#MacArthur Fellowship

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跨領域的求知為何重要？筆訪《大查帳》、《自由與干預》歷史暨會計學教授雅各．索爾

探討會計與當責重要性的暢銷歷史書《大查帳》，作者雅各．索爾（Jacob Soll）日前來台，除了參加中央研究院舉辦的活動外，也特別接受Openbook閱讀誌專訪。從最新出版的《自由與干預》一書，談及歷史批判與經濟史觀的重要性。 變成「天才」之後：雅各．索爾與麥克阿瑟獎 Q：您在2011年獲頒麥克阿瑟獎（MacArthur…

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The Power of Curiosity

The Power of Curiosity

    Betsy Wurzel’s guests are Dr. Perry Zurn, Associate Professor at American University and the Author of Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry.  Dr. Dani S. Bassett is the J. Peter Skirkanich Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2014. Dr. Perry Zurn and Dr. Dani S. Bassett are identical twins who co-wrote and co-authored…

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One more year without a Genius grant!

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Hear me out: "The Blackest Hand" by Saint Mesa. I've been all the cold, see me I've been in the world, see me I've been coming short, breathin' I've been killing my demons I'm a second chance, see me I'm a dead romance, see me I'm the blackest hand, beating I'm the biggest man bleeding

Bl-BLACKEST HAND???

HAND OF BANE????

ANON??!!!! HELLO??????!!!! YOU'RE A GENIUS????!!!!

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MMMMMMGGHH. Modern no magic AU where instead of having corpse puppets Wei Wuxian just has. Puppets. Like he’s just this really talented once in a generation puppet maker and puppeteer. Imagine.

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Artist I Like Series 

Kara Walker 1969 - ???? an American contemporary painter, silhouettist, print-maker, installation artist, filmmaker, and professor who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence, and identity in her work. She is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes. Walker was awarded a MacArthur fellowship in 1997, at the age of 28, becoming one of the youngest ever recipients of the award. Walker is regarded as among the most prominent and acclaimed Black American artists working today.

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Karen Hesse

Children's and young adult author Karen Hesse was born in 1952 in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1997, Hesse won the Newbery Medal for Out of the Dust. In 2002, she won the Christopher Award for Witness, and received a MacArthur Fellowship. Hesse has also won the Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Award and been nominated for a National Jewish Book Award.

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#BlackWomensHistoryMonth : Octavia Butler was committed her life to turning speculative fiction into a home for Black expression. She became the first Black women science fiction author to be granted a MacArthur fellowship, and the first Black woman to win Hugo and Nebula awards.

Octavia Estelle Butler was born in Pasadena, California where as a little girl, she struggled with dyslexia while attending public school. Her teachers interpreted her slower reading as an unwillingness to do the work rather than a sign of her struggles with dyslexia. When she was given books to read in school, she found them boring and unrelatable but was interested in going to the library and reading unique stories. She had an endless appetite for stories and frequently made up her own while sitting on her grandmother’s porch. by the time she was ten she could be found carrying around a large notebook, writing down stories whenever she got a free moment. Whenever she wrote stories for school, they were so unusual that many of her teachers assumed she had copied them from published works. One teacher recognized her talents and encouraged the then 13-year-old Butler to submit one of her stories to a science fiction magazine for publication. That submission was the first of many and solidified her desire to—and her belief that she could—become a professional writer.

In 1968, Butler graduated from Pasadena City College with an Associate's Degree. She then continued taking classes, first at California State University in Los Angeles and then at the University of California at Los Angeles. She took writing classes but also studied anthropology, psychology, physics, biology, and geology, among other subjects and workshops. While attending The Screen Writers’ Guild Open Door Program, Octavia had sold her first two stories. Despite her success with the short stories, she struggled to get other stories published. After a series of rejections, she shifted gears and tried to write her first novel. That first manuscript was purchased by Doubleday and published in 1976.

In 1979, Octavia wrote 12 more books including ‘Kindred’. She often said she was inspired to write ‘Kindred’ when she heard young African Americans minimize the cruelty and severity of enslavement. She wanted younger readers to know not only the facts of enslavement but what it felt like, making sure to humanize those who survived the exploitative institution. ‘Kindred’ is now a mainstay in many high school and college classrooms.

Octavia won numerous prestigious awards for her writing. In 1995, she was awarded a MacArthur “Genius” Grant—the only science fiction writer to receive this award. She won Nebula and Hugo Awards, the two highest honors for science fiction, a PEN Lifetime Achievement Award, and the City College of New York’s Langston Hughes Medal in 2005. As a pioneer in science fiction, she opened up the genre to many other African American and female writers. Today, her influence spans literature, genres and media. “Do the thing that you love and do it as well as you possibly can and be persistent about it.” - Octavia Butler

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The truth is that as much democracy as this nation has today, it has been born on the backs of black resistance...Black people have seen the worst of America, yet, somehow, we still believe in its best.” —Nikole Hannah-Jones . . Nikole Hannah-Jones is a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter covering racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine, and creator of the landmark 1619 Project. In 2017, she received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, known as the Genius Grant, for her work on educational inequality. She has also won a Peabody Award, two George Polk Awards, three National Magazine Awards, and the 2018 John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism from Columbia University. In 2016, Hannah-Jones co-founded the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, a training and mentorship organization geared toward increasing the number of investigative reporters of color. Hannah-Jones is the inaugural Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at the Howard University School of Communications, where she also founded the Center for Journalism and Democracy.

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Do you guys think I can be awarded the macarthur fellowship if I submit my blog or maybe if one of you guys nominate me idk how it works

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Elma Lewis (September 15, 1921 – January 1, 2004) was an influential educator and advocate for the arts. Born in Boston, she was the daughter of immigrant parents from the West Indies. She was a product of the Boston public school system and earned a BA from Emerson College while working as an actress. She earned an MA in Education from Boston University.

She opened the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts in 1950 in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. Originally housed out of an apartment, the school quickly grew and expanded. She formed a friendship with Eli Goldston and was able to have the old Hebrew Academy and Synagogue building in Roxbury appraised at 1.4 million and then donated to become the site of the Elma Lewis School.

She taught ballet to impoverished kids in Roxbury partly to show them the possibilities of their bodies and minds and thus remind them that they could overcome their circumstances. Her students went on to careers in entertainment, and the arts, and some have opened their specialized schools as well. Students like Ipyana Wasret, a renowned art curator, and writer Sayif M. Sanyika, credit their success to the foundations they obtained from her school. To expand the arts in her community and get drug dealers out of the area, she created a summer theater program, Playhouse in the Park, and brought in musicians ranging from Duke Ellington to the Boston Pops Orchestra.

She founded the National Center of Afro-American Artists as an umbrella organization for her school and similar programs throughout the nation. Although the Lewis school closed in 1986, the NCAAA continues to carry out the mission she envisioned.

She was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for her work in cultural development in Boston’s Roxbury. She received the Presidential Medal for the Arts from President Ronald Reagan. She has served as a trustee for the Massachusetts College of Art and as a member of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #alphakappaalpha

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Octavia E. Butler (USA, 1947 – 2006)

Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction author and a multiple recipient of the Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, Butler became the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. via Wiki

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Marriage Story (2019, Noah Baumbach)

09/11/2023

Marriage Story is a 2019 film written and directed by Noah Baumbach, starring Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson.

When Nicole is offered a role in the pilot episode of a new television series in Los Angeles, she decides to leave the theater company and temporarily go to live with her mother together with her son.

Charlie decides to stay in New York, as his show is about to be performed on Broadway.

Charlie wins a MacArthur Fellowship and uses the first money he receives to pay his lawyer, Jay. Nora highlights Charlie's infidelity and her emotional distance, while Jay magnifies Nicole's drinking habit, portraying it as alcoholism.

In November 2017 it was announced that Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, Laura Der, Merritt Wever and Azhy Robertson had joined the cast of a film written and directed by Noah Baumbach, produced by David Heyman's Heyday Films and co-financed by Netflix, which would also have handled its distribution. In March 2018, Kyle Bornheimer joined the cast, followed by Ray Liotta in June of that year and Julie Hagerty in November.

Filming of the film, which had a budget of approximately 18 million dollars, began on January 15, 2018 and ended in April, taking place in New York and Los Angeles.

The first trailer for the film was released online on August 20, 2019.

The film premiered on 29 August 2019 in competition at the 76th Venice International Film Festival.

The US premiere was held on October 4, 2019 at the New York Film Festival. The film had a limited distribution in US cinemas by Netflix starting from November 6 of the same year, being then released on its streaming platform starting from the following December 6. In Italy, the film was distributed theatrically by the Cineteca di Bologna starting from 18 November 2019, and was then released on Netflix at the same time as the of the world.

In January 2020, it was announced that the film would receive a DVD and Blu-ray release from The Criterion Collection.

The Italian dubbing of the film was carried out at Dubbing Brothers Int. Italia and edited by Stefanella Marrama.

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ten books to know me

thank you for the tag @mblematic i sat down to do this IMMEDIATELY i’ve maybe never been so excited

the secret history by donna tartt 

well what do i even say about this. if you know you know. this is my favorite book ever! nothing tops it!

slow days, fast company by eve babitz

reading this book for the first time at 22 when i had just moved to LA and really started doing drugs and fucking bad actors...i cannot explain it. eve is like. the whole reason i’m a writer now still -- i stopped writing in college (too busy doing drugs and fucking bad musicians at that time) and this book inspired me to start back up and actually work hard at it. thank god.

and i do not forgive you by amber sparks

THE short story collection that made me realize i could write about whatever i felt like writing about. i’ve taken class with amber and she’s just incredible. wildly talented, excellent teacher, taught me everything i know about editing! 

modern madness: an owner’s manual by terri cheney

you could insert any of terri’s books here, but i do have such a soft spot for modern madness. terri was one of the first people to really talk to me about bipolar disorder, and to help me understand what was happening to me and how to get help. her memoirs are devastating, but she’s proof of the strength people can have in the face of severe mental illness. 

leaving the atocha station by ben lerner

this book has writing that i just want to bathe in. i don’t hardly ever read books by men, but ben lerner is a GENIUS. the macarthur fellowship thinks so too!

the disreputable history of frankie landau-banks by e.l. lockhart

formative formative formative. this is where i learned to love words and wordplay. also where i discovered p.g. wodehouse! horizons: broadened.

the princess diaries by meg cabot

was this series sex ed for anyone else? it was sex ed for me. i used to sneak into the high school library and check these books out when i was in like 7th grade. truly so important everybody say thank you meg cabot (thank you meg cabot!!)

the physics of sorrow by georgi gospodinov, trans. angela rodel

this book really got me into translations! i love love love it. it’s so interesting to see literature from other places, and this was the first book i read outside of school that wasn’t originally in english. so valuable and set me on quite the journey (death and the penguin i’m looking at u)

howl’s moving castle by dianna wynne jones

i think this might be my most re-read book? i try to read it every year during scorpio season, because it just has That Vibe to me. it never gets old! 

rules for saying goodbye by katherine taylor

i...don’t know where to begin with this book. katherine taught me how to burn bridges with my writing and not give a fuck at all. i wish i could describe katherine, because she is someone i so adore, but she is beyond words. anyway, the protagonist of rfsg is also named kate taylor. that’s probably all i really need to say. what a woman.

honorable mention: looking for alaska by john green

HOW did i manage to stay alive after reading this book.....the damage that was done...........john green u owe my parents therapy money babe!

OOPS I FORGOT TO TAG! tagging @pancakehouse @colgatebluemintygel @moongays @thebloatedfrog @queemes @blackberry-sunset @pinklume and anyone else who wants to do it! i LOVE to see what books shaped people! what a thrill!

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Film Fridays

Today I drew Charles Burnett, whose work has been praised for its portrayal of the African American experience. He was born on April 13th on 1944 in Vicksburg, Mississippi. In 1947. His family moved to Watts, South LA. He was interested in expressing himself through art when he was younger but because of economic pressure, he chose to study electronics at Los Angeles City College instead, but then he took writing classes and even earned BA in writing and languages at the University of California, LA. Watts really really influenced his movies because of violent riots on 1965. And protest against police brutality committed on Rodney King on 1992. In fact his first feature film was set there. And he said in an interview for Cahiers du Cinéma 'I always felt like an outside, an observer who wasn't able to participate because I couldn't speak very well. So this inability to communicate must have led me...to find some other means to express myself...I really liked a lot of the kids I grew up with. I felt an obligation to write something about them, to explain what went wrong with them. I think that's the reason I started to make these movies.'. He continued his education at the UCLA film school, earning a Master of Fine Arts degree in theater arts and film, which really had an influence on him as well because of his friends, classmates and mentors. On 1967. And 1968. The turbulent social events that was vital in establishing the UCLA filmmaking movement and that Charles Burnett was involved in was the 'Black Independent Movement' their films were very relevant to the politics and culture of the 1960s. Their characters were shifting from the middle class to working class to highlight the tension caused by class conflict within the African American families. The independent writers and directors stayed away from the mainstream and they have won critical approval for remaining faithful to African American history. They also created the Third World Film Club to break the American boycott banning all forms of cultural exchange with Cuba. 'Black Independent Movement' also considered to respond to Hollywood and Blaxploitation films that were popular around the time. His first films with friends were 'Several Friends (1969)' and 'The Horse (1973)'. His famous movies were 'Killer of Sheep (1978)', 'My Brother's Wedding (1983)', 'To sleep with Anger (1990)', ' The Glass Shield' and 'Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation (2007)'. Including some documentaries such as 'Nat Turner: A Troublesome property (2003 Which won a Cinematography Award from the Long Beach International Film Festival)', 'America Becoming (1991)', 'Dr. Endesha Ida Mae Holland (1998)', ' For Reel? (2003)' and 'Warming by the Devil's Fire (2003)'. He earned:

MacArthur Fellowship

The Freedom in Film Award from The First Amendment Center and the Nashville Independent Film Festival

Honors from The Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Human Rights Watch International Film Film Festival

The prestigious Howard's University's Paul Robenson Award

Governors Award

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by John MacArthur | The question of relationships in heaven is one of the major issues Christians wonder about. Will we recognize our loved ones? Will we remember our earthly relationships? What kind of relationships will we have? Will we have family love and fellowship in heaven? Will our relationships in heaven be an...