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Indonesia at home and abroad: economics, politics and security
No full textOverview: This inaugural suite of papers for the National Security College Issue Brief Series is also a component of an NSC research grant investigating the prospects, challenges and opportunities associated with Indonesia’s ascent in the political-security, economic, and socio-cultural spheres. The chief investigators for this project are Dr Christopher Roberts, Dr Ahmad Habir, and Associate Professor Leonard Sebastian. These issue briefs represent a short precursor to a fi fteen chapter edited book, titled Indonesia’s Ascent: Power, Leadership and the Regional Order, to be published by Palgrave MacMillan in late 2014. The project also involved conferences and fi eldwork in both Canberra and Jakarta between 2012 and 2013
Graduate recital, trumpet. Allman, Leonard N., 1980
No full textRecorded during a live performance at Stetson Chapel, Kalamazoo College, January 27, 1980, the 167th concert of Western Michigan University, Department of Music’s 1979-1980 season.Leonard N. Allman with various instrumental and vocal accompanists.In partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Master of Music degree in brass pedagogy, Western Michigan University, 1980.Information from performance program.Reel 1: Fanfare for St. Edmundsbury / Benjamin Britten (with Daniel Farmer and Chris Hansen, trumpets) – (3:57) Ach, es bleibt in meiner Liebe: from Cantata no. 77 / Johann Sebastian Bach (with Trudi Huisman Huizenga, mezzo-soprano ; Paula Romanaux, organ) – (8:36) Suite, op. 40 / Gerhard Wuensch (with Paula Romanaux, organ) – (18:39) The hollow men: based on a poem by T.S. Eliot / Vincent Persichetti (with Paula Romanaux, organ ; poem read by Robert Dewey) – (33:26) Two scenes / Anthony Plog ; text by Daveda Lamont (with Marylynn Patterson, soprano ; Paula Romanaux, organ).Reel 2: Four symphonias. Symphonia in C ; (1:22) Symphonia in G ; (3:04) Symphonia in A ; (4:44) Symphonia in C / Samuel Scheidt (with Chris Hansen, trumpet ; Richard Uren, trombone ; Paul Romanaux, organ)
University Chorale, April 14, 1993
No full textRecorded during a live performance at First Presbyterian Church, Kalamazoo, Michigan, April 14, 1993, 8:00 p.m., the 480th concert of Western Michigan University School of Music’s 1992-1993 season.University Chorale, Craig S. Arnold, conductor ; Tracy Cowden, accompanist ; various vocal soloists ; Western String Chamber Orchestra, Bruce Uchimura, conductor.Sacred and secular vocal music for mixed chorus (SSAATTBB) with various accompaniment.Information from performance program.Lord, thou has been our refuge / Ralph Vaughan Williams (Leonard Langrick, organ ; Ryan Owen, trumpet) -- Blessed is the man from Vespers / Sergei Rachmaninoff -- Advent motet / Gustav Schreck (solo quartet: Holly Shaw, Sandra Haman, Ronald Slabbinck, Gregory Evans) -- I would be true : Londonderry Air / harm. Andrew Carter -- Ezekiel saw the wheel / Spiritual ; arranged by Dawson (soloist, Michael Wheaton) -- Vaghissima sembianza from 36 Arie de stile antico / Stefano Donaudy (Amy Statz, mezzo-soprano) -- Mon coeur from Samson and Dalila / Camille Saint-Saëns (Regina Hartwig, mezzo-soprano) -- Partita number 2 in C minor. Sinfonia / Johann Sebastian Bach (Tracy Cowden, piano) -- Glitter and be gay [from Candide] / Leonard Bernstein (Carrie Taghon, soprano) -- Magnificat. Magnificat = My south doth magnify the Lord ; Et exultavit spiritus meus = And my spirit hath rejoiced (Katie Punches, mezzo-soprano) ; Quia respexit = For He hath regarded (Margaret Lanning, soprano) ; Omnes generationes = For behold, all generations ; Quia fecit mihi magna = For He that is mighty (David Garry, baritone) ; Et misericordia = And His mercy is on them (Regina Hartwig, mezzo-soprano ; Ronald Slabbinck, tenor) ; Fecit potentiam = The Lord hath showed strength ; Deposuit potentes = He hath put down the mighty (Michael Burgess, tenor) ; Esurientes implevit bonis = He hath filled the hungry (Regina Hartwig, mezzo-soprano) ; Suscepit Israel = His servant, Israel (Holly Shaw, Amy Statz, and Tricia Meade) ; Gloria Patri = Glory to the Father / Johann Sebastian Bach
Writing from the shadowlands: how cross-cultural literature negotiates the legacy of Edward Said
No full textThis thesis examines the impact of Edward Said's influential work Orientalism and its legacy in respect of contemporary reading and writing across cultures. It also questions the legitimacy of Said's retrospective stereotyping of early examples of cross-cultural representation in literature as uncompromisingly 'orientalist'.
It is well known that the release of Edward Said's Orientalism in 1978 was responsible for the rise of a range of cultural and critical theories from multiculturalism to postcolonialism. It was a study that not only polarized critics and forced scholars to re-examine orientalist archives, but persuaded creative writers to re-think their ethnographic positions when it came to the literary representations of cultures other than their own. Without detracting from the enormous impact of Said, this thesis isolates gaps and silences in Said that need correcting. Furthermore, there is an element of intransigence, an uncompromising refusal to fine-tune what is essentially a binary discourse of the West and its other in Said's work, that encourages the continued interrogation of power relations but which, because of its very boldness, paradoxically disallows the extent to which the conflict of cultures indeed produced new, hybrid social and cultural formations.
In an attempt to challenge the severity of Said's claim that 'every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was consequently a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric', the thesis examines a number of different discursive contexts in which such a presumption is challenged. Thus while the second chapter discusses the 'traditional' profession-based orientalism of nineteenth-century E. G. Browne, the third considers the anti-imperialism of colonial administrator Leonard Woolf. The fourth chapter provides a reflection on the difficulties of diasporic 'orientalism' through the works of Michael Ondaatje while chapter five demonstrates the effects of the dialogism used by Amitav Ghosh as a defence against 'orientalism'. The thesis concludes with an examination of contemporary writing by Andrea Levy that appositely illustrates the legacy of Said's influence.
While the restrictive parameters of Said's work make it difficult to mount a thorough-going critique of Said, this thesis shows that, indeed, it is within the restraints of these parameters and in the very discourse that Said employs that he traps himself. This study claims that even Said is susceptible to 'orientalist' criticism in that he is as much an 'orientalist' as those at whom he directs his polemic
Why China is the new intellectual centre of the world
No full textAs it grows in intellectual strength and influence, we need to change the way that we think about China, argues Mark Leonard, who looks here at three aspects of China's ideas revolution. Copyright (c) 2008 The Author. Journal compilation (c) 2008 ippr.
The death of Private Leonard Manning
No full textNew Zealand Army Private, Leonard Manning, was killed in an ambush in East Timor in July 2000. The circumstances of his killing and the military context in which it occurred, raised many questions at the time and many of these remain unresolved. This report brings together what was known, as of the middle of 2005, expanding on articles published by the author in the New Zealand International Review, in 2001 and 2005
Reshaping Global Technology Development: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in China and India
No full textPurpose – This paper seeks to explore the processes by which the offshoring of technology development to India and China by Western and Japanese multinationals has evolved from the localization/simplification of technology for local markets to the development of advanced technology in India and China for global markets.
Design/methodology/approach – Case studies were developed based on 190 interviews conducted in China, India and several other countries. Respondents included multinational home country and offshore managers, as well as local entrepreneurs.
Findings – Rather than following carefully thought out corporate strategies, the offshoring of technology development by multinationals is more often incremental and driven by the ambitions and expectations of Chinese and Indian entrepreneurs and managers. Meanwhile ‘‘technology competition’’ policies proposed in the USA and elsewhere are not taking sufficient account of the processes by which technology development is being offshored.
Originality/value – Techno-nationalistic policies designed to allow one country to win a race with others in developing and monopolizing new technologies are increasingly dysfunctional. The identification of multinationals with ‘‘home countries’’ continues to weaken. At the same time, technologies and technology workers are more mobile than ever before. Better policies would allow nations to seek mutual benefit through today’s more globally dispersed technology development capabilities. Multinational managers in our study were not sufficiently accounting for the costs of offshoring and outsourcing technology, nor were they giving much thought to the longer term implications of their diminishing capabilities to develop or even control the development technology. More thought should be given to what aspects of technology constitute ‘‘core competencies’’ and which provide sustainable competitive advantage in the emerging global environment.This is the Version of Record, from the HTML version, provided by Emerald Group Publishing. This article is (c) Emerald Group Publishing and permission has been granted for this version to appear here (http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7282/T31Z4693). Emerald does not grant permission for this article to be further copied/distributed or hosted elsewhere without the express permission from Emerald Group Publishing Limited.Peer reviewe
Student musicale, October 13, 1993
No full textRecorded during a live performance at Dalton Center Recital Hall, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, October 13, 1993, 2:00 p.m., the 47th concert of the School of Music’s 1993-1994 season.1st work: Leonard Langrick, organ. 2nd work: Brian C. Clissold, baritone ; Rick Uren, piano. 3rd work: Amy Therese Statz, soprano ; Matthew Robey, piano. 4th work: Michael Patrick Burgess, tenor ; Matthew Robey, piano. 5th work: Debby Butler, violin ; Carter Dewberry, cello ; Michael Dauphinais, piano. 6th work: Xavier Davis, piano ; Matt Hughes, bass ; John Wojciechowski, saxophone ; Keith Hall, drums.Information from performance program.Fantasy and fugue in G minor, S. 542 / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Mein from Die Schöne Müllerin / Franz Schubert ; [poem by Wilhelm Müller] -- Ach, ich fühl’s from Die Zauberflöte / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Here I stand from The rake’s progress / Igor Stravinsky -- Trio in G major, op. 1, no. 2 / Ludwig van Beethoven -- Controversy / John Wojciechowski
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