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The study of the "Circe" episode of Ulysses has been underserved with regard to one of its most significant sources, the sadomasochistic magazine Bits of Fun, which has never been fully examined. This source is followed more closely by Joyce in the novel's Bella/Bello scene than has been realized, as well as in the "Ithaca" episode and Finnegans Wake. The exact issues that Joyce used have not yet been correctly identified, and the "Circe" notesheets have consequently been misdated. Joyce drew on Bits of Fun not only for his theme of forced feminization in this episode, but also for more extreme details of bondage and torture, including even cannibalism and slavery. Based on this source, the text of Joyce's early draft material in both his "Circe" notesheets and Ulysses notebooks should be emended in several places. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Late in his artistic and scholarly career, W.G. Sebald decided to eschew then-emergent modes of computational media in favor of analogue production techniques. Sebald himself often remarked on his encounters with media, both new and old, expressing a consistent interest in the materiality of writing. In his own artistic practice, he preferred the process of handwriting to what he called the tyranny of "PC Perfectionism." Scenes of writing, and the technologies of pen, paper, and pencil, appear regularly throughout Sebald's corpus, especially in The Rings of Saturn (1995) and Austerlitz (2001). These elegiac encounters with residual technologies informed Sebald's literary aesthetic. The novel Austerlitz, in particular, foregrounds media history and the evolution of modes of writerly work. In this novel, written in the shadow of new modes of digital writing that were becoming ubiquitous at the end of the twentieth century, Sebald's poetics of media obsolescence emerges as key preoccupation in his aesthetic project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this report, we present the results of two lexicometric analyses performed on a digitalized version of Charles S. Peirce's Collected Papers. We calculated the most frequently cited terms in the corpus and its most overrepresented terms, as compared with a sample of the Corpus of Historical American. Combining both analyses allowed us to produce a shorter list of the "most important terms" of the Collected Papers , deemed to be distinctive of Peirce's philosophical interests. One of the most significant findings is the quantitative evidence that Peirce's work is primarily concerned with truth and propositions. We suggest that such statistical analyses offer an interesting overview of Peirce's philosophical interests in an unprecedented way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the Digitale Edition von Quellen zur habsburgisch-osmanischen Diplomatie 1500-1918 (Qhod), a digital editing project created in 2020 at the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences to research and digitally edit sources of the diplomatic contacts between Vienna and Istanbul, Turkey beginning in the 1490s. Topics include the launch of the project website, the first group of primary sources and execution of Qhod transcriptions.

In 1981, Indiana University's Lilly Library acquired 1,200 cartons of papers from the office of outgoing Indiana senator Birch Bayh. Kate Cruikshank, Political Papers Specialist at Indiana University Libraries, describes the long and complicated process whereby library staff organized the files into the Birch Bayh Senatorial Papers, now part of the Modern Political Papers collection at Indiana University, Bloomington. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1981, Indiana University's Lilly Library acquired 1,200 cartons of papers from the office of outgoing Indiana senator Birch Bayh. Kate Cruikshank, Political Papers Specialist at Indiana University Libraries, describes the long and complicated process whereby library staff organized the files into the Birch Bayh Senatorial Papers, now part of the Modern Political Papers collection at Indiana University, Bloomington. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay argues that George Gissing's novel New Grub Street (1891)—long noted for its powerful, if gloomy, representation of late-Victorian authorship and publishing—not only presupposes but also critically incorporates the era's epochal transition from rag paper to paper made from harvested esparto grass and wood pulp. In Gissing's treatment of industrialized publishing, the trade in printed writing takes on central features of the thriving paper industry carefully placed in the novel's background, including its linking of overproduction via inexpensive inputs to the specter of wholesale devastation. Reading New Grub Street as a novel on paper draws our attention to the resource ecologies and even the natural histories of late-nineteenth-century authorship, media, and print capitalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fan media practices, shaped by the advent of commercial narrative cinema in the 1910s, owe much to young female audiences. However, in-depth knowledge of these early fan communities is slim, having gone largely unexamined by silent-film historians. Focused on paper-based scrapbooks, tutorials, and correspondence crafted by movie-loving girls coming of age in North America during World War I, this article traces the tensile relationship established between a burgeoning male-presided film industry and the first demographic to be culturally addressed as "adolescent" and "screen-struck." By privileging first-person accounts of girl-led movie collectives from assorted walks of life, I introduce a richly diverse, if mostly unknown, reception archive that showcases the formative modes of spectatorial engagement, consumer participation, peer belonging, and affective subversiveness engendered by an audience historically deemed negligible or unproductive. Reading personal fan objects in tandem with newspaper articles urging girls to reuse film ephemera also reveals that the outbreak of World War I recalibrated how moviegoers and the US press conceived of appropriate film fandom and useful female labor. Visible and valuable due to their passionate attachment to the pictures, young female audiences came to be recruited to participate in war-relief efforts, their paper crafts and domestic upcycling contributing to the nationwide debate on resource scarcity, public female agency, and the decline of western civilization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay reflects upon what happens to the aspirational aesthetic/ethical quality of the fino —with its multiple connotations, ranging from refinement, smoothness, fairness (in color), purity, correctness, education, spiritual goodness, nobility, generosity, glamour, criollo- ness, modesty and demureness, to homosexuality, sexual repression, prudishness, pickiness, favoring of foreign ways, and snobbism—during the Cuban revolution by examining select cultural productions from 1966 to the present. Taking Pedro Manuel González Reinoso's "Roxy the Red," a Sovietized Cuban drag libretto, as a point of departure for its characterization of a popular Cuban perception of a "lack" within Soviet aesthetics, this essay then outlines a possible route of the fino through the pre-revolutionary universe of José Lezama Lima's Paradiso (1966); a "transition" evidenced in Guillermo Cabrera Infante's Tres Tristes Tigres (1967) and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's feature Memorias de subdesarrollo (Memories of Underdevelopment, 1968); into the Soviet Cuban artistic landscape of Enrique Colina's documentaries, primarily Estética (1984), Chapucerías (1987); and even in the twenty-first century within Arturo Infante's short Utopía (2004), Colina's Los "bolos" en Cuba y una eterna amistad (The Russians in Cuba and an Eternal Friendship, 2011), José Manuel Prieto's Encyclopedia of a Life in Russia (2012), and Gertrudis Rivalta's artistic mock-ups that she began to construct in 2011. Suggesting ways that the very revolution did not abandon this category, but rather adopted it to its end, this essay shows, moreover, how the quest for a certain kind of "harmony" between internal and external composure can be, at times, liberating and, other times, repressive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reads Kopano Matlwa's debut novel, Coconut , as a critical reflection on the incomplete work of social, economic, and juridical inclusion. It outlines inconclusive episodes in the lives of two young black women: Ofilwe, a member of a rarified upper middle class, and Fikile, ensnared in grinding poverty. Drawing on Denise Ferreira Da Silva and Calvin Warren, the paper shows how Matlwa addresses the uncritical embrace of this racist and historically oppressive discourse among nominally free blacks, both among enduringly destitute slum dwellers and the emergent nouveau riche. In the novel, social death comes in the form of internalized anti-blackness as the two young black women featured in the novel doggedly pursue white identities as a means for successful existence in postapartheid South Africa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the novel `A Rainbow on the Paper Sky,' by South African author Mandla Langa. Plot of the novel; Inspiration from the resistance to the Bantu Homelands Act of 1971; Ideological persuasion on readers; Presentation of a counterhegemonic view of history; Espousal of democratic values.

This paper examines Philip Roth's most Holocaust-haunted novel: The Plot Against America. Through a comparative intertextual study of Primo Levi's Se questo è un uomo (published in the United States as Survival in Auschwitz), Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl, and Roth's Plot —and through an analysis of the other references to Frank and Levi in Roth's writing—this article argues that The Plot Against America should be read considering the profound impact of these works on Roth. It further argues that Plot is not merely Roth's counterfactual novel about what America would have looked like in the early 1940s had a president who sympathized with the Third Reich assumed control of the United States government. It is Roth's imagined Holocaust memoir, the one which the contingencies of history spared him from having to write as an actual witness, but which he nonetheless chose to write after having been profoundly impacted by his friendship with (and profound esteem and empathy for the works of) Primo Levi. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the papers presented during the 2017 NAVSA Conferenec held in Banff, Alberta, which focus on the problem of futurity. It discusses the late-Victorian time travel narratives by Sara C. Alexander, the topos of stopped time in two late-Victorian Gothic narratives "The Beetle," by Richard Marsh and "Dracula," by Bram Stoker, and literary works that seek to complicate ecocriticism with insights drawn from queer theory.

The paper explores the aesthetics and ethics of Islamic giving. The ethnography focuses on the Mustadafin Foundation's preparation, cooking, and distribution of akhni (local meat and rice dish) to poor families in various neighborhoods in the broader Cape Town area. Mustadafin Foundation is an Islamic philanthropic organization that provides a range of social services for Muslim and non-Muslim people in Cape Town. The discussion unpacks how the ethics of Mustadafin giving is an embodied piety toward God, driven by its caring about the other, a sense of active citizenship, and social commitment. The paper argues that the various ethical dispositions toward God, others, and the social are mutually constitutive of Mustadafin's ethics of giving. Unfolding the ethics involved in the act of Islamic giving offers insight into a synthesis of ethics. However, paying attention to aesthetic experience alludes to a total sensory experience of ethical formations. By foregrounding the question of the ethics of Islamic giving, the paper considers the Mustadafin Foundation as constitutive of a religious moral economy [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Should climate activists be optimistic or pessimistic about the climate crisis and their efforts to confront it? This paper analyses common narratives in the climate movement through the lens of the philosophical traditions of optimism and pessimism, arguing for three points. Firstly, most dominant narratives within the climate movement resemble philosophical optimism through their commitment to political progress and inherent value of climate action. Secondly, optimistic narratives within the climate movement should be rejected, as climate optimism places an overwhelming mental burden on climate activists and drives the climate movement towards bad responses to the inefficacy problem. Finally, the paper sketches pessimism as a better framework that can act as a moral source for climate activists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

COVID-19 has reshaped our lives since March 2020, and it is expected to affect us for decades to come. Children are the least vulnerable to the virus but are not immune to its other effects. This paper attempts to explore the socioeconomic impact of COVID-19 on children based in Egypt. This study employed a desk-based study of academic sources, research institutions, reports, and online data published by international institutions. The paper shows the impact of COVID-19 on children through education, social skills, and physical and mental health. This analysis represents one of the few attempts to examine the costs paid by children during the pandemic and their economic implications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When Rokhl Korn settled in Montreal in 1948, the period she called her 'years of wandering' (na vʾnod yorn)finally came to an end. Yet a profound sense of dislocation marks the poetry she produced in this postwar urban setting, where a declining Yiddish culture formed a 'third solitude' bounded on either side by Quebec's hostile Anglo-Protestant and French-Catholic communities. The lush natural description and images of Polish-Jewish harmony of Korn's prewar poetry were replaced in her postwar poetry by somber symbolism, in which the recurring motif of white paper signifies the futile attempt to recreate a vanished world. Tracing the imagistic shift in Korn's writing from thriving trees to lifeless paper, this essay explores what Korn regarded as the transformation of Yiddish from an organic, indigenous aspect of interwar Poland to an uprooted, moribund refugee language within a culturally divided urban space. The essay thus sheds light on an underexplored Yiddish woman poet while expanding the dominant narrative of American Yiddish literature to include the unique experience of Holocaust refugees in Montreal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article details a major digitization and access project to make Variety's run from 1905 to 1940 freely available online. It uses multiple quantitative research methods-- including distant-reading practices of the Digital Humanities and quantitative content analysis--to argue that Variety's decisions about when and how to cover the film and radio industries need to be understood as a series of specific internal strategies made in relation to a dynamic business environment. Situating the project's digitization of Variety as a form of philology, the authors argue that corpus digitization should be considered a scholarly practice, not simply a technical one. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A brief introduction to the papers presented at a conference held at Vanderbilt University in the Fall of 2023, called "John Lachs and American Philosophy," organized by the Philosophy Department and the College of Arts and Sciences. The symposium includes papers by Herman Saatkamp, John Stuhr, Eric Weber, and Chris Skowroński. It is followed by a response from John Lachs written down by Michael Hodges based on conversations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Geoffrey Nyarota, a Zimbabwean journalist of note, is renowned for his investigative journalistic skills and numerous conflicts with political authorities. He is probably the most hired and fired newspaper editor in post independence Zimbabwe. In this paper, I put forward the argument that in his memoir, Nyarota uses historical recurrence as a motif and narrative strategy to recreate a personal life story that is fraught with events that keep repeating themselves in his life. By tracing his life story from the colonial period to post independence Zimbabwe, and the near tragic events that continually trouble his life, Nyarota reconstructs a life narrative that is haunted by the curse of historical recurrence in a way that makes a personal curse become the curse of the nation of Zimbabwe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of celebrating the panayir fair in Istanbul, Turkey.

Presents a comparative analysis of the U.S. Alien Tort Claims Act and the European Union's green paper on corporate social responsibility. Impact of multinational corporations on worldwide human rights standards; Analysis of the civil-liability movement in the U.S.; Strenghts and weaknesses of regulatory development focusing on the 2002 Green Paper.

A call for papers and panel proposals for the Charles S. Peirce International Centennial Congress to be held at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell, Massachusetts from July 16, 2014 to July 19, 2014 is presented.

The main purpose of these interviews is to explore the development of Muslim philanthropy in Brazil as well as the role of dawah and its relation to philanthropy. The interviews deal with specific terms such as zakat, fitra, sadaqah, and waqf to explore how they are interpreted and applied in Latin American contexts. The interviews were conducted with the person in charge of Centro de Divulgação do Islam para América Latina (CDIAL, Center for the Promotion of Islam in Latin America) and the director of affairs at Al-Madina School in São Bernardo, São Paulo, Brazil. This paper also provides some perspective on how the Brazilian government provides facilities for Islamic institutions, the way Muslim nonprofit organizations spend their zakat, and how they manage to help others in Brazilian civil society. Both through interviews and the author's personal involvement, this paper offers multiple first-person accounts of Muslim philanthropy in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the creation of a feminine, untimely relationship to history in two late Victorian ghost stories, Vernon Lee's "Oke of Okehurst" (1886) and E. Nesbit's "Man-Size in Marble" (1887). Nineteenth-century ghost stories, I argue, perform a radical mode of historical thinking and narration, one that rebukes conventional linear time and empiricist historicism. As ambassadors from the past, these literary ghosts confirm the doctrine of historical continuity while simultaneously undercutting it through their subversion of the orthodox frame narrative. Lee's and Nesbit's female protagonists exploit the anachronistic potential of ghostliness, shattering their husbands' deterministic mode of nationalist historical reasoning. In this way, this paper refigures the genre as more than an antiquated diversion from the realist fiction of the period, revealing the ghost story's serious intervention in conventional historical imaginaries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the relationship between the past, present, and future in Victorian literature. The author analyzes three papers that explore how nineteenth-century texts, such as Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities and Joseph Conrad's Nostromo, navigate complex temporalities and address themes of violence and historical amnesia. The papers highlight concepts such as foreshadowing, anachronism, amnesia, and bridging to understand how the past influences the present and shapes the future. The author emphasizes the importance of considering these temporal complexities in Victorian scholarship and engaging with the violent past and uncertain future. [Extracted from the article]

Focusing more on governance and democratic potential than financial potential, this paper explores how pluralism of digital money and polycentric governance may provide an opportunity to embed values that might otherwise be overlooked or not valued in market societies. Digital money affords diverse forms of democratic experimentation with institutional and technological designs to effect distributive and political transformations for marginalized communities. Examining two case studies, including digital fiat currency that has the privacy-preserving features of cash and promotes financial inclusion and digital money built by and for stateless populations utilizing blockchain technology, the paper argues that pluralism of digital currencies using public and notfor-profit institutional architectures to serve diverse publics' interests has more democratic potential than forms of digital money driven by profit and extractive motives. To effectuate this democratic potential, however, attention must be paid to the tensions of digital exclusion and governance by experts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent work in early modern English collecting and bookbinding has shown the extent to which readers viewed books as malleable collections rather than unified totalities. This essay expands our understanding of these practices by examining a series of volumes collected and bound during the second half of the seventeenth century. These volumes show texts transformed by their proximity to other, often incongruous imprints, as well as readers registering their own presence amidst the chaotic print world of Civd War England. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the early years of Islamic civilization, the Waqf institution served many important purposes for Muslims, offering essential services across various sectors. However, the role of Waqf has declined since the 19th century. At the present time, most Waqf properties have been neglected, become unproductive, or illegally occupied. As a result, the Waqf institution's ability to provide crucial services has weakened considerably. However, according to estimates, the global value of Waqf assets ranges from USD 100 billion to USD 1 trillion. This means that if used correctly, Waqf has the potential to improve the lives of Muslims significantly. This paper discusses some of the challenges that the Waqf institution must overcome in order to, once again, regain its crucial position in the Muslim community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is the first to identify and conceptualize theological notions in contemporary rabbinic discourse which serve to undermine the advancement of women's rights and curtail the integration of feminist notions and norms into religious Zionist society in Israel. Our analysis identifies five discursive moves that serve as broad theological obstacles, providing religious grounding for the current illiberal hostility to feminism in Israel. The primary axes of backlash in rabbinic discourse are: "sacrifice," "the slippery slope," "gender essentialism," "normalcy" or "family values," and "nationalism". We argue that the emergence of these specific critiques at this time is tied to their role as oppositional narratives that counter the rising prominence of religious Zionist feminism. We examine this case in light of local and global trends such as "anti-gender ideologies," thereby contributing to the burgeoning literature on the rise of illiberal cultural and political forces in Western countries and emphasizing the roles played by religious ideologies, leaders and discourses in shaping and legitimizing an anti-feminist backlash. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The COVID-19 pandemic has produced controversies, and its mode of concrete social existence is strongly assembled in multiple ways of world-making that mobilize particular human-non-human relations. This paper analyzes the ways in which the people of the Andean valleys of northwestern Argentina understand and live the pandemic, in the partial coexistence of ways of understanding the body, the person, and wellbeing. On the one hand, we identify the so-called traditional way of life, which implies a relational sociality; on the other hand, the Pentecostal way of life, which promotes an interpretative current under an apocalyptic key. In sum, we are interested in thinking about the coexistence and assembly between ways of living suffering and well-being in the context of the pandemic, associated with expanded and relational socialities and with ways of imagining and living the "end of the world" as a specific manifestation of the Pentecostal tradition. Thus, the article proposes to overcome the perspective of COVID-19 as a given and universal phenomenon that produces different interpretations or cultural fictions, and consider it as a component in a wide network of human and non-human agencies, forming a scenario of epistemic plurality. Resumen: La pandemia de COVID-19 ha producido controversias variadas y su modo de existencia social se encuentra fuertemente ensamblado en múltiples formas de hacer mundo que movilizan particulares relaciones entre humanos-no humanos. Este trabajo analiza los modos en que la gente de los valles andinos del noroeste argentino entiende y vive la pandemia, teniendo en cuenta las formas de entender el cuerpo, la persona y el bienestar. Considera tanto el modo de vida identificado como tradicional, que implica una socialidad relacional, y el del pentecostalismo, que fomenta una corriente interpretativa bajo una clave apocalíptica. En suma, se propone pensar la convivencia y ensamblaje entre formas de vivir el padecimiento y el bienestar en el contexto de la pandemia, asociados con socialidades ampliadas y relacionales y con modos de imaginar y vivir el "fin del mundo" como manifestación específica de la tradición pentecostal. De este modo, se entiende al COVID-19 más que como un fenómeno dado y universal que produce diferentes interpretaciones o ficciones culturales, como un componente en una red amplia de agenciamientos entre humanos y no humanos, conformando un escenario de pluralidad epistémica. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deploys an anthropological concept of "theopolitics" to reflect on the political work done and undone by the action of grace during a dam conflict in the Aysén region of Chilean Patagonia. Exploring procedural affinities between the state's instruments for regulating environmental conflict and theories of assemblage that trace relations to overcome Western ontologies, I suggest that their convergent demand for relations to be rendered visible as the condition of environmental justice violated the ethic of gratuity through which Ayseninos participate in collective life on the Patagonian frontier. Instead of arguing for a better capture of grace within accounts of sociality, I suggest that researchers accompanying anti-extractive struggles should attend to how untraceable but nonetheless highly effective forces like grace convene coalitions for environmental justice and thus to the theopolitical conditions of staging challenges to the state and capital in Latin America. Resumen: Este trabajo antropológico conceptualiza la "teopolítica" para investigar la acción de la gracia en un conflicto de represas en la región patagónica de Aysén, Chile. Yuxtaposicionando los procedimientos del estado chileno para regular los conflictos ambientales con teorías de ensamblaje que rastrean relaciones para representar ontologías alternativas a la occidental, sugiero que su convergencia en condicionar la justicia ambiental en la visibilización de las relaciones viola la ética de gratuidad con la cual participan los ayseninos en la vida colectiva de la frontera patagónica. En lugar de abogar por una mejor captura de la gracia, propongo que los investigadores que acompañan las luchas antiextractivas latinoamericanas presten más atención la participación de fuerzas no rastreables pero no obstante muy eficaces, como la gracia, en convocar movimientos para la justicia ambiental y, así mismo, a las condiciones teopolíticas de los desafíos al estado y al capital en Latinoamerica. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I consider whether Mars and its associated environments qualify as wilderness for, if they do, then reasons pertaining to wilderness value and wilderness protection thereby extend beyond Earth. Through a critique, modification, and subsequent application of Mark Woods's (2017) wilderness ethic, conceiving of wilderness as an untrammeled, significant location of the value-adding properties of being natural, wild, and free, I argue that Mars, in qualifying as wilderness, ought to be protected as such. In response to this conclusion, I then consider a planetary park proposal put forth by Charles S. Cockell and Gerda Horneck (2004, 2006). Finding their proposal insufficient, I propose further parks and conditions for drawing boundaries, as well as explicate ways in which the preservation of wilderness values on Mars may constrain the construction of future settlements or scientific research outposts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This opinion article introduces the new concept of internetization as a modern tool for bridging the economic disparity between the Global North and the Global South. It provides a blueprint for promoting sustainable development and enhancing economic growth in the Global South. Indeed, internetization has emerged as an essential prerequisite and a core enabler towards sustainable development for the developing countries of the Global South. In this regard, this article proposes a new conceptual framework that is anchored in internetization for the purpose of accelerating economic growth and promoting sustainable development in the Global South. More specifically, internetization and electronic infrastructure will serve to empower the Global South on a modern pathway to achieve sustainable development. In this journey, this paper analyzes the role of internetization in the context of the digital divide, human capital, economic governance, climate change, and sustainable development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Various studies show that COVID-19 is widening existing disparities. Given the pre-existing disparities experienced by South African persons with disabilities, the pandemic may disproportionately impact persons with disabilities and deepen inequalities. Thus, we answer the key research question: what are the experiences and perceived challenges of persons with disabilities and their organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa? Based on telephone interviews conducted in South Africa, this paper highlights firstly how ableism is manifested in our response to crisis and secondly how embodied experiences of disabilities and inequalities reveal asymmetrical power relationships. We tease out how COVID-19 differently affected persons with disabilities and strongly link the findings with inequalities and systemic exclusion. Despite disability legislation and frameworks available in South Africa as well as the strong emphasis on disability rights as promulgated in various constitution sections, the responses to the pandemic still lacked a disability focus. Based on the evidence, we conclude by highlighting recommendations for government aimed at potentially reducing the inequalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the evolution of new polymers and an increase in their scope of applications, the use of natural resources such as petroleum products for polymer production has seen a drastic increase in the past few years. With production rates higher than ever and rapid, unsafe disposal of used polymers has taken a toll on the environment and other species through pollution. Even though there are alternative solutions, including bioplastics manufactured from greener sources and biodegradable plastics that can disintegrate in a shorter time period, these alternatives are currently in their early stages and hence expensive. It is also more challenging for them to meet the high demands in terms of both quantity and properties. The next nearest alternative, recycling, is the best available solution to avoid plastic waste entering landfills and to reduce raw material demands. This study aims to determine the effectiveness of a newly introduced styrene–ethylene–butadiene block copolymer (SEBS)-based property enhancer (WinMod 300) with disposed high-impact polystyrene (HIPS) and a maleic anhydride-grafted SEBS compatibilizer (WinMod 110) with disposed multilayer films (low-density polyethylene and polyester layers). Recycled compounds were tested for necessary and significant mechanical properties and subjected to material characterization, and the results are presented in this paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I situate C.S. Peirce's theory of knowledge and action in comparison to Chinese philosophy. My argument is that the comparison makes it important to understand Peirce's abduction and his maxim as a much more potent force in comparative philosophy. Peirce's priority of practical effects over theory is similar to Confucian conceptions of truth and action. Jon Alan Schmidt has summarized sixty-one formulations of Peirce's maxim, from which I draw the four main expressions of the maxim here. According to Peirce, understanding the meaning of concepts in terms of actual effects is the core element of the maxim. This view can be seen as an echo in Wang Yangming's theory of the unity of knowledge and action. The theory is essentially a moral humanist philosophy. It integrates morality, ethics, and politics. It is similar to Peirce's pragmatic maxim, as James Liszka has explained. Finally, reflecting on the recent studies of Peirce's semiotics in China, I discuss the significance of Peirce's pragmatism in Chinese philosophy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents response to Klaus Roth's orally delivered paper at the conference related to folklore. As Elliott Oring pointed out, the text was considered appropriate for an introductory course in cultural anthropology, but it did not constitute a systematic program to sensitize populations toward intercultural communication. In German-speaking Europe one would surely have to point to the considerable work of Arnold Niederer and his successor Ueli Gyr on nonverbal communication. Niederer in particular also made a great effort to reach beyond the academy and to bring the nonverbal domain into play for such hot issues as foreign worker integration.

Examines Charles Peirce's paper 'On Logical Graphs.' Definition of a logical graph; Rules of simplified ideographs.

Presents an analysis of an unpublished logic paper written by Josiah Royce. Factor in Royce's renewed attention to logic; Intuition of Royce about set theory; Details of Royce's Paradox.

Examines the quantificational idioms and individuality depicted in the logic papers of philosopher Charles Peirce published from 1867 to 1885. Overview of a Boolian expression referring to an individual; Use of letters to stand for cardinal numbers; Universe of discourse as consisting of individuals about which alone the whole discourse is understood to run.

Presents a supplement to the 'Annotated Catalogue of the Papers of Charles S. Peirce.' Catalog numbers missing from manuscripts already cataloged and microfilmed; Employment of suffixes for the items of correspondence; Form of the presentation of the manuscripts.

The article talks about the publication of the book "The Papers of Lew and Susan Wallace." It notes that the publication of the book will have continuing effects on the interpretation and reinterpretation of late nineteenth-century culture in the U.S. This documentary edition represents the first scholarly presentation of the Wallaces' papers, the press has carefully designed a CD-ROM guide for the compilation.

Discusses issues of trust and gold standards in monetary exchanges. Reason for the trust placed by Victorians in gold; Concerns about the relationship between paper money and gold; Significance of paper money under a gold standard.

The article provides information regarding the American commission into Ukraine by the U.S. Jewish Community. In an effort to demonstrated the community's strong commitment to the Jews of Eastern Europe, the community send an American commission, Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), in Ukraine in 1920. The JDC is concerned for the welfare of suffering brethren, and pursued every channel until it was successful in sending a group of American Jews into the country. Members of the commission include judge Harry Fisher and professor Israel Friedlander.

Focuses on the three doubt-belief theory of inquiry. Psychology of inquiry; Requirements for the genuineness of doubt based from Charles Sanders Peirce's writings on doubt and belief; Analysis of feigned heistancy.

Scholarship on George Eliot's 1860s Condition-of-England novel Felix Holt has been divided on whether it signals the racist nativism of its decade or advocates for inclusive, willed national belonging. This paper proposes that it accomplishes both, promoting what I call "willed ethnonationalism." A counterintuitive phrase, willed ethnonationalism captures how Eliot's novel both defines the nation-form against race belonging and encourages modern nationals to perform racial self-identification. I argue that this stance emerged from Eliot's engagement with Ernest Renan's philological career. Recalling how theories of racial-linguistic inheritance influenced a zeitgeist of thinking around constructed nations (epitomized by Renan's 1882 essay on nationalism), I show how mythic ideas about racial roots informed the ostensibly rational form of the nation-state as expressed in late nineteenth-century fiction and essayistic prose. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hannah Helena Thon (1886–1954) was born in Germany and settled in Palestine in the early 1920s. She was a pioneer social worker, an activist in women's organizations, a journalist, commentator, and lecturer. Thon's widely disseminated lectures and writings in the Hebrew press won her esteem and influence as an authority on the economic, social, and cultural characteristics of Mizrahi Jews. My analysis of her views is based on her archived articles and private papers, and sheds light on the perception of Mizrahi Jews among Ashkenazi Jews in the Yishuv and its effect the social-ethnic gap. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the country achieved statehood in 1971, the United Arab Emirates' propulsion into modernity has witnessed the steep growth of the third sector (MOCD, 2019). The UAE's global economic outlook has also attracted numerous third sector organizations (TSOs) to establish chapters in the UAE (International Humanitarian City, 2020). While the TSOs established in the UAE serve a wide array of public purposes, a large proportion of them were grounded in charitable work. Although the third sector has been steadily growing in the UAE, literary efforts to document this sector were not found in the literature. This paper aims at presenting a preliminary understanding of the current status of TSOs in the UAE. Taking the contextual factors of the UAE into consideration, this paper explores the process of establishing a TSO across various legal frameworks found in the UAE and identifies the differences between them. This paper also includes a classification of TSOs based on their operational roles and a description of their geographical distribution across the UAE. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]