1,413 research outputs found
Jen Delos Reyes
No full textProjects in this collection: Open Engagement
From http://www.jendelosreyes.com/about: Jen Delos Reyes was born in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and educated first in its local music scene of the mid-90’s infused with the energy of Riot grrrl and DIY, and then in its university. [1] How she works today is rooted in what she learned in her formative years as a show organizer, listener, creator of zines, and band member. Graduate work at the University of Regina made the space possible for her to see her work as an organizer as a key component of her continued creative work.
Jen Delos Reyes is a \u27farmer of sorts and an artist of sorts\u27[2], educator, writer, and radical community arts organizer. She is defiantly optimistic, a friend to all birds, and proponent that our institutions can become tender and vulnerable. Her practice is as much about working with institutions as it is about creating and supporting sustainable artist-led culture.
Delos Reyes worked within Portland State University from 2008-2014 to create the first flexible residency Art and Social Practice MFA program in the United States and devised the curriculum that focused on place, engagement, and dialogue. The flexible residency program allowed for artists embedded in their communities to remain on site throughout their course of study.
She worked with the Portland Art Museum from 2009-14 on a series of programs and integrated systems that allowed artists to rethink what can happen in a museum, and reinvigorate the idea of the museum as a public space.
From 2015-2022 Delos Reyes was the Associate Director of the School of Art & Art History of the University of Illinois, Chicago’s only public research university, where she taught in the departments of Art and Museum and Exhibition Studies.
She was the Director and founder of Open Engagement, an international annual conference on socially engaged art that was active between 2007-2019 and hosted ten conferences in two countries at locations including the Queens Museum in New York. After over a decade of large scale organizing she is now focused on work on the scale of her life.
She is the author of I’m Going to Live the Life I Sing About in My Song: How Artists Make and Live Lives of Meaning, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Public Engagement But Were Afraid to Ask, and Defiantly Optimistic: Turning Up in a World on Fire.
Delos Reyes divides her time between Chicago, IL where she is the founder of Garbage Hill Farm, and Ithaca, NY where she is an Associate Professor of Art at Cornell University.
[1] Credit to Saul Alinsky in form, and for the reminder that often the most formative educational experiences happen outside of the classroom.
[2] Grateful to Wendell Berry in general, and for this descriptor I am using.https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/artandsocialpractice_creators/1030/thumbnail.jp
A Personal Journey with Gish Jen, Author
No full textBorn and raised in the United States, Gish Jen has become a leading literary voice of the Chinese-American experience. In this program, Bill Moyers talks with the critically acclaimed writer, whose novels and short stories are known for their humorous and incisive edge. (14 minutes, color
From Start-Up to Adolescence: University of Oklahoma’s OER Efforts
No full textIn February, 2013, University of Oklahoma (OU) president, David Boren, issued a letter to all OU faculty members highlighting the high cost of textbooks, expressing his strong “support for the move to open access materials in teaching and research,” and a charge to carefully “evaluate whether our textbooks and course materials add value to the educational experience equal to their cost to our students.” President Boren’s letter also announced the imminent hiring of one of the nation’s first full-time librarians dedicated solely to OER. This case study describes OU’s OER initiatives – from Boren’s letter to the present – with a specific focus on the Alternative Textbook Grant, which in 2017 was on track to save students over $1,000,000 in textbook costs. Case study sub-topics include grant program development, strategies for outreach and adoption, program funding, and resources. The chapter is practical in nature and discusses how the program has matured from its infancy as a start-up initiative to its current evolving – and sometimes challenging – “adolescent phase.” Authors include Stacy Zemke, OU’s first OER Coordinator; Cody Taylor, OU’s OER Student Assistant for three years and now an Emerging Technologies Librarian at OU, and Jen Waller, who took over the OER Coordinator role in May 2016. This collaborative authorship provides a case study that examines OU’s OER initiatives – including its struggles – from the people who have been directly involved with establishing, growing, and developing it.Ye
Gish Jen: Vocation of the Writer (Library Resources)
No full textA bibliography of resources available through the Holy Cross Libraries which provide additional information related to Gish Jen: Vocation of the Writer a lecture by award-winning author and speaker Gish Jen. The conference is sponsored by the Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J. Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture, the Creative Writing Program, and Asian Studies and was held at the College of the Holy Cross on February 27, 2018.https://crossworks.holycross.edu/bibliography_events/1012/thumbnail.jp
Public Support for the Financing of RD&D Activities in New Clean Energy Technologies
No full textSeveral market failures, as well as other technical, economic and regulatory barriers to the market penetration of clean energy technologies result in under-investment of private innovators in RD&D. Therefore, public support is needed in order to induce innovations. Policy tools creating market conditions that are attractive for the exploitation of clean technologies (market pull) must be combined with other tools directly supporting the development of these technologies through the provision of public funds (technology push). Thereby, financing policy instruments should be chosen so that their characteristics match with those of the specific innovation process being targeted at the same time that social welfare is maximized. We develop an analytical framework to define the form of public support and to provide recommendations on the optimal choice of both technology push and market pull instruments.clean energy technologies; innovation finance; public support; technology push; market pull
[[alternative]]A case study of Fu Jen Catholic University on promoting character education
No full text[[abstract]]Abstract
Based on the importance of character education in this new century, this study chose the case of Fu Jen Catholic University to learn how they promote character education through related curriculum design, hoping to present the research result of referable models and strategies for promoting character education to current higher education institutes in the country. The purposes of this study are: 1) to discuss the concept and related theoretical foundations of character education; 2) to understand the ideal of Fu Jen Catholic University’s promoting character education; 3) to discuss the model that Fu Jen Catholic University applies in promoting character education; 4) to analyze the strategies that Fu Jen Catholic University applies in promoting character education; 5) to conclude the research result and propose practical recommendations as references for other colleges and universities when they promote character education.
This study concluded the followings: 1) the ideal of Fu Jen Catholic University’s promoting character education comes from the “Apostolic Constitution on Catholic Universities” and the value of whole-person education; 2) Fu Jen Catholic University promotes character education through three dimensions – formal curriculum, informal curriculum and hidden curriculum; 3) their promoting strategies include: (1) to actively convey those core values of truth, goodness, beauty and holiness to faculty members, students and staff; (2) to shape those core values through leadership; (3) to blend those core values into related formal curriculum of character education; (4) to set the basis of those core values in campus’s code of conduct; (5) to encourage open discussion and dialogue on ethic issues; (6) to assist students in practicing those core values; (7) to ensure that the campus is a caring and respectful community; (8) to commit to students of providing a whole-person education. The weakness include: (1)to enhance the assessment currently insufficient on the achievements of those core values; (2) to show pride on school’s accomplishments in promoting morality and citizen moral character. Finally, some research suggestions are proposed according to conclusions: 1) suggestions on Fu Jen Catholic University’s promoting character education; 2) suggestions on other colleges and universities in the country when they promote character education; suggestions on future studies.
The application of this research result is mainly to improve and assess the continuous promotion of character education in Fu Jen Catholic University. In addition, this study also hopes to be able to provide valuable references for other colleges and universities in the country when they promote character education in the future and be well referred as to the direction and vision of developing excellent culture in university campus. Besides, during the research process, this study expects to arouse the public’s attention and feedback on character education so that more people will throw themselves into either academic or practical fields of study to enhance the development of character education.
Bête à chagrin
No full textJen Webb lives in Canberra, and is the author of a number of works including the poetry collection, Proverbs from Sierra Leone
Making space for India in post-apartheid South Africa: Narrating diasporic subjectivities through classical song and dance
No full textAbstractBackground/purposeDiasporic associations and hometown groups fuel transnational exchanges and circulations. Their role has mostly been understood in terms of broader calculative agendas related to ethnic and national cultural politics. In South Africa, classical Indian singers, dancers and instrumentalists are an important part of these transnational landscapes. This paper focuses on the individual actors giving shape to these flows, and explores how a range of subjectivities is entangled with the materialities and forces present in classical performance spaces.Methods and resultsDrawing on fieldwork in Durban, South Africa, it explores how, and why organising actors assemble the matter of classical performance spaces. The paper also explores interconnections to Bollywood as another emergent diasporic site both in tension and accord with classical Indian performances.ConclusionDrawing from a feminist social practice approach, this paper argues that diaspora associational life is assembled through agents negotiating different gaps and discrepancies arising from the material and affective inhabitation of diasporic worlds
Cowgirls Stampeded
No full textPhotograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Colorado's Jen Terry guards Oklahoma State's Stacy Coffey during Sunday's Big Eight game at Gallagher-Iba Arena.
Bahrain: The Uncovered Uprising
No full textIn July 2012, documentary filmmaker Jen Marlowe traveled to Bahrain in order to clandestinely observe and document the continued repression against Bahrain\u27s Arab Spring. Marlowe\u27s talk explores the central role women play in Bahrain\u27s Arab Spring, challenging Western stereotypes about women in conservative Middle Eastern societies. She also examines the overly simplistic shiitake versus Sunni analysis characterizing the uprising. Throughout, Marlowe will highlight inspirational Bahraini pro-democracy activists, who continue their freedom struggle at great personal risk.
About the Lecturer: Jen Marlowe, is a Seattle-based documentary filmmaker, author, and human rights activist
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