The 2016 Freedman Fellows will give presentations on their research Tuesday, March 7, from noon to 3:15 p.m. in Kelvin Smith Library’s Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship.
The 2016 Freedman Fellows are:
Posner will present on technology-related challenges that he and his co-author, Nicolas Véron, have encountered in conducting research and writing an article about European Union financial regulatory internationalism.
The presentation will focus on:
“Small Talk” is an interdisciplinary creative collaboration, which investigated the range of discomfort and pain experienced by introverted people as they tried to navigate a world biased toward extroverts. The work premiered in November 2016 at Mather Dance Center as part of the Department of Dance faculty and guest artist concert.
“Small Talk” is composed of two distinct performance sections:
Weiss, PhD candidate Michael Metsner and undergraduate student Noah Boksansky will discuss the second stage of their fellowship project on the role of Jewish students, faculty and administrators in campus activism during the Vietnam era.
This presentation will focus on the curation of the current exhibit at Kelvin Smith Library and the development of an Omeka website.
Weiss’s presentation will begin at 2:30 p.m. Following this presentation, attendees are invited to Kelvin Smith Library’s Special Collections to view the “The Jewish View at CWRU” exhibit.
- Elliot Posner, associate professor of political science;
- Shannon Sterne, assistant professor of dance; and
- Gillian Weiss, associate professor of history.
The presentations
Elliot Posner: “Muddling Through Technology-Related Challenges in Qualitative Social Scientific Research”
Posner will present on technology-related challenges that he and his co-author, Nicolas Véron, have encountered in conducting research and writing an article about European Union financial regulatory internationalism.
The presentation will focus on:
- Problems connected with the organization and presentation of qualitative data;
- More demanding research transparency requirements in the social sciences;
- Issues surrounding corporate news aggregators; and
- Complications vis-à-vis the use of big data.
Shannon Sterne: “Small Talk: An Interdisciplinary Creative Collaboration Investigating Introversion, Social Anxiety, and Depression”
“Small Talk” is an interdisciplinary creative collaboration, which investigated the range of discomfort and pain experienced by introverted people as they tried to navigate a world biased toward extroverts. The work premiered in November 2016 at Mather Dance Center as part of the Department of Dance faculty and guest artist concert.
“Small Talk” is composed of two distinct performance sections:
- An ensemble section featuring six dancers performing to an original professionally recorded score; and
- A solo section, which melded live performance of dance, piano and spoken word with projected video art.
Gillian Weiss: “The Jewish View at CWRU: Campus Activism, 1967-1973”
Weiss, PhD candidate Michael Metsner and undergraduate student Noah Boksansky will discuss the second stage of their fellowship project on the role of Jewish students, faculty and administrators in campus activism during the Vietnam era.
This presentation will focus on the curation of the current exhibit at Kelvin Smith Library and the development of an Omeka website.
Weiss’s presentation will begin at 2:30 p.m. Following this presentation, attendees are invited to Kelvin Smith Library’s Special Collections to view the “The Jewish View at CWRU” exhibit.
