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The University Libraries provides high-quality video recording and live video streaming services for scholarly events (lectures, speaker series, conference keynotes, etc.) on or close to campus, especially for scholarly events held in Newman Library. We are available to capture conference keynotes, research forums, and final project presentations. These events must be Virginia Tech-sponsored events, and cannot be course recordings, candidate presentations, social events, or marketing videos. For more information please see University Libraries Event Capture Service.

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Biblical curses and the displacement of tradition
Britt, Brian M. (Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2011-12)
Brian Britt discusses his book: Biblical Curses and the Displacement of Tradition. Brian Britt offers an intriguing perspective on curses as the focus of debates over the power, pleasure, and danger of words. Biblical authors transformed ancient Near Eastern curses against rival ethnic groups, disobedient ancestors, and the day of one’s own birth with great variety and ingenuity. Transformations of biblical curses proliferated in post-biblical history, even during periods of ‘secularization’. This study argues that biblical, early modern, and contemporary transformations of curses constitute displacements rather than replacements of earlier traditions. The crucial notion of displacement draws from Freud’s psychoanalytic theory, Nietzsche’s critical philosophy, and Benjamin’s engagement with textual tradition; it highlights not only manifest shifts but also many hidden continuities between cursing in biblical texts and cursing in such ‘secular’ domains as literature, law, politics, and philosophy. The tradition of biblical cursing—neither purely ‘religious’ nor purely ‘secular’—travels through these texts and contexts as it redefines verbal, human, and supernatural power.
Passion of the Christ
King, Neal M. (Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2012-01)
Neal King discusses his new book: The Passion of the Christ, about the controversies surrounding the 2004 film of the same name. The Passion of the Christ was the cinematic event of 2004. In the year leading up to its release it inspired one of the fiercest controversies, and perhaps the most significant exception to rules limiting the distribution of film violence and blood-letting, since the late 1960s. The film's unflinching depiction of the torture and crucifixion of Jesus was praised and deplored in equal measure as either scaling unprecedented heights of reverent iconography or plumbing new depths of gratuitous violence. At the same time, it provoked a nationwide storm of controversy for what many saw as its anti-Semitic portrayal of Jewish religious leaders. Neal King's study of the controversies over The Passion of the Christ explores how conservative Christians united in support of Mel Gibson and in opposition to liberal, secular and Jewish critics. The resulting public battle in the US over the editing and rating of this film generated more controversy than over any other film in recent cinematic history. By chronicling the publicity campaign that made this film the highest grossing independent production of all time, King reveals how Gibson deployed tactics that date from the days of silent movies about Jesus and the Jews. In a close look at debates over the film's classification, he shows how religious groups inspired ratings boards, media watchdogs and government censors worldwide to break their rules and guidelines about violence and the depictions of prophets and other religious figures. Finally, study of the film's narrative and visual style shows how the choices made by director, cast and crew contributed to the biggest argument over Hollywood and anti-Semitism in decades, and how longstanding patterns in the production and marketing of stories of Christ helped one filmmaker to turn his statement of faith into a partisan, blockbuster event.
Miss Mackenzie
Bigler, Dwight (Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2012-02)
Dwight Bigler discusses selections from his opus. “Miss Mackenzie” is the third movement of “Glimpses,” a five-movement work for choir and chamber orchestra: I. Prelude (orchestra), II. Mrs. Brooks (SATB, text by Henry David Thoreau), III. Miss Mackenzie, IV. Dear Sir (TTBB, text by Jeremy Taylor), V. Glimpses (SATB, text by Owen Feltham). Instrumental parts are available from the composer (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, strings, 2 percussion, and harp). Recordings can be heard at www.dwightbigler.com
Dear Appalachia: Readers, Identity, and Popular Fiction since 1878
Satterwhite, Emily M. (Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2012-03)
Emily Satterwhite discusses her book, "Dear Appalachia: Readers, Identity, and Popular Fiction since 1878." Much criticism has been directed at negative stereotypes of Appalachia perpetuated by movies, television shows, and news media. Books, on the other hand, often draw enthusiastic praise for their celebration of the simplicity and authenticity of the Appalachian region. Dear Appalachia: Readers, Identity, and Popular Fiction since 1878 employs the innovative strategy of examining fan mail, reviews, and readers' geographic affiliations to understand how readers have imagined the region and what purposes these imagined geographies have served for them. As Emily Satterwhite traces the changing visions of Appalachia across the decades, from the Gilded Age (1865–1895) to the present, she finds that every generation has produced an audience hungry for a romantic version of Appalachia.
Gender, immigration, and school victimization
Peguero, Anthony A. (Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2012-04)
Anthony Peguero speaks about his research on adolescent violence, socialization and marginalization, school bullying, race and ethnicity, and the adaptation of the children immigrants. It is well established that violence can seriously lead to mental health disorders, disrupt interpersonal social relationships, derail educational progress, and negatively impact life-course trajectories for youth. Despite the prevalence and problems associated with youth violence, studies that examine the disparities linked to race and ethnicity, immigration, and gender in relationship to the exposure and consequences of violence for youth are underrepresented and limited. Dr. Peguero's research agenda is focused on addressing the gap in the sociological, criminological, and educational research literature in the pursuit of ameliorating the likelihood of violence, as well as the consequences, for marginalized and vulnerable youth populations. While Dr. Peguero’s work focuses on how violence contributes to social inequalities, this area of research is still in its infancy and future research will continue to incorporate interdisciplinary approaches to further this line of inquiry.
Ideal Cities
Meitner, Erika S. (Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2012-09)
Erika Meitner discusses her new book: Ideal Cities. This collection of autobiographical narrative and lyric poems explores the relationship between body and place—specifically the pleasures and dangers of women’s corporeal experiences. Ideal Cities is guided by an epigraph from Song of Songs, and the metaphorical idea of bodies as cities, and cities as bodies. How do women’s bodies become sites of inscription via sex, childbirth, and other highly physical acts? These poems also investigate urban, suburban, and rural borderlands. Who do we leave behind or look past? What do we discard, as purposeful markers or accidental refuse? How can these people, places, and objects be woven into larger ideas about nature, sense of place, home, exile, and both personal and collective memory?
Cultivating Emerging & Black Swan Technologies
Mahajan, Roop L. (2012-09-15)
Contemplative Practices in a Technological Society Keynote: Trungram Gyaltrul Rinpoche
Rinpoche, Trungram Gyaltrul; MacNamee, Mark; Lindner, Douglas K. (Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2013-04-11)
The intention of this conference, http://www.cpe.vt.edu/cpts/index.html, is to create a roadmap to sustainably integrate contemplative practices into our lives: in the classroom, in the research laboratory, in the office, in healthcare, in the arts, and in the workplace. The conference will be organized to examine the foundations of contemplative practice, to access the current practice, and to create a plan for the future development of contemplative practice. Woven throughout the conference will be opportunities for instruction in mind body disciplines as well as times for contemplation. This conference is targeted to (but not limited to) regional professionals interested in contemplative practice. Individuals who are currently involved in contemplative practice as well as individuals who are interested in becoming involved in contemplative practice are invited to attend. The conference is intended to provide an incubator for long-term working partnerships leading to growth in related professional activities. The intention is to provide an intimate atmosphere for the development sustainable interactions (including future conferences) as well as idea generation. The conference will open with remarks from the Virginia Tech Provost, Mark MacNamee, and followed by an introduction by Douglas Lindner, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The keynote speaker is Trungram Gyaltrul Rinpoche, who represents the tradition of contemplative practice. His Eminence (H.E.) Trungram Gyaltrul Rinpoche is a prominent lama of Tibetan Buddhism known throughout the world as a scholar, teacher and meditation master. With a doctorate degree from Harvard University in 2004, Rinpoche is the first incarnate lama to earn a PhD in the West. His western academic training allows Rinpoche to accurately translate the full subtlety and effectiveness of meditation practices for the western student. Rinpoche is the spiritual director of Dharmakaya, a non-profit organization established in New York to promote precious meditation teachings in the U.S. In 2011, Rinpoche opened the Lumbini Udyana Mahachaitya - World Center for Peace and Unity, the largest temple and meditation hall complex at the UNESCO World Heritage Site in Lumbini, Nepal - the birthplace of the Buddha. Rinpoche began his monastic training at the age of four including direct tutelage from the heads and senior teachers of all the major traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. He is a Rimé, or non-sectarian, master of Tibetan Buddhism and is fluent in Tibetan, English, Nepali, Sherpa and Chinese, and knows Sanskrit, Hindi and French.
Digital Discussions in the Humanities and Social Sciences: "Are Common Topics Common? Rhetorical Questions and Computational Methods"
Hart-Davidson, William (2013-09-18)
William Hart-Davidson, Associate Professor of Rhetoric & Writing and Co-Director of the Writing in Digital Environments (WIDE) Research Center at Michigan State University, will discuss his research that highlights the potential uses of mathematical and computational models for studying contemporary online communication. "In this talk, I will make the case for using mathematical models to render internet discussion threads as computational objects. The focus of my presentation is less on the techniques, however, than on the correspondence between the mathematical models and concepts from rhetorical theory, beginning with the way both human coders and our computer model focus on basic units of analysis, and discussing how these units are understood to form larger discursive structures such as arguments. I’ll show how our research group came to understand random graph (Erdös-Rényi random graphs) and network analysis techniques (Eigen-vector centrality) to provide us with a means of describing and, perhaps, predicting the way discussion threads develop over time."
The Future of Wireless Resource Management: Bootstrapping and Automated Negotiation
MacKenzie, Allen B. (2013-09-18)
The history of wireless communications can be told through the history of resource management. In this talk, I will describe the ongoing evolution from static to dynamic resource management and the concurrent evolution from homogeneous to heterogeneous networks. From this description, I will draw two themes for the future: (1) a need for a pragmatic, bootstrapped approach to dynamic resource assignment, and (2) a demand for robust approaches to automated negotiation between radio agents. Along the first theme, I will show how unbounded dynamicism leads to failure; instead, we need pragmatically engineered systems that can bootstrap wireless communications from simple beginnings to complex sharing schemes. In particular, I will describe a proposed channel assignment scheme for cognitive radio networks that balances the need for topology adaptation to maximize flow rate and the need for a stable baseline topology to support network connectivity. We focus on networks in which nodes are equipped with multiple radios or transceivers, each of which can be assigned to a channel. First, we assign channels independently of traffic, to achieve basic network connectivity and support light loads such as control traffic, and, second, we dynamically assign channels to the remaining transceivers in response to traffic demand. We formulate the problem as a two-stage mixed integer linear program (MILP) and show that with this two-stage approach we can achieve performance comparable to a fully dynamic channel assignment scheme while preserving a static, connected topology. In the second theme, I will then describe the necessity of automated negotiation in future systems, including the relationship between these negotiated dynamics and the bootstrapped approach discussed in the first theme. In particular, I will explain some of the tentative steps that we have taken in this direction, including applications of auction theory and coalition game theory. Finally, I will introduce some potential tools and approaches for future research.
1918 Spanish Flu
Ewing, E. Thomas; Hausman, Bernice L.; Ramakrishnan, Naren (2013-10-02)
Variations of Practice Exhibit
Lindblad, Purdom; Fralin, Scott (Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2013-10-09)
Digital Humanities Librarian and Assistant Professor Purdom Lindblad describes a project from a Religious Studies course where the students created an exhibit on the role of religion in American life. The students explored variations of practice in sixteen different religions in the United States. Students created Prezi presentations, physical objects, an interactive poem, and a blog that explore diverse religions in the United States. The exhibit was in place from 2013/10/09 to 2013/10/16.
Open Access Faculty Panel 2013
Panel Presentation (2013-10-23)
What Is It About the History of Learning that Calls Out for Open Access to Research and Scholarship?
Willinsky, John (2013-10-24)
Prognostications + Provocations #SAtech
Stoller, Eric (2013-11-11)
The #SAtechVA planning committee is excited to officially announce that our Unconference Keynote Speaker will be Eric Stoller, Student Affairs and Technology blogger for Inside Higher Ed. Eric Stoller is a higher education thought-leader, consultant, writer, and speaker. He frequently gives keynotes on how administrators can use social media strategically and is a proponent for teaching students about digital identity development. With a background in student affairs, academic advising, wellness, technology, and communications, Eric focuses his energies on educating clients and captivating audiences. As the Student Affairs and Technology blogger for Inside Higher Ed, he generates conversations, answers questions, and provides insight about a variety of “tech topics.”
ETDs and Open Access: Understanding the Digital Landscape of Open Access in the Graduate School Arena
McMillan, Gail (2013-11-12)
McMillan presented data from the 2013 ETD base line survey of institutions and the 2011-2012 surveys of journal editors and university press directors about their ETD policies.
The Facsimilist's Tale
Kuczynski, Michael (2013-11-25)
Michael Kuczynski is an associate professor of English at Tulane University specialized in Middle English literature. His visit will focus on the relationships between physical and digital facsimiles of medieval manuscripts and the implications for digital research. The Facsimilist's Tale, being a perambulation through the early history of manuscript surrogates by way of the career of Thomas Wilson, schoolmaster of Leeds (d. 1760), with some implications for current digital technologies.
Wind Plant Aerodynamics - A Spectral Analysis for Energy Entrainment
Castillo, Luciano (2013-11-25)
During the first portion of this seminar, extensive PIV data collected from a scaled down 3 blade, 3 x 5 turbine array is shown. In order to understand how large-scales motions play a role in providing mean kinetic energy (MKE) to the array, low dimensional tools based on a proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) are used to analyze the spatially developing velocity field inside the scaled array. From this analysis, modal decomposition of the Reynolds stresses and fluxes of the MKE are constructed. Thus, from these modal expansions it is established that low order modes have large contributions to Reynolds shear stress regardless of analysis domain. In addition, it will be shown that mean kinetic energy transport resulting from Reynolds shear stress typically serves to bring energy into the array while transport terms associated with Reynolds wall-normal stress typically removes energy from the array. Furthermore, it will be shown that the sum of the first 13 modes for the mean fluxes contributes 75% of the total Reynolds shear stress in the domain. The concept of coherent transfers of energy is employed here as means to uncover the scales responsible for the entrainment of mean kinetic energy into the array. The major contributions to the MKE entrainment are achieved by large-scale motions associated with sums of the Reynolds shear stress, (idiosyncratic) modes. Thus, the sum of the first 9 modes yield 54% of the total energy entrainment, with scales given by L ~ 13D associated with this sum. From these results, it is clear that scales of the order of the total wind farm size are those, which are critical in determining how much power can be extracted from the atmospheric boundary layer. In addition, during this seminar it will be shown that dispersive stresses are also important in the energy entrainment and dissipation in wind arrays with complex topography and where proximity between turbines exists. ABOUT THE SPEAKER Luciano Castillo is the Don-Kay-Clay Cash Distinguished Engineering Chair in Wind Energy and the Executive Director/ President of the National Wind Resource Center (NWRC) at Texas Tech University. After spending 12 years at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute he joined the ME department at TTU in 2011. His research in turbulence using experimental techniques, direct numerical simulations and multi-scale asymptotic analysis has injected new ideas in turbulent boundary layers and improved our understanding of the effects of initial conditions on large scale turbulence, particularly on wind energy performance. Some of his awards include: the NASA Faculty Fellowship, the Martin Luther King Faculty Award, and the Robert T. Knapp Award on complex flows from the ASME among others. He published over 100 articles including a seminal paper on turbulent boundary layers and scaling laws.
Black Holes, Black Swans, Black Magic: The Emerging Arts of Project Execution
Prieto, Bob (2013-12-12)
Fluor Corporation executive to give Vecellio LectureBlacksburg, VA , September 16, 2013 Virginia Tech College of Engineering Bob Prieto, senior vice president, Fluor Corporation, will present the 2013 Vecellio Distinguished Lecture, titled “Black Holes, Black Swans, Black Magic: the Emerging Arts of Project Execution,” on Friday, Oct. 11 at 4 p.m. in Torgersen 2150. His talk will provide a whirlwind tour of some of the growing challenges in construction project execution and some of the emerging “arts” that might come to the rescue, Prieto said. “The lecture will look at three broad challenges represented by black holes, black swans, and black magic, and suggest how our perceptions and tools must change to meet these challenges head on.” Prieto is responsible for Fluor’s strategy for the firm’s industrial and infrastructure group. This group encompasses three major business lines: infrastructure with an emphasis on public – private partnerships; mining; and industrial. He consults with owners of large engineering and capital construction programs across all of the firm’s market sectors in the development of programmatic delivery strategies. Prior to joining Fluor, he served as chair of Parson Brinckerhoff. Prieto is the author of Strategic Program Management, The Giga Factor, and Topics in Strategic Program Management, as well as more than 450 other papers and presentations. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Industry Leaders Council, National Academy of Construction, and a Fellow of the Construction Management Association of America. Until 2006 he served as one of three U.S. presidential appointees to the Asia pacific Economic Cooperation Business Advisory Council. A $1 million endowment was provided to the Construction Engineering and Management Program in Virginia Tech's Via Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering by the Vecellio Family Foundation and individual family members: the late Mrs. Leo (Evelyn) Vecellio, Sr.; Leo and Kathryn Vecellio, Jr. and their sons, Christopher and Michael; and Patricia Vecellio. The Vecellio Lecture is sponsored by the endowment.
Learning Chemistry from Bacteria
Clardy, Jon (2013-12-17)
Dr. Jon Clardy Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University All animals, including humans, originated and evolved on a planet already teeming with bacteria, and the two kingdoms of life have been competing and cooperating through their joint history. Although bacteria are most familiar as pathogens, some bacteria produce small molecules that are essential for the biology of animals and other eukaryotes. This lecture explores some of these roles and the small molecule chemistry that underlies them.

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