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Symposium on Writing and Discipline: Social and Psychological Phenomena
(Vanderbilt University Writing Studio, 2009-03-24)
In this panel we have three different papers that explore how individuals influence society, how society influences individuals, and how individuals influence each other. In her paper, "The Effect of Parental Attitudes ...
"You cannot transform the history of ideas into a comic strip" : an interview with Marc Angenot
(The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004)
A search for identity in Julia Alvarez's "How the Garcia girls lost their accents"
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000)
Activist translation in an era of fictional law
(Traduction, Terminologie, Rédaction, 2007)
This article proposes that activist translators be involved and engaged in those legal realms, such as the treatment of "illegals" or undocumented migrants, because this is an area in which translators can act as true ...
Hurricane Katrina: Before and After, Inside and Out
(Vanderbilt University, 2006-04)
The Importation, Adaptation, and Creolization of Slave Leisure Forms in the Americas: 1600 to 1865
(Vanderbilt University, 2009)
Leisure, the escape from the tedium of everyday existence, is found in all cultures including those in which slavery exists. At first glance the terms "slavery" and "leisure" may seem to be contradictory, mutually exclusive ...
Sllt - Seven Musings on a Great Book
(Vanderbilt University, 2009-12-17)
Found Money? Split-Award Statutes and Settlement of Punitive Damages Cases
(Vanderbilt University, 2000)
We examine the effect of "split-award" statutes (wherein the State takes a share of a punitive damages award) on equilibrium settlements and the incentives to go to trial. We find that split-award statutes simultaneously ...
GPED Newsletter, 2007
(2007)
GPED Newsletter, 2008
(2008)