Wednesday, October 22, 2008
British and Romantic Victorian Cultures
Professor of English and Film
Texas A&M University
Terence Hoagwood teaches courses in film, postmodernism, Romantic-period literature, Victorian literature, and poetry-writing. Hoagwood taught previously at Vassar College, University of Maryland, American University, Penn State University, and West Virginia University where he was the Benedum Distinguished Scholar in Arts and Humanities. He has also been a Residential Fellow at the Yale Center for British Art.
Hoagwood's publications include Prophecy and the Philosophy of Mind: Traditions of Blake and Shelley (1985), Skepticism and Ideology: Shelley's Political Prose and Its Philosophical Context from Bacon to Marx (1988), Secret Affinities (1989), Byron's Dialectic: Skepticism and the Critique of Culture (1993), A. E. Housman Revisited (1994), Politics, Philosophy and the Production of Romantic Texts (1996--designated a Choice Outstanding Book of the Year), and "Colour'd Shadows": Contexts in Publishing, Printing, and Reading Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers (with Kathryn Ledbetter, 2005).
Hoagwood is also the editor of the scholarly hypertext L.E.L.’s “Verses” and “The Keepsake for 1829" (with Kathryn Ledbetter and with technical editor Martin Jacobsen) on the Romantic Circles site http://www.inform.umd.edu/RC/rc.html.
Hoagwood has also edited fifteen volumes of previously rare literature from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including Charlotte Smith's "Beachy Head and Other Poems", Mary Robinson's "Sappho and Phaon" (with Rebecca Jackson), Violet Fane's "Denzil Place" (with Nicole Stewart), Emily Pfeiffer's "Songs and Sonnets" (with Cody Fife), Fisher's Drawing-Room Scrapbook for 1836 (with Gina Opdycke), and Mary Hays's "The Victim of Prejudice."
Hoagwood's articles and essays appear in scholarly journals and in collections published by Cambridge University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, and other scholarly presses: he has written about numerous authors, texts, paintings, engravings, and films. His current projects include a book on the theory and practice of film adaptation and another on music and poetry in the early nineteenth century.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Contemporary Philosophy
Ernan McMullin is Professor emeritus of philosophy and Director emeritus of the Program in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame. His areas of interest are contemporary philosophy of science, the history of the philosophy of science, and the interactions both historical and philosophical between religious belief and the natural sciences.
He took degrees in physics and theology before being awarded a Ph.D. in philosophy of science at the University of Louvain in 1954. He taught at the University of Notre Dame from 1954 to 2003. He has served as a visiting professor at the universities of Cape Town, Minnesota, UCLA, Princeton, and Yale.
He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Academy of the History of Science, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He served at different times as President of the four major philosophical associations in the United States.
He is the author or editor of 14 books and is also the author of more than 200 articles, the most recent of which are listed below.
Publications include
Books
- The Concept of Matter (1963)
- Galileo: Man of Science (1967)
- Newton on Matter and Activity (1978)
- The Inference That Makes Science (1992)
- The Church and Galileo (2005)
Articles
- “The impact of Newton’s Principia on the philosophy of science” (2001)
- “The origins of the field concept in physics” (2002)
- “Philosophy of science, 1950—2000” (2002)
- “Van Fraassen’s unappreciated realism” (2003)
- “Evolution as a Christian theme” (2005)
- “Tuning fine tuning” (2006)
- “Explanation as confirmation in Descartes’ natural philosophy” (in the press)
- “The virtues of a good theory” (in the press)
- “Hypothesis in early modern science” (in the press).
Friday, October 17, 2008
Continental Philosophy
Yvonne Sherratt
University of Oxford
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Continental Philosophy of Social Science demonstrates the unique and autonomous nature of the continental approach to social science and contrasts it with the Anglo-American tradition. Yvonne Sherratt argues for the importance of an historical understanding of the Continental tradition in order to appreciate its individual, humanist character. Examining the key traditions of hermeneutic, genealogy, and critical theory, and the texts of major thinkers such as Gadamer, Ricoeur, Derrida, Nietzsche, Foucault, the Early Frankfurt School and Habermas, she also contextualizes contemporary developments within strands of thought stemming back to Ancient Greece and Rome. Sherratt shows how these modes of thinking developed through medieval Christian thought into the Enlightenment and Romantic eras, before becoming mainstays of twentieth-century disciplines. Continental Philosophy of Social Science will serve as the essential textbook for courses in philosophy or social sciences.
• Specializes in European traditions of the philosophy of social sciences • Contextualizes European tradition against Anglo-American approaches • Places familiar names like Gadamer, Habermas, Foucault, and Derrida in deep traditions of history and European thought
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Introduction; Part I. The Tradition of Hermeneutics: 1. Ancient hermeneutics; 2. Biblical hermeneutics; 3. German philosophical hermeneutics: Enlightenment and Romanticism; 4. German philosophical hermeneutics: phenomenology and Existentialism; 5. Continental philosophical hermeneutics post-war; Part II. The Tradition of Genealogy: 1. The history of genealogy: Nietzsche; 2. The theory of genealogy: Foucault; 3. Application of genealogy; Part III. The Tradition of Critical Theory: 1. The history of critical theory; 2. Critical theory I; 3. Critical theory II.
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Eth Noise! Ethnomusicology
Jimmy KachulisProfessorSongwriting
B.S., Hunter College
M.A., Tufts University
Arranger and composer or conductor for Eric Gale, Stuff, George Coleman, Jon Hendricks, Frank Foster, Martha Reeves, John Lewis, Empire Brass Quintet, and String Fever
Guitarist for Eric Gale, Stuff, A Chorus Line, and Pe De Boi
Papers delivered include "Ewe Polyphony" and "Ewe Bell Improvisation" at the Society for Ethnomusicology conferences
Listed in Who's Who of American Teachers
"There are no other songwriting majors in the world. We're the only show in town. If you want to study songwriting full time, you have to come to Berklee College of Music. If anybody else teaches songwriting, they usually teach the business of songwriting, the publishing side. A couple places that I'm aware of have a songwriting course and a course in how to write lyrics. Lyrics are something that most people can relate to because a lot of them have either read or written poetry or short stories. Most of them have written some lyrics before they've come into class. So it's not that big of a leap to become a better lyric writer. But a lot of people don't really know what's going on musically in a song.
"It's been a real challenge for us to find a curriculum that works. That's why I wrote these books and online courses, which are basically very interactive exercises that I've designed. It's a fantastic resource. We've expanded the time that students can spend on a topic. Students in class only see me for two hours a week; the online students can interact with those exercises 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, anytime they feel like it.
"I wrote the books and courses to give writers the same sort of daily training that instrumentalists get. Instrumentalists practice their instrument every day; if there's a day that goes by they feel the difference. So I wrote these dozens and dozens of little exercises to give people the skills that they can practice on a daily basis."
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East Asia: Politics, Economy, and Society
Abstract: Civilization is a double-edged concept. During the last two centuries, it has been employed as an ideological weapon to distinguish between us and them, the so-called “civilized” and “barbarians ”. The 20th century, the bloodiest century in all human history, has not deterred the ideologues to continue speaking of civilization as the possession of one group of humanity against another. This paper is an attempt to disentangle “civilization” from its ideological uses.
Keywords: empire, civilization, modes of production, modes of legitimacy, modes of communication, digital empire.
Education, mass media and information
Hooshang NayebiAssistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Tehran Hnayebi@ut.ac.irAlireza DehghanAssistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Tehran adehghan@ut.ac.irSaid MoidfarAssistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Tehran Smoidfar@ut.ac.ir
AbstractThe aim of this paper is to address the following question: Can the usage of mass media, particularly the usage of television which is an easily accessible medium, close the gap between high and low social-economic status groups based on the theory of information gap? According to this theory, the member of upper stratum gain the information transmitted through the mass media rapidly than the lower stratum and thus the gap between those who are rich and those who are poor in information widens. This is a question which has not been addressed in Iran before. Thus to answer this question, we have drawn some testable hypothesis from the mentioned theory and test them by using of the data gathered in a large-scale national survey.
Keywords: information gap, mass media, television, Education, social-economic status.
Political Economic Theory and Communication Research
Vincent MoscoCanada Research Chair in Communication and Society, Queen’s Universitymoscov@mac.comDavid LavinResearch Analyst, Queen’s University, Canada.
Abstract:This paper provides an overview of the political economy approach to communication studies. The paper begins by defining the approach, identifies its fundamental characteristics, and maps major schools of thought. From here, it proceeds to examine how communication scholars have drawn on the theoretical framework to carry out research on the mass media and information technologies. The paper then describes the process of rethinking the political economy of communication by proposing the means to address its philosophical assumptions. Specifically, it calls for an approach to knowing that accepts the reality of both concepts and observations and rejects the view, prominent in some theories, that all explanations can be reduced to one essential cause, such as the economy or culture. Rethinking political economy also emphasizes social change, social processes and social relations over the traditional tendency in political economy to start from social structures and institutions. Putting this agenda into practice, the paper identifies three processes that make up the main starting points for political economy research. Commodification is the process of transforming things valued for their use into marketable products that are valued for what they can bring in exchange. Spatialization is the process of overcoming the constraints of geographical space with, mainly, mass media and communication technologies. Structuration is the process of creating social relations, mainly those organized around social class, gender and race. The paper concludes by describing how this renewed political economy of communication responds to challenges on its borders from the disciplines of cultural studies and policy science. Keyword: political economy, communication theory, critical media studies, social class.
Cyber World: An Enabling Agora or a Constraining Mirage?
Ali ZohooriBradley University, USA.zohoori@bumail.bradley.edu
Abstract:This article is based on Jacques Elull's notion of "fascinated people" in relation to technique and technology. It briefly reviews some of the advantages of the democratic aspects of the cyber world and analyzes the limits and future worries regarding the cyber world. Notwithstanding the limitations on the creation, management, and control of the cyber world resulting from the digital divide and constraints imposed by government and corporate interests, this article stresses the democratic nature of the participatory attribute of the cyber world. The article advances the possibility that through peoples' participation in the cyber world's public sphere a world utopian civilization is possible.
Keywords: cyber world, technological fascination, democracy, information market, public sphere, disinformation.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
East Asia: Politics, Economy, and Society
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Papers delivered include "Ewe Polyphony" and "Ewe Bell Improvisation" at the Society for Ethnomusicology conferences; Listed in Who's Who of American ...www.berklee.edu/faculty/detail.php?id=209&type=department&value=SN&skip=0
BERKLEE Alumni Website
I served on the faculty of the Ethnomusicology program at the University of Washington in Seattle for 10 years, and am now Chair of the Department of World ...alumni.berklee.edu/an_list.cgi
BERKLEE Detailed Employment Information
Doctorate in appropriate discipline required; doctorate in a mathematics or natural science discipline, or in music, ethnomusicology or music history, ...www.berklee.edu/hr/jobs_public_detail.php?id=1336
BERKLEE Berklee News Professors Land New Grants
At Berklee, Hatfield teaches courses on world civilization from 1500, modern East Asia, and ethnomusicology. In his free time, he sings from four shape ...www.berklee.edu/news/54/professors-land-new-grants
BERKLEE Faculty Biography
M.A., Ethnomusicology, Tufts University; Conducted clinics/workshops at the University of Bremen, Fundacio L'Aula de Musica, Longy School of Music, ...www.berklee.edu/faculty/detail.php?id=1023&type=department&value=PR&skip=
BERKLEE Berklee Today
His father was an ethnomusicologist specializing in the African roots of the music of the Americas. Having played gigs from the age of 14, Waterman came to ...www.berklee.edu/bt/192/other_paths.html
BERKLEE Berklee Today
Saxophonist David Alan Salisbury of Fontana, CA, received his Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from the University of New England, located in Armidale, ...www.berklee.edu/bt/131/alumnotes.html
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Nolan Warden of Chicago, IL, earned his master of arts degree in ethnomusicology from Tufts University. His thesis explored Afro-Cuban ritual drumming and ...www.berklee.edu/bt/183/alumnotes.html
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Singer/songwrier Erin McKeown traces the trajectory of her career from ornithology to ethnomusicology and shares her passion for all things Broadway. ...www.berklee.edu/newsletters/news/08_2007.html
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