Election Help:
The League of Women Voters of California
Multiple Interpretations: Desperately Seeking the President Dia de Los Muertos, 2000. by jeanne
Story of the Field Trip to Olvera Street
Academic Discourse on Desperately Seeking the President
We didn't meet in front of the Los Angeles Post Office; construction and traffic prevented it.
But we found each other on Olvera Street.
Where's jeanne? Office hours!
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Yoshitomo Nara at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
The Darker Side of Playland:
Childhood Imagery, from the Logan Collection.
Helnwein's Malevolent Mickey Mouse also in San Francisco MOMA Exhibit:
Gottfried Helnwein Link to Artist, then Biography.
Link to Works for the Adoration of the Magi as Fascist Officers.
Heavy symbolism typical of Helnwein's work.
Request for Proposal: November 30 Deadline
Howard Becker's Tricks of the Trade
Read the first chapter online!
Local Hub Sites
Latest update: November 2, 2000.
jeannecurran@habermas.org.
Recommended Readings for jeanne's Classes:
The Farmer and the Snake: Academic Discourse and Drawing
Online.Steve Rosenthal's Sociology Site
Steve teaches a pattern of courses very similar to mine. You are welcome to read anything he offeres on his Web Site. I'll be glad to include it in our discussions, and will build some specific links and practice over the next few weeks. jeanne Online.- jeanne's Grading Standards: Samples Online.
Theory Class
Practice and Discussion:
- Multiple Interpretations: Feminist Theory Online.
- Academic Discourse: Agency and Structural Context
Thread opened by Joanna Carillo Online.![]()
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- Definitions of Basic Terms in Henry and Milovanovic's Constitutive Criminology Online.
Academic Discourse on Respect for Learning Online.
Text Readings:
- Readings in Social Theory: The Classic Tradition to Post-Modernism, James Faraganis, McGraw Hill, 2000.
- Telling About Society Howard Becker's Paper.
Notice particularly "Representations of Society as Social Facts." (Scroll down about half an inch.) Will upload a Recognition and Recall Practice soon. jeanne Online.- General Contemporary Theory Resources The Voice of the Shuttle.
Browse. We'll have to choose. Can't cover it all. jeanne Online.- http://www.knuten.liu.se/~bjoch509/works/foucault/enlight.txt Online.
- "The Race for Theory": A Review Essay on Barbara Christian
by Dr. Mary Klages, Associate Professor of English, University of Colorado at Boulder. Online.- See the Progressive Sociologists Network for three pieces added on November 3, 2000. Online.
- Dialectical Materialist Psychology by Shane Hopkinson Online.
- Re: Dialectical Materialist Psychology by Henry W Vandenburgh Online.
- Re: Dialectical Materialist Psychology by Bill Mandel Online.
- Subjectivity by Lauren Langman. Online.
Look at the similarity in discussions here to what we've been discussing in theory lab, in love and peace, in distributive justice. Notice that Bill Mandel's response sounds a little like Noam chomsky's comment on Foucault and company.
Distributive Justice Class
For Tuesday night, November 7, please look at:
- Multiple Interpretation on Postcolonial Studies Online.
- and Multiple Interpretations: Orientalism Online.
- Multiple Interpretation to go up on the Tyranny of Dominant Discourse through the appearance of "expertise." Will be based on On Interpreting a Graph.
- African-American Studies: Bell Hooks, Barbara Christian, and Patricia Williams
Contemporary Critical theory at Lawrence University in Wisconsin.
Browse through this material so that you can tell me what you'd like to talk about. I have most of the materials indicated. jeanne Online.- Reading Buchi Emecheta: Contests for Women's Experience in Women's Studies
by Donna Haraway.
Read ahead on this. References to Barbara Christian, to Post-Colonial Studies, to Achebe. I think some of you might like to discuss parts of this. We can't possibly include it all, but I'll be guided by your interests. jeanne Online.Love and Peace Class
- Academic Discourse: Forgiveness and Transformative Discourse by April Tucker. Online.
- Multiple Interpretation on Respect through Acknowledgment with Day of the Dead to go up.
Statistics Class
- Interpreting Another Graph Online.
- Multiple Interpretations: Cooperative Learning Online.
- Multiple Interpretations: Rehabilitation Online.
- Desperately Seeking Tables on Cooperative Learning Online.
Desperately Seeking the President 2000 Online.
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- Academic Discourse on Desperately Seeking the President
From Illuminated Manuscripts to Musical Instruments to Lutes in the 16th and 17th Century Online.
- R and R on dependent, independent variables to go up.
Reading ahead for jeanne's classes:
- Constructing Identities
- Constructing Identities
Conference Abstracts from University of Huddleford in England. Browse through the abstracts. Note that links are not underlined on this site. Online.- National, Ethnic & Post-Colonial Identities Browse through these abstracts for a global perspective on the construction of identities. Note that links are not underlined on this site. Online.
- Foucault
- Foucault Links I found this by taking off from the Voice of the Shuttle.
Excellent link page with comments on what you'll find at each link. Helpful if you're trying to get a handle on Foucault. Again, alert me if something specifically interests you. Online.- Post-Colonialism
- Orientalism Edward Said's book on Orientalism. Fellman mentions Said's work. It would be good to have some familiarity with his work. Online.