, delves into old letters written by Maine writer Ruth Moore in the 1950s. Moore was selling her family\u27s Gotts Island house to Phyllis and Richard Strauss, Gillis\u27s sister and brother-in-law

    Religious intellectuals : the poetic gravity of Emily Brontë and Christina Rossetti

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    This thesis examines the writing of Emily Brontë and Christina Rossetti in terms of its expression of religious culture and belief. It is my argument that Brontë and Rossetti experienced religion as intellectuals, questioning and exploring doctrine and dogma neither as sentimental lady Christians nor dismissive, secular critics. I contend that by close reading their poetry, the genre both women privileged as most appropriate for the consideration of religious matters, the reader may trace the sermons and theological works they read. Moreover, their writing, I suggest, evinces their intellectual response to theological, ecclesiological and ecclesiastical developments that took place in the nineteenth century. I thus label Brontë and Rossetti 'religious intellectuals,' a phrase suggestive of their intense understanding of, rather than their mild acquaintance with, religious debate. Many women writing within the nineteenth century found that religion granted them a field within which to freely read and research, but were denied the professional title of 'theologian.' Brontë and Rossetti are thus examples of a wider phenomenon wherein women encountered religion like scholars, one disregarded by current criticism unable as it is to categorize a female activity simultaneously religious and intellectual. I use Brontë and Rossetti as examples of what I call the 'religious intellectual' because they represent different sides of this classification. Where Brontë struggled away from her Methodist background, serving as a cultural commentator on its enthusiastic belief-system, Rossetti forged a scholarly identity as a late member of the High Church Oxford Movement. Both poets, I contend, wrote about religion in order to signal their intellectual ability. I conclude that Brontë's interest in Methodism and Rossetti's fascination with Tractarianism reveals the poets to be both independent of family pressures and false consciousness, and fully engaged with a subject central to their age

    Leonora Christina

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    Short presentation of Danish author Leonora Christina and her main work

    Impact of the Pandemic on Women in the Workplace

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    Chair: Christina M. Low Kapalu PhD, Children’s Mercy Kansas City Participant/1st Author Christina M. Low Kapalu PhD, Children’s Mercy Kansas City Challenges Faced and Strengths of Mothers in the Workforce Participant/1st Author Idia B. Thurston PhD, Texas A&M University Black Women in the Workplace Participant/1st Author Jessica M. Valenzuela PhD, Nova Southeastern University Impact of the Pandemic on Women in the Workplace Participant/1st Author Lori E. Crosby PsyD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Creating Safe and Respectful Workplaces Discussant Melissa Santos PhD, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, Hartford, C

    Beyond cost savings: The value of OER and open pedagogy for student learning

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    This workshop was delivered by Dr. Christina Hendricks, from the University of British Columbia, for the 2018 Open Education Week Celebration at Mount Royal. The presentation outline approaches to open education - including OER, open pedagogy, and open educational practices

    Session G: Lewis and Tolkien: Morals and Theology

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    The Quest for Pity and Mercy in Tolkien\u27s Middle Earth - Woody Wendling What Has Aslan to do with Tash? C.S. Lewis and Natural Theology - Christina Hitchcock From Kenosis to Theosis: Reflections on the Views of C.S. Lewis - Douglas Beye

    A Stirring in the Dark

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    “Christina Lovin is unafraid of the muck and the rot of ditches and cellars in this fearless collection. She is unafraid to follow the dark flow to where things put down roots. It’s where, she understands, things stir and struggle to flower. She sees “the mysterious color of nothing special” and “the darkness full of radiance and resonance.” It’s a meticulous and unswerving vision of great scope. I admire the hunkering down as well as the alertness to the dark shapes’ meanings and “dreadful beauty.” She is an enduring witness. She keeps the faith for us.” -Bruce Smith, author of Devotions, Songs for Two Voices, The Other Lover, Mercy Seat, Silver and Information, and The Common Wages.https://encompass.eku.edu/fs_books/1108/thumbnail.jp

    Complicité: Resisting the Tyranny of Talk

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    This article is based video data from a project called SALTMusic, for young children diagnosed as having “language delay.” The interdisciplinary action-research project was co-delivered by speech and language therapists and early childhood arts practitioners, with children and their parents. Addressing a concern that children’s lack of words places anxiety, guilt, and stress upon families, SALTMusic explored ways of engaging with children using minimum words, by focusing on playful encounters of bodies responding to a range of materials, objects, and sounds.  In this paper, we consider two filmed events from this project. We explore these events through the theme of this special issue, with its emphasis on the “complex intermingling of knowledges” between children, their families, early years’ arts practitioners, and speech therapists. We wish to think more deeply about what happens when adults talk less, and instead use space, sound, materials, and bodies to converse with toddlers.  In particular, we turn to the dramaturgical notion of complicité in order to enlarge our understanding of communication and conversation towards a mutually transformative sense of unfolding collective action. In particular, we ask what the potential of the concept of complicité might offer early years’ practice in an era of accountability, where the professionalisation discourses of early childhood education are creeping into and infecting parenting discourses. We ask if the concept of complicité might help adults working with young children to resist the domination of word-oriented discourses that eclipse implicit, bodily, and materially attuned ways of relating to the young child

    Book Review on Christina Sharpe’s Ordinary Notes

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    This is a brief book review of Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe. Published in April 2023, the text deals with various aspects of Black life, such as memory, trauma, and ongoing racial violence. Being an acclaimed scholar of the Black community, Christina Sharpe shares a surfeit of memories throughout her text, which is why I found this book to be an excellent addition to Black memory studies. The author argues on the functionality of museums and memorials. While many may insist on the necessity of these sites of memory, the author argues that memorial narratives fail to provide ‘reconciliation and healing’. She also asserts how language is usually manipulated by white supremacists, and hence, memory is manipulated as well. Motherhood is also a dominant topic that Sharpe explores in her book
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