32 research outputs found
Let's Talk About Sex
No full textRuntime 14:02This episode includes an inside look into the development of a recently published poem, "SBF, or Why I Am No Longer Discussing Sex with Straight People." The author talks with The Tower's very own, Andie Krutsch, about how she uses humor to combat society's heterosexual definitions of sex and what is next for her writing.Krutsch, Andie. (2021). Let's Talk About Sex. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/259186
A New Art for a New China: Modern Chinese Prints from the Ihrman Collection
No full textKruizenga Art Museum, Hope College Catalog for exhibition: A New Art for a New China: Modern Chinese Prints from the Ihrman Collection . Exhibition dates: September 1-December 16, 2023. Charles Mason, author. Andie Near, photographer, designer.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/kam_catalogs/1004/thumbnail.jp
Deep Roots, New Shoots: Modern and Contemporary African Art from the KAM Collection
No full textKruizenga Art Museum, Hope College Catalog for the exhibition: Deep Roots New Shoots: Modern and Contemporary African Art from the KAM Collection. Exhibition dates: January 12 – May 18, 2024. Charles Mason, author. Andie Near, photographer, designer.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/kam_catalogs/1005/thumbnail.jp
Resilience, Resistance and Revival in 20th-Century Yoruba Art
No full textKruizenga Art Museum, Hope College Catalog for exhibition: “Resilience, Resistance and Revival in 20th-Century Yoruba Art”. Exhibition dates: January 17—May 16, 2020. Charles Mason, author; Andie Near, photographer, designer; Lisa Barney, editor; Cecilia O’Brien ‘21, typographer.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/kam_catalogs/1003/thumbnail.jp
Not So Set in Stone: A Digital History of the Macalester College Campus
No full textCollege communities are constantly in flux, as students typically remain in school for only four years. However, parts of the physical environment of a college campus might last for centuries. This project investigates the evolution of Macalester College’s campus and asks the following questions: What has guided the design decisions for new buildings and structures at Macalester throughout its history? How have people interacted with, manipulated, and potentially subverted these spaces and places? How is settler colonialism physically embodied at Macalester? These questions have illuminated the ways that people have attempted to control the space and place that makes up Macalester, and how people have resisted or subverted that control. I have compiled my research into a digital exhibit in order to communicate how architecture and design has served as a tool to convey Macalester’s values and to shape the experiences of students as they eat, sleep, study, and socialize on campus
A politics of conversion: nihilism and love in Toni Morrison's fiction
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras.O estudo Uma Política de Conversão: Niilismo e Amor na Ficção de Toni Morrison começa com a idéia de que a Literatura Afro-Americana apresenta um sentido de auto-reflexividade e hibridismo, através do qual autobiografia dialoga com romance, o espiritual se funde com o político. A partir deste traço dialógico a auto-reflexividade é politicamente estabelecida entre niilismo e amor. Na política de conversão, o estudo analisa as formas como mulheres negras, individualmente ou em grupo, fogem da escravidão para a liberdade, avançam da individualidade para a coletividade, ou substituem niilismo por amor. Metodologicamente o estudo apresenta sete capítulos. O primeiro discute os aspectos dialógicos que ilustram as conexões entre narrativas espirituais, de escravos e ficção, entre espiritualidade e política. O segundo examina o diálogo entre a conversão, pregação pública e formação da comunidade em Diário e Experiências Religiosas de Lee. O capítulo sugere que ao afirmar espiritualidade e humanidade a narradora abre profundo espaço para a mulher negra reclamar direitos civis. O terceiro discute o diálogo no interior da política de conversão entre narrativa de escravos e ficção. Este diálogo lida com niilismo e amor em Incidentes de Jacobs e Amada, Sula e O Olho Mais Azul de Morrison. Para a análise de niilismo e amor valores individuais e coletivos são considerados em relação a cinco aspectos: ambiente e agente antagonistas, agente de apoio, propósito da personagem e resultado alcançado. É visível, no estudo, o apoio que certas mulheres recebem de suas comunidades para contra-atacar antagonistas. O apoio nem sempre resulta na superação do niilismo e, por isso, derrota temporária pode ocorrer antes que elas sejam reintegradas à comunidade, como acontece com Linda Brent. O quarto capítulo examina as fraquezas e as energias da política da conversão e a reintegração de Sethe Suggs à comunidade de Bluestone Road. O quinto avalia como a comunidade de Bottom tenta controlar a individualidade de Sula Peace e como um grupo de mulheres lideradas por Nel Wrights consegue resgatar o espírito de independência da heroína. O sexto mostra como a política da conversão das mulheres de Lorain é incapaz de garantir a saúde mental de Pecola Breedlove, mas consegue criar um papel mais consistente para o grupo. No sétimo, a conclusão examina da relação dialética entre niilismo e amor ou auto-amor nas experiências dos indivíduos e dos grupos. O estudo sugere que em Incidentes a busca de Linda Brent por liberdade envolve elementos de autodestruição e de autoempoderamento. Da mesma maneira, o estudo conclui que em Amada o amor que Sethe Suggs tem para as suas crianças mata a própria filha, enfatizando, assim, o desejo de livrá-la da escravidão. Igualmente em Sula, a individualidade de Sula Peace não apenas limita, mas também expande as experiências do grupo, levando-o à emancipação. Finalmente, em O Olho Mais Azul a luta de Pecola Breedlove por amor e beleza reflete auto-ódio ao mesmo tempo em que reconstrói a auto-apreciação de toda a comunidade
Skills for Inclusion and Transformation
No full textWe have all felt included and excluded in varying degrees and situations throughout our lives. As much as we\u27d like to believe that cliques are just a high school phase, issues of group identity and alienation are pervasive even in adulthood. In every environment, there are factors that can be exploited to divide people. The School for International Training, comprised of an intercultural and multicultural student body, is no exception. Some obvious examples of factors that divide students are PIM or MAT program, varying degree programs within PIM, on- or off-campus living situations, differing political views, and relationship statuses, not to mention gender, race, sexual orientation, nationality, class, ability, and age. How do our perceptions of these differences impact our interactions with one another? The focus of this training is to raise participants\u27 awareness about the role they play on the SIT campus and elsewhere in excluding themselves and how their behavior contributes to excluding others. Using strategies for inclusion as tools for action, the transformation can continue beyond the training to help participants build opportunities for inclusive interactions
‘Framed and clothed with variety’: print culture, multimodality, and visual design in John Derricke’s Image of Irelande
No full textThis chapter argues that the twelve illustrative plates in John Derricke\u27s Image of Ireland (1581) were the author\u27s primary focus, aimed at readers who practiced the kinds of ‘laudable exercises’ demanded of committed Protestants: a kind of reading that was recursive, studious, and dynamic. This essay contextualises Derricke’s Image in relation to printer John Day’s output in the late sixteenth century as well as to contemporary illustrated texts from which Derricke may have drawn inspiration as a reader and woodcarver. I focus on the seven plates containing small alphabetical keys and their impact on how and in what order we are meant to read the verse captions.The multimodal structure of these plates showcases Derricke’s keen understanding of John Day’s target audiences and Derricke’s knowledge of continental trends in woodcut illustrations.
Whereas the preceding prose text may often seem obscure and metaphorical, the plates lay bare Derricke’s argument: that the Irish ‘kern’ are an insidious threat both to English rule and to Protestant values. Derricke’s ‘laudable exercises’ arm his readers with the interpretative power to fight this threat through the act of visual navigation, so that decoding the images becomes itself an act of Protestant militancy
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No full textHuman communication has a remarkable capacity todescribe events that occurred elsewhere and at othertimes. In particular, when describing complex narratives,speakers must communicate temporal structure using amixture of words (e.g., “after”), gestures (e.g., pointingrightward for a later event), and discourse structure (e.g.,mentioning earlier events first). How do listenersintegrate these sources of temporal information to makesense of complex narratives? In two experiments, wesystematically manipulated gesture, speech, and order-of-mention to investigate their respective impacts oncomprehension of temporal structure. Gesture had asignificant effect on interpretations of temporal order.This influence of gesture, however, was weaker than theinfluence of both speech and order-of-mention. Indeed,in some cases, order-of-mention trumped explicitdescriptions in speech; for instance, if ‘earlier’ eventswere mentioned second, they were sometimes thought tohave occurred second. Listeners integrate multiplesources of information to interpret what happened when
