This article is a review of a symposium entitled, “In a Speculative Light: The Arts of James Baldwin and Beauford Delaney,” held at the University of Tennessee on 19–21 February 2020.
. Indeed, there has been a definitive embrace of the importance of negotiation in humanitarian operations ( Grace, 2020 ). However, the interview findings suggest that much room for improvement remains. Many interviewees had never received any negotiation training or mentorship, and in relation to hostage negotiations particularly, felt that they and/or their organisations were ill equipped to the task. At the policy level, the compromises that many negotiations bring forth raise unsettled organisational and sector-wide questions about what humanitarians’ ‘red lines’ can
teams to the trial, in co-facilitating their two days of training and in providing subsequent clinical supervision. It’s been a privilege to help Trusts consider how best to implement our training, working with service users, carers and clinicians so that they can go on to deliver the training themselves. It’s been a joy to be able to present at events and conferences, I’ve loved telling people what we’ve been finding out. I’ve had a few mental health ‘blips’ along the way, but I feel that with the right training and mentorship I’ve been able to use my lived
journey which took them through Egypt, Paris, and London, building Breasted’s experience base and his scientific network, and, in turn, truly making him a professional Egyptologist. These colleagues formed the two foundational nodes in his early scientific network on which Breasted built the rest of his career as a professional Egyptologist. The Petrie node began as an informal mentorship and soon morphed into a partnership of equals. Others in this node were Quibell, Sayce, Francis Griffith, Walter Crum, and George Reisner. The node that Maspero occupied was a formal
assistance. 31 Bacon, p. 173. 32 Bond, para. 5 of 14. 33 Susan Stewart, Poetry and the Fate of the Senses (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002), p. 2. 34 Stewart, p. 26. MUP_Smith_Printer.indd 128 02/04/2015 16:18 Robert Herrick and the five (or six) senses 129 35 Thanks to Rick Rambuss (Brown University) for his mentorship when I began working on Herrick at Emory University. Thanks also to the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, for grants that enabled me to conduct research at the Folger Shakespeare Library, to draft this essay, and to travel to the
time I interviewed him, he had just completed his PhD, was employed by a leftist lobbying initiative, and had recently purchased an apartment with his partner. Jacob’s narrative reflects the successful progression through a number of stages of an ideal squatter career in which he ultimately became self-realized through the movement. He began as a “party punk,” meaning that he lived as a punk squatter without political ideals. Through involvement in the movement and mentorship by older squatters, he then
