Performance in the Wartime Archive: Michio Ito at the Alien Enemy Hearing Board

Several days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Japanese dancer and choreographer Michio Ito was apprehended by the United States government.  In the documents establishing his indefinite detention, the Alien Enemy Hearing Board found Ito to be “an artist of artistic temperament, striking appearance, fine manners, cultured, educated and capable of any and all sorts of propaganda, espionage and sabotage.”  In this essay I interrogate this sentence’s grammatical choreography, the “and” that links art, culture, and education to propaganda, espionage, and sabotage. The story of Ito’s remarkable career has surfaced frequently in the fields of transnational modernism, dance and performance studies, and Asian American criticism, but the period of his incarceration has yet to be addressed.  By examining the archival traces of his hearing, I show how the same “artistic temperament” that allows Ito to collaborate with W. B. Yeats and Martha Graham and to dance for heads of state leads to his incarceration as a threat to American national security.  My purpose in restaging Ito’s makeshift trial is not to exonerate him but to examine the shared hermeneutics of law and art, to indicate how swiftly a performance of otherness in the American context can shift from exotic and interesting to dangerous and in need of discipline

Performance in the Wartime Archive: Michio Ito at the Alien Enemy Hearing Board

Several days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Japanese dancer and choreographer Michio Ito was apprehended by the United States government.  In the documents establishing his indefinite detention, the Alien Enemy Hearing Board found Ito to be “an artist of artistic temperament, striking appearance, fine manners, cultured, educated and capable of any and all sorts of propaganda, espionage and sabotage.”  In this essay I interrogate this sentence’s grammatical choreography, the “and” that links art, culture, and education to propaganda, espionage, and sabotage. The story of Ito’s remarkable career has surfaced frequently in the fields of transnational modernism, dance and performance studies, and Asian American criticism, but the period of his incarceration has yet to be addressed.  By examining the archival traces of his hearing, I show how the same “artistic temperament” that allows Ito to collaborate with W. B. Yeats and Martha Graham and to dance for heads of state leads to his incarceration as a threat to American national security.  My purpose in restaging Ito’s makeshift trial is not to exonerate him but to examine the shared hermeneutics of law and art, to indicate how swiftly a performance of otherness in the American context can shift from exotic and interesting to dangerous and in need of discipline

Econometric modelling of the EU agri-food sector through co-operation with partners in the EU-AG-MEMOD Project

End of Project ReportThe research of the AG-MEMOD Partnership was supported by public funds from the European Commission, through the Fifth Framework Programme (QLRT-2000-00473).This research project set out to build an EU agricultural policy modelling system involving participants from right across the enlarged EU. Policy Analysis is conducted at an aggregate commodity level for the main sectors of EU agriculture. The work summarised here took place over the period 2001 to 2004. The implementation of the Luxembourg Agreement and the Enlargement of the EU will lead to significant changes to the way in which agriculture operates in the EU25. Under the reform, direct payments that have been linked to production are to be decoupled to varying degrees across the Union. Enlargement will mean that agriculture in several New Member States (NMS) will come under the EU system of payments, supply constraints and market price supports for the first time. In light of the above, the most common current approach to agriculture commodity modelling and policy analysis - that which treats the entire EU as a single entity - faces a considerable challenge. Given the heterogeneity of EU agriculture and agricultural policy across the enlarged EU, it is increasingly the case that ‘the devil is in the detail’. From a scientific perspective, country level policy analysis is important in order to capture the consequences of this heterogeneity. Moreover, at a political level, policy makers realise that policy proposals either sink or swim on the basis of the perception of their expected future impact at a national level. Hence, it is important to be able to inform and facilitate a debate on the relative merits of particular reform proposals by having national (or even sub-national) level analysis to hand. The case for national level modelling across the EU is easily made, but few practitioners have taken up the challenge it presents.i Key problems include funding constraints, the absence of reliable national data sources, difficulties in agreeing and co-ordinating a consistent modelling approach and, perhaps most importantly, the absence of an integrated network of economists with knowledge of local level agriculture and agricultural policy across the enlarged EU.European Unio

Latin America 2060: consolidation or crisis?

This repository item contains a single issue of the Pardee Center Task Force Reports, a publication series that began publishing in 2009 by the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future.Latin America has produced vigorous ideas throughout its history, expressed in narratives about its struggles and successes, or its weaknesses and failures. Together, these have shaped a multi-faceted vision of the region and its peoples. Some of its expositors, finding the story to be neither complete nor precise, work toward reformulations, some quite radical. Such generation of knowledge in different fields seems destined to yield a variety of distinct outcomes, at least in part because some of the emerging social and cultural movements are not yet very well structured. This Task Force Report project seeks to harness ideas about the region’s future into a coherent and policy useful discourse. A Workshop and a Task Force meeting was held at Boston University on November 18-19, 2010. A select group of invited experts – a mix of academic scholars and practitioners – were asked to turn their ideas into short ‘Think Pieces’ essays. Each Think Piece focuses on a specific topical issue for the region as a whole, instead of looking only at particular countries. These Think Piece essays are compiled and edited by the Task Force coordinator and published by the Pardee Center as a Task Force Report

Improving Wetland Characterization with Multi-Sensor, Multi-Temporal SAR and Optical/Infrared Data Fusion

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Calibration algorithm development for selected water content reflectometers to organic soils of Alaska

Water content reflectometry is a method used by many commercial manufacturers of affordable sensors to electronically estimate soil moisture content. Field-deployable and handheld water content reflectometry probes were used in a variety of organic soil-profile types in Alaska. These probes were calibrated using 65 organic soil samples harvested from these burned and unburned, primarily moss-dominated sites in the boreal forest. Probe output was compared with gravimetrically measured volumetric moisture content, to produce calibration algorithms for surface-down-inserted handheld probes in specific soil-profile types, as well as field-deployable horizontally inserted probes in specific organic soil horizons. General organic algorithms for each probe type were also developed. Calibrations are statistically compared to determine their suitability. The resulting calibrations showed good agreement with in situvalidation and varied from the default mineral-soil-based calibrations by 20% or more. These results are of particular interest to researchers measuring soil moisture content with water content reflectometry probes in soils with high organic content

Lynn Chamber Music Competition 2018

Judges Alfred Gratta Jared Hauser Kevin Robert Orr Winners (New York Prize) The Amadeus Duo: Askar Salimdjanov (violin) and Feruza Dadabaeva (piano) A Fowl Sound: Jon Antisz (clarinet), Melanie Riordan (violin), Michael Puryear (cello), and Kristine Mezines (piano) Winners Concert on May 2, 2019 at Kosciuszko Foundation Winners (Delray Prize) The Peña-Akromova Duo: Jannina Eliana G. Peña (piano) and Robiyakhon Akromova (piano) La Mer Trio: David Brill (violin), Sonya Nanos (cello), and Jiawei Yuan (piano) Winners Concert at St. Paul\u27s Episcopal Church in Delray Beach, FL o La Mer Trio: David Brill (violin), Sonya Nanos (cello), and Jiawei Yuan (piano)https://spiral.lynn.edu/conservatory_chamber-music-competition/1003/thumbnail.jp