252 research outputs found
The Annual Walter Rodney Symposium, 2022
No full textThe 19th Annual Walter Rodney Symposium titled "Walter Rodney: 50 Years of How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" took place on Saturday, March 26th, 2022 from 10:00am - 3:00pm EST. The virtual conference featured keynote speaker Dr. Joyce Ladner who highlights her relationship with Dr. Walter Rodney. The panel hosted by Kurt B. Young featured Dr. Horace G. Campbell, Professor Issa Shivji, and Walter Bgoya, and discusses the work of Walter Rodney and Julius Nyerere. The panel hosted by Zophia Edwards featured a lecture by Dr. Vijay Prashad and respondents Natasha Shivji, Tamnisha John, Kamau Franklin, and Cindy Peters about the text "How Europe Undeveloped Africa". There were Q & A segments and global remembrances. The 2022 symposium was co-hosted by The Walter Rodney Foundation and the AUC Woodruff Library
Justice Jesse Carter Distinguished Lecture with John Burris
No full textJohn Burris (BS 67) Renowned Civil Rights Attorney
John Burris (BS 67) has a tremendous record as a plaintiff\u27s civil rights attorney. Among his most high profile cases were the Oakland Riders class action and Rodney King civil suit against the City of Los Angeles. His primary areas of focus for his practice include cases involving police misconduct, employment discrimination and criminal defense. He is the author of Blue vs. Black: Let\u27s End the Conflict between Police and Minorities.
Burris has represented Barry Bonds, Tupac Shakur, Delrov Lindo, Dwayne Wiggins, Keyshawn Johnson, Gary Payton, Jason Kidd, Latrell Sprewell, sports agent Aaron Goodwin, former Chief of Police of San Francisco Earl Sanders, and numerous public officials.
Burris was listed among the top 100 trial lawyers in California in 2007 by the American Trial Lawyers Association. In 2005 Burris was named one of the top 100 Most Influential Attorneys in the State of California by the Daily Journal and he has been featured on the cover of California Lawyer magazine. He has also served as a legal analyst on Fox, MSNBC, Court TV, CNN and many local television and radio stations
Heard Island lichen samples collected by John Jenkin in 1980
No full textProgress Code: completedStatement: Not all samples were collected by John Jenkin, hence one sample collection date in March is unknown. Only approximate locations are available.A description of lichen samples collected from Heard Island during March of 1980. The samples were mostly collected by John Jenkin, but some other collectors were also used. On return to Australia, the samples were lodged with the Australian Antarctic Division Herbarium (Code- ADT) under the control of Rod Seppelt. The samples are distinguishable within the herbarium by their 3 digit code.<br/><br/>The dataset details the date each collection was made on, as well as an approximate descriptive location. Unless otherwise specified, all samples were collected by John Jenkin
Land use and forest cover change in the Crowsnest Pass to 1945
No full textBibliography: p. 202-219.This title is not available online. Access options are:
- consulting the copy from Archives in our reading room in person - https://asc.ucalgary.ca/visiting/
- borrowing a circulating copy from the Library catalogue – https://ucalgary.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=01UCALG_INST:UCALGARY&lang=e
A Performance Guide to John Carter's Cantata
No full textabstract: The purpose of this research paper is to discuss John Carter's Cantata, the musical development of this composition, and provide a brief history of this African American musician and composer. Presently, there exists very little research regarding Carter's life and compositions. From a musician's perspective, this paper discusses the challenges of singing and performing the Cantata for future performers and provides a reference for their preparation. This project also examines John Carter's musical style and analyzes the structure of the Cantata. African-American folk songs were an inspiration to Carter's compositions, especially this particular work. As an African-American, his life and background played a role in his inspiration of composition. With borrowed music, he reveals a basic truth about this period of American history; how the lives of slaves influenced in the development of this particular genre. Additionally, John Carter's style of composition is examined, including the application of jazz and modal scales in his Cantata. Performance practice is examined for both the singer and pianist in a way that best represents the composer's original and unique intent. From vocal safety to breath control, a singer may find several challenges when performing this eclectic piece. This paper provides a guide for singers. A brief overview of the pianist's role in the Cantata is also included. Characteristic words of the African-American vernacular found in Carter's Cantata are briefly discussed and identified (i.e. "them" vs. "dem"). It is essential that any performer, both beginning and advanced, should have a proper understanding of the concepts that Carter had so carefully crafted. This paper endeavors to provide a deeper sense of understanding to what Carter had intended for both the performer and the listener.Dissertation/ThesisD.M.A. Music 201
Evidence for an old Parana Delta and diachroneity in global highstands
No full textThe Parana Delta is one of the most studied deltas in South America, holding one of the most complete records of the Late Holocene in southern South America. The delta encompasses an area of ~17,400 km2 enclosed in the Rio de la Plata estuary, growing steadily at a rate of approximately 2 km2 yr-1 for roughly the past 6000 yrs. This deltaic system has shifted from fluvial, to wave-dominated, and then back to its present day fluvial dominated system creating striking geomorphologic features across the delta. Aerial and satellite imagery, shallow boreholes, radiometric dating of shells and sand, and Ground Penetrating Radar are used to define the distinctive sedimentary features of the delta. Although these studies appear to encompass the entirety of the delta, the uppermost part of the delta remains poorly studied. Sedimentary cores collected from the lower reaches of the upper delta date the early stages delta growth. The one available OSL (Optically Stimulated Luminescence) date from the early set of beach ridges show the delta to be ~8100 yrs old. Previous dates collected from younger beach ridge sets estimated the delta was approximately 6000 yrs old. If the delta proves to in-fact be at least 8100 yrs old, this would make it one of the oldest if not the oldest modern deltas in the world. The purpose of this study is to establish a depositional and chronologic model for the upper, middle, and lower parts of the delta through the collection of sediment cores for facies analysis and radiometric dating. This model will determine early delta processes and test preliminary estimates of delta initiation at ~8500 yrs. B.P. Using the facies analysis and the radiometric dates, accurate depositional and chronological models will be generated to better understand the initiation and development of the Parana Delta
Ghosts, Robots and Things In-between
No full textGhosts, Robots and Things In-between: A Florilegium, is a collection of six original short stories in the realm of Speculative Fiction, with an accompanying introductory essay reviewing the history of Speculative Fiction in literature. The variety of story types, from ghost stories, to fantasy/horror tales, to “hard” science-fiction, provides an illustration of the wide spectrum of settings and narrative elements found in literature of the fantastic, which allows the author to explore and showcase a range of writing voices, narrative types, and the use / subversion of genre conventions. The introductory essay, comprising a historical and critical review of works of literature of the fantastic (e.g. Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction), provides the reader with an understanding of how literature of the fantastic (the term Speculative Fiction is used in the project) has been viewed and received through the centuries, and explores the relatively recent compartmentalization and stratification of stories into “genre fiction” types
Experientia, Volume 2: Moving from Text to Experience
No full textAngela Kim Harkins is a contributing author, Religious Experience through the Lens of Critical Spatiality: A Look at Embodiment Language in Prayers and Hymns , pp. 223-242.
Book description: This collection of essays continues the investigation of religious experience in early Judaism and early Christianity begun in Experientia, Volume 1, by addressing one of the traditional objections to the study of experience in antiquity. The authors address the relationship between the surviving evidence, which is textual, and the religious experiences that precede or ensue from those texts. Drawing on insights from anthropology, sociology, social memory theory, neuroscience, and cognitive science, they explore a range of religious phenomena including worship, the act of public reading, ritual, ecstasy, mystical ascent, and the transformation of gender and of emotions. Through careful and theoretically informed work, the authors demonstrate the possibility of moving from written documents to assess the lived experiences that are linked to them. The contributors are István Czachesz, Frances Flannery, Robin Griffith-Jones, Angela Kim Harkins, Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte, John R. Levison, Carol A. Newsom, Rollin A. Ramsaran, Colleen Shantz, Leif E. Vaage, and Rodney A. Werline. -- Publisher description.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/religiousstudies-books/1048/thumbnail.jp
Rachel Carson, a Voice for Organics - the First Hundred Years
No full textRachel Carson has been described as "an early supporter of organic farming". Publishing in 1962, she awoke a generation past, to the false promises of the “war on weeds”, the “war against the insects” and “better living through chemistry”. Carson wrote to a friend: “there would be no peace for me if I kept silent”. She asked the world to consider: “Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life?”. Carson has been described by TIME Magazine as one of “the 100 most influential people of the 20th century” and her book has been described as “the most influential book of the past 50 years”- yet on the occasion of the centenary of her birth, the author found that university students had "no idea" who she was, or what was "Silent Spring"
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