Nathaniel Hawthorne- Liminality as Enlightenment: “Am I Here, or There?”

Nathaniel Hawthorne uses liminality, a state of between-ness often used to express a transition in someone’s life, in his short stories to emphasize the magnitude of a transition in a characters life. Abigail Crain posits that the liminal states of Robin in “My Kinsman Major Molineux” and Brown in “Young Goodman Brown” occur at the end of their tales, meaning that everything that happened to them throughout their respective stories has led them to this end state of being between something. I disagree. Hawthorne creates certain spaces within the story to be seen as grounds for transitions in the character’s lives. Hawthorne creates his characters to be broken, leaving room for a sizable transition to a better life, which a reader can see upon comparison of the two works

Perecquian Perspectives: Dialogues with Site-Dance (Or, ‘On being here and there’)

This paper explores the influence and application of Perec’s work within site-specific dance practice. It considers how Perec’s methods and prose might encourage creative dance approaches to engaging with and reflecting on subjective encounters with space and place. It questions how approaches articulated in Species of Spaces (1974) and An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris (1975) may inform site-dance artists reflecting on what we might learn from Perec’s (1989) techniques of recording the ‘infra ordinary’ in a new context. Discourses of embodiment and multiplicity that approach subjective processes of being-in-the world from holistic and immersive perspectives inform the discussion. Through doing so, it aligns with Deleuzian-informed, non-representational theories that prioritise the ‘event-ness’ of human-nonhuman interactions in real-world environments (Greenhough 2010). In revealing the infra ordinary Perec invites us to ponder further the extraordinary nature of human-spatial interactions and associated journeyings between the real, imagined and associated landscapes they invoke. For site-dance practitioners, Perecquian geographies inform understandings of holistic site responses in which the interrelated body-self and the site world event phenomenon is identified as the locus of site-subject relations. Through a discussion of Perecquian informed movement scores site-body entwinements implicating the experiencer and the spatial species under investigation in a co-constitutive dance of knowing and unknowing, fixing and unfixing, advancing and retreating are articulated. This is conceptualized as a dance of ‘being here and there’ - a duet between body-self and site-world in which these elements move along and emerge in relation to one another leading to enhanced awareness and developed understandings of being-in-the-world

Here or There Instruction: Lessons Learned in Implementing Innovative Approaches to Blended Synchronous Learning

Here or There (HOT) instruction is a blended synchronous approach that enables students from on-campus (“here”) or a remote location (“there”) to participate together in class activities in real time. The purpose of this article is to share three different cases at two universities that illustrate different implementations of HOT instruction, explain the affordances of these varied approaches, provide best practices that are common to each, and share lessons learned along the way. Readers will gain a better understanding of how to implement a range of innovative HOT approaches, and in what context(s) they might choose one approach over another. The authors’ experience indicates that sound pedagogical principles along with pragmatic considerations, such as class size, available technology, and instructor’s skills, should guide decisions regarding use of these blended synchronous approaches. Future research should look towards what impact blended synchronous environments have on student outcomes

Ageing ‘here’ or ‘there’? Spatio-temporalities in older labour migrants’ return aspirations from the azores

In this article, I seek to unpack the multiple spatio-temporalities in older migrants’ ideas about return, shedding light on the complex set of motivations and imaginaries that precede return migration. The paper springs from a space-time approach based on the assertion that return aspirations are continuously shaped and negotiated both in and out of place. The discussion is framed around 36 in-depth life narrative interviews with later-life labour migrants living in the Azores, and a seven-month period of ethnographic fieldwork. The role of spatial dimensions such as the place of settlement and the country of origin, and temporal features such as age, length of stay in the host country or stage of life at the time of migration, is discussed in detail. The paper identifies a ‘family-work matrix’ and a ‘home-host country dialectic’ as central forces shaping migrants’ thoughts and possibilities of return. The multi-stranded, time-fluid, space-induced, context-dependent nature of (return) migration decisions is highlighted and it is shown that an apparent satisfactory social integration in the destination country does not, by itself, prevent migrants’ desire to return

Life, Here and There: or Sketches of Society and Adventure at Far-Apart Times and Places

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Either here or there: exploring conceptual distance using a novel clock face paradigm in a creative problem solving task

Compared conceptually near vs. far cues on a creative problem solving task. Group of 171 randomly allocated to 3 groups, 2 experimental groups used near and far cues (counterbalanced), 1 control group. Given 2 problems and asked to come up with solutions in set time. Measured fluency, quality, flexibility and originality. Overall, controls performed better than those given cues. Does giving cues constrain the idea generation process