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2009-10 Events History
All Sponsored and Co-Sponsored Events
Cogut Center Events
September 23
"Butte, America"
Film screening and discussion with the filmmakers
Smith-Buonanno Hall 106
7:00 - 9:00pm
This documentary, narrated by Gabriel Byrne, reveals the social and environmental costs of mining in Butte, Montana. First in the 2009-10 series, "Nature and Legacy: Humanists, Scientists and the Environment," the film chronicles industrial exploitation and its effects on the people and the land. It is the New England film premiere.
The film screening will be followed by discussion with producer/director Pamela Roberts and co-producer/co-writer Edwin Dobb.
For more information on the entire "Nature and Legacy" series, click here.
To see a copy of the event poster, click here.
October 7
"Re-inscribing the Colonial Dilemma in a Conscript of Global Modernity: CLR James and Moby-Dick"
Pembroke Hall 305
5:30 - 7:00pm
Donald Pease, Professor of English and Avalon Foundation Chair of the Humanities at Dartmouth College is an authority on nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature and literary theory. Prof. Pease's lecture will lift C.L.R. James's Mariners Renegades and Castaways out of the field of superseded historiographical and ideological concerns in which it has been contextualized, and to address a different set of questions to this untimely work. In writing about Moby-Dick while interned on Ellis Island, James fashioned himself as a colonial conscript rather than an agent of global modernity. Prof. Pease hopes to bring to the fore the tragic colonial dilemma that James inscribed in Melville's classic modern text so as to demonstrate the ways in which Mariners Renegades and Castaways addresses concerns of the postcolonial present.
This lecture is part of a series sponsored by the Critical Global Humanities Initiative, a collaboration of the Cogut Center for the Humanities, Africana Studies, the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, and International Affairs.
To see a copy of the event poster, click here.
October 8
"Dreaming in Russian: Recalling the Soviet Era in Contemporary Cuban Arts"
Watson Institute, McKinney Conference Room
Jacqueline Loss, Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Connecticut, will speak.
This talk is co-sponsored by the Cogut Center, Comparative Literature, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
October 19-November 6
"Let us imagine a straight line..."
Interactive sound-and-motion installation
Pembroke Hall 003
Opening Reception
October 16
Gallery Hours
Monday - Friday
1:00 - 5:00pm
"Let us imagine a straight line," by Butch Rovan, is an interactive work about movement. It takes inspiration from two great minds of late 19th-century France—Etienne-Jules Marey and Henri Bergson—and their respective visions of motion and time. Marey's efforts to measure a beating heart and to capture birds in flight produced the technologies that led to the modern cinema. Bergson's reflections on matter and memory produced a philosophy that re-imagined the relation of mind to body.
The installation invites participants to experience this scientific and humanistic legacy through a series of interactive pieces that explores the idea, and the beauty, of a single human body in motion.
Featuring dancer Ami Shulman.
To see a copy of the event poster, click here.
To see photos from the exhibit opening, click here.
October 21
"Autumn Gem"
Film screening and discussion with the filmmakers
Wilson Hall, Room 102
Main Green
4:00 - 6:00pm
"Autumn Gem" is a film documentary on China's first feminist. It explores the extraordinary life of the Chinese revolutionary heroine and women's rights activist Qiu Jin (1875 – 1907). During the reign of the last dynasty in China, Qiu Jin boldly challenged traditional gender roles and demanded equal rights and opportunities for women. At a time when women's lives were often marked by repressive practices such as footbinding, arranged marriages, and denial of education, she envisioned a future where women would free themselves from the confines of tradition and emerge as strong and active citizens of a new and modern nation.
Co-sponsored by the Cogut Center, East Asian Studies, the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Pembroke Center.
To see a copy of the poster, click here.
November 5
"Climate Change"
Lectures and panel discussion
Pembroke Hall 305
4:00 - 6:00pm
Speakers: Elijah Huge ( Wesleyan), Timmons Roberts ( Brown),
Hugh Ducklow (Brown/Marine Biological Lab, Woods Hole). A noted architect, sociologist and scientist share their views of climate change.
For more information on the entire "Nature and Legacy" series, or abstracts of the talks, click here.
November 12
"The Charms of Assumption"
Sarah Cutts Frerichs Lecture in Victorian Studies
Pembroke Hall 305
5:00 - 6:30pm
Speaker Andrew Miller, Director of the Victorian Studies Program at Indiana University will present a paper based on a larger project titled "On Not Being Someone Else." It studies the distinctly modern moral psychology of counterfactual narratives in literature, taking as its point of departure Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. In studying these counterfactuals, the paper raises questions about both aesthetic form and literary-critical method.
For more information on the Sarah Cutts Frerichs Lecture, click here.
To see the event poster, click here.
To see photos from the event, click here.
November 20
Critical Thought and the Humanities Today
Two Lectures
Pembroke Hall 305
4:00 - 6:00pm
"Airing Dirty Laundry: African-American Critique and Natal Community"
Hortense J. Spillers
Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor, Department of English, Vanderbilt University
Prof. Spillers examines the claim that "analysis is paralysis" and the general view that to be critical of the black life world is dubiously valuable. Prof. Spillers is a leading scholar in literary criticism and theory. She has written about psychoanalysis and race, how linguistics have failed black women, and crucial essays on authors including Zora Neale Hurston, Margaret Walker, Toni Morrison, Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks and William Faulkner.
"From Negro to African and Back, on the Way to Radical Humanism"
Ronald A.T. Judy
Professor, Department of English, University of Pittsburgh
Prof. Judy teaches literary and cultural theory. His current work involves exploring the ways in which particular "popular cultural movements" engage in thinking about the problems of authenticity and sovereignty in relation to an emerging global economy. This work focuses specifically on Islamist projects of communal identity in North America, Europe, and Africa, as well as the globalization of Hip Hop science.
These lectures are part of a series sponsored by the Critical Global Humanities Initiative, a collaboration of the Cogut Center for the Humanities, Africana Studies, the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, and International Affairs.
To see the event poster, click here.
To see photos from the event, click here.
To hear a recording of these lectures, click here. This link will deliver you to the Cogut Center page at iTunes University. You will need iTunes loaded on your computer to hear the lectures.
December 2
"Let us imagine a straight line..."
Panel discussion
Pembroke Hall 305 (note new location)
Jimena Canales, Associate Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University, will participate in an informal panel to discuss the groundbreaking installation "Let us imagine a straight line..." by Butch Rovan, located in Pembroke Hall.
Joining Prof. Canales will be Brown faculty Réda Bensmaia, French Studies; Mary Ann Doane, Modern Culture and Media; Butch Rovan, Music/MEME; and Michael Steinberg, Cogut Center.
December 3-5
"Animating Archives: Making New Media Matter"
Pembroke Hall 305
This three-day conference will critically interrogate the ways in which new media has affected traditional archives, as well as generated new vernacular archives, in order to foster ground-breaking scholarship that deploys new media in its own critique. Thirty scholars from Brown and around the world will convene to discuss modern media.
Co-sponsored by the Cogut Center and the Malcolm S. Forbes Center for Research in Culture and Media Studies.
For registration and complete conference schedule, click here.
February 5 - March 26
"MF Husain: Early Masterpieces, 1950-1970"
Art exhibit
Pembroke Hall
Gallery Hours: 9:00 - 5:00pm, Monday - Friday
A collection of early masterpieces by artist MF Husain, who has been referred to as the "Picasso of India," will be on display February 5-March 26. This exhibit is drawn from the collection of Brown alumna Amrita Jhaveri '91.
The exhibit opens with a reception on Friday, February 5 at 5pm.
February 16
"Public Events, Private Lives: Literature and Politics in the Modern World"
Salomon 101, Main Green
Famed author Salman Rushdie will give a public lecture at Brown on "Public Events, Private Lives: Literature and Politics in the Modern World."
Sir Salman Rushdie has influenced a generation of writers and received a Queen's Knighthood for "services to literature." He stands as both a pop culture icon and one of the most thought-provoking proponents for free speech today. Recently, Foreign Policy named him one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world.
Rushdie's novels include Midnight's Children, for which he received the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker; The Satanic Verses; The Moor's Last Sigh; The Ground Beneath Her Feet and The Enchantress of Florence. Rushdie has served for two years as president of The PEN American Center, the world's oldest human rights organization.
Limited seating; please arrive early. This event will be simulcast in Salomon 001 for overflow audiences.
February 26
"Future Foucault: On the Anniversary of Bodies and Pleasures"
Pembroke Hall 305
9:00am - 5:00pm
It has been twenty-five years since the death of Michel Foucault, one of the last century's most crucial philosophers, as well as twenty-five years since the publication of the final two volumes of Histoire de la Sexualité. Since then, an extraordinary body of interdisciplinary scholarship has emerged around the work of Foucault, with much attention recently focused on his writings on ethics, governmentality, biopolitics, and war. Future Foucault invites six distinguished scholars to address the timeliness of these topics, and to reflect upon the abiding presence of Foucault in their own critical thought.
For complete conference schedule, click here.
March 5 - POSTPONED
"The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age"
Panel Discussion
Pembroke Hall 305
4:30 - 6:30pm
Guest speakers Cathy N. Davidson, the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Ruth F. Devarney Professor of English at Duke University, and David Theo Goldberg, the Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute and Professor of Comparative Literature and of Criminology, Law, and Society at the University of California, Irvine, discuss their recent collaborative work, The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age.
These lectures are part of a series sponsored by the Critical Global Humanities Initiative, a collaboration of the Cogut Center for the Humanities, Africana Studies, the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, and International Affairs.
March 9
"Blue Vinyl" (2002, 98 minutes, in English)
Film screening
Smith-Buonanno 106
4:30 - 6:00pm
A toxic comedy look at vinyl, the world's second largest selling plastic. With humor, hope and a piece of vinyl siding firmly in hand, Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand and co-director Daniel B. Gold travel from Helfand's hometown to America's vinyl manufacturing capital and beyond in search of answers about the nature of polyvinyl chloride (PVC). Her parents' decision to "re-side"
their house with this seemingly benign cure-all for many suburban homes turns into a toxic odyssey with twists and turns that most ordinary homeowners would never dare to take. The result is a humorous but sobering and uniquely personal exploration of the relationship between consumers and industry in the feature-length documentary Blue Vinyl, which won the cinematography award in the documentary competition at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival.
The filmmaker, Judy Helfand, will be on campus on March 18 to participate in the "Toxicity" panel (see below).
March 18
Lectures and panel discussion
Pembroke 305
Time: 4:30 - 6:30pm
Speakers: Brown faculty Kim Boekelheide and Phil Brown, and filmmaker Judy Helfand ("Blue Vinyl").
The speakers on this panel will address the problem of environmental toxicity from the standpoints of a scientist involved in a superfund clean-up project and who uses a model system in the laboratory to study the effects of multiple toxicant exposure; a sociologist who works with scientists and community activists to improve communication about the potential dangers of chemicals in the environment; and a filmmaker who uses her art to engage the public with the problems of toxicity.
For more information about the entire "Nature and Legacy" series, click here.
March 22
"MF Husain and Indian Modernism"
Pembroke Hall 305
Amrita Jahveri '91 is a specialist in twentieth-century Indian Art and the author of A Guide to 101 Modern and Contemporary Indian Artists. The Husain exhibit, "MF Husain: Early Masterpieces, 1950-1970", on display at Pembroke Hall from February 5 - March 26 is drawn from Ms. Jhaveri's private collection.
The exhibition and events are sponsored by the Year of India, the Cogut Center for the Humanities and the David Winton Bell Gallery.
To see the poster for this event, click here.
April 2 - 30
"Mountaintop Removal: A Legacy of Human Suffering and Environmental Devastation"
Photojournalism exhibit
Pembroke Hall - lower level hallway
9:00am - 5:00pm M-F
Olivia French traveled to West Virginia in March 2009 to witness and document the devastating toll that the coal mining technique known as mountaintop removal is taking on the environment and people of Appalachia. Then a high school junior, Olivia spent several days meeting activists and residents of coal country, chronicling their stories to bring back to her school community in Connecticut. Her photographs, research and personal experiences are exhibited as part of the Cogut Center's focus on "Nature and Legacy" in 2009-10.
To see the poster for this exhibit, click here.
For more information on the creation of this exhibit, click here.
April 16
"Now Available Online and in Print: Publishing Your First Academic Book in the Digital Age"
Talk and conversation
Pembroke Hall 305
12:00noon - 2:00pm
Acquisitions editor for Stanford University Press, Emily-Jane Cohen will offer her thoughts and advice on getting first publications from manuscript to book form.
To see the poster, click here.
April 22
"Nature and Legacy: Humanists, Scientists and the Environment"
Pembroke Hall 305
5:00 - 6:30pm
"Schwarzenegger, Silver Buckshot, and the Outback — the Keys to a Sustainable Future"
Terry Tamminen, Operating Advisor Pegasus Capital Advisors & former Secretary of the EPA of California
In the final installment of our year-long series "Nature and Legacy" we explore timely issues on a sustainable future with leading policy maker Terry Tamminen.
For more information on the entire "Nature and Legacy" series, or a biography of the speaker, click here.
June 13-15
"Whose Global Humanities?"
Pembroke Hall
The Cogut Center hosts the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI). With panel discussions, lectures, tours and film screenings, the conference's ambitious schedule will engage, inform and enlighten the CHCI membership, from 23 countries around the world, on issues ranging from Education and the Environment to the Humanities and the New China to Funding in the Humanities.
Distinguished speakers include the Hon. James Leach, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities (pictured, right); Bonnie Reiss, Secretary of Education for California; and Mieke Bal, cultural theorist and filmmaker.
To see the meeting photo gallery, click here.
Co-Sponsored Events
October 7
"The Art of Literary Memoir and Biography"
Smith-Buonanno Hall 106
Pembroke Green
6:30 - 8:00pm
Biographer, memoirist and teacher Susan Cheever '65 will speak. Ms. Cheever, daughter of author John Cheever, teaches with the MFA program at Bennington College and the New School. She is the author of American Bloomsbury, My Name is Bill and Home Before Dark.
Part of the Great Brown Nonfiction Writers Lecture Series 2009-10.
November 11
"Literary Investigative Journalism"
David Shenk, speaker
Smith-Buonanno Hall 106
Pembroke Green
6:30 - 8:00pm
David Shenk '88 is an award-winning author and a contributor to National Geographic, Slate, The New York Times, Harper's, NPR and PBS. He has written about pandemics, music, technology, chess, politics, bioethics, the brain, corporate malfeasance and kids' toys. He frequently lectures on health, education and technology. Mr. Shenk is author of The Immortal Game, The Forgetting and Data Smog.
Part of the Great Brown Nonfiction Writers Lecture Series 2009-10.
November 12
"Writing the Biography of Clarice Lispector: Why This World"
Benjamin Moser '98, speaker
Watson Institute, Joukowsky Forum
111 Thayer Street
Moser has written a pioneering biography of Brazilian writer, diplomatic wife and character in her own right, Clarice Lispector (1920–1977).
December 8 - 22
"Miniature Worlds"
Exhibition of short films
John Nicholas Brown House, Carriage House Gallery
Gallery hours: 1:00 - 4:00pm
"Miniature Worlds" features seven short films produced by students in "From Worlds in Miniature to Miniature Worlds: Theming and Virtuality"(HIAA 1890). This course was taught by Cogut Center Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Ipek Tureli.
February 5
"Reading, Translating, and Performing Italian Renaissance Literature"
Readings and performance
Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown Street
10:00am - 7:00pm
David Slavitt reads and discusses his new translation of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso; Ann Mullaney reads and discusses her recent translation of Folengo's macaronic epic Baldo; Dennis Looney reads and discusses his translation of Ariosto's prose Erbolato;a roundtable on translation and performance of narrative poetry; performance of an operatic scene by Francesca Caccini with members of the Newport Baroque Orchestra.
Sponsored by Italian Studies, the Elana Horwich Italian Arts and Culture Fund, Literary Arts, Hispanic Studies, French Studies, Comparative Literature, Classics, Theatre and Arts, English, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies Program and the Cogut Center for the Humanities.
March 2
"Kangamba" (2008, 95 min. Spanish/Portuguese with English subtitles)
190 Barus & Holley
Manning Walk
6:30 - 8:00pm
A film by Rogelio París, "Kangamba" recreates the history of a group of Cuban military advisors and a brigade of the People's Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola (FAPLA), posted in Kamgamba village, who are ordered to fortify themselves as quickly and effectively as possible to become a front against the rival National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA).
Followed by a discussion with Cogut Center Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow Adrián López Denis, Hispanic Studies.
Part of "Cuba, the West and the Rest,"a lecture series on recent trends and future developments in the relationship between Cuba and the world. Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Hispanic Studies.
March 4
"Ethnic Irony: Tawada, De Man and the Poetics of Migrating Borders"
Maddock Alumni Center, Brian Room
Brown and George Streets
John Namjun Kim, professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California/Riverside, will speak as part of the German Studies Lecture Series. Prof. Kim specializes in critical theory and modern German and Japanese literature and philosophy. His specific areas of research include Kant and German Idealism, German Classicism and Romanticism, as well as Heidegger and the Kyoto School.
Co-sponsored by German Studies, the Cogut Center for the Humanities, East Asian Studies and Comparative Literature.
March 5
"The Biopolitics of Translation in the Poetry of Yoko Tawada"
Marston Hall 209
Manning Walk
12:00noon - 2:00pm
John Namjun Kim (see above) will lead the workshop in reading and discussion of some pre-circulated poems by Tawada in translation and original (German and Japanese), along with one theoretical essay on biopolitics and translation.
Lunch provided, and pre-registration required with firstname.lastname@example.com.
Co-sponsored by the Cogut Center for the Humanities, Departments of Comparative Literature, East Asian Studies, German Studies, Literary Arts, and Slavic Languages.
See also events related to Yoko Tawada's visit to campus in April.
March 11
"The Cuban Drumbeat: Cuba and Southern Africa, 1975-88"
Watson Institute, Joukowsky Forum
111 Thayer Street
Piero Gleijeses, Professor of American Foreign Policy at the School of International Studies at John Hopkins University will speak as part of "Cuba, the West and the Rest,"a lecture series on recent trends and future developments in the relationship between Cuba and the world.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Cogut Center for the Humanities, Africana Studies and Comparative Literature.
March 17
"Literary Investigative Journalism"
Salomon Hall 001
Main Green
6:30 - 8:00pm
David Shields '78 is the author of nine books, including The Thing About Life is That One Day You'll Be Dead, which was a New York Times bestseller. This talk is the third lecture in the Great Brown Nonfiction Writers Lecture Series 2009-10, presented biennially by the Nonfiction Writing Program in the Department of English, which features four prominent Brown alumni writers this academic year.
Part of the Great Brown Nonfiction Writers Lecture Series 2009-10.
March 18
"Lovers Parting at Sunrise: Roland Barthes and the Modern Aubade"
Brown/RISD Hillel
80 Brown Street
Diana Fuss '88, professor of English at Princeton University, is the author of Essentially Speaking and The Sense of an Interior: Four Writers and the Rooms that Shaped Them. Fuss is currently writing a collection of essays on the poetry of mourning.
This lecture is presented by the Graduate Students of the English Department.
April 5
Two events with award-winning poet Yoko Tawada
Poetry Workshop
190 Hope Street, Room 103
The poetry workshop participants will discuss Tawada's texts in the original and translations into Czech, English, German, Japanese, and Russian, and observe with the author fascinating processes such as shifts in perception, conceptual mutation, and creation of new meaning.
"Translated Faces, Liquefied Letters"
Poetry Reading
190 Hope Street, Room 103
Tawada's reading will be a collage of poems and prose texts on the theme of polyphony and multilingualism. Different texts will be read in Chinese, Czech, English, French, German, Japanese, French and Russian. The audience will experience and participate in the sounds of familiar and unfamiliar voices and languages and will observe how texts communicate with one another and give rise to newer meanings and images.
Yoko Tawada was born in Tokyo in 1960, educated at Waseda University and has lived in Germany since 1982, where she received her Ph.D. in German literature. She received the prestigious Akutagawa Prize – Japan's equivalent of a Booker or a Pulitzer – for The Bridegroom Was a Dog. She writes in both German and Japanese, and in 1996, she won the Adalbert-von-Chamisso Prize, a German award recognizing foreign writers for their contributions to German culture. She also received the Goethe-Medal, an official decoration of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Co-sponsored by the Cogut Center for the Humanities, Departments of Comparative Literature, East Asian Studies, German Studies, Literary Arts, and Slavic Languages.
April 5
"Beirut Normal"
List Art Center, 110
Speaker Hashim Sarkis is the Aga Khan Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. His publications on Lebanon include Circa 1958; Lebanon in the Pictures and Plans of Constantinos Doxiadis and Projecting Beirut (co-editor with Peter Rowe). Sarkis is a practicing architect between Beirut and Boston.
Sponsored by funds in part from the Kenneth List Endowment, Funds for Internationalizing the Curriculum; Department of History of Art and Architecture; the Cogut Center for the Humanities; Urban Studies Program.
April 5
"New Ruralism in Post-Urban Modernity "
Pembroke Hall 305
9:00am - 5:30pm
The multiplicity and heterogeneity of the city experience as opposed to country life, and its specificity in the Hispanic world, will be explored in this all-day conference. Pinpointing precisely when the urban milieu became the de rigueur setting for both literary production and its corresponding criticism is a difficult task. Speakers will discuss topics such as creation and interpretation of country life, the longing for lost nature, and its theoretical framework. The eight speakers, well-known writers and/or scholars, will present unique insights on the topic, from aesthetic, literary, and sociological perspectives.
Convened by Enric Bou, Hispanic Studies.
April 7
"Music and the Political Economies of Order, Disorder, and Violence"
Grant Recital Hall
Young Orchard and Hope Streets
6:00 - 7:00pm
Richard Leppert is Regents Professor and Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor in Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. His PhD is in musicology, with art history as his cognate field. He holds undergraduate degrees in music, English literature, and German literature.
Leppert's work is concentrated on the relations of music and imagery to social and cultural construction, principally revolving around issues of gender, class, and race. Most of his work concerns European high culture from early modernity to the present, though he has also published on American music and art and popular culture. He has specific interests in critical theories of the arts and culture from the Frankfurt School to postmodernism, Adorno in particular.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Music and the Cogut Center for Humanities.
April 10
"Cityscapes in Fiction"
Pembroke Hall 202
9:00am - 5:00pm
More than a dozen scholars meet to discuss urban literature. Keynote speaker Michael D. Rubenstein, University of California, Berkeley, speaks on "Infrastructuralism" from 9:00 - 10:00am.
Sponsored by Brown University's Office of International Affairs; English; Comparative Literature; Portuguese and Brazilian Studies; and the Cogut Center for the Humanities.
April 16-17
18th Annual Graduate Conference
Rochambeau House
84 Prospect Street
Two days of panel discussions leading up to the keynote address by speaker Christopher Miller, Yale University. The title of his talk will be "The Revised Birth of Negritude: Communist Revolution and 'the Immanent Negro' in 1935."
Co-sponsored by French Studies, Graduate Student Council, Africana Studies and Renaissance and Early Modern Studies.
April 16-17
"Material and Imagined Bodies"
5th Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
Smith-Buonanno Hall
For times and speaking schedule, click here
Keynote speaker Dagmar Herzog, City University of New York, will speak on "The Religious Right's Body Politics." The graduate students of History have organized this conference to generate new perspectives and showcase what the next generation of scholars is saying about "the body" as an analytical category. Body Scholarship emerged largely out of studies on gender and sexuality, but has expanded to engage many other issues including race, ethnicity, health, reproduction and medicine. Panels and discussion sessions will provide a forum for the exchange of ideas between graduate students from around the world and the Brown academic community.
Co-sponsored by the Cogut Center for the Humanities, History Department and German Studies.
April 21
"Alphabet Soles: Language as Ground"
Performance art
Pembroke Hall 305
1:00 - 3:00pm
"Alphabet Soles: Language as Ground" is a multi-media performance project conceived by Hollis Mickey '10, concentrator in Theatre Arts and Performance Studies. The work explores language to mark the opening of artist Ann Hamilton's public artwork at Brown University—a carpet imitating letterpress— on the third floor of Pembroke Hall. The project mobilizing the grid of the carpet for events at various sites in an attempt to activate the sensual qualities of the carpet and involve the Providence community in questioning how language structures our lives. Taking inspiration from the grid of the carpet, movements of the letterpress machine, and various systems of the alphabet, the performance communicates the labor of language and meditates upon how that labor inscribes our individual and collective worlds.
To read the press release, click here.
April 29
"Palestine in Crisis: What We Can Learn from Gandhi"
Barus & Holley 168
Manning Walk
Mustafa Barghouti, MD is General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative and co-founder of the Palestinian Medical Relief Society. A social, political, human rights and peace activist, Dr. Barghouti is one of the most active grassroots leaders in Palestine. He is a leading figure in the nonviolent struggle against the ongoing Israeli Occupation of the Palestinian Territories. In February 2010, Dr. Barghouti was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Hosted by Brown Students for Justice in Palestine. Co-sponsored by Middle East Studies Program; Cogut Center for the Humanities; Office of the Dean of the College; Program in Liberal Medical Education Student Senate; and the Office of International Affairs.
April 30
"The Glamour Factor in the Cities of the Arabian Gulf"
List Art Center 110
Nasser Rabbat is the Aga Khan Professor and the Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT. He is an architect and a historian, with a focus on Islamic architecture, urban history, and post-colonial studies.
The cities of the Arabian Gulf experienced an extraordinary boom in the last two decades, which found its ideal prospect in building luxury housing and hotels and gargantuan business, cultural, and entertainment complexes. Prof. Rabbat will review the history of the urban boom in the Arabian Gulf in order to understand the effects of glamour not only on its development but on the development of the entire region.
Sponsored by the Cogut Center for the Humanities, Funds for Internationalizing the Curriculum, Department of History of Art and Architecture, and the Urban Studies Program.
April 30 - May 2
"Theoretical Archaeology Group: The Location of Theory"
Rhode Island Hall, Main Green
Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) 2010 is a conference to explore and debate the implications of theoretical issues for archaeological practice and interpretation, worldwide. 'The Location of Theory', hosted by the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, is the third annual meeting of TAG in North America. Sessions will meet Saturday and Sunday (5/1-2), with performances, screenings, and exhibitions throughout the weekend.
All are welcome. Registration is required.


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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Knoxville Republican Rep. Stacey Campfield is proposing legislation that would make welfare benefits dependent on children making "satisfactory academic progress" with their education.
Campfield told the Knoxville News Sentinel that the proposal is about "breaking the cycle of poverty" and it should motivate parents to take a more active role in their children's education.
However, Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth Director Linda O'Neal said the proposal could make things more difficult for struggling families. She said the agency hasn't taken an official position on the bill, but it raises several concerns.
The current law says parents can lose up to 20% of welfare benefits if a child does not attend school.
Campfield's proposal adds the progress requirement and would increase the penalty to 30%.
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Are you in on the Powerball pandemonium? Nobody won the jackpot Saturday. That means Wednesday's top prize is up to $425 million, the largest jackpot ever for the game.
Nancy Miller says there's only one reason she would drive all the way from Pell City to a convenience store in Tallapoosa, Ga.
"To win this big Powerball. I got the winning ticket," Miller said, laughing.
It's not unusual for Ricky's Mart to find its parking lot full of Alabama plates, but that number is higher than usual. People are angling for their best shot at the Powerball lottery. They mark off five numbers, and a sixth Powerball number, all for $2 a play.
It's now a record jackpot: $425 million and climbing, for Wednesday's drawing.
"I was watching the news, they told us on there how many millions and I thought, man, I could use that money. So, we came in from Birmingham, to get our tickets," Mary Ann Bearden said.
Now filling a ticket out will raise your odds of winning just a little bit, but still right behind, say, getting hit by lightning. Your odds of winning the jackpot are normally one in more than 175 million, and that's on a regular day.
Still, it hasn't stopped some of these people from spending the bank deposit of their wildest dreams.
All of the Alabamians we met, on and off camera, said they would love to see the lottery in their home state. For now, that's not where their money is going.
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Pai-chang's Fox
In honor of Halloween, I will read you a Zen ghost story.
Once when Pai-chang gave a series of talks, a certain old man was always there listening togetherv with the monks. They left, he would leave too. One day, however, he remained behind. Pai-chang asked him, " who are you, standing here before me?"
The old man replied, " I am not a human being. In the far distant past, in the time of Kasyapa Buddha, I was the head priest at this mountain. One day a monk asked me, "Does an enlightened person fall under the law of cause and effect or not?" I replied, "Such a person does not fall under the law of cause and effect." With this I was reborn five hundred times as a fox. Please say a turning word for me and release me from the body of a fox."
He then asked Pai-chang, " Does an enlightened person fall under the law of cause and effect or not?"
Pai-chang said, "Such a person does not evade the law of cause and effect."
Hearing this the old man immediately was enlightened. Making his bows he said, "I am released from the body of a fox. The body is on the other side of this mountain. I wish to make arequest of you. Please, Abbot, perform my funeral as for a priest." Pai-chang had a head monk stike a signal board and inform the assembly that after the noon meal there would be a funeral service for a priest. The monks talked about this in wonder. "All of us are well. there is no one in the morgue. What does the teacher mean?"
After the meal, Pai-chang led the monks to the foot of a rock on the far side of the mountain. And there, with his staff, he poked out the body of a dead fox. He then performed the ceremony of cremation. That evening he took the high seat before his assembly and told the monks the whole story.
Huang-po stepped forward and said, "As you say, the old man missed the turning word and was reborn as a fox five hundred times. What if he had said the right answer each time he was asked aquestion - what would have happened then?
Pai-chang said, " Just step up here closer and I'll tell you." Huang-po went up to Pai-chang and slapped him in the face.
Pai-chang clapped his hands and laughed, saying, "I thought the Barbarian had a red beard, but here is a red-bearded Barbarian." Wu-men's Comment
"Not falling under the law of cause and effect." Why should this prompt five hundred lives as a fox? "Not evading the law of cause and effect." Why should this prompt a return to human life? If you ahve the single eye of realization, you will appreciate how old Pai-chang lived five hundred lives a fox as lives of grace.
Wu-men's Verse
I'm told that Halloween was originally a Celtic holiday, marking the harvest and the beginning of their new year, And it wa said to be the time when the worlds of the living and of the dead were at their closest, and that on that night the dead could cross over and walk among the living. So the ancient Celts lit bonfires and made offerings of food to placate the spirits of the dead. Robert Aitken in his commentary on this story says that in Japan the fox is regarded the way a black cat is in the West, as something sinister, the familiar of spirits and witches. The way Halloween is celebrated now, we take images of what we're most afraid of, images of death, and turn them around into life-affirming play. And it is especially fitting that Greenwich Village, with it's large gay population which has known so much death in recent years, has made Halloween a particular object of celebration.
This koan is about the old fantasy of somehow going beyond life and death, escaping as they say, from the wheel of cause and effect. In the folklore of India, where Buddhism first developed, a person's lifetime of karma caused them to be reborn, and enlightenment, whatever that was, somehow brought about nirvana, the cessation of endless death and rebirth. So the old man when he was the abbot and gave his answer he was merely saying what everyone believed, that enlightenment meant somehow escaping from this world of cause and effect. But there is no escape. This koan reminds us that even when we realize the oneness of all things, we mustn't lose sight of their impermanence. The spirit world, the world of enlightenment is none other than this world. Giving the body of the fox all the formal funeral rites of a dead monk is a symbolic way of enacting this identity.
True practice always brings us back to life as it is. And Halloween and the fox each serve to remind us of what we want to ignore, that we are bodies, bodies that suffer, live and die. When we truly accept this fact, Halloween becomes a chance to celebrate, and, as Mumon says in his poem, the old man truly enjoys his five hundred lives as a fox.


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MLS has suspended FC Dallas defender Jair Benitez for one game and fined him $500 for what was widely reported as his spitting at Houston Dynamo forward Brian Ching during the teams' preseason game on Feb. 13. Benitez had initially been suspended two games, but the players' union appealed the decision and MLS Commissioner Don Garber reduced it to one game.
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Americans are getting ready for Independence Day. For some, the celebration will include setting off their favorite fireworks. News 13 has safety information to help you and your family stay safe in this Problem Solver report.
Federal safety officials say that across the nation sixty percent of all fireworks injuries occur during the 30 days before and after July 4th. According to Panama City Fire Chief Wayne Watts, "Last year, over 9300 people were injured due to fireworks." And in talking about those national numbers, Chief Watts says at least four deaths last year were attributed to fireworks. He also says, unfortunately, even a legal firework can cause pretty serious injury if it is not supervised properly.
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Sometimes, even seemingly innocent fireworks like sparklers can lead to injury. Fire officials say they burn at a very hot 1200 degrees.
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A driver fleeing police has died after the suspect drove the wrong way on Interstate 29 and crashed into an innocent motorist.
The Missouri Highway Patrol identified the suspect as Justin V. Burkholder, 35, of Kansas City.
Burkholder had a felony probation violation warrant out of Wyandotte County and three failure to appear warrants out of North Kansas City. He also had a suspended Missouri driver's license.
The Platte County Sheriff's Office said they were trying to stop Burkholder about 2 p.m. Wednesday near the Kansas City International Airport. The truck had been reported stolen from south Platte County and there were stolen guns inside the vehicle, authorities said.
He was traveling the wrong way on I-29 when he struck a southbound SUV. The two vehicles wound up about 100 yards apart on I-29 near the Platte River.
Benjamin Shively, 38, of Overland Park was driving a 2014 Chevy Suburban. He was extricated from the SUV and rushed via ambulance to an area hospital. He suffered serious injuries and remains hospitalized. Family and friends said he faces a long recovery, but is expected to make it.
Burkholder was taken from the vehicle, laid down on the highway and covered with a white blanket. A medical helicopter came to the scene to transport him, but they decided it wasn't needed.
Drivers posted on KCTV5's Facebook page about seeing the scary moments when Burkholder was fleeing police with numerous vehicles chasing him. He apparently went the wrong way on an exit ramp to enter I-29 and even drove through a restaurant parking lot at one point during the chase.
Some estimated that speeds reached 100 mph. The chase, which went through Platte and Clay counties, lasted about 40 minutes.
The chase traveled into Clay County near Liberty. The driver turned around and went west on Highway 152 into Platte County, authorities said.
Kansas City police said they used their helicopter to assist deputies in the pursuit. The Missouri Highway Patrol also assisted and is helping investigate the crash.
Burkholder had numerous brushes with the law. He had his first guilty plea in 2005 including a felony theft chase. His driver license was revoked in 2007 for failure to pay child support.
In 2008, he was sentenced to three years in prison for credit card fraud and stealing a motor vehicle. In 2011, he was sentenced to three years in prison for tampering with a motor vehicle.
He was wanted on a felony probation warrant out of Wyandotte County and three failure-to-appear warrants.
Deputies said they felt it was imperative to try to stop Burkholder.
"It evolved very quickly," Capt. Erik Holland of the Platte County Sheriff's Office said about the pursuit.
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In the opening minutes, everything seemed to go right and the Lady Eagles jumped out to an early 10-0 lead over BCU. FGCU led by as many as 13 in the first half, but also as few as six in the waning minutes of the half. With four minutes on the clock, BCU cut into the FGCU lead on the heels of quick turnovers and fast break layups, but the Eagles handled the Wildcat run and went into halftime up by eight points.
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Adrianne McNally (Howell, Mich.) led all scorers with 19 points on 7-of-14 shooting from the field. McNally also finished with nine reboundsand six assists. Courtney Chilhil (Tipp City, Ohio) picked up a double-double with 12 points and 10 rebounds. Shannon Murphy (Brighton, Mich.) and Chelsea Lyles (Colorado Springs, Col.) both chipped in with 11 points.
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10:09am Friday 1st February 2013 in News By Katie Clark
A FATHER and daughter had a lucky escape after a tree and telegraph pole smashed into their vehicle in Poole this morning.
Nick Holmes was driving his daughter Bethany, 15, to the bus stop in Penn Hill around 7.20am when the terrifying incident took place in Branksome Park.
The pair were just seconds out of their drive when Nick, not seeing the fallen silver birch, drove straight into its branches in Western Avenue.
Moments later a telegraph pole hit the Land Rover Defender.
Despite significant damage to the vehicle, including a smashed windscreen and damaged roof, the pair were unhurt, although both shaken.
Nick said: "I drive this route every day. There was a Winnebago parked at the side of the road in Western Avenue, I drove past it and suddenly saw there was a tree hanging off the back of the Winnebago.
"I just didn't see it until that moment. I hit the branches and told my daughter to duck as I didn't want her to get hurt. There was a telegraph pole across the roof, which we hit as well.
"The tree branches hit the car and blinded us and then there was a God almighty thump.
"As I went through the branches it must have pulled the telegraph pole, which hit the roof of the car.
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Christine Hanna is the President of her family's winery based in Healdsburg and Santa Rosa in Sonoma County, California. She grew up at the home ranch, making tiny batches of wine with her father, winery founder Dr. Elias S. Hanna, in the late '70s and early '80s.
Christine came to work at HANNA Winery full time in 1991, first in public relations and marketing, then taking over the management in 1993. In her tenure, she has directed the winery's growth from 1000 cases to 50,000, with national distribution and a robust direct to consumer program through three tasting rooms and three wine clubs. Christine has repositioned the winery's focus to Russian River Sauvignon Blanc, a consistent award winner now representing half of HANNA's production. She transitioned the winery's dependence away from purchased fruit to an estate program and began marketing fruit from HANNA's vineyards to other leading wineries.
Christine is the author of The Winemaker Cooks: Menus, Parties and Pairings, published by Chronicle Books in 2010 and available everywhere. In the book, Hanna presents more than 100 recipes, drawing from local farmers' markets and the garden that grows beside the rustic, century-old Alexander Valley hunting lodge she and her family call home. Her menus are brought to life with 75 luscious photographs by Sheri Giblin, a San Francisco photographer. In sidebars throughout the book called "Ask the Winemaker" Christine answers the myriad questions about wine and winemaking that she's asked every day by consumers. The Winemaker Cooks was one of three finalists for Best American Cookbook by the International Association of Culinary Professionals.
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3:46 p.m. — Crash. 1500 block of West Ind. 16, Lucerne. Vehicles driven by James Conrad, 38, Lucerne, and Lorie Berksire, 51, Royal Center, collided. Cass County Sheriff's Department.
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12:58 p.m. — 1300 block of High Street. Complainant reported that someone came into the residence and stole keys. LPD.
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1:06 p.m. — 200 block of East Street, Royal Center. Complainant reported the windshield broken out of vehicle and items missing. CCSD.
1:28 p.m. — Theft. 1400 block of High Street. Dijvon Moore, 18, Logansport, reported his vehicle struck overnight. LPD.
1:48 p.m. — Crash. 4100 block of East Market Street. A 17-year-old collided with Timothy Tully, 56, Logansport. LPD.
2:53 p.m. — Arrest. Joshua Zachery Simons, 39, Logansport, was arrested on a court order. LPD.
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5:02 p.m. — Crash, leaving the scene. George and 18th streets. A minor was riding a bicycle and reported that he was struck by an unknown vehicle while passing through the intersection. LPD.
6:33 p.m. — Arrest. Lu Pa, 29, Logansport, was arrested on a charge of public intoxication. CCSD.
7:53 p.m. — Arrest. Wayne Edward Gifford Jr. 18, Logansport, was arrested on charges of leaving the scene of a property accident and false informing. CCSD.
8:30 p.m. — Arrest. Payton Lamont Smith, 37, Logansport, was arrested on a charge of battery, A misdemeanor. LPD.
11 p.m. — Arrest. Jacob Michael Elliott, 20, Logansport, was arrested on a warrant for probation violation. CCSD.
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It started around eight this morning in a construction area.
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They say that one of the construction workers was using a blow torch and accidentally set a stack of papers on fire.
A ceiling sprinkler immediately turned on and put out the fire but there was still a ton of smoke.
All of the construction workers were evacuated along with some hospital staff and people in waiting rooms.
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CNN Questions Santorum's Appeal to Women Voters Given His 'Ultra-Conservative' Positions
CNN's Zoraida Sambolin questioned Rick Santorum's appeal with women voters nationwide as she targeted his "ultra-conservative" positions that "some women don't relate to," on Wednesday's Early Start.
Sambolin challenged Santorum's success among women voters in the deep south by noting that nationwide he lags behind President Obama in a recent poll of women voters. [Video below the break.]
"But he [Santorum] has some ultra-conservative stances there that some women don't relate to," Sambolin insisted. Would she be willing to admit that the recent HHS birth control mandate is a liberal policy that "some" women would find offensive?
Before Sambolin interjected, her guest Penny Nance of Concerned Women for America had made that very point. "If you look at the CBS/New York Times polling, though, over what the President did on the HHS mandate, not even women supported him on that," she stated.
A transcript of the segment, which aired on March 14 on Early Start at 5:35 a.m. EDT, is as follows:
ZORAIDA SAMBOLIN: All right. Penny, you endorse Santorum, and you're a woman. So, I want to get your reaction to this. Santorum won the vote of women last night. So, let's take a look at it. In Alabama, he won 38 percent of the vote, in Mississippi 35 percent. But overall, southern states are more conservative, and if you look at the latest New York Times/CBS poll, women voters, 50 percent of them go to Obama to Santorum's 40 percent. Is this going to be a looming problem ahead as we go to less conservative states?
PENNY NANCE, conservative commentator: I don't think so. Actually, you know, Rick, as you said, did very, very well with women and very well with the youth vote. Right now, the candidates in the Republican primary are taking it to each other. They need to take the fight to Obama. If you look at the CBS/New York Times polling, though, over what the President did on the HHS mandate, not even women supported him on that.
So, the new rhetoric from the Obama campaign has been now reaching out to women. They realize I think, that they blew it last week. You're going to see more work for women, but you know, I think this is not a race yet against Obama. When Santorum takes it to Obama, I think he'll do very well.
Women view him as being very authentic. He's a family man. He's someone that – very relatable. He's the Wal-Mart candidate. And that's what --
SAMBOLIN: But he has some ultra-conservative stances there that some women don't relate to.
NANCE: Yes. In married women, when you break it out – women are not monolithic. You know that. Women are – we can't just be one segment. Married women do – Santorum does very well with married women and women with children. So, you know, it's not one or the other. I think you're going to see him do very well overall with women when it comes down to a vote between he and Barack Obama.
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One reason Santorum appeals to this woman voter...
Submitted by Radical1979 on Wed, 03/14/2012 - 7:20pm.
is that he would never use the offensive language of the left.
More importantly, he won't allow the muslim world to walk all over us.
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Good evening Rad
Submitted by cocodrie on Wed, 03/14/2012 - 7:52pm.
I thought you wuz republican cuz you hated women.
Hee Hee Hee Hee
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
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By ultra-conservative
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Wed, 03/14/2012 - 10:17pm.
By ultra-conservative, Sambolin means policies that leave people to their own devices, where both men and women have a fighting chance of finding a mate, getting married, having kids, and raising a family, and leading self-sufficient lifestyles that foster self-worth and happiness. You know, the biologically programmed instincts that have helped people live happy lives for thousands of years.
Liberals have already destroyed the lives and made dependent their largest voting block, and they are well along the way of doing the same to other segments of America to perpetuate their political power.
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don't date pond scum
Submitted by CJohnson on Wed, 03/14/2012 - 8:07pm.
Smart girls marry men who will make a good parent. I'd liken him to someone like myself; we don't need public help governing our domestic affairs. I doubt he appeals to teachers, social workers, custody and divorce lawyers, shelters workers, police and corrections officers, dog catchers and rehab counselors. Half the voters prefer him, and the rest of us, to behave like pond scum.
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Have to disagree with CJohnson.
Submitted by ThePickle on Wed, 03/14/2012 - 10:33pm.
I would have to disagree with you on the police and correctional officers CJ.
Having been involved with the criminal justice system for 2 plus decades, at both the State and County levels, I can assure you that the overwhelming majority of Police, Fire, and Corrections workers are very Conservative, especially when it comes to Family issues.
While I can only site my personal observations with regards to my surety regarding this subject I feel very confident that they accurately reflect how the majority of Police Fire and Corrections employees feel.
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I recant
Submitted by CJohnson on Wed, 03/14/2012 - 11:00pm.
Okay. No generalizations but I so dislike seeing police settling domestic squabbles and family fights.
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police settling domestic disputes..?
Submitted by ThePickle on Wed, 03/14/2012 - 11:44pm.
I can assure you that the last call any peace officer wants to get is responding to a domestic dispute. The entire atmosphere is too volatile and you are as likely to be attacked by the victim as you are the perpetrator.
That being said the police only respond to calls that they receive. Its not like they are patrolling around looking for a family disputes to involve themselves in.
Not sure if thats what you meant by seeing police "settling domestic squabbles" but I can assure you that they would much prefer that adults act like adults and settle their domestic disputes without assaulting each other or causing a public disturbance.
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Liberals are fascists
Submitted by mattm on Wed, 03/14/2012 - 8:49pm.
This is just more political stereotyping by the left. The need to pound it into the brains of the masses that a person's politics is determined by their affiliation with a particular demographic group. This is fascism (from Italian -"fascio" meaning 'group')
They do this because deep down they know that if they ever had to win elections based on the validity of their ideas rather than on their ability to brainwash certain demographic groups into almost monolithic support, they'd be finished.
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I just don't care!
Submitted by neutron on Wed, 03/14/2012 - 11:32pm.
I'm so disgustipated with the Dem Libtards, that even if the Reps are running Bozo the Clown and for VP, his pal Butchy Boy, I'm pulling the lever for the Reps!
I quit the Rep Party over George H.W. Bush, and have never regretted it. I've voted split ticket since then; whoever was my "best" in the slot got my vote.
No more! I won't even read the name of the Dem Dog Catcher in the local elections. I'm voting straight Rep, which I have not done since Ronald Reagan.
I'm not a Republican, but I'm down for voting with them. They haven't lied to me like Obama has!
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I trust that you'll appreciate the following image.
Yeah, I know. Anything related to national socialism is bad.... Sad that the cheerleaders in what passes for the "press" these days haven't a clue.
On a side note, the swastika is a good luck symbol.
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I Pick Rick! Santorum 2012!
Submitted by Free Stinker on Wed, 03/14/2012 - 9:57pm.
And thus CNN reminds us that Rick Santorum is in fact "Electable".
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CNN Misses Elbow From Backside Again
Submitted by stratman on Wed, 03/14/2012 - 11:44pm.
Let's see... parents who grieved over a child dead shortly after childbirth and who diligently and compassionately care for their Trisomy 18 child well past most predictions of survival compared to a a couple whose father says he doesn't want his daughters "punished with a baby" and a mother who publicly humiliates her daughter as being fat.
Yeah, tough choice.
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Women have a range of views.
Submitted by nkviking75 on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 12:19am.
SAMBOLIN: But [Santorum] has some ultra-conservative stances there that some women don't relate to.
Yeah? Well, suppose we changed a couple of words around.
SAMBOLIN: But Obama has some ultra-liberal stances there that some women don't relate to.
We're talking about half the population. Pick any politician and you find some women who agree wholeheartedly, some who are frightened, and women who are all up and down the spectrum between those points. So CNN, why should all women be put off by Santorum's "ultra-conservative" views?
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He knows what Monogamy means
Submitted by wingnut55 on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 12:51am.
Unlike the men in the liberal side Rick Santorum knows that monogamy is not some kind of wood. He is faithful to his wife. Women realize that he treats his wife like the lady, that she is. Liberal women find this refreshing. They are used to husbands like Bill Clinton, Ted, Robert and John Kennedy to name a few.
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Liberal Women and Bias: Redundant
Submitted by Netizen Kane on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 12:57am.
Liberal women......claim complete equality with men unless they have an opinion based on their sex, which includes damn-near everything. And they still don't see the break in logic......otherwise known as hypocrisy. Silly, silly, liberal women......Sambolin is no exception and will be all pissy for not being taken seriously. There...I said it!
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Can someone explain to me ...
Submitted by Fredy on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 9:24am.
What an 'ultra conservative' means?
Having heard this term many times without any definition makes no sense. Whenever this term is used by someone, they need to be asked what it means to them. At this point in time, it is a meaningless pajoritive that is simply used to attack people without ever mentioning any actual issue or position.
I am not referring to only people on the left. Some people who claim to be 'in the middle', like Bill O'Reilly, regularly use this term to bash people they do not like without ever defining it in any way.
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This position will be labeled "ultra-conservative"
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Fri, 03/16/2012 - 8:40am.
Here's a position of Santorum's that will probably get labeled as "ultra-conservative": Enforcing laws against illegal pornography. Although many on the right might say that telling adults what they can and can not do in their personal lives is usually reserved to "ultra-liberals". I've often times viewed the Left vs. Right spectrum, not as a linear thing, but more of a circular spectrum, where extreme views on either end tend to blend and result in the same outcomes.
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There are at least 3 tricycle cubs posted on this board and likely others out there. George Willer and I both made the front spindle although differently. If I was going to do it again, and I may make another in the fall, I would make the front spindle completely different than what I did before. I thought of another way, easier, faster, cheaper, looks better.
The front spindle is not the labor intensive part, if you want to narrow the back, that is the part that sall the time. If you leave the back as is or wider, then not really much to making a tricycle cub.
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Experimental Film and Performance Art Courses at the San Francisco Art Institute Culminate in Two Major Public Performances
The San Francisco Art Institute is proud to announce two major undergraduate student performances—Locative Media: The Projected Edifice and Mondo Skitz-o!—on the evenings of November 29 and November 30, respectively.
Projected Edifice is the collaborative effort of British-born visual artist Ben Wood's Design and Technology class and Steve Polta, Program Director at the San Francisco Cinematheque. Exploring the concept of locative media and site-specific projection, eleven SFAI students have created narrative video projections to transform the edifice of the Ninth Street Film Center. Wood and his class will use the building's façade and frosted windows as the canvas for a site-specific installation that moves from the outside in, to the lobby and lecture hall space.
Mondo Skitz-o! is the culmination of a semester's worth of work in the studios at SFAI. In a New Genres course taught by local filmmaker Joshua Grannell (best known as drag superstar and cult movie impresario Peaches Christ), thirteen SFAI students developed and brought to life new, fully realized characters. For one night only at The Hypnodrome Theatre, these characters will step out of the classroom and on to the stage.
"Working with the SFAI students has been a rewarding and inspiring experience," said Grannell. "It's a bit like teaching in Frankenstein's Laboratory—as we've created, molded, and given birth to all these new 'people.' I'm looking forward to an outside audience experiencing the films and performances at Mondo Skitz-o! The show represents the thoughtfulness, fun, and unbridled creativity that my student put into these characters and their work."
Locative Media: The Projected Edifice
Presented by San Francisco Film Center and San Francisco Cinematheque
Date: Thursday, November 29, 7:30 pm
Location: Ninth Street Independent Film Center, 145 Ninth Street, San Francisco, CA
Cost: $5 for Cinematheque members and $10 for non-members (Buy your ticket today!)
In collaboration with his Locative Media film class at the San Francisco Art Institute, video projection artist and SFAI faculty member Ben Wood—known locally for large-scale public displays on Coit Tower and within Mission Dolores—creates an architectural video installation at the Ninth Street Independent Film Center. Using the building's screening room, façade and frosted front windows, Wood and his SFAI students will present a collaborative video and performance event that enlivens the architecture while evoking voices and stories from submerged and forgotten persons, histories and cultures. The group will transform the building's edifice with projected narratives from both within and without.
This event is part of a series of projections Wood and his class are executing on buildings around San Francisco, including a staged installation at Lumen Alley during Polk Street Art Walk last month.
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Mondo Skitz-o!
Date: Friday, November 30, 7 pm and 10 pm
Location: The Hypnodrome Theatre, 575 10th Street, San Francisco, CA
Cost: $6 (Buy your ticket today!)
The Hypnodrome Theatre, Peaches Christ, and the San Francisco Art Institute proudly present Mondo Skitz-o!—a schizophrenic multi-media variety show that promises to leave its audience downright delirious. This one-night-only event debuts for the public an entirely new cast of characters, splitting apart the human mind and unleashing a debutante ball of performance, music, and filmmaking. Peaches Christ serves as hostess for the evening and introduces this diverse, challenging, dark, and hilarious group of people. Don't miss this unique opportunity to witness actual birth of new characters—live and in person!
Space is limited; purchase tickets in advance to the 7 pm or 10 pm show!