Fundamental domains for congruence subgroups of SL2 in positive characteristic

In this work, we construct fundamental domains for congruence subgroups of $SL_2(F_q[t])$ and $PGL_2(F_q[t])$. Our method uses Gekeler's description of the fundamental domains on the Bruhat- Tits tree $X = X_{q+1}$ in terms of cosets of subgroups. We compute the fundamental domains for a number of congruence subgroups explicitly as graphs of groups using the computer algebra system Magma

Clemence of Barking and Valdes of Lyon: Two Contemporaneous Examples of Innovation in the Twelfth Century

The Twelfth Century in Western Europe was a remarkable time in history. Scholars have noted that Roman law was being revived, Aristotelian theory was being studied, Romanesque and Gothic art was being produced, scholasticism was being cultivated, and economic growth was being fostered by the rise of towns. These are just some of the developments that help give this era the well-known term “twelfth-century renaissance.” Despite the flourishing of creativity that this label suggests, there are few surviving, specific examples of innovation from this time that have been passed down to us. In AD 1175 the Benedictine nun Clemence of Barking translated a life of St. Catherine of Alexandria from Latin to Anglo-Norman using an eleventh-century source. A rare example of a woman author, she took drastic liberties with some parts of the story and added her own thoughts to the text. At the same time in Lyons, France, a businessman now referred to as Valdes of Lyons was founding a movement that would later be called the Waldensians. Ashamed of his former greed, he renounced his way of life and became a preacher who advocated living purely from scripture. He also paid for a vernacular translation of biblical passages and allowed women to join his group. His preaching was unauthorized and he was ultimately excommunicated by the Church in 1184. Clemence and Valdes were strong supporters of Catholic ideals and were seeking to endorse Christian virtues. Nevertheless, their actions provide examples of innovation and a deviation from the mainstream. Two ways in which they expressed their innovation is in their utilization of the vernacular and in their reconsideration of gender. While a nun and a schismatic appear unlikely subjects for a comparative analysis, we can find in their respective stories elements of novel thinking. This thesis will study them side by side to explore their distinct forms of spirituality, and also, how these spiritualities seem to serve as precursors to arguably more noticeable changes in the High and Late Middle Ages

A Broken Record

This Culminating Experience project is a collaboration with the Museum of Broken Relationships in Zagreb, where people donate mundane objects from their previous relationships in order to make peace with the past and tell their story. ‘A Broken Record’ is an album of original of music and visual compositions inspired by the objects in the Museum’s collection. This album will take the form of an interactive, user-defined audio- visual experience where each listener chooses their own unique adventure through the album depending on their answers to a series of yes/no questions relating to their own experience of love and loss. Each answer presents the listener with a different digital audio-visual experience where they hear a song and view a lyric video featuring the object from which the song drew its inspiration. Listeners will only interact with the songs and stories that resemble previous relationships they have had, resulting in a personalised heartbreak soundtrack.https://remix.berklee.edu/graduate-studies-production-technology/1212/thumbnail.jp

The Perceptions of Race and Identity in Birmingham: Does 50 Years Forward Equal Progress?

Research has shown a connection between regional and racial identity in the South with much emphasis on the role it has played in exacerbating racial conflict and divisions. In 2013, Birmingham launched a year-long campaign entitled 50 Years Forward to reflect on the events that led to the passing of The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and celebrate the progress made over the last five decades. Through research and interviews, this paper seeks to explore the connection between identity and racial conflict in the South by analyzing the history of racial exploitation, class struggle, and the Civil Rights Movement in shaping racial attitudes and identity conflict, how it has affected current perceptions of race and identity among Birmingham residents, and recommendations for bridging the racial and socioeconomic divides

Cemeteries in nineteenth-century New South Wales : landscapes of memory and identity

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‘walking a tightrope’: Shirley Fitzgerald, Public Historian

Shirley Fitzgerald has made a significant contribution to public history in Australia, primarily through her work as City Historian with the City of Sydney Council. This historiographical article traces and analyses her contribution to this field via her work on Sydney

Sydney's Past, History's Future: The Dictionary of Sydney

The Dictionary of Sydney www.dictionaryofsydney.org is a ground breaking, multimedia city biography that can present the history of metropolitan Sydney on the web, in your hand and on the street. Through its historical model the digital repository allows historical elements to be classified, connected, geo-referenced and mapped through space and time. By combining the fine-grained with the global, the histories in the Dictionary mirror the experience of the metropolis – the intimate and the personal interact with the impersonal and indeed often random nature of city life. A purely digital history redefines the possibilities for urban history and public history. This paper will introduce the Dictionary of Sydney, share some of the challenges and joys of building a digital history, and reflect upon the ways digital history as a publication form is shaping and changing the practice of public history