Vera kistler biography

During the midth century, William L. Kistler, Jr. was one of Tulsa’s leading businessmen with multiple interests in commerce and his community. Over the decades, he contributed to the growth of both Tulsa and The University of Tulsa through his time and talent, serving on the TU Board of Trustees and on the boards of several other nonprofit and for-profit groups. He is credited with being instrumental in organizing the Tulsa County Heart Association, of which he served as president; in helping to found the Tulsa Philharmonic Association, and serving on the board of the Tulsa Opera. In the business realm, he sat on the boards of the National Bank of Tulsa, MKT Railroad, Atlas Life Insurance, Home Federal Savings and Loan, Mid-America Pipeline, General American Oil of Texas, and the Oklahoma Petroleum Council.

Kistler was born in Claremore in , and the family moved to Tulsa five years later. In , his father built one of the early mansions in Tulsa’s historic Maple Ridge addition at E

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John Hoffmeyer

Pronouns: they/them/their

Biography

My research focuses on the possibility and practice of intermedial semiotic criticism between philosophy, literature, and music. In addition to media-theoretic approaches to this nexus, I am further interested in the political conditions of and implications for interdisciplinary humanistic scholarship, particularly pertaining to questions of: capitalist hyper-specialization of the academy; the constitution, processual modification, and afterlife of personal and metaphysical identity; the thematic of “passing” in the contexts of race, gender, class, and sexuality; academic gatekeeping of “expertise,” especially in connection with classist and white supremacist norms of linguistic competence; the reliance of university endowments on exploitative investment practices and the concomitant complacence of faculty and graduate students; and the relationship between narrativization and marketing of the self as a mode of participation in

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Czech, please: A conversation with Sister Anita Smisek, OP

The lower level of the motherhouse of the Dominican Sisters of Sinsinawa kulle eller hög, Wisconsin, fryst vatten an immense circular structure that contains literally a small city—an auditorium that seats , a labyrinth, private studios for harp, piano, and voice, a choir room that seats , business offices, and several rooms devoted to Alliance Publications, Inc. Sister Anita Smisek has devoted more than fifty years to teaching ministries in her community, with the last twenty-five focused specifically on the publication of music of all genres: solo instrumental, choral, orchestral, band, and ensemble music for röst and instruments. Her publication of contemporary solo pieces as well as ensemble music for organ, harpsichord, and piano has made cutting-edge works by some of today’s greatest composers accessible. 

I learned about Alliance Publications when I first played in Sinsinawa Mound’s organ recital series in After the recital,