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[Review of] Theresa Biberauer, Anders Holmberg, Ian Roberts & Michelle Sheehan, Parametric Variation : Null Subjects in Minimalist Theory. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. vi+368.
No full textThis volume is a collection of eight articles, part of the outcome of a five-year project funded by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council and entitled ‘Null subjects and the structure of parametric theory’. The introduction by Ian Roberts & Anders Holmberg is a thorough literature review of the pro-drop parameter, taking us as far back as Perlmutter (Reference Perlmutter1971), who was the first to link null subjects to the presence of person morphology on the verb. Roberts & Holmberg show that parameters as defined in generative grammar are powerful tools, which need to be constrained while maintaining their descriptive power. Contra Newmeyer (Reference Newmeyer and Pica2004), Roberts & Holmberg (and Theresa Biberauer and Michelle Sheehan too) promise to restore faith in the Government and Binding notion of parameters by refining these through the Minimalist framework.
In my view, this is a very thought-provoking volume with exceptional theoretical rigour. The authors not only propose typologies worth pursuing, but they also open up avenues for future research. For this review, I have decided to provide a summary of every article in this volume for the reasons that (i) the contributions are very different from each other and do not always entertain a coherent set of theoretical assumptions, and hence (ii) a detailed account of each chapter should provide signposting and navigation points for readers
Michelle Voss Roberts\u27 Dualities
No full textDualities is an important book. It represents a contribution to the field of Hindu Christian studies, but it also adds considerably to women\u27s studies in religion and to the emergent field of comparative theology. Michelle Voss Roberts has managed to treat with sensitivity and creativity two enigmatic figures, each from long ago and far away (from us and from each other), and each from two dramatically different religious traditions. What is remarkable about this study is that Voss Roberts manages to introduce us to the basic shape of both of these women\u27s thought while at the same time pursuing a very contemporary, sophisticated stream of theological reasoning relevant to postmodern concerns about multiplicity, relationality and change as constitutive characteristics of divinity. A dedicated scholar of either one of these figures -- or of the tradition and time she inhabited -- may object that Voss Roberts is dabbling in anachronism by putting her figures to work in a theological agenda that neither woman would recognize. This is true. But the same can be said of biblical texts, patristic figures, and other ancient writers who labor in the pages of contemporary theologies. The fact that such use seems more obvious in a comparative theological project -- due perhaps to the inevitable disjunctures between the philosophical and religious presuppositions at work between the different traditions and cultures -- does not negate the mining of ancient texts for contemporary projects, it just illuminates the challenges of doing so
Black Fashion Designers Symposium: June Ambrose in conversation with Carly Cushnie and Michelle Ochs
No full textJune Ambrose in conversation with Carly Cushnie and Michelle Ochs at The Museum at FIT's annual fashion symposium, Black Fashion Designers, held on Monday, February 6, 2017. The one-day symposium featured talks by designers, models, journalists, and scholars on African diasporic culture and fashion.June Ambrose is a celebrity stylist and designer whose clients include Sean Combs, Jay Z, Alicia Keys, and Gabrielle Union. She is author of the book Effortless Style.Carly Cushnie and Michelle Ochs founded their brand Cushnie et Ochs in 2008, creating collections that juxtapose bold sensuality with minimalist sophistication
Playing in the Flood of Love: A Response to Michelle Voss Roberts\u27 Dualities: A Theology of Difference
No full textAs John Thatamanil confesses in his Foreward to Michelle Voss Roberts\u27 Dualities, I too, as a nondualist theologian, was initially apprehensive about Voss Roberts\u27 title. However, I quickly came to find that the plural emphasis of dualities and the private emphasis of non-dualism actually speak to similar concerns over the inadequacies of both monism and dualism. The dualism denied by non-dualism and the multiplicity and relationality affirmed by dualities are more harmonious than dissonant
Michelle Kipp Guzman
No full textMichelle Kipp Guzmanhttps://scholarworks.umt.edu/roberts_photographs/1019/thumbnail.jp
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Recipes: Poems
No full textRecipes: Poems, Cassandra Dowd, MFA, UC Irvine 2021 Committee Members: Hugh Roberts, Amy Gerstler, & Michelle LatiolaisPoetry Manuscrip
Embodiment, Anthropology, and Comparison
No full textMichelle Voss Roberts takes to heart the simple insight that theologians are in fact always drawing on various ways of knowing; comparative theology is no exception, and its multifaceted epistemology expects corresponding complexities in theological anthropology. Accordingly, she devotes the core of her essay to the constructive development of such an anthropology with respect to the human faculties by Thomas Aquinas and the Kashmir Saiva theologian Abhinavagupta. His system resonates with Aquinas’s anthropology, generating resonances that are enhanced by their epistemologies’ nuanced and flexible epistemological contribution to theologies of the body, the senses, and other faculties. In this light, constructive comparative theology can be seen as a practice of thinking-feeling with the categories and questions of another tradition. At the conclusion of her essay, Voss Roberts highlights the value of attending to various embodied faculties, including reason itself, awareness of the elements, the physical senses, the emotions, and even limit cases such as apophatic unknowing.</p
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Media Representations of Michelle Obama
No full textIn this article the author presents ideas about the media representations of Michelle Obama. The author argues that the public perceptions and favorability of Michelle Obama are tied to which aspects of her identity are presented in the media
Introduction: A Place for Comparative Theology in Christian Systematic Reflection
No full textThe editor, Michelle Voss Roberts, introduces the history and methods of comparative theology and argues for its importance in the study of systematics. The essays in the volume represent the best practices of comparative theology, exciting new approaches to it, and fresh perspectives on familiar topics in Christian systematic theology. The introduction suggests four uses for the volume: 1) as a way into Christian systematic theology; 2) as a way to test theological categories; 3) as proposals for doctrinal reflection; and 4) as an invitation to the reader to take up the activity of comparative reading.</p
Interview of author Michelle Martinez
No full textMichelle Martinez, author of the crime novel "Most wanted," talks about the issues faced by Latin Americans in their home country versus what they face in the United States. She describes her family and education, graduation form Harvard Law School, and her professional endeavors. Martinez discusses the story line of her book, what motivated her to write, and how she brought her experiences from the prosecutor's office to bear on her writing. She describes her writing as an opportunity to explore her own cultural heritage. Martinez discusses the art of writing and talks about what she reads. Martinez is interviewed by Diana Rivera at the 2005 Left Coast Crime Conference held in El Paso, Texas
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