Business and Financial Management and Audit Control for Large Research Proposals

Overview of the Purdue University business, financial, and human resources operations as evidence of support for faculty to manage externally funded research

Clarice Lispector: From Brazil to the World

Clarice Lispector: From Brazil to the World explains why the Brazilian master was so transformative of modern Brazilian literature and why she has become such a celebrity in the world literature arena. This book also shows why Lispector is not one writer, as many think, but many writers. By offering close readings of her novels, stories, and nonfiction pieces, Earl E. Fitz shows the diverse sides of her literary world. Chapters cover Lispector’s devotion to language and its connection to identity; her political engagement; and her humor, eroticism, and struggle with the concept of God. The last chapter seeks to explain why this most singular of modern Brazilian writers commands such a passionate global following.https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/psrl/1011/thumbnail.jp

Two Imagined Chinas in \u3cem\u3eTel Quel\u3c/em\u3e

From the mid-1960s, the literary review Tel Quel shifted its anti-traditional and avant-garde stance in arts and literature toward politics within the radical political context in France. Its editor Philippe Sollers initiated a “political turn,” marked by its transformation from its “structuralist period” to its “China period.” Its “China period” inadvertently created a “textual spectacle” of two imagined Chinas: first, a poetic, static “ancient China” represented by Daoism (Taoism), Chinese ideograms, and classical Chinese art and poetry; and second, a revolutionary, subversive “modern China” represented by Maoism along with Lu Xun and other left-wing writers. Taking appropriation, rather than misreading, as a prism to view these imagined Chinas, a strategy of deconstruction emerges from the Telquelians. On the one hand, they attack Western logocentrism through Daoist philosophy, and Chinese ideograms become a crucial Other to assault Western linguistic self-enclosure and phonocentrism, and a way to disperse and diffuse meaning. On the other hand, the Chinese revolutionary spirit probably provided ammunition to reinstate the shattered subject in French theory. For the Telquelians, two imagined Chinas seem like a Chinese wisdom in the movement from structuralism to poststructuralism in French literary theories

Out of the Myths of “Revolutionary China”: Liu Kang versus Žižek & Badiou

The highlight of the 2011 special issue of Positions on Slavoj Žižek is the debate between Liu Kang and Žižek on “Revolutionary China.” It unpacks the Western left’s political unconsciousness and myths about China in several respects. First, revolution is not a parody-travesty of the “tradition” that Žižek concocts from romanticized fantasies of a “retrospective tradition” drawn from Jorge Luis Borges and T. S. Eliot. Second, revolution is not Alain Badiou’s “truth event,” which tends to reduce the Chinese Cultural Revolution to an abstract “event” in process, neglecting the real calamities of the so-called utopian experiment. Third, the key problematic of the debate is alternative modernity. Contrary to Žižek’s and Badiou’s rejection of alternative modernity, Liu argues that the Chinese search for alternative modernity ought to be understood in terms of complex and overdetermined historical contradictions. “Revolution” in contemporary China continues to command tremendous emotional, intellectual, and political power, rather than being a “symptom” of or “antidote” to the left’s depression. Finally, Žižek’s contemporary China fad showcases the performativity of an ex-Soviet bloc, PTSD victim’s communist nostalgia, with his radicalism completely hollowed out by Chinese academics. The China that truly exists, however, continues to challenge various myths manufactured by the Žižekians

It Starts with You: Effective Team Building Strategies

This presentation will provide strategies to build effective teams. Transportation projects require effective collaboration, which is accomplished through team building and trust. To successfully manage and work in a team made up of diverse people with different perspectives and experiences, we must first look inward to build self-awareness and emotional intelligence. In doing so, we can connect with others by being our authentic selves and listening to understand

Re/Searching (for) Hope: Archives and (Decolonizing) Archival Impressions

On archives and archival impressions, this essay extends archival research to the elsewhere and otherwise. The essay asks, how do we reposition the contents of archives so that we can position ourselves in relation to it otherwise? It puts forward a theory of (decolonizing) archival impressions

Raising sustainability standards in leisure industry

Raising sustainability standards in leisure industry Nowadays, it became clear that the option for sustainable development (SD) is not a discretionary choice, but an imperative for all of humanity. The SDG propose a common framework of peace and prosperity for people and the planet. The exponential growth of tourism, its multiple and transformative impacts on economies and the environment, place this industry at the epicentre of concerns about SD. Based on the European DIRECTIVE (UE) 2022/2464, which complies European companies to produce a sustainability file integrated in the annual management report, this paper highlights social, cultural, environmental and governance indicators vis-a-vis with financial results. Linking the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) metrics for leisure facilities with the Tourism’ SDG and GSTC indicators, a framework based on the Pression-State-Response (PSR) model is presented. The objective is to help companies to select the best indicators to monitor their activity more efficiently. Additionally, the model presented provides information about: (i) the actions that pressure the environment, the cultural heritage and the local community; (ii) how it affects the resources involved; (iii) which responses companies, and society as a whole, can give to these changes to re(establish) the equilibrium. By providing information related to sustainable weaknesses and strenghts that may affect the companies’ profit, managers will be able to report, not only the norms and indicators that will be considered mandatory by 2028, but also those that are better aligned with the strategy and objectives of the entity and which serve, simultaneous, as a policy instrument for the sustainable development. Keywords: Sustainability, leisure facilities, Tourism Sustainable Development Goals, Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) indicators, Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), Pression-State-Response (PSR) mode

Alexander Ramsey and the Ojibwe

Alexander Ramsey had a long political career within state and national branches of the United States government. A lesser-known part of his actions in government were his interactions with the Ojibwe Native Americans. His personal actions led to the creation of multiple Ojibwe reservations, but in different Ojibwe bands, they chose to resist. Never in the same way and always at a disadvantage. The hope is to demonstrate how an individual may lead to U.S. policies involving Native Americans and how Native Americans were not passive in these decisions and found multiple routes in dealing with the United States government

The Acoustics of Absorbers Comprising a Flexible Perforated Membrane Backed by a Stack of Granular Material

It has been found that when a layer of activated carbon partially fills the space behind a finite, edge-constrained, tensioned impermeable membrane, the absorption peaks due to the modal response of the membrane can be significantly enhanced in the low frequency range. In the present work, the modeling aspects of the latter work have been extended to allow the membrane to be both tensioned and flexurally-stiff, and further, to be micro-perforated, thus expanding the treatment design space. Secondly, the particle layer behind the membrane is modeled by using a two-dimensional finite difference implementation of the Biot poro-elastic theory which then accounts for the interaction of the particle layer and walls that contain it: i.e., the solid phase of the particle stack itself is allowed to exhibit modal behavior in the radial direction. The interaction of the membrane nearfield and the particle stack, which creates a nearfield damping effect, is also fully captured. Finally, the model accounts for the hierarchical porosity of activated carbon. The model has been verified by comparison with measurements and it has been found that strikingly high levels of low frequency absorption can be realized by appropriate optimization of the membrane and particle stack properties and geometry