group dynamics: April 2005 Archives

Find this! Stuart Hall on Ethnicity and the Discursive Turn.

Here's another one: Taking the discursive turn: Critical studies in language, discrimination and schooling.

This social movement study,
COLLECTIVE IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION IN BLACK ABOLITIONIST DISCOURSE, adopts an approach in which movement discourse is viewed as a networked field of concepts from which arguments are fashioned. This approach requires an examination of the socio-cognitive structure of a discourse, an analysis of its rhetoric, as well as its ideological foundations."

Carolyn's very own Kimi Takesue has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Congratulations, Kimi!

The labor walkout yesterday was amazingly successful! The Collegian's coverage focuses on the rally, which they say "Within an hour...reached a peak of nearly 1,000 people." Of course, this is only a fraction of the thousands who refused to attend classes in solidarity.

Many comm-grads and faculty were present, spoke, walked out of classes, picketed, and otherwise supported the effort.

Looks like I might get to experience the standing in line for hours hope they get to me before they close experience at the U.S. Embassy in Boston...

The site I looked at before (with a 2-day turn-around via phone) was for British citizens. ARGH!

Anna is a cutie-pie!!!!!! Her ma and pa are looking pretty durn good too. That new parent glow. It is a glow - she's not a crier and they've even been getting some sleep! I got to hold that squirmy little being for awhile - she definitely knew I wasn't one of the biological parental units, such muscles in her neck already! Eight days old, a good strong grip, focus, sound-sight coordination....let's see, she's going to grow up trilingual and whatcha wanna bet all the love from those proud parents is gonna seep so deep into her bones she'll hardly ever have a sad day. :-)

Now, if they had just waited a month I could have been there for this historic vote!

"Bulgaria, Romania gain EU entry
Both countries still need to reforms to ensure membership

STRASBOURG, France (AP) -- The European Parliament on Wednesday approved the entry of Bulgaria and Romania into the European Union in 2007, but said both countries still need to make reforms."

Anna entered the world "this morning (Monday) at 9.30 am. Anna's birthweight is 7.3 pounds (3.3 kgs)."

Email from a proud papa.

WELCOME, ANNA!

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I'm a bit worried some of my own writing reads like this after the frenzy of immersion wears off. Be sure to click through to the shopping cart.

"It's awesome, isn't it?"

Yep. An exquisite chocolate mousse and flan-like pudding for dessert. So rich I had to take an hour break in-between!

Several people said this was "the best" so far. I'm inclined to agree. I have no idea what happened in the kitchen tonight. At a certain point, some momentum just took over and I was just not in that stream. Which means I actually got to mingle!

Two of the three chefs just left. The third hasn't arrived. No, I'm not stressing! Guests will begin to arrive in...thirty minutes or so. We have 1/2 a meal, the half operating on Porto time. The Lisbon half may be ready by midnight, but hey, we'll be really ready for it by then!

mushbrain and jellyhead.

"It's that time of the semester!"