Still solo exhibition

Within this Narrow Strip of Land Within contributes to making visible the overwritten histories and redrawn boundaries of Palestine and reflect on the significance of Palestine’s colonial past and present using archival research and the sustained study of the region through moving image, sound and text work. This output is the result of many years of rigorous engagement and research with the region to produce original practice-based work, talks and events. Within this Narrow Strip of Land (2017) is a nine- screen audiovisual installation of a diverse collection of short films which range in style, source and technique drawing on observational film, archival research and the still and the moving image. Assemblage and Reel re-appropriate archival footage from London’s Imperial War Museum that documents the British Mandate period in Palestine (1917-1948) and are recomposed to evoke the deliberate blind spots and all that is hidden in the documentation of history. The installation is configured to create a suspended, refracted and unstable portrait of landscape that has been consistently redrawn and occupied by colonial forces. Avant la Lettre II (2017) is a text piece that reconfigures and re-presents the 1917 Balfour declaration by exposing the re-drafting of this document over subsequent months during 1917 by Balfour. Numbering a mere 67-words this document has defined a region, millions of lives over multiple generations. The phrasing is simple and rational, yet it conceals the profound irrationality of worldwide geopolitical conflict, capitalist accumulation, notions of statehood, religion and identity. The text provides no clue to the 100 year’s of discord and violence it would incite. Alongside the exhibition Still in 2017 which was fully funded by the Al Qattan Foundation, Mosaic room there was a weekly educational and talks program that engaged audiences with issues and stake within the work

Junior Recital: Dustin Price, bassoon

This recital is presented in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree Bachelor of Music in Performance. Mr. Price studies bassoon with Laura Najarian.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/1038/thumbnail.jp

Object! On the Documentary as Art

White Oil excavations and the Disappearance of the West Bank was a paper drawn from my PhD that unpacks how artist-moving image (my own practice) makes visible the spatial politics of Palestine through the quarries in the West Bank. The research addresses the way in which the quarries in the West Bank are not just industrial spaces in which labour and excavation of raw material takes place, but also paradigmatic and metaphorical spaces around sedimentation, stratified layers, excavation and transformation and how these dynamics are inseparable from the disruptive spaces of colonialism and globalisation. The paper looks at the role of the filmmaking in making visible the complex political entanglements of land, labour, military, nationalist identities and sovereign state in the region. How the quarried limestone can be perceived as a cipher for the biography of the collective worker, that acts as an archive for their personal histories and experiences as well as the changing landscape and conditions of the quarries bringing to bear the myriad losses of land, economy and history. This paper was part of a one-day symposium that brought together filmmakers, artists and scholars to explore the aesthetic potential, political stakes and ethical challenges that arise from regarding documentary film as an art object and consider documentary as a commodity in circulation, a resource in artistic production, a material trace, a document

White oil, excavations and the disappearance of the West Bank

The research project considers how the processes of artistic production and their modes of reception can transform our understanding of the geopolitical and spatial relations of the Occupied Palestinian Territories. It does this through a study of the extraction and exploitation of stone from the quarries in the Occupied Palestinian Territories of the West Bank. It uses film to speak directly about the intimate lived experiences of people caught up in the neocolonial struggles of this region, the technologies of industrial production, the reproduction of everyday life and the production of the moving image

Reading instruction in first-grade classrooms: Do basals control teachers?

This study describes first-grade teachers beliefs and practices about reading instruction. Drawing from interview and observational data, 16 teachers from four districts were placed on a continuum from skills-based to literature-based in relationship to their use of the basal. Only 2 teachers were found to rely solely on the basal, while 3 teachers enhanced the basal with literature, and 4 teachers used only literature in their reading instruction. Six teachers enhanced their basal use with additional skills and 1 teacher relied on skills only in her reading instruction. This diversity\u27 of teaching beliefs and practices was corroborated by questionnaire data from a larger sample of teachers. Next, a framework developed by Belenky, Clinchy, Goldberger, and Tarule (1986) was used to categorize teachers\u27 ways of knowing. The findings showed 1 teacher to be a silent knower, 6 were received knowers, 1 was a subjective knower, 7 were procedural knowers, and 1 was a connected knower. Results challenge Shannon\u27s (1987) hypothesis that basals deskill teachers while supporting Sosniak and Stodolskv\u27s (1993) view that teachers are more autonomous in their use of textbook materials

A Universal Theory of Pseudocodewords

Three types of pseudocodewords for LDPC codes are found in the literature: graph cover pseudocodewords, linear programming pseudocodewords, and computation tree pseudocodewords. In this paper we first review these three notions and known connections between them. We then propose a new decoding rule — universal cover decoding — for LDPC codes. This new decoding rule also has a notion of pseudocodeword attached, and this fourth notion provides a framework in which we can better understand the other three

Literature-based reading instruction: Problems, possibilities & polemics in the struggle to change

Concerns are being raised in both professional literature as well as in the popular press regarding certain aspects of the literature-based movement. Here we report on findings from a longitudinal study of a group of first -grade teachers who have been attempting (with varying degrees of success)to introduce literature-based teaching strategies into their classrooms. We inspect the experiences of these teachers in relation to four areas of concern that have been raised regarding literature-based teaching: 1. skills instruction; 2.guided reading strategies; 3. literature selection;and 4. thematic teaching (or curriculum integration). We describe classroom practices and the 9 problems and possibilities associated with teacher change in each of the four areas

Research students exhibition catalogue 2011

The catalogue demonstrates the scope and vibrancy of current inquiries and pays tribute to the creative capacity and investment of UCA research students. It brings together contributions from students who are at different stages in their research ad/venture. Their explorations are connected by the centrality of contemporary material practices as focal point for the reconsideration of societal values, cultural symbols and rituals and their meaning, and the trans/formation of individual, collective and national identities The media and formats employed range from cloth, jewellery and ceramics to analogue film, the human voice and the representation of dress and fashionin virtual environments. Thematic interests span from explorations at the interface of art and medical science to an investigation of the role of art in contested spaces, or the role of metonymy in ‘how the arts think’ And whilst the projects are motivated by personal curiosity and passion, their outcomes transcend the boundaries of individual practice and offer new insights, under-standing and applications for the benefit of wider society. Prof. Kerstin Me

Relationship between nitrate and nitrite stress responses of Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough and Desulfovibrio alaskensis G20

Many heavy metal-contaminated sites where nuclear weapons have been produced contain high concentrations of nitrate. Nitrate inhibits dissimilatory sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB), bacteria known to precipitate heavy metals. An understanding of nitrate stress responses in SRB is necessary to predict responses in environmental settings. Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough and Desulfovibrio alaskensis G20, model SRB, offer the opportunity to identify the physiological and genetic changes that confer nitrate resistance. It is currently thought that nitrite production mediates nitrate inhibition of SRB (He et al., 2010). However, microarray studies have revealed few gene expression changes in common between nitrate- and nitrite-inhibited D. vulgaris cells (He et al., 2010). Since it has been shown that nitrite interacts with the dissimilatory sulfite reductase (Wolfe et al., 1994), it has been assumed that sulfite reduction is the sole target of nitrite inhibition (Haveman et al., 2004). Our results point to inhibition and resistance mechanisms for both nitrate and nitrite that are independent of sulfite reduction