78 research outputs found
Voices of Afghanistan
No full textThe Twelth Jacoby-Lunin Humanitarian Lecture underwritten by the Frank Jacoby Foundation in collaboration with the Carl and Dorothy Bennett Center for Judaic Studies and Open VISIONS Forum presents Khaled Hosseini, Internationally acclaimed best-selling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/bennettcenter-posters/1269/thumbnail.jp
Upon Daedalian Wings of Paper Money: Adam Smith and the Crisis of 1772
No full textAdam Smith advocated laissez faire for most sectors of the economy, but he believed that banking and finance required several forms of regulation including usury laws and the prohibition of small-denomination bank notes. Smith’s support for banking regulation appears to have been a response to the shocks that hit the Scottish banking system during the time that he was composing the Wealth of Nations. The most important was the Crisis of 1772, which has been described as the first modern banking crisis faced by the Bank of England. It resembles the Crisis of 2008 in a number of striking ways. This paper describes the Crisis of 1772, the other shocks that hit the Scottish banking system, and the evolution of Smith’s views on the regulation of banking. It is based on Smith’s writings, the secondary sources, and a quantification of the new issues of Scottish bank notes during Smith’s era.
Splendour: Staging Splendid Bodies in Early Modern Scotland and England
No full textThis essay was an invited contribution to the catalogue for an exhibition in the Reid Gallery (The Glasgow School of Art) for the project Splendour: Staging Splendid Bodies in Early Modern Scotland and England. The project was a collaboration between The Glasgow School of Art and The Queen’s House, Royal Museums Greenwich, with the core team including Matilda Pye (National Outreach Curator, Royal Museums Greenwich), Silvia Weidenbach (Lecturer, Silversmithing & Jewellery, The Glasgow School of Art) and Anthony Brotheridge (Subject Leader, Fashion, The Glasgow School of Art).
Involving more than 150 GSA students and staff from Textiles, Silversmithing & Jewellery and Fashion, the Splendour creative brief was an exploration of adornment, textiles and fashion as tools for the expression of love, power and politics. As well as the exhibition, the project involved a photo-shoot on location in Stirling Castle, and a symposium and performative event at The Queen’s House, Greenwich on 28 June 2019.
The essay explores pedagogical approaches within the Splendour project, for example ‘working alongside’, and how these tessellate with the cultural heritage themes and aspects that were the inspiration and provocation for the creative learning journey.
The catalogue also contains essay contributions from Matilda Pye (National Outreach Curator, Royal Museums Greenwich) and Dr Helen McCormack (Lecturer, Design History & Theory, The Glasgow School of Art)
Memories. On the westward journey of Chinese migrants from Zhejiang to Europe in the 1920s
No full textThis is the main essay in a book that resulted from a collaboration with the artists Ciaj Rocchi and Matteo Demonte, with whom the author has participated to a call for projects promoted by the University of Padua and the Royal Holloway University of London. Our project, entitled "Pearls from China", won a grant to carry out research on the early years of the Chinese migration from Zhejiang to Europe, which was started by itinerant peddlers of fake pearls who travelled to Germany, France, Spain and Italy in 1925-1926. Many of them had actually migrated from China to Japan a few years earlier, as we were able to show thanks to records found in Japanese, Chinese and European archives, as well as documentation and oral testimonies gathered among the descendants of the earliest Chinese migrants to Italy. The book is thus an innovative mixture between an academic essay, written by the author and a graphic essay, illustrated by the splendid artwork of Rocchi and Demonte. The early mobilities of Zhejiang migrants across Eurasia have been documented graphically by sourcing contemporary maps and illustrations, which have been the prime source materials for the volume's artwork
A Splendid Torch: Learning and Teaching in Today’s Academic Libraries
No full textIn the winter of 2015, a handful of current and former CLIR postdoctoral fellows gathered at a small restaurant in Washington, D.C., to celebrate publication of The Process of Discovery: The CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship Program and the Future of the Academy. In typical CLIR fellowship alumni fashion, it took about an hour of relaxation before we began to look at one another and ask, “Now what?” Over fried pickles, barbecue brisket, and vegan spare ribs, we decided to recreate the Collaborative Writing Group (CWG) experience that fostered the collection of essays about what we had learned from our work in academic libraries. The CWG process brings together individuals with unique backgrounds and ideas to explore a single theme. Similarly, the CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship Program brings together individuals with varied disciplinary backgrounds and points of view relating to research, teaching, and higher education to imagine an increasingly coherent and effective future for the libraries that nurture this work. With current and former fellows sharing the perspectives they have gained from working across the United States and Canada in a multitude of positions, the potential for crafting, improving, and challenging new ways of thinking about libraries and the academy is rich.
This volume explores how library spaces, services, and roles are changing in response to academic librarians’ engagement with teachers and learners. Beginning with “Handing on the Splendid Torch,” which considers three examples of how academic communities are adapting libraries as learning spaces, the volume brings together observations about aspects of libraries and librarianship that affect student learning and are also undergoing rapid change. “Creating Contact Zones in a ‘Post-Truth’ Era” reconsiders the challenge of designing programs that develop student facility in information seeking and critical thinking in a way that is fully integrated with course curricula. “Exploring How and Why Digital Humanities Is Taught in Libraries” looks at several examples of library-based digital humanities research and research support initiatives, noting the affinities and tensions such initiatives have with the broader purposes of academic libraries. “Current Use and Prospective Future of the University Map Library” brings together viewpoints from multiple disciplines about the value of exposing students to maps and geographic information systems (GIS) data through academic libraries. “New Opportunities for Collaboration in the Age of Digital Special Collections” looks at the potential for deeper engagement of students and faculty with special collections and archives through digital libraries. Finally, the authors of “Shiny Things” provide a thorough overview of recent developments in 3D printing in order to examine the potential to integrate library-based “makerspaces” with curricula. Each chapter uses combinations of contemporary narratives and case studies to ground discussions in experience
The Splendid Summer: Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Operations at The Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping
No full text**In collaboration with the Coastal Sediments, Hydrodynamics and Engineering Lab University of Delaware**
The UNH Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping operates, in collaboration with the University of Delaware, a “Gavia” model AUV, manufactured by Hafmynd EHF of Reykjavik, Iceland. The Gavia will be introduced, detailing it’s many sensor suites and capabilities. Adventures from a summer of training, learning and numerous expeditions will be recounted, including missions to our own Mendum’s Pond, Delaware Bay, Chesapeake Bay, Lake Tahoe and Abaco, Bahamas. Along the way many engineering and scientific challenges have been unearthed which will be discussed in detail as well as ongoing developments of new sensor modules and up coming missions.
Presenter Bio
Val Schmidt is pursuing a Ph.D. in Ocean Engineering under professors Chris d\u27Moustier and Larry Mayer.
Before coming to CCOM, Val served in the US Submarine Service aboard the USS HAWKBILL (SSN-666). In this capacity, Val participated in two dedicated science ( SCICEX ) missions to the Arctic in 1998 and 1999. He has since worked for Qwest Communications developing applications for Voice Over IP technologies and more recently as a research engineer for the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory where he built instrumentation, installed navigation and communications systems, and designed data systems for oceanographic research ships.
Val is the lead author of the MB-System Cookbook. The Cookbook provides documentation for the open source swath mapping data processing suite. He also co-developed SWAP - the Ship-to-Ship Wireless Access Protocol - a wireless mesh-networking system for the UNOLS oceanographic research fleet.
Val has a terrific and beautiful wife, Alice and a mean cat, Kokua
The big ears of radio astronomy
No full textThe special value of radio astronomy lies in the probing of extreme conditions in the universe, including the highest energies and the lowest temperatures. Radio waves can penetrate clouds of gas and dust to reveal objects in the universe and, in particular, in our Galaxy that cannot be seen by visible light. To achieve the highest resolution, radio telescopes in widely separate parts of our globe combine their reception to produce a synthesized image. This is a splendid example of international collaboration. Among the images visualized are pulsars, derived from the remnants of supernovae explosions, and quasar sources powered by black holes.
The big ears of radio astronomy
No full textThe special value of radio astronomy lies in the probing of extreme conditions in the universe, including the highest energies and the lowest temperatures. Radio waves can penetrate clouds of gas and dust to reveal objects in the universe and, in particular, in our Galaxy that cannot be seen by visible light. To achieve the highest resolution, radio telescopes in widely separate parts of our globe combine their reception to produce a synthesized image. This is a splendid example of international collaboration. Among the images visualized are pulsars, derived from the remnants of supernovae explosions, and quasar sources powered by black holes.</jats:p
The impact of in-service teacher training : a case study of teachers' classroom practice and perception change
No full textThe central focus of this study concerns the impact in Korea of an in-service teacher
training (INSET) course on teachers’ classroom practice and their perception change. A
qualitative case study involving observation and interviews was carried out during a
period of six months before and after an INSET course. The three-week INSET course itself
was observed. This was followed by the observation of five consecutive English lessons
given by the two teachers. The teachers also took part in four semi-structured interviews.
While the observations shed light on how the teachers implemented what they had learnt
from the INSET into their teaching practice, the interviews explored a range of issues.
These included their general expectations and outcomes of the INSET course, their
perception changes and difficulties in putting new ideas into practice. Interviews also
explored their perceptions of longer-term outcomes.
The main finding in this study indicated that the two teachers faced some difficulties and
challenges in implementing new ideas or knowledge obtained from the INSET course into
their classroom practice, and did not do so to the same extent. The contextual differences
between the INSET and real practice, the content of the INSET, and lack of school support
were identified as constraining factors that limit implementation. The analysis also
showed that the teachers’ confidence and motivation resulting from the INSET led to their
better career prospects and affected their professional identity. Some important
implications from the study for language teacher training are discussed to highlight how
the potential impact of INSET could be optimised: (i) INSET should provide ongoing
support to promote developmental continuity after the course; (ii) INSET should consider
teaching contexts sensitively, especially large classes and limited materials; and (iii)
trainees continue their professional development under their own initiative even after
the INSET course
Enguerrand Quarton, Pierre Villate et l’enluminure provençale : à propos d’un livre d’heures inédit conservé au Grand Séminaire de Namur (Belgique)
No full textThe Namur Hours, presented here, introduces an important addition to the oeuvre of the Provencal painter Enguerrand Quarton. Given the limited number of miniatures attributable to Quarton, this manuscript, containing two splendid folios by his hand, provides a unique opportunity to reassess his work as an illuminator. The manuscript also reflects collaboration with four other miniaturists, of whom three are Provencal artists known from outside work. The authors propose to identify the best of these hands, responsible for most of the illuminated programme, with Pierre Villatte, a close colleague of Quarton. The two artists collaborated on the Cadard Altarpiece (Chantilly, musée Condé) and Villatte continued working in the artistic tradition of his celebrated associate well into the 1480s. In a broader perspective, the stylistic and codicological analysis of this book sheds new light on Avignon-based manuscript production and brings into question the traditional “workshop” model. In contrast, this study highlights the existence of close collaboration between independent artists
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