46 research outputs found
The Gramppian Hills: an empirical test for rent-seeking behaviour in the arts
No full textTo remind cultural policy practitioners that rent-seeking theory exists (in recently published cultural economics reference books the theory is hardly mentioned), and to encourage theoreticians further to develop their models of personal and institutional behaviour predicting and explaining it, this article suggests a simple graphical test for rent-seeking behaviour in the non-profit art world. The author hopes to reinvigorate debate about arts rent seeking and about its good and ill effects, about possible diagnostic techniques and about possible control measures
The Rival Maids: Anne Killigrew, Anne Kingsmill and the making of the court masque Venus and Adonis (music by John Blow)
No full textJames A. Winn’s paper ‘A versifying maid of honour: Anne Finch and the libretto for Venus and Adonis’ (Review of English Studies n.s., lix (2008), pp.67-85) presented an array of evidence enabling him to identify Anne Kingsmill (later Anne Finch, ultimately Anne Countess of Winchilsea) as the likely author of the libretto of Venus and Adonis, an all-sung court entertainment performed before King Charles II probably in 1683. John Blow composed the music. This paper – complementing Winn’s – does not dispute his main findings but does examine additional pictorial evidence suggesting that Anne Killigrew also worked on the court’s Venus and Adonis project, producing several paintings on the Venus and Adonis theme and helping to shape the libretto in a small way. Killigrew and Kingsmill were both serving as Maids of Honour to Duchess Mary of Modena at the crucial time. Signs of rivalry rather than untroubled friendship can be detected. With Killigrew included, a clearer picture of the social world from which Venus and Adonis emerged can be discerned – a world in which the authorship concept had vivid meaning (authors knew who they were), while open acknowledgement of authorship could prove problematic
Beyond Theodicy: Jewish and Christian Continental Thinkers Respond to the Holocaust
No full textBeyond Theodicy analyzes the rising tide of objections to explanations and justifications for why God permits evil and suffering in the world. In response to the Holocaust, striking parallels have emerged between major Jewish and Christian thinkers centering on practical faith approaches that offer meaning within suffering. Author Sarah K. Pinnock focuses on Jewish thinkers Martin Buber and Ernst Bloch and Christian thinkers Gabriel Marcel and Johann Baptist Metz to present two diverse rejections of theodicy, one existential, represented by Buber and Marcel, and one political, represented by Bloch and Metz. Pinnock interweaves the disciplines of philosophy of religion, post-Holocaust thought, and liberation theology to formulate a dynamic vision of religious hope and resistance.https://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/mono/1086/thumbnail.jp
“This could die on a vine”: Keeping a Student Journal Alive
No full textSlides presented at Student Journal Forum, February 18-20, 2025.
Presenting journal: IYARICHow do you keep a new and fledgling student journal alive? In this session, we aim to offer strategies that we have used to sustain the graduate student-run journal - IYARIC. First published in 2022, the journal emerged as one response to elevate the scholarship and voice of Black and Indigenous graduate students whose scholarly work and interest is in the Latin America and Caribbean region. Since then, we have and continue to work to build and sustain our very small journal so that it does not “die on a vine.” In this session, the editor-in-chief will draw on the experience of managing IYARIC over the last couple of years to offer insights on the challenges faced by and opportunities available to new journals that are housed in small intellectual communities; to map the strategies used and are currently being tried to build and sustain the journal, with attention to our grounding in the principles of equity, diversity, inclusion, and decolonization (EDID) ; and, to share the outcomes of our efforts to date. As we are currently navigating the murky waters of keeping our baby journal alive and supporting it to maturation, this presentation will be a live snapshot our in-progress work
Review of Political life in the wake of the plantation: sovereignty, witnessing, repair
No full textPolitical life in the wake of the plantation: sovereignty, witnessing, repair, by Deborah A. Thomas. Duke University Press, 201
Finding Biblical Hebrew and Other Ancient Literary Forms in the Book of Mormon
No full textOne important and fruitful area of Book of Mormon studies has focused on ancient Hebrew literary forms present in the text. After years of studying these fascinating forms, Hugh W. Pinnock offers his perspective on their beauty, function, and background. By design this book offers a basic working knowledge of only some of the ancient literary forms identified in the Book of Mormon. Together they represent a significant percentage of the types of ancient forms drawn upon by the Nephite prophets.
The author explains that knowledge of ancient Hebrew writing forms and Jewish poetry is incomplete even today, and much less so in the Prophet Joseph Smith’s day. The book aims to deepen faith in the authenticity of the Book of Mormon by calling attention to its ancient character and affirming that it was translated—not written, or even capable of being written—in early 19th-century America.https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/mi/1034/thumbnail.jp
Finding Biblical Hebrew and Other Literary Forms in the Book of Mormon
No full textOne important and fruitful area of Book of Mormon studies has focused on ancient Hebrew literary forms present in the text. After years of studying these fascinating forms, Hugh W. Pinnock offers his perspective on their beauty, function, and background.
By design this book offers a basic working knowledge of only some of the ancient literary forms identified in the Book of Mormon. Together they represent a significant percentage of the types of ancient forms drawn upon by the Nephite prophets.
The author explains that knowledge of ancient Hebrew writing forms and Jewish poetry is incomplete even today, and much less so in the Prophet Joseph Smith’s day. The book aims to deepen faith in the authenticity of the Book of Mormon by calling attention to its ancient character and affirming that it was translated—not written, or even capable of being written—in early 19th-century America
The Achaemenids and their Artistic and Architectural Tradition: an Archaeological Perspective
No full textThe author tries to read within the particular artistic and architectural production of the Achaemenid period, a specific attitude of that dynasty to develop atypical forms of settlement and occupation of the territory compared to the original ancient near eastern tradition. And this is the case of “urban” structures such as those in Persepolis and Pasargadae, which can be defined as Towns/Palaces, rather than very cities; this is a very different way of occupying a territory, almost no urban, and in a context macroscopically architectural. The cases of Susa and Dahan-i Ghulaman (Sistan) from the author addressed, enrich the unusual panorama of an empire, almost without cities, and with a stone artistic and architectural production concentrated only in Fars, at Persepolis, Pasargadae and Susa, and completely absent in the rest of the Empire
The Political Participation of Black Canadians: Existing Patterns and Future Questions
No full textThe study will explore Black Canadian political views and participation based on data from the 2021 Canadian Election Study
