4,196 research outputs found
Funeral Service for Sister Angela Michelle Watkins Cullum
No full textFuneral program for Sister Angela Michelle Watkins Cullum, born November 16, 1962 and died March 9, 1985. The funeral was held March 15, 1985 at West End Baptist Church, officiated by Rev. Brent M. Bryant. Funeral arrangements were made through Hardy's Mortuary and she was buried in Ft. Sam Houston National Cemetery near San Antonio, Texas
From Celebrity to Saint : Angela Davis in East Germany
No full textThis lecture examines various objects taken in the Free Angela archive. In it, Dr. Watkins analyzes multiple curious objects, meaning-making, and their relationship to Davis and to East Germany. Dr. Watkins reads these objects (e.g., charms, scarves, shoes, a purse) as gifts, small tokens meant to encourage Davis while in prison. Gift culture has been discussed thoroughly, and oftentimes in conjunction with capitalism. The question becomes, what is global communist gift culture like? As a prisoner in a capitalistic society, to what extent does prison remove Davis from capitalistic gift giving? How do you show someone that you are thinking of them when you everyone supposedly has the same thing? Interestingly, East Germans found ways to show their care and love for Davis with the things they sent. In this lecture, Dr. Watkins argues that these gifts work truly in the realm of fandom and religious offering over a productive reading because they allow for emulation and intimate knowledge as East German give gifts. Davis becomes saint-like in the many campaigns to support her release. This is fascinating because of the anti-religiousness about communist society. This larger-than-life quality explains the many small tokens and gestures, the offerings she received. The performative nature of this part of the archive is Davis’ transformation from celebrity to saint.Non UBCUnreviewedFacult
Professor Angela Shannon
No full textAngela Shannon shares her poetry with the Taylor community.
Angela Shannon is the author of Singing the Bones Together, a 2004 Minnesota Book Awards Finalist. She teaches English at Bethel University. Her work has been published in journals, textbooks, and anthologies, including TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, Where One Ends Another Begins: 150 Years of Minnesota Poetry, and Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century. Her choreopoem Root Woman premiered at the Fleetwood-Jourdain Theater in Evanston, Ill
Spatially-explicit modelling of habitat permeability for mammalian wildlife
No full textLeast-cost and agent-based models present alternative approaches to modelling animal movements, at the population level and individual level respectively. This study introduces and tests a novel integration of adapted least-cost methods into agent-based simulations, in order to analyse connectivity and habitat preferences in two species of mammal. An initial proof-of-concept study built a set of empirically validated least-cost models of European hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus) into a simple agent based model. Agents most closely simulated natural behaviours of dispersing hedgehogs when their movements accounted for temporally-dependent habitat preferences in addition to least-cost pathways informed by the connectivity map. The fitness of these agents increased in more highly fragmented landscapes, in contrast to agents that took least-cost pathways without time-specific preferences. The integration of functional connectivity with individual behaviour combined the advantages of both modelling techniques. Quantitative analysis of the individual-level consequences of moving within different landscape scenarios provides a unique way of applying model outcomes to direct conservation action. A second conceptual study applied integrative methods to the construction of an agent-based simulation scaled for jaguars (Panthera onca) occupying fragmented landscape in Belize. This simulation tested alternative configurations of a wildlife corridor currently under development in Central Belize as part of the intercontinental Mesoamerican Biological Corridor. Six alternative corridor configurations and three control conditions differed substantially in their effectiveness at mixing agents across the environment, despite relatively little difference in individual welfare. Best estimates of jaguar movement behaviours suggested that a set of five narrow corridors may out perform one wide corridor of the same overall area. The first two studies set the framework for developing a detailed simulation of jaguar behaviour and population dynamics in a mixed forest and farmland landscape in the south of Belize. This more complex model drew on empirical data on resident jaguars in the region to simulate typical movement, feeding, reproduction and mortality events within a stable natural population. An overview of the construction and application of the model precedes detailed descriptions of its calibration, sensitivity analysis and validation with empirical data. Agents located inside protected forest reserves exhibited higher fitness, expressed in higher fecundity and lower energy- and habitat-related mortality, than agents located outside these reserves. Model validation showed similar patterns to field data in landscape utilisation and the spatial distribution of individuals. This approach to spatial modelling of population dynamics can provide novel insights into effective conservation strategies for large carnivores. Application of the model to the fragmented central corridor region of Belize sets the context for real-world conservation planning. Under current conditions, simulated jaguars formed a small but stable population with various levels of immigration. Implementation of wildlife corridors showed the largest tracts of physically connected reserves increased connectivity between spatially disconnected habitat patches but also increased vulnerability to environmental degradation
Poems Shared by Yazmin Monet Watkins at the 2014 Race & Pedagogy Conference
No full textIncluded are a selection of poems shared by Yazmin Monet Watkins at the 2014 Race & Pedagogy conference. A Lesson in this Queer African American Woman\u27s History, was the opening poem for Angela Davis\u27 speech and Love Letter For Puget Sound, was performed at the Youth Speaks, Youth Summit. The other poems were shared at the What Now Is The Word evening performance. Although these poems were shared as a spoken word performance, it is important to share and document them in this journal as art and activism go hand in hand
Angela Shanté : 2022 Irma Black Award Silver Medal Acceptance Speech
No full textAuthor Angela Shanté gives an acceptance speech for When My Cousins Come to Town, illustrated by Keisha Morris (West Margin Press)https://educate.bankstreet.edu/irma_black_awards/1004/thumbnail.jp
The Family History of Angela Ruth Weidert
No full textAngela Ruth Weidert authored this family history as part of the course requirements for HIST 550/700 Your Family in History offered online in Spring 2018 and was submitted to the Pittsburg State University Digital Commons. Please contact the author directly with any questions or comments: [email protected]
An agent-based model of jaguar movement through conservation corridors
No full textWildlife corridors mitigate against habitat fragmentation by connecting otherwise isolated regions, bringing well established benefits to conservation both in principle and practice. Populations of large mammals in particular may depend on habitat connectivity, yet conservation managers struggle to optimise corridor designs with the rudimentary information generally available on movement behaviours. We present an agent-based model of jaguars (Panthera onca), scaled for fragmented habitat in Belize where proposals already exist for creating a jaguar corridor. We use a leastcost approach to simulate movement paths through alternative possible landscapes. Six different types of corridor and three control conditions differ substantially in their effectiveness at mixing agents across the environment despite relatively little difference in individual welfare. Our best estimates of jaguar movement behaviours suggest that a set of five narrow corridors may out-perform one wide corridor of the same overall area. We discuss the utility of ALife modelling for conservation management
Materia-autore = Author-Matter
No full textThe etymology of the word author refers to an act of creation, an act of augmentation, from the Latin verb augere. Author instantiates creation, the expansion of the pre-existing. In 1967 Roland Barthes declared the death of the author in his famous essay to state once more that the crisis is that of the author as a single subjectivity and as a term that condenses prestige, undermined by the de-subjectivation strategies of automatism, fortuity and fragmentation of the historical avant-gardes, as well as by the machinic act and by the reproducibility of the second avant-gardes.
Fifty years after Barthes’ paradigmatic formula, this lack of authorship appears to be a successful brand. The ten- sions between the anomie of matter, the law that establishes authorship and the economy that makes the work pos- sible, invoke discordant perspectives. Artists make the self-destruction of their work the real work, and appeal is made for the demolition of architectures, whether by a recognised author or not, in order to re-design, or better still, re-claim the territory. Artificial intelligence consolidates its logics and its design by progressively shedding human ingenuity. The space of criticism becomes, finally, increasingly ephemeral. However, there is an acceptation of criti- cism that is, rather than an individual ‘signature’, an exploration and explanation of how design makes theory.
The binomial author-matter seeks to mark these tensions and contradictions: the featured term author is main- tained to underline the persistence of that prestigious subjectivity, at the very moment when the rhetoric of “mat- ter as an author” promises other forms of authorship
Giussani Sansoni, Angela
No full textLa scheda ricostruisce la vita e l'apporto della scrittrice Angela Giussani Sansoni alla letteratura per l'infanzia.The headword explains the biography and the contribution of the author Angela Giussani Sansoni to the children's literature
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