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“For the Better Satisfaction of the Christian and Curious Reader”: Visual Tropes and the Rhetoric of Atrocity Representing the 1655 Massacre of the Piedmont Protestants
(2025-06-06) Sly, Jordan S.
Abstract: In April of 1655, soldiers in the employ of the Duke of Savoy massacred scores of Protestants living in his territories at the basin of the Italian Alps outside of Turin. In response, the Cromwellian Protectorate launched a diplomatic and propagandistic mission to supply aid on their behalf. Following this mission, Samuel Morland, an agent and of the Protectorate and chief envoy responsible for the administration of these efforts, published The History of the Evangelical Churches of the Valleys of Piemont (1658) to publicise and memorialise these events. Included in this work are several shocking and atrocious images depicting the arbitrary and horrific nature of this massacre against a civilian population. In this presentation I will demonstrate the rhetorical use of this imagery in comparison to other collections of inhumane images from the period including those stemming from the Thirty Years’ War, the 1641 Irish Rebellion, the Amboyna massacre, and depictions of violence in from other non-European locations. Through this analysis I will demonstrate the tropes of atrocity and their memetic and symbolic uses in the development of a shared visual language of atrocity. Additionally, this presentation will address the creation of memory through Morland’s work and the archival anxiety surrounding the collection and publication of documents pertaining to the massacre and the aid organised.
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Cromwell: A Protector of the Reformed
(2025-05-28) Sly, Jordan S.
As Lord Protector, did Oliver Cromwell seek to make himself leader of a Reformed Protestant alliance in Europe? This talk looks at a forgotten aspect of Cromwell's foreign policy. Through the examples of the collections of a large sum of money on behalf of the Vaudois Protestants of the Piedmont, the commissioning of a foreign policy mission on their behalf, the extension of this aid to central European Protestants, and the expansion of the merchant colonial efforts in the Atlantic, it is evident that Cromwell sought to expand the powers of the Lord Protector in novel and interesting ways that challenge some of the traditional conceptions of the Protectorate period.
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Providing Representation: An Ethnographic Study for The M-NCPPC, Department of Planning
(Partnership for Action Learning Sustainability (PALS), 2024-12) Coote, Aaron; Forest, Harrison; Ng, Theo; Sanders, Martin
This paper examines changes in Korean population trends in Beltsville, Maryland, and Prince George’s County, Maryland (P.G. County). Our report contributes to the existing body of research on Koreans in the United States (U.S.) by providing suggestions for how to fill the literature gap on Beltsville Koreans. In the 20th century, the U.S. Census and other government surveys did not correctly count Korean immigrants. Moreover, there is a shortage of information on the Korean immigrant community in the Beltsville/Route 1 corridor, whom settled in the late 1900s, started businesses, and vacated by the 1990s. We provide a methodology to inform a context study on all aspects of life for the Korean population, including push-pull factors, everyday life, geographic data, cultural influence, and significant places such as churches and restaurants.
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Alternative Commute Options at Prince George’s County Planning Department
(Partnership for Action Learning Sustainability (PALS), 2024-12) Albert, Jonah; Kaplan, Alex; Petter-Lipstein, Liora; Sanders, Martin
Most Prince George’s County Planning Department (PGCPD) employees drive to work in single-occupancy vehicles (SOVs). The department recently moved closer to the Downtown Largo Metro Station and its surrounding transit network, with the intent of encouraging employees to use alternative commute modes. One of the move’s intended goals was to reduce the number of employees commuting by SOV. Unfortunately, the Metrorail station is 1.4 miles from the headquarters building, making it a lengthy and difficult walk, and the surrounding transit network remains inconvenient for commuters. Further, the area lacks multimodal transportation options to bridge this gap, a common issue with public transportation often known as the first mile/last mile problem. Moreover, employees are commuting throughout the Washington, DC-Maryland-Virginia (DMV) area, so a single solution is unlikely to have a meaningful impact on commute mode choices.
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In Search of Late-Stage Planetary Building Blocks
(Elsevier, 2015-06-30) Walker, Richard J.; Bermingham, Katherine R.; Liu, Jingao; Puchtel, Igor S.; Touboul, Mathieu; Worsham, Emily A.
Genetic contributions to the final stages of planetary growth, including materials associated with the giant Moon-forming impact, late accretion, and late heavy bombardment are examined using siderophile elements. Isotopic similarities between the Earth and Moon for both lithophile and siderophile elements collectively lead to the suggestion that the genetics of the building blocks for Earth, and the impactor involved in the Moon-forming event were broadly similar, and shared some strong genetic affinities with enstatite chondrites. The bulk genetic fingerprint of materials subsequently added to Earth by late accretion, defined as the addition of ~0.5 wt. % of Earth’s mass to the mantle, following cessation of core formation, was characterized by 187Os/188Os and Pd/Ir ratios that were also similar to those in some enstatite chondrites. However, the integrated fingerprint of late accreted matter differs from enstatite chondrites in terms of the relative abundances of certain other HSE, most notably Ru/Ir. The final ≤0.05 wt. % addition of material to the Earth and Moon, believed by some to be part of a late heavy bombardment, included a component with much more fractionated relative HSE abundances than evidenced in the average late accretionary component. Heterogeneous 182W/184W isotopic compositions of some ancient terrestrial rocks suggest that some very early-formed mantle domains remained chemically distinct for long periods of time following primary planetary accretion. This evidence for sluggish mixing of the early mantle suggests that if late accretionary contributions to the mantle were genetically diverse, it may be possible to isotopically identify the disparate primordial components in the terrestrial rock record using the siderophile element tracers Ru and Mo.