Acceptance Speech Research Articles

Remembering William Faulkner’s Address Upon Receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature

William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature for the year 1949. He officially received the Prize and delivered his acceptance speech on December 10, 1950. This article re-examines critical responses to the writer’s Nobel Prize address, their interest in the address’s intertextual references to Faulkner’s earlier works and the works of other writers. The language of the address documents significant aspects of Faulkner-the writer’s/Faulkner-the reader’s aesthetic vision from the perspective of his didactic concern with the duties of the writer facing the challenges of his/ her time and as a means of constructing publicly Faulkner’s own literary self-portrait of universal dimensions.

Translation as a Cultural Dialogue between the East and the West: Re-reading ‘The Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech’ by Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize for his English translation of Gitanjali in 1913. He was at once accepted by the Western people as one of their own poets. In the ‘The Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech’, Tagore, however, categorically stated that he must not accept the laurels as his ‘individual share’ because he represented the East and it was the East in him that gave to the West. Tagore always believed in a cooperation of cultures across the world. He was certain that he belonged to an age which bore witness to the meeting of the East and the West. The present paper while making an analytical study of ‘The Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech’ will try to establish that the objective of Tagore’s translation of Gitanjali into English was not merely to ‘rekindle’ the aesthetic delight which the poet once experienced during the composition of the work in Bengali but to create a space for a dialogue between two separate spheres of civilization – the East and the West.

Imagination and Collaboration

Receiving the Corlis Benefideo Award for Imaginative Cartography was a tremendous honor not least because it came with an opportunity to address the NACIS community. As two independent mapmakers, we are grateful to have been spotted amidst this great sea of talent. What follows is an adaptation of our acceptance speech from the 2018 NACIS Annual Meeting in Norfolk, Virginia. Our original talk can be viewed here: youtu.be/3hrcziwEyPo.

Realizing Better Diabetes Outcomes Through a Diabetes Data Revolution.

We are rapidly approaching the 100th anniversary of the discovery of insulin. The incredible work of Fredrick Banting and Charles Best in the laboratory of John Macleod and with the purification expertise of James Collip won the Nobel Prize and saved the lives of millions of people with type 1 diabetes. However, as Banting noted in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech (1), “Insulin is not a cure for diabetes; it is a treatment.” For many decades, it was an imperfect treatment, and it did not restore normal blood glucose levels for the majority of people with diabetes who relied on it. The serious side effect of insulin treatment—hypoglycemia—was immediately identified as a complication of treatment. Subsequently, it was suspected by Elliot Joslin (2), and much later confirmed by the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (3), that hyperglycemia was a driver of vascular complications of diabetes. Unfortunately, for decades, diabetes management with animal insulin preparations and monitoring by checking the urine for glucose lacked the two key elements needed to adequately manage diabetes: information and effective treatment modalities (i.e., action based on the information). Diabetes complications were common, and the onset of complications often occurred within 20 years of diagnosis. My family was first confronted with this reality in 1977, when my brother was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes; later, I experienced it even more personally when I was diagnosed in 1984. In our family, we call those times “the dark ages of diabetes management.” Now, as we approach 2021 and the 100th anniversary of insulin, the outlook for people with diabetes is much brighter. In this Diabetes Spectrum From Research to Practice section, leading experts describe a transformation, driven by data (information) and significantly improved treatment options (action), that is now underway and is facilitating improved outcomes and quality of …

Response to 2019 Barringer Medal award

Response to 2019 Barringer Medal award

A Tribute to Our Centenarian Yuan-Cheng Fung: Father of Modern Biomechanics.

A Tribute to Our Centenarian Yuan-Cheng Fung: Father of Modern Biomechanics.

Deutsch-rumänische Sprachinterferenzen bei Herta Müller und Balthasar Waitz

Abstract Herta Müller’s leaning towards word for word transfer of Romanian set phrases in her texts can be explained by the environment in which she lived until her emigration to West Germany and this admittedly intensifies with the gradually increasing general interest in multi-lingualism. The fact that the authoress speaks of the German-Romanian transfer in her acceptance speech on the occasion of the Nobel Prize award proves the important role, which Hertha Müller ascribes to this procedure. Also at the centre of the latest books by Balthasar Waitz stands the multicultural region of the Banat. The author seems to be gripped by the plurilingualism of the immediate surroundings of his homeland. Different forms of Romanian, from slang to everyday speech, but occasionally also Hungarian, Slovak and Serbian phrases find their way into the texts of the Banat author. In this manner just as with Hertha Müller, language images come into being, new light. Thus literary multilingualism in both writers enables one to have a novel access to the relation between literature and reality.

Meryl Streep la actriz de las mil voces (y polifonías)

El análisis del discurso se presenta como una disciplina de utilidad para los estudiosos de la cultura y un complemento que avanza más allá de los niveles sintácticos, semánticos, morfológicos o fonológicos, para analizar la lengua en su contexto discursivo. Un aspecto de estudio de interés es el discurso referido. Meryl Streep es una actriz reconocida por su capacidad de imitar acentos y dialectos. Cuando recibió un galardón durante la ceremonia de los Globos de Oro de 2017, la actriz construyó su alocución a partir de las palabras (y actos) de otros: el análisis de su discurso de aceptación permite observar cómo los diversos discursos referidos que utilizó consolidan el sentimiento de comunidad y denuncian las políticas del presidente Donald Trump. El presente estudio analiza el discurso de Streep en dicha ocasión al subrayar que las expresiones de un sujeto muchas veces contienen capas de sentido provenientes de otros discursos.

CFHA Don Bloch Award acceptance speech, 2018.

Provides John S. Rolland's acceptance speech for the 2018 CFHA Don Bloch Award. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

Acceptance speech by Professor E C G Sudarshan on Sunday October 26, 1986 at the Award Ceremony at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy

Acceptance speech by Professor E C G Sudarshan on Sunday October 26, 1986 at the Award Ceremony at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy

The Life Script Trilogy: Acceptance Speech on Receiving the 2018 Eric Berne Memorial Award

This acceptance speech reviews the historical influences underlying the trilogy of publications on life script for which the author received the 2018 Eric Berne Memorial Award. Life scripts are composed of unconscious systems of psychological organization and self-regulation developed as a result of cumulative failures in significant dependent relationships. The principles of a developmentally based, relationally focused psychotherapy that foster a script cure are described.

Newman Prize for Chinese Literature Acceptance Speech, 2019

Thank you to all of the jurors, organizers, and staff members.I’m very happy to come to the United States for the first time.My ancestral home is Zhongshan, Guangdong, the birthplace of Dr. Sun Yat...

Introduction

Introduction Bruce (bio) and Ju-Chan Fulton (bio) One of the most intertextual of contemporary Korean fiction writers, Kim Kyung-uk was born in 1971 in Kwangju, South Chŏlla Province. He earned a BA and an MA in English literature and Korean literature, respectively, from Seoul National University and teaches creative writing at Korean National University of Arts. Since his debut in 1993 with the novella "Outsider" (Autsaidŏ), published in Chakka segye (Writers world), he has produced more than a dozen story collections and novels. Kim is evaluated perhaps too facilely by the critics for incorporating elements of popular culture in his works—understandable when we consider the titles of stories and novels such as Morrison Hotel (Morisŭn Hot'el), "Who Killed Kurt Cobain?" (Nu ka K'ŏt'ŭ K'obein ŭl chugyŏnnŭnga?), and "Leslie Cheung Is Dead, You Say?" (Chang Kug-yŏng i chugŏttago?). But the importance of such works extends beyond mere parody to challenge readers to reevaluate cultural icons and stereotypes—a project that is central to modern Korean fiction, to judge from the multiple intertextual fictional renderings of icons from classical Korea, such as Hwang Chin-i, and the many contemporary retellings of some of Korea's best-known folktales, such as "The Woodcutter and the Nymph." Kim is especially interested in how individuals manage to re-invent themselves and/or live double [End Page 11] lives, and in crafting portraits of such characters he reflects writing by both Korean and non-Korean authors. In its gravitas and apocalyptic background "Young Hearts Never Grow Old" (Sonyŏn ŭn nŭkchi annŭnda, 2013), for example, echoes both P'yŏn Hye-yŏng's "Mallow Gardens" (Aoi kadŭn, 2003) and Cormac McCarthy's The Road. The reading therapist in "Dangerous Reading" (Wihŏmhan toksŏ, 2006) resembles the suicide consultant in Kim Yŏng-ha's I Have the Right to Destroy Myself (Na nŭn na rŭl p'agoehal kwŏlli ka itta, 1996) and would be at home in a story by John Cheever. And with his 2007 novel Kingdom of a Thousand Years (Ch'ŏn nyŏn ŭi wangguk), inspired by the story of Hendrik Hamel and his band of castaway Dutch sailors, Kim has reached far back into Chosŏn history for a most unusual tale of adaptation and survival. Kim's interest in intertextuality goes back at least as far as his apprenticeship in creative writing. In his acceptance speech upon being awarded the 2016 Yi Sang Literature Prize for "Ch'ŏnguk ŭi mun" (translated here by Soomin Yoo as "Heaven's Gate"), Kim observed that whenever he is about to submit a work for publication he realizes anew that he is a yŏngwŏnhan chimangsaeng ("forever-aspiring writer") who reads incessantly the works of his peers, regardless of their age. In doing so Kim reverts to the role of reader, understanding that without a readership Korean literature would be like the Titanic, with writers assuming the role of the doomed cruise ship's orchestra, which continued to play on even as the vessel was sinking. In recent years Kim has begun to attract attention among English-language readers. He is now represented in English by "The Queen of Love" (Yŏnae ŭi yŏwang), translated by Ryan Yu in Acta Koreana (2012); "Young Hearts Never Grow Old," translated by Deborah Smith in Azalea 6 (2013); "99%" (thus titled in Korean as well), translated by Jane Lee and Bruce Fulton in World Literature Today (2013); "Dangerous Reading," translated by Brother Anthony in Koreana (2014); God Has No Grandchildren, a collection of his [End Page 12] stories translated by Sunok Kang and Melissa Thomson (2015); and "Spray" (Sŭp'ŭrei), translated by Jason Woodruff in an online feature in Asymptote (2017). The following selection of Kim's writing includes a short essay by the author, translations of two of his stories, and the translation of an excerpt from his most recent novel. "The Mailman, Olivia Hussey, and Robert Redford" (Uch'ebu wa Ollibia Hasse wa Robŏt'ŭ Redŭp'odŭ) is included in his 1999 story collection Pet'i rŭl mannarŏ kada (Off to...

Acceptance Speech for the World Marxian Economics Award (I)

Acceptance Speech for the World Marxian Economics Award (I)

Union Demobilization and the Boundaries of War and Peace

Union Demobilization and the Boundaries of War and Peace Andrew F. Lang (bio) Editor's Note: The following represents the acceptance speech for the Watson Brown Prize for the best book published on the Civil War era in the calendar year 2017. Tad Brown, president of the Watson-Brown Foundation, awarded the prize to Andrew F. Lang for his book In the Wake of War: Military Occupation, Emancipation, and Civil War America, published by LSU Press. These remarks were given at the annual banquet of the Society of Civil War Historians (SCWH), held during the Southern Historical Association annual meeting on November 9, 2018, in Birmingham, Alabama. The SCWH judges and administers the book prize. ________ When I received the advance copy of In the Wake of War in late 2017, I scarcely imagined standing here tonight to accept the Tom Watson Brown Award. This honor will long rank among the most cherished of my life and career. Many of you in this room helped make this book possible, and I am profoundly grateful for your collegiality and friendship. Notable gratitude is due to the Society of Civil War Historians, Tad Brown, and the Watson-Brown Foundation for their generous support of our profession. Many thanks also to the Richards Civil War Era Center and Barby Singer for their tireless efforts in coordinating this award and dinner. I owe a great debt to the 2018 prize committee—Orville Vernon Burton, Nicole Etcheson, and Earl J. Hess—for recognizing and endorsing my work. I am further grateful to Michael Parrish, my series editor and now coauthor, and John B. Boles, the advisor of the doctoral dissertation on which the book is based. Mike and John have always encouraged me to think big, make bold contributions, and respect the delicate boundaries of the past. In the Wake of War links the American Civil War to a military ethos that long preceded secession and patterned the contested peace after Appomattox. The book interrogates contemporary perspectives of the Mexican-American War, Civil War, and Reconstruction, linking the broad [End Page 178] era to a prevailing culture of martial republicanism. In each conflict, U.S. soldiers appraised military occupations against competing attitudes on race and nation, the citizen-soldier tradition, and suspicions of standing armies. Indeed, nineteenth-century martial republicanism demarcated the boundaries between war and peace, exposed the tensions between occupation and democracy, and framed the murky processes of state-sanctioned social and political change. Among many other topics, the book engages the origins of Reconstruction's military history, contextualizing the era's limited purpose, its moderate scope, and its unsatisfactory conclusion. Tonight I would like to explore how the demobilization of Union armies in 1865 anticipated the complex world of Reconstruction and informed the disputed meaning of the American Civil War era. "After a contest of four years of unexampled proportions," announced Charles Pinckney Kirkland, a prominent New York City attorney and influential Republican politico whom Abraham Lincoln greatly esteemed, "the glorious end has come; reason, right, justice, liberty, humanity, have triumphed." When he wrote in June 1865, Kirkland believed the United States had extinguished the cancer of slaveholding, "the great disturbing cause of [t]his country's peace, the source of all the discord, heart-burnings and dangers of the Republic for the last half century." Slaveholding rebels had been vanquished, their unholy republic now extinct. Unburdened from slavery's draining yoke, the Union now stood in the world as a sovereign nation of, by, and for the people. For Kirkland, the triumph of popular democracy mandated a national restoration in which white southerners accepted the illegitimacies of secession and slavery, while demanding from unionists "reason, justice and mercy" in binding the nation's wounds. "As such we now owe a stern duty to ourselves, our posterity, our country and the world" to fashion an eternal peace.1 Loyal citizens of the Union implored, as President Lincoln prayed in his second inaugural address, that "this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away." Republics could not tolerate perpetual states of war, much less endure the chaos of insurgencies. Without defining the rigid boundaries of war—in this case the collapse of the...

Of "Sound" and "Unsound" Body and Mind: Reconfiguring the Heroic Portrait of Harriet Tubman

Of "Sound" and "Unsound" Body and MindReconfiguring the Heroic Portrait of Harriet Tubman Janell Hobson (bio) Harriet Tubman (ca. 1822–1913) is central to narratives of US progressive history and specifically black women's history. For this reason, she can easily be invoked in a historic acceptance speech by Viola Davis, who became the first black woman to win a Leading Actress Emmy in 2015 at a time when she had planned to produce and star in a Tubman biopic. Tubman has also inspired the establishment of a national park, as with the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument, and won the popular vote in a 2015 campaign to place a historic woman on the US currency. She is even contemporized for modern audiences, whether that involves denigrating her in a vulgar spoof called the Harriet Tubman Sex Tape, which briefly appeared on and then was subsequently removed from Russell Simmons's All-Def Digital YouTube channel due to its controversy, or celebrating her in a satirized Drunk History episode on Comedy Central, as portrayed by Octavia Spencer. She also appeared in the popular television series Underground, portrayed by Aisha Hinds, who delivered an unforgettable monologue in her iconic role. Functioning as perhaps the most iconic black woman in American culture, Tubman's image, words, and story continue to inspire and provoke. Despite her hypervisibility as a historic icon, Tubman, who is renowned for her status as an Underground Railroad conductor, Civil War hero, and woman's suffragist, remains invisible as a person with a disability. That is, her disability as an identity marker is downplayed. I raise this issue for a few reasons. First, Harriet Tubman has been heralded as an extraordinary individual with incredible strength resulting in self-liberation and the liberation of approximately seventy slaves from the antebellum South on the Underground Railroad, and yet her "superwoman" abilities remain a mystery for many—mostly because these abilities remove her from the realm of the ordinary and the everyday. Second, this image of strong black womanhood clings to a woman who historically suffered from a disability [End Page 193] throughout her life, thus complicating the "strength" she embodied. Finally, Tubman was perceived as "illiterate," a woman who could not read nor write and therefore lacked the literary agency to make her own story legible in the annals of history. This last point shifts the critique of Tubman's disability from the physical to the cognitive, in which her ingenuity, navigational skills, and survival techniques are rendered mystically, even magically, as if they could not be based in intellectual genius. Steeped in romanticism and mysticism—guided as she was by her "supernatural" visions in her journey along the Underground Railroad—Tubman also functions as more mythical than historical in the popular imaginary. She becomes what Vivian May describes as an "icon of strength," someone who "seems ahistorical, selfless, and without equal, not someone who worked within long-established networks of communication and resistance."1 Such a mythic lens further restricts and confines notions of heroism. Tubman's history is much like that of other legendary historical figures, who represent what Nell Painter calls "invented greats."2 Utilizing the example of Sojourner Truth (1797–1883), another black woman icon, Painter argues that such "invented greats" are "consumed as a signifier and beloved for what we need [them to be]."3 If greatness is based on what we need our icons to be, then perhaps it is time to redefine what it means to be "great." In other words, a non-ableist rendering of the "great woman" must reconstitute Tubman in a way that foregrounds what we might consider to be her "vulnerable strength" in the historical narrative. By complicating her strength through the lens of vulnerability, I in no way wish to diminish her abilities or to engender an ableist critique of the strength she embodied. Instead, I wish to call attention to the ways that we have discursively distinguished between weakness and strength, in which the superwoman is always capable, while her opposite—the disabled woman—is often assumed to be incapable. This is a supposition that writer Carolyn Tyjewski challenges when reminding us that "if one looks...

Fifty Years Gone: A Personal Statement

Abstract This personal reminiscence of John Steinbeck's life and works recalls the novelist's ethical impact, concluding that Steinbeck does us all a continuing service by his lifelong adherence to honoring truthfulness, accurate discourse—and especially the humanistic values of perfectibility, empathy, and inclusiveness that allow us to achieve “understanding and communication,” as he pointed out in his 1962 Nobel Prize acceptance speech. Steinbeck's greatest books are an antidote to—if not a blatant call to resist—the tidal wave of vain posturing, fake news, obfuscation, debasement of language, and outright lies that seem to be the stock in trade of our grievously callous and incompetent current administration.

Recent Progresson Preparation of Amphiphilic Janus particles

Janus comes from the Roman mythology of the double god. In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech in 1991, De Gennes first proposed the concept of Janus particles, which is used to describe two sides of the same particle having different chemical composition and/or morphological structure. Janus particle surfaces can have different hydrophilic and hydrophobic properties at the same time. Similar to traditional molecular surfactants, Janus particles can spontaneously adsorb onto the fluid interface, thus effectively stabilizing the multiphase system (emulsion or foam). Janus particles of various forms can be obtained according to different preparation processes. The organic polymer Janus particles mainly include spherical, disk, column and hollow shape. Due to the asymmetry of morphology and chemical composition of Janus particles, the conventional methods for preparing uniformly modified particles, such as suspension polymerization and emulsion polymerization, cannot be generally adopted. Over the past two decades, many methods for the preparation of Janus particles have been developed, including interface protection modification, phase separation and self-assembly of block copolymer.

Acceptance Speech Given By Shaheen A. Dewji, Recipient of the 2018 Elda E. Anderson Award

Acceptance Speech Given By Shaheen A. Dewji, Recipient of the 2018 Elda E. Anderson Award

Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the ultimate scientist?

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1906 was shared by two scientists that set the basis for understanding how the brain works: Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal were awarded the honour “in recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system”. Yet, contrary to what usually happens in these situations, one of them was wrong and tried to sabotage the theories of the other one, refusing to admit his mistakes even when he gave his acceptance speech. How did Santiago Ramón y Cajal, a humble Spanish doctor, manage to upstage the legendary Italian pathologist and change forever the way we see the brain?