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"Queering Archives: Intimate Tracings" is the second of two themed
issues from Radical History Review (numbers 120 and 122) that
explore the ways in which the notion of the "queer archive" is
increasingly crucial for scholars working at the intersection of
history, sexuality, and gender. Efforts to record and preserve
queer experiences determine how scholars account for the past and
provide a framework for understanding contemporary queer life.
Essays in these issues consider historical materials from queer
archives around the world as well as the recent critical practice
of "queering" the archive by looking at historical collections for
queer content (and its absence). This issue considers how archives
allow historical traces of sexuality and gender to be sought,
identified, recorded, and assembled into accumulations of meaning.
Contributors explore conundrums in contemporary queer archival
methods, probing some of them in essays on the Catholic Church and
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. This issue also
includes a series of intergenerational interviews reflecting on
histories of LGBT archives, a roundtable discussion about legacies
of queer studies of the archive, and a closing reflection by Joan
Nestle, a founding figure in the practice of international queer
archiving. Daniel Marshall is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of
Arts and Education at Deakin University, Melbourne. Kevin P. Murphy
is Associate Professor of History at the University of Minnesota
and a member of the Radical History Review editorial collective.
Zeb Tortorici is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Languages and Literatures at New York University. Contributors:
Rustem Ertug Altinay, Anjali Arondekar, Elspeth H. Brown, Elise
Chenier, Howard Chiang, Ben Cowan, Ann Cvetkovich, Sara Davidmann,
Leah DeVun, Peter Edelberg, Licia Fiol-Matta, Jack Jen Gieseking,
Christina Hanhardt, Robb Hernandez, Kwame Holmes, Regina Kunzel, A.
J. Lewis, Martin F. Manalansan IV, Maria Elena Martinez, Michael
Jay McClure, Caitlin McKinney, Katherine Mohrman, Joan Nestle, Mimi
Thi Nguyen, Tavia Nyong'o, Anthony M. Petro, K. J. Rawson, Barry
Reay, Juana Maria Rodriguez, Don Romesburg, Rebecka Sheffield, Marc
Stein, Margaret Stone, Susan Stryker, Robert Summers, Jeanne
Vaccaro, Dale Washkansky, Melissa White
In a 1907 lecture to Harvard undergraduates, Theodore Roosevelt
warned against becoming "too fastidious, too sensitive to take part
in the rough hurly-burly of the actual work of the world."
Roosevelt asserted that colleges should never "turn out
mollycoddles instead of vigorous men," and cautioned that "the
weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free
community."
A paradigm of ineffectuality and weakness, the mollycoddle was
"all inner life," whereas his opposite, the "red blood," was a man
of action. Kevin P. Murphy reveals how the popular ideals of
American masculinity coalesced around these two distinct
categories. Because of its similarity to the emergent "homosexual"
type, the mollycoddle became a powerful rhetorical figure, often
used to marginalize and stigmatize certain political actors. Issues
of masculinity not only penetrated the realm of the elite, however.
Murphy's history follows the redefinition of manhood across a
variety of classes, especially in the work of late
nineteenth-century reformers, who trumpeted the virility of the
laboring classes.
By highlighting this cross-class appropriation, Murphy
challenges the oppositional model commonly used to characterize the
relationship between political "machines" and social and municipal
reformers at the turn of the twentieth century. He also
revolutionizes our understanding of the gendered and sexual
meanings attached to political and ideological positions of the
Progressive Era.
A comprehensive introduction to machine learning that uses
probabilistic models and inference as a unifying approach. Today's
Web-enabled deluge of electronic data calls for automated methods
of data analysis. Machine learning provides these, developing
methods that can automatically detect patterns in data and then use
the uncovered patterns to predict future data. This textbook offers
a comprehensive and self-contained introduction to the field of
machine learning, based on a unified, probabilistic approach. The
coverage combines breadth and depth, offering necessary background
material on such topics as probability, optimization, and linear
algebra as well as discussion of recent developments in the field,
including conditional random fields, L1 regularization, and deep
learning. The book is written in an informal, accessible style,
complete with pseudo-code for the most important algorithms. All
topics are copiously illustrated with color images and worked
examples drawn from such application domains as biology, text
processing, computer vision, and robotics. Rather than providing a
cookbook of different heuristic methods, the book stresses a
principled model-based approach, often using the language of
graphical models to specify models in a concise and intuitive way.
Almost all the models described have been implemented in a MATLAB
software package-PMTK (probabilistic modeling toolkit)-that is
freely available online. The book is suitable for upper-level
undergraduates with an introductory-level college math background
and beginning graduate students.
Due to an amazingly complex case of mistaken identity, a nun is
murdered in an idyllic setting in the Hudson River Valley. The
result is a frantic search by the assassins for their "correct"
victim, with Death firmly behind the wheel.
"Queering Archives: Historical Unravelings" is the first of two
themed issues from Radical History Review (numbers 120 and 122)
that explore the ways in which the notion of the "queer archive" is
increasingly crucial for scholars working at the intersection of
history, sexuality, and gender. Efforts to record and preserve
queer experiences determine how scholars account for the past and
provide a framework for understanding contemporary queer life.
Essays in these issues consider historical materials from queer
archives around the world as well as the recent critical practice
of "queering" the archive by looking at historical collections for
queer content (and its absence). This issue explores the evolution
of grassroots LGBT archives, debates over queer migrations,
nationalism and the institutionalization of LGBT memory, the
archiving of transgender activism, digitization and the
classificatory systems of the archive, performances of the colonial
archive, museums as archives, and everyday objects as archivable
texts. Daniel Marshall is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts
and Education at Deakin University, Melbourne. Kevin P. Murphy is
Associate Professor of History at the University of Minnesota and a
member of the Radical History Review editorial collective. Zeb
Tortorici is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Languages and Literatures at New York University. Contributors:
Rustem Ertug Altinay, Anjali Arondekar, Elspeth H. Brown, Elise
Chenier, Howard Chiang, Ben Cowan, Ann Cvetkovich, Sara Davidmann,
Leah DeVun, Peter Edelberg, Licia Fiol-Matta, Jack Jen Gieseking,
Christina Hanhardt, Robb Hernandez, Kwame Holmes, Regina Kunzel, A.
J. Lewis, Martin F. Manalansan IV, Maria Elena Martinez, Michael
Jay McClure, Caitlin McKinney, Katherine Mohrman, Joan Nestle, Mimi
Thi Nguyen, Tavia Nyong'o, Anthony M. Petro, K. J. Rawson, Barry
Reay, Juana Maria Rodriguez, Don Romesburg, Rebecka Sheffield, Marc
Stein, Margaret Stone, Susan Stryker, Robert Summers, Jeanne
Vaccaro, Dale Washkansky, Melissa White
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