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Beth McCoy edited the blog post Sower What About L.A. Podcast? in the group
American Studies: 3 years, 4 months agoIn Spring 2020, I taught “Expulsion and the Housing Crisis,” a SUNY Geneseo literature course contemplating narratives flowing into and out of the 2008 global financial crisis.
Students read William Sha […]
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Beth McCoy joined the group
American Studies 4 years, 7 months ago -
Beth McCoy joined the group
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Joe Cope wrote a new blog post Links to Previous INTD 245 Research Projects in the group
Irish Studies: 4 years, 10 months agoLinks to Previous Research Projects
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Joe Cope posted a new page, on the site Irish Studies 4 years, 10 months ago
Women and the 1916 Rising
Ireland and the First World War
The 1916 Rising in America
Comparing Commemorations: The American Civil War and the Easter Rising
Hamilton and Cathleen ni Houlihan? Dramatic […]
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Beth McCoy commented on the post, A Blog Interlude, on the groupblog
(Im)Possibilities 4 years, 10 months agoThe asterisked line made me weep with laughter. Thank you…
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Beth McCoy wrote a new blog post Your Favorite Rocks! in the group
American Studies: 5 years, 1 month agoHere are the results of yesterday’s exercise responding to what turned out to be the very complex question “What’s your favorite rock?”
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Nolan Parker edited the blog post Posthumanism, Transhumanism and Butler’s Humanism in the group
American Studies: 5 years, 8 months agoHere above is a helpful short post which defines the two fields of thought: Posthumanism and Transhumanism.
Posthumanism is a term I have been using a lot in casual conversation. Now that I’ve looked it up to flesh out this blog post, I’m finding my definition was awfully limited. Apparently there’s up to seven definitions of the term (acco…[Read more]
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Nolan Parker edited the blog post David Huggins is the most relaxed alien abductee you’ve ever seen in the group
American Studies: 5 years, 8 months agoDavid Huggins is a painter from Hoboken, NJ, whose work is primarily dedicated to illustrating his lifelong experiences as an alien abductee. The experiences he describes and paints are not unlike the established alien script that’s been propagated throughout America for over half a century. The way I see it, that’s just as much a reason to b…[Read more]
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Nolan Parker edited the blog post The Amish and Community (an earlier post revised) in the group
American Studies: 5 years, 8 months agoI don’t know how I feel about the Amish. I don’t know if it’s fair to bring someone into that lifestyle without their consent. This might sound like a familiar dilemma to my classmates.
First, allow me to clarify that when I say “that lifestyle,” I do not wish to insinuate I have anything close to first hand experience the way an actual Ami…[Read more]
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Nolan Parker edited the blog post Cooperatives and Butler’s Communities pt. 1 (revised) in the group
American Studies: 5 years, 8 months agoThe Rochdale principles are a set of guidelines on how to operate a cooperative. They date back to 1844 when they were first drafted and enacted by the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers in Rochdale, England. They are as follows:
Voluntary and open membership
Anti-discrimination
Motivations and rewards
Democratic member…[Read more]
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Nolan Parker edited the blog post Cooperatives and Butler’s Communities pt. 2 in the group
American Studies: 5 years, 8 months agoRemember those Rochdale Principles I wrote about in that earlier post? Here they are again:
Voluntary and open membership
Anti-discrimination
Motivations and rewards
Democratic member control
Member economic participation
Autonomy and independence
Education, training and information
Cooperation among cooperatives
Concern…[Read more]
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nopark wrote a new blog post Cooperatives and Butler’s Communities (part 1) in the group
American Studies: 5 years, 9 months agoThe Rochdale principles are a set of guidelines on how to operate a cooperative. They date back to 1844 when they were first drafted and enacted by the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers in Rochdale, England. […]
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Beth McCoy edited the blog post A Brief Guide to the Many Traps of Octavia Butler’s Fiction in the group
American Studies: 5 years, 9 months agoThe students of ENGL 431/Octavia Butler and Social Ties have requested that I post their collaborative statement that they conceptualized and crafted independently of the instructor. Click here for a version wi […]
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Nolan Parker's profile was updated 5 years, 10 months ago
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Nolan Harrison Parker wrote a new blog post The Amish and Community in the group
American Studies: 5 years, 10 months agoI think I’m talking about the Amish. Something about how I don’t know how I feel about them. I don’t know if it’s fair to bring someone into that lifestyle without their consent. This might sound like a familia […]
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Nolan Parker joined the group
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Beth McCoy edited the blog post Toni Morrison’s Jazz and Dante Alighieri’s Purgatorio: Out in the Open in the group
American Studies: 6 years agoAs Erin Herbst‘s and Brianne Briggmann‘s posts indicate, we along with Ron Herzman are taking the first steps towards a collaborative essay exploring how Toni Morrison’s Jazz recapitulates and revises Dante Alighieri’s Purgatorio.
The project is an offshoot of Fall 2016’s Toni Morrison’s Trilogy course where the class concentrated on the r…[Read more]
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Nolan Parker changed their profile picture 6 years ago
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Beth McCoy edited the blog post What harm can innovations like AirBnB do? in the group
American Studies: 6 years, 5 months agoI’m Facebook friends with a nun who serves in New Orleans, and it just so happens that today she posted regarding this awareness-and-action campaign about how what AirBnb whole-house rentals can do to neighborhoods, especially historically black neighborhoods targeted for gentrification in Katrina’s wake.
As it’s JazzFest time, many folks s…[Read more]
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