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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 forcedfeminization 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. Keywords: James Joyce / Ulysses / source criticism / periodicals / textual studies, Tell me something to amuse me, smut or a bloody good ghoststory ... --James Joyce, Ulysses (15.3052-53) Critics do not often comment on the fact that Bloom's sexual fantasies in [...]

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. Keywords: W.G. Sebald / media / materiality / writing / digital, It was odd ... but she had the impression that although everything else was in perfect order the writing desk had not been dusted for years. What can be the [...]

"Dickens and Democracy in the Age of Paper: Representing the People" by Carolyn Vellenga Berman is a book that explores the relationship between Charles Dickens's writing and parliamentary representation. The author examines how novels, periodicals, and state publications were used as different forms of representation in Victorian society. The book analyzes specific works by Dickens, such as "David Copperfield," "Oliver Twist," and "Bleak House," to illustrate the reproduction of parliamentary discourse and its connection to social and political issues of the time. The study also highlights the relevance of Dickens's work in understanding contemporary issues of democracy and surveillance. [Extracted from the article]

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]

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. Keywords: C.S. Peirce, Textual Statistics, Lexicometry, Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, Digital Humanities., In an 1894 manuscript addendum (R 422) to the seminal 'How to Make Our Ideas Clear', which he had written in 1877, Charles Peirce stated that 'there are many people [...]

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]

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 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. KEYWORDS: Variety, Digital Humanities, philology, distant reading, content analysis, Hollywood trade press, In 2010, Variety launched the subscription-based Variety Archives, a searchable online database of most issues of Variety and Daily Variety published from 1905 to the present. (1) Shortly thereafter, Variety [...]

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]

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.

This essay documents animating moments and key concepts in Stéphane Vieyra's donation of Paulin Soumanou Vieyra's papers to the Black Film Center & Archive at Indiana University. Speaking as the BFCA director at the time of the donation, the author brings to light philosophical, archival, and administrative aspects of the donation process that are often unseen by researchers but that impact their access to materials, particularly in our digital age. The author presents crucial questions of location and access to the donated materials during the years-long funding, cataloging, and preservation process to come. [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 investigates whether paper and video triggers stimulate different social and cognitive processes during PBL. The study focused on how medical students identified and described problems, and how they built shared cognitions that lead them to diagnose and solve problems. The results showed that students who used video triggers put more effort into communicating their understanding of the problem and relevant knowledge than students who used paper triggers. The findings contribute to discussions on how to evaluate the effectiveness of different PBL triggers in order to better integrate them into the curriculum. [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 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.

This document is an introduction to a special issue of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning focused on research methodologies for studying problem-based and project-based learning (PBL/PjBL). The authors discuss the unique educational ecosystem in which PBL/PjBL is practiced and the importance of selecting effective research methodologies to evaluate its effects on student learning. The special issue contains eight papers representing various quantitative, qualitative, and mixed research methodologies, as well as data representations used in the context of PBL. The papers provide detailed descriptions of the methodologies and include illustrative example studies. [Extracted from the article]

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

This article argues that the Victorian novel is governed by the logic of storage: the accumulation of data and the deferral of action. Focusing on Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret (1862), I demonstrate that the sensation novel is caught between the winnowing directive of the detection plot and the capaciousness of Victorian literary form. The novel's many objects register information and delay narrative, but they never quite get activated as clues. I track three kinds of paper objects—files, memoranda, and keepsakes—all of which linger in storage, declining in value and awaiting an opportunity for transmission that might never arrive. Disposable yet persistent, paper evokes the cultural confusion over how to save and what, if anything, to discard. I contextualize the novel with government records and journalism from the period, all of which express similar archival anxieties. Braddon's novel ultimately muddles the distinction between clue and litter, keepsake and junk, archive and hoard, as well as between significant and insignificant narrative information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article author talks about Magda Teter's book "Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth". Topics discussed include new perspectives of the most enduring and vexing of anti-Jewish accusations; medieval and early modern papal and imperial condemnations of blood libels; Poland-Lithuania patrons and artists depicted blood libels in ways that emphasized Jewish cruelty; and impact of the blood libel on the Jewish-Christian relations.

Working in Nollywood and disillusioned by the abundance of slapstick comedies and wedding films The Surreal16 Collective set out on a mission to diversify output and encourage a new type of cinema. The 1960s saw the first Nigerian films being made by the likes of Ola Balogun, Eddie Ugbomah, Jab Adu, Moses Olaiya, and Herbert Ogunde. Rules & Guidelines 1-4 Wedding films and comedies that are inspired by African American films like I The Best Man i (1999) are banned from the collective. [Extracted from the article]

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]

A call for papers about feminist ethnographies, the lives of Jewish women and the influence of feminism on strategies of research is presented.

Comments on six papers, appearing in this issue of the Transactions, discussing rational inquiry, pragmatism, truth, cognitive progress, and value. The six papers were originally presented at 'The Idea of Pragmatism,' a conference held at the University of Sheffield on 18-19 May 2015 to honour the work of Christopher Hookway. [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]

This paper examines conflicts between farmers and herders through the lens of conflict escalation theory. The paper focuses on the case of the Asante Akim North Municipality of Ghana. The paper builds on forty-eight semi-structured interviews, two focus group discussions, and archival materials that were analyzed qualitatively through descriptive, thematic, and content analysis. The paper demonstrates how the conflict escalates through a sequence of actions and reactions by multiple actors with varying interests. The conflict travels from a stage of latency where actors employ nonviolent and low-intensity actions to attain their interest, to a stage with violence and increased stakes vested in the conflict. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Firms have harnessed service-dominant logic research to understand and enhance the customer purchase journey. They've innovated by creating and assessing services that meet customer needs and identifying expectation gaps, which inform ongoing service development to sustain customer value. Moreover, they've begun to foster customer loyalty through collaborative competency and digital platforms that engage and empower customers. Healthcare organizations face particular challenges in sustaining value due to the involvement of multiple external partners in value fulfillment and assessment, all within a shifting patient ecosystem. This paper tackles these challenges by advocating for inter-organizational leadership to enhance patient health outcomes, centering on a patient value cycle aimed at specific health improvements. We utilize network theory to develop governance capabilities for collaborative competency and communication theory for resource orchestration, facilitating resource sharing with an integrated digital platform. The paper outlines a framework to create and sustain patient value within a network of health and community actors and considers how these strategies can extend to address long-term patient needs in a primary network. Finally, the paper highlights case studies from this special issue that show inter-organizational leadership in action, delivering patient value through wellness education, preventive screenings, and caregiver support for those with chronic conditions and disabilities. This sets the stage for future research into expanding these models to broader patient care contexts. [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]

Philosophical descriptions of democratic music education frequently rely on "inclusion" and "participation" as the defining features of democratically oriented music programs. Democratic epistemic considerations, such as regulatory ideals of musical quality and excellence, however, are less commonly cited, if not actively avoided. This paper addresses several primary reasons for the paucity of epistemic considerations in democratic music education and problematizes current concerns about epistemic judgements from a democratic perspective. Drawing on Miranda Fricker's influential concept of epistemic injustice, this paper argues that democratic dialogue that respects values of diversity and inclusion cannot legitimately ignore epistemic dimensions because doing so occludes the epistemic dimensions of cultural, racial, and gender diversity in music education classrooms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Eurocentric canon remains the predominant focus of music education often excluding the role of music and experiences of Black individuals and people of color. This singular perspective creates an incomplete and inaccurate understanding of the comprehensive nature of music and the humans who create, perform, and engage with it. In this article, the author shares her experience as a Black music educator and her aspirations for a music profession that incorporates the full range of human music engagement and expression. The paper begins with a reflection on W.E.B. DuBois's double consciousness followed by an exploration of the nuances, complexities, contradictions, and beauty of being a Black educator in a primarily white field. Subsequently, the essay presents four conceptual principles for a reimagined, inclusive music education approach, drawing inspiration from Sylvia Wynter's "new science of the Word." These principles advocate retelling the music education narrative to incorporate historically marginalized voices, reorienting music education to be human-centered, embracing interdisciplinary approaches to view music teaching and learning, and acknowledging the power of music in uplifting the human condition. Finally, this paper proposes a pathway for reconciling diverse identities prevalent in American culture with music education and academia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the fundamental tenets of Plato's philosophy of education, particularly his views on a practice of great educational potential: communal musical participation. According to Plato, music can attune the individual and the community to cosmic harmony and this, in turn, is the only way to form and maintain a community. The paper explores how the concepts of ethos and nomos are utilized to explain music's role in community cohesion. It argues that Plato's understanding of the power of immediate and pre-reflective participation in music can provide valuable insight for contemporary philosophy of music education. The concept of nomos, in particular, allows music educators to take this frame of thought to better understand the role of music in creating communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines Ida B. Wells's work Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases for the purpose of providing an explanation behind how the act of lynching gave birth to the myth or lie, as is it referred to throughout this paper, regarding Black men raping White women. This paper breaks down how Wells's work displays this lie is a form of European cosmology born after the Civil War that Whites utilized to help them maintain control over the Black race. This paper also breaks down how Wells's work highlights the effectsof this lie over the years in addition to performingbrief case studies on four specific events that showcase theseeffects. This paper concludes by pointing out how Wells's work also provides a solution to ending this lie. [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]

This article provides an overview of the topics covered in two texts that explore sustainability from the perspective of the Global South. The first text focuses on the impact of COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine on sustainability efforts, emphasizing the need for a just and interconnected approach to sustainability. The second text examines the concept of sacred land in the Thai Buddhist context and the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on children in Egypt, highlighting the importance of including children in sustainability research and addressing global inequalities. Both texts call for a shift in consciousness and a more inclusive approach to sustainability. [Extracted from the article]

This paper presents the Swedish history of the legendary documentary Finally Got the News (1970), a collaboration between Newsreel and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit. Through an analysis of the re-edited print made by Swedish TV in 1971 and archival research on the League member Glanton Dowdell, who distributed the film in Sweden, the paper sets out to both correct some of the previous research and reveal how racism was a blind spot in Sweden, which at that time appeared to be the model of a politically progressive country that engaged with the American Black Power movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The outbreak of cholera in Istanbul in the autumn of 1871 has long been considered something of a historical non-event. Although responsible for several thousand deaths, in the historiography of the city it remains almost entirely obscured. Yet the 1871 outbreak briefly highlighted the social tensions in the burgeoning Istanbulite public sphere, and threatened to fracture the formerly "unified" Istanbulite medical establishment along spatial, colonial, and racialized lines. This article examines the reportage of four newspapers which circulated in Istanbul during the outbreak, each of which claimed to speak for a generalized public, albeit through very different methods. Three of these newspapers—the English-language The Levant Herald , the French-language La Turquie , and the Ottoman Turkish Basiret —were dailies with circulations in the thousands. The fourth paper, the French-language Gazette Médicale d'Orient , was instead the press organ of the city's emergent sanitary establishment. The responses of these papers to this sudden crisis revealed the underlying assumptions which animated Istanbulite social and medical discourse in the late Ottoman Empire, and the tensions inherent in claims to speak for public opinion or to act on behalf of global public health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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]