Location Of Culture
Juvencio Parise
This past summer Geoff Ward, Professor of African and African-American Studies and Paige McGinley, Director of AMCS, led a group of graduate and undergraduate students in an On Location course we entitled "Performing the Past: Black History and Collective Memory in Charleston and the Sea Islands.This region is extraordinarily historically and culturally vibrant. Every aspect of Charleston and South Carolina's past and present--as well as its contemporary tourist economies--is informed by racial violence and resistance.
Portland, Oregon is a city that is at the forefront of a national trend affecting many urban centers -- from Brooklyn to Detroit, Nashville to Austin. In Portland, as in other cities, the emergence of a class of artisan entrepreneur -- people who produce local organic food, sustainable fashion, hand-crafted beer, third-wave coffee, artisanal furniture, and so forth -- is driving population growth and dynamics of demographic recomposition and gentrification. Housing and rental prices are soaring. Neighborhoods are changing. Working-class and immigrant groups and people of color are being displaced from central neighborhoods, which are being redefined by the establishment of high-end grocery stores, maker spaces, boutique shops, coffee shops, and a generalized aesthetic of hipster enterprise and consumerism.
This on-location course investigates the creative culture and new forms of work, enterprise, do-it-yourself-ism, and consumption that are associated with urban change and economic development in American cities today. Over the span of two weeks spent in Portland, the course will cover topics including the history of gentrification and displacement in the United States, urban planning and the racial politics of space, Portland's lengthy history of do-it-yourself art and creation (e.g., punk, grunge, indie), the emerging "maker movement," relationships between localized consumerism (e.g., craft beer, farmers markets) and identity, critical perspectives on ethics and entrepreneurship, including claims about sustainability in enterprises ranging from farming to fashion, an analysis of hipster aesthetics and whiteness, and intersections between gender and the changing meanings of work and labor in America.
Manhattan has been at the center of American popular culture for more than a century. At the center of Manhattan sits Times Square, an entertainment district located at the primary intersection of New York City's subway system and centered on a cluster of theatres, virtually all built before the stock market crash of 1929. This group of buildings - known together as Broadway theatres - make up a singularly enduring element of the architectural fabric of American popular culture. This course delves into the history of Times Square and the Broadway theatres, considering the changing nature of both street and stage across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Creative interchange with other Manhattan neighborhoods proves essential to the story, and so the course embraces neighborhoods such as Harlem, the African American district uptown, and downtown areas, such as Greenwich Village and the Lower East Side, which fostered upstart and ethnic music and theatre. We'll also consider how adjacent performance spaces connected to elite performing arts and the movies, such as Lincoln Center and Radio City Music Hall, play into the larger midtown scene. The larger issues at the center of the course include considering how the national popular culture of the United States has been shaped by the specifics of its enduring physical location in midtown Manhattan.
Beyond providing inspiration for my thesis, On Location strengthened my passion for American Culture Studies. The class also encouraged me to explore my interests in creative, analytical formats that adhere to my personal values and desire to be an inquisitive, engaged citizen and student.
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In this paper we present keratin expression data that lend strong support to a model of corneal epithelial maturation in which the stem cells are located in the limbus, the transitional zone between cornea and conjunctiva. Using a new monoclonal antibody, AE5, which is highly specific for a 64,000-mol-wt corneal keratin, designated RK3, we demonstrate that this keratin is localized in all cell layers of rabbit corneal epithelium, but only in the suprabasal layers of the limbal epithelium. Analysis of cultured corneal keratinocytes showed that they express sequentially three major keratin pairs. Early cultures consisting of a monolayer of "basal" cells express mainly the 50/58K keratins, exponentially growing cells synthesize additional 48/56K keratins, and postconfluent, heavily stratified cultures begin to express the 55/64K corneal keratins. Cell separation experiments showed that basal cells isolated from postconfluent cultures contain predominantly the 50/58K pair, whereas suprabasal cells contain additional 55/64K and 48/56K pairs. Basal cells of the older, postconfluent cultures, however, can become AE5 positive, indicating that suprabasal location is not a prerequisite for the expression of the 64K keratin. Taken together, these results suggest that the acidic 55K and basic 64K keratins represent markers for an advanced stage of corneal epithelial differentiation. The fact that epithelial basal cells of central cornea but not those of the limbus possess the 64K keratin therefore indicates that corneal basal cells are in a more differentiated state than limbal basal cells. These findings, coupled with the known centripetal migration of corneal epithelial cells, strongly suggest that corneal epithelial stem cells are located in the limbus, and that corneal basal cells correspond to "transient amplifying cells" in the scheme of "stem cells----transient amplifying cells----terminally differentiated cells."
Loyola University New Orleans, which consistently ranks among the best regional universities in the southern United States by U.S. News and World Report, enrolls over 4500 students from all 50 states and over 40 countries. Degrees are offered in 60 undergraduate fields and 10 graduate and professional programs, including MBA, JD, and LLM programs.
As an intensive English student, you have full access to the library, health center, residence halls, dining facilities, and recreational facilities. You are encouraged to borrow books, CDs, and DVDS from the Loyola library! The university also offers a lot of activities: concerts, ballet, lectures, theatre, film series, and social events. LIEP students are encouraged to join clubs, exercise classes, and intramural teams.
The Loyola Intensive English Program offers you many opportunities to practice English outside the classroom. When you arrive, you will be given an orientation to the program, the university, and the city through tours and other activities. Field trips and in-class activities will introduce you to U.S. customs, history, traditions, and holidays, as well as the culture of New Orleans. Our city is world-famous for fantastic jazz, unique food, colorful architecture, and great festivals such as Mardi Gras and JazzFest.
For anyone that knows me, you would think this would be my last choice, my least favorite location. Because I am all about getting off the beaten path, far away from tourists. After all, that is what we created CDV for. To help guests discover the real Italy, and a true sense of family abroad.
The Amalfi Coast is one of the most touristy places on the planet. You simply cannot get any more on the beaten path than here! And that is exactly why I chose this as my favorite because making a CDV-Worthy trip on the Amalfi Coast was one of the greatest challenges I have ever faced.
The Amalfi Coast is similar. If you take away all of the tourism, you are pretty much left with nothing but poor lemon farmers and fishermen. They literally live and breathe tourism as millions of tourists crowd the area every year. Doing what we do (the way we do it) in a place that is literally manufactured for mass tourism is a daunting task.
The staples needed to live somewhere have all become part of the tourist factory, so by necessity, your home is now part of a hotel, a B&B, or has been turned into a gift shop as well. You got out of Dodge!
But as you get further south on the Amalfi Coast, towns become more livable. That is how we found Lisa, Claudia, and their family in the little town of Minori. I had met Lisa at a trade show, and she convinced me to visit.
You would think that is an easy question to answer but remember: We are CDV. We naturally do the bucket-list highlights wherever we are, but we focus far more on the people, the experiences, and places that you could never have met, had or seen on your own. We need to do a trip that sends people home realizing they experienced an Amalfi Coast none of the other tourists had. And yet, this is one gigantic bucket-list destination!
The best way we can convey who we are and what we are all about is to show you. So Claudia and Peppe made several trips up to our Soriano location, and even one to our Norcia location. A friendship began, and everyone was visiting everyone! Even Filomena and Antonio came up once! They all needed to feel the CDV culture, just as the CDV family needed to build a strong bond with them. A friendship, not just people that manage a location. They saw how we do the cooking classes, how we have the shepherd come and make cheese with our guests, how we take off our masks and reveal our true selves to our guests, and basically how we do with our guests exactly what anyone would do with visiting family. In so doing, we learned how they did it with their own friends and family.
I could tell that Peppe and Claudia were hooked (and so were we!). I mean, the very concept that you can just be yourself and do with guests the things you enjoy doing yourself? Counter-intuitive in the tourism business, but that makes it fun and fulfilling!
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