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51. Factivity of Emotive Verbs in Spanish (03:16)

Date:: April 5, 2024
Main contributors:: Joe Larson
Summary:: This project investigates emotive verbs in Spanish and their alleged factivity. Factivity was first described as a semantic property of certain predicates by Kiparkski and Kiparski (1970). Recent e...

52. Impact of Globalization on Nigerian Women Entrepreneurs in the Clothing and Textile Industry (01:55)

Date:: April 5, 2024
Main contributors:: Oluwanifemi Ologunorisa
Summary:: The fashion and textile industry continues to grow across the globe. In sub-Saharan Africa, it is one of the largest industries, with an estimated market value of $31 billion, with Nigeria accounti...

53. Taxation and Resistance in Colonial Eastern Nigeria, 1930-1960 (03:31)

Date:: April 5, 2024
Main contributors:: Uzoamaka Nwachukwu
Summary:: Moving beyond the popular narrative of indigenous resistance to taxation as epitomized by the popular 1929 Aba Women’s riot led by women in the provinces of Calabar and Owerri in southeastern Nige...

54. Degrees of Engagement: Foreign Policy Goals and the Internationalization of Education in Kazakhst... (02:33)

Date:: April 5, 2024
Main contributors:: John Stanko
Summary:: Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are neighbors and co-competitors for regional leadership in Central Asia. In terms of educational competitiveness, Kazakhstan’s government has emphasized internationalizat...

55. A Geography of Occupations (04:03)

Date:: April 5, 2024
Main contributors:: Mikaela Martinez Dettinger
Summary:: Holocaust Memorialization in the Baltic States is fraught with competing memory narratives stemming from the spatial and chronological proximity of Soviet violence and the Holocaust. This project s...

56. Towards an Open Dataset of Visual Languages in Digital Humanities Scholarship (03:21)

Date:: April 5, 2024
Main contributors:: Rongqian Ma
Summary:: Visual inscriptions have long been recognized as a valuable knowledge discovery and communication device in scientific research. Studies in science and technology have shown that visualization serv...

57. Ecopoetry Online: Analyzing User Engagement with Environmental Poetry on Instagram (03:11)

Date:: April 5, 2024
Main contributors:: Lydia Nixon
Summary:: This project engages with two key questions in the field of empirical ecocriticism: How can literature matter in an era of climate crisis? And, what impact do environmental texts have on their audi...

58. Digital Opacities: Remediating the History of Medicine (04:03)

Date:: April 5, 2024
Main contributors:: Sean Purcell
Summary:: Medical science’s long history of extractionism—especially in the United States from Black and Indigenous communities—hangs over the libraries and digital databases which knowledge workers generall...

59. The Fiscal Panacea of International Student Recruitment in the '80s and '90s (03:25)

Date:: April 5, 2024
Main contributors:: Elizabeth Spaeth
Summary:: In my dissertation, “The Cosmopolitans: The Institute of International Education from Liberal Internationalism to Neoliberal Globalization (1919–2003),” I argue that Americans came to rely on inter...

60. A geospatial critique of Ibn Sīnā's imagined past in Isfahan (03:52)

Date:: April 5, 2024
Main contributors:: Pouyan Shahidi
Summary:: In the Dardasht district of Isfahan (Iran) stands a dodecagonal, domed building known as “Madras-i Ibn Sīnā” (Academy of Avicenna). Today, the building is firmly believed to be the space where Ibn ...