296 research outputs found
Understanding Randall Kenan
No full textApril 11, 2019 at 4:00 p.m. in Peabody 206 The event will begin with Kenan reading from his work and will be followed by an interview by James A. Crank, author of Understanding Randall Kenan. Signing to follow. Copies of the book will be available for purchase. Randall Kenan is best known for his novel A Visitation of Spirits (1989) and his collection of stories Let the Dead Bury Their Dead (1992), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, was a nominee for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction, and named a New York Times Notable Book. Kenan is also the recipient of a , as well as the Whiting Writers Award, Sherwood Anderson Award, John Dos Passos Award, Rome Prize, and North Carolina Award for Literature. James A. Crank is an associate professor of American literature and culture at the University of Alabama, a National Humanities Center Fellow, and cohost of the podcast The Sound and the Furious. Crank’s essays have appeared in Agee Agonistes: Essays on the Life, Legend, and Works of James Agee and Southerners on Film: Essays on Hollywood Portrayals since the 1970s. In addition to his book on Kenan, Crank has written Understanding Sam Shepard (2012), New Approaches to Gone with the Wind (2015), and Race and New Modernisms (2019).https://egrove.olemiss.edu/eng_lec/1001/thumbnail.jp
Randall Kenan, 33rd Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textRandall Kenan is the author of novels, stories, and nonfiction, including A Visitation of Spirits, Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century, and The Fire This Time. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, the Sherwood Anderson Award, the John Dos Passos Award, and the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Kenan Professor plans to build Greek Trireme
No full texthttps://rdc.reed.edu/v1/resources/636764c8-32f5-4152-948a-e3c4bd727960/thumb/128.jpgNotes about the Kenan Distinguished Professor during the fall terms of 1981 and 1982, John Morrison, who is planning to build a Greek trireme. Morrison is the author of Greek Oared Ships
World Affairs Lecture Muslim Identity in Peril: Commemorating the Bosnian Genocide
No full textKenan Trebincevic, author of The Bosnia List: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Return, will discuss the war in Bosnia and Muslim identity with Associate Professor of Social Sciences Emre Özsös.The Department of Social Sciences’ World Affairs Lecture Series fulfills FIT’s mission to foster an understanding of diverse cultures and politics within the international as well as domestic perspectives. It also embraces, supports, and expands upon the president’s campus-wide initiative on civility.This lecture is presented in partnership with the Presidential Scholars program
1997-1998 Randall Kenan
No full textRandall Kenan’s first novel, A Visitation of Spirits, was published by Grove Press in 1989; and a collection of stories, Let the Dead Bury Their Dead, was published in 1992 by Harcourt, Brace. That collection was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Fiction, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was among The New York TimesNotable Books of 1992. He is also the author of a young adult biography of James Baldwin (1993), and wrote the text for Norman Mauskoff’s book of photographs, A Time Not Here: The Mississippi Delta (1997). Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1999, and was nominated for the Southern Book Award. The Fire this Time, a work of nonfiction, was published in July 2007. From 1985 to 1989 he worked on the editorial staff of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., publishers. In 1989 he began teaching writing at Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University. He was the first William Blackburn Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Duke University in the fall of 1994, and the Edourd Morot-Sir Visiting Professor of Creating Writing at UNC-Chapel Hill in 1995. He was the John and Renee Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi, Oxford (1997-98), Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Memphis, and held the Lehman Brady Professorship at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. He has also taught urban literature at Vassar College. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, the Sherwood Anderson Award, the John Dos Passos Award, and was the 1997 Rome Prize winner from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was awarded the North Carolina Award for Literature in 2005. (Photo credit: Miriam Berkley)https://egrove.olemiss.edu/grisham_res/1022/thumbnail.jp
A William Faulkner Remembrance
No full textA day-long program marking the fiftieth anniversary of William Faulkner’s death: 6:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Marathon reading of The Reivers at Rowan Oak (917 Old Taylor Road) 4:15-5:45 p.m. Keynote lectures by author Randall Kenan and biographer Phillip M. Weinstein at Lafayette County Courthouse (1 Courthouse Square). Program for young readers at Square Books Jr. (111 Courthouse Square). 6:00-7:00 p.m. Book signings by Kenan and Weinstein at Off Square Books (129 Courthouse Square) 8:00-10:00 p.m. Screening of The Reivers (1969 adaptation, starring Steve McQueen) at Lyric Theater (1006 Van Buren Avenue
Walking on Water: Black America on the Eve of the Twenty-First Century
No full textBy Randall Kenan Knopf (Hardcover, $30.00, ISBN: 0679408274; Paperback, ISBN: 067973788X, 2/1999) A personal meditation in the guise of a search for the essential nature of the black community in America. Kenan, an award-winning writer (and author of the novel A Visitation of Spirits, 1992, etc.) travels across the country looking for what it means to be black. He interviews an eclectic assortment of people, interspersing the conversations with his own reflections, with discussions of relevant writings drawn primarily from the black intelligentsia, local history, and stream-of-consciousness observations about everything he confronts along the way. In the unlikely surroundings of Vermont and Maine, Kenan\u27s assumptions about black identity are challenged by Jack, an obviously white man who has grown up in and continues to live as a part of black culture. California would seem to be a more likely place to find the heart of the black community, and there, not surprisingly, Kenan confronts the movie industry. While his own reflections focus on the distortion of black reality represented on the screen, his conversation with Charles Burnett suggests more that distortion is a Hollywood reality across the board. This is a long book, and there are scores of such encounters with very interesting people. In the end, however, the interviews are sidebars; the presentation is first-person throughout, and as Kenan ultimately notes, what he presents is not a compilation of the thoughts of others, but rather my personal history of the last five years. What saves the volume from pretentiousness is that for the most part his personal musings merit reading and reflection. While his conclusion is predictable, it is also profound: there is no one element that defines the black American soul. Taking a close and serious look at black Americans unveil their essential individuality, Kenan ends up appreciating the diversity of black America rather than celebrating distinguishing characteristics. Definitely worth reading, even though its not always clear whether this is powerful introspection or self-indulgence. ―Copyright © 1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/mwp_books/1443/thumbnail.jp
Kann Demokratie Vielfalt bewältigen?
No full textDer britische Autor, Journalist und Dozent, Dr. Kenan Malik spricht über Demokratie, Vielfalt, soziale Zugehörigkeit und kulturelle Wahrnehmung.
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The British author, journalist and lecturer Dr. Kenan Malik speaks about democracy, diversity, social belonging and cultural perception.
The speech was held within the framework of the 21st Karlsruhe Dialogues “Pluralistic Society and its Enemies” on Saturday, March 4, 2017.
For further information, please see: http://www.zak.kit.edu/english/karlsr...
Der Vortrag fand im Rahmen der 21. Karlsruher Gespräche "Die pluralistische Gesellschaft und ihre Feinde" am Samstag, 4. März 2017 statt.
Weitere Informationen unter: www.zak.kit.edu/karlsruher_gespraech
Characterizing the higher order metabolism of oral streptococci
No full textThe metabolism of microbial species is very diverse, displaying a wide range of capabilities. This diversity is often explainable by differences in the metabolic networks that underly microbial metabolism. However, closely related microbial species that have structurally conserved metabolic networks with relatively few differences still display diverse growth profiles under the same growth conditions. This diversity cannot be explained by metabolic capabilities given the similarity in metabolism across these closely related species.
In this dissertation, I explore this phenomenon by comparing the growth fitness of a group of closely related oral streptococci using high throughput combinatorial growth experiments. I compare these experimental results to predictions from genome-scale metabolic models that I constructed for each species under study. These models capture the entire metabolism of a species and predict its metabolic capabilities. Disagreements between experimental results and model predictions point to differences in utilization of metabolism that can help explain diversity in growth phenotypes despite similarity in metabolic networks. I develop an algorithm that can analyze these differences and suggest gene suppressions that reconcile model predictions with experimental results, suggesting points of genetic or enzymatic regulation.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2023-08-01The student, Kenan Jijakli, accepted the attached license on 2021-07-05 at 16:46.The student, Kenan Jijakli, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2021-07-05 at 16:55.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2021-07-12 at 16:31.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #16757 on 2022-01-12 at 13:03:53Made available in DSpace on 2022-01-12T22:54:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3
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Prognostic Value of Inflammation Parameters in Patients With Non-ST Elevation Acute Coronary Syndromes
No full textInflammation parameters can predict the severity of coronary artery disease and predict long-term mortality. However, there is no study in which these parameters were evaluated together. We compared the prognostic values of inflammation parameters in predicting long-term mortality in patients with non-ST elevation acute coronary syndrome (NSTE-ACS). Consecutive patients with NSTE-ACS (n = 170) were included in the study. Monocyte/high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) ratio (MHR), lymphocyte/monocyte ratio (LMR), neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet/lymphocyte ratio (PLR), total cholesterol/HDL-C ratio (TC/HDL-C), triglyceride /HDL-C ratio (TG/HDL-C), total antioxidant status (TAS), total oxidant status (TOS), oxidative stress index, and ischemia-modified albumin (IMA) were measured. Total antioxidant status and TOS variables were significant independent predictors of mortality. When 1.17 value is taken as a cutoff point of TAS values, the sensitivity (70.0%) and specificity (77.39%) values calculated for this value indicate that TAS variable has a predictive value on mortality. Monocyte/high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio, LMR, NLR, PLR, TC/HDL-C, TG/HDL-C, TOS, and IMA levels could not be used alone in the diagnosis, severity assessment, and predicting future mortality of NSTE-ACS. Only TAS levels had a predictive value on mortality. © The Author(s) 2020
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