21L.451 Introduction to Literary Theory (MIT)
This subject focuses on the ways in which we read, providing an overview of some of the different strategies of reading, comprehending and engaging with literary texts developed in the twentieth century. The course is organized around specific theoretical paradigms. In each case our task will be, first, to work through the selected reading in order to see how it determines or defines the task of literary interpretation; second, to locate the limits of each particular approach; and finally, to tr
HIS348 Session 7 Summer 2012
Labor in American Society with Mike Fraga 06/23/12
Honour Killing Across Culture and Time: Official opening
Professor Andrew Leigh performs the official opening of the 'Honour Killing Across Culture and Time' conference at The Australian National University in December 2011.
The concept of honour has been linked to violence historically in Western culture, particularly through Greek mythology and Shakespearean tragedy. The play, Troilus and Cressida in particular, presents a classic formulation of violence justified through masculine conceptions of honour.
As this literary reference indicates, it is
Interview with Robonaut Deputy Project Manager Nic Radford
Robonaut Deputy Project Manager Nic Radford talks about Robonaut's first hand shake in space, as well as what the future hold for robot aboard the International Space Station.
53 Years of Media and Politics
Dr. David Butler brings his legendary Friday evening Media and Politics seminar to a final conclusion by answering questions instead of asking them. Dr Butler's well-worn armchair was occupied by John Lloyd (of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism), who assumed the role of the questioner, together with Baroness Margaret Jay, a former student of Dr Butler. Also for the first time in 53 years, the Chatham House Rule did not apply. The last seminar of David Butler was, uniquely, on-th
Renovating Auburn University Club
Auburn alums Mike Thompson and Will Herring look to Auburn interior design students to renovate Auburn University Club.
What Soviet Medicine Teaches Us RES.CD-001 Leadership and Empowerment: Resources from Graduate Women at MIT (GWAMIT) (MIT) Nation's First Play Therapy Degree Program Selma 1965 Part 2 Piramides - Kijkwijzers : Les bewegingsopvoeding Piramides maken in groepjes d.m.v. kijkwijzers. Hierbij kunnen de leerlingen zelfstandig werken in groepjes, onder het toezicht van de leerkracht. African American Identity in Early Photography Presentation by Deborah Green - Director of Marketing. Science Bulletins: How Old is "Old"? ENGR 408 - Patent Law Mass Murder of Novo-Moskovsk Jews -- Part 1 EAHA Day 2 Session 3B: Rapid Needs Assessment Lecture EAHA Day 5 Session 1: Writing The Plan Lecture 1.5.1 Rhetoric and rigour Most students know that a PhD requires good science or good engineering or good disciplinary research of whatever flavour. Many forget that it also requires good ‘story telling’. Both rigour and rhetoric are essential ingredients of a successful dissertation. At the OU, rhetoric is an explicit criterion for a PhD. Getting the form and voice of the dissertation right is just as important as getting the content right in showing mastery, rigour and insight; indeed, they a
The audio version of the Mises Daily article for June 22, 2012. [15:17] Narrated by Harold Fritsche. Music by Kevin MacLeod.
Graduate Women at MIT (GWAMIT) is an institute-wide, student-led group founded in 2009. Its mission is to promote the personal and professional development of MIT's graduate women. GWAMIT welcomes all members of the MIT community, including men. This OCW site features selected videos from the two conferences GWAMIT runs each academic year: a Leadership Conference in the fall and an Empowerment Conference in the spring. It also provides a list of related readings and other resources.
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The School of Education at the University of Mississippi is the first in the country to offer a degree program in play therapy. Video by Mary Stanton.
In 1965, protests against voting restrictions for blacks brought forces led by Martin Luther King, Jr. into conflict with white resisters in Selma, Alabama. Length 4:01
The new book "Pictures and Progress," co-edited by Duke Professor Maurice Wallace, looks at how the invention of photography was used for and against political gain for African Americans. Wallace introduces the book in an interview with Duke News video intern Thomas Leak. Learn more about the Duke University Press book here: http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=17852.
International Representatives Conference: Presentation by Deborah Green - Director of Marketing. The aim of the conference was to allow our international agents to experience a flavour of our academic offering and student experience, through meeting our staff and students and visiting our facilities and city, so they can better advise international students considering undertaking a course at Leeds Met University.
Representatives from countries including Bangladesh, China, Cyprus, Nepal, Sri L
The human population in the U.S. and Canada is getting older—meaning that the proportion of elderly people is growing year by year. By 2050, researchers have projected, a third of the population of these countries will be 60 years old and older. This could pose a strain on socioeconomic systems such as healthcare, retirement benefits, and social security.
An international group of researchers publishing in the journal Nature has proposed a new measure of "old age." Projections using the met
Natalia Levchenko, who was born in 1929 in Novo-Moskovsk and was living there during the war years, testifies how the Jews from Novo-Moskovsk were collected by the Germans and local policemen on March 24-26, 1942 under the pretext that they would be sent to Palestine. Their personal belongings and valuables were confiscated; some of the Jews was taken by boat across the Samara River to the murder site there.
For more information: http://www1.yadvashem.org/untoldstories/database/murderSite.asp?s
Universities in the Eastern Africa Region have come together to implement an initiative Health Emergency Management Program (HEMP) that will build the capacity of local governments in the region to manage and plan for response to major disasters of public health importance. The Eastern African Region is prone to many natural and technological disasters of different kinds. There is not one nation in the region that is not vulnerable to the devastating effects of these disasters. Many of these dis
Universities in the Eastern Africa Region have come together to implement an initiative Health Emergency Management Program (HEMP) that will build the capacity of local governments in the region to manage and plan for response to major disasters of public health importance. The Eastern African Region is prone to many natural and technological disasters of different kinds. There is not one nation in the region that is not vulnerable to the devastating effects of these disasters. Many of these dis
