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- Date:
- 2019-05-16
- Main contributors:
- Daniela Gutiérrez López
- Summary:
- As a scholar-activist devoted to anti-racist, decolonial, femme-inist, anti-capitalist, anti-ableist struggles to decriminalize undocumented people in the United States, I continuously organize in the hopes of altering or dismantling the systems and institutions that perpetuate violence against marginalized, Black and brown communities. Inspired by the website Torn Apart/Separados, which maps Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities across the settle U.S. (volume 1) and the amount of money congress representatives have received from ICE (volume 2), and as part of my dissertation, I wish to create a network graph visualization --eventually accompanied by written and audio interpretations in at least English and Spanish-- of the overlaps between ICE funding congress (potential effects on public policy), government representatives benefiting from public universities, and universities' ultimate complicity with ICE. In tracing "money moves," this project lays the groundwork for activist mobilizations that deploy working-class, labor movement tactics as a means to organize within/against the imperial, neoliberal university (in this case, Big 10 institutions). Finally, my larger aim is to create inter-state, national, and international (no-border) networks of communication and support for the communities to which we belong and/or with whom we are in solidarity.
- Date:
- 2019-10-03
- Main contributors:
- Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities, Ellen Wu, Himani Bhatt
- Summary:
- OVERREPRESENTED places Asian Americans at the center of the intersecting histories of race-making, policy, and democracy in age of affirmative action. Three burning questions animate this study. First, how and why has “Asian American” taken hold as a salient social, political, and legal identity from the 1960s onward? Second, how and why have Asian Americans been left out of the category of the “underrepresented minority” even as they have been treated by the state as a racial minority group? Third, what have been the consequences of this omission, both intended and unintended? Contemporaries have viewed Asian Americans as an “overrepresented” minority in a double sense: first, as an economically privileged minority racial group that has not needed new rights and programs to guarantee equal opportunity, and second, as too successful and therefore a threat to white privilege. In other words, Asian Americans have been thought of as ostensibly different than other “underrepresented” minorities. The peculiar standing of Asian Americans as “overrepresented” has much to teach us about the fundamental importance of Asian Americans and Asia to the recalibration of the nation’s racial order and political alignments since the 1960s.
- Date:
- 2019-05-17
- Main contributors:
- Nicolas Valazza, Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities
- Summary:
- In 1950, the U.S. Customs seized various materials that Alfred Kinsey was trying to import from Europe, a circumstance that led to the federal court case “United States v. 31 Photographs etc.” Among these controversial objects were books, engravings, and photographs that were deemed “obscene” according to the legal standard of the time. In 1957, thanks to the support of the IU President Herman B. Wells and a group of lawyers involved in civil liberties activities, the Kinsey Institute won the case and was able to recover the books and artworks, which are now part of its library. The verdict of this trial greatly contributed to redefine the notion of “obscenity” in legal terms, by creating an exception for the purpose of study and research, and thus consolidating academic freedom. This interdisciplinary project, at the crossroads of literary and legal studies, will develop a digital collection of books and artworks that were seized by U.S. Customs and then apply to this corpus tools of text mining and analysis meant to identify patterns that lead to the accusation of obscenity.
- Date:
- 2019-05-16
- Main contributors:
- Alexis Witt, Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities
- Summary:
- As part of my PhD dissertation in Musicology,I am building a network graph (visualized using Gephi) of Russian émigré and traveling performers who toured the United States in the first half of the twentieth century. By visualizing these relationships in a graph, I more clearly define the extent to which these people are related while presenting these relationships in a way that is more useful and illustrative than prose text. The relationships that exist between the people in my study fall into six types: artistic (when individuals collaborate together for a performance or other creative enterprise), patron (when one individual is providing money or influence in support of another with no expectation of reciprocation), professional (when an individual is employed by another individual), family (marriages, family relationships), educational (teacher-student relationships), and personal (mutual acquaintances exclusive of artistic or professional endeavors). The graph frames a more nuanced reading of particular nodes in the artistic networks of New York City in the 1920s.
- Date:
- 2019-05-16
- Main contributors:
- Sydney Stutsman, Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities
- Summary:
- My project focuses on societal trends and changes surrounding homosexuality as expressed in the Indiana Daily Student (IDS). The paper is an ideal source to track change over time because it has been running with weekly publications since 1867. It also represents a unique perspective on events as it is both written for and by college students. After digitizing issues of the IDS, I will perform a text analysis in order to track how articles portray the LGBT community. Those articles will then be used to create a timeline that visualizes key moments in gay rights history and the public perspective of homosexuality.
- Date:
- 2019-05-16
- Main contributors:
- Joanna Chromik, Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities
- Summary:
- This project examines publicly available statements about sex and sex work in light of the #MeToo movement and in response to the passing of the FOSTA-SESTA. It focuses on the online efforts of sex-work advocates against the passing of the SESTA, and how those efforts affect the public deliberative democratic process, especially with the rise of Democratic Socialist candidates, such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who oppose the legislation. I want to consider how coalition building between different activist groups online contributes to new methods of rhetorical invention that can push outward to influence the public process of deliberation.
- Date:
- 2020-01-21
- Main contributors:
- Allen Hahn, Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities
- Summary:
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- Date:
- 2020-01-17
- Main contributors:
- Eric Ware, Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities
- Summary:
- Date:
- 2019-05-16
- Main contributors:
- Lino Mioni, Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities
- Summary:
- This project is part of my ongoing doctoral research which investigates the establishment of recipe collections and cookbooksas a genre in the early days of print. Building from the anonymous recipe collections from the Italian peninsula of the XIII and XIV centuries, Maestro Martino’s manuscript Libro de Arte Coquinaria– composed in the second half of the XV century– lead to the monumental treatises of the XVI century, Messisbugo’s Banchetti (1549) and Bartolomeo Scappi’s Opera (1570). I analyze these cookbooks through a network analysis of ingredients in order to study historic culinary practices, gustatory culture, and the cookbooks as a form.
- Date:
- 2019-05-16
- Main contributors:
- Sara Duke, Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities
- Summary:
- My research project topic models the letters of Alexander Hamilton. I will compare the results of a topic model of Hamilton's outgoing correspondence from his arrival in the American colonies (after October 1772) to his death (July 1804) with the lyrics from Hamilton: An American Musical. In doing so, I study the extent to which the vocabulary of Hamilton's letters shape the musical's lyrics,and how this shift reflects changes in perceptions of his place within eighteenth-century American political culture. This project serves as the foundation for my MLIS digital humanities capstone project.
- Date:
- 2019-05-02
- Main contributors:
- Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities
- Summary:
- Date:
- 2019-05-16
- Main contributors:
- Seth Adam Cook, Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities
- Summary:
- Between 1880-1920s, the United States experienced the most significant relocation of Italian immigrants - over 4 million. Known today as the 'Great Arrival,' this dramatic surge was the result of decades of internal strife happening across the country, which left society rife with violent uprisings, widespread poverty, and soon the rise of Mussolini. For the following decades, Italian immigrants faced unforeseen hardships dealing with a landscape and culture that was unknown to them and discrimination from those who did not approve of their arrival. For this body of work, archives from the Terracina family were selected starting after their migration from Italy to the United States (1910) up until they assimilated into the Cajun culture in Bayou Teche Louisiana (the 1950s). Photo's in this particular time frame were chosen because of the striking discrepancies between what the photographs depict on the surface–images of family bliss and cultural representation, and the conflicts they faced being immigrants. What these petals represent is the cultural displacement a migrant family faces when adopted by a land and culture that is not their own, and the frailty of maintaining their original customs during a time of cultural assimilation. Process These portraits were created using a combination of cut fabric and laser engraving. The material was torn and warped to represent the southern magnolia petal. Each picture selected was meticulously chosen based on the family's immigrant generation: first and second generation Italian immigrants. The memorial box was created to contain the petals; acting as a portfolio, archive box, and interactive installation piece.
- Date:
- 2019-10-02
- Main contributors:
- Halliday, Jim, Homenda, Nick
- Summary:
- Since 2014, partners from Indiana University Bloomington (IUB) and Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Libraries have been collaboratively developing new Samvera (formerly Hydra) software to manage and deliver page turning digital objects. In 2018, conversations with Enterprise Scholarly Systems (ESS), a partnership between IUB Libraries, IUPUI Libraries, and University Information Technology Services (UITS), expanded our project's scope. This presentation will highlight our development efforts, now known as the ESS Images project or ESSI. In the past year, the ESSI team has developed numerous improvements to the Hyrax digital repository software, one of the Samvera community's most commonly-used open source platforms. These improvements include the ability to order, structure, and label pages within an item, replicating features available in the Pages Online service launched in 2017. Additionally, the project has implemented optical character recognition search in a community-accepted way, building upon components of the IMLS-funded Samvera Newspaper Works application. This presentation will also discuss in-development improvements for our existing image collections. The Hyrax repository by default assumes every item can be described by the same group of metadata fields and labels, but in actuality, collections of digital images often have wildly different metadata profiles from each other. Our recent work has aimed to incorporate a model for flexible metadata developed by the Samvera Machine-readable Metadata Modeling Specification (M3) Working Group within Hyrax. This work will help IU, IUPUI, and the Samvera community better adapt Hyrax to manage and deliver a wide variety of digital library collections in a standardized way.
- Date:
- 2019-01-16
- Main contributors:
- Dalmau, Michelle
- Summary:
- In response to federally-funded “Always Already Computational: Collections as Data” movement (https://collectionsasdata.github.io), the Indiana University Libraries are both exploring ways to provide access to our own digitized special collections for teaching and research and helping others discover non-IU collections for the same purposes. Those teaching or conducting research or creative pursuits in the arts and humanities have much to gain from interacting with digital collections as data. This brownbag will constructively a) critique ways in which cultural heritage organizations historically have made digital content available for sharing that are not quite conducive for re-use/re-mixing by scholars and students, b) explore how collections, including Indiana University collections, are currently made discoverable and portable, and c) identify the myriad of ways we can improve full access to these collections to advance cultural scholarship. Part of this brown bag will include hearing from you – how you currently use or would like to use existing digital collections in your teaching and research and your ideas about how we can facilitate those use cases.
- Date:
- 2019-10-21
- Main contributors:
- Jon Kay
- Summary:
- This is a documentary short about a rice basketmaker in Nandan County in Guangxi, China. Born in 1957, Li Guicai makes baskets in Huaili Village, a Baiku Yao community. As a teen, he split bamboo for a local basketmaker and learned the trade through watching the older artisan work. Mr. Li now weaves for family and friends and to sell in the village. He specializes in making baskets to hold sticky rice. The documentary was shot and edited by Jon Kay, with a Canon 90D DSLR Camera and a Rode stereo microphone.
- Date:
- 2019
- Main contributors:
- See Other Contributors
- Summary:
- Are you ready to audition? Voice faculty from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music’s College Audition Preparation program, both past and present, provide guidance on what to anticipate when preparing for a college audition. While using “Twenty-Four Italian Songs and Arias” as a platform, we discuss topics including audition attire, music preparation, repertoire choices, translations, subtext, and vocal health, and then provide an explanation and examples of a traditional audition experience. While these videos are set for the prospective undergraduate vocal performer, their message is useful across a wide range of performance audition areas.
- Date:
- 2020-02-09
- Main contributors:
- Maharis, Mercedes
- Summary:
- Presents an actual Nevada parole board hearing during which a disabled sex offender hopes to be released from prison after being eligible many years earlier and repeatedly refused. His traumatic journey finds him caught between prison officials and board members, who place him in a mental double bind, unable to fulfill conflicting requirements to make parole so that he can get the medical care he needs to survive. Includes revealing statistics 2007 - 2019 about death during prison custody for Nevada sex offenders, as compared to total deaths in custody. WARNING: MAY BE UNSUITABLE FOR SENSITIVE VIEWERS AND CHILDREN. a mercedes maharis film. 6 minutes.
- Date:
- 2019-10-30
- Main contributors:
- Wheeler, Brian
- Summary:
- Indiana University announced the Media Digitization Preservation Initiative (MDPI) in October 2013 with the goal of digitally preserving and providing access to all significant audio, video, and film recordings on all IU campuses by the IU Bicentennial in 2020. Digitization began in mid-2015 and has now digitized more than 320,000 objects using more than 10 petabytes of storage. After digitization, every object in MDPI has to be verified to be stored correctly, checked for format conformance, processed into derivatives, and finally, distributed to a streaming video server. Conceptually, the process is straightforward, but like many things, the devil is in the details. The post-digitization processing has continually evolved since its inception in early 2015. Initially implemented to handle a couple of audio formats and processing a few terabytes of data per day, over the last few years it has been enhanced to handle peak transfers of more than 35 terabytes daily with more than 20 formats across audio, video, and film. This presentation details how some of the implementation decisions have held up over time, such as using a tape library as primary storage and using an object state machine for object tracking, as well as some of the growing pains encountered as the system was scaled up. In addition, there is a discussion covering some of the surprises that have been encountered along the way.
- Date:
- 2019-11-06
- Main contributors:
- Cameron, Jon
- Summary:
- One of the signature projects for Indiana University’s Bicentennial, the Bicentennial Oral History Project has produced a rich and extensive collection of oral history recordings with faculty, staff, and alumni. This presentation will describe the process of publishing this collection on the web with synchronized transcripts, keyword search, and streaming audio. Supporting software and services used will be detailed, including the Aviary oral history platform, the IU Libraries’ Media Collections Online, and custom scripts to process metadata and transcript information. Details about the information pipeline used to publish this collection on the web will also be discussed, as well as many of the technical considerations made along the way.
- Date:
- 2019-01-23
- Main contributors:
- Osgood, Ron, Shih, Patrick
- Summary:
- The Vietnam War/American War Oral History project aims to identify engaging ways to bring scholars and the general public in direct contact with the lived experiences of both American and Vietnamese combatants or civilians who participated in the Vietnam War/American War. The projects goal is record, preserve/archive, and make accessible to the public oral history interviews with those who fought and others who were impacted (including unheard voices) on all sides of the Vietnam War/American War in Vietnam and to emphasize listening across difference. The project has evolved from initial concept through several prototype versions of the interface and advanced capabilities. In summer 2018, a funded symposium brought scholars and technology experts to campus to consult with the project team as we prepare for national funding opportunities. https://idahweb.webtest.iu.edu/news-events/_events/2017-18/symposium/conflict-civic-engagement.html A demonstration of the website capabilities and a discussion on future enhancements, including crowdsourcing, community engagement and user contribution will be covered during the brown bag.
- Date:
- 2020-09-01
- Main contributors:
- John Paul Ito
- Summary:
- The collection includes three kinds of material. There are original audio recordings of specific passages that demonstrate the ways of performing them discussed in Focal Impulse Theory. (There is also one brief excerpt from a commercial recording that is not widely available.) There are original video recordings; some have content similar to the audio recordings, and some demonstrate general ways of performing discussed in the text.
- Date:
- 2019-03-29
- Summary:
- This series of annual symposia, sponsored jointly by the East Asian Studies Center, Inner Asian & Uralic National Resource Center, and the Russian and East European Institute, is the successor to the joint symposium series, "China, Russia, and the World." These symposia will examine the myriad connections that link the Eurasian space. The symposium took place on Friday, March 29, 2019 at the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies. Presented at this symposium: "Displacements in Mongolia in Times of Crisis" by Morris Rossabi, Queens College, CUNY "PTSD Land: The Emotional Geography of Ukraine's Displaced" by Greta Uehling, University of Michigan "Scenario without Winners: Displacement Caused by Environmental Disasters in Kyrgyzstan" by Emil Nasritdinov, American University of Central Asia with Marianne Kamp, IU CEUS as moderator and discussant.
- Date:
- 2019-01-14
- Main contributors:
- Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities, John Bodnar
- Summary:
- This paper will explore the way American soldiers from three different wars wrote about their experiences. It will attempt to unravel the fragile relationship between patriotic accounts of war that tended to uphold noble ideals validating the nation's war effort and thepossibility that war could actually produce laudable traits andmore tragic stories that refused to efface the confusion and pain military conflict imposed upon individuals. As such, it will explore the problem of memory and trauma and the significant tension soldiers faced when they attempted to recreate their experience for a public audience that could not know what it had been like. The part of the paper devoted to World War II will focus on the fiction of Norman Maile and the autobiography of William Manchester--both combat vets. Mailer's renowned novel, The Naked and the Dead, recast the "Good War" in a highly critical light that exposed the deep strain of violence that he felt marked American society and explained why it spared no expense in bringing ruin to the Japanese. Manchester acknowledged the violence and carnage but sought to extract from it tales of heroic men and who cared deeply for each other. Such narratives contrast sharply with those coming from the experience of Vietnam. Vets like Ron Kovic, Tim O'Brien and others mounted withering attacks on any notion that patriotic service could result in anything positive or nurture admirable character traits. In some ways the World War II stories were actually more conflicted than those formed in Southeast Asia in the 1960s. The final part of this brief paper will explore the outpouring of literature produced by men who served in Afghanistan and Iraq. Again, significant differences are evident among the fighters themselves. A greater effort is made in this most recent contest to restore some faith in traditional patriotic ideals. This effort has had some success but has been hotly contested by tales that absolutely reject any attempt to use patriotic honor to wipe out the memory of pain and loss.
- Date:
- 2019-01-14
- Main contributors:
- Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities, Rebecca Wingo
- Summary:
- The History Harvest is a community-centered, student-driven archival project that empowers community voices through material-based oral histories. Over the course of a semester, History Harvest students partner with a community to run an event in which community members bring artifacts of significance. Students record community members as they tell stories about their objects and digitize the artifacts for a shared online archive. The community members then take their items back home; there is no acquisition. This one-day event is a bit like Antiques Roadshow, except everything is valuable. More than a singular event, however, the History Harvest can be a litmus test for the success of a community partnership.
- Date:
- 2019-01-14
- Main contributors:
- Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities, Kurt Luther
- Summary:
- Stories of war are complex, varied, powerful, and fundamentally human. Thus, crowdsourcing can be a natural fit for deepening our understanding of war, both by scaling up research efforts and by providing compelling learning experiences. Yet, few crowdsourced history projects help the public to do more than read, collect, or transcribe primary sources. In this talk, I present three examples of augmenting crowdsourcing efforts with computational techniques to enable deeper public engagement and more advanced historical analysis around stories of war. In “Mapping the Fourth of July in the Civil War Era,” funded by the NHPRC, we explore how crowdsourcing and natural language processing (NLP) tools help participants learn historical thinking skills while connecting American Civil War-era documents to scholarly topics of interest. In “Civil War Photo Sleuth,” funded by the NSF, we combine crowdsourcing with face recognition technology to help participants rediscover the lost identities of photographs of American Civil War soldiers and sailors. And in “The American Soldier in World War II,” funded by the NEH, we bring together crowdsourcing, NLP, and visualization to help participants explore the attitudes of American GIs in their own words. Across all three projects, I discuss broader principles for designing tools, interfaces, and online communities to support more meaningful and valuable crowdsourced contributions to scholarship about war and conflict.
- Date:
- 2019-01-14
- Main contributors:
- Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities, Larry Berman
- Summary:
- I have been writing about Vietnam since 1982 and learned much about the war and peace from participants on both sides of the brutal conflict. In my presentation, I want to share how participants in the war from the so-called “winning side” have helped me to better understand not just the war, but also the sense of loss that is often shared with those on the “losing side”. This despair for “what might have been” or “hope and vanquished reality” unites both sides. I am especially interested in participants’ stories as told in memoirs, oral histories and personal interviews. For this presentation, I will focus on those individuals with whom I have engaged in extensive and multiple interviews/discussions and who, with one exception, have also produced memoirs from their experiences in war. The one exception is Pham Xuan An, whose memories and stories are recorded in my book Perfect Spy. Each of these participants helped me understand the war through the eyes of a Vietnamese and altered my own narrative for how I speak and write about the war.
- Date:
- 2019-01-14
- Main contributors:
- Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities, Edward Linenthal
- Summary:
- The mass slaughter of 1864-1865 in the American Civil War eroded traditional belief in martial sacrifice as redemptive, blood shed for the new birth of the nation. Narratives in tension continued through both World Wars and the Korean War and gained intensity with the erosion of popular support for the war in Vietnam. The “dope and dementia,” “quagmire,” and “atrocity producing context” narrative templates clashed with traditional patriotic narratives of America at war.
- Date:
- 2019-01-15
- Main contributors:
- Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities, Lisa Silvestri
- Summary:
- With support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Telling War, a veteran based initiative, explores manifestations of the veteran voice through a variety of story forms such as papermaking, six word war stories, podcasting, and documentary film. Telling War’s mission is to cultivate creative opportunities for veterans to tell their story. This presentation will review some of the project’s initial outcomes. For example, when participating veterans used the ancient art of papermaking to transform their uniforms into paper then bind into book form, they were able to access stories often untold in the public sphere. The books they created held personal imagery and artifacts from their time in the service. The papermaking process allowed them to metabolize and story their experiences. In other cases, veterans wrote six word war stories following in the legacy of Hemmingway’s famous six word short story, “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” Although brief, these first-person memoirs captured aspects of deployment–from the everyday to the extreme–that shifted the communicative priority from eloquence to essence. By sharing these examples and others, this presentation argues that in order to enrich collective knowledge and memory of war, the stories told and heard about war must be expanded and diversified.
- Date:
- 2019-01-14
- Main contributors:
- Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities, Ron Osgood, Patrick C. Shih
- Summary:
- Date:
- 2019-01-18
- Main contributors:
- Mize, Trenton
- Summary:
- Experimental designs remain the gold standard for assessing causality; perhaps because of this, the use of experiments has grown rapidly in most social science fields such as economics, political science, sociology, and others. While laboratory studies remain popular in some fields, there is increasing interest in bringing the power of experimental designs to more diverse samples. Survey experiments offer the capability to assess causality in a broad range of samples, including targeted samples of specific populations or in large-scale nationally representative samples. The rise of online workplaces and the TESS program offer the ability to bring these samples to applied researchers at a minimal cost, greatly expanding the possibilities for research. This workshop will focus on how to design quality survey experiments, giving researchers the tools to implement best practices. I will also advocate for survey experiments as a tool for tests of intersectionality and other theoretical questions requiring diverse samples.
- Date:
- 2019-05-01
- Main contributors:
- Juan Eduardo Wolf
- Summary:
- This collection of videos to accompany the book, Styling Blackness in Chile: Music and Dance in the African Diaspora, provides examples of the different ways of styling Blackness as described in the book. Styling Blackness as Afro-descendant appears in a 2009 Pascua de los Negros performance; styling Blackness as Criollo appears during Lumbanga's celebration of the 2009 Dia de la Mujer Afro as well as Oro Negro's performance of the baile de tierra during a Chilean Independence parade; styling Blackness as Moreno appears in a presentation by the Hijos de Azapa during the 2008 Fiesta Chica of the Virgen de las Peñas; styling Blackness as Indigenous appears during the 2009 Carnaval Andino with morenada and caporales performances.
- Date:
- 2019-03-29
- Main contributors:
- Western, Bruce
- Summary:
- Bruce Western is Professor of Sociology and co-director of the Justice Lab at Columbia University. He received his BA from the University of Queensland, Australia, and his PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Western's research examines trends in American economic inequality and the growth of the US penal population. These topics are joined by an interest in the shifting landscape of American poverty over the last 40 years. He is the author of Punishment and Inequality in America (2007) and served as Vice-Chair of a consensus panel of the National Academy of Sciences on the causes and consequences of high rates of incarceration in the United States. His new book is called Homeward: Life in the Year After Prison (2018). Western is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Radcliffe Fellow, and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Science and the National Academies of Science.
- Date:
- 2019-03-01
- Main contributors:
- Doan, Long
- Summary:
- Despite the growing popularity of experimental designs in sociological research, lab experiments remain relatively rare. Nevertheless, lab experiments are the gold standard for testing theory and assessing causal arguments, especially those that difficult to test using questionnaire measures. This workshop focuses on the logic of experiments, types of questions that are ideal for answering with lab experiments, issues of internal and external validity, and contrasting lab experiments to other experimental and observational methods. Using exemplars from sociology, I will walk through the design of lab experiments, common pitfalls that may surprise unaccustomed researchers, and ways to deal with these issues. The workshop is a mixture of lecture and hands-on exercises and is designed for those interested in designing their first few experiments or those on the fence about using lab experiments in their own research.
- Date:
- 2019-04-15
- Summary:
- Colorful and vibrant language distinguishes the oeuvre of Nikolai Leskov, “the most Russian of Russian writers” in the assessment of D. S. Mirsky and many others. This presentation addresses the language of Leskov’s oeuvre from various perspectives: connections with Leskov’s biography, critical reception, and, with reference to Leskov’s“The Sealed Angel,” its principal features and dialectical inconsistencies. Ani Abrahamyan is a PhD student in Russian Literature at the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century Russian literature and the work of Nikolai Leskov, especially the strengths and limitations in his embodiment of underrepresented and marginalized groups.
- Date:
- 2019-04-04
- Summary:
- Technological, communicative, political, and commercial challenges in the contemporary media sphere are transforming journalism. This talk addresses the impact of those challenges on perceptions of the journalistic profession among Russian journalists themselves. Marina Berezhnaia chairs the Department of TV and Radio Journalism in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Saint Petersburg State University (SPbSU). She has published textbooks in journalism and scholarly articles on journalistic ethics and the treatment of social issues in the media. Prior to joining the SPbSU, she pursued an active career in publishing and telejournalism.
- Date:
- 2019-04-19
- Summary:
- Folklorists and anthropologists have explored children's preoccupation with supernatural entities for decades, and the development of the internet has given rise to online video formats for supernatural practices that are popular among children in Russia and beyond. Drawing on ethnographic research in Russian children's summer camps and online digital ethnography, this talk addresses children's supernatural beliefs, play, and imagination. A doctoral candidate in anthropology at the European University in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Angelina Kozlovskaia has presented her research at conferences in Russia as well as India, Australia, Finland, Belgium, and Estonia. During Spring 2019 she is a visiting scholar with the Russian and East European Institute and the Russian Studies Workshop.
- Date:
- 20uu
- Summary:
- Use the quality selector icon in the media player to change quality settings. This is the icon to the right of the volume selector shaped like a gear.
- Date:
- 2019-02-06
- Summary:
- The current paradigm of political science suggests that authoritarian regimes suppress freedoms of speech and press as significant threats to autocratic survival. However, evidence now suggests that autocratic governments can exploit such ostensibly democratic institutions in new and surprising ways. Among the most salient examples are Russia and China where media outlets (even the freest ones) figure in the autocratic toolbox, a phenomenon that lends credence to the idea of self-development of non-democratic regimes. Valerii Nechai is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Applied Political Science at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. His research addresses the interaction of media and politics.
- Date:
- 2019-02-15
- Summary:
- Visiting environmental journalist Angelina Davydova speaks about environmental problems and challenges in Russia, the policies to tackle them, and the civil society initiatives and movements that have grown to face them. Davydova is currently based at UC Davis as a Humphrey Fellow. She was a past Reuters Foundation fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford University (2006) and head of the German-Russian Office of Environmental Information (www.rnei.de). Since 2008 Davydova has been an observer of the UN Climate negotiation process (UNFCCC) and regularly publishes her work in Russian and international media (including the Thomson Reuters Foundation, The Conversation, Open Democracy, and Science Magazine). Davydova is also the curator of a two-year media training program, “Water Stories,” which features stories dedicated to water issues in Central Asia.
- Date:
- 2019-01-14
- Main contributors:
- Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities, Heather Stur
- Summary:
- For as much as has been written and produced about the Vietnam War, the voices telling the story have remained much the same. Historians and journalists have privileged American male combat veterans of the war and high-ranking U.S. policymakers, while in Vietnam, the official state story is one of U.S. imperialists versus Vietnamese freedom fighters. Lost in these tellings of the story was South Vietnamese veterans and their families, anticommunist Vietnamese citizens, political activists of all stripes in South Vietnam, American women who served in the war, U.S. support or rear echelon troops, U.S. Embassy employees, and troops of the "free world" forces in Vietnam. These voices are crucial for understanding how the conflict developed and played out, what its consequences were, and what its legacies are.
- Date:
- 2019-01-14
- Main contributors:
- Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities, Ron Osgood, Patrick C. Shih
- Summary:
- Date:
- 2019-02-05
- Main contributors:
- Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities, Daniel Story, Kalani Craig
- Summary:
- Want to visualize and study a network in geographic space? We'll do a hands-on exercise with the powerful network analysis software Gephi. Learn about what files Gephi needs to create a network, some basic visualization and analysis options, and how to locate points in your network in geographic space. Participants will need a laptop with Gephi already installed.
- Date:
- 2019-05-21
- Main contributors:
- Porges, Stephen W., Sunseri, Justin
- Summary:
- It was an honor to have Dr Porges on the podcast. As you probably know, he is the creator of the Polyvagal Theory and author of "The Polyvagal Theory" and "The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory." I recommend both of these books, but the Pocket Guide is easier to take in, understand and apply. Polyvagal Theory as the basis for understanding and human experience. “Understanding comes from feeling safe with ideas and thoughts.” “Polyvagal Theory enabled me to understand the portals we have to optimize the human experience.” Before PVT, the focus was on events versus feelings Feelings Emotion versus bodily experience Feelings sit on top of autonomic state Inverted triangle, bottom point is the brainstem and wider point are the higher brain structures “What higher brain structures can do are in part limited by the state that the brainstem is in.” ”Many of the observables in our human behavior are not intentional.” “We have feelings and we respond to them.” Empathy vs Compassion Empathy - we feel other people's’ feelings “Empathetic pain” - If another feels pain, we may not be in a good position to support Evaluating pain, like “That’s horrible.” Compassion - respectful and acknowledging of another’s pain, but there to witness and support “People aren’t prepared to listen, to witness, in a compassionate way.” “Healing” the Vagus Nerve? Vagus nerve is a conduit Vagus isn’t the concern, it’s the feedback loop between organ and brainstem that is the concern Certain feedback loops or defense strategies can get stuck Comorbidities come along with an ANS that is in a defensive state Be careful of ‘hacking the system,’ there are more natural ways to perform neural exercises, like singing, socializing, rocking, pranayama yoga and playing Extend the duration of the exhale Other Fs… The responses are adaptive, not bad “Flop” is an adaptive response to death feign, part of the most ancient dorsal vagal circuit “Shutting down” is literally passing out, but not everyone does that, but will have immobilization features Hybrid and gradation of sympathetic along with immobilization A body that goes into immobilization features may actually mobilize in an attempt to resist immobilization Substance Use Addictive behavior is a strategy to regulate state True physical addiction is secondary to initial benefit of addictive behavior The addictive behavior is protecting the individual from shutting down Psychiatry Child psychiatry is about pharmacological manipulation Psychiatry is not looking at the social engagement system behaviors “Psychiatry needs a reeducation.” “The warmest home for the polyvagal theory… is in trauma.” Polyvagal Theory provides a narrative consistent with client reports “Drugs effect physiology,” they are looking to “down-regulate” arousal “Some drugs will calm people down and they will be isolated in their calmness.” Calmed down doesn’t mean socially engaged Vagal tone means the amount of information coming down the vagus. Psychiatric medications may remove efficiency of regulating physiological state Psychiatry needs to measure autonomic regulation of the individual on and off the drugs Dominant State Safe and social system needs to be accessible to reduce ambiguity of a cue “Freeze” is the mix of dorsal vagal immobilization plus sympathetic arousal “Shut down” is limp, “freeze” is rigid Clinical Disorders as Adaptations Adaptations are a shifting of the more global autonomic states Clinical disorders are a compromise to the social engagement system As a species, we evolved to co-regulate, if we take that out of the equation, you get self-regulatory behaviors that result in diagnoses "I think what you would find is it really doesn't matter what the diagnosis is. That they share some common features. And the common features have to do with state regulation. And in fact the manifestations... has to do with the strategies that the higher brain structures developed to regulate their state. And in a sense the personal narrative that evolved from those psychological or mental experiences." -Dr. Stephen Porges A disruptor (like abuse or traumatic event) occurs that disrupts opportunities to co-regulate with a safe other Personal Narratives PVT brings the narrative that there is a reason someone is feeling the way they feel Higher brain structures (cognitive and sense of awareness) attuned body state, it will act as a container to the feelings Narrative will change when people become attuned to their state Narrative can be a container to physiological activity Our body’s reactions were heroic attempts to save our lives Dissociative Identity Disorder & Dissociation Alters may be seen as a polyvagal state, they have autonomic components Often, DID systems have no more than three alters Dissociation can be understood as decreased blood flow to the brain Dissociation is an adaptive feature in place of passing out; repeated passing out can result in injury or death Dissociation is common and there are gradations Polyvagal theory is an evolving theory that others are adding to, it’s a framework of thought. Buy "The Polyvagal Theory" and the "Pocket Guide" at these Amazon links. Other recommended books are in my Amazon Influencer Store. DR PORGES Website - https://www.stephenporges.com/ Music & Sounds by Benjo Beats - https://soundcloud.com/benjobeats Text and Original Publication: https://www.justinlmft.com/post/episode15
- Date:
- 2019-08-15
- Main contributors:
- Porges, Stephen W., Rebel Wisdom
- Summary:
- This is one of a series of films from Rebel Wisdom on the science and psychology of polarisation. We recommend to start with the introduction film here: https://youtu.be/EUNHj5eh7BM Dr Stephen Porges is a scientist, and creator of the hugely influential 'polyvagal theory'. Together with Peter Levine, he revolutionised the understanding of human connection, trauma and personal growth. His work is also fundamentally important to understand how conversations break down, how we get psychological safety, and the roots of polarisation and division. To get access to more exclusive content, become a Rebel Wisdom subscriber: https://www.rebelwisdom.co.uk/plans We've also just launched the Rebel Wisdom store! Buy T Shirts and more on https://shop.rebelwisdom.co.uk You can listen to a podcast versions of our films on Spotify or Apple Podcasts by searching 'Rebel Wisdom' or download episodes from our Podbean page: https://rebelwisdom.podbean.com/ (this one will be available in podcast format only on Future Thinkers for now) We also have a Rebel Wisdom Discord discussion channel: https://discord.gg/RK4MeYW Text and original publication: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmkG5l7CaGw
- Date:
- 2019-09-24
- Main contributors:
- Porges, Stephen W., Kail, Kolby
- Summary:
- Kolby Kail is the owner and lead speech-language pathologist at Kolby Kail Speech Therapy in San Diego, CA. She has been an avid proponent and an iLs provider since 2012. Kolby believes there is no better feeling than helping a child achieve his/her communicative goals while having fun. She integrates therapy goals into play activities that are fun and functional increasing carry-over into all environments. She easily establishes trust and connection with families to facilitate consistent progress. Connect with Kolby at: Original text and publication: https://integratedlistening.com/blog/2019/09/24/dr-stephen-porges-interview-from-the-thriving-children-summit/
- Date:
- 2019-12-05
- Main contributors:
- Kiberd, Emily, Porges, Stephen
- Summary:
- Highly stressful situations can lead to an inability to act and respond. These feelings have long-lasting impacts that affect people well afterward. However, as you’ll hear, this is not the result of some inadequacy, but an ancient neurological response. Stephen Porges, Ph.D. is a distinguished university scientist at Indiana University, professor of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, and Professor Emeritus at both the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Maryland. With more than 300 peer-reviewed papers, Dr. Porges pioneered the Polyvagal Theory which links the evolution of the mammalian autonomic nervous system to social behavior and emphasizes the importance of the physiological state in the expression of behavioral problems and psychiatric disorders. Dr. Porges explains what Polyvagal Theory is and how it relates to all of us on a physiological level. According to this approach, stress has little if anything to do with our physical state, and everything to do with our emotional and psychological wellbeing. We talk about how Polyvagal Theory helps explain a state in between stress and unstress in which we actually disassociate from our surroundings as a result of trauma. We then talk about how to handle the effects of this neurological response. It may lead to an inability to fully engage with people and feelings of shame and inadequacy. However, proper narrative framing, self-compassion, and even intentional breathing can help to make shifts towards recovery. How might an understanding of Polyvagal Theory change the way you interact with other people? Let’s talk about it in the comments below. In this episode How trauma can trigger a reflex that leads to an inability to act The ways that stress and trauma impact future relationships How to cope with the lasting effects of trauma The power of breath for helping to regulate parts of the nervous system Ways to make others feel safe simply by using your voice The link between feelings of safety and creativity Technological innovations that may reduce inflammation of the vagal nerve Quotes “I would say that the nervous system is much more rational in its decision-making properties and we have to be very careful about imposing a simplistic worldview on it and trying to make everything fit that simplicity.” [1:43] “This whole act of going into immobilization or inability to recruit fight-flight is a powerful reaction that many people have experienced. But once they experience it, they don’t know how to make sense of it.” [9:47] “Breath is really a wonderful gift because when we manipulate our breathing we can change the tone of our autonomic nervous system. And if we change that tone, even for short periods of time, we can experience the world differently for those moments.” [16:52] “What we really want is to enable people to be better witnesses of their own body and to become more self-aware and compassionate to respect those bodily feelings.” [48:38] original description from: https://urbanwellnessclinic.com/dr-stephen-porges-polyvagal-theory/
- Date:
- 2019-08-27
- Main contributors:
- Jillian Kinzie, Robert M. Gonyea
- Summary:
- We hope you’re eagerly poring over your NSSE 2019 results. Bob Gonyea and Jillian Kinzie will review the reports and provide strategies for utilizing and disseminating your results. NSSE webinars are live and interactive, providing participants the opportunity to ask questions via polls and text chat. When you register for the webinar you’ll be invited to submit questions in advance. Register here to participate.
- Date:
- 2019-09-26
- Main contributors:
- Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities, Sara Duke, Michelle Dalmau
- Summary:
- Digital methods such as mapping, data visualization and network analysis offer opportunities to interrogate, explore, and answer research questions. What underlies each of these digital methods are data and the processes required to translate arts and humanities evidence into manipulatable data structures. In this workshop, we will explore the concept of “collections as data” and the implications of data normalization to facilitate computational based research or creative outputs. We will discuss the types of decisions you'll encounter when representing your humanities evidence in a digital environment and best practices for structuring your research data for use in a number of digital tools.
- Date:
- 2019-10-01
- Main contributors:
- Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities, Kalani L. Craig, Michelle Dalmau
- Summary:
- While we often think about the end form - website, digital journal, online resource - when we talk about digital scholarly communications, the work of digital arts and humanities publishing starts at the very beginning of a project. we will walk participants through what digital publications are (moving behind articles and monographs to peer-reviewed datasets and visualizations), how to present these in peer-review and promotion settings, and how to craft a project that takes these publication types and needs to account during the early, mid, and late- research stages. From practical data-management and storage concerns to the more intellectually challenging questions of how to frame the disciplinary outcomes of digital projects to our readers and peers, we will send participants home with a project plan and set of campus resources to support that plan.