Category: ARTSCHOL 200 2020

I’ve always been taught to keep as many confounding variables out of the data as possible – including myself, my views, thoughts, and opinions. But Dr Hirini Kaa and Patrick Thomsen told a different story. Their...

When we talk about war, so often it is in terms of the male soldier or male head-of-state. When women are mentioned, it is often in the lumped phrase ‘women and children’. As we’ve progressed through this term, it has left me...

Cooking for Victory? This interview is a fascinating look at the role of Winston Churchill’s chef!...

Dr Patrick Thomsens work really made me understand how much of who we are translates into our work. Whether that be figuring out parts ourselves, or through projecting what we want to understand – then ultimately...

The coagulation of past Italian to modern day Italian lingistically was as necessary to upholding historical texts as it was to upholding beauty formulas to the beauty society. Imagine not being able to read or understand...

Dr Booth’s research on wedding bands in India and Pakistan is significant to me because it shows that a researcher cannot predetermine the findings of their study, but that does not necessarily remove its value. The procession...

Dr Thomsen’s seminar showed me that research, regardless of its specificity, does not exist in a vacuum. Initially, his research on the sexual identity of Korean men living in Seattle seemed abstract to me, in grounding his...

Jennifer Frost bought age into the spotlight. Specifically, the arbitrary nature of age in our society and how age is a social construct. In terms of politics, I have always thought about how strange it is that as young people,...

Jennifer Frost’s response to the predictably brilliant question posed by Antonia Grant about how the reasoning that fuelled support for the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution – that citizens too young to vote were old...

Dr Patrick Thomsen’s examination of sexual identity in the context of Saïd’s Orientalism led me to consider how while the East-West dynamic certainly penetrates sexual discourse*, we should also consider how perceptions of...