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2008-2010

Vernacular Epistemologies

Project Directors: Indrani Chatterjee and Julie Livingston

This two-year interdisciplinary project sought to get beyond the implicit homogenization of thought, performance and subjectivities implied by the contemporary ethos of development and globalization. It refocused attention on practices and forms of knowledge that diverge from, challenge, entangle with, and complicate fundamental categories or apparatuses identifiable with Enlightenment. In thinking of and with ‘vernacular’ practices and epistemes, this seminar remained mindful of the processes by which particular categories and performances were rendered ‘parochial’ or ‘local’ by taxonomic projects of others. Implicated in contest, incorporation, translation, vernacular categories also shifted shape. This project considered as broadly as possible the ways in which the vernaculars were formed, change, shift and inform other practices and concerns, and remain visible, even discordant, thereafter. The intent was to foreground histories that bring such discrepant, ‘narrow’, secreted categories to bear on an interrogation of current disciplinary norms and debates.

The first year (2008-2009) engaged discussions around vernacular categories of Time and Value. The seminar studied these pluralities in their specific articulations – as art, music, in narrations of ritual and social import, in economic transactions and calculations. Participants explored processes through which such categories co-constituted each other, or structured relationships between ethics and economics, political and social exchanges and distribution, between facticity, numeracy and regimes of truth.

The second year (2009-2010) discussed Body and Soul/Mind. Taking the cue from experiential and analytic categories from the global south as well as early modern European scholarship that tracks the emergence and gap between intellectual modeling and daily experience of bodily and spiritual life, the proj

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This article provides a list of political scandals that involve officials from the government of the United States, sorted from oldest to most recent.

Scope and organization of political scandals

This article is organized by presidential terms in order, older to recent, and then divided into scandals of the federal Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of government. Members of both parties are listed under the term of the president in office at the time the scandal took place, even though they may not be connected with the presiding president.

In this article, the term "politician" (a person who is professionally involved in politics) includes not only those elected, but also party officials, candidates for office, their staffs and appointees. Please note that every president directly selects, appoints or hires several thousand people. Each of them selects thousands more. Private citizens should only be mentioned when they are closely linked to the scandal or politician, such as Jack Abramoff. This list also does not include crimes that occur outside the politician's tenure (such as before or after their term in office) unless they specifically stem from acts made while in office and discovered later.

Scandal is defined as "loss of or damage to reputation caused by actual or apparent violation of morality or propriety". Scandals are separate from 'controversies', (which implies two differing points of view) and 'unpopularity'. Many decisions are controversial, many decisions are unpopular, that alone does not make them scandals. Breaking the law is a scandal. The finding of a court is the sole method used to determine a violation of law, but it is not the sole method of determining a scandal. Also included as scandals are politicians

You may have had transformational or transcendent moments in your life. You may have even had a few monumental triumphs. But you have never been onstage in front of thousands of people and had Prince point at you to take the solo in “Purple Rain.”

“Yes, it was magical,” says guitarist Donna Grantis, BMus’02. You probably get used to extraterrestrial moments like that when you’re the other guitarist in Prince’s band. Once a member of 3rdEyeGirl, Grantis is now a solo artist about to release her debut album Diamonds and Dynamite.

The Mississauga native currently lives in Minneapolis (Prince’s hometown), which may as well be Canada. Couldn’t she live closer to the showbiz action in L.A.? “Sure. But I love the seasons.”

Grantis has been playing since she picked up her older brother’s acoustic guitar at 13. Recognizing her desire and perhaps even her nascent ability, she asked her father for her own axe, and he offered her a deal: learn one song perfectly, and it’s yours. She came back playing “Stairway to Heaven.” Both impressed and chagrinned, dad plunked down the cash for a Series A. “Red, with a maple neck,” she says with enduring fondness.

In models and formative influences, she aimed high. “Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin, Jeff Beck… even as a teenager, “Led Boots” on (the album) Wired – I couldn’t even get past that song for a whole day!” So she absorbed it, and the styles anchoring them all.

“Jimmy Page is a blues player, and blues is my foundation. Jazz was a natural evolution,” she says. “I love the improvisational aspect of both styles, but jazz has more harmonic possibilities. There’s more freedom, I feel.”

That transition led her inexorably to McGill’s Schulich School of Music and the Jazz Program. She lived in Royal Victoria College. “It was an amazing learning experience,’ she says, “such a cool opportunity to be immersed with like-minded colleagues. It’s a traditional program focused on bebop, which made it fantasti