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  A Symmetry: poems

  Ari Banias

  Unsettling the myth of an ordered reality through uncanny repetitions and elliptical inquiry, A Symmetry considers the inscriptions of nationhood, language, and ancestral memory. A window washer wields an impossibly long mop in the mirrored pane of a Greek government building; strangers mesmerize us while they fold sheets into perfect corners. "Artists who design border wall prototypes are artists / who say they 'leave politics out of it.'" In meditative wanderings and compressed, enigmatic lyrics, Ari Banias probes the sometimes-touching, often-violent mundane to draw out the intimate, social proportions of our material world.

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  The Weaponized Camera in the Middle East: videography, aesthetics, and politics in Israel and Palestine

  Liat Berdugo

  Drawing on unprecedented access to the video archives of B'Tselem, an Israeli NGO that distributes cameras to Palestinians living in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, Liat Berdugo lays out an argument for a visual studies approach to videographic evidence in Israel/Palestine.
  
  Using video stills as core material, it discusses the politics of videographic evidence in Israel/Palestine by demonstrating that the conflict is one that has produced an inequality of visual rights. The book highlights visual surveillance and counter surveillance at the citizen level, how Palestinians originally filmed to “shoot back” at Israelis, who were armed with shooting power via weapons as the occupying force. It also traces how Israeli private citizens began filming back at Palestinians with their own cameras, including personal cell phone cameras, thus creating a simultaneous, echoing counter surveillance.
  
  Complicating the notion that visual evidence alone can secure justice, the Weaponized Camera in The Middle East asks how what is seen, but also who is seeing, affects how conflicts are visually recorded. Drawing on over 5,000 hours of footage, only a fraction of which is easily accessible to the public domain, this book offers a unique perspective on the strategies and battlegrounds of the Israel/Palestine conflict.

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  An OER Collection of Composer Biographies

  Giacomo Fiore and Kumiko Uyeda

  A collection of 25 composer biographies, with illustrations and photographs. Composer birth dates range from 1098 to 1982.

  This work was funded by a 2021 Gleeson Library OER Faculty Grant.

  It is published under an Open License: CC BY-NC-SA.

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  An OER Collection of Primary Sources for Western Art Music

  Giacomo Fiore and Kumiko Uyeda

  This collection of primary sources is for An OER Collection of Composer Biographies.

  It was funded by a 2021 Gleeson Library OER Faculty Grant and is published under an Open License: CC BY-NC-SA.

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  An OER Western Art Glossary

  Giacomo Fiore and Kumiko Uyeda

  This glossary is for An OER Collection of Composter Biographies.

  It was funded by a 2020 Gleeson Library Grant and is published under an Open License: CC BY-NC-SA.

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  Educating for Peace and Human Rights: an introduction

  Maria Hantzopoulos and Monisha Bajaj

  Over the past five decades, both peace education and human rights education have emerged distinctly and separately as global fields of scholarship and practice. Promoted through multiple efforts (the United Nations, civil society, grassroots educators), both of these fields consider content, processes, and educational structures that seek to dismantle various forms of violence, as well as move towards cultures of peace, justice and human rights. Educating for Peace and Human Rights Education introduces students and educators to the challenges and possibilities of implementing peace and human rights education in diverse global sites. The book untangles the core concepts that define both fields, unpacking their histories and conceptual foundations, and presents models and key research findings to help consider their intersections, convergences, and divergences. Including an annotated bibliography, the book sets forth a comprehensive research agenda, allowing emerging and seasoned scholars the opportunity to situate their research in conversation with the global fields of peace and human rights education.

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  Shifters

  Randy James

  Part memorial, part snapshot, part fancy, Shifters is a testament to the self and the act of seeing. A meditation on Blackness and queerness under duress, Shifters reacts to the power of the moment and finds joy in the power of the actor and the witness.

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  Ghosts, City, Sea

  Yin Wang and Andrea Lingenfelter

  A bilingual career-spanning selection of poems by Wang Yin, translated by Andrea Lingenfelter. With GHOSTS CITY SEA, Wang Yin and Lingenfelter have assembled three sets of poems written between 1987 and 2015 that showcase the depth and breadth of a cosmopolitan poet whose work ranges through his native Shanghai and outward to achieve a unique synthesis of influences and insights across cultures and eras, both Chinese and otherwise. This edition features a set of Wang Yin's photographs, documenting both his travels and Shanghai's contemporary art scene.

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  Revival Season

  Monica West

  Every summer, fifteen-year-old Miriam Horton and her family pack themselves tight in their old minivan and travel through small southern towns for revival season: the time when Miriam’s father—one of the South’s most famous preachers—holds massive healing services for people desperate to be cured of ailments and disease.This summer, the revival season doesn’t go as planned, and after one service in which Reverend Horton’s healing powers are tested like never before, Miriam witnesses a shocking act of violence that shakes her belief in her father—and in her faith.
  
  When the Hortons return home, Miriam’s confusion only grows as she discovers she might have the power to heal—even though her father and the church have always made it clear that such power is denied to women. Over the course of the next year, Miriam must decide between her faith, her family, and her newfound power that might be able to save others, but, if discovered by her father, could destroy Miriam.
  
  Celebrating both feminism and faith, Revival Season is a story of spiritual awakening and disillusionment in a Southern, black, Evangelical community. Monica West’s transporting coming-of-age novel explores complicated family and what it means to live among the community of the faithful.