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Chinatown Staging

Does photographic representation in New York’s Chinatowns continue to perpetuate visual stereotypes of contemporary Chinese culture?

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Alien Detention Across the Americas

In the United States, federal detention of immigrants began in the early 1880s to enforce the government’s first national immigration laws against Chinese laborers and people with contagious diseases and mental illnesses. Today, almost half a million aliens are detained each year in the United States, making up the fastest growing part of the prison population.

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Procedures For Saying No: Interrogating the Authorial Voice in Devised Performance

In the summer of 2016, Rebecca Lingafelter teamed up with students Rosemary Lambert and Sophie Swenson to collaborate with nationally recognized playwright Robert Camp and Portland Experimental Theatre to develop and produce a new piece of devised theatre, Procedures For Saying No, that investigated the role of the playwright in devised theatre and contemporary performance.

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Migrant Detention: From McNeil Island to Mexico

In the 1880s, just after Chinese Exclusion, scores of Chinese were held at McNeil Island Prison until US courts ruled that they could be deported back to China in the early 1890s. This was the beginning of the creation of a mass incarceration system for aliens which today holds upwards of 340,000 migrants in jail in the United States.

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Exploring digital imagery on ceramics

The art department recently purchased a ceramic decal printer for the ceramics studio. One of the outcomes of this collaborative research project was to learn how to use the decal printer and to produce high quality ceramics decals for faculty and student use.

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Gaudier-Brzeska, Reconsidered

Our writing explored Gaudier's national identity and the role of France in modernist writing and art, Kantian and Hegelian approaches to his art, the relationship between the modern art museum and the art movement Vorticism, and Gaudier's anarchism then and now.

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Simulating Intergenerational Mobility Amongst the English Medieval Peasantry

We are working to implement an agent-based simulation model (coded in Java) that will produce new estimates of social mobility for the medieval English peasantry. First we organized, processed, and analyzed a data set of over 30,000 individual seed yield entries from harvest records of English manors during the period 1211 to 1491. Then we used the estimate of seed yields as an input to our agent- based simulation model. We then plan to use this model to generate counterfactual estimates of social mobility (and other measures).

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The Rabat Genizah Project: Digital Scholarship in a Multilingual Environment

The Rabat Genizah Project brings together an international team of community representatives, scholars, archivists, and information technologists to develop a digital archive of Moroccan Jewish documents. Research during summer 2014 focused on expansion of the archive, documentation of the project, and extension of the digital technologies to new Moroccan collections.

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Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters: A “Contemporary” Text in Translation, Dramaturgy, & Performance

There are two major objectives we’d like to accomplish within the grant period. One, to collaboratively create a visceral, contemporary translation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters; and two, to work with the Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble and a variety of professional actors in the city towards a production of that translation in a site-­‐specific performance space in Portland in August 2014.

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A Mantra for Hegel? Kaśmiri Śaivism and Hegel on Language.

Kashmiri Shaivism maintains that Shiva is incomprehensible. The Absolute is comprehensible, Hegel claims. Is there something that compels a decision for toward either Shaivism or Hegel? The larger question: Is ultimate truth—be it called Shiva, the Absolute, or the Unified Field Theory—comprehensible?

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The War Beyond the West: Rethinking the Great War in Austria-Hungary and the Balkans

First, how does consideration of Austria-Hungary and the Balkans change our understandings of World War I? These geographic areas have long been overshadowed in a field of scholarship dominated by work on the Western front (Britain, France Germany). Second, how did the home front populations in these areas react and respond to the extraordinary strains of everyday life during Europe’s first “total war”?

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An Exhibit: Diderot at 300, Making Knowledge Happen in the 18th Century

At the center of the exhibit, the Encyclyopédie's schematic tree of knowledge inspired by Bacon's own, displays the interdisciplinary and collaborative nature of knowledge-making in the 18th-century. Branching out into the faculties of Memory, Reason, and Imagination, human understanding is featured as the subversive key to accessing, critiquing, and creating knowledge through the disciplines ramifying from these faculties - including philosophy, history, and literary creative arts.

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Orego: Artificial Intelligence and the Game of Go

Go (Weiqi), the oldest strategy game in the world, was invented in China thousands of years ago. Its rules are simpler than those of Chess, but its strategies more subtle and profound. Top human Go players, unlike Chess players, can still easily defeat the most powerful computers. The space of possible board configurations is unfathomably vast, many orders of magnitude larger than the number of electrons in the universe. We suspect that human Go strength depends on the ability to decompose the game into local subproblems that are largely, but not quite, independent.

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