The Lost Romantic - Songs of Louise Reichardt Lieder and Canzone by
The songs selected for this recording are grouped by the poets who formed Louise Reichardt's circle of friends. Among them were the notable Romantic era literary figures Clemens Wenzeslaus Brentano, Novalis, Johann Ludwig Tieck, Karl Philipp Conz, Carl Ludwig Achim von Arnim, as well as Philipp Otto Runge and Karl Wetzl. The program begins with the dramatic Sei canzoni di Metastasio, songs based on historical poetry, and ends with three additional songs on Metastasio texts. Also included is a tender song text from Des Knaben Wunderhorn.
Each piece is a miniature jewel that emphasizes Reichardt's talent for writing sweet, lyrical melodies that unite expressive, melodic text setting and demanding legato line. The pieces are graceful, elegant, delicate and charming, and display both German and Italian stylistic elements. Many of the songs are strophic, generally with modest, mid-range vocal lines. The harmonies are uncomplicated with understated accompaniments that never overshadow the voice or immediacy of the text. The songs exhibit influences of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Franz Schubert, her contemporary, whose compositional style, in turn, was also influenced by Reichardt's own father.
Despite the glowing praise and popularity of Louise Reichardt's work during her lifetime, she has been largely forgotten, with only a handful of her songs ever having been recorded. The tendency of history to fail to acknowledge and celebrate the accomplishments of women, including women composers, certainly failed Reichardt. However, upon hearing her songs, characterized by simplicity, lovely melodies and an unpretentious framework, listeners will find them as delightful and interesting as any by her contemporaries.
Souvenance Mélodies and Organ Works by
While Franck's compositional output was substantial, he wrote only eighteen songs or mélodies, as they are called in French, of which thirteen are included here. These works feature texts by such beloved and respected literary figures as Victor Hugo, Alfred de Musset, and Sully Prudhomme. Considering both Franck's overall musical output and his stature as a musical leader, it is somewhat troubling that, today, his songs are barely mentioned in written discussions of the mélodie, are rarely included in French song anthologies, and are seldom performed in concert. It has been noted that Franck's French prosody is not always the most natural, sometimes resulting in awkwardly-set texts. Despite these quirks, which are certainly to be found among the canonic works of other French composers, his songs remain a beautiful and important part of the history of the mélodie. His early songs, such as Souvenance and Robin Gray, are romantic, reminiscent of and influenced by the expressive and sentimental French romance, as well as by German Lieder (particularly those of Franz Schubert, his favorite composer). His middle period offers us such uncomplicated, lovely mélodies as S il est un charmant gazon and Le mariage des roses. Later songs display more developed, richer and more complicated harmony, late-style chromaticism, and arguably improved text setting as seen in La vase brisé and Nocturne. La Procession, originally composed for voice and orchestra, but performed here in transcription on the Royaumont organ, and Nocturne are widely regarded as two of Franck s best mélodies.
Amy Pfrimmer is Assistant Professor of Music and the Lillian Gerson Watsky Professor in Voice at Tulane University where she has been Voice Area Coordinator and Director of the Vocal Music Concert Series since 2007. Her repertoire and creative work encompasses a wide range of music, with particular focus on Romantic and 20th Century opera, oratorio, concert literature, and song. In 2018, she revived Tulane’s Opera Workshop, directing and musically preparing students for their roles in Menotti’s The Old Maid and the Thief. She has sustained interests in sacred and liturgical music, the music and style of J.S. Bach, G.F. Händel, Giacomo Puccini, César Franck, Cécile Chaminade and Luise Reichardt, and a particular affinity for the French mélodie.
Political Blackness in Multiracial Britain by
One evening in 1980, a group of white friends, drinking at the Duke of Edinburgh pub on East Ham High Street, made a monstrous five-pound wager. The first person to kill a "Paki" would win the bet. Ali Akhtar Baig, a young Pakistani student who lived in the east London borough of Newham, was their chosen victim. Baig's murder was but one incident in a wave of antiblack racial attacks that were commonplace during the crisis of race relations in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s. Ali Akhtar Baig's death also catalyzed the formation of a grassroots antiracist organization, Newham Monitoring Project (NMP) that worked to transform the racist victimization of African, African Caribbean and South Asian communities into campaigns for racial justice and social change. In addition to providing a 24-hour hotline and casework services, NMP activists worked to mitigate the scourge of racial injustice that included daily racial harassment, hate crimes and antiblack police violence. Since the advent of the War on Terror, NMP widened its approach to support victims of the state's counterterror policies, which have contributed to an unfettered surge in Islamophobia. These realities, as well as the many layers of gendered racism in contemporary Britain come to life through intimate ethnographic storytelling. The reader gets to know a broad range of east Londoners and antiracist activists whose intersecting experiences present a multifaceted portrait of British racism. Mohan Ambikaipaker examines the life experiences of these individuals through a strong theoretical lens that combines critical race theory and postcolonial studies. Political Blackness in Multiracial Britain shows how the deep processes of everyday political whiteness shape the state's failure to provide effective remedies for ethnic, racial, and religious minorities who continue to face violence and institutional racism.
Mohan Ambikaipaker is Associate Professor of Communication. He is a social anthropologist and cultural studies scholar who studies the dynamics of multiracial societies. His research trajectory is comprised of three strands (U.K., Malaysia and the U.S.) and aims to examine the shifting configurations of racism and racial structures that go beyond bipolar frameworks of analysis (for example, Black-White or Asian-White dynamics). Professor Ambikaipaker has constructed a long-term comparative research agenda that builds cross-national perspectives in theorizing connections between critical cultural communication, intersectional racial identities, and globalized nation-states.
Cimabue and the Franciscans by
This book offers a fresh look at the broader question of artistic change in the late thirteenth century by examining the intersection of two histories: that of the artist Cimabue (ca. 1240-1302), and that of the Franciscan Order. While focused on the work of a single artist, this study sheds new light on the religious motives and artistic means that fueled the period's visual and spiritual transformations. Flora's study reveals that Cimabue was not just a crucial figure in processes of stylistic change. He and his Franciscan patrons engaged with complicated intellectual and theological ideas about materials, memory, beauty, and experience, creating innovative works of art that celebrated the Order and enabled new modes of Christian devotion. Cimabue's contributions to the history of art thus can finally be recognized for their wide-ranging scope and impact within the rapidly-evolving religious culture of the late thirteenth century.
Holly Flora is Associate Professor and Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs for Newcomb Art. Her scholarly work explores the themes of narrative, imagination, materiality, and gender in the devotional art of late medieval and early Renaissance Italy. She has received a number of research fellowships and awards, including the Jean-Francois Malle Fellow at the Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti in Florence in 2015-16, and the Artists and Scholars grant from the Louisiana State Board of Regents in 2016-17. Drawing upon her museum experiences, Prof. Flora teaches a course on the ethics of collecting for the Tulane-Siena Institute for International Law and the Arts every summer in Siena, Italy, and teaches courses on museum education in Tulane's undergraduate study abroad program in Ferrara, Italy.
Exploring Long-Term Solutions for Louisiana's Tax System by
The central issue debated at each successive legislative session for over a decade, Louisiana's significant fiscal problems have remained unresolved despite efforts to mitigate the state's financial woes and avoid cutting key services or resorting to stop-gap solutions. Louisiana created its current tax structure in the 1970s, with some subsequent revisions in response to new economic realities. While many developments in Louisiana's fiscal picture lie outside the state's control, other changes including shifting tax rates, shrinking the tax base, and increasing the number of exemptions, deductions, and tax credits, resulted from decisions made by the legislative body. In Exploring Long-Term Solutions for Louisiana's Tax System, James A. Richardson, Steven M. Sheffrin, James Alm, and other contributors advocate for establishing financial reforms geared to long-term change and more stable fiscal prospects. With a focus on practicality and accessibility, the authors explore the complexities of Louisiana's economic reality and explain the state's current tax structure. In so doing, they suggest several reforms that challenge the state's use of sales tax, application of the individual income tax, approach to corporate taxation, and allocation of other taxes such as mineral revenues. Crucial for those who want to engage with their representatives, colleagues, and fellow voters on the topic of taxation, this book equips readers with timely information about policy and, more importantly, nonpartisan solutions that could secure a more prosperous future for Louisiana.
James Alm is Professor and Department Chair of Economics. His most recent research areas include tax compliance and tax evasion, the marriage tax, tax and expenditure limitations, tax amnesties, taxpayer responses to tax reforms, enterprise zones, the determinants of state economic growth, and corruption. He has worked extensively on fiscal and decentralization reforms in numerous countries, including Bangladesh, Jamaica, Grenada, Indonesia, Turkey, Hungary, China, Egypt, the Philippines, Russia, Uganda, Nigeria, India, Colombia, Nepal, Ukraine, Pakistan, South Africa, and Tunisia. Alm's international projects have been funded by the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the United Nations Development Program, and the International Monetary Fund.
World Without Finishing by
World Without Finishing continues Peter Cooley's search for the "ordinary miraculous," the subject of his books for four decades. In those liminal spaces where Cooley voyages, the otherworldly is a haunting presence, whether in a painting by Rembrandt, the voices of the dead in a Louisiana cemetery for lepers or a mayfly his imagination conjures for its single day on earth. The gods--and God--are near at hand and far from us in the mysterious riddling of Cooley's new poems.
Peter Cooley is Director of Creative Writing, Professor of English, and Senior Mellon Professor in the Humanities.Three times a recipient of Mortar Board commendations at Tulane, Cooley received the Inspirational Professor Award and the Newcomb Professor of the Year Award. From 1970-2000 he was Poetry Editor of North American Review and is currently Poetry Editor of Christianity and Literature. He has been an Atlantic Younger Poet, The Robert Frost Fellow at the Breadloaf Writers' Conference, a Yaddo Fellow, and an Ossabaw Island Fellow. Peter has received fellowships from the University of Wisconsin, The Louisiana Division of the Arts, and the state of Louisiana's ATLAS Program. He is a recipient of a Pushcart Prize and of the Marble Faun First Place Prize in Poetry given by the Faulkner Society.
Les lettres de la Nouvelle-Orléans by
Être arabe à la Nouvelle-Orléans, c'est un peu comme être persan à Paris. Le regard étranger rend étrange le familier et, dans la poésie de Gadir, ceci est vrai et pour la ville du Jazz et pour la langue arabe. Effacer les frontières pour écrire sur cette ville marécageuse qui s'enorguellit de sa boue et de son impureté, c'est aussi déraciner les héritages et égarer la langue du Coran vers des lieux moins saints. Entre bar et bar, l'irréverence est bouleversante, inquiétante et débordre de cette exubérance joyeuse propre à l'homme qui retrouve sa liberté.
Bouchaib Gadir is a Senior Professor of Practice, Arabic. His research interests include: Language learning theories, Medieval Arabic literature, Polyphony in Modern Arabic novel and Identity and Exile in the Francophone Novel of the Maghreb.
Liberalization and Culture in Contemporary Israel by
In Liberalization and Culture in Contemporary Israel, Ari Ofengenden examines how Israel's integration into the global economy has affected its mainstream culture. Ofengenden uses works of Israeli film, literature, and television from the past thirty years to conceptualize the liberalization of Israel's culture. This book describes the demise of realism and modernism, the rise of commercial culture, the production of films and novels for Western audiences, and the effects of globalization and marketization on representations of masculinity and the Arab-lsraeli conflict. Book jacket.
Ari Ofengenden is Professor of Practice of Jewish Studies and heads the Hebrew program at Tulane University. He is the author of Liberalization and Culture in Contemporary Israel (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018) and Introduction to the Poetry of Abraham Shlonsky (De Gruyter, 2014), as well as articles on Israeli culture and German-Jewish literature. Professor Ofendenden was the chief editor of the Journal of Comparative Literature and Culture and is currently the series editor of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies of Purdue University Press. He is an elected member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and has been invited for talks at Dongguk University, Shangani International Studies, Harvard Kennedy School, and Weill Medical College.
Art of the Northern Renaissance by
In this lucid account, Stephanie Porras charts the fascinating story of art in northern Europe during the Renaissance period (ca. 1400-1570). She explains how artists and patrons from the regions north of the Alps - the Low Countries, France, England, Germany - responded to an era of rapid political, social, economic, and religious change, while redefining the status of art. Porras discusses not only paintings by artists from Jan van Eyck to Pieter Bruegel the Elder, but also sculpture, architecture, prints, metalwork, embroidery, tapestry, and armor. Each chapter presents works from a roughly 20-year period and also focuses on a broad thematic issue, such as the flourishing of the print industry or the mobility of Northern artists and artworks. The author traces the influence of aristocratic courts as centers of artistic production and the rise of an urban merchant class, leading to the creation of new consumers and new art products. This book offers a richly illustrated narrative that allows readers to understand the progression, variety, and key conceptual developments of Northern Renaissance art.
Stephanie Porras is Associate Professor of History of Art and Associate Chair, Director of Graduate Studies in Newcomb Art. She specializes in Northern European art of the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries. Professor Porras’s research and teaching interests include: early modern print culture, the idea of antiquity in the North, the emergence of genre imagery, early modern notions of the copy and the export of Flemish prints across the early modern globe.
Women Take Their Place in State Legislatures: the Creation of Women's Caucuses by
How do women strategically make their mark on state legislatures? Anna Mitchell Mahoney's book traces the development of women's state legislative caucuses and the influence both gender and party have on women's ability to organize collectively. She provides a comprehensive analysis of how and why women organize around their gender identity in state legislatures--or why they do not.Women Take Their Place in State Legislatures includes a quantitative analysis of institutional-level variables and caucus existence in all 50 states. Case studies of caucus attempts in New Jersey, Colorado, Pennsylvania, and Iowa between 2006 and 2010 examine attempts at creating women's caucuses that succeeded or failed, and why. Mahoney's interviews with 180 state legislators and their staff explore the motivations of caucus creators and participants. Ultimately, she finds that women's organizing is contextual; it demonstrates the dynamic nature of gender. Mahoney also provides insights into broad questions regarding gendered institutions, collective action, and political party governance. Women Take Their Place in State Legislatures fills a lacuna in the evaluation of women in government.
Anna Mitchell Mahoney is the Administrative Assistant Professor of Women’s Political Leadership and the Director of Research for the Newcomb College Institute. She has taught a range of courses at the university level including Introduction to Women’s Studies, American Government, Congressional Politics, American Race Relations, and Women and American Politics. Professor Mahoney's research is centered on women’s representation and gendered institutions which is explored in her manuscript on the origins of women’s caucuses in state legislatures.
The Heroic Age by
Quantum theory is one of the great achievements of twentieth century physics. Born at the very beginning of the century, it attained a definitive form by 1932, yet continued to evolve throughout the century. Its applications remain fully a part of modern life. It should thus come as nosurprise that literature on the history of quantum theory is vast, but author Robert D. Purrington approaches the story from a new angle, by examining the original physics papers and scientific studies from before the creation of quantum mechanics to how scientists think about and discuss thesubject today. The Heroic Age presents for the first time a detailed but compact and manageable history of the creation of quantum theory, and shows precisely where each important idea originated. Purrington provides the history of the crucial developmental years of quantum theory with an emphasis on theliterature rather than an overview of this period focusing on personalities or personal stories of the scientists involved. This book instead focuses on how the theoretical discoveries came about, when and where they were published, and how they became accepted as part of the scientificcanon.
Dan Purrington is Emeritus Professor of Physics. His research interests include: Theoretical Studies of Classical (ocean acoustics) and Quantum (few nucleon systems) Scattering History of Physics (17th, 19th centuries) Archaeaoastronomy. In his tenure he has authored several books: Frame of the Universe (1983), with Frank Durham Some Truer Method: The Heritage of Isaac Newton (1989) with Frank Durham, Physics in the Nineteenth Century (1997),The First Professional Scientist: Robert Hooke and the Royal Society of London (2009).
Liberalism in Illiberal States by
After the end of the Cold War, liberalism emerged as the world's dominant political-economic ideology, and economic liberalism seemed to have achieved global hegemony. In Liberalism in Illiberal States, Mark Vail acknowledges the dominance of economic liberalism, but argues that itsimplementation in specific countries is always unique and dependent upon powerful historical factors. He focuses on France, Germany, and Italy - countries that many scholars do not view as "liberal" at all - and contends they have in fact developed distinct forms of national liberalism, of whichtheir postwar models of capitalism were merely one manifestation. Vail argues that these states' political economies have been shaped by centuries-old liberal traditions, which have continued to inform national alternatives to transnational neoliberalism in the contemporary era. He presents casestudies that show how nationally-specific interpretations of liberalism are flexible and responsive to local realities, especially in times of economic uncertainty. By demonstrating how variegated the practice of economic liberalism actually is, Liberalism in Illiberal States will reshape ourunderstanding of liberal political economy in the contemporary world.
Mark Vail is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies of Political Science. His research interests focus on the comparative political economy of advanced industrial societies, with a particular focus on Western Europe, economic and social policy, and the influence of political ideas and ideologies. Professor Vail has published work in the Journal of Comparative Politics, the European Journal of Political Research, Governance, West European Politics, and the Journal of Common Market Studies, among other venues.
The Radical Novel and the Classless Society by
The Radical Novel and the Classless Society analyzes utopian and proletarian novels as a single socialist tradition in U.S. literature. Utopian novels by such writers as Edward Bellamy, William Dean Howells, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Sutton E. Griggs and proletarian novels by such writers as Robert Cantwell, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, Meridel Le Sueur, Claude McKay, and Ralph Ellison can help us conceive of a unity of utopian and Marxist socialisms. We can combine the imagination of the future classless society with present-day socialist strategy. Utopian and proletarian novels help us to imagine--and realize--the classless society as achieving the utopian goal of recognizing race and gender and the Marxist goal of overcoming social class.
Robert Birdwell is Visiting Assistant Professor of English. He researches, teaches, and publishes on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature in the U.S. as well as critical theory.
When the War Came Home by
The Ottoman Empire was unprepared for the massive conflict of World War I. Lacking the infrastructure and resources necessary to wage a modern war, the empire's statesmen reached beyond the battlefield to sustain their war effort. They placed unprecedented hardships onto the shoulders of the Ottoman people: mass conscription, a state-controlled economy, widespread food shortages, and ethnic cleansing. By war's end, few aspects of Ottoman daily life remained untouched. When the War Came Home reveals the catastrophic impact of this global conflict on ordinary Ottomans. Drawing on a wide range of sources--from petitions, diaries, and newspapers to folk songs and religious texts--Yiğit Akın examines how Ottoman men and women experienced war on the home front as government authorities intervened ever more ruthlessly in their lives. The horrors of war brought home, paired with the empire's growing demands on its people, fundamentally reshaped interactions between Ottoman civilians, the military, and the state writ broadly. Ultimately, Akın argues that even as the empire lost the war on the battlefield, it was the destructiveness of the Ottoman state's wartime policies on the home front that led to the empire's disintegration.
Yigit Akin is Associate Professor of History. He is a historian of the Modern Middle East with research interests that include social and cultural history of the late Ottoman Empire and early Republican Turkey, with a particular focus on the First World War, war and society, gender, nationalism, and social movements.
Alice in Pornoland by
The unquenchable thirst of Dracula. The animal lust of Mr. Hyde. The acquiescence of Lewis Carroll's Alice. Victorian literature--with its overtones of prudishness, respectability, and Old World hypocrisy--belies a subverted eroticism. The Victorian Gothic is monstrous but restrained, repressed but perverse, static but transformative, and preoccupied by gender and sexuality in both regressive and progressive ways. Laura Helen Marks investigates the contradictions and seesawing gender dynamics in Victorian-inspired adult films and looks at why pornographers persist in drawing substance and meaning from the era's Gothic tales. She focuses on the particular Victorianness that pornography prefers, and the mythologies of the Victorian era that fuel today's pornographic fantasies. In turn, she exposes what porning the Victorians shows us about pornography as a genre. A bold foray into theory and other forbidden places, Alice in Pornoland reveals how modern-day Victorian Gothic pornography constantly emphasizes, navigates, transgresses, and renegotiates issues of gender, sexuality, and race.
Laura Helen Marks is Professor of Practice of English. Her work on pornographic genre, adaptation, and neo-Victorian studies has appeared in Sexualities, Phoebe, and Neo-Victorian Cities, and is forthcoming in Porn Studies and From Porno Chic to the Sex Wars: The Destabilization of American Culture and Politics in the 1970s. Marks is also a regular contributor to the adult film oral history podcast, The Rialto Report.
Gender, Heteronormativity, and the American Presidency by
Gender, Heteronormativity and the American Presidencyplaces notions of gender at the center of its analysis of presidential campaign communications. Over the decades, an investment in gendered representations of would-be leaders has changed little, in spite of the second- and third-wave feminist movements. Modern candidates have worked vigorously to demonstrate "compensatory heterosexuality," an unquestionable normative identity that seeks to overcome challenges to their masculinity or femininity. The book draws from a wide range of archived media material, including televised films and advertisements, public debates and speeches, and candidate autobiographies. From the domestic ideals promoted by Eisenhower in the 1950s, right through to the explicit and divisive rhetoric associated with the Clinton/Trump race in 2016; intersectional content and discourse analysis reveals how each presidential candidate used his or her campaign to position themselves as a defender of traditional gender roles, and furthermore, how this investment in "appropriate" gender behaviour was made manifest in both international and domestic policy choices. This book represents a significant and timely contribution to the study of political communication. While communication during presidential elections is a well-established research field, Aidan Smith's book is the first to apply a gendered lens over such an extended historical period and across the political spectrum.
Aidan Smith is Director of the Newcomb Scholars Program and teaches its first year seminar, The History and Philosophy of Higher Education: The Role of College Women. She also coordinates Newcomb’s feminist film initiatives.
The Eccentric Core by
This volume is a tribute to the thought of Seth Benardete by contributors who had the rare good fortune of studying with him or those who discovered the treasure of his writings. Benardete was fully immersed in the world of the ancients, starting with Homer, but their works opened up for him a way to the fundamental questions-about justice and love, nature and law, human and divine. Finding "the problem of the human good grounded in the city, and the problem of being in god," he was led to the conclusion that "Political philosophy is the eccentric core of philosophy." While Benardete wrote this statement reflecting on the theological-political issue in the work of his teacher, Leo Strauss, the paradoxical notion of an "eccentric core," in giving this volume its title, is meant to capture a characteristic of his own way of thinking. The essays in this collection-on the Bible and Homer, the pre-Socratics, Plato, Aristotle, and the Roman writers-indicate the range of Benardete's studies and teaching. The centrality of Plato is evident at the same time in those pieces as well as in the reviews of Benardete's books included here, along with three of his own previously unpublished essays. Book jacket.
Ronna Burger is Professor of Philosophy, Catherine & Henry J. Gaisman Chair and Director of Judeo-Christian Studies, Sizeler Professor of Jewish Studies, and Director of the Religious Studies Minor. She offers seminars almost every semester on particular works of Plato or Aristotle. She has recently been teaching a series of courses, “Bible and Philosophy,” on different topics each term, such as “Women in the Bible,” “The Political World of the Bible,” or “The Problem of Evil.”
Reshaping the Political Arena in Latin America by
Neoliberalism changed the face of Latin America and left average citizens struggling to cope in many ways. Popular sectors were especially hard hit as wages declined and unemployment increased. The backlash to neoliberalism in the form of popular protest and electoral mobilization opened space for leftist governments to emerge. The turn to left governments raised popular expectations for a second wave of incorporation. Although a growing literature has analyzed many aspects of left governments, there is no study of how the redefinition of the organized popular sectors, their allies, and their struggles have reshaped the political arena to include their interests--until now. This volume examines the role played in the second wave of incorporation by political parties, trade unions, and social movements in five cases: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Venezuela. The cases shed new light on a subject critical to understanding the change in the distribution of political power related to popular sectors and their interests--a key issue in the study of postneoliberalism.
Eduardo Silva is Professor of Political Science and Friezo Foundation Chair in Political Science. His research focuses on Latin American politics, and he has published extensively on the political economy of state-society relations, sustainable development with a focus on forest policy, and mass mobilization. He has conducted extensive field research in Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Venezuela. He also has expertise in the Andean countries and Argentina. He has been a consultant to the Inter-American Development Bank, the U.S. State Department and the Center for International Forestry Research in Bangor, Indonesia.
Yamuna River Project by
This publication presents the results of more than five consecutive years of focused research initiatives and designs from The University of Virginia School of Architecture towards the revitalization of New Delhi, India_s water bodies.In collaboration with the Delhi Jal Board, The University of Virginia_s Yamuna River Project is an inter-disciplinary research program, proposing to revitalize the ecology of the Yamuna River in Delhi and creating vital urban links with the Yamuna River as it flows through India_s capital city. Through the research, methodologies, and designs contained within this publication, this project aims to serve as a catalyst for the urgent recovery of the Yamuna River and its tributaries, building a publically accessible body of information and expertise resulting in visions of what an alternative future would be. Only by addressing human equality and the complexity of Delhi_s urban phenomenon can the social and ecological crises manifested through these neglected water bodies be solved.
Iñaki Alday is Dean of the School of Architecture. Since 2016, he has been the co-director and founder (with Pankja Vir Gupta) of the Yamuna River Project, a long-term, interdisciplinary research program whose objective is to revitalize the ecology of the Yamuna River in the Delhi area. Both in academic research and in practice, Alday promotes a new attitude towards the transformation of our environment and how architecture can contribute to the inhabitation of the most challenged areas of the planet. He utilizes a multidisciplinary global vision and social and environmental ethics to examine the role of architecture and architects.
Bioenvironmental Issues Affecting Men's Reproductive and Sexual Health by
Bioenvironmental Issues Affecting Men's Reproductive and Sexual Health is structured into two parts related to men's reproductive and sexual health with eight sections designed to enable a logical flow of such knowledge. The book is focused on the biology of key organs involved in male reproduction and the environmental influences affecting their functions with particular emphasis on clinical aspects. Individual chapters within the book range from basic to translational aspects, but all hold clinical relevance. This is an essential reference for those working and learning in the field of human reproduction, reproductive toxicology and environmental influences on reproductive and sexual health.
Suresh Sikka is Professor and Research Director of Urology, Andrology Research & Clinical Labs Director, Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Human Genetics, and Associate Member of Center of Bioenvironmental Research and Cancer Center. He is responsible for setting up a CLIA-approved Andrology Clinical and Research Laboratory at Tulane Medical Center, catering to the needs of many infertility and sexual dysfunction patients. Professor Sikka's current research focus is oxidative stress-related signal transduction pathways and gene expression involved in prostate tumorigenesis (BPH and cancer) and drug targeting.
Interactive Task Learning Humans, Robots, and Agents Acquiring New Tasks through Natural Interactions by
Experts from a range of disciplines explore how humans and artificial agents can quickly learn completely new tasks through natural interactions with each other.
Parisa Kordjamshidi is Assistant Professor of Computer Science and holds a joint appointment as a research scientist at IHMC. Her main research interests are artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, information extraction and declarative learning based programming. Professor Kordjamshidi has worked on the extraction of formal semantics and structured representations from natural language, with a specific focus on spatial semantics representation. Her current research is dedicated to declarative learning based programming (DeLBP).
