Colloquium talks at prestigious universities both create and reflect academic researchers’ reputations. Gender disparities in colloquium talks can arise through a variety of mechanisms. The current ...study examines gender differences in colloquium speakers at 50 prestigious US colleges and universities in 2013–2014. Using archival data, we analyzed 3,652 talks in six academic disciplines. Men were more likely than women to be colloquium speakers even after controlling for the gender and rank of the available speakers. Eliminating alternative explanations (e.g., women declining invitations more often than men), our follow-up data revealed that female and male faculty at top universities reported no differences in the extent to which they (i) valued and (ii) turned down speaking engagements. Additional data revealed that the presence of women as colloquium chairs (and potentially on colloquium committees) increased the likelihood of women appearing as colloquium speakers. Our data suggest that those who invite and schedule speakers serve as gender gatekeepers with the power to create or reduce gender differences in academic reputations.
Syphilis findet in Erasmus’ von Rotterdam Colloquia familiaria mehrfach Erwähnung. Insbesondere ein 1529 in die Sammlung aufgenommener Dialog mit dem Titel „Ἄγαμος γάμος sive Coniugum impar“ („Die ...ungleiche Ehe“) setzt sich mit dem Ende des 15. Jahrhunderts als neu wahrgenommenen Krankheit auseinander. In diesem Text werden Teile des semantischen Spektrums der Lepra durch Vergleich, Abgrenzung und Überbietung auf die Syphilis übertragen, was eine Lesbarkeit des kranken Körpers nicht nur als infektiös, sondern auch als sünden- und schuldbehaftet ermöglicht. In einer Lesart als Schlüsseltext wird der Dialog im Kontext einer schriftlich geführten Kontroverse zwischen Erasmus und Heinrich Eppendorf verortet, die auf ein früheres Zerwürfnis zwischen Erasmus und Ulrich von Hutten in den Jahren 1522/23 zurückgeht. Es wird herausgestellt, dass der syphilitische Bräutigam des „Coniugum impar“ auf Hutten verweist und mit ihm das Vorbild Eppendorfs diskreditiert. In allegorischer Lesart wird damit auch die Verdorbenheit des Standes der Reichsritter insgesamt herausgestellt.
This volume of essays is the first to focus on the Colored Conventions movement, the nineteenth century's longest campaign for Black civil rights. Well before the founding of the NAACP and other ...twentieth-century pillars of the civil rights movement, tens of thousands of Black leaders organized state and national conventions across North America. Over seven decades, they advocated for social justice and against slavery, protesting state-sanctioned and mob violence while demanding voting, legal, labor, and educational rights. While Black-led activism in this era is often overshadowed by the attention paid to the abolition movement, this collection centers Black activist networks, influence, and institution building. Collectively, these essays highlight the vital role of the Colored Conventions in the lives of thousands of early organizers, including many of the most famous writers, ministers, politicians, and entrepreneurs in the long history of Black activism. Contributors: Erica L. Ball, Kabria Baumgartner, Daina Ramey Berry, Joan L. Bryant, Jim Casey, Benjamin Fagan, P. Gabrielle Foreman, Eric Gardner, Andre E. Johnson, Cheryl Janifer LaRoche, Sarah Lynn Patterson, Carla L. Peterson, Jean Pfaelzer, Selena R. Sanderfer, Derrick R. Spires, Jermaine Thibodeaux, Psyche Williams-Forson, and Jewon Woo. Explore accompanying exhibits and historical records at The Colored Conventions Project website: https://coloredconventions.org/
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In this article, the three previous London‐Innsbruck Colloquia on Status Epilepticus are reviewed. The background to the colloquia and the range of topics covered in each colloquium are ...outlined. The areas in which advances in the study of status epilepticus, and also areas in which advances have been disappointing are highlighted.
A professor avows, declares, or professes knowledge of a field. The challenge for most professors lies in continuing to generate relevant knowledge. Of those continuing research, most make impact on ...their respective disciplines. Ramadhar Singh—an experimental social psychologist and currently, Distinguished University Professor, Amrut Mody School of Management, Ahmedabad University—has been steadily contributing to the advancement of knowledge in psychology and producing multidisciplinary impact over his 49-year career. By tracing the trajectory of Singh's vast and varied experience, attitude and approach to research, and scholarly output in international publications that have advanced knowledge and found applications from management to biological and social sciences, this interview offer pathways to research scholars for sustained multidisciplinary and impactful research in their careers.
This article discusses some aspects of the political commitment visible in the lives and work of two female photographers in Brazil: Claudia Andujar and Nair Benedicto. It analyses two photographic ...series that were sent by these photographers to the Latin American Photography Colloquia in 1978 and 1981: Andujar's work with the Yanomamis, the Amazonian Indigenous people; and Benedicto's work with young offenders incarcerated in the Brazilian cities of São Paulo and Ribeirão Preto. For both photographers, training their lenses on some of the most marginalised sectors of Brazilian society at that moment also meant engaging politically with the military dictatorship. However, in both cases their political engagement was not limited to photography; it transcended to social and political militancy.
This article describes the institutionalisation of Brazilian photography in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the context of the other events relating to photography in Latin American countries. This ...process has close links with the first two Latin American Colloquia of Photography held in Mexico City in 1978 and 1981. These Colloquia promoted the creation of connections between Brazilian photographers and photographic institutions and those in Spanish-speaking Latin America. They also made it possible to bring European and North American institutional photographic experiences to Latin America, and helped to disseminate a version of Latin American photography in Europe, one that was based on a socially engaged documentary, the genre which was showcased and foregrounded at the Colloquia.
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