scholarly journals CPI Welcomes Jennifer Eiserman's Special Issue

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecille DePass ◽  
Ali Abdi
Keyword(s):  
Special Issue ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
University Of Calgary ◽  
The University ◽  
Historical Life

In Us-Them-Us, several artists affiliated with the University of Calgary, and an invited poet, adopt perspectives, usually associated with that of being agents provocateur. Key themes, issues, images, symbols, and slogans associated with postcoloniality and postmodernity are well illustrated in particularly, vivid ways. Thank you Jennifer Eiserman, for working closely with the contributors, in order to, produce a special issue which highlights well established traditions of the arts and humanities. This CPI Special Issue holds up for scrutiny, central aspects of our troubling contemporary and historical life worlds.

Acting, Singing, Dancing, and So Forth: Theatre (Research) in the University

2004 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-269
Author(s):  
W. B. Worthen
Keyword(s):  
Life Forms ◽  
Genetically Engineered ◽  
Corporate University ◽  
Martha Graham ◽  
Global Epidemic ◽  
Commodity Culture ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Oryx And Crake ◽  
The University

About midway through Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel Oryx and Crake, the protagonist Jimmy (later known as Snowman, survivor of a genetically engineered global epidemic induced by his childhood friend, Crake) leaves home for the university, or in this case for the Martha Graham Academy. In a culture driven by the collusion of technology and capital it's not surprising that the best students are sent to lavish technical universities (Crake attends the Watson–Crick Institute), while arts and humanities students listlessly rusticate at Martha Graham, learning the pointless yet “vital arts” of “acting, singing, dancing, and so forth” and how to deploy them in the service of commodity culture (Jimmy's skill with language leads him to major in Applied Rhetoric, eventually writing advertising copy for Crake's new life forms). Like much else in Oryx and Crake, Atwood's vision jibes chillingly enough with the rhetoric of today's corporate university: compared to jet propulsion, cancer research, or even the battle of Appomattox (on my campus, history is a social science), the arts and humanities can be made to seem “like studying Latin, or book binding: pleasant to contemplate in its way, but no longer central to anything” (187).

Making Mental Health through Open in Emergency

2021 ◽  
Vol 120 (2) ◽  
pp. 369-388
Author(s):  
Mimi Khúc
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Book Arts ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Love Letters

This epistolary essay chronicles the making of Open in Emergency: A Special Issue on Asian American Mental Health (2016, 2019), an interdisciplinary, hybrid book arts project that is an antiracist and disability justice rethinking of mental health. Open in Emergency works to decolonize our approaches to un/wellness and radically expand our vocabularies through the arts and humanities. This essay, written in the form of love letters, journeys through the relationships, experiences, and curatorial processes that inform Open in Emergency’s interventions, particularly what the author dubs a “pedagogy of unwellness,” a crip temporality, epistemology, and ethics that rethink how we experience unwellness and the kinds of care our unwellness requires. The essay offers up Open in Emergency as an example of the kinds of intellectual and arts practices we might engage to develop new ways, and times, of care, for all of us.

scholarly journals Introduction

2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (142) ◽  
pp. 137-137
Author(s):  
Georgina Sinclair
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
The University

Contributions to this special issue of Irish Historical Studies come under the dedicated theme of ‘Ireland and the British Empire-Commonwealth’. The papers originate from a workshop entitled ‘Ireland and empire’ that took place at the University of Leeds in March 2005. One of the key objectives behind the organisation of this workshop was to bring together specialists in British, Irish and imperial and Commonwealth history with an interest in the wide-ranging debates linked to the issue of ‘Ireland and empire’. At the workshop, the papers presented a range of topics within the context of literature and the arts; agriculture and industry; metropolitan politics and diplomacy. The overarching theme was the ‘Irish experience’ within an ‘interconnected British world’ during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

scholarly journals Introduction: Celebrating Graduate Scholarship

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Penelope Ironstone
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Conference Proceedings ◽  
English Language ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Great Pleasure ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
University Of Calgary ◽  
The University ◽  
Large Conference ◽  
Simon Fraser University

It is with great pleasure that I am writing this introduction to this special issue of Stream: Culture/Politics/Technology dedicated to the conference proceedings of the Graduate Masters Sessions (GMS) hosted by the Canadian Communication Association/Association Canadian de Communication (CCA-ACC) at our annual meeting with the Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Calgary in 2016. As the former President of the CCA (2014-2016), I worked for several years as a champion of the Graduate Masters Session, seeing them as a vital means of professionalizing young scholars in our discipline. Not only an opportunity for master’s students to “experience” a large conference and develop the skills necessary present their research to a conference audience, the GMS provide early graduate students with an important opportunity to network, build a community, and see how their work participates in a conversation with students and more senior scholars of communication from across Canada. I have been delighted to oversee the GMS sessions over the last few years, in no small part because I, like my colleagues on the Board of the CCA, value that conversation and the critical contributions made at our annual meetings. Sibo Chen, the English Language Graduate Student Representative on the CCA Board (2015-2017), is to be credited with the idea to produce conference proceedings of the GMS as without his focused energy it would never have gotten off the ground. Further thanks must be extended to the Guest Editors for this issue, Philippa Adam, Chris Chapman, and Dugan Nichols of Simon Fraser University, for their work in cultivating the four papers that appear here. Their work has undoubtedly contributed greatly to the further professionalization of the contributors as they embark on extending the dissemination of their research through publication.

Transborder Immigrant Tool

Transfers ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 113-118
Author(s):  
Fernanda Duarte
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Cell Phone ◽  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
Border Crossers ◽  
Available Technology ◽  
The University ◽  
The U.S

The Transborder Immigrant Tool is a Border Disturbance Art Performance that discusses the physical and virtual limits of the U.S.–Mexico frontier. It was developed by the Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) with the funding of the Arts and Humanities Grant 2007–2008 at the University of California in San Diego. The project uses an inexpensive GPS-enabled cell phone and a custom piece of software, the Virtual Hiker Algorithm, to guide border crossers in the desert. The crossing of the U.S.–Mexico border can be deadly due to the severe conditions of the environment; once in the Mexican desert, the software installed in the cell phone directs the immigrant toward the nearest aid site, be that water, first aid or law enforcement, along with other contextual navigational information. According to the EDT, the Transborder Immigrant Tool was created with the aim of reappropriating widely available technology to be used as a form of humanitarian aid, as well as offering a tactical intervention of distraction and disturbance in the order of transnational corridors. In addition to the navigational capabilities of the Tool, the performative effect is also provided through poetry made available on the screen of the cell phone. It is with this poetry that the artists attempt to rescue a sense of hospitality and to alleviate the difficulties of the journey.

scholarly journals Thwarting Plagiarism in the Humanities Classroom: Storyboards, Scaffolding, and a Death Fair

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Hale
Keyword(s):  
Classroom Environment ◽  
High Expectation ◽  
Mind Mapping ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Cultural Boundaries ◽  
Class Environment ◽  
Poster Presentations ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

Best practices research on plagiarism in the University classroom shows that modifying assignments and classroom environment can have a positive effect on lowering a student’s desire to cheat.  James Lang suggests four features of a learning environment that can be fostered to ameliorate a student’s desire to cheat: mastery of the material for its own sake, low-stakes assignments, intrinsic motivations for learning and, a high expectation of success.  Scaffolding has been shown to be a useful pedagogical technique for empowering students (fostering a high expectation of success) My past experience using a variety of visual classroom exercises (cartooning, mind-mapping, advertising campaigns, etc.) gave anecdotal evidence that artistic and visual assignments encouraged a level of engagement and collaboration across language and cultural boundaries not experienced in other types of assignments.  I hypothesized that this level of engagement and collaboration could be used with scaffolding to motivate Lang’s four features and experimented with the use of poster presentations and other visual and spatial assignments in a second year undergraduate Religious Studies course on Death.  Very preliminary qualitative data support the hypothesis that, by addressing Lang’s four features and incorporating scaffolding and visual assignments into the course, students are cheating less and learning more. This research strengthens the extant literature on the impact class environment and expectations have on plagiarism while also adding to the growing body of literature supporting the use of visual assignments, such as poster presentations, mind mapping, and storyboards in the Arts and Humanities.

scholarly journals Forced to flee: A multi-disciplinary conference on internal displacement, migration and refugee crises

2017 ◽  
Vol 99 (904) ◽  
pp. 421-432
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Government Policy ◽  
Research Council ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Internal Displacement ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Uk Government ◽  
The University

“Forced to Flee” was a multidisciplinary two-day conference on internal displacement, migration and refugee crises, jointly organized by SOAS University of London, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the University of Exeter, the British Red Cross and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). It brought together some sixty researchers, independent and UK government policy-makers, and senior humanitarian practitioners.

scholarly journals Income Outcome: Life in the Corporate University

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robyn Ferrell
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Corporate Culture ◽  
Corporate University ◽  
General Management ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Modes Of Life ◽  
The University ◽  
Self Replication

Higher education on the corporate model imagines students as consumers, choosing between knowledge products and brands. It imagines itself liberating the university from the dictates of the State/tradition/aristocratic self-replication, and putting it in the hands of its democratic stakeholders. It therefore naturally subscribes to the general management principles and practices of global corporate culture. These principles – transparency, accountability, efficiency – are hard to argue with in principle. But an abstract argument in political economy comes down to earth in the challenges facing the arts and humanities, after the ‘Education Revolution’, to justify their modes of life.

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