A Campus Counter Tour: Performing institutional narratives

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-183
Author(s):  
Claire Syler
Keyword(s):  
Black Studies ◽  
Coalition Building ◽  
University Environment ◽  
Walking Tour ◽  
Applied Theatre ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Us University ◽  
Walking Tours

Abstract This article traces the work of a cross-listed Theatre and Black Studies performance course at a US university that had recently experienced campus protests concerning anti-black racism. The course culminated in an admissions-style walking tour that critically analysed the university environment by juxtaposing dominant institutional narratives with counter accounts performed by a multi-ethnic ensemble of students. The article begins by contextualizing the university's history of anti-black racism and then describes the curriculum created for the class and the broader Campus Counter Tour performance. To conclude, it discusses the assets embedded in the Counter Tour project (accessibility, coalition building, and participation in a movement), which could be valuable for applied theatre practitioners interested in using walking tours to address institutional narratives bound up in racism or colonialism more broadly.

New Creative Writing “Classroom”

2015 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Tamara Girardi
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Writing Studies ◽  
University Environment ◽  
Creative Writing Studies ◽  
Creative Writers ◽  
History Of ◽  
Publishing Community ◽  
The University

The field of creative writing studies includes commonly regarded forms of distance education such as online courses, but there is an impressive diversity regarding the opportunities available to creative writers. To illustrate this, the chapter discusses the two tracks available to writers. The first features the university environment, where students enroll in undergraduate and graduate creative writing degree programs. These programs could be full-residency, low-residency, or online. However, not all writers are able or willing to enroll in such programs. For these writers, there are non-academic options that are driven not by colleges and universities but by the publishing community. Non-degree writers might enroll in online workshops or communities. Finally, non-degree seeking writers might work independently through MOOCs, extension classes, iTunesU courses, and how-to texts. This chapter discusses the history of distance education as it is evolving and the potentially overwhelming number of options available to aspiring writers.

scholarly journals Epistemologias não-cartesianas na interface artes-humanidades [Denise Coutinho, Eleonora C. da Motta Santos]

REPERTÓRIO ◽  
2010 ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Teatro & Dança Repertório
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Late 19Th Century ◽  
University Environment ◽  
Search Point ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Path Search ◽  
The University

O objetivo deste artigo é apresentar resultados de três anos de trabalho sobre o desenvolvimento de modelos epistemo-metodológicos não-cartesianos para pesquisas em artes e humanidades na universidade. Uma questão norteou esta investigação: A pesquisa acadêmica necessitaria ter como referenciais modos consagrados pela cientificidade para apresentar- se rigorosa em seus objetos, métodos, questões, objetivos e finalidades? Nosso trajeto busca apontar, na história do pensamento ocidental, as bases para o que viria a vingar, no século 17, como modelo da constituição das ciências modernas com a cisão artes x ciências, não existente até então. Em seguida, apresentamos alguns pensadores que, entre o final do século 19 e todo o século 20, produziram importantes quebras no edifício cartesiano, com destaque para Sigmund Freud e alguns conceitos psicanalíticos. Por fim, apostamos que a presença da cultura artística na universidade é tão irreversível quanto a presença, já bastante estabelecida, das ciências, das humanidades, da tecnologia. A singularidade do fazer artístico, refletida em seus processos e objetos, impõe estudos e desenvolvimento de métodos coerentes com tais investigações.<br />The aim of this paper is to present the result of over three years working on the development of models epistemo-methodological non-Cartesian for research in the arts and humanities in the university environment. One question guided this endeavor: should academic research have as reference methods laid down by science in order to be rigorous regarding objects, methods, issues, goals and purposes? Our path search point to the history of Western thought, the basis for what came to succeed in the 17th century as a model of the constitution of modern sciences, with the arts versus sciences divide, which did not exist until then. Next, we introduce some thinkers that since late 19th century and throughout the 20th century produced major breaks in the Cartesian building, especially Sigmund Freud and some of psychoanalytical concepts. Finally, we bet that the presence of the arts at the University is as irreversible as the presence, already well established, of sciences, humanities and technology. The uniqueness of artistic making, reflected in its processes and objects, requires study and development of methods consistent with such investigations.

Illustrations and the genesis of Barrett and Yonge's Collins pocket guide to the sea shore (1958)

2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 274-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. G. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Publishing History ◽  
Biological Station ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Illustrated Text ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

Twenty nine items of correspondence from the mid-1950s discovered recently in the archives of the University Marine Biological Station Millport, and others made available by one of the illustrators and a referee, shed unique light on the publishing history of Collins pocket guide to the sea shore. This handbook, generally regarded as a classic of its genre, marked a huge step forwards in 1958; providing generations of students with an authoritative, concise, affordable, well illustrated text with which to identify common organisms found between the tidemarks from around the coasts of the British Isles. The crucial role played by a select band of illustrators in making this publication the success it eventually became, is highlighted herein. The difficulties of accomplishing this production within commercial strictures, and generally as a sideline to the main employment of the participants, are revealed. Such stresses were not helped by changing demands on the illustrators made by the authors and by the publishers.

Adam Zalužanský’s “De sexu plantarum” (1592): an early pioneering chapter on plant sexuality

2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 244-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holger Funk
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
English Translation ◽  
History Of Botany ◽  
Main Work ◽  
Botanical History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

In the history of botany, Adam Zalužanský (d. 1613), a Bohemian physician, apothecary, botanist and professor at the University of Prague, is a little-known personality. Linnaeus's first biographers, for example, only knew Zalužanský from hearsay and suspected he was a native of Poland. This ignorance still pervades botanical history. Zalužanský is mentioned only peripherally or not at all. As late as the nineteenth century, a researcher would be unaware that Zalužanský’s main work Methodi herbariae libri tres actually existed in two editions from two different publishers (1592, Prague; 1604, Frankfurt). This paper introduces the life and work of Zalužanský. Special attention is paid to the chapter “De sexu plantarum” of Zalužanský’s Methodus, in which, more than one hundred years before the well-known De sexu plantarum epistola of R. J. Camerarius, the sexuality of plants is suggested. Additionally, for the first time, an English translation of Zalužanský’s chapter on plant sexuality is provided.

80 years’ history of psychology in the University of Szeged (1929–2009)

2009 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 671-676
Author(s):  
Márta Pataki ◽  
Kamilla Polyák ◽  
Dezső Németh ◽  
Ágnes Szokolszky
Keyword(s):  
History Of Psychology ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

Imre Sándor, a pedagógia professzora az 1920-as évek közepén felismerte, hogy külön intézetet kellene alapítani a pszichológiaoktatás számára a szegedi egyetemen. 1926 októberében felterjesztette kérelmét a bölcsészkari vezetés felé, Málnási Bartók György, a Filozófia Tanszék professzora támogatása mellett. 1929. december 18-án Klebelsberg Kuno vallás- és közoktatásügyi miniszter megalapította a Pedagógia Lélektani Intézetet a szegedi egyetemen, és kinevezte az új intézet élére Várkonyi Hildebrand Dezső (1988–1971) bencés paptanárt. Ezzel Magyarországon elsőként alakult pszichológiai intézet egyetemi kereteken belül. A cikk a szegedi lélektan intézményes történetét követi végig a Várkonyi vezette intézet megalakulásától napjainkig.

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