scholarly journals A Decade of Teaching the Course Aging & the Arts: Reflecting on Opportunities and Challenges

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 68-69
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Eaton
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Student Interest ◽  
Interdisciplinary Program ◽  
University Of Utah ◽  
The Past ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The University

Abstract In 2010, the University of Utah Gerontology Interdisciplinary Program first offered GERON 5240/6240: Aging and the Arts. This course was developed to enrich program curricula by addressing a gap in content specific to the arts and humanities. The purpose of this presentation is to focus on identifying the opportunities and challenges experienced teaching this course over the past decade. Opportunities will highlight competency mapping, internal and external partnerships, the benefits of bridging disciplines, and innovation in teaching and problem-solving. Challenges experienced include addressing various needs (online learning, undergraduate and graduate levels, multiple disciplines), tuition differentials, and varying levels of enrollment. A stand-alone course is one method of increasing humanities, arts, and cultural gerontology within curricula. It has the potential of enhancing student interest in gerontology while also demonstrating how the arts and humanities can improve work across disciplines.

scholarly journals CPI Welcomes Jennifer Eiserman's Special Issue

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecille DePass ◽  
Ali Abdi
Keyword(s):  
Special Issue ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
University Of Calgary ◽  
The University ◽  
Historical Life

In Us-Them-Us, several artists affiliated with the University of Calgary, and an invited poet, adopt perspectives, usually associated with that of being agents provocateur. Key themes, issues, images, symbols, and slogans associated with postcoloniality and postmodernity are well illustrated in particularly, vivid ways. Thank you Jennifer Eiserman, for working closely with the contributors, in order to, produce a special issue which highlights well established traditions of the arts and humanities. This CPI Special Issue holds up for scrutiny, central aspects of our troubling contemporary and historical life worlds.

Acting, Singing, Dancing, and So Forth: Theatre (Research) in the University

2004 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-269
Author(s):  
W. B. Worthen
Keyword(s):  
Life Forms ◽  
Genetically Engineered ◽  
Corporate University ◽  
Martha Graham ◽  
Global Epidemic ◽  
Commodity Culture ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Oryx And Crake ◽  
The University

About midway through Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel Oryx and Crake, the protagonist Jimmy (later known as Snowman, survivor of a genetically engineered global epidemic induced by his childhood friend, Crake) leaves home for the university, or in this case for the Martha Graham Academy. In a culture driven by the collusion of technology and capital it's not surprising that the best students are sent to lavish technical universities (Crake attends the Watson–Crick Institute), while arts and humanities students listlessly rusticate at Martha Graham, learning the pointless yet “vital arts” of “acting, singing, dancing, and so forth” and how to deploy them in the service of commodity culture (Jimmy's skill with language leads him to major in Applied Rhetoric, eventually writing advertising copy for Crake's new life forms). Like much else in Oryx and Crake, Atwood's vision jibes chillingly enough with the rhetoric of today's corporate university: compared to jet propulsion, cancer research, or even the battle of Appomattox (on my campus, history is a social science), the arts and humanities can be made to seem “like studying Latin, or book binding: pleasant to contemplate in its way, but no longer central to anything” (187).

Database Narrative, Spatial Montage, and the Cultural Transmission of Memory

2013 ◽  
pp. 150-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Aston
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Cultural Transmission ◽  
Oral Storytelling ◽  
The Past ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Sensory Experiences ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter discusses ways in which the database narrative techniques of virtual media can be used to explore the relationship between real-world oral storytelling and embodied performance in the cultural transmission of memory. It is based on an ongoing collaboration between the author and the historical anthropologist, Wendy James, to develop a multilayered associative narrative, which considers relationships between experience, event, and memory among a displaced community. The work is based on a substantial living archive of photographs, audio, cine, and video recordings collected by Wendy James in the Sudan/Ethiopian borderlands from the mid-1960s to the present day. Its critical context relates to the ’sensory turn’ in anthropology and to ’beyond text’ debates within the arts and humanities regarding ways in which we can capture and represent the sensory experiences of the past.

Building a Cochlear Implant Practice: Five Lessons Learned

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-21
Author(s):  
Anne M. Lobdell ◽  
Joseph E. Dansie ◽  
Sarah Hargus Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Cochlear Implant ◽  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Clinical Aspects ◽  
University Of Utah ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Speech Science ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

Cochlear implants are becoming available to an increasing proportion of the deaf and hard-of-hearing population. As interest in and success with cochlear implants has grown, more and more private practice clinics are incorporating them into their scopes of practice. Over the past 2 years, the first 2 authors of this article have been heavily involved in developing cochlear implant programs in separate otolaryngology private practices. A recent conversation about this process revealed several common experiences and lessons learned. During these same 2 years, the third author began teaching the cochlear implant course at the University of Utah. Although her audiology and speech science background gave her extensive knowledge of the science behind cochlear implants, she had no clinical experience with them. The first author took this course the first time the third author taught it, and the experiences and insights she shared with the third author during and since the course have been an important component of the third author’s personal education in the clinical aspects of cochlear implants. In this article, the first 2 authors share 5 things we wish we had known when first beginning their work with cochlear implants.

scholarly journals Niels Henrik David Bohr, 1885-1962

1963 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 37-53
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Niels Bohr ◽  
Human Soul ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Human Side ◽  
The University ◽  
The Buddha ◽  
Rational Knowledge ◽  
Ambiguous Position

Niels Bohr was born on 7 October 1885, the son of Professor Christian Bohr, the physiologist, and Ellen, daughter of D. B. Alder, a banker. He had one sister, Jenny, and a brother, Harald, who became Professor of Mathematics in the University of Copenhagen. They grew up in a home of culture. From his father, Niels became acquainted with the problems of biology and in later years became interested again in biological problems through his interests in complementarity. He was educated in Copenhagen, first at the Gammelholm School and then at the University. Whilst there, he became interested in philosophical problems through attending the lectures of Hoffding. According to Rosenfeld (Nordita Publication No. 57) ‘he was fascinated by some of the great religious figures of the past, especially the Jewish prophets and the Buddha; he earnestly endeavoured to penetrate the human side of their teachings and arrived at interpretations of striking originality. Into these sacred texts, coming from the innermost recesses of the human soul, he read an effort to account in a peculiar language for that deepest complementarity between rational knowledge and living experience of the cosmos which in his eyes characterized man’s ambiguous position and rules his whole activity. No wonder that such deep seated views were to play a leading part in his thought in later years and even pervade every shade of his sensitive reaction to the various impressions of everyday life’. During his adolescent years Niels Bohr together with his brother, Harald, were good footballers and his passion for sport was transferred in time to skiing and sailing. He was a lover of the arts and when Eric Gill’s carving of Rutherford installed in the Mond Laboratory at Cambridge was being criticized he was delighted to be presented by Dirac and Kapitza with a copy for his Institute at Copenhagen.

Filtering the Past, Building the Future: A Conference on Archaeology, Tradition, and Politics in the Middle East

2004 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 196-200
Author(s):  
Bradley J. Parker
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Department ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
University Of Utah ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
The Past ◽  
University Of Arizona ◽  
The Future ◽  
The University

On April 23-24, 2004 the conference “Filtering the Past, Building the Future: Archaeology, Tradition and Politics in the Middle East,” was held in the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah. Funded by a grant from the United States Department of Education with supplemental funds provided by various contributors at the University of Utah, this conference was meant to act as a forum for participants to present and discuss innovative means of understanding the uses of the past and of archaeology in politicized cultural discourse in the Middle East. The conference organizers hold the view that multiple, competing versions of the past are mobilized in service of varying agendas both within and between cultural groups. Participants were invited to discuss theories, explore methods, or present case studies that illustrate the manipulation of archaeological data and practice to promote political goals in the Middle East, and within world communities that interact with and respond to each other on topics that concern the Middle East. The papers presented at this conference are currently being edited and the resulting collection will be submitted to the University of Arizona press in the coming months.

Transborder Immigrant Tool

Transfers ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 113-118
Author(s):  
Fernanda Duarte
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Cell Phone ◽  
Humanitarian Aid ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
Border Crossers ◽  
Available Technology ◽  
The University ◽  
The U.S

The Transborder Immigrant Tool is a Border Disturbance Art Performance that discusses the physical and virtual limits of the U.S.–Mexico frontier. It was developed by the Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) with the funding of the Arts and Humanities Grant 2007–2008 at the University of California in San Diego. The project uses an inexpensive GPS-enabled cell phone and a custom piece of software, the Virtual Hiker Algorithm, to guide border crossers in the desert. The crossing of the U.S.–Mexico border can be deadly due to the severe conditions of the environment; once in the Mexican desert, the software installed in the cell phone directs the immigrant toward the nearest aid site, be that water, first aid or law enforcement, along with other contextual navigational information. According to the EDT, the Transborder Immigrant Tool was created with the aim of reappropriating widely available technology to be used as a form of humanitarian aid, as well as offering a tactical intervention of distraction and disturbance in the order of transnational corridors. In addition to the navigational capabilities of the Tool, the performative effect is also provided through poetry made available on the screen of the cell phone. It is with this poetry that the artists attempt to rescue a sense of hospitality and to alleviate the difficulties of the journey.

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