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ayna Zweiman is a multidisciplinary artist and designer. Her independent practice combines architecture, art, craft and new media to focus on experiences that overlap physical, virtual and conceptual spaces. Perhaps best known as the co-creator/co-founder of The Pussyhat Project, an international network and movement of women's rights supporters, Zweiman has become a leading advocate of using design innovation to enact social change. The Pussyhat Project became a worldwide phenomenon at the 2017 Women's Marches with one of the largest crowd-sourced art advocacy projects ever. She is also the creator and founder of Welcome Blanket, a reconceptualization of the 2000-mile length of the proposed border wall as 2000-mile length of yarn to make individual welcome blankets for new immigrants coming to the United States. Zweiman's work has been exhibited and published internationally. In 2017, her work has been nominated for the Beazley Design of the Year by the Design Museum in London, acquired by the Victoria & Albert Museum, and awarded the first ever Brand of the Year by the School of Visual Arts. Zweiman was awarded in 2017 as one of "The 25 People Who Defined Visual Culture" by Artsy. Zweiman received her AB from Brown University in visual arts and economics and her Masters in Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She lives and works in Los Angeles. In her talk, Zweiman questions how can we use design and architecture to craft the world we wish to see? We will investigate the overlap between individual stories and collective conversations, between craft and politics, and between physical and virtual communities in both Pussyhat Project and Welcome Blanket. Join Zweiman to discuss how these design interventions create social change by reimagining our spaces and systems.

In this book, Peter, a master storyteller, takes us on a journey of inspiration, action and spirit. We also participate in his struggles, hardships and initiations, but with Peter, problems and challenges are met head-on with indomitable positive thought and action. His legacy to us all is the knowledge that following our inner guidance -- God's will -- is not only an exciting, wonderful adventure, it can also change the world. Peter Caddy gave himself completely and unconditionally to life, embracing it with zest, courage and delight. There was nothing otherworldly about Peter. He was a man of action who thoroughly enjoyed taking on a challenge -- the greater the better. Whether serving in the wartime RAF, climbing the Himalayas in Tibet, managing a luxury hotel on spiritual principles or running a New Age community, he climbed every mountain God put in front of him. He married five times and fathered six children. As a consequence, his life reads like an adventure novel: it is a ripping good yarn, which is all the more powerful because it is true

Intro -- An Advocate for Social Justice -- From the Civil War to Civil Rights -- The Long Life of Du Bois -- Du Bois and His Contemporaries -- Writing and Activism -- The Great Advocate -- W. E. B. Du Bois and the NAACP Today -- Chronology -- Glossary -- Sources -- Further Information -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author

The German Geophysical Society was founded in 1922 as the Deutsche Seismologische Vereinigung. One of the 24 founders of this society was Karl Friedrich Almstedt. Born in 1891 and deceased in 1964, Almstedt represents a generation of academics and scientists who grew up during the decline of the European empires, experiencing the devastations of the two World Wars and the cruelties of the Nazi era as well as the resurrection of academic and cultural life in post-war Germany. A detailed biographical sketch of Karl Almstedt's life is presented through historical notes on his social, political, and scientific environment.

Profesor Henryk Lesiński to jeden z twórców szczecińskiego środowiska akademickiego. Od 1956 roku jako dyrektor archiwum państwowego brał udział w pracach licznych towarzystw i organizacji naukowych zarówno w mieście, jak i w regionie. Znaczącą rolę odgrywał między innymi w: Szczecińskim Towarzystwie Naukowym (główny redaktor wydawnictwa), Instytucie Zachodnio-Pomorskim (przewodniczący rady naukowej) czy też w szczecińskim oddziale Polskiego Towarzystwa Historycznego (prezes oddziału). Przez całe dziesięciolecia prof. Henryk Lesiński skupiał wokół siebie i wzmacniał szczecińskie środowisko historyczne. Zaangażowany w działalność wydawniczą STN czy IZP kreował w dużym stopniu rozwój kadr akademickiego Szczecina. Gdy w latach 1969–1981 pełnił funkcje rektora – na początku Wyższej Szkoły Nauczycielskiej, a potem Wyższej Szkoły Pedagogicznej – przyczynił się w decydującym stopniu do wzmocnienia szczecińskiego ośrodka naukowego, co umożliwiło w 1985 roku powołanie do życia w mieście u ujścia Odry Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego. W tym ostatnim prof. Henryk Lesiński, aż do śmierci w 1994 roku, pełnił funkcję dziekana Wydziału Humanistycznego oraz Dyrektora Instytutu Historii.

Adalbert Stifter's edited collection Wien und die Wiener is relevant for memory studies research on nineteenth-century Austria due to its generic and narrative form. As a contemporary Viennese publication that focuses on the recent past, Stifter's "St. Stephansthurm" and Perger's "Eine Partie nach der Lobau" suture the reader into prosthetic memory of the Battles of Aspern and Wagram through battle reenactments. These scenes suggest that continuity in nature is greater than the historical narratives of the Habsburg Empire.