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Articles 1 - 17 of 17
Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Productivity, Relevance And Natural Selection, Stuart Glennan
Productivity, Relevance And Natural Selection, Stuart Glennan
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Recent papers by a number of philosophers have been concerned with the question of whether natural selection is a causal process, and if it is, whether the causes of selection are properties of individuals or properties of populations. I shall argue that much confusion in this debate arises because of a failure to distinguish between causal productivity and causal relevance. Causal productivity is a relation that holds between events connected via continuous causal processes, while causal relevance is a relationship that can hold between a variety of different kinds of facts and the events that counterfactually depend upon them. I …
Lydia Murdoch, Imagined Orphans: Poor Families, Child Welfare, And Contested Citizenship In London, John D. Ramsbottom
Lydia Murdoch, Imagined Orphans: Poor Families, Child Welfare, And Contested Citizenship In London, John D. Ramsbottom
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Dr. Ramsbottom's review of "Imagined Orphans: Poor Families, Child Welfare, and Contested Citizenship in London"
Spectres, Monstres Et Fantômes. Les Chants Maldoror" Et Le Spectacle De La Fantasmagorie, Eloise Sureau-Hale
Spectres, Monstres Et Fantômes. Les Chants Maldoror" Et Le Spectacle De La Fantasmagorie, Eloise Sureau-Hale
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Découverts quatre ans après la mort de leur auteur Isidore Ducasse dit le Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror ont fait l'objet de nombreuses études. L'étrangeté du texte, les manèges narratologiques et les images déroutantes ont depuis la fin du XIXe siècle inspiré la critique. En revanche l'aspect ludique de l'oeuvre n'a retenu que peu de critiques. Pusique Ducasse demeurait au coeur d'un Paris en pleine effervescence culturelle, il ne serait pas difficile d'envisager un goût pour la culture populaire, le visuel, le cirque ou la magie, prévalents au milieu du siècle. Les Chants auraient-ils été pris trop au …
Review Of The Crisis Of Secularism, Chad M. Bauman
Review Of The Crisis Of Secularism, Chad M. Bauman
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
The essays in this volume address the "crisis of secularism" in India, a crisis which, the editors suggest, emerged during the Emergency and culminated in the 2002 Gujarat violence.
History: The Birth Of "America" In 1882, Robert H.I. Dale
History: The Birth Of "America" In 1882, Robert H.I. Dale
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
This article concerns a New York Times story about the birth of the female Asian elephant calf, named America, at the winter headquarters of the "Greatest Show on Earth" in Bridgeport, Connecticut on February 2, 1882. Phineas T. Barnum, one of the owners of the show, and one prone to self-aggrandizing bluster, claimed that America was the second elephant ever born in captivity. America was born only to months before the arrival in New York of the most famous circus elephant of all time, Jumbo, on Easter Sunday, 1882, and only two years before the origin of a small wagon …
Redeeming Indian ‘Christian’ Womanhood?: Missionaries, Dalits, And Agency In Colonial India, Chad M. Bauman
Redeeming Indian ‘Christian’ Womanhood?: Missionaries, Dalits, And Agency In Colonial India, Chad M. Bauman
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
This study of dalit Christians in colonial North India suggests that women who converted to Christianity in the region often experienced a contraction of the range of their activities. Bauman analyzes this counterintuitive result of missionary work and then draws on the work of Saba Mahmood and others to interrogate the predilection of feminist historians for agents, rabble-rousers, and gender troublemakers. The article concludes not only that this predilection represents a mild form of egocentrism but also that it prevents historians from adequately analyzing the complexity of factors that motivate and influence human behavior.
Postcolonial Anxiety And Anti-Conversion Sentiment In The Report Of The Christian Missionary Activities Enquiry Committee, Chad M. Bauman
Postcolonial Anxiety And Anti-Conversion Sentiment In The Report Of The Christian Missionary Activities Enquiry Committee, Chad M. Bauman
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Conversion to Christianity is one of the most politically charged issues in contemporary India and has recently been very much in the news.1 For example, in 2006, on the fiftieth anniversary of B. R. Ambedkar’s conversion to Buddhism2 hundreds of dalits gathered to convert, some to Buddhism and others to Christianity, rejecting Hinduism, a religion they claim oppresses and demeans them. In attacks on Christians in Orissa at the end of 2007 (and associated reprisals), dozens of churches, homes, and businesses were destroyed, hundreds of people were injured, and thousands were displaced.
Book Review Of "Indian Religions: Renaissance And Renewal", Chad M. Bauman
Book Review Of "Indian Religions: Renaissance And Renewal", Chad M. Bauman
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
The eighteen articles in this volume grew from papers delivered at the 2006 Spalding Symposium on Indian Religions. The Symposium featured both newer and more advanced scholars who presented papers on a variety of topics and traditions of India (but especially Hinduism and Buddhism).
History And Fiction In The Acts Of Thomas: The State Of The Question, James F. Mcgrath
History And Fiction In The Acts Of Thomas: The State Of The Question, James F. Mcgrath
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
The Acts of Thomas has not yet received as much attention as the Gospel associated with the same individual, and this is understandable. Current students of this early Christian work, however, are in danger of missing out on the discussions and differing perspectives long offered by scholars of the Indian church and Indian history on this work. The current study suggests that, while the Acts of Thomas is almost certainly a work of novelistic fiction, this should not lead us to ignore the instances of confirmable historical information embedded therein, as in many other works of historical fiction. The Acts …
Do We Teach Disciplines Or Do We Teach Students?—What Difference Does It Make?, Marshall W. Gregory
Do We Teach Disciplines Or Do We Teach Students?—What Difference Does It Make?, Marshall W. Gregory
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
The single most difficult notion for graduate students and new professors to grasp about teaching--and, indeed, many experienced teachers never grasp this point either--is that successful teaching to undergraduates has little to do with the degree of one's mastery of disciplinary knowledge.
Humanities Education Then, Now And Why, Marshall W. Gregory
Humanities Education Then, Now And Why, Marshall W. Gregory
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
The problem of educational metaphors in the humanities is that the metaphors driving the humanities since the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance-metaphors that educators still rely on today-no longer work in the twenty-first century.
From The Streets To The Screen: The Music Of Madrid In Saura's Deprisa, Deprisa, Linda M. Willem
From The Streets To The Screen: The Music Of Madrid In Saura's Deprisa, Deprisa, Linda M. Willem
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
With a distinguished career as a director of over thirty-five feature films, Carlos Saura has been a prominent figure within the international film community for nearly fifty years. One of his most critically-acclaimed works, Deprisa, deprisa [Hurry, Hurry], is a documentary-like portrayal of a group of friends - Pablo, Angela, Meca, and Sebas - engaged in ever-escalating acts of crime and violence in Madrid in the early 1980's. This is Saura's second film to deal with the topic of alienated urban youth. In 1959 his very first feature film, Los golfos [The Hooligans], focused on a young gang of thieves …
Events Not Processes: Reassessing And Redating The Lower Fills Of The South Stoa Wells At Corinth, Guy D.R. Sanders, Yuki Furuya, Lynne. Kvapil
Events Not Processes: Reassessing And Redating The Lower Fills Of The South Stoa Wells At Corinth, Guy D.R. Sanders, Yuki Furuya, Lynne. Kvapil
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Abstract from paper presented at: Pottery, Peoples and Places: the Late Hellenistic Period, c. 200-50 BC Between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, International Conference at Sandbjerg Manor House, Aarhus, Denmark, November 2008. Available from: digitalcommons.butler.edu/facsch_papers/415/
Innocent Initiations: Female Agency In Eroticized Fairy Tales, Jeana Jorgensen
Innocent Initiations: Female Agency In Eroticized Fairy Tales, Jeana Jorgensen
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Bawdy folktales have generated controversy and scholarship for centuries, and their literary, sexually explicit descendants, eroticized fairy tales, are also deserving of attention. Marketed in short story collections as erotica, eroticized fairy tales use fairy-tale characters, plots, and themes as the setting for sexual adventures. Some of these tales focus on a naïve heroine’s initiation into sexual pleasure without her knowing precisely what is going on. I have termed these “innocent initiation” tales. Their use of traditional fairy-tale motifs contributes to discourse about female sexuality, agency, and objectification.
Review Of Kenneth E. Bailey, Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies In The Gospels, James F. Mcgrath
Review Of Kenneth E. Bailey, Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies In The Gospels, James F. Mcgrath
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
In his latest book, Kenneth Bailey provides further study of the New Testament Gospels from the perspective that has been his own unique contribution over the past three decades or so.
L'Orlanda De Jacqueline Harpman: Virginia Woolf Rencontre Carl Gustav Jung, Sylvie Vanbaelen
L'Orlanda De Jacqueline Harpman: Virginia Woolf Rencontre Carl Gustav Jung, Sylvie Vanbaelen
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Confrentée maintes fois à la question du rapport entre ses deux activités professionnelles, la psychanalyse et la littérature, Jacqueline Harpman ne cesse de maintenir qu'il s'agit là de deux domaines bien séparés. Alors que l'analyse réclame tout son sérieux, écrire s'avère être pour elle un divertissement auquel elle s'adonne par pur plaisir. S'il est difficile de croire chez elle à l'étanchéité de ces deux displines, c'est là une impossibilité lorsqu'on s'attelle à la lecture d'Orlanda (1996). Harpman elle-même est forcée de concéder:
Combatant’S Privilege Reconsidered, Harry Van Der Linden
Combatant’S Privilege Reconsidered, Harry Van Der Linden
Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
International law grants to legitimate combatants the right to kill enemy soldiers both in wars of aggression and defensive wars. A main argument in support of this “combatant’s privilege” is Michael Walzer’s doctrine of the “moral equality of soldiers.” The doctrine argues that soldiers fighting in wars of aggression and defensive wars have the same moral status because they both typically believe that justice is on their side, and their moral choices are equally severely restricted by the overwhelming coercive powers of the state, including propaganda, conscription, and harsh penalties for the refusal to fight. Recently, this doctrine has been …