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Making resources work harder
No full textPublishers, librarians, academics and students are likely to benefit from innovative work going on at the University of Huddersfield linking use of library resources with final degree result. Gazette talks to Deborah Goodall, Dave Pattern and Graham Stone at the university library about the research and why they are now keen to benchmark the data with other universities
Deborah Harkness Book Talk and Signing
No full textThe Z. Smith Reynolds Library Lecture Series presents a talk and book signing by Deborah Harkness, author of the bestselling novels A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night. Deborah is a featured author at the 9th annual Bookmarks Festival of Books. Her Wake Forest appearance is co-sponsored by Bookmarks and ZSR Library as part of the Bookmarks Authors in Schools program
Introduction:Utopian Tropes and Troubled Teens
No full textIntroduction to Stone, R. & Shaw, D. (eds) (2024) Sex Education: Different Ways, New Rules. Bloomsbury. This introduction will describe the context of the show and track the storylines and main character arcs throughout the first four seasons. It will outline and examine the exceptional range of identities that are explored in the show as they are expressed in terms of sexuality and gender as well as the show’s rare sensitivity to matters of age, race, social exclusion and disparate, even antagonistic youth cultures. It will focus too on concerns about authenticity in the language, actions and interactions of the characters, while also considering the complex matrix of aesthetics and settings, which create a collage of modern-day Britain as a kind of mid-Atlantic post-Hughesian teen dream that is tangibly utopian but also uncannily ideal. Indeed, the borderline surrealism of the show is emphasised herein, with identification of those anachronisms such as dated household appliances and automobiles contrasting with the retro fashions and melange of musical styles on the soundtrack. The introduction will emphasise the peculiarity of Sex Education, which posits an American-style high school in rural South Wales, thus becomes its own metaphor for the self-determination of its teenage characters, whose friendships are at least equal to their sexual experiences in the formation of their adult selves. Whereas for some critics this otherworldliness of the series results in its dissolution and lack of portent, this introduction will contend that the fantastical nature of the series is essential to the effective realisation of a worldview that is hormonally febrile and precociously anxious about growing up. The introduction will also describe the main characters, noting innovations and problems, while also examining the critical and popular response to the series. It will identify some of the problems with the series, which include the problems of an unmoored unreality that dogs its utopian construct and the foreshortening of some of the secondary characters, which includes a tendency to identify and define these by their categorisable sexualities, resulting in a tick-box collection of personages that robs depth too from antagonists such as Hope Haddon (Jemima Kirke) the headmistress in S3. The introduction celebrates the many aspects of Sex Education that are groundbreaking, which include sexuality in relation to complex disabled characters, the treatment of mental health problems in teenagers, the many dimensions of queerness, and the overall sex-positive treatment of masturbation and other proclivities as well as the respect afforded asexuality (which was, in comparison, always missing from Sense8). But it also brings to the fore some of the less commented and problematic aspects of the series, including the cruelty that is exercised by several characters, the trivialisation of highly emotive themes such as IVF and, to a surprisingly large extent, the accumulative undermining of sex counselling by professionals such as Jean and her husband Remi (James Purefoy) and by extension their son Otis in favour of simple (and arguably simplistic) expressions of friendship and peer solidarity. The introduction will conclude with a guide to the reading of the volume and highlight the key aspects of the chapters from each contributor. <br/
Genre and Gender:Sex Education in Theory and Practice
No full textThe interplay between genre and gender in Sex Education is theorised by combining the ideas of British sociologist Anthony Giddens with those of the American philosopher and gender studies scholar Judith Butler. This chapter thus establishes a critical framework that allows for assessment of the interplay between genre and gender throughout the four seasons of Sex Education. Reading Sex Education as a cultural product that revises generic formulas in order to respond to new and evolving ideas of identity, Shaw, Stone and Walters contend that the series has importance for genre studies because it prolongs and updates the teen genre, putting progressive, under-represented and even transgressive characters front and centre, while revising outmoded ideas of sexuality, gender and identity, not least in terms of how the series negotiates the evolution of feminist and queer ideas of equality and diversity over four seasons that constitute an enclosed world of outward-looking characters.<br/
Cpt. W.E. Stone and Deborah Kay, 1979 ROTC Commissioning
No full textStudents at Jacksonville State University were commissioned through the ROTC program in ceremonies held May 25, 1979. Shown ROTC sponsor Deborah Kay serves punch to Captain William E. Stone, JSU ROTC Dept.https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/rotc_photos/1346/thumbnail.jp
Author Deborah Heffernan of Bridgton describes how secret plans to have a Queen
No full textAuthor Deborah Heffernan of Bridgton describes how secret plans to have a Queen Anne bonnet-top high boy built for her husband Jack Heffernan turned into a community affair, while yet remaining a secret. The actual design and construction of the high boy fell on Bob Dunning, with the help cabinetmaker Greg Marston. Others involved on the project included Mary and Don Johnson and their sons Tom and Eric. With descriptive details of elements included in the highboy
'A Number is a Snake Chasing its Tail' - Some Thoughts on Measurement for Bibliometricians
No full textKeynote address. Professor Stone wrote the book Counting: How We Use Numbers to Decide What Matters (2020). During this talk, she draws on this and other work to challenge the perceived objectivity of numbers when used to measure research and people.A note on re-use of this video file:
Deborah Stone licensed the images in her slides for use in her presentation because she respects copyright and wants to reward the work of authors, cartoonists and illustrators. Please do not screenshot any of the images and use them for your presentations without seeking licenses yourself. This includes educational use, as some of the companies she licensed from also charge fees for educational use
Stone and brick wall at W. Eugenie St. and N. Fern Ct., Chicago
No full textPhotograph of a stone and brick wall between a house and building located at W. Eugenie St. and N. Fern Ct. Negative LPP-10, #7.6 x 7 c
Lecture: Author Deborah Eisenberg reads from her story, "Some Other, Better Otto" Nov. 2 at Vanderbilt University
No full textIncludes descriptive metadata provided by producer in MP3 file: "Listen to author Deborah Eisenberg read from her story 'Some Other, Better Otto' from her collection Twilight of the Superheroes on Nov. 2 in Buttrick Hall. Introducing Eisenberg is Nancy Reisman, assistant professor of English.
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