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Finding Aid: RG 143 - Weiser Hall Records
No full textThis collection documents Weiser Hall from its construction and original use as the college’s infirmary to its renovations and use by the Humanities departments. Included in the collection are copies of floor plans; newspaper articles both from outside newspapers and the Student on its construction and cornerstone laying in 1922; a speech, both print and VHS video, from the dedication ceremony held in 2006 to dedicate its latest renovations; a list of items in the cornerstone; and photographs of the construction, including the students and Springfield College president Dr. Laurence L. Doggett clearing the land, the cornerstone laying ceremony, and the exterior throughout the years.In 1920, Clifton A. Crocker, a member of the Executive Board of both Springfield College and Hampden Hospital presented the need for an infirmary on campus. At this time, Hampden Hospital, located on the corner of State and Thompson Streets in Springfield, had closed its doors. Through the efforts of Crocker and hospital administrator Walter R. Weiser, they turned its financial assets over to charitable causes. On June 3, 1920, a pledge was signed by Hampden Hospital to turnover 180,000. Funding came from the greater community as well as the college community. The architect for the project was H.L. Sprague. The general contractor was Fred T. Ley.
The building was designed as a 3 stories high building, with the ground floor 3 feet below ground level. The building was 93 feet long and 44 feet wide, brick construction with granite trimmings. The rear of the building provided a 2-story high gymnasium for “medical gymnastics.” ‘Medical gymnastics’ was a forerunner of the athletic training program. The building also included hydro-therapy facilities, 4 operating rooms, and the entire third floor served as the college infirmary.
Summer school students worked to clear the building site and to raise funds for the project in 1921. Construction began in the late summer, with the laying of the cornerstone on September 27, 1922. The building opened in January 1923 as the Walter Rupert Weiser Infirmary.
Up until 1971, when the student infirmary was relocated to the renovated Electric Co. Building, the Towne Student Health Center, Weiser served its original purpose as the college’s infirmary. A local newspaper article in January 1922 reports the planned facility would “benefit the community with treatment of crippled children and those suffering after effects of infantile paralysis. Over 2,000 treated over past year with positive results.” The 1923 Yearbook said that “The building is designed for the reconstruction of re-education, and of post-operative cases and others who have lost their grip in physical and mental ways, and is fully equipped with the most modern apparatus for this type of work.” From 1938 the basement of Weiser housed the labs and classrooms of Dr. Peter Karpovich, the premier exercise physiologist in the U.S. at this time.
After 1971, the building was reused as home to the humanities department, housing offices, classrooms, a TV studio, and journalism. The building was saved from demolition when infirmary was moved by the intervention of Facilities Director Vin Swanberg, who did a review of the structure and said that “it should not be razed.” In 2006 the building was further renovated, improving handicapped access, updating TV studio, and added classroom facilities.
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The Mundane Computer: Non-Technical Design Challenges Facing Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence
No full textInterdisciplinary collaboration, to include those who are not natural scientists, engineers and computer scientists, is inherent in the idea of ubiquitous computing, as formulated by Mark Weiser in the late 1980s and early 1990s. However, ubiquitous computing has remained largely a computer science and engineering concept, and its non-technical side remains relatively underdeveloped.
The aim of the article is, first, to clarify the kind of interdisciplinary collaboration envisaged by Weiser. Second, the difficulties of understanding the everyday and weaving ubiquitous technologies into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it, as conceived by Weiser, are explored. The contributions of Anne Galloway, Paul Dourish and Philip Agre to creating an understanding of everyday life relevant to the development of ubiquitous computing are discussed, focusing on the notions of performative practice, embodied interaction and contextualisation. Third, it is argued that with the shift to the notion of ambient intelligence, the larger scale socio-economic and socio-political dimensions of context become more explicit, in contrast to the focus on the smaller scale anthropological study of social (mainly workplace) practices inherent in the concept of ubiquitous computing. This can be seen in the adoption of the concept of ambient intelligence within the European Union and in the focus on rebalancing (personal) privacy protection and (state) security in the wake of 11 September 2001. Fourth, the importance of adopting a futures-oriented approach to discussing the issues arising from the notions of ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence is stressed, while the difficulty of trying to achieve societal foresight is acknowledged
Proceedings of Cardiff Institute for Tissue Engineering & Repair Annual Scientific Meeting (CITER ASM 2021)
No full textCITER ASM 2021
The abstracts appearing in this book comprise the proceedings of the CITER ASM 2021, held between the 13th and 14th of September 2021. The posters presented reflect the authors’ opinions and are published as presented and without change (formatting and minor editing expected). Their inclusion in this publication does not necessarily constitute endorsement by the editors, CITER, or the Cardiff University.
Please use the following format to cite material from these Proceedings:
Author, AB, Author, XY, and Author, DE (2021), Title of paper, Proc. Cardiff Institute for Tissue Engineering & Repair Annual Scientific Meeting (CITER ASM 2021), M Al-Amri, R Weiser (Eds), pp. a–b, Cardiff, UK, 13-14 Sept. 2021, ISSN 2634-100X
Proceedings reference number: ISSN 2634-100X
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Authentic™: the politics of ambivalence in a brand culture
No full textBrands are everywhere. Branding is central to political campaigns and political protest movements; the alchemy of social media and self-branding creates overnight celebrities; the self-proclaimed “greening” of institutions and merchant goods is nearly universal. But while the practice of branding is typically understood as a tool of marketing, a method of attaching social meaning to a commodity as a way to make it more personally resonant with consumers, Sarah Banet-Weiser argues that in the contemporary era, brands are about culture as much as they are about economics. That, in fact, we live in a brand culture. Authentic™ maintains that branding has extended beyond a business model to become both reliant on, and reflective of, our most basic social and cultural relations. Further, these types of brand relationships have become cultural contexts for everyday living, individual identity, and personal relationships—what Banet-Weiser refers to as “brand cultures.” Distinct brand cultures, that at times overlap and compete with each other, are taken up in each chapter: the normalization of a feminized “self-brand” in social media, the brand culture of street art in urban spaces, religious brand cultures such as “New Age Spirituality” and “Prosperity Christianity,”and the culture of green branding and “shopping for change.” In a culture where graffiti artists loan their visions to both subway walls and department stores, buying a cup of “fair-trade” coffee is a political statement, and religion is mass-marketed on t-shirts, Banet-Weiser questions the distinction between what we understand as the “authentic” and branding practices. But brand cultures are also contradictory and potentially rife with unexpected possibilities, leading Authentic™ to articulate a politics of ambivalence, creating a lens through which we can see potential political possibilities within the new consumerism
Podążając śladami dzieciństwa – „kuglarstwa” pamięci w filmie Weiser (2000) Wojciecha Marczewskiego
No full textThe subject of the article is Wojciech Marczewski’s film Weiser (2000), based on Paweł Huelle’s novel, which explores the problems of memory and oblivion. The author indicates the differences between the cinematic adaptation and the literary prototype that are connected with the strategy of constructing the main characters and modifications of the time and place of the action. Afterwards, Jalocha describes the relationship between image, memory and imagination. Analyzing the formal construction of Weiser, she names the means of cinematic expression that allow to imitate the work of memory. She characterizes the contrast between the lanes of the past and present established in the film, the structure of flashbacks, the way of introducing them into the narration and, based on the scope of subjectivity, she divides retrospections into two sub-categories. Jałocha refers to Paul Ricoeur’s phenomenology of memory, that is the notion of trace and the aporia of presentabsent. When interpreting the film, she takes into consideration the characters’ motivations, their attitudes towards the past, the influence of ‘what has been’ on the present, the nature of the process of reconstructing the truth about the bygone events. She also identifies the motives used in the film that are linked with memory, such as photography and archives. Additionally, the author shows different functions assigned to the character of Weiser: he may be seen as a figure of the Other, the metaphor of childhood and the past seen in terms of an enigma. Marchewski’s films, as Jalocha argues, both on the level of plot and formal organization, thematize the memory and its limitations as well as the inaccessibility of the past founded on the difference between ‘here/now’ and ‘there/then’.Tematem artykułu jest podejmujący problematykę pamięci i zapomnienia Weiser (2000) Wojciecha Marczewskiego, film oparty na powieści Pawła Huellego. Autorka porównuje różnice pomiędzy literackim pierwowzorem a adaptacją filmową, związane między innymi ze sposobem konstruowania postaci i dokonaną przez reżysera zmianą czasu oraz miejsca akcji. Ponadto analizuje konstrukcję formalną Weisera i zastosowane w dziele środki wyrazu filmowego, przy pomocy których naśladowana jest praca pamięci. Charakteryzuje budowany w filmie kontrast pomiędzy płaszczyznami teraźniejszości oraz przeszłości, opisuje strukturę retrospekcji, sposób ich wprowadzania w obręb narracji i, biorąc pod uwagę między innymi zakres subiektywizacji, dzieli je na dwie sub-kategorie. Dokonując interpretacji filmu, odwołuje się do sformułowanej przez Paula Ricoeura fenomenologii pamięci: pojęcia śladu-wspomnienia oraz aporii uobecniania nieobecnego
This Conjuncture: Patriarchy in the digital conjuncture
No full textNew Formations This Conjuncture seminar series.
The fifth of a series of online seminars hosted by the journal New Formations in Autumn 2021, organised by Rebecca Bramall and Jeremy Gilbert. The series marks the publication of the journal’s series of issues published under the title This Conjuncture and dedicated to the memory of Stuart Hall.
Patriarchy in the digital conjuncture
Digital platforms create new opportunities to express misogyny in increasingly extreme ways, intersect with the structures of patriarchy sustained in everyday life. In the form of misogynistic ‘rationalism’, these ideas also permeate the culture of Silicon Valley. Join Sarah Banet-Weiser, Ben Little and Alison Winch to discuss networked misogyny and male victimhood in the context of the growing power and influence of digital platforms.
Speakers:
Sarah Banet-Weiser is Distinguished Professor of Communication and Director of the Annenberg Centre for Collaborative Communication. Her books include Authentic™: The Politics of Ambivalence in a Brand Culture (2012), and Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny (2018).
Ben Little is Lecturer in Media and Cultural Politics at the University of East Anglia. He is the co-author of The New Patriarchs of Digital Capitalism (2021) and Russell Brand: Comedy, Celebrity and Politics (2016, with Jane Arthurs).
Alison Winch is Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of East Anglia. Her books include The New Patriarchs of Digital Capitalism (2021) and Girlfriends and Postfeminist Sisterhood (2013). Alison and Ben are the authors of ‘Patriarchy in the digital conjuncture – an analysis of Google’s James Damore’, which was published as part of This Conjuncture
Manually labeled terrestrial laser scanning point clouds of individual trees for leaf-wood separation
No full textThis dataset contains 11 terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) tree point clouds (in .LAZ format v1.4) of 7 different species, which have been manually labeled into leaf and wood points. The labels are contained in the Classification field (0 = wood, 1 = leaf). The point clouds have additional attributes (Deviation, Reflectance, Amplitude, GpsTime, PointSourceId, NumberOfReturns, ReturnNumber). Before labeling, all point clouds were filtered by Deviation, discarding all points with a Deviation greater than 50.
An ASCII file with tree species and tree positions (in ETRS89 / UTM zone 32N; EPSG:25832) is provided, which can be used to normalize and center the point clouds.
This dataset is intended to be used for training and validation of algorithms for semantic segmentation (leaf-wood separation) of TLS tree point clouds, as done by Esmorís et al. 2023 (Related Publication).
The point clouds are a subset of a larger dataset, which is available on PANGAEA (Weiser et al. 2022b, see Related Dataset). More details on data acquisition and processing, file formats, and quality assessments can be found in the corresponding data description paper (Weiser et al. 2022a, see Related Material)
Weiser Dawidek as the key to the works of Paweł Huelle
No full textWeiser Dawidek jest debiutancką powieścią Pawła Huellego, która została opublikowana w 1987 roku i wzbudziła spore zainteresowanie krytyki. Autor w Weiserze Dawidku opowiedział o fascynacji jedenastoletnich gdańszczan starszym o rok kolegą, najprawdopodobniej Żydem. Dawid stał się dla nich przewodnikiem, generałem, przywódcą. Wakacje, które zapowiadały się jako nudne i nieudane, bowiem gnijące w zatoce ryby, uniemożliwiały dzieciom kąpiel - jedyną rozrywkę robotniczych synów, dzięki Weiserowi stały się cudownym czasem chłopięcych wtajemniczeń. Chłopiec okazał się bowiem niezrównanym inicjatorem zabaw, poskramiaczem dzikich zwierząt i posiadaczem prawdziwej broni. To dzięki Dawidkowi chłopcy odkryli niemiecką przeszłość Gdańska, w latach pięćdziesiątych tabu ukrywane przez propagandowe hasła komunistyczne o powrocie do macierzy. Spędzanie wolnego czasu z żydowskim kolegą sprawiło, że jedenastoletni synowie stoczniowców przeżyli pierwsze metafizyczne rozterki. Pod koniec wakacji Dawid zniknął w ciemnym tunelu nad Strzyżą i nie można do końca ustalić co się z nim stało. Czas, który Paweł, Szymek, Piotr i Elka z nim spędzili sprawił, że stali się dojrzalsi, bardziej dorośli. Powieść Huellego jest utworem wieloznacznym poddającym się różnym odczytaniom: jako powieść obyczajowa, inicjacyjna, polityczna, ale również mesjanistyczna. Uważna lektura Weisera Dawidka potwierdza te strategie interpretacyjne. Książka Huellego jest zapisem historii PRL-u ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem czasu narodzin "Solidarności" oraz traumatycznych przeżyć związanych ze stanem wojennym. Debiutancka powieść Huellego to powieść o doświadczeniach Polaków z przełomowych dla naszego kraju lat osiemdziesiątych. W twórczości po debiucie pozostaje gdański pisarz wierny zasygnalizowanym w Weiserze Dawidku rozwiązaniom estetycznym i problemom. Jest Huelle autorem powieści, sztuk scenicznych, opowiadań i wierszy, ale pomimo takiej obfitości genologicznej swej twórczości pozostaje pisarzem kilku tematów, z których największym jest Gdańsk oraz wpływ historii na życie jednostki. Autor ze szczególnym upodobaniem wchodzi w dyskusje z wielką literaturą europejską, między innymi twórczością Güntera Grasa, Tomasza Manna czy Bohumila Hrabala.Weiser Dawidek is Paweł Huelle's debut novel, which was published in 1987 and was critically acclaimed very quickly. In Weiser Dawidek Paweł Huelle told a story about the 11-year-old youngsters from Gdansk fascinated by their 12-year-old friend who was probably Jewish. Dawid became their leader, general, guide. Their summer, which was supposed to be boring because of the rotting fish in the bay, which made swimming impossible, thanks to Weser turned out to be a wonderful time of boyish adventures. At the end of the summer Dawid disappeared in a dark tunnel in Strzyża. Furthermore, no one could established what happened to him. The time, which Paweł, Szymek, Piotr and Elka spent with him, made them more mature. Huelle's novel is a diversified work which may be interpreted of different levels: as a novel of manners, a political novel, an initiation novel, but also a messianic novel. A thorough reading of Weiser Dawidek confirms these interpreting strategies. Huelle's book constitutes a record of Polish People's Republic era whit the emphasis to the time when Solidarity was born and the traumatic events that took place after the martial law was estabished. Huelle's further writing are based on the esthetical solutions and issues that were indicated in Weiser Dawidek. Huelle is an author of novel, dramas, stories and poems. In spite of such genre diversity, Huelle remains the writer of a few subjects - one of which is Gdansk and the way in which history influences people's live. The author especially starts interactions whit the greates European literature, such as Gunter Grass, Thomas Mann or Bohumil Hrabal works.Wydział Filologiczny Uw
Commodity activism: cultural resistance in neoliberal times
No full textBuying (RED) products—from Gap T-shirts to Apple—to fight AIDS. Drinking a “Caring Cup” of coffee at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf to support fair trade. Driving a Toyota Prius to fight global warming. All these commonplace activities point to a central feature of contemporary culture: the most common way we participate in social activism is by buying something. Roopali Mukherjee and Sarah Banet-Weiser have gathered an exemplary group of scholars to explore this new landscape through a series of case studies of “commodity activism.” Drawing from television, film, consumer activist campaigns, and cultures of celebrity and corporate patronage, the essays take up examples such as the Dove “Real Beauty” campaign, sex positive retail activism, ABC’s Extreme Home Makeover, and Angelina Jolie as multinational celebrity missionary. Exploring the complexities embedded in contemporary political activism, Commodity Activism reveals the workings of power and resistance as well as citizenship and subjectivity in the neoliberal era. Refusing to simply position politics in opposition to consumerism, this collection teases out the relationships between material cultures and political subjectivities, arguing that activism may itself be transforming into a branded commodity
Weiser Dawidek as the key to the works of Paweł Huelle
No full textWeiser Dawidek jest debiutancką powieścią Pawła Huellego, która została opublikowana w 1987 roku i wzbudziła spore zainteresowanie krytyki. Autor w Weiserze Dawidku opowiedział o fascynacji jedenastoletnich gdańszczan starszym o rok kolegą, najprawdopodobniej Żydem. Dawid stał się dla nich przewodnikiem, generałem, przywódcą. Wakacje, które zapowiadały się jako nudne i nieudane, bowiem gnijące w zatoce ryby, uniemożliwiały dzieciom kąpiel - jedyną rozrywkę robotniczych synów, dzięki Weiserowi stały się cudownym czasem chłopięcych wtajemniczeń. Chłopiec okazał się bowiem niezrównanym inicjatorem zabaw, poskramiaczem dzikich zwierząt i posiadaczem prawdziwej broni. To dzięki Dawidkowi chłopcy odkryli niemiecką przeszłość Gdańska, w latach pięćdziesiątych tabu ukrywane przez propagandowe hasła komunistyczne o powrocie do macierzy. Spędzanie wolnego czasu z żydowskim kolegą sprawiło, że jedenastoletni synowie stoczniowców przeżyli pierwsze metafizyczne rozterki. Pod koniec wakacji Dawid zniknął w ciemnym tunelu nad Strzyżą i nie można do końca ustalić co się z nim stało. Czas, który Paweł, Szymek, Piotr i Elka z nim spędzili sprawił, że stali się dojrzalsi, bardziej dorośli. Powieść Huellego jest utworem wieloznacznym poddającym się różnym odczytaniom: jako powieść obyczajowa, inicjacyjna, polityczna, ale również mesjanistyczna. Uważna lektura Weisera Dawidka potwierdza te strategie interpretacyjne. Książka Huellego jest zapisem historii PRL-u ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem czasu narodzin "Solidarności" oraz traumatycznych przeżyć związanych ze stanem wojennym. Debiutancka powieść Huellego to powieść o doświadczeniach Polaków z przełomowych dla naszego kraju lat osiemdziesiątych. W twórczości po debiucie pozostaje gdański pisarz wierny zasygnalizowanym w Weiserze Dawidku rozwiązaniom estetycznym i problemom. Jest Huelle autorem powieści, sztuk scenicznych, opowiadań i wierszy, ale pomimo takiej obfitości genologicznej swej twórczości pozostaje pisarzem kilku tematów, z których największym jest Gdańsk oraz wpływ historii na życie jednostki. Autor ze szczególnym upodobaniem wchodzi w dyskusje z wielką literaturą europejską, między innymi twórczością Güntera Grasa, Tomasza Manna czy Bohumila Hrabala.Weiser Dawidek is Paweł Huelle's debut novel, which was published in 1987 and was critically acclaimed very quickly. In Weiser Dawidek Paweł Huelle told a story about the 11-year-old youngsters from Gdansk fascinated by their 12-year-old friend who was probably Jewish. Dawid became their leader, general, guide. Their summer, which was supposed to be boring because of the rotting fish in the bay, which made swimming impossible, thanks to Weser turned out to be a wonderful time of boyish adventures. At the end of the summer Dawid disappeared in a dark tunnel in Strzyża. Furthermore, no one could established what happened to him. The time, which Paweł, Szymek, Piotr and Elka spent with him, made them more mature. Huelle's novel is a diversified work which may be interpreted of different levels: as a novel of manners, a political novel, an initiation novel, but also a messianic novel. A thorough reading of Weiser Dawidek confirms these interpreting strategies. Huelle's book constitutes a record of Polish People's Republic era whit the emphasis to the time when Solidarity was born and the traumatic events that took place after the martial law was estabished. Huelle's further writing are based on the esthetical solutions and issues that were indicated in Weiser Dawidek. Huelle is an author of novel, dramas, stories and poems. In spite of such genre diversity, Huelle remains the writer of a few subjects - one of which is Gdansk and the way in which history influences people's live. The author especially starts interactions whit the greates European literature, such as Gunter Grass, Thomas Mann or Bohumil Hrabal works.Wydział Filologiczny Uw
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