713 research outputs found
Gabrielle Calvocoressi, 44th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textGabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart; Apocalyptic Swing, which was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize; and Rocket Fantastic, winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. Calvocoressi has received numerous awards and fellowships including a Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship from Stanford University, a Rona Jaffe Woman Writer’s Award, a Lannan Foundation residency, the Bernard F. Conners Prize from The Paris Review, and a residency from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. Calvocoressi teaches at UNC Chapel Hill and lives in Durham, North Carolina
Ep. #055 - Gabrielle Hecht
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.In a fittingly bizarre intro for these political times, Cymene and Dominic share weird fantasies and actual plans for resistance. We then (11:57) welcome to the podcast renowned historian and ethnographer of nuclear energy, Gabrielle Hecht from the University of Michigan, author of Being Nuclear and The Radiance of France (MIT Press). Gabrielle tells us why she first became interested in nuclear power growing up in Reagan’s Cold War. We compare fears of nuclear war then and now and explore different historical constructions of “the nuclear” more generally. We talk about her concept of “toxic infrastructure” and how it can apply to places like Flint, Michigan. Gabrielle then explains how France became the country in the world most reliant upon nuclear energy for its electricity and why the French nuclear industry is in now in such a state of panic. We talk about why nuclear energy hasn’t lost its utopianism—including as a climate change fix—but why we think the nuclear solution to global warming is a red herring. We turn to Fukushima and Gabrielle reminds us that it’s also important to pay attention to the less spectacular but more common environmental and human impacts of using nuclear fuel, including the fate of people who clean reactors under normal and catastrophic conditions. We discuss uranium mining in Africa and the struggles miners have fought to have their “biological citizenship” recognized by their governments. That leads us to talk about the real costs of nuclear energy. And we close on Gabrielle’s latest work on toxicity and what she calls the African Anthropocene. Hang in there, everyone, be kind to yourselves and stay strong for the long run of resistance
Citation, Annotation,Translation: Reflections on Italian Feminisms and the Now You Can Go programme
No full textThis lecture focuses on ‘Now You Can Go,’ a two-week long events programme inspired by Italian feminisms of the late 1960s, 1970s and 1980s that Helena Reckitt initiated and organised with six feminist colleagues in 2015. Foregrounding the implications of what it means to both curate as feminists and to curate feminist content, the talk explores how practices of transmission, translation and annotation operate as means of intergenerational feminist encounter.
Italian feminisms feature little within Anglo-American accounts of the women’s movement. Yet the tactics that Italian feminists developed, largely through the practices of small groups and collectives, have much to offer contemporary feminism. These practices include autocosziena, the Italian feminist version of consciousness-raising; affidamento/entrustment, in which women form relationships of entrustment with one another that recognise their differences and disparities; non-assimilationist politics that refuse the assumptions inherent to campaigns for equal rights; and the rejection of expected roles and institutional power that Carla Lonzi termed ‘deculturation,’ which she examined in her book Vai Pure, whose English name, ‘Now You Can Go,’ lent the programme its title.
Reckitt describes how the ‘Now You Can Go’ programme developed out of the Feminist Duration Reading Group on under-known feminisms, especially those from Italy, and discusses how programme elements were led by the seven members of a programming team that she initiated. Considering the generative impact of the programme, Reckitt also discusses some of its limitations, which reflect the need to incorporate feminist values into a project that curates feminist content.
The talk considers the practices of artists, theorists and activists including the historical projects of Carla Lonzi, Rivolta Femminile, Milan Women’s Bookshop Collective, Wages For Housework, Teresa de Lauretis, and Gayatri Spivak, and of contemporary practitioners including Claire Fontaine, Kajsa Dahlberg, Laura Guy, Gabrielle Moser, and Nina Wakeford.
Following the presentation, Reckitt later participated in a panel discussion alongside curators and art historians Nkule Mabaso, Lara Perry, Maura Reilly, Dorothee Richter, and Hilary Robinson, chaired by Laura Castagnini
CATSSAA - Corpus of the Accent Tag: Spoken Scots and African American
No full textThe CATSSAA (Corpus of the Accent Tag – Spoken Scots and African American) is a corpus made from videos of the Accent Tag on Youtube (a video trend, where vloggers have to complete a certain set of tasks inspired by the Dialect Survey (Vaux, 2002)). They read a list of words and have to answer lexicological questions. The corpus was selected according to the language the users spoke: Scots and African American English, which are two minority languages in Great Britain and in the United States, respectively. These informants have been picked in various regions, where different dialects (Geechee American, Doric; Glaswegian Scots/Patter) are used.The corpus contains sound files (.wav), transcriptions (.txt), alignments in Praat format (WIP). The total length of the corpus is about two hours (the audio file are 3 to 12 minute-long).Le CATSSAA (Corpus of the Accent Tag – Spoken Scots and African American) est un corpus constitué à partir de vidéos de l'Accent Tag (vidéos ludiques et participatives, où les internautes doivent répondre à des questions inspirées du Dialect Survey de Vaux (2002)). Ces internautes lisent une liste de mots, et doivent répondre à des questions lexicologiques. Le corpus est constitué de matériel recueilli auprès de locuteurs de scots et d'afro-américain, deux langues minoritaires en Grande Bretagne et aux États-Unis respectivement. Ces locuteurs ont été choisis dans des régions différentes, où différents dialectes des langues (dorique, glaswegien pour le Scots, Geechee pour l'afro-américain…) sont utilisés.Le corpus comprend les fichiers son (.wav), des transcriptions (.txt) et des alignements sous Praat (WIP). La durée totale des fichiers est d'environ 2 heures (les fichiers audio vont de trois à douze minutes)
Creativity, Illness, and the Arts: An Anthology Edited and Annotated by Gabrielle Georgini
No full textabstract: Illness is one of the most unfortunate experiences that can occur during one's life. It often emerges without warning and when it is least expected. Illness is not only detrimental to the physical and emotional health of the person who is directly diagnosed, however. When one person is diagnosed with any kind of illness, many people are affected. Literature and art have always been used as vehicles to express their creators' thoughts and feelings. Those affected by illness sometimes adopt this method, using the art of storytelling to cope with and express their many emotions. Because there are so many affected people when even only one person is diagnosed, there are several different perspectives that are expressed and must be analyzed. This anthology, titled "Creativity, Medicine, and the Arts: An Anthology Edited and Annotated by Gabrielle Georgini," illustrates the correlation between various kinds of illnessesand literature. According to Merriam-Webster, illness is defined as "obsolete, an unhealthy condition of body or mind" (371). To make a patient healthy again, he must receive some kind oftreatment. Unfortunately, in some cases, a patient may not become healthy again even if they do receive treatment. Literature is an art, and art is a form of therapy. Therefore, patients can use literature and art as forms of treatment. Art and literature provide therapies for the mind. They can allow patients to relax and can work as a distraction from their illnesses. Art and literature can also be a form of expression. Those who are affected by illness can describe or depict their thoughts on paper, enabling them to clear their head or inform others about how they are feeling
Adaptive Enterprises Interweaving the Deliberate and Emergent - Concepts and Models
No full textThe global business world is becoming increasingly complex and is characterised by rapid and unpredictable change. This unpredictability means that enterprises are being challenged at all levels. Customers, employees, partners, investors and society are all sources of uncertainty resulting in the need for enterprises to be adaptive. Traditional deliberate strategies based on cycles of stability and predictability are no longer relevant for today’s business environments. Emergent strategies have been proposed by many as the answer. However, the thesis of this research is that enterprises need to interweave the deliberate with the emergent in terms of strategy, organisational structures, business processes, and information systems to be truly adaptive. A review of current research literature suggests that the adaptive theme in the context of enterprise success is well supported by a mature body of research that spans a number of disciplines, namely management, operations management and information systems, resulting in the advancement of a diverse array of perspectives. Specifically, management researchers pioneered the deliberate and emergent concepts in the context of strategy and organisational management whereas the focus of operations’ research is on the management of business processes to achieve enterprise success. Similarly, there is a plethora of information systems literature on adaptive systems and the like. However, despite this multi-disciplinary body of knowledge there is a significant lacuna in terms of concepts, models and hypothesis that intrinsically, fundamentally, and seamlessly weave the deliberate and emergent aspects to support an adaptive enterprise. Consequently, there is a need for both theoretical insights and practical applications that integrate the management, operations and information perspectives to enable the transform from enterprises with deliberate or emergent orientations to enterprises that are adaptive. This thesis explores and proposes how the interweaving of the deliberate with the emergent to be adaptive could be conceived and realised in terms of strategy, organisation, process, and information. A multi-methodological approach made up of observation, theory building, and validation through a Delphi study and survey was adopted to accomplish the research objectives. The research is inter-disciplinary in nature and spans management, operations management, and information systems. Because of this an exploratory approach was used, which consisted of a comprehensive literature review followed by a multi-round Delphi study of industry and academic experts. The Delphi resulted in a number of key research artefacts being: structural, behavioral and transformational concepts, models and hypotheses. This exploratory study was followed by an explanatory study that attempted to further validate and refine some of these key artefacts through a survey. The analysis showed that some of the models and hypothesis were strongly supported while others were partially supported. Furthermore, the concepts and models proposed in the research were evaluated, validated, and refined through expert feedback, empirical testing, and disseminated through presentations and publications in journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings. There are some limitations to the study. First, the scope of the PhD research prevented the implementation of the models in a real world context through a field study. Second, the transformation cycle, being a dynamic systems model, could be further validated through a system dynamics implementation
Using Data to Support Student Learning
No full textAlthough there has been an increase in the amount of information collected from and about Australian schools, this information is not always being used effectively to enhance learning writes Gabrielle Matters, author of the latest edition of the Australian Education Review
Correction: Face coverings: considering the implications for face perception and speech communication
No full textThe original article [1] contained errors in co-author, Gabrielle H. Saunders’ name and affiliation which have both since been amended.</p
Illuminating and Bridging the Vortex between Tacit and Explicit Knowledge: Counterbalancing Asymmetric Information in High-Value Low-Frequency Transactions
No full textAsymmetric information within a transaction can cause a great deal of harm to a buyer or a
seller who is not aware of the disparity of the information provided. This research explored
the causes of asymmetric information in a high-value low-frequency transaction (HVLFT).
Many factors contribute to asymmetric information, and these are especially prevalent in an
HVLFT. The two main differentiating characteristics of an HVLFT are the low frequency and
the high value associated with this type of transaction. If a transaction has a low frequency,
the valuation of the asset becomes harder to ascertain. Because of this low frequency, it is also
harder for a buyer or seller to learn from previous experiences. The high value of an asset
increases the tension between the seller and the buyer. With conflicting objectives, the seller
is not motivated to address asymmetric information.
Information that could be relevant to the buyer might not be shared by the seller, because this
information could negatively influence the financial gain from the seller’s perspective. These
HVLFTs are generalisable to numerous industries, such as marine, jewellery, automotive and
real estate. The real estate industry is a prime example of the aforementioned problems and
issues. This research addresses the causation of asymmetric information in an HVLFT and
provides procedural and technological artefacts to counterbalance asymmetric information in
an HVLFT, using the New Zealand real estate industry as an exemplar.
This thesis expands on asymmetric information in the context of an HVLFT, through a review
of the literature on stakeholders, decision-making, decision support, knowledge, knowledge
management and knowledge management systems. The literature review and pilot study led
to the creation of four conceptual artefacts to address asymmetry between the buyer and seller
and to illuminate asymmetric information in an HVLFT. The artefacts highlighted the
interactions between the various stakeholders and led to the conceptualisation of the research
questions and objectives that guide this research.
The initial part of the research was supported by a pilot study expanding on and validating the
problems and issues as mentioned above. This pilot study also resulted in the proposal of a
number of nascent procedural artefacts that illuminated the vortex between tacit and explicit
knowledge as a key contributor to asymmetric information, particularly in the context of an
HVLFT. Exploring this vortex, where tacit or explicit knowledge has been lost, distorted,
suppressed, misrepresented or misappropriated, intentionally or unintentionally, resulted in
the synthesis of a new knowledge dimension (X). These artefacts illuminate and bridge the
chasm of decision-making, asymmetric information, noise in a transaction and how
information is used or misused between the various stakeholders in an HVLFT.
A case study was conducted to explore and flesh out the nascent ideas, models and procedural
artefacts proposed in the pilot study. The case study was conducted over a period of six
months, among key stakeholders involved in a New Zealand real estate transaction. The case
study focused on the decision-making process and the information flows seen from the
perspective of different stakeholders involved in an HVLFT. Based on this case study, a new
model of knowledge was proposed, articulated and applied. This model explicitly
acknowledges the new knowledge dimension (X) and the dark side of knowledge. This
knowledge model suggests the need for the application of convergent technologies to
ameliorate the risk and asymmetricity caused by the dark side of knowledge and enhance
governance in the context of an HVLFT.
Finally, four proof of concept system artefacts were created based on the information collected
from the pilot study, case study and literature. These artefacts help in counterbalancing,
bridging and illuminating asymmetric information through system dynamic models,
gamification, blockchain architecture and a decision support app.
The conceptual, procedural and systems artefacts are intertwined and validate each other.
Furthermore, these artefacts were evaluated through a number of design science principles,
guidelines and mechanisms. All artefacts were presented at three top tier conferences and
published in their proceedings (HICSS 2020, HICSS 2021 and AMCIS 2020) and CCIS
Springer series (FNSS 2019) and Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (ICCASA
2020). Furthermore, a paper that fleshes out the key artefacts of this thesis has been published
in the journal of Decision Support Systems (A* ABDC)
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