scholarly journals A Review of Two Conferences: The Head and the Heart of Arts in Prisons

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 364-372
Author(s):  
Sarah Woodland
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Justice System ◽  
San Diego ◽  
Canadian Association ◽  
Comparative Review ◽  
Globe Theatre ◽  
Art Research ◽  
Simon Fraser University

This is a comparative review of two conferences held in North America in March of 2018. Carceral Cultures was presented by the Canadian Association of Cultural Studies at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, from March 1-4. The purpose of the conference was to bring together cultural theorists, practitioners and activists to contemplate the carceral. The Shakespeare in Prisons Conference was presented by the Shakespeare in Prisons Network at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, from March 22-25. The focus of this conference was to bring together artists and theorists who work in the field of arts in corrections, not limited to the works of the Bard. As a sometime practitioner-researcher of Prison Theatre I have found it interesting to compare the two conferences in terms of how each appealed to my head (cognition), and to my heart (affect), in engaging with the politics and aesthetics of arts in prisons. The conferences were divergent in so many ways, and yet now converge in my mind to deepen my understanding of the work that I do, and strengthen my resolve to continue resisting the broken (in)justice system through art-research-activism.

scholarly journals In Living Color: Crystal Bridges and its American Color Plate Collection

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason W. Dean
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Research Library ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Color Plate ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
National Media ◽  
Rare Books ◽  
Art Research ◽  
Plate Collection

Since opening, Crystal Bridges has generated a great deal of interest from the public and cultural institutions. From the construction of a 185,000 square foot facility in the bottom of a ravine, to the much-discussed art acquisitions and features in national media, this attention is hardly surprising. However, beyond the building and the art, Crystal Bridges also has an art research library with many rare books and the most important collection of American color printed books in North America. These diverse resources presented unique challenges to the librarians, as well as to the cataloger, specifically in accurately researching and describing these significant items.

scholarly journals Re-Locating the Spaces of Television Studies

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 123-130
Author(s):  
Anna Cristina Pertierra
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Entertainment Industry ◽  
Television Studies ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Broadcast Television

This paper will extend work originally presented in Pertierra and Turner’s <em>Locating Television </em>(2013) to argue that the reasons for which the demise of television was prematurely assumed can be understood and corrected by critically examining the geopolitics of television scholarship. The spaces from which television has been taken seriously as a topic of investigation have enabled a neglect of empirical and theoretical research that genuinely engages with the ways in which television might be understood as variously surviving, growing, innovating and even leading the current and future global media landscapes. The paper offers two ways in which television scholars might productively re-locate their spheres of concentration to understand the diversity of television worlds today: 1) empirically, it considers the case of the Philippines where broadcast television is successful in ways that could only be dreamed of by television executives in the so-called ‘world centres’ of the global entertainment industry. 2) theoretically, the paper refers to complementary attempts in sociology, literary and cultural studies to offer alternatives to Europe and North America from which scholars might locate the vanguard for modernity, globalization and innovation. It is by engaging with both of these strands in concert—empirically investigating television beyond the ‘usual places’ in such a way that responds to the call of cultural theorists to question our very assumptions about where television studies’ ‘usual places’ should be, that more nuanced understandings, and fewer premature declarations, might be made about what television is, and where it is going.

Origin Time of the 1854 Ansei–Tokai Tsunami Estimated from Tide Gauge Records on the West Coast of North America

2020 ◽  
Vol 91 (5) ◽  
pp. 2624-2630 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satoshi Kusumoto ◽  
Kentaro Imai ◽  
Ryoko Obayashi ◽  
Takane Hori ◽  
Narumi Takahashi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Local Time ◽  
West Coast ◽  
San Diego ◽  
Arrival Time ◽  
Tide Gauge ◽  
The West ◽  
Origin Time ◽  
Tsunami Signal

Abstract We estimated the origin time of the 1854 Ansei–Tokai tsunami from the tsunami waveforms recorded at three tide gauge stations (Astoria, San Francisco, and San Diego) on the west coast of North America. The tsunami signal is apparent in the San Francisco and San Diego records, and the arrival time was 0–1 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) on 23 December 1854, whereas the tsunami signal of Astoria is ambiguous, and the arrival time could not be determined from the waveform. The simulated waveforms on the basis of nonlinear dispersive wave theory by assuming an origin time of 0 a.m. GMT on 23 December arrived earlier than the observations. Cross-correlation functions between the observed and simulated waveforms recorded at San Francisco and San Diego showed a time gap between them of approximately 30 min. Based on these results, we concluded that the origin time of the 1854 Ansei–Tokai tsunami was approximately 00:30 a.m. GMT or 09:46 local time on 23 December. Our result is roughly consistent with reports by a Russian frigate anchored in Shimoda Bay, ranging the earthquake between 09:00 and 09:45 and the tsunami between 09:30 and 10:00. The earthquake was also reported in historical Japanese documents ranging from 8 and 10 o’clock in local time.

Aging in Place: Housing Adaptions and Options for Remaining in the Community. Gloria Gutman and Norman K. Blackie (Eds.). Burnaby, British Columbia: Simon Fraser University and The Canadian Association on Gerontology, 1986, pp. ($17.50 CDN).

1986 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 279-283
Author(s):  
P.J. Cluff
Keyword(s):  
Aging In Place ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Migration Patterns ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
The Third ◽  
Canadian Association ◽  
Trend Identification ◽  
Simon Fraser University ◽  
Housing Options ◽  
Selection Of

SUMMARY ABSTRACTThis volume is the third in the recent series, jointly published by Simon Fraser University and the CA.G., and presents background information and observations on the growing diversity of housing options resulting from seniors expressing a desire to remain in their own homes. Aspects explored in the first part of the book include trend identification in the 55+ housing market, a general socio-demographic overview, discussions of changing migration patterns of seniors within Canada, and various housing alternatives. The second part of the book deals with existing Federal and Provincial Shelter-Related' programs and initiatives, designed to assist seniors in ‘aging in place’, in the community. This book benefits from being read in conjunction with its companion volumes, and the reader is advised to utilize financial data with prudence particularly in the light of current economic changes.Aging in Place: Housing Adaptions and Options for Remaining in the Community, edited by Gloria Gutman and Norman Blackie, is a selection of papers originally presented at two symposia, held in conjunction with the 14th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Gerontology, in Hamilton, Ontario, in the fall of 1985.

scholarly journals Radicalization and Violent Extremism in the Era of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-152
Author(s):  
Garth Davies
Keyword(s):  
Associate Professor ◽  
Guest Speaker ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
Canadian Association ◽  
Violent Extremism ◽  
Intelligence Studies ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Extremist Groups ◽  
Simon Fraser University

On January 21, 2021, the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies (CASIS) Vancouver hosted its first digital roundtable event of the year, Radicalization and Violent Extremism in the Era of COVID-19. The presentation was conducted by guest speaker, Dr. Garth Davies, an Associate Professor in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University. He is also currently involved in developing data for evaluating programs for countering violent extremism. Dr. Davies’ presentation provided an overview of the changes that society has had to make in adapting to the COVID-19 pandemic and shared some of his research findings on radicalization and violent extremism online during the pandemic. The increase in working remotely and being on the Internet has possibly contributed to a larger dissemination of misinformation leading people to certain extremist sites and forums that may contribute to radicalization. Additionally, Dr. Davies answered questions submitted by the audience, which focused on online radicalization, online platforms used for recruiting by extremist groups, misinformation, and the Incel movement.

Cultural Studies Approaches to the Study of Crime in Literature

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Crime Fiction ◽  
Fictional World ◽  
Legal Structures ◽  
Crime Literature ◽  
Mainstream Society ◽  
Crime In Literature

Crime in literature takes advantage of two basic assumptions: (1) that the storyline generally begins with a crime (very often murder) that underlies the subsequent narrative, often serving as the driving force of the story; and (2) that the crime itself and its narrative implications will be rooted in the actual workings of a culture’s justice system at any given moment in time. Consequently, crime literature in particular provides readers with a snapshot of prevailing attitudes about the nature of justice in a society and the basic fears about crime that threaten its collective conscience. To understand crime fiction from a cultural studies perspective, it is necessary to develop a broader understanding of the larger culture from which an author and his/her fictional creations emerge. Although writers create fiction for various reasons, publishers put their efforts into projects they hope will be somewhat financially profitable. Thus, published works exist in a culturally-specific space that never veers too far from the values, beliefs, and expectations of its mainstream society. To understand the fictional world conjured by an author a cultural studies approach takes into consideration larger socio-historical phenomena: What kinds of mythologies underlie a culture’s traditions? What historical events have helped shape the culture’s identity? What sort of political and legal systems organize the culture? What specific kinds of crime tend to be highlighted in a culture’s crime literature (guns, drugs, race, violence against women, class warfare, government corruption and repression, etc.)? What role do legitimate legal structures tend to play in a culture’s crime literature? What role does climate play in a culture’s identity? In short, a cultural studies approach begins by trying to determine the assumptions authors make about readers’ cultural knowledge, values, beliefs, and myths about crime and justice in order to develop a context for understanding what is taken for granted in the narrative.

scholarly journals Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Consensus, Controversies and Future Directions: A Report from the Canadian Association for the Study of the Liver Hepatocellular Carcinoma Meeting

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 178-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly Warren Burak ◽  
Morris Sherman
Keyword(s):  
Hepatocellular Carcinoma ◽  
North America ◽  
Consensus Conference ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Diagnosis And Management ◽  
Canadian Association ◽  
Consensus Statements ◽  
Liver Hepatocellular Carcinoma ◽  
Related Mortality

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide and its incidence has rapidly increased in North America in recent years. Although there are many published guidelines to assist the clinician, there remain gaps in knowledge and areas of controversy surrounding the diagnosis and management of HCC. In February 2014, the Canadian Association for the Study of the Liver organized a one-day single-topic consensus conference on HCC. Herein, the authors present a summary of the topics covered and the result of voting on consensus statements presented at this meeting.

Time and Heights

1974 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 709-715 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandford R. Holdahl
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
San Diego ◽  
Systematic Errors ◽  
Weather Data ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Vertical Movements ◽  
Reasonable Time ◽  
Crustal Movements

To use leveling most effectively in determining crustal movements, it is necessary to have two sets of precise measurements separated by a reasonable time interval. But this is not enough! It is necessary that systematic errors that vary with time must be removed. As an example, an astronomical correction of 70 millimetres is computed for a line running from Spokane, Washington, to San Diego, California, (12° latitude change). A systematic refraction correction of 33.8 millimetres over a line 46 kilometres long in California is computed using average weather data. It is recommended that such corrections should be applied in computing crustal movements, and it is suggested that a map of rates of vertical movements in North America would be useful.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document