ASPECT (Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought)

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ASPECT is an innovative interdisciplinary PhD program at Virginia Tech. ASPECT (the Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought) fosters a critical engagement between domains of inquiry in the Social Sciences, Humanities, and the Arts. Through its curriculum, research programs, pedagogical endeavors, and scholarly events, ASPECT brings together theoretical and empirical cross-disciplinary methodologies, concepts, salient issues, and analytical perspectives generated by ethical thought, cultural studies, political economy, social and political theory, intellectual history, critical world order studies, and aesthetics, performance arts and visual studies.

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    ASPECT Newsletter, January 2009
    (Virginia Tech, 2009-01)
    This is the student newsletter for ASPECT (Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought) at Virginia Tech.
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    ASPECT Newsletter, May 2010
    (Virginia Tech, 2010-05)
    This is the student newsletter for ASPECT (Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought) at Virginia Tech.
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    ASPECT Newsletter (spring 2012)
    (Virginia Tech, 2012)
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    ASPECT Newsletter, Spring 2013
    (Virginia Tech, 2013)
    This is the student newsletter for ASPECT (Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought) at Virginia Tech.
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    ASPECT Newsletter, Spring 2014
    (Virginia Tech, 2014)
    This is the student newsletter for ASPECT (Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought) at Virginia Tech.
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    The Digital Fog of War: Baudrillard and the Violence of Representation
    Artrip, Ryan E.; Debrix, François (International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, 2014-05)
    Special Issue: Baudrillard and War
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    ASPECT Newsletter, Fall 2016
    (Virginia Tech, 2016)
    This is the student newsletter for ASPECT (Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought) at Virginia Tech.
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    ASPECT Working Papers and Books at the Library, Fall 2016
    (Virginia Tech, 2016)
    Presentations of ASPECT working papers and books at the Library in Fall 2016.
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    Paved with Good Intentions: The Road to Racial Unity in the Episcopal Diocese of Southwestern Virginia
    Salmon, Nina Vest (Virginia Tech, 2016-06-19)
    The Right Reverend William Henry Marmion was consecrated as bishop of the Diocese of Southwestern Virginia on May 13, 1954, days prior to the Brown v. Board of Education decision and just over a decade after the Episcopal Church's General Convention formally opposed racial discrimination. A diocesan conference center in Hungry Mother State Park, purchased soon after his consecration, sparked a controversy that was to smolder and flame for the first decade of Marmion's 25 years as bishop. Marmion led the move to desegregate the diocesan conference center, Hemlock Haven, in 1958 and subsequently effected integration by closing three of the four black churches in the diocese and inviting members to choose a neighboring church to join. The initial integration of the diocese was a turbulent process that centered around Hemlock Haven. The diocese moved with some difficulty towards racial integration in a microcosm of what was happening in the wider Church and in the United States. Historical documents, secondary sources, interviews, and theoretical understanding of minority responses to oppression help me to describe this time of racial desegregation of the Diocese of Southwestern Virginia and its implications. Critical theory gleaned from W. E. B. Du Bois and from Homi Bhabha informs my understanding of some of the implications as well as many of the actions and outcomes. Du Bois's notion of double consciousness and Bhbaba's similar term hybridity, both of which acknowledge a dual locus of identity and of power, are relevant to understanding some of the interactions revealed by primary source correspondence. I will focus on Hemlock Haven as the entry point into desegregation and on the black churches in the diocese, both before and after that critical point, adding the witness of black voices to the white narrative of this history. A historical look at the trajectory of race and race relations in the Episcopal Church informs the moment of the caesura--an interruption--the desegregation of Hemlock Haven, and the fate of the four black churches in the diocese. From the point of the rupture comes identification, the emergence of a new space, a cultural reboot.
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    Interview with Mr. Michael Terry, February 13, 2015
    Terry, Michael; Salmon, Nina Vest (2016-06-21)
    Dr. Nina Salmon conducted this oral history interview with Mr. Michael Terry to inform her work on the unintended consequences of the racial integration of the Episcopal diocese of Southwestern Virginia. This interview underpins the research outlined in Dr. Salmon's dissertation, “Paved with Good Intentions: The Road to Racial Unity in the Episcopal Diocese of Southwestern Virginia.”
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    Interview with Members of the Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, February 13, 2015
    Cannady, Gloria Wesley; Cardwell, Gloria Mosby; Dabney, Patricia P.; Haythe, Dolores Johnson; Witt, Helen P.; Salmon, Nina Vest (2016-06-21)
    Dr. Nina Salmon conducted this oral history interview with members of the Good Shepherd Episcopal Church – Mrs. Gloria Cannady, Mrs. Gloria Cardwell, Mrs. Patricia Dabney, Mrs. Dolores Haythe, and Mrs. Helen Witt – to inform her work on the unintended consequences of the racial integration of the Episcopal diocese of Southwestern Virginia. This interview underpins the research outlined in Dr. Salmon's dissertation, “Paved with Good Intentions: The Road to Racial Unity in the Episcopal Diocese of Southwestern Virginia.”
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    Interview with Mr. William Vickers, February 12, 2015
    Vickers, William Dudley; Salmon, Nina Vest (2016-06-21)
    Dr. Nina Salmon conducted this oral history interview with Mr. William Vickers to inform her work on the unintended consequences of the racial integration of the Episcopal diocese of Southwestern Virginia. This interview underpins the research outlined in Dr. Salmon's dissertation, “Paved with Good Intentions: The Road to Racial Unity in the Episcopal Diocese of Southwestern Virginia.”
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    Interview with Mrs. Tempy Davis, April 8, 2015
    Davis, Tempy; Salmon, Nina Vest (2016-06-21)
    Dr. Nina Salmon conducted this oral history interview with Mrs. Tempy Davis to inform her work on the unintended consequences of the racial integration of the Episcopal diocese of Southwestern Virginia. This interview underpins the research outlined in Dr. Salmon's dissertation, “Paved with Good Intentions: The Road to Racial Unity in the Episcopal Diocese of Southwestern Virginia.”
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    ASPECT Books at Newman Library (fall 2016)
    (Virginia Tech, 2016-10)
    ASPECT Faculty Authors’ Book Presentations and Signings
    • Room 207A Newman Library
    • Thursday, October 6, 2016 3:00—5:00 p.m.
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    ASPECT Events (fall 2017)
    (Virginia Tech, 2017)
    ASPECT Working Papers and Books at the Library Fall 2017
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    ASPECT Books at Newman Library (spring 2017)
    (Virginia Tech, 2017-02)
    ASPECT Faculty Authors' Book Presentations and Signings
    • Multipurpose Room, First Floor, Newman Library
    • Monday, February 20, 2017, 1:15—3:15 p.m.
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    ASPECT Events, Spring 2018
    (Virginia Tech, 2018)
    ASPECT working papers and books at the Library in Spring 2018.
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    ASPECT Events, Fall 2018
    (Virginia Tech, 2018)
    ASPECT working papers and books at the Library in Fall 2018.
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    Geography and the Environment Through Kitchenspace: Cultural Ecology in the House-lot Garden in Central Mexico
    Christie, Maria Elisa (Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2018-03-16)
    The WGD program at CIRED has conducted a monthly discussion series for over a decade. Students, faculty, staff and members of the community are encouraged to attend the discussions and bring their ideas and questions. The series offers an opportunity for scholars and development practitioners to share their research and knowledge surrounding gender and international development with the Virginia Tech community and beyond.
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    Steampunk, Zombie Apocalypse, and Homoerotic Romance: Rewriting Revolution Plus Love in Contemporary China
    Ni, Zhange (Virginia Tech, 2018-10)
    What if the industrial revolution had first taken place in late imperial China, which had taken the lead in technological innovations but suffered a severe shortage of fossil fuels and clashed with the equally energy-hungry West? What if, fast forward to 2012, global warming had released a fatal virus and unleashed a zombie pandemic threatening to terminate the human civilization and transform the entire planet? These are some of speculative scenarios enacted in contemporary Chinese popular novels. To one’s surprise, these novels are not associated with the relatively more established field of science fiction, but consumed and produced as danmei, that is, homoerotic romance featuring love affairs of male characters primarily but not exclusively for the entertainment of young women.