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    Finances and Revolutionary Responsibilities: Lorient’s Municipal Government, 1789-1790
    (2019-07) Malcolm, Hannah N.
    On the 2nd of August 1789, Lorient’s permanent committee received word from their deputy to the National Assembly that France’s finance minister, Jacques Necker, had been reinstated in office. Widely viewed as the savior of France, Necker’s dismissal the previous month had sparked unease and unrest, most visibly in the storming of the Bastille on July 14th. The merchants who dominated Lorient’s permanent committee were distraught by his dismissal in part because they were hoping for his support to dismantle the privileges of mercantilism. “At the very instant” that the news was announced, Ledoux, the city’s representative of painters, sculptures, and engravers, “entered and offered to the assembly the large portrait of Mr. Necker” for the city hall. After thanking him “from their hearts,” the committee immediately wrote to Necker relating their joy at his return and their everlasting friendship.
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    Dressing the Reich: The Fear and Elegance in Nazi Uniforms
    (2019-03-27) Woods, North
    Germany was a nation both clad and obsessed with the uniform. Brian L. Davis, a uniform historian describes 240 different uniforms from the time of the Third Reich era. From coal miners, to Post Office employees, all the way up the Nazi hierarchy to Adolf Hitler himself, every man in the Reich had a uniform, in an “appeal to male vanity.”1 Bernhard Teicher, in his memoir, writes of his time as a young soldier in Nazi Germany, “Of course, we were issued uniforms (ideally everybody in the Nazi ​Reich​ should have worn a uniform!).”2 The Nazi Party’s desire for uniformity of thought and support extended directly to the propagandistic powers of the clothes that bore the Nazi insignia on the backs the German citizenry. True to its latin root ‘uni,’ the uniform served as a unifier in Nazi Germany.
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    French Print Media and the Portrayal of Refugees: The Biopolitics of Crime Reporting
    (2019) Bougher, Alex; Kenney, Padraic
    Across the world, the media plays an essential role in the formation of public opinion surrounding the plight of asylum seekers who are fleeing persecution and conflict. There are two global frames through which the public is conditioned to view refugees, either as dangers to society or as helpless victims. One potential explanation, as is addressed by this research, is the print media’s portrayal of refugees and asylum seekers. Through the synthesis of media priming, in which print news influences associations between concepts and memory by constant presentation of two concepts, increasing the accessibility of an association, and the biopolitics of the humanitarian aid system, often examined in relation to nutrition and health, the question this research poses is: how did the French print media portray refugees and asylum seekers during the peak of the refugee crisis in Europe, from 2015 to 2017, in relation to their interactions with bodies? To answer this question, roughly three hundred French news articles were coded based on four criteria. The resulting data reveals that the French print media reported on crimes of bodily harm more so than those of non-bodily harm. Additionally, alleged crimes committed by refugees peaked during periods of heightened fear surrounding refugees across Europe. Finally, and possibly most shockingly, reports of hate crimes committed against refugees peaked during or after the same periods of fear prompted by terrorist attacks.