The Emergence of United States Human Rights Policy During Argentina’s Dirty War

Argentina’s Dirty War from 1976-1983 was an ideological and criminal dictatorship regime that took the lives of approximately 30,000 Argentine people. In America, the 20th century’s second quarter experienced an ideological paralysis with the cold war and détente negotiations. Consequentially, the United States initially supported Argentina’s military regime due to the perception of a strong and independent government resilient to Soviet influences. United States Ambassador to Argentina Robert C. Hill looked to the Argentine generals as a source of stability and implementation of a “moderate government now led by Gen[eral] Videla” to uphold “interests, like ours” and oppose communist forces.1 Once the atrocities and death tolls began to rise during Carter’s presidency, however, the United States started to prioritize global human rights protection over ideological political differences. In other words, Carter’s passion for human rights placed the protection of human rights as the keystone of foreign policy

Materiality of place : an investigation into the makers approach to material and process as a reflection of place within Northern European contemporary jewellery practice

This practice-led research project takes the form of a written thesis, a body of new work and a public exhibition, which are designed to be reciprocally illuminating. Collectively they articulate a response to the central question; „How do contemporary jewellery makers transfer the sensory experience of place into a tangible object?‟ Fundamental to this enquiry is „The Topophilia Project‟ - a creative participatory research method where the resulting artefacts serve both as data and represent data. This project involved a group of 16 contemporary makers creating new work to brief for an exhibition entitled „A Sense of Place; New Jewellery from Northern Lands‟. The exhibition was held in the National Museums of Scotland in Edinburgh from May to September 2012 and formed the primary vehicle with which to both present and explore research into the contemporary jewellery of Northern Europe. The new artifacts and first person accounts produced as a result of this research method enabled an investigation into the maker‟s approach to material and process. These highly valuable resources allowed for a reading and deciphering of the methods used by the artists when gathering information from their surrounding environments. Multifaceted methods of practice are distilled within the project outcomes allowing for a broadened terminology to unfold in reference to these practices. This Northern study, rooted in phenomenological understanding and investigated through the creative process, contributes knowledge to the field from an alternative perspective to the dominant position of Central European jewellery output. As a geographically focused inquiry it also adds a necessary alternative outlook to studies focusing on multi-cultural migration. The resulting body of research outlines an arena of practice and theory in which the work of these makers can be debated, analysed, and criticised within the broader field, contributing to the cross-disciplinary discourse on contemporary theories of place of benefit to those interested in the significance of environmental influence on the creative process

Two librarians, an archivist, and 13,000 images: collaborating to build a digital collection

Includes bibliographical references (pages 102-103).Colorado State University Libraries has been creating digitized collections, primarily from its Archives and Special Collections unit, since 2000. These projects involved collaboration among Archives, Cataloging, and Digitization; the most recent and ambitious project, digitizing 13,000 historical images of the university dating from the 1880s into the 1930s, required closer collaboration than any previous project. The three authors, each with a distinctive role in the project, use this case study to illustrate and discuss in detail the different professional and technical skills and perspectives that each brought to the project and how they learned from each other. The authors present lessons learned in how to effectively build successful internal partnerships to further digitization projects

Meta-science Summer School - Friederichsdorf 2023

This project contains final presentations from the Meta-science Summer School, and will also be used to link future outputs from projects that continue after the summer school. The summer school was held in Friederichsdorf, Germany on August 28-September 1 2023, and was supported by the QUEST Center for Responsible Research, the German Reproducibility Network and Meta-Rep. Funding was generously provided by the Volkswagen Stiftung. Instructors: Tracey Weissgerber, Anita Bandrowski, Malcolm Macleod, Malte Elson, Vladislav Nachev, Ian Hussey, and Maximillian Frank