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jefferson scholars foundation 2010 Mary Hicks, the Newman Family Fellow (History), talks to a group about domestic servants in Brazil. throughout the life of a product. Life cycle thinking advances a holistic approach to operations that focuses on maximizing value and minimizing negative environmental and social impact throughout the value chain. Ultimately, a life cycle approach can promote a more sustainable rate of both production and consumption and can help use limited financial and natural resources more effectively. abuses. During the decade leading to emancipation in 1888, many ex-slaves and their descendents also sought to break bonds of rural patronage by relocating to Salvador, Bahia, one of the largest cities in Brazil. My study focuses on the increasing mobility of these people as they left the hinterland to become domestic servants in the provincial capital. The migration of ex-slaves (and runaways) to the city of Salvador and the subsequent renegotiation of labor relations between master and servant provoked elites to respond by limiting this new threat to their patriarchal domination. This period also reveals the faint beginnings of state labor regulation of the popular classes. The end of slavery coincided with and produced legislation aimed at domestic servants and other urban professions, which attempted both to prolong social and labor relations deeply influenced by slavery, as well as to incentivize the transition to wage-labor. ray lamas Where’s the plane going? The Future of the Large Commercial Aircraft Industry This project will examine the past, current, and future levers of value of the large commercial aircraft industry, focusing on what have been successful companies and their approaches to business, as well as the failures and the lessons mary hicks migration, mobility, gender, Race, and Labor Relations among Urban Domestic Servants in Salvador, Brazil, 1887-1893 During the long period leading to slave emancipation in Brazil’s empire (over fifty years), Brazilian slaves of African descent had begun increasingly to challenge the dominance of the landed, slave-holding elites that had constituted the nation’s governing class for over three centuries. Slaves ran away, renegotiated labor conditions with their owners, and appealed to governing authorities to stem physical Ray Lamas, the Melville Foundation Fellow (Darden School of Business), discusses the future of commercial aviation with prospective Jefferson Fellows. 116
the fellows learned from them. This will encompass the history of the commercial aircraft manufacturing industry, the current duopoly between Boeing and Airbus, and an examination of the rise of potential competitors from China, Brazil, and Russia in the future. lindsay p. o’connor Loose Vowels: Linguistic Waste and Lil Wayne’s No Ceilings Using images of waste in Lil Wayne’s lyrics as a starting point, this presentation will engage differing theoretical traditions and ask questions about the metaphors we use when we think and talk about language while also telling the story of a critical and theoretical project’s genesis and development. Once we notice how much Lil Wayne talks about human excrement, we can explore how these images of waste operate in his music and then expand these metaphors to language in general. Ordinary language philosophers like J.L. Austin, linguists like Geoffrey Nunberg, and post-structuralist thinkers like Jacques Derrida have much to say about our use of language on the one hand and semantic autonomy on the other, and this project seeks an in-between position from which an account of language as waste is possible. With a focus on the recent mixtape No Ceilings but an eye to the entire oeuvre, we will explore how Lil Wayne creates and utilizes images of and words for human excrement as representative of both his own linguistic virtuosity and language’s strange ways of escaping our understanding. Harold Reeves, the Eric M. Heiner Fellow (Classics), discusses Herodotus. harold s. reeves Repetition and Variation in the History of Herodotus In History, the Greek historian Herodotus chronicles the long history of conflict between East and West that culminated in the Persian invasions of Greece in the early 5th Century BC. Often called the father of history, he has also been called the father of lies. Indeed, as was observed even in antiquity, Herodotus is at times willing to include material — myths and legends from the far distant past, as well as mythical accounts of peoples and events in far distant lands — that would have little or no place in the work of a modern, “rational” historian. In this talk, I will argue that Herodotus includes these stories from tradition, from myth, and from the popular imagination in order to establish the existence of repetitions and patterns in the flow of human history. I will consider specifically how Herodotus highlights — and perhaps invents — such patterns in his narrative of the great battles of Thermopylae and Salamis. Finally, I will reflect on how this tendency to see history as patterned and repetitive has been passed down from the father of history and continues, for better or worse, to influence our interpretation of history today. lanier l. sammons The game of Notes: Composition as an Act of play When composers talk about composing, they often emphasize the playful qualities of the creative process. They speak of the act of writing music as a puzzle, a sport, or a roll of the dice; they describe playing the “game of notes.” Tellingly, these playbased descriptions arise across time and style. In their frequency and persistence, then, these links between play and composition begin to suggest that the two share a relationship that goes beyond analogy. Writing music 11
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