Feminism remains a controversial term, inspiring vitriol as well as celebration. Declared dead on... more Feminism remains a controversial term, inspiring vitriol as well as celebration. Declared dead on Time magazine’s June 1998 cover, feminism has been standing on wobbly legs since the 1980s, thanks to public misperception and media-spin. However, today’s social-justice-oriented and media-savvy generation is creating a more feminism-positive environment and recognize that women’s rights are human rights, that men have a place in the movement, and that there is still much collective work to be done to realize the goal of sex and gender equality
Please click the links below to view more information about each presentation. “Ex Machina: A Dar... more Please click the links below to view more information about each presentation. “Ex Machina: A Dark Fable About Intersectionality” Richard Nunan, College of Charleston “Transgender Issues in Film” Eulalah R. Prater, East Tennessee State University “The Subject of Object Discourse: Katniss Everdeen, Feminist Icon?” Justin R. Weltz, Appalachian State University “Rebellion and Transformation in the Films of Ana Mendietta” Kate Waites, Nova Southeastern University College of Arts, Humanities and Social Science
NSU\u27s Dr. Yvette Fuentes and Professor Emeritus Kate Waites lead a creative writing workshop f... more NSU\u27s Dr. Yvette Fuentes and Professor Emeritus Kate Waites lead a creative writing workshop focusing on authentic memoirs based on immigrant and migrant stories, informed by the Latin American narrative tradition of witnessing
Particular Friendships: A Convent Memoir offers a rare glimpse inside the walls of a Roman Cathol... more Particular Friendships: A Convent Memoir offers a rare glimpse inside the walls of a Roman Catholic convent in the late 1960s. The young narrator arrives with gentle visions spawned by The Sound of Music, only to encounter the harshness of life in this secretive society. Her wit, compassion, and musicality foment a rebellion against rules forbidding expressions of joy and intimacy, as she struggles between allegiance to the heart and her vow of blind obedience to flawed and abusive superiors. Recently filed lawsuits against the Church suggest that the timing could not be better for an ex-nuns memoir. Part mystery, part coming of age story, this narrative seeks neither to damn nor to exonerate but to uncover the truth.https://nsuworks.nova.edu/hcas_dhp_facbooks/1005/thumbnail.jp
Description: In the not too distant future of Megasaki, Japan, a terrible outbreak of ‘dog flu’ t... more Description: In the not too distant future of Megasaki, Japan, a terrible outbreak of ‘dog flu’ threatens man’s best friend. To protect humans from potential infection, Mayor Kenji Kobayashi mercilessly banishes all canines to Trash Island, including Spots, the close companion and bodyguard of the mayor’s 12-year-old ward, Atari Kobayashi…but everyone knows there is nothing that can keep apart a boy and his dog. Join us in this whimsical, waggish, stop-motion-animated adventure as we follow Atari on his journey to find Spots! Facilitator: Dr. Kate Waites
Kathryn Bigelow\u27s 2009 Oscar-winning film, The Hurt Locker, follows newly assigned staff serge... more Kathryn Bigelow\u27s 2009 Oscar-winning film, The Hurt Locker, follows newly assigned staff sergeant William James, a cool and reckless technician and disposer of IEDs who sports his 873 dismantled bombs like trophies. This lecture examined how Bigelow, wielding four muscular cameras in her action film, effectively employs the cinematic language of masculinity to explore the signifiers that serve to keep the hero/cowboy contained in the “hurt locker” of masculine gendering and, perhaps, the nation at war
The argument has been made that memoir reflects and augments the narcissistic tendencies of our n... more The argument has been made that memoir reflects and augments the narcissistic tendencies of our neo-liberal age. Mediating Memory: Tracing the Limits of Memoir challenges and dismantles that assumption. Focusing on the history, theory and practice of memoir writing, editors Bunty Avieson, Fiona Giles and Sue Joseph provide a thorough and cutting-edge examination of memoir through the lenses of ethics, practice and innovation. By investigating memoir across cultural boundaries, in its various guises, and tracing its limits, the editors convincingly demonstrate the plurality of ways in which memoir is helping us make sense of who we are, who we were and the influences that shape us along the way.https://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_facbooks/1111/thumbnail.jp
This first Intellectual Conversations is co-sponsored by the South Florida Irish Theatre. It is a... more This first Intellectual Conversations is co-sponsored by the South Florida Irish Theatre. It is a staged reading of the play, The Unbleached American, written by Michael Aman. Three CAHSS faculty will be participants, James Doan, Ph.D., and Kate Waites, Ph.D., professors in the Department of Literature and Modern Languages, and Ransford Edwards, Jr., Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of History and Political Science. We invite you to see this take on Irish and African-American cultural relations in early 20th century New York, against the background of immigration and racism, yet with hope for the future. The reading will be followed by a talkback with the playwright and actors. This event will take place in the Mailman Auditorium in the Mailman Hollywood Building, on September 27th from 7:00-9:00pm
Feminism remains a controversial term, inspiring vitriol as well as celebration. Declared dead on... more Feminism remains a controversial term, inspiring vitriol as well as celebration. Declared dead on Time magazine’s June 1998 cover, feminism has been standing on wobbly legs since the 1980s, thanks to public misperception and media-spin. However, today’s social-justice-oriented and media-savvy generation is creating a more feminism-positive environment and recognize that women’s rights are human rights, that men have a place in the movement, and that there is still much collective work to be done to realize the goal of sex and gender equality
Please click the links below to view more information about each presentation. “Ex Machina: A Dar... more Please click the links below to view more information about each presentation. “Ex Machina: A Dark Fable About Intersectionality” Richard Nunan, College of Charleston “Transgender Issues in Film” Eulalah R. Prater, East Tennessee State University “The Subject of Object Discourse: Katniss Everdeen, Feminist Icon?” Justin R. Weltz, Appalachian State University “Rebellion and Transformation in the Films of Ana Mendietta” Kate Waites, Nova Southeastern University College of Arts, Humanities and Social Science
NSU\u27s Dr. Yvette Fuentes and Professor Emeritus Kate Waites lead a creative writing workshop f... more NSU\u27s Dr. Yvette Fuentes and Professor Emeritus Kate Waites lead a creative writing workshop focusing on authentic memoirs based on immigrant and migrant stories, informed by the Latin American narrative tradition of witnessing
Particular Friendships: A Convent Memoir offers a rare glimpse inside the walls of a Roman Cathol... more Particular Friendships: A Convent Memoir offers a rare glimpse inside the walls of a Roman Catholic convent in the late 1960s. The young narrator arrives with gentle visions spawned by The Sound of Music, only to encounter the harshness of life in this secretive society. Her wit, compassion, and musicality foment a rebellion against rules forbidding expressions of joy and intimacy, as she struggles between allegiance to the heart and her vow of blind obedience to flawed and abusive superiors. Recently filed lawsuits against the Church suggest that the timing could not be better for an ex-nuns memoir. Part mystery, part coming of age story, this narrative seeks neither to damn nor to exonerate but to uncover the truth.https://nsuworks.nova.edu/hcas_dhp_facbooks/1005/thumbnail.jp
Description: In the not too distant future of Megasaki, Japan, a terrible outbreak of ‘dog flu’ t... more Description: In the not too distant future of Megasaki, Japan, a terrible outbreak of ‘dog flu’ threatens man’s best friend. To protect humans from potential infection, Mayor Kenji Kobayashi mercilessly banishes all canines to Trash Island, including Spots, the close companion and bodyguard of the mayor’s 12-year-old ward, Atari Kobayashi…but everyone knows there is nothing that can keep apart a boy and his dog. Join us in this whimsical, waggish, stop-motion-animated adventure as we follow Atari on his journey to find Spots! Facilitator: Dr. Kate Waites
Kathryn Bigelow\u27s 2009 Oscar-winning film, The Hurt Locker, follows newly assigned staff serge... more Kathryn Bigelow\u27s 2009 Oscar-winning film, The Hurt Locker, follows newly assigned staff sergeant William James, a cool and reckless technician and disposer of IEDs who sports his 873 dismantled bombs like trophies. This lecture examined how Bigelow, wielding four muscular cameras in her action film, effectively employs the cinematic language of masculinity to explore the signifiers that serve to keep the hero/cowboy contained in the “hurt locker” of masculine gendering and, perhaps, the nation at war
The argument has been made that memoir reflects and augments the narcissistic tendencies of our n... more The argument has been made that memoir reflects and augments the narcissistic tendencies of our neo-liberal age. Mediating Memory: Tracing the Limits of Memoir challenges and dismantles that assumption. Focusing on the history, theory and practice of memoir writing, editors Bunty Avieson, Fiona Giles and Sue Joseph provide a thorough and cutting-edge examination of memoir through the lenses of ethics, practice and innovation. By investigating memoir across cultural boundaries, in its various guises, and tracing its limits, the editors convincingly demonstrate the plurality of ways in which memoir is helping us make sense of who we are, who we were and the influences that shape us along the way.https://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_facbooks/1111/thumbnail.jp
This first Intellectual Conversations is co-sponsored by the South Florida Irish Theatre. It is a... more This first Intellectual Conversations is co-sponsored by the South Florida Irish Theatre. It is a staged reading of the play, The Unbleached American, written by Michael Aman. Three CAHSS faculty will be participants, James Doan, Ph.D., and Kate Waites, Ph.D., professors in the Department of Literature and Modern Languages, and Ransford Edwards, Jr., Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of History and Political Science. We invite you to see this take on Irish and African-American cultural relations in early 20th century New York, against the background of immigration and racism, yet with hope for the future. The reading will be followed by a talkback with the playwright and actors. This event will take place in the Mailman Auditorium in the Mailman Hollywood Building, on September 27th from 7:00-9:00pm
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