Legends for a New Land: Guest of Honor Speech at the 19th Annual Mythopoeic Conference

Guest of Honor speech, Mythcon 19. An account of how Le Guin was finally able to write Always Coming Home, using not an imaginary world but the transfigured Napa Valley of her childhood. Acknowledges her debt to Native American worldview known through its myths

Interview with Charles Le Guin

Dr. Charles A. Le Guin is Professor Emeritus of History at Portland State University, where he taught for over thirty-five years. In this interview with Heather O. Petrocelli on May 16, 2017, Dr. Le Guin recalls his experience as a member of the Portland State faculty starting in the 1950s. He describes his view of Portland State\u27s development from a small college to a large urban university, the professional, social, and cultural environments of the downtown campus, and the founding of pioneering academic programs such as University Studies and the Honors College.https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/rememberpsu_oralhist/1005/thumbnail.jp

SUR. Breve informe de la Expedición Yelcho al Polo Sur (1909-1910)

Ursula K. Le Guin Escritora norteamericana, famosa por sus obras de ciencia fi cción y fantasía, en las cuales el tema de género ocupa una posición central. Ganadora de los premios Hugo y Nébula que la catapultaron a la fama. “SUR. A summary report of the Yelcho expedition to the Antarctic, 1909-1910”. Apáreció publicado por primera vez en la revista New Yorker, el 1° de febrero de 1982. La palabra SUR aparece en español en el original. (http://www.newyorker.com/ar) Traducción de Susana E. Matallana Peláe

SUR. Breve informe de la Expedición Yelcho al Polo Sur (1909-1910).

Si bien es cierto que no es mi intención publicar este relato, creo que estaría bien si algún día mi nieto o el de alguien más, por casualidad lo descubre, de modo que lo guardaré junto con el traje de bautizo de Rosita, el sonajero de plata de Juanito, mis zapatos de matrimonio y mis fi nneskos,1 en el baúl de cuero del desván. Para llevar a cabo una expedición es indispensable dinero, y claro, su consecución no es nada fácil; es una lástima que no pueda mencionar el nombre del desinteresado mecenas, noble benefactor, sin el cual nuestro ambicioso proyecto de la Expedición del Yelcho no hubiera pasado de ser una ilusión lisonjera. Incluso, me apena saber que mi relato terminará en un baúl olvidado en una buhardilla de un tranquilo barrio de Lima

SUR: Breve informe de la Expedición Yelcho al Polo Sur (1909-1910)

“Si bien es cierto que no es mi intención publicar este relato, creo que estaría bien si algún día mi nieto o el de alguien más, por casualidad lo descubre, de modo que lo guardaré junto con el traje de bautizo de Rosita, el sonajero de plata de Juanito, mis zapatos de matrimonio y mis fi nneskos,1 en el baúl de cuero del desván. Para llevar a cabo una expedición es indispensable dinero, y claro, su consecución no es nada fácil; es una lástima que no pueda mencionar el nombre del desinteresado mecenas, noble benefactor, sin el cual nuestro ambicioso proyecto de la Expedición del Yelcho no hubiera pasado de ser una ilusión lisonjera. Incluso, me apena saber que mi relato terminará en un baúl olvidado en una buhardilla de un tranquilo barrio de Lima…

The Making of \u3ci\u3eAlways Coming Home\u3c/i\u3e

Transcript of panel discussion from 1988 Mythopoeic Conference. Author, illustrator, composer, and cartographer/ researcher discuss the genesis of Always Coming Home

The ‘responsibility’ factor in imagining the future of education in China

Design and creativity have been a considerable force for improving life conditions. A lot of effort has been invested in explaining the design process and creativity mainly through the design thinking methodology, but design accountability and responsible actions in the design process are, yet, to be fully explored. The concept of design ethics is now increasingly scrutinized on both the level of business organization and of the individual designer. A 4-day design workshop that involved creativity techniques provided the base to explore responsibility in the fuzzy front end of the design process. The future of education in 2030 was defined as the workshop's theme and fifty-six students from China were asked to create detailed alternative scenarios. A number of imagination exercises, implementation of technological innovations and macro-environment evolutions employed in the workshop are discussed. The aim was to incite moral and responsible actions among students less familiar with creative educational contexts of student-led discovery and collaborative learning. This paper reflects on the use of creativity methods to stimulate anticipation in (non)design students

Giant Anomalous Hall Conductivity in the Itinerant Ferromagnet LaCrSb₃ and the Effect of f-Electrons

Itinerant ferromagnets constitute an important class of materials wherein spin polarization can affect the electric transport properties in nontrivial ways. One such phenomenon is anomalous Hall effect which depends on the details of the band structure such as the amount of band crossings in the valence band of the ferromagnet. Here, extraordinary anomalous Hall effect is found in an itinerant ferromagnetic metal LaCrSb3. The rather 2D nature of the magnetic subunit imparts large anisotropic anomalous Hall conductivity of 1250 Ω−1 cm−1 at 2 K. The investigations suggest that a strong Berry curvature by abundant momentum-space crossings and narrow energy-gap openings are the primary sources of the anomalous Hall conductivity. An important observation is the existence of quasi-dispersionless bands in LaCrSb3 which is now known to increase the anomalous Hall conductivity. After introducing f-electrons, anomalous Hall conductivity experiences more than twofold increase and reaches 2900 Ω−1 cm−1 in NdCrSb3. © 2021 The Authors. Advanced Quantum Technologies published by Wiley-VCH Gmb