11 Handicrafts, High Art, and Human Rights: Cultural Guardianship and Internationalism
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Abstract
As co-hosts of United Nations Week in 1957, the International Institute of Metropolitan Toronto's director, Nell West, staffer Violet Head, and the wellconnected Anglo-Canadian volunteers mounted a multi-ethnic program that celebrated cultural pluralism as the domestic embodiment of the liberal principles championed by the United Nations including an internationally enlightened form of national citizenship, inclusivity, and global peace.At the afternoon tea that kicked off the program meant to raise public awareness about the UN and encourage support for its causes, young women in "nationality costumes" welcomed people and served them "ethnic" pastries.During the evening concert, Toronto harpist Clara Emerson engaged the themes of international cooperation and goodwill by performing "beautiful compositions" of Old World music that "delighted" the capacity audience.For the occasion, the Institute also booked a "treasure van" of "beautiful handicrafts" from the Canadian Handicraft Guild that included "Eskimo" sculptures, Mexican silver objects, Greek jewellery, and Asian Indian brass objects and incense.The International Night that closed the week featured folk dancers who stepped, twirled, and stomped their way through a lively program. 1 Middle-class women have long been involved in folklore preservation and promotion 2 as well as liberal causes at home and internationally.3 It is thus not surprising that the Toronto Institute's middle-class Anglo-Canadian women, who embraced the agency's self-image as a local United Nations that offered a model for the nation organized multi-ethnic folk performances and craft exhibits in support of international causes and cosmopolitan citizenship.Or that the content and descriptions of the folk performances and arts and crafts exhibits traded heavily in female stereotypes and otherwise conveyed conservative gender alignments.In mounting these events, Institute directors like West and (Dutch-Canadian) Tine Stewart, along with volunteers such as Margaret Jennings, 4 collaborated with Anglo-and ethno-Canadian women folklorists.These interactions sometimes fostered cross-cultural bonds of
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.037 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.014 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".