231 research outputs found
Dr. Shay Welch, Spelman College, January 2013
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Shay Welch. Dr. Welch talks about her book, "A Theory of Freedom: Feminism and the Social Contract". Brad Ost, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
2002-2003 Shay Youngblood
No full textGeorgia born writer Shay Youngblood is author of the novels Black Girl in Paris and Soul Kiss (Riverhead Books) and a collection of short fiction, The Big Mama Stories (Firebrand Books). Her published plays Amazing Grace, Shakin\u27 the Mess Outta Misery and Talking Bones, (Dramatic Publishing Company), have been widely produced. Her other plays include Square Blues, Black Power Barbie and Communism Killed My Dog. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including a Pushcart Prize for fiction, a Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award, an Edward Albee honoree, several NAACP Theater Awards, an Astraea Writers\u27 Award for fiction and a 2004 New York Foundation for the Arts Sustained Achievement Award. Ms. Youngblood received her MFA in Creative Writing from Brown University and has taught Creative Writing to faculty and graduate students at NYU and has been Visiting Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi and Texas A&M Universities. She was recently awarded a National Endowment for the Arts sponsored Japan-US Creative Artist Fellowship for 2011.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/grisham_res/1017/thumbnail.jp
‘The Martiniad’: Nick Shay as Embedded Author within Don DeLillo’s Underworld
No full textNick Shay functions as embedded author and implied narrator within DeLillo\u27s Underworld. Nick creates an origin myth (what I call “The Martiniad”) involving Cotter and Manx Martin to account for the missing first link of the Thomson homerun ball\u27s provenance on October 3, 1951. This invention provides an imaginative forum to reenact, revise, and work through formative traumas and fantasies from Nick\u27s past, principally unresolved tensions with his deadbeat dad
Choreophobia: Solo Improvised Dance in the Iranian World
No full textChoreophobia is the term coined by Dr. Shay, in this first full-length study of Iranian dance, to characterize the widespread ambiguous and negative reactions to solo improvised dance, the most popular dance form in the Iranian world. This dance form appears to constitute an ambiguous, powerful, and highly negative symbol in Iranian society. The central project of this study, designed for both scholars and general readers, is to identify and analyze what factors currently contribute and have historically contributed to the ambiguous position solo improvised dance occupies in an Iranian context. This is reflected both currently and historically in attempts to ban its public performances. In spite of the negative reactions solo improvised dance can evoke, nonetheless it is also loved and performed throughout the Iranian world, emphasizing the ambiguity that accompanies its performances in various social contexts. The author draws a portrait of solo improvised dance by detailing its movement practices and describing and analyzing the aesthetic and creative impulses utilized by performers of the genre. By showing the ways in which solo improvised dance shares important formal aesthetic and creative elements with other Iranian expressive forms such as calligraphy, music, and traditional theatre through the use of geometry and improvisation, the author demonstrates how dance is firmly linked with other Iranian art forms. Shay addresses the topic of historical evidence for this dance genre concentrating on how dance appears in visual art forms such as the Persian miniature and the limitations of the visual arts as a source for historical reconstruction. He describes the Iranian world providing the historical, cultural and social contexts for the study. Several authors have posited Islamic attitudes as the single reason for negative reactions toward dance, an assumption that Shay questions. Using several dance events as examples, the author proposes a model for describing and analyzing the elements that constitute choreophobia, arguing that such a model may have wider implications in the study of dance.https://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_facbooks/1003/thumbnail.jp
Managing Quail on Small Woodlands
No full textWritten as a practical guide for woodland owners interested in fish and wildlife management. Sketches depict the bobbing topknot California or valley quail, and the mountain quail, both native to the western states. The eastern bobwhite also is occasionally seen. The author explains the importance of providing water and cover for these delightful neighbors. In built up areas, feral cats can be a problem predator. By Ron Shay, project coordinator for the Woodland Fish and Wildlife Group. Cooperators for the Woodland Fish and Wildlife Project include state and federal agencies in Washington and Oregon. 8 pages
Developing antimony stable isotope methods as a new geochemical redox indicator: computational isotopic fractionation studies
No full textThe student, Hannah Shay, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2021-04-21 at 15:54.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2021-04-26 at 14:16.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #16338 on 2021-09-16 at 17:03:11Made available in DSpace on 2021-09-17T02:34:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD systemUnderstanding and tracing redox conditions is an important question in many geochemical applications in modern and ancient environments. The stable isotope variations that occur as a result of redox reactions can be used as proxy systems to elucidate these processes. Preliminary experiments involving antimony have shown that it may be promising for applications to contaminant tracing or as a paleoredox proxy. However, currently there is limited work done to understand the isotope fractionation behavior of antimony.
Using ab initio and density functional methods, the work here reports equilibrium Sb-isotope ratio fractionations for 123Sb/121Sb. The reduced partition function ratios for several geochemically relevant species are calculated and presented. The calculations predict significant, measurable fractionations ranging from 1-4‰ between coexisting species with different oxidation states. This study also indicates that the more oxidized the antimony species is, the larger the fractionation relative to similarly charged but less oxidized equivalents. The results indicate the potential use of the 123Sb/121Sb isotope system as a redox proxy and tracer in modern and ancient environments.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2023-05-01The student, Hannah Shay, accepted the attached license on 2021-04-21 at 15:47.Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD systemU of I Onl
Hawk, eagle and osprey management on small woodlands
No full textwritten by Richard J. Pederson (Wildlife/Silviculturist Program Manager, U.S.D.A. Forest Service, Pacific N.W. Region) and Ron Shay (Woodland Fish & Wildlife Project Coordinator).Title from PDF caption (viewed on May 28, 2021).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (page 7).Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Review Of Dancing Across Borders: The American Fascination With Exotic Dance Forms By S. Shay
No full textAlso author of Choreophobia: Solo Improvised Dance in the Iranian World (1999), Choreographic Politics: State Folk Dance Companies, Representation, and Power (CH, Jan\u2703, 40-2710), and Choreographing Identities: Folk Dance, Ethnicity, and Festival in the Unites States and Canada (CH, May\u2707, 44-4975), Shay notes that research for the last of these led to the current volume, which focuses on outsiders in the broader context of recreational and performance practices of exotic dance in the US from the mid-1990s through the present. Shay frames discussion with the writing of social scientists Margaret Somers and Gloria Gibson, particularly their notion of ontological narratives. He grounds his commentary in his extensive experience in his home genre (Balkan dance) and also discusses Asian and Southeast Asian classical dances, Latin American social dances, and Middle Eastern dances as practiced in the US by non-native dancers. For each genre, Shay looks at gateways that made these dances available to non-native US practitioners during the past 50 years. He also considers first encounters with the other, early performances, the international recreational folk dance movement, and the rise of world dance and ethnomusicology programs in colleges and universities. This is a valuable companion to Shay\u27s earlier works. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals
In Search of Traces: Linkages of Dance and Visual and Performative Expression in the Iranian World
No full textIn this essay, the author analyzes the way in which Iranian solo improvised dance, a form of expression considered the least of the arts, if an art form at all, by the majority of Iranians, shares formal esthetic and performative aspects with visual art forms through the use of geometry and other performative expressions, such as music and traditional theater, through the use of improvisation. To stress the commonality between the various forms of art, Shay selects calligraphy as the most honored and esteemed art to demonstrate the common features, thus destabilizing the traditional hierarchy of “high” and ‘low” artistic expression
The assessment of complex tasks: a double reading
No full textThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Studies in Higher Education on 15 August 2006, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/03075070500339988.Drawing on Bourdieu's theory of social practice, the author challenges common-sense notions of objectivity and subjectivity which inform assessment practice, and argues for assessment as a socially situated interpretive act. A case study of an engineering community of practice at a South African university illustrates the multiple subjectivities that shape assessors' interpretations of student performance. This case study contributes to an understanding of academic professional judgment as a ‘double reading' - an iterative movement between different modes of knowledge which comprise the objective and the subjective. The author concludes with a brief discussion of the theoretical and practical implications of this for how academic communities of practice come to judge and how these judgments are validated
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