Material, Trace, Trauma: Notes on some Recent Acquisitions at the Canadian War Museum and the Legacy of the First World War

Recent acquisitions at the Canadian War Museum are considered in relation to the radical innovations of soldier-artists who endured the somatic conditions of the First World War trenches, privileging materiality and psychic reality over visual perception. Barbara Steinman and Norman Takeuchi bring the past into the present through the indexical presence of black and white photographic fragments and the emotive presentation of lost objects as signifiers of the desires of the absent. Scott Waters and Mary Kavanagh evoke dread and the contingency of death through anamorphic distortion and blinding luminosity. Like the suggestive surfaces of the Museum itself, these works unsettle us to make palpable the psychic toll of war

Dr. Patrick T. Conley on the Law and Order Constitution

In this interview, Dr. Patrick T. Conley, constitutional historian and Dorr scholar, discusses the deficiencies of the Law & Order Constitution of 1843, the provisions of the People\u27s Constitution of 1841, and his personal involvement in the Rhode Island Constitutional Convention of 1977. To view this video interview please visit the Dorr Rebellion Project web site’s video gallery: http://library.providence.edu/dps/projects/dorr/video.php

A LEGISLATIVE PERSPECTIVE ON CURRENT AND FUTURE CHANGES IN U.S. FARM POLICY

Agricultural and Food Policy,

Crisis? What crisis? Australia after(?) the economic crisis

The global economic crisis is not over for Australia. Instead, its effects have been delayed rather than avoided. China’s economic stimulus delayed the impact of the crisis, but as Chinese economy rebalances and its growth slows, Australian policy-makers will have to deal with a series of structural economic vulnerabilities exacerbated by the resources boom. These vulnerabilities include declining demand for resources and high levels of private debt. Australian policy-makers – both political and bureaucratic – maintain through their words and actions that Australia will continue to benefit from Chinese and Asian growth well into the future and that the economy will transition away from the mining boom with few policy innovations required apart from fiscal rectitude. Policy-makers do not view Australia’s growing China dependence as a problem. The paper argues that Australia’s ‘modified’ economic liberal policy framework aims to reinforce Australia’s current economic ‘strengths’ and neglects the significance of economic vulnerabilities and the need for a more diverse economic structure. The embrace of economic liberalism is not total, as many commentators note, but the policy framework enables policy-makers to reject policy activism and justify smaller government

Oscillating hot-wire anemometer

Performance analysis was made of oscillating hot-wire anemometer electrical output in gas stream. Advantages include no calibration and measurement of fluid direction as well as fluid speed