Biographies of the 2012 LIM Fashion: Now & Then participants
Xavier Aaronson is the creator of Babes At The Museum. He was born in Manhattan and for the past 2 years he's been residing in Brooklyn. When he's not taking photos for his website he's writing for Vice Magazine and Huffington Post. His next undertaking will be publishing the Babes At The Museum book.
Lou Acierno is the Director of Library Services a LIM College (Adrian G. Marcuse Library). From 2006-2011 he was the Library Director of Metropolitan College of New York (MCNY). From 2003-2006 he was Director of Information Literacy at ASA Institute. Before becoming a librarian, he was a artist (video and performance), gallery director and the Director of Artist services for the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Glenda Bailey has been the editor in chief of Harper’s Bazaar since 2001. Under her leadership, the magazine has won numerous awards and had enormous newsstand-sales growth. Bazaar has won five Lucie awards, as well as five Ozzie and four Eddie awards from Folio magazine, and it has been named to Adweek’s Hot List and Advertising Age’s Magazine A-List, which both recognize the 10 hottest magazines in the United States. Bazaar’s covers have been named to Time’s and Advertising Age’s best-covers lists and have won five ASME Best Cover awards and two MIN Editorial & Design awards. In 2010, Bailey was inducted into MIN’s Hall of Fame.
Prior to Bazaar, Bailey was the editor in chief of the U.S. edition of Marie Claire for five years and was named Adweek’s Editor of the Year. During her tenure, Marie Claire was named one of Adweek’s top 10 hottest magazines four times and best publication by The Delaney Report. The title was one of Capell’s Circulation Report’s best circulation performers, and it was the first magazine in the U.S. to be given the Amnesty International Media Award for journalism.
Before her move to New York, Bailey launched British Marie Claire. Under her editorship, Marie Claire became the biggest-selling fashion magazine in the United Kingdom and earned virtually every publishing honor, including three Magazine Editor of the Year awards, five Magazine of the Year awards, and two Amnesty International Media awards.
Born in Derbyshire, England, Bailey was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 2008 in recognition of her services to British journalism and fashion in the United States.
Susan C. Baxter
Dr. Susan C. Baxter is an Associate Professor of Marketing and Chair of the Marketing & Management Department at LIM College. Her research interests range from diversity in advertising, consumer relationships with brands, distance learning and student learning styles, to the impact of HIV on the global workforce. Dr. Baxter teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses at LIM College. Dr. Baxter received her Doctorate of Business Administration in Marketing from Argosy University; she received a Master of Science degree in Psychology from St. Cloud State University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from the College of St. Benedict.
David S. Benjamin
David S. Benjamin graduated from Georgetown University with a degree in American Studies. He has worked as an actor, a magician, unloading trucks, installing closets, selling cigars, pens, vintage clothing, as a clerk in a municipal records office, a reference librarian, an archivist, a rare books and documents specialist, an aesthetic consultant, and as a freelance writer. He holds a graduate degree in Library and Information Science from Long Island University’s Palmer School as well as one in History from New York University. He divides his time between consulting and teaching at LIM College. His research and writing interests include post-war and contemporary American popular culture, 19th century American literary and intellectual history, information and metadata-syndetic theory, as well as the critical and philosophical investigation of consumer behavior. His writing has appeared in both print and on the web. He lives in New York.
Dudley Blossom, Ph.D. is the Associate Dean of Experiential Education & Career Management at LIM College. For more than two decades, Dr. Blossom's career has been focused on educational and entrepreneurial interests. He has a passion for launching new initiatives and working with start-up, small and medium-sized organizations seeking new opportunities and ways to capitalize on them. His expertise spans across a wide variety of sectors, including health and beauty, textiles/home fashions and consumer technology.
Until late 2006, Dr. Blossom worked and taught in Europe where he consulted with many organizations on their brand development and market penetration strategies. He still maintains his own consulting company (Tri Peperudi), offering brand strategy and training services in emerging markets.
Throughout his career, Dr. Blossom has launched several for-profit and not-for-profit ventures and continues to work with small and medium-sized organizations in developing their conception, launch and growth strategies. He has also authored several guides to outsourcing and entering emerging markets in Easter Europe and the U.S., including the Associated Press and CNBC.
Dr. Blossom holds a Ph.D. in Marketing and an MBA in Entrepreneurship & Marketing from the University of Arizona, and a BA in Fine Arts from Trinity College. He is a member of the European Marketing Academy, the American Marketing Association and the Association of Consumer Research.
A child of Rome and the granddaughter of a Vatican Museum art historian, interior designer Alessandra Branca grew up among the finest classical art and architecture in the world. She learned early that even formal beauty was meant to be intermingled with everyday life, and that the well-lived life takes place not in stiff and somber surroundings, but in artful structures graced with a comfortable elegance and wit. Alessandra divides her time between New York, Rome, Harbour Island and Chicago where she founded her design firm in 1981. Awarded by House Beautiful as their first Master Class Designer and recently named as one of Elle Decor's A-list designers for the second year in a row. Her work continues to inspire those through confident, livable and ever-changing interiors.
Marianne Brown is the Collections Manager & Assistant Archivist at Conde Nast. In addition to holding degrees in Art History and Interior Design, she has a MA in Museum Studies—Costume and Textiles from the Fashion Institute of Technology. She will discuss the Vogue digitization project at Conde Nast.
Tom Cary presides over his eponymous rare book/ fine art business, The Cary Collection whose global specialty retail clientele reads like a veritable who's who in the design/ fashion industry: Kate Spade/ J. Crew/ Holland & Holland/ Bergdorf Goodman/ & Polo Ralph Lauren. Tom has amassed a staggering 15,000+ rare book inventory in such diverse/ 'glam' categories as: Men's & Women's Fashion/ Photography/ Jewellery/ Interior Design/ Architecture/ Gardening/ Cookery & Gentlemen's Sporting Pursuits: Equestrian/ Yachting/ Polo/ Horse Racing/ Golfing/ Racquets/ Angling/ Mixology (Cocktailing)/ James Bond/ & Private Clubs, et al. Tom's vintage 'showrooms' have been featured in magazines & on blog sites 'round the world: Nest Magazine, USA: shot by noted society portraitist, Tina Barney (see image)/ The Rake Magazine, Singapore, Malaysia/ Permanent Style, London, UK/ The Vintage Mono, Tokyo, Japan/ Unabashedly Prep, Dallas, Tx/ Yale Daily News, New Haven, Ct/ & New York Social Diary. Portions of The Cary Collection have been prominently featured in both The Museum of The City of New York's landmark exhibition: "Cecil Beaton, The New York Years" as well as currently in The Museum at The Fashion Institute of Technology's "Ivy Style" exhibition. Tom attended The Nichols School in Buffalo, NY & New England College in Arundel, West Sussex, England.
Robert Clark is an Assistant Professor and the Director of the Writing Center at LIM College. In addition to his responsibilities as the Director of LIM College’s Writing Center, Dr. Robert Clark teaches several courses in the Arts & Communications Department, including 20th Century American Literature, New York Writers, News Reporting, and Research and Analysis. Prior to joining LIM College in 2008, Dr. Clark was a Senior Editor at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Contributing Associate Editor for Columbia Magazine, and an Associate Editor at Lingua Franca magazine.
Dr. Clark holds a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, as well as a Master of Arts degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from New York University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Boston University.
Anne Coco is the Graphic Arts Librarian at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Margaret Herrick Library. She holds a bachelor’s degree in film studies from California State University, Northridge (CSUN) and a MLIS from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). She oversees the Library’s collection of two-dimensional works on paper, which includes one of the largest known collections of motion picture costume design drawings.
In 1998, Ms. Coco co-curated the exhibition “The Origins of Screen Style: Hollywood Costume Sketches from the Leonard Stanley Archive.” She presented “Drawn into Hollywood: Documenting Costume Design in the Movies” at the Costume Society of America’s 32nd Annual Meeting and National Symposium in 2006. Her essay, “Drawing on Film: Access, Cataloging and Conservation of Costume Design Drawings at the Margaret Herrick Library” was published in Documenting: Costume Design (2010).
Ari Seth Cohen
Ari Seth Cohen is the creator of Advanced Style, a blog devoted “to capturing the sartorial savvy of the senior set.” He says, “I feature people who live full creative lives. They live life to the fullest, age gracefully and continue to grow and challenge themselves.”
Ari has a longtime interest in clothing and style and a lifelong affinity for his elders. When he was growing up, his late grandmother (a librarian) was his best friend; her “energy and attitude towards life” continue to inspire him. As a result, he couldn’t help but question the absence of mature faces in the fashion world. “I noticed a lack of older people in fashion campaigns and street style sites,” he says. “I wanted to show that you can be stylish, creative and vital at any age.”
At 29, Ari is far from being eligible for a featured spot in Advanced Style. Still, he does have a decade’s worth of professional accomplishments. In addition to developing a blog that’s been touted by the New York Times, the New Yorker, and Forbes, last year he created a special photo installation for Selfridges in London. Before becoming a blogger, he spent years working in fashion production and retail management. Ari lives in New York City.
Becky Collier (Adjunct Professor, Theatre Artist) MA, New York University, BA, Columbia College Chicago, has taught speech, theatre and writing courses at the college level for the past five years. She has worked with LIM College, Fashion Institute of Technology, City College New York, Manhattan College, and the College of Mount Saint Vincent. She has also worked as both a director and a performer with several Off-Off Broadway companies. Her play, “Lil’ Bud,” was produced as part of the Theatrix 24 Hour Play Festival at New York University, and she recently appeared in the independent film, “City Park Rangers.” Becky teaches a Research & Analysis class at LIM College, and loves working with students as they develop and execute their projects.
Lucy Collins received her Ph.D. in philosophy from Temple University where she specialized in existentialism, ethics, and fashion theory. Prior to entering graduate school, she worked for several fashion firms in New York as an editorial and PR assistant. She has presented papers at several national and international conferences on topics related to fashion theory. Dr. Collins teaches courses in ethics and fashion theory at both LIM College and Parsons the New School for Design. She has also delivered lectures at the School of Visual Arts program in Design Criticism.
She has been a blog contributor for Worn Through, Fashion Snoops, and a contributor to The Greenwood Encyclopedia of National Dress. Her writing has also appeared in Fashion Projects and Fashion Theory, as well as The Philosopher's Magazine. She is a member of The Costume Society of America, The American Philosophical Association, The American Society for Aesthetics, and The Popular Culture Association.
Dr. Christopher J. Cyphers joined LIM College as Executive Vice President in July 2012, bringing with him two decades of experience as an educator and administrator. In his current role, Dr. Cyphers has direct oversight and responsibility for Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, Admissions, and Institutional Research.
Prior to coming to LIM College, Dr. Cyphers was President of the New York School of Interior Design (NYSID). While there he created six new degree programs; oversaw the design and construction of a graduate center; undertook a successful institutional rebranding; presided over the largest enrollment increase in the school’s history; greatly expanded NYSID’s fundraising activities, and elevated its reputation in the U.S. and abroad.
Before NYSID, Dr. Cyphers was Provost of the School of Visual Arts, where he taught cultural and intellectual history. He has also served as senior research associate and chief of staff in the Office of the Senior Vice Chancellor Emeritus for Urban Affairs at the City University of New York.
Dr. Cyphers has presented scores of refereed papers on American social and political history, as well as on the subject of art and education in the U.S. He is the author of The National Civic Federation and the Making of a New Liberalism, and has written several articles on issues facing higher education.
Cassie Davies-Strodder graduated from Sussex University with a BA in Art History in 2006. For the last five years she has worked as an Assistant Curator in the Fashion and Textiles Department at The Victoria and Albert Museum in London; Britain’s leading museum of Art and Design holding the National Collection of textiles and dress. Whilst her specialism is early 20th century dress, Cassie has been heavily involved in the Contemporary Programme at the V&A, working on the hugely popular ‘Fashion In Motion’ series of contemporary fashion shows at the Museum and ‘Friday Lates’, the V&A’s curated programme of evening events working with contemporary practitioners in fields as diverse as Architecture and Japanese Lolita fashion. Whilst working at the V&A she studied for her Masters Degree in History of Design and Material Culture under the tuition of renowned dress historian Lou Taylor. Cassie’s research into the Heather Firbank dress collection at the V&A will be published early next year in a book entitled ‘Shopping for Fashion in Edwardian London: The Heather Firbank Collection.’
Kimberly Detterbeck is the Art Librarian at Purchase College, State University of New York. She has previously worked at Frostburg State University as the Visual Arts Librarian and University of Maryland, College Park in the Art Library and has held an internship at The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. She holds an MS in Library and Information Science from the University of Maryland, College Park and a MA in the history of art from Syracuse University. Her presentation, with Marie Sciangula and Nicole LaMoreaux, is based on their research report on the information seeking behaviors of fashion bloggers, as part of the myMETRO Researchers Pilot Project.
Lauren Downing graduated from the MA Fashion Studies program at Parsons the New School for Design in May 2012. She received her BA from Washington University in St. Louis where she majored in Art History and Anthropology. Currently, she works as a part-time faculty member at the New School where she teaches art and design history and theory. She is also a co-editor, art director, and co-founder of Fashion Studies Journal, an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal for the academic study of fashion design and theory. Her current research examines how women cultivate fashionable identities within the plus-size marketplace. Lauren has presented on this topic at the Pop Culture Association of America's annual conference and her work is soon to be published in CUNY's FRAME journal. She currently resides in Brooklyn, New York with her husband Jon.
Ionia Dunn Lee (Fashion Editor, Instructor, Stylist) MA, Pace University, BS, California State University, is a well-known Fashion Insider in New York City. She started out at Essence Magazine in 1974, and quickly rose from the ranks to become a Fashion Editor. As her freelance styling began to pick up, she left Essence to focus on individual clients, freelance writing, and occasional teaching. She is currently the Fashion Director/Style Reporter for Today’s Black Woman, and she continues to teach at LIM College and the High School of Fashion Industry. In 2009, Ionia founded a non-profit organization called “Threads of Color” designed to celebrate the global diversity within the fashion industry and raise scholarship funds. This organization has held three major events and awarded three scholarships to students at LIM College. In 2010, Ionia was presented with the Adjunct Instructor President’s Award from LIM College for Outstanding Service to the College.
Lauren Gavin is an Evening Librarian at LIM College's Adrian G. Marcuse Library. She has a Master of Library Science from Queens College, City University of New York and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Fashion Merchandising from LIM College. Lauren discovered her love of fashion while studying art history as an undergraduate. She noticed that all the art she wanted to study either featured an amazing costume or was inspirational to a fashion movement. Deciding she wanted to be immersed in the fashion industry, she transferred to LIM College for the unique experiential education. Using the specialized collection at the Adrian G. Marcuse Library inspired Lauren to pursue her MLS. Before becoming a Librarian, she worked in the fashion industry for an innovative retailer. It had always been her dream to work in a library with a significant fashion collection and she feels tremendously fortunate to have found the opportunity
Elisa Goodkind & Lily Mandelbaum
StyleLikeU Co-founder & Editor in Chief, Elisa Goodkind, was a former fashion editor at Self and Glamour and a veteran fashion stylist with work published in Interview, In Style, Vanity Fair, Tatler, L’Uomo Vogue, Italian Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine and Gotham Magazines, among others. She has also styled many celebrities in the film, music and tv industries and is a former yoga teacher and partner at Yoga Zone. Her daughter, Lily Mandelbaum, is StyleLikeU’s other founder & Editor in Chief. She is a documentary film student at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Studies and is passionate about social activism with a focus on creating social change through the medium of film. Lily is also the published author of the book StyleLikeU.
Amanda Hallay, Assistant Clinical Professor at LIM College, is an author and cultural historian specializing in various aspects of 20th century popular culture and how each acts as a catalyst to another (as explored in her courses Cultural Connections to Fashion, Pop Century and Who Wore What When, created and taught exclusively at LIM College). The author of several books exploring 20th century pop culture, Professor Hallay’s book, The Popular History of Voodoo will be released by The History Press in 2013, and she will be presenting her research (and the challenges she met due to the lack of archiving of what many in the 20th century perceived as ‘lowbrow’) in her talk, DO DO THAT VOODO! Sex, Sin, Snakes and ‘The Dusky Other’ in 20th Century Popular Culture.
Amanda is the former International Fashion Editor of Couture and Men Mode magazines, and was at one time European Trend Analyst for the Doneger Group, a fashion forecasting service. She is a graduate of the American University of Paris and England’s Bath Spa University.
Zoë Ivory has been an Archivist in the Fashion Industry for 10 years, curating the corporate records and historic artifact collections of Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Delman and Nina Footwear. At Donna Karan she oversaw the Antique Library, a 10,000 piece collection of vintage clothing and accessories, spanning the 19th and 20th centuries, a resource of creative inspiration for DKNY and Donna Karan Collection designers.
At Calvin Klein Ms. Ivory managed the collection of Calvin Klein, including runway collections from 1969 to present. For the Delman Archive she researched and acquired vintage Delman shoes and organized the paper records of the 93-year-old brand. She created the Nina Archive, organizing 55 years of shoes, patterns, lasts, advertising materials, drawings and related ephemera. She taught a course on the history of accessories, focusing on footwear at the Istituto di Design in Barcelona.
Ms. Ivory has completed all course work at the Fashion Institute of Technology’s Graduate Program in Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice.
She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History, with a minor in Museum Studies from Beloit College and is currently enrolled in the Fashion Institute of Technology’s Certificate Program for Production Management. Two special interests, fair trade and sustainable production practices, are fundamental to her business plan for Bon Éléphant, a company she is forming to design and import fair trade produced scarves from India.
Kenneth M. Kambara
Kenneth M. Kambara uses his multidisciplinary skills in a variety of endeavors, including analysis and consultation in social media, independent film production, screenwriting, and teaching marketing at LIM College. One of his screenplays is currently a semifinalist in the Nicholls Fellowship of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and he is producing a documentary on the decline of family medicine, The Mercer Street Medical Case. His current research is on the use of visualization in marketing research and the phenomenon of brand backlash in the era of social media. He received his doctorate in Management from the University of California at Irvine, was an intercampus scholar at the Hass School at UC Berkeley, and received his Masters of Business Administration at the University of Oregon. Dr. Kambara has recently published an article from his dissertation on brand management, presented several papers at the American Sociology Association (ASA) in recent years, and contributes to an ASA group blog on culture, politics, and discourse.
Maheen Khan is a well-known pioneer in the Bangladesh design industry, having created the market for prêt-a-porter garments featuring local traditional designs. She founded and is the managing director of Mayasir Limited, a fashion house whose innovative designs reflect contemporary interpretations of indigenous Bangladeshi style. Ms. Khan's goal is to put Bangladesh's rich heritage on the global fashion map, while providing support to over 3,000 rural artisans working in textiles, jewelry, and other fashion accessories. She also writes a regular column on design and heritage crafts for the Daily Star Bangladesh, and is the founding chair of Arts Council Dhaka, which advocates for and promotes long neglected Bengal art. While on fellowship, she will examine heritage textiles, study folk arts promotion and related social enterprises, meet with fashion designers, and visit museums and galleries featuring Central and South Asian Collections and Native American Arts.
Lindsay King is the Public Services Librarian in the Haas Arts Library at Yale University, where she serves as the liaison to the Yale School of Drama. She previously worked in the Art Collection at Northwestern University Library and in museum education at the Art Institute of Chicago. Lindsay holds an MS in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois and an MA in Modern Art History, Theory, and Criticism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her presentation is based on the article she co-authored with Russell T. Clement, "Style and Substance: Fashion in Twenty-First-Century Research Libraries," published in the spring 2012 issue of Art Documentation.
Nicole Kirpalani is Assistant Professor of Marketing & Management at LIM College, New York, NY. Her research interests focus on the consumer side of marketing, including the co-creation of value, consumer relationships with brands (including fashion brands), and consumer privacy. In addition, she is engaged in research related to marketing pedagogy. Dr. Kirpalani teaches both undergraduate and graduate marketing courses at LIM College. She is the recipient of the 2012 Distinguished Teaching Award at LIM College. She holds a Ph.D. in Business (Marketing) from the City University of New York.
Anya Kurennaya is a recent graduate of the MA Fashion Studies program at Parsons The New School for Design, having previously studied linguistics and foreign languages at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and at McGill University in Montreal. She is a contributing editor of the recently launched Fashion Studies Journal, created by students in the MAFS program to showcase masters’ level work in fashion studies. She is currently working to publish selections from her thesis, entitled “Look What the Cat Dragged In: Masculinity, Sexuality and Authenticity in 1980s Glam Metal.”
Howard Vincent Kurtz
Howard Vincent Kurtz is the Associate Professor of Theater and head of the design program at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Professor Kurtz was honored to receive the George Mason University Outstanding Excellence in Teaching Award and the Fenwick Library Fellowship for Research Award. Mr. Kurtz's previous work experience includes several years as a draper in New York City, creating costumes for Broadway, Hollywood films, and television. Howard is a professional union costume designer, designing costumes at many regional and local theaters in the Washington, D.C. metro area. He was nominated and received the Helen Hayes Outstanding Costume Design Award.
In addition to his academic and professional work in costume design, Mr. Kurtz is the Associate Curator of Costumes and Textiles at the Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens. Howard is responsible for maintaining the museum’s collection of textiles; including the cataloging and conservation of the collections and the preparation of exhibitions. He has curated two exhibitions highlighting the Post family costumes, Invitation to the Ball: Marjorie Merriweather Post’s Fancy Dress Costumes of the 1920s and Wedding Belles, Bridal Fashions From The Marjorie Merriweather Post Family, 1874-1958. Howard is currently writing a comprehensive book on Marjorie Merriweather Post’s costume collection.
Nicole LaMoreaux is currently an Evening Librarian at LIM College’s Adrian G. Marcuse Library and a Reference Assistant at the Fashion Institute of Technology’s Gladys Marcus Library. She received her Master of Library Science degree from the University at Buffalo, SUNY and received her Bachelor of Science degree from the Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY. Nicole has had a keen interest in fashion dating back to when she was in kindergarten in Alabama and always wore a wedding dress. Her presentation, with Kimberly Detterbeck and Marie Sciangula, is based on their research report on the information seeking behaviors of fashion bloggers, as part of the myMETRO Researchers Pilot Project.
Laura Layfer is currently the Art & Antiques Director at Branca, Inc., a design firm with offices in Chicago and New York. Prior to taking on this role, Ms. Layfer was the Furniture & Couture Specialist in the Interiors department at Christie’s, where she organized and directed the inaugural multi-owner couture sale for Christie’s New York in July 2008. Ms. Layfer joined Christie’s in 2005, as a junior specialist in the American Furniture & Folk Art department, and later served as the liaison for the Iconic Sales/ Collectibles department on special collections, handling all cataloguing and research for couture and accessories in such notable sales as: Maria Félix: La Doña (July 2007), The Nan Kempner Collection (October 2007), and Property From The Estate of Kitty Carlisle Hart (December 2007). Ms. Layfer returned to Christie’s as a fashion consultant in 2011, to work on The Collection of Elizabeth Taylor (December 2011).
Previous to her positions at Christie’s, Ms. Layfer was the Assistant Director of the American Arts Course at Sotheby’s Institute. Additionally, she has written for various print and online publications on the topics of fashion and furniture.
Ms. Layfer holds a B.A. in art history from the University of Michigan, a graduate certificate in American fine and decorative arts from Sotheby’s Institute, and an M.A. in the History of Decorative Arts & Design from the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Masters Program with Parsons the New School.
Jacqueline LeBlanc, Ph.D. is Vice President for Planning & Assessment at LIM College. Working with faculty and staff across College departments to develop the College’s first integrated institutional planning and assessment program, she is the leader of the College’s processes for strategic planning, institutional assessment, and learning outcomes assessment. As Accreditation Liaison Officer, Dr. LeBlanc has successfully led the Middle States Self Study as well as Periodic Review Reports for LIM College, and she serves as co-champion for the LIM’s specialized accreditor, the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs.
Barbara Leung holds a BSc in Media, Culture and Communications and French from New York University. She is the current New York editor for Toronto-based online magazine, Front Row Mag. To add, Barbara discusses fashion-related events, spectacles, and theory on her personal blog, Phreshly Squeezed, and can also be found active on Twitter under the handle @barb_leung
Industry veteran Michael Londrigan is the Interim Dean of Academic Affairs and Chairperson of LIM College’s Fashion Merchandising department. Professor Londrigan arrived at LIM College in 2008 with nearly 30 years of experience in the apparel industry focusing on retail, wholesale and textiles. He has a strong background in product development along with extensive executive sales, marketing and merchandising skills. He holds an MBA in Marketing from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Professor Londrigan is the author of the textbook Menswear: Business to Style, published by Fairchild Books. This groundbreaking text allowed colleges throughout the country to introduce a course specifically in menswear marketing.
Professor Londrigan has held a number of positions throughout his career, including National Sales and Marketing Manager for Ulster Weavers, Sales Executive for Regal Menswear, Managing Director of U.S. Marketing for Cotton Incorporated, Vice President of Sales at Harper Industries, Account Executive at Oxford Industries, and Associate Menswear Buyer for J.C. Penney. He also served as Project Coordinator for Social Accountability International’s “New York City Factory of the Future Project.”
Maria Mackinney-Valentin holds an MA in literature from the University of Copenhagen and earned her Ph.D. degree from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Design School (KADK). The Ph.D. dissertation was entitled “On the Nature of Trends: A Study of Trend Mechanisms in Contemporary Fashion” (2010) and was an effort to map, update and develop the field of Trend Studies. She is currently a Senior Research Fellow that KADK where her research centers on consumer behavior. She will be presenting a paper on the paradoxes of retro in contemporary fashion.
Suz Massen has an advanced degree in information and library science from the University at Albany, State University of New York. She also holds an undergraduate degree in art history from Binghamton University, State University of New York, and recently finished her thesis for an advanced degree in art history from Hunter College, City University of New York. An information generalist, Suz prefers to know a moderate amount about many things instead of knowing much about a specific thing. She feels that knowing how to find information is more important than knowing it by heart. Suz enjoys visual dictionaries, graphic novels, and vintage etiquette books. She focuses on pursuits that will aid her in not just being a librarian (as she already is), but in being a super librarian (what she aspires to be).
Emilee Mathews is the Interim Director of the Fine Arts Library at Indiana University in Bloomington. She earned her master’s degrees in Art History and Library Science at Indiana University in 2011. As the director of the Fine Arts Library, she provides vision for the public services of the library, actively participates in the School of Fine Arts’ teaching mission, and works closely with faculty and graduate students to achieve research excellence. She is looking forward to presenting her research on teaching visual literacy through popular culture in her collaborations with apparel merchandising, fashion design, studio art, and art history faculty at IUB.
Jean Meek-Barker began her career assisting Paramount Studios librarian Gladys Percey. Among her credits, she has been a photo stylist for Mademoiselle, a store merchandising representative for Harper's Bazaar, a reporter at the New York Herald-Tribune, and fashion editor for Redbook. Ms. Meek-Barker is the current archivist at Fashion Group International, and a 50-year member of the organization.
Dr. Milan Milasinovic - Vice President for Academic Affairs at LIM College, New York is an expert in entrepreneurship, e-business and business ethics, with a track record of success in the global fashion industry. Dr. Milasinovic joined LIM College in 2007, after serving as the Academic Dean of Graduate Studies at the European School of Economics. In his academic career he has also been a Visiting Professor at the University of Trieste's MIB Graduate School of Business in Italy and a lecturer at SDA Bocconi School of Managment in Milan, Italy.
In 2000, Dr. Milasinovic received Wall Street Europe's Dow Jones Award for Entrepreneurial Achievement in E-Commerce and in 2008 he authored the book Price Volatility and Reference Price (VDM Muller). He is currently working on his second book Technology for Business of Fashion (Fairchild Publications).
Dr. Milasinovic holds a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) from NSU, Fort Lauderdale FL, an MBA from SDA Bocconi (Milan) and Univeristy of Florida, as well as a Master certificate in Information Technology from New York University.
Caroline Rennolds Milbank
Caroline Rennolds Milbank has been involved with the history of fashion for more than 30 years. Beginning with her first job after college at Sotheby’s she has worked as an auction house expert of couture clothing, an appraiser and as a curator of the costume components of art exhibitions at the Clark Art Institute, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has written articles, on-line articles, essays for museum catalogues, along with four books. Her focus is European and American women’s attire during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Nancy Miller is a full-time faculty member in LIM College’s Fashion Merchandising Department. She teaches a variety of courses, including, but not limited to, Fashion Fundamentals, Textiles, Product Development, and Web PDM. She also teaches in LIM College’s summer program for high school students.
Prior to joining LIM College in 2005, Miller enjoyed a fashion industry career that spanned more than 25 years and included work in textile sales management, apparel merchandising, and product development.
Miller was inducted into the Sigma Beta Delta National Honor Society in 2012 and was the recipient of LIM College’s Award for Teaching Excellence in 2009.
Miller holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing from Syracuse University and an Associate of Applied Science degree in Fashion Buying and Merchandising from the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Virginia is the Manager, Recording and Archive of StoryCorps. Born in Washington, DC, Virginia spent her formative years learning the ropes in a variety of libraries, archives, and special collections, including stints at the Library of Congress, the Walker Art Center, and Columbia University’s Diamond Law Library. Prior to arriving in Brooklyn, she worked in research and exhibitions at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Since 2004, she has been involved with the DC Listening Lounge, a group of independent audio producers. She received her Masters in Library Science from the Pratt Institute.
Tal Nadan is the Reference Archivist for the New York Public Library's Manuscripts and Archives Division. In addition to an MLS, she also holds a MS in the History, Theory and Criticism of Art, Design and Architecture. Her interests are in 20th century design as relating to consumer culture, previously studying packaging design for her master's thesis. The presentation will discuss the relationships of different areas of the industry and the modes of information sharing, rooted in the activities of the non-profit Fashion Group International throughout its 80-year history.
Nicole Pagowsky is an Instructional Services Librarian at the University of Arizona. She created Librarian Wardrobe in 2010, a mostly user-generated blog to serve as a catalog of how information professionals dress for work. Nicole is interested in user experience and visual perceptions of information workers, which is explored through interviews and other mediated posts. With a variety of stereotypes floating around about librarians, whether it is buns and shushing or tattoos and social clubs, the blog hopes to dispel these assumptions and question whether they even matter. Nicole developed a program on style, stereotypes, and perceptions for a packed room at the American Library Association 2012 Annual Conference; and participated in a panel on developing a niche through Librarian Wardrobe, within communities of librarians. Nicole’s presentation will focus on internal and external perceptions of library workers and how content from Librarian Wardrobe is used by both information professionals and the public.
Einav is a Ph.D. student at the history department in New York University. Her dissertation, “This is What a Feminist Looks Like: The Construction of the New Woman Imagery through Fashion and the Political Culture of American Feminism 1890-1940,” examines the ways in which women employed dress styles in negotiating and constructing gendered political identities, as well as in advancing feminist agendas during the early decades of the twentieth century. Her project examines the intersections between feminism and fashion, claiming that the two are inherently connected, not opposing each other. She won the 2012-2013 Winterthur Library and Museum Research Fellowship and the 2012-2013 Schlesinger Library Dissertation Grant, as well as research grants from New York University.
Lisa Ryan, the Reference and Instruction Librarian at LIM College’s Adrian G. Marcuse Library and organizer of Fashion: Now & Then, was born and raised in Houston, Texas. Having been “bitten by the fashion bug” as a teenager, she came to New York in 1988 to attend the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Lisa has been preserving fashion information on her own since 1983 when she began collecting fashion books. Now she owns (and has cataloged) a collection of more than 1,000 volumes, which she manages to squeeze into her Manhattan apartment. “I don't look at having my library as a sacrifice…although my husband and daughter would disagree.”
She received her M.S. from Pratt Institute and has worked at Christie’s as an Associate Librarian. Lisa started as the Archivist and is now the Reference and Instruction Librarian at LIM College. She is active in ARLIS/NY (the Metropolitan New York Chapter of the Art Libraries Society of North America.)
George Sanchez (MLS, Rutgers University, MPS, New York Technical College). Came to LIM College in 1985 and served as the Director of the Adrian G. Marcuse Library for 25 years. His experience in retailing and in human resources brought a fashion business perspective to his academic credentials. He was knowledgeable in many areas, such as, general business, film and fashion as well as music. He was also known for his dedication to teaching and working with individual students and faculty on their research projects. Under his leadership, the library expanded along with the college from a 900-square-foot space with 8,000 volumes to a 5,000-square-foot facility with over 18,000 volumes and an electronic collection. George also performed with the LIM College Players as a tribute to the late faculty member Leah Ryan to help raise scholarship funds for students. He recently “retired,” and is currently teaching classes at Fashion Institute of Technology and enjoying time with friends and family.
Marie Sciangula is the Assistant Director of the Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center (TLTC) at Purchase College, State University of New York. She has been working with Purchase College faculty and educational technologies for over a decade. She received her MLIS from the Palmer School of Library and Information Science at Long Island University. Her presentation, with Kim Detterbeck and Nicole LaMoreaux, is based on their research report on the information seeking behaviors of fashion bloggers, as part of the myMETRO Researchers Pilot Project.
With a career of 15 years as Director of Research Collections at the Department of Art History, New York University, Thomaï Serdari is an expert in articulating new research questions and defining interdisciplinary areas of inquiry. Her research focuses on the intersection of fine arts and commerce, a field she calls “luxury arts” and which includes luxury goods in the areas of fashion, product design, and architecture. Her ideas developed into the core course for the Luxury Marketing specialization at NYU’s Stern School of Business. Additionally, Thomaï teaches “Cultures of Excess: Product and Fashion Design through Modernity,” “Research Methods,” and “Entrepreneurship in the Business of Art” also at NYU.
Thomaï is currently working on two books, the biography of Robert Rosenblum, American art historian, and a textbook on entrepreneurship in the arts. She maintains an independent practice as a USPAP qualified appraiser in fine and luxury arts. She is the founder of Ad Nobile, a think tank dedicated to the research of processes, products, and strategies in the luxury segment of the market. Thomaï holds a PhD in Art History and Archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU and an MBA from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business.
Jenny Swadosh is Assistant Archivist for the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Design Archives of Parsons The New School for Design. Previously, she held archives and library positions at the Hadassah Archives at the American Jewish Historical Society and the Staten Island Museum (formerly, Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences). She received her MLS from Queens College-City University of New York with a certificate in Archives, Records Management and Preservation in 2007. While completing her graduate research requirements in 2006, she was awarded a Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute internship at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library in Hyde Park, New York.
Ms. Swadosh holds a BS in Media, Culture and Communication Studies from New York University (’99) and worked in the publishing industry before pursuing graduate study. She is a member of the Society of American Archivists, the Mid-Atlantic Region Archives Conference, and the Archivists’ Round Table of Metropolitan New York. Ms. Swadosh also serves as the Archives Committee Chair for the Association for Gravestone Studies.
Elisabet Takehana is Assistant Professor in the English Studies department of Fitchburg State University. Her scholarly interests include aesthetics, digital studies, and 20th century text and image production. She is currently completing a co-edited proceedings for the FDS 2010 conference (http://www.english.ufl.edu/fds/speakers.html) for two special issues of the Digital Humanities Quarterly. Her essay, "Baroque Computing: Interface and the Subject-Object Divide" for Design, Mediation and the Post-human is forthcoming 2013 while “William Burroughs / Robert Rauschenberg: Text-Image / Image-Text” appears in the anthology The Future of Text and Image (Cambridge Scholars Press).
Joseph Ungoco is an Adjunct Professor at LIM College where he teaches the Capstone course for graduate students in the MBA program. He has over six years of progressively advancing Editorial experience in the Fashion Magazine Industry and over 16 years experience in strategic planning, communications and public relations. Professor Ungoco is the founder of ICON Consulting Services, a consultancy group that provides small business entrepreneurs with business solutions.
Professor Ungoco received an MBA, cum laude from Boston University, as well as a BA, cum laude and MA in Medical Science.
Monique has taught Fashion Communications at Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina in Brazil since 1998. In addition to working as a journalist at Revista Nova Cosmopolitan, Jornal O Estado, Revista Veja, and Jornal AN Capital, Monique has also worked in public relations at Compania de Notícias, CDN. Her research interests are fashion, consumerism, magazines, and new technologies. Monique holds a BA in Communications from Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, a MA in Developmental Studies from Institute of Social Studies (den Haag, Netherlands), and a PhD in Communications from Universidade do Estado de São Paulo.
Amy Wolfe has been an academic librarian for over 14 years. Currently she is the Technical Services & Reference Librarian at LIM College's Adrian G. Marcuse Library. Previously she headed Public and Access Services departments at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and City College, CUNY in Manhattan, in addition to being the Technical Services & Systems Librarian at Marymount Manhattan College in NYC.
When it came time to go to college and graduate school, Amy, a lifelong New Yorker and Brooklynite, decided to venture outside of New York and head to Wisconsin. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, majoring in Women’s Studies & History and minoring in African-American Literature. She then earned her Master’s degree in Library Studies from the UW-Madison School of Library and Information Studies, focusing on User Education, Bibliographic Instruction, Reference, and Research.
Amy loves being a librarian and is always focused on making sure that library users have access to information and in minimizing the physical and psychological costs of using a library. To this end Amy is always watching and trying to learn how people seek, access, organize and use information in their everyday lives. Amy has also been working with colleagues on research about Distance Learning and using Web 2.0 technologies in meaningful ways.
Amy is a huge sports fan and political junkie and can be found many days sitting in her office working on the ILS or cataloging while listening to the latest sports or political happenings in the world.
As Creative Director of The Doneger Group, David analyzes trends influencing big-picture developments in style, culture and society. A high-profile personality, David’s wit and wisdom have earned him a stellar reputation over his 50 years in the fashion industry. He is known as “America’s Foremost Fashion Forecaster” and is the most quoted authority in the industry, his views and quips appearing in various publications and on television.
A native of Ohio, David began his career there in a small department store. In the 1960s he moved to London where he quickly established himself as a leading fashion artist published in Vogue, Women’s Wear Daily and The London Sunday Times. In 1969, he helped to establish the “fashion service” segment of the industry and is credited with being the originator of what became known as “trend forecasting” while working for a decade as Creative Director of IM International. He then established TFS The Fashion service and returned to the U.S. as President of that company. He joined The Doneger Group in 1990.
Today David devotes much of his time to public appearances including frequently acting as guest lecturer at LIM College where his daughter, Amanda Hallay, teaches, and where he serves on the Advisory Board.
Dr. Denice Yanni is the Chair of LIM College’s Arts & Communications Department. She holds a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst. She also teaches the Public Speaking, Honors Public Speaking, Professional Communications, and Research and Analysis courses. Dr. Yanni’s primary areas of scholarship are communication and memory, communication and aging, and the role of communication technologies in social construction.
Dr. Yanni is the author of “Shifts in Identity: The Contextualizing Function of Communication Technologies,” a chapter in Context and Communication Behavior, James L. Owen (ed.), University of Nevada/Reno Press (1997); “Ecofeminism as Transformative Discourse,” a chapter in Proceedings of the Conference on Communication and Our Environment, James G. Cantrill and M. Jimmie Killingsworth (eds.), Northern Michigan University Printing Services (1993); and “Speaking Metaphorically: A Cultural Enactment of Community Among Women” a chapter in Constructing and Reconstructing Gender, Linda A.M. Perry (ed.), SUNY Press (1992).
Among Dr. Yanni’s published academic papers is “The Social Construction of Women as Mediated by Advertising,” which first appeared in the Journal of Communication Inquiry, (Winter 1990) Vol. 14, No. 1, and was then selected for inclusion in Sociological Abstracts (1991), going on to become one of the top 100 articles cited from the Journal of Communication Inquiry from 1986-2011.
Created 8/15/12 Updated 10/22/12 AW


(taken from www.onomatopee.net)
What is artistic research? What is a research document? How do these relate to the making process, invention, and creativity? What exactly is expected of me? If you have ever asked yourself any of these questions, then this book is for you. Research For People Who (Think They) Would Rather Create addresses all relevant aspects that need to be considered during a research and documentation process, such as: finding the right topic and approach; formulating your research question; working out your methods; choosing one or more suitable writing styles; and considering the possible roles of visual, virtual, auditory, embodied, and spatial materials.
“At the heart of Research for People Who (Think They) Would Rather Create are dozens of examples from the field of art and design – each of which illustrates one specific aspect of developing a thesis, essay, paper, report, proposal, research document, or however else it may be referred to in your own setting. You can read this book from cover to cover, or you can immediately flip to those subjects which you find most relevant at any given moment. Ultimately, Research for People Who (Think They) Would Rather Create is an invitation to contribute – quite literally, with your own projects, examples, and questions – since our goal is to help you develop your own research.”
Dirk Vis (1981) writes fiction, essays and poetry, in Dutch and English. Vis spends his time between The Netherlands, Berlin and the forest of Białowieża. He studied at the Rietveld Academy and the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam. His books have been published in Dutch: most recently the novel Paren of de kunst van de slaapkamer (Atlas Contact, 2022), the novella Het reality-essay (De Gids, 2017), and in English: the (anti-)manual for artistic research Research for People Who (Think They) Would Rather Create (Onomatopee, 2021). Vis directed several video works based on his scenarios. He is contributing editor of Dutch literary magazine De Gids (The Guide) and co-founder of De Internet Gids. He is lecturer-researcher and tutor at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam and the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, besides appearing as guest lecturer at international art universities.


Welcome to the Gilbert Intermediate Library!
Our library is a wonderful place for instilling a love of reading, creating, and inspiring life-long learning!
Library Hours: 7:45-3:15
Looking for opportunities to volunteer? Our library is always looking for people to help shelve books, set up our book fairs, create bulletin boards, and so much more! If you are interested, contact email@example.com for more information!
Overdue Books: At Gilbert Intermediate School, we believe that there should be no limit to reading, so students are able to check-out as many books as they would like! If a book is lost, there will be no over-due fine as long as it is returned by the end of the school year.
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4th and 5th Grade Reading Logs
At the Intermediate School, 4th and 5th grade students are invited to participate in Reading Challenges where they read 30 books in 14 different genres. This may force students to get outside of their comfort zone and explore new types of texts!
Fourth Grade 30 Book Challenge
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In this section you will find chronologically sorted list of articles devoted to the Belgian Blue breed. The list includes most of the articles that were published in the Czech Republic. The vast majority of them were published in the main zootechnical magazine "Náš Chov". The scientific work and other similar-oriented texts are not included in the list. If you know about any interesting article or a text referring to the Belgian blue breed not listed here should send it to us and we will add it to the list.
The artciles for downloading in pdf format you will find HERE.
Note: articles available in Czech language only.


This white library book wallpaper is a minimalist version of our much loved bookshelf design. In this archetypal wall decoration the bookshelf effect is stripped back to its bones, removing everything superfluous until all that remains is a simple line version of a bookcase.
This white library wallpaper is an abstract and engaging design that will suit anyone who loves simplicity and clean lines together with an appreciation of great design.
Whether you’re looking for a library wallpaper for a feature wall, for a whole room or an annexe or alcove, this is a great choice. White wallpaper is a timeless classic for your home, giving a sense of space and light. Plus, this unique design makes a high impact style statement. It’s highly versatile through both its colouring and visual appeal and will work in any room in your home, from bathrooms to kitchens, office space to hallways.
This kind of library wallpaper is especially perfect for book lovers. If you love old fashioned libraries and bookshops, this luxury wallpaper will bring you the same unique atmosphere of quiet calm.
For more ideas, take a look at our other stylish bookcase wallpaper designs - we have 16 different colours and styles, from the traditional trompe l’oeil effect of real books through to this unique outline approach. We also have three other white library wallpaper options: white bookshelf, photocopy bookshelf and almost white photocopy bookshelf.
Our books outline design comes in nine colour options: white, pink and grey, grey and pink, blue and pink, petroleum and aquamarine, tonal aquamarine, tonal grey, tonal navy and tonal pink. We also have other minimalist designs in this collection, symbolising the elements of woodgrain, panelling, windows, quilting and bricks.
All our bookshelf wallpaper is suitable for both domestic and commercial use. Easy to apply, it will create a superb wallpaper feature. If you haven’t made up your mind yet, take a look at our other white wallpaper designs.
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Note : Due to the printing process, colours may vary slightly between batches. Customers should try to order enough rolls initially. If re-ordering you must provide the Batch number. Please also note that images onscreen are not a truly accurate representation of print colour.


Writing Romantic Lives 2017
UPDATE: 14/11/17 Our keynote speaker Dr Felicity James, Leicester University, is co-editor with Dr Julian North of Life Writing vol 14.2 (June 2017). They have very kindly allowed us to access the entire edition of Life Writing 14.2 ‘Writing Lives Together: Romantic and Victorian Auto/biography’ for free until the end of this year! Follow the link to access this fantastic piece of Romantic research! http://explore.tandfonline.com/content/ah/rlwr-writing-romantic-lives
A one-day postgraduate symposium @ Edge Hill University, 25th November 2017
Just in time to celebrate the 200th anniversary of S. T. Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria, this one-day symposium, co-organised by Edge Hill and Keele Universities, asks: what kind of value is placed on auto/biographical writings of the Romantic period? How does life writing in the Romantic period engage with philosophical, theological and literary critical theories? What would Romantic writers have to say now, if given the chance?
Dr. Felicity James – Leicester University, Lecturer in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Literature
There is an opportunity for selected papers from the symposium to be resubmitted for publication.
See CFP for more details!


Shawnee Public Library
101 North Philadelphia
Shawnee, OK 74801
*The library can also be accessed from Main Street in downtown Shawnee.
The Pioneer Library System is made up of several hometown public libraries within Cleveland, McClain, and Pottawatomie counties. The closest public library to the OBU campus is the Shawnee Public Library.
You may be wondering what services can the Pioneer Library System provide for me? You may be suprised! Check out the links below.
All OBU students, faculty and staff are eligible for a free Pioneer Library System library card. It is very easy to apply.
There are two types of library cards available:
1. Virtual Library Card
This provides access to online materials (databases, ebooks, music downloads) only.
Click here to apply online for a virtual library card.
2. Traditional Library Card
This provides access to online materials as well as books and DVDs inside the hometown libraries.
You can begin applying for the traditional library card here. It will be mailed to you and activated upon your first visit to the library. You may also opt to visit the library and fill out an application in person and receive your card that day.


Kamugisha (2007) identifies the characteristics of middle-class nationalism in the postcolonial Anglophone Caribbean by critically evaluating the role of elite domination and its implications on contemporary Caribbean society. He describes a Caribbean elite who defines themselves by the standards of Euro-American modernity. Thus, it was determined that
conspicuous consumption and the valorisation of tastes that inevitably derive from the metropolis are the only thing that can separate Caribbean elites from the masses and further legitimise their domination over them (Kamugisha, 2007, p.34).
Additionally, Hintzen (1997) highlights the ascent of the middle-class in the Anglophone Caribbean; tracing its roots from anti-colonial nationalism. This ideology constituted a rejection of colonialism and its principles and was formulated by “an ascendant anti-colonial elite, and was justified on the grounds of an argument for self-determination, racial equality, and developmental transformation” (Hintzen, 1997). However, in gaining the authority to formulate the postcolonial society through emergent political power, the educated elite sought to impose its values and thereby gain dominance over the masses; a problem inherited from colonialism.
Hintzen (1997) also articulates the acquisition of dominance by the educated middle-class elite by virtue of their social and cultural capital which was intrinsic in legitimising its preferential access to economic capital in the name of nationalism. Access to Eurocentric socialisation, education, and training has also contributed to the possession of social capital by the middle-classes. While in the initial post-independence years the Caribbean elites have utilised their adoption of Western consumption patterns to legitimise dominance over the subaltern masses, there has been a similar idealisation of the metropolis by the masses in recent times, thus, attempting to reduce the social divide. As the dominant ideology shifted from nationalism to one of development, discourse has progressed to include industrialisation, technological advancements, and flagrant mass consumption habits (Hintzen, 1997).
Technology and the influence of mainstream media have influenced the valorisation of Euro-American concepts of modernity by the masses in the contemporary Caribbean. The aspiration of the masses then is to acquire that which has rendered them inferior. The development paradigm has engulfed all strata of the post-independence Caribbean as the values from the West have been idealised. Hintzen (1997) describes these Euro-American tastes and values as no longer being foreign and colonial, but modern and developed and a requirement for the achievement of equality in a globalised world. In the name of development, a wider section of society has gained access to Western privileges that have previously been available mainly to the elites.
Despite the drive towards the acquisition of Eurocentric modernity and capitalist development in the post-independence Caribbean which conceptualises equality, the imbedded social order still permeates Caribbean society. Yet it is secondary to the issue of escaping the coloniality that is still prevalent in contemporary society. Grosfoguel (2009, p.14) states that “the success of the modern/colonial world-system consists in making subjects that are socially located on the oppressed side of the colonial difference, think epistemically like the ones in the dominant positions.” Thus, despite the dominant position of the middle classes over the masses, and the masses’ desire to elevate in social stature, both groups remain colonised in the ‘modern/ colonial world-system.’ Relative power remains the only difference between the middle and lower classes. The capitalist and neo-colonial world- system have successfully maintained control over its colonies. Therefore, the attributes of development and modernity have not removed the stains of colonialism but have reaffirmed the coloniser-colonised relationship between the core and periphery.
The idea presented by Kamugisha (2007) that the Caribbean elites legitimise dominance over the masses based on the adoption of Euro-American consumption and tastes is not one that I would keep. In the wake of globalisation and the drive towards development, the metropole is more accessible to the masses. Thus, legitimacy based on access to Euro-American modernity has been diminished. As long as the social system in the Caribbean exhibits its stratified inheritance from plantation society and the quest for modernity highlights the need for the attainment of Euro-American concepts and values persists, the contemporary Anglophone Caribbean would remain subordinate to the West.
Grosfoguel, R. (2009). “A decolonial approach to political-economy: Transmodernity, border thinking and global coloniality.” Kult 6: 10-38.
Hintzen, P. (1997). “Reproducing domination identity and legitimacy constructs in the West Indies.” Social Identities, 3(1): 47-76.
Kamugisha, A. (2007). “The coloniality of citizenship in the contemporary Anglophone Caribbean.” Race and Class, 49(2): 20-40.


The dating project
Any question you’ve had about how to approach dating is about to get answered by this one-stop, all-you-need-to-know, ultimate online and app dating guide.The daughter of Chicago author Amy Krouse Rosenthal — whose essay titled “You May Want to Marry My Husband” touched millions of readers — is finishing a project her mother started before her death earlier this month following a battle with ovarian cancer.“One of the concepts that we had was that all of mankind is from the same place and I guess to make the characters feel like they were all one family.So if you watch, the caveman [bodies] are the same as the modern-day characters’ [bodies],” noted Honey.The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation’s pamphlet Protecting Historic Properties: A Citizen’s Guide to Section 106 Review is an excellent starting point for citizens seeking more information on their role in the Section 106 process.The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, as per their website, “…is an independent federal agency that promotes the preservation, enhancement, and productive use of our nation's historic resources, and advises the President and Congress on national historic preservation policy.” In Missouri, the State Historic Preservation Office in the Department of Natural Resources is responsible, in partnership with the U. Department of the Interior's National Park Service and local governments, in assisting in the Section 106 process. Or, at least, so says a new spot from Tinder and production spot Buck, which posits that Tinder isn’t so much an app for casual hookups but one that makes finding that human connection once again plausible.
Failure to obtain Section 106 clearance could jeopardize federal funding and permits for a project, which could result in project delays.If you have concerns or knowledge of a proposed Mo DOT project that may impact a historic property, please contact Mo DOT's historic preservation manager at Michael. Links to the historic preservation topics that Mo DOT considers in the planning, construction, and maintenance of Missouri's transportation system are located at the top of the page. The Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library offers an exceptional encounter with antiquity.Using the world's most advanced imaging technology, the Digital Library preserves thousands of scroll fragments, including the oldest known copies of biblical texts, now accessible to the public for the first time. It can be fun, terrible, exciting, hard — the adjectives used to describe it are endless.
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2021 Royal North of Ireland Yacht Club Regatta SIs - Not yet available
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Regatta Sailing Instructions 2021
Sailing Instructions for Regattas are published in two parts. The first part (the General Regatta Sailing Instructions) contain those instructions that are common to all regattas in the Lough. The second part is the Sailing Instructions that are particular to a Club. Both parts are available here in pdf format. Sis are added as they are received - if it is not yet available it is because the Club has not yet provided them to us.
CAUTION: Club Sailing Instructions can sometimes change the start times or classes for individual Regattas so need to be read in conjunction with the General Instructions. Don’t leave it until the day of the Regatta!


Wouldn't it be great if you could climb into bed, snuggle under your covers, and fall asleep
without any fuss or fear? Without listening for noises or thinking about bad guys? Without an
extra drink, or an extra hug, or an extra trip to the bathroom? Bedtime is tough for many kids.
If you're a kid who dreads your bed, and are convinced that nothing short of magic will make
nighttime easier, this book is for you.
What to Do When You You Dread Your Bed
guides children and their parents through the cognitive-behavioral techniques used to treat problems with sleep. Fears, busy brains, restless
bodies, and overdependence on parents are all tackled as children gain the skills they need for more peaceful nights.
This interactive self-help book is the complete resource for educating, motivating, and empowering children to fall
asleep and stay asleep - like magic!
Published by Magination Press with
illustrations by Bonnie Matthews.
"Dr. Huebner has written a fun, invaluable book for parents and their children who dread
going to bed. Her use of magic tricks and games to help children overcome their bedtime
fears is engaging and unique. A 'must have' guide for parents and children who want to
create healthier sleep habits."
Kim West, LCSW-C
"This guide will turn bedtime tears and fears into sweet dreams and peaceful, restful nights."
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Before Roe v. Wade, there were thousands of illegal abortions in the U.S. every year. Some of these were incredibly dangerous; women would use knitting needles or coat hangers to end pregnancies. This, and other illegal methods, could lead to injury or death. In the 1970s, one group of women got fed up and decided to take women's health into their own hands. We talk to “self-helpers” Carol Downer and Francie Hornstein, who led a movement for safe abortions and education for women by women.
Check out the full transcript here: http://bit.ly/2sfqhlB
- “Back alley” abortions before Roe v. Wade (See chapter 3) https://bit.ly/2JA6gOb
- A study documenting the techniques used for illegal abortions in the 60s https://bit.ly/2VLKl8e
- A Woman's Book of Choices by Dr. Rebecca Chalker (PhD) and Carol Downer https://bit.ly/2K5MbP4
This episode was produced by Wendy Zukerman, with help from Meryl Horn, Rose Rimler, and Michelle Dang. Our senior producer is Kaitlyn Sawrey. We’re edited by Blythe Terrell. Editing help from Caitlin Kenney, Kaitlyn Sawrey, Sruthi Pinnemanni, Jorge Just, Lulu Miller and Chris Neary. Fact checking by Diane Kelly. Mix and sound design by Peter Leonard. Music by Peter Leonard, Emma Munger and Bobby Lord. Recording assistance from Anny Celsi. A huge thanks to all the scientists we got in touch with for this episode, including Dr Sara Matthiesen, Professor Verta Taylor, Professor John DeLancey, Professor Carole Joffe, Professor Johanna Schoen, and Dr. Denise Copelton. And special thanks to Michele Welsing and the team at Southern California Library, Dr Becky Chalker, Jonathon Roberts, Jim Aspholm, Odelia Rubin, Alice Kors, the Zukerman family, and Joseph Lavelle Wilson.
Women's Liberation Day: New York, San Francisco and Berkeley rallies of August 26, 1970 was used courtesy of the Pacifica Radio Archives.


I have a thing for old books and libraries.
Listed in reverse chronological order based on when I first encountered them
A late 19th century recipe book from Maine with handwritten recipes and recipes taken from newspapers. From the Middlebury college library special collections. We tried pretty hard to figure out which newspaper the recipes were from but just couldn't find one that matches.
Anyways, here are some recipes for donuts and cakes from 150 years ago. We made some Graham Gems following this handwritten recipe, and you can learn more about the experience and some fun historical facts from this Campus article.
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium by Nicolaus Copernicus. The version that Harvard has is from 1617 and is I believe the third edition, published by Nicolaus Mulerius. Here's the title page ("Now only after the 75 year anniversary of the author's death"), as well as a signature of the first president of Harvard on the book. Of course, then there is the famous diagram:
Great experience. Did this like the week before I had to leave.
The New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ: Translated into the Indian Language and Ordered to be Printed by the Commissioners of the United Colonies in NEW-ENGLAND, AT the Change, and with the Consent of the CORPORATION IN ENGLAND For the Propagation of the Gospel amongst the Indians in New-England.Printed in Cambridge in 1661 by our very own Samuel Green. Title page, dedication to Charles the Second main text, and what it looks like on the outside. Holding the book made me feel like an early colonizer. It's like a movie prop, except it's not the prop, it's the ORIGINAL. FROM 1661. PRINTED IN THE COLONIES. SO COOL.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: My dad has been telling me to go read this classic for quite a while now, so being the absolute based chad that I would like to think of being, I went to Houghton library and got a hold of one of the first editions from 1787. The cover is basically a piece of paper at this point. However, it is completely readable and a perfectly functioning book. I read several chapters before stopping. I felt like the book lacked focus and a compelling enough narrative for my taste. Like, it's cool that you're talking about how the Roman army is well trained and everything, but I don't really need to know that. Was still fun though!
Communist Brochures: Ok so I was writing this paper for Ec 1080 and stumbled upon these brochures (in French) from the Marxist Library of Paris. They are so cool. Take a look at the introduction for the fourth book, Planisme et Socialisme. In the beginning, it talks about how the capitalist system has recessions every ten years or so, and then in 1929 "the capitalist world entered an unprecedented economic crisis." It goes on and states that these crises are "born with capitalism itself; they are created by the growth of the capitalist system, and the only way to end these crises forever is the abolition of the capitalist system itself and the institution of a socialist economy." Doesn't this remind you of the rhetoric surrounding defunding/abolishing the police? That's pretty damn cool.
Law of Large Numbers: Condorcet (1785) talks about how, if voters have a less than one-half chance of getting something right, then society as a whole would almost certainly vote for the wrong choice, and thus "it could be dangerous to give a democratic constitution to a group of stupid people". See original: picture 1 2 3. I read the book at Harvard Houghton library, although it is also available online through the French National Library.
The Van De Velde's: I go to meetings for the Harvard Undergraduate Art History Society, and one of the things we do is bring in paintings that we are interested in to share. One week I picked Dutch Ships in a Calm Sea by William Van De Velde the Younger (1665 Oil on panel):
So to learn a little more about the artist I head over to the Fine Arts Library and found this pretty book published in 1892. It's falling apart in a lot of places but still very much readable (with a little help from Wordreference lol). And it is actually a very useful source! For example, it talks about the relationship between the Dutch and the sea: The sea is a danger to the low altitude country, but it is also a source of pride and revenue (through the Dutch East Indian company). Dutch painters created this special, nationalistic genre for painting ships and the sea. William Van de Velde's father was the official painter for the Dutch fleet at the request of the Admiralty Council. "Non content de suivre les manœuvres pacifiques de l'escadre, il assistait même à ses engagements avec l'ennemi" ("Not satisfied with following the fleet, he also helped out during engagements with the enemy") (p.54). That's right, during the Four Days Battle , he was on a small boat and recorded the battle and helped the navy trace what happened afterward. That's pretty cool eh? (p 54 55).
Francesian Book of Hours (1470) at Middlebury College Special Collections: Picture 1 2 3 4
I don't really remember what this and that is... but they are very pretty. From the Qatar National Library
A New Account of the East Indies by Alexander Hamilton (no, not that one, the sailor) from the National Library of Singapore
A closeup photo of one of the Lindisfarne Gospels in the British Library
Saw this at the Claremont college libraries
History of the World in Five Books from Colby College Special Collections
I was first intrigued by old books in December 2018 when writing a long art history paper. I was looking at Edvard Munch’s The Scream, and stumbled this book at the Seattle public library about Munch by Thomas Messer. Messer wrote that Munch went to the Salon des Indépendants in 1891 and was deeply influenced by the ten Van Gogh works there, but he didn't mention which ten. So I wanted to look for the exhibition catalog for the 1891 exhibition (SPL had a copy of the catalog in 1927, which was very pretty). The librarian introduced me to WorldCat, and we found out that the catalog is only found in the French National Library and the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam.
Thus, I went to Paris seven months later (I was going to Paris anyways) and visited la Bibliothèque Nationale de France (François-Mitterrand). They didn't have the physical catalog but a microfilm of it (first time I saw microfilm lol). To get the microfilm, I needed to enter the research section of the library, which means getting a library card. I got one as an "independent researcher" by showing them my college admission letter and paying five euros (I have since started collecting library cards and have around 14 in my collection haha).
Armed with my new library card, I passed through the first gates of the research section. The second set of doors required a “reservation” with the front desk before I was able to walk in. Then, I had to talk to the people in the Art history section of the library, who had to reserve the microfilm on the computer and told me to wait up to 20 mins until the thing delivers through what appears to be a complex system of belts (like the ones at an airport). And behold:


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A unique and authoritative guide to the lives and work of prominent living contemporary choreographers, this fully updated new edition includes many new names in the field of choreography, alongside those considered masters of the modern age. Representing a wide range of dance genres, each entry locates the individual in the context of modern dance theatre and explores their impact. Those studied include:
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Genre: Asian Literature, Singaporean Literature
Publication: English Translation; November 2012 by Epigram Books
“So many changes. In only a few years.”
“Nothing really changes. What’s different is how you feel inside.”
SUMMARY FROM GOODREADS:
In this Singapore Literature Prize-winning collection of stories, an aging Japanese ex-soldier, ignorant about the horrors of the Japanese Occupation, returns to Singapore for a nostalgic visit; a young boy’s sole contact with his father consists of a weekly meeting at McDonald’s; and a hopeful employee tries to win over his tumour-stricken boss with traditional Chinese medicine. Set against the backdrop of Singapore’s rapid development from the 1980s to the early 2000s, the poignant and witty stories in The Earnest Mask peel back the veneer of official history, revealing flashes of the personal stories buried beneath.
The Earnest Mask showed me the transformation of Singapore from the 1980’s to how it looks like in the early 2000’s through a series of short short stories. It was the first time I’ve ever read a book written by a Singaporean and set in Singapore. And I can say that this book was the best first time I could ever wish. No wonder the author, Xi Ni Er, was awarded with Singapore’s Cultural Medallion while this book won the Singapore’s Literature Prize in 2008.
The stories are short, three to five pages at most, yet the message that the author wanted to impart can be felt through those few pages. Straightforward yet poignant, imaginative, heart-felt and oftentimes satirical, the stories showed a side of Singapore behind its rich and glamorous appearance.
Xi Ni Er imparts his opinion about the Sino-Japanese war, the indifference of the younger Singaporeans to their country’s culture and tradition, their forgotten history, and the consequences of Singapore’s growth as a first world country. In his short stories the author pointed out how establishments with historical values, as well as their natural resources were compromised and destroyed to build the high rise buildings and modern infrastructures that you can see in Singapore today. How their own language is starting to die and replaced by foreign languages. And how, sadly, the present generation doesn’t feel anything at all about these changes.
I can feel the author’s sincere love for Singapore’s past, culture and tradition and how he must feel sad and disappointed that everything is changing so fast. And that their rich history is now becoming a forgotten memory. As for me, The Earnest Mask gave me a glimpse of Singapore through the eyes of its citizen who knows its heart and soul and not blinded by the glimmer of its outside appearance.


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Earlier this month, we had the chance to take part in TEDxYouthMonterey, a day-long event co-hosted by the Monterey Institute for International Studies and Stevenson School, and a veritable army of volunteers and other community organizations. With the theme, “Inspire Tomorrow, Today,” the day drew a packed audience consisting almost exclusively of high school students from the local area, education enthusiasts, and powerful thinkers and doers who refused to subsist on the status quo.
There was Kendall Ronzano, whose NerdGirlHomes is empowering high school students to lend their hands—literally—to fighting homelessness, by building homes from start to finish, and donating them to families in need. An inventor from the time she could walk, Kendall set herself a goal of building a home before graduating high school, and realized that the millions of high school students across the country represented a powerful untapped resource. There was Joe Kochevar, who invented a new means of coding words through images, and shared a glimpse of what Steve Jobs might have looked like at 17. And there was Shandra Benito, a 19-year-old Youth Venturer, who founded a summer camp program for low-income youth as a participant in one of our “Dream It. Do It.” challenges several years ago, and who shared her thinking on the ripple effect that accompanies every action.
In her earliest years, Shandra was like every other happy and healthy baby. But when she reached two and a half and still had only one made-up word in her vocabulary, her parents began to worry. They took her to a specialist, who discovered she had a "mild to moderately severe" hearing disability. From that point forward, she entered a new normal: her first language was sign language and her parents enrolled her in an all-deaf pre-school, with the result that all of her friends were likewise hard of hearing.
It was only as she entered a public kindergarten that she discovered she was different. Sitting on the rainbow-colored carpet tiles on her first day, she looked around to find that no one else wore hearing aids; no one else had an interpreter; and no one else signed. And so, just like that, her disability became something to hide. She would wave off her parents anytime they signed in public, she hated the word "deaf," and spent recess befriending the librarian. When her parents offered to pay her to play outside, she pocketed the money, and took her books to read outdoors while the other children played.
But at the age of 10, all of that changed. Michael, the 18-year-old son of a family friend, came by the house, and the two ended up talking on the couch all day long. Shandra shared her fears about entering middle school, her embarrassment over her hearing aids, and the feelings of isolation that had been with her since that first day of kindergarten. Having a cool 18-year-old tell her that she should be proud of who she was and that she had nothing to fear was all it took. And so, upon entering the sixth grade—a time in which many kids falter, and begin a years-long journey toward dropping out—Shandra bloomed.
No longer afraid of being different, she carefully explained why she read lips and what it meant to be hard of hearing, and found that her peers were no less likely to talk to her. Her hearing aids, and the radio device she carried, become a makeshift walkie-talkie she and her friends used to communicate in class. But she found her disability had given her something, too: she would instinctively sit next to the kid alone at the cafeteria table, because she knew what that feeling was like.
Now 19 and a sophomore at Seattle University, she is the founder and leader of Reach Out, an organization that runs summer camps for low-income and underserved kids each year, offering the same sort of mentorship, encouragement, and willingness to listen that made such a profound difference in her own trajectory.
We wrote earlier this week about the Bystander Effect: the tendency for individuals, when in groups, to stand by, hoping someone else will intervene to help a person in need. But thats's a tendency that can be countered.
Every child knows what it is to feel alone, and similarly what it is to make someone feel alone: the key, then, is giving students the confidence and self-determination required for applied empathy.
If the speakers at TEDxYouthMonterey—and those who participated in the hundreds of TEDxYouth events around the world—were any indication, that message is coming in loud and clear. It’s a good thing, too: we could all stand to hear a little more good news in the world.