Vocational Technical Institute Campus Master Plan, Carbondale, Illinois, 1967 (unbuilt project)

[Conceptual Sketches], untitled. Brown ink sketches on shirt cardboard, 8x12 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Vocational Technical Institute Campus Master Plan, Carbondale, Illinois, 1967 (unbuilt project)

[Conceptual Sketches], untitled. Black and red ink sketches on tracing paper, 12 x 24 1/2 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Vocational Technical Institute Campus Master Plan, Carbondale, Illinois, 1967 (unbuilt project)

[Conceptual Sketches], untitled. Black and red ink sketches on tracing paper, 12x17 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Vocational Technical Institute Campus Master Plan, Carbondale, Illinois, 1967 (unbuilt project)

[Conceptual Sketch], untitled. Brown ink sketch on shirt cardboard, 8 x 8 3/4 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Tougaloo College Master Plan, Tougaloo, Mississippi, 1965-1971 (unbuilt project)

[Study Sketch], untitled. Brown ink drawing on tracing paper, 18 x 17 1/2 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Tougaloo College Master Plan, Tougaloo, Mississippi, 1965-1971 (unbuilt project)

[Conceptual Sketch], untitled. Ink and purple crayon sketch on tracing paper, 17 3/4 x 21 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Tougaloo College Master Plan, Tougaloo, Mississippi, 1965-1971 (unbuilt project)

[Conceptual Sketch], untitled. Ink sketch on yellow paper, 8 1/2 x 11 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Tougaloo College Master Plan, Tougaloo, Mississippi, 1965-1971 (unbuilt project)

[Conceptual Sketch], untitled. Ink sketch on shirt cardboard, 7 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Tougaloo College Master Plan, Tougaloo, Mississippi, 1965-1971 (unbuilt project)

[Early Conceptual Sketches], untitled. Ink sketches on five sheets of tracing paper, 5 1/4 x 6 to 8 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches [from photographic copy by Lance Burgharrdt]

Tougaloo College Master Plan, Tougaloo, Mississippi 1965-1971 (unbuilt project)

[Conceptual Sketches], untitled. Digital image only of black ink sketches on vellum and tracing paper

Tougaloo College Master Plan, Tougaloo, Mississippi 1965-1971 (unbuilt project)

[Conceptual Sketches], untitled. Digital image only of black ink sketches on shirt cardboard

Tougaloo College Master Plan, Tougaloo, Mississippi 1965-1971 (unbuilt project)

[Conceptual Sketches], untitled. Digital image only of blue ink sketches on vellum

Tracing Hybrid Collectives of Illness, War, and Medicine in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Narratives of Illness

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2016-06

Vladimir Janda, MD, DSc - Tribute to a master of rehabilitation

The purpose of this presentation is to pay tribute to the life's work of Professor Vladimir Janda, a key figure in the 20th Century rehabilitation movement. An accomplished neurologist, he founded the rehabilitation department at Charles University Hospital in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He was one of the seminal members of the Prague school of manual medicine and rehabilitation that expanded its influence throughout Central and Eastern Europe. His observations regarding muscle imbalances, faulty posture and gait, and their association with chronic pain syndromes, etiologically, diagnostically, and therapeutically, influenced the rehabilitation world. The authors comprise a multinational, multiprofessional group representative of rehabilitation specialists around the world who would like to pay tribute and give a final word of thanks to this innovative educator, clinician, and author.

Commandeering Aesop’s Bamboo Canon: A 19th Century Confederacy of Creole Fugitive Fables

In my thesis, “Commandeering Aesop’s Bamboo Canon: A 19th Century Confederacy of Creole Fugitive Fables,” I ask and answer the ‘Who? What? Where? When? Why?” of Creole Literature using the 19th century production of Aesopian fables as clues to resolve a set of linguistic, historical, literary, and geographical enigmas pertaining the ‘birth-place(s)’ of Creolophone Literatures in the Caribbean Sea, North and South America, as well as the Indian Ocean. Focusing on the fables in Martinique (1846), Reunion Island (1826), and Mauritius (1822), my thesis should read be as an attempt capture the links between these islands through the creation of a particular archive defined as a cartulary-chronicle, a diplomatic codex, or simply a map in which I chart and trace the flight of the founding documents relating to the lives of the individual authors, editors, and printers in order to illustrate the articulation of a formal and informal confederation that enabled the global and local institutional promotion of Creole Literature. While I integrate various genres and multi-polar networks between the authors of this 19th century canon comprised of sacred and secular texts such as proclamations, catechisms, and proverbs, the principle literary genre charted in my thesis are collections of fables inspired by French 17th century French Classical fabulist, Jean de la Fontaine. Often described as the ‘matrix’ of Creolophone Literature, these blues and fables constitute the base of the canon, and are usually described as either ‘translated,’ ‘adapted,’ and even ‘cross-dressed’ into Creole in all of the French Creolophone spaces. My documentation of their transnational sprouting offers proof of an opaque canonical formation of Creole popular literature. By constituting this archive, I emphasize the fact that despite 200 years of critical reception and major developments and discoveries on behalf of Creole language pedagogues, literary scholars, linguists, historians, librarians, archivist, and museum curators, up until now not only have none have curated this literature as a formal canon. I also offer new empirical evidence in order to try and solve the enigma of “How?” the fables materially circulated between the islands, and seek to come to terms with the anonymous nature of the texts, some of which were published under pseudonyms. I argue that part of the confusion on the part of scholars has been the result of being willfully taken by surprise or defrauded by the authors, or ‘bamboozled’ as I put it. The major paradigmatic shift in my thesis is that while I acknowledge La Fontaine as the base of this literary canon, I ultimately bypass him to trace the ancient literary genealogy of fables to the infamous Aesop the Phrygian, whose biography – the first of a slave in the history of the world – and subsequent use of fables reflects a ‘hidden transcript’ of ‘masked political critique’ between ‘master and slave classes’ in the 4th Century B.C.E. Greece.

This archive draws on, connects and critiques the methodologies of several disciplinary fields. I use post-colonial literary studies to map the literary genealogies Aesop; use a comparative historical approach to the abolitions of slavery in both the 19th century Caribbean and the Indian Ocean; and chart the early appearance of folk music in early colonial societies through Musicology and Performance Studies. Through the use of Sociolinguistics and theories of language revival, ecology, and change, I develop an approach of ‘reflexive Creolistics’ that I ultimately hope will offer new educational opportunities to Creole speakers. While it is my desire that this archive serves linguists, book collectors, and historians for further scientific inquiry into the innate international nature of Creole language, I also hope that this innovative material defense and illustration of Creole Literature will transform the consciousness of Creolophones (native and non-native) who too remain ‘bamboozled’ by the archive. My goal is to erase the ‘unthinkability’ of the existence of this ancient maritime creole literary canon from the collective cultural imaginary of readers around the globe.