Running The Marathon

Over the twentieth century universities in the industrialized world have evolved from being "universities of culture" to "universities of innovation." Policy makers and universities themselves see that one of their major roles is supporting industrial innovation and thus economic growth. We argue that this rests on a mis-cconception of the nature of innovation and the value of universities. We argue that a more appropriate function for this institution is as the "university of reflection" where scholarship and truth-seeking are the ultimate goals.innovation, university-industry relations, role of universities

Incorporating Annotated Video into Omeka

Indiana University Bloomington’s (IUB) Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities requests a Level II grant to support the project "Incorporating Annotated Video into Omeka." During the grant period, IUB will build a plugin for the Web-publishing platform Omeka that will enable academic and cultural institutions and individuals to incorporate annotated video into online collections and exhibitions. Using either the client- or Web-based version of IUB’s software tool, the Annotator’s Workbench, scholars and cultural professionals will be able to segment and annotate video and upload it to an Omeka-based Web site using the plugin created by IUB. The annotated video plugin for Omeka will greatly enhance the pedagogical and research potential of video for online collections and exhibitions by providing humanities scholars and cultural institutions with a tool for incorporating video segments that contain integrated descriptive data linked specifically to the video content

Two Prayers in 17th Century Montagnais

Two prayers in Montagnais included in Pére Paul Le Jeune's Jesuit Relation of 1634 have been reprinted four times in the past hundred and thirty years. An investigation of the various editions reveals differences in the rendering of the Montagnais text, some due to misreading, some due to misprints, and some due to the use of both a printed original and a contemporary manuscript version. A correct reading is presented here, along with some philological and linguistic comment

The imposters (An historical novelette)

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston Universit

Varations in land-labor resources and optimum enterprise organizations of farms in the Brown Soil Area of West Tennessee

The objectives of this study can be stated as follows: (1) To determine the effects of varying land-labor combinations on optimum enterprise organization of representative farms in the Brown Soil Area of West Tennessee. (2) To determine the effects of varying reservation prices of operator labor on net returns and enterprise organization for specified land-labor combinations

The slave in the swamp: Disrupting the plantation narrative

In nineteenth-century plantation literature, the runaway slave in the swamp was a recurrent bogeyman whose presence challenged myths of the plantation system. By escaping to the swamps, the runaway, or maroon, gained an invisibility that was more threatening to the institution than open conflict. The chattel system was dependent upon an exercise of will upon the body of the enslaved, but slaves who asserted control over their bodies, by removing them to the swamps, claimed definition over the Self. In part, the proslavery plantation novel served to transform that image of the maroon from its untouchable, abstract state to a form that could be possessed, understood, and controlled. In other words, writers defending slavery would often conjure forth the rebellious image in order to dispel it safely.;This project contextualizes some of the major works in the plantation genre by revealing the dialectical processes involved in their creation. For example, one section gives special attention to the cultural milieu of the 1850s surrounding Harriet Beecher Stowe\u27s second anti-slavery novels, Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. Other primary works include Thomas Nelson Page\u27s No Haid Pawn and John Pendleton Kennedy\u27s Swallow Barn, arguably the first novel of the plantation genre. Contexts for these works are comprised of other literary works such as plantation romances and slave narratives. But the project also seeks to understand the signifying power of the maroon through the testimonies of former slaves, newspaper representations of African Americans, plantation rituals and daily interactions between black and white, and folklore of former slaves as it was collected (and conceived) by postbellum whites.;Despite the common occurrence of pillory scenes at the conclusion of maroon tales, this project shows that the final signifying power of the maroon was not of the law writ large upon his body; rather, the maroon survived as legend, as an invisible presence just beyond white control