21 research outputs found
Julie Kaye Stringfellow in a Senior Piano Recital
No full textThis is the program for the senior piano recital of Julie Kaye Stringfellow. This recital took place on February 10, 2000, in the McBeth Recital Hall in the Mabee Fine Arts Center
Faith Community Partnerships with Ohio Interfaith Power and Light
No full textAt the center of engagement are meaningful partnerships with external groups: industry, government, schools, and nonprofit/community organizations. This panel discusses what makes partnerships between nonprofit/community organizations and higher education unique. Nonprofit assets grow from their embedded, authentic relationships with communities: geographic-based, i.e. east Columbus; issue-based, i.e. public health; or sector-based, i.e. faith. Higher education institutions' missions to educate students to be leaders and engaged citizens and to create knowledge to improve the well-being of our state, region, nation, and globe provide unique opportunities for meaningful partnerships with nonprofits. Charles Rutheiser, Annie E. Casey Foundation, provides a contextual frame from his experience as a practicing research anthropologist at a university and his work with a philanthropy helping universities develop an authentic and responsive relationships with communities. He provides examples from across the country that show the beginnings of significant change in how these partnerships operate. Faculty and their community partners share examples of partnerships that serve missions of all partners as they work for health and wellness: Susan Melsop, Department of Design and Jackie Calderone, Transit Arts, discuss a partnership of the Department of Design and Central Community House, an east side settlement house. At its heart is a service-learning course that engages Transit Arts urban youth with university students in design-build activities to restore a historic building. Presenters share aspects that impact university student learning, extend education to urban youth, provide a nonprofit partner design service, and advance scholarship in community-engaged learning. Gail L. Kaye and Dawn Williams, College of Public Health, and Julie McMahon, Susan G. Komen Foundation, Columbus discuss how the College of Public Health systematically engages with nonprofits as a part of its academic programs. Undergraduate and graduate students complete applied experiences (capstone, practicum and culminating projects) at nonprofit organizations. Many are non-funded opportunities; some involve research. Learning agreements are developed that serve to both expand the capacity of the NPO and facilitate student learning. Greg Hitzhusen, School of Environmental and Natural Resources (SENR) and Sara Ward, Ohio Interfaith Power and Light (OhioIPL), discuss how Ohio IPL partners with SENR and the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center to provide environment and sustainability resources to Ohioans through faith communities. A primary initiative has been co-sponsorship of a biennial "Earthkeeping Summit" to provide information, resources, and inspiration to Ohio communities engaged in energy efficiency projects, environmental justice, urban agriculture, and clean energy systems. Next steps include regional focus groups/surveys and creation of the next Summit.AUTHOR AFFILIATION: Charles Ruthheiser, Annie E. Casey Foundation; Mindy Wright, Senior Outreach Coordinator, Outreach and Engagement, [email protected] (Corresponding Author); Susan Melsop, Associate Professor, Department of Design; Gail Kaye, Associate Professor of Clinical Public Health, Director of Undergraduate Programs, College of Public Health; Gregory Hitzhusen, Assistant Professor of Professional Practice, School of Environment and Natural Resources; Sara Ward, Executive Director, Ohio Interfaith Power and Light.Nonprofit assets grow from their embedded, authentic relationships with communities: geographic-based (i.e. east Columbus); issue-based (i.e. public health); or sector-based (i.e. faith). The mission of higher education institutions to educate students to be leaders and engaged citizens and to create knowledge to improve the well-being of our state, region, nation, and globe provides unique opportunities for meaningful partnerships with nonprofits. Charles Rutheiser with the Annie E Casey Foundation sets a national context for such partnerships. Susan Melsop, Department of Design; Jackie Calderone, Transit Arts; Gail L. Kaye and Dawn Williams, College of Public Health; Julie McMahon, Susan G. Komen Foundation; Greg Hitzhusen, School of Environment and Natural Resources; and Sara Ward, Ohio Interfaith Power and Light, will discuss examples of their meaningful partnerships and make the case for the value of nonprofit/higher education partnerships
The work of leaders: how vision, alignment, and execution will change the way you lead
No full text"...a bright gem of a book." -JIM KOUZES & BARRY POSNER, authors of the best-selling The Leadership Challenge® Praise for The Work of Leaders "The Work of Leaders is a bright gem of a book. In a crystal clear and to-the-point style, the authors make leadership instantly accessible with a memorable model, rock solid fundamentals, original research, compelling stories, and highly practical tips for putting the principles to immediate use. There are invaluable lessons on every page, and you'll enjoy discovering each one. We highly recommend The Work of Leaders to anyone who aspires to make extraordinary things happen in organizations." -JIM KOUZES & BARRY POSNER, authors of the bestselling The Leadership Challenge® "Clear, distinctive, intuitive, and deeply researched, The Work of Leaders gives every reader not only several 'a-ha!' moments, but smart, meaningful suggestions for changing the way we all lead." -ELAINE BIECH, author of The Business of Consulting "The authors have indeed done their homework! Their combined expertise and engaging writing gives their readers a one-stop shop for understanding and improving the way we lead. Bravo!" -BEVERLY KAYE, coauthor of Love 'Em or Lose 'Em "The Work of Leaders shows you how to create a thriving organization by setting a vision and then collaborating with your people to guide your company to success. It is the strategic tool you need to move your business forward, with imaginative writing and a practical approach you can use right away." -TOM MCKEE, CEO, The Ken Blanchard Companies "Anyone who is in a leadership position or is responsible for evaluating leaders should make this book a must-read. Collectively, the book's authors are unique in their knowledge, background and ability, which is what distinguishes this great piece of work from others of its kind." -SIDNEY FELTENSTEIN, former CEO, Yorkshire Global Restaurants
The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project: inferring the environmental context of human evolution from eastern African rift lake deposits
No full textabstract: The role that climate and environmental history may have played in influencing human evolution has been the focus of considerable interest and controversy among paleoanthropologists for decades. Prior attempts to understand the environmental history side of this equation have centered around the study of outcrop sediments and fossils adjacent to where fossil hominins (ancestors or close relatives of modern humans) are found, or from the study of deep sea drill cores. However, outcrop sediments are often highly weathered and thus are unsuitable for some types of paleoclimatic records, and deep sea core records come from long distances away from the actual fossil and stone tool remains. The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP) was developed to address these issues. The project has focused its efforts on the eastern African Rift Valley, where much of the evidence for early hominins has been recovered. We have collected about 2 km of sediment drill core from six basins in Kenya and Ethiopia, in lake deposits immediately adjacent to important fossil hominin and archaeological sites. Collectively these cores cover in time many of the key transitions and critical intervals in human evolutionary history over the last 4 Ma, such as the earliest stone tools, the origin of our own genus Homo, and the earliest anatomically modern Homo sapiens. Here we document the initial field, physical property, and core description results of the 2012–2014 HSPDP coring campaign.This article and any associated published material is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. View the article as published at: http://www.sci-dril.net/21/1/2016
The socio-cultural milieux of the left in post-war Britain
No full textThis thesis examines the relationship between activist subjectivities and the shaping of Britain’s late
sixties extra-parliamentary left cultures. Based on the oral narratives of ninety men and women, it
traces the activist trajectory from child to adulthood to understand the social, psychological, and
cultural processes informing the political and personal transformation of young adults within the
new left cultures that emerged in the wake of Britain’s anti-war movement, the Vietnam Solidarity
Campaign (VSC). To this end the study charts the development of the political and cultural shifts on
the left over the decade from the early 1960s to the early 1970s. It shows how throughout this
period dialogue between inner and outer activist life occurred against a background of ongoing
realignment on the left from a fluid, eclectic cultural network around the VSC to a demarcated post-
VSC left after 1969, that saw increasing divergence between a non-aligned libertarian New Left on
the one hand and a Trotskyist far left milieu on the other.
The study seeks to claim a valid space for Britain’s left activist landscape within the political,
social and cultural framework of ‘1968’ and British post-war historiography. Privileging individual
and collective subjectivities, the thesis examines ways of belonging inside Trotskyist and non-aligned
left milieux by situating the respondents, their radical histories and activist cultures within the
changing post-war fabric. It shows that investigating individual and collective memories provides
deeper understanding of the ‘cognitive maps’ that young men and women created, as they
attempted to situate themselves as radical, global beings as well as local, gendered social citizens.
As micro-studies the individual stories reveal how the experience of social, emotional and
political maturation from child to adult intersected with a specific social and political moment – the
formation of a new and distinctive left culture that came to full fruition only in the aftermath of 1968
with the arrival of Women’s Liberation and the new personal politics. Exploring the social and
psychological impact of post-war childhood and youth, the study engages with the political and
emotional impact of Women’s Liberation on the men and women within the cultural context of the different left milieux.
Overall, the thesis questions how, from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, the variant
cultures of the milieux penetrated public and private spaces, and shaped early life experiences of
work, political activity, family, and political and personal relations in order to understand how
activism shaped social patterns and psychic being
Telling interactive stories: A practice-based investigation into new media interactive storytelling
No full textThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.Telling Interactive Stories is a practice-based thesis, which theoretically and practically probes the field of digital fictional interactive storytelling. The submission takes the form of the interactive cinema installation Crossed Lines
together with a written element of the thesis which interrogates historical, contextual, theoretical, technical and critical aspects of the field of interactive narrative using new media. Crossed Lines is an original fictional interactive AV piece, amalgamating multiform plots, a multi-screen viewing environment, an
interactive interface and an interactive story navigation form. The installation tells the stories of nine characters in a way that the viewer can constantly explore and switch between all nine forms, using a telephone keypad and handset as an interface, and can simultaneously observe all characters’ presence between the
nine remote locations. Several research methodologies are utilised to analyse and
evaluate the installation. Quantitative methodologies include the use of user tracking systems where the computational output of the installation provides measurements and timings of user choices and behaviours. Qualitative
methodologies include theoretical and visual analysis, and in depth analysis of user responses using interviews, questionnaires, video recordings and cuttingedge eye-tracking technologies
Education and Training in the British Virgin Islands: A Partially Annotated Bibliography
No full textThis bibliography on “Education and Training in the British Virgin Islands” has been specifically prepared for the UWI School of Continuing Studies’ British Virgin Islands Conference. An attempt has been made to be as comprehensive as possible, but the compiler recognizes that because of the weak bibliographical coverage of the literature of the region, important items may have been omitted. This is especially true for policy documents emanating from official sources, since many of these do not reach library and documentation centres. This publication contributes to the development of content for a computerized database being developed by the Caribbean Educational Research Information Service (CERIS) at the School of Education, UWI, St. Augustine. A few websites available on the Internet have been included in the bibliography
Beyond the pink: (post) youth iconography in cinema
No full textBeyond the Pink: (Post) Youth Iconography in Cinema is a project in cultural time travel. It cuts up linear cinematic narratives to develop a hop-scotched history of youth, Generation X and (post) youth culture. I focus upon the pleasures, pedagogies and (un)popular politics of a filmic genre that continues to be dismissed as unworthy of intellectual debate. Accelerated culture and the discourse of celebrity have blurred the crisp divisions between fine art and crude commodity, the meaningful and meaningless, and real and fictive, unsettling the binary logic that assigns importance to certain texts and not others. This research project prises open that awkward space between representation and experience.
Analysts require methods and structures through which to manage historical change and textual movement. Through cinema, macro-politics of identity emerge from the micro-politics of the narrative. Prom politics and mallrat musings become imbued with social significance that speak in the literacies available to youth. It grants the ephemerality and liminality of an experience a tactile trace. I select moments of experience for Generation X youth and specific icons - Happy Harry Hardon, Molly Ringwald, the Spice Girls, the Bitch, the invisible raver, teen time travellers Marty McFly and Donnie Darko, and the slacker - to reveal the archetypes and ideologies that punctuate the cinematic landscape. The tracked figures do not configure a smooth historical arc. It is in the rifts and conflicts of diverse narratives and subjectivities where attention is focused.
This research imperative necessitates the presentation of a series of essays arranged in a tripartite framework. The first section proposes theoretical paradigms for a tethered analysis of filmic texts and Generation X. The second segment explores sites of struggle in public spaces and time. The final section leaves the landscape of post-Generation X to forge the relationship between history, power and youth identity. I particularly focus on the iconography, ideologies and imaginings of young women to lead the discussion of the shifts in the experience and representations of youth. By reinserting women into studies of film, it is imperative to stress that this is not a dissertation in, and of, women's cinema. Rather, it serves as an historical corrective to the filmic database.
The existing literature on youth cinema is disappointing and narrow in its trajectories. Timothy Shary's Generation Multiplex: The Image of Youth in Contemporary American Cinema and Jon Lewis' The Road to Romance and Ruin: Teen Films and Youth Culture exemplify the difficulties of capturing the complexities of individual films when they are collated in artificial and stifling categories. At one end of the analytical spectrum is the critique that comes with the caveat of 'it's just another teen movie'. Jonathon Bernstein's monograph Pretty in Pink: The Golden Age of Teenage Movies is one such example which derails into acerbic diatribes and intellectual dismissal. The Cinema of Generation X: A Critical Study by Peter Hanson is a more successful project that is interested in the influences that inform a community of filmmakers than arriving at a catalogue of generic themes and narratives. There is an emphasis on the synergy between text, producer and readership.
I continue this relationship explored by Hanson, but further accent the politics of film. The original contribution to knowledge offered by this doctoral thesis is a detailed study of (post) youth popular culture, building into a model for Generation X cinema, activating the interdisciplinary perspectives from film and cultural studies. With its adaptability into diverse media forms, cultural studies paradigms allow navigation through the expansive landscape of popular culture. It traverses beyond simple textual analyses to consider a text's cultural currency. As an important carrier of meaning and sensory memories, cinema allows for alternative accounts that are denied in authorised history. As a unique form with its own visual literacy, screen theory is needed to refine observations. This unique melding of screen and cultural studies underscores the convergent relationship between text, readership, production and politics.
This doctoral thesis activates concepts and methods of generationalism, nationalism, social history and cultural practice. There is a dialogue between the chapters that crosses over text and time. The 1980s of Molly Ringwald shadows the dystopia of Donnie Darko. The celebrity status of the Spice Girls clashes with the frustrated invisibility of the female raver. Douglas Coupland's vision of Generation X in 1991 has evolved into Richard Linklater's documentation of post-youth in the new millenium. Leaping between decades through time travel in cinema, I argue that the nostalgic past and projections for the future evoke the preoccupations and anxieties of the present
Iowa History and Culture : A Bibliography of Materials Published Between 1952 and 1986, 1989
No full textThis bibliography was compiled by two reference librarians, Patricia Dawson and David Hudson with the goal of making it easier of tracking down material on Iowa history and culture. This supplements the Iowa History Reference Guide published in 1952 by William Petersen
Public bodies, private moments : method acting and American cinema in the 1950s
No full textThe thesis deals with two central issues:
a) the construction of a framework for the study of film acting which places
performance in a cultural context
b) the cultural significance of Method acting during the 1950s with specific
reference to American cinema of the period
The first chapter considers the ways in which the voice and body in film acting are made
meaningful in the context of beliefs about acting and personal identity. The chapter also
proposes ways for situating the practical activity of film acting in a context of cultural
production.
The remaining chapters study the cultural significance of Method acting through
separate analyses of the Method technique, style, representation of gender, and image of
star performance. Readings of the Method technique and style are placed in the context of
a `culture of personality', in which the significance of the Method was produced in the
ways that acting signified beliefs about personal identity. The discussion of the Method
style is then developed in the analysis of the ways in which the style was used in film
melodramas to represent the gendered anxieties of the rebel hero. Finally, Marlon
Brando's image and performances are studied for how the actor personified the meaning
of the Method. Together, technique, style, gender representation, and stardom, are
studied as various aspects of what is called the Method discourse
