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FAB 2010 Congress, Call for Panel and Paper Abstracts

The International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics is pleased to invite proposals for panels and papers in the 2010 Congress. The Congress theme is "Mobilities and Inequalities".
Papers on any topic in feminist bioethics are welcome, although the plenary sessions and some of the parallel sessions will be devoted to the Congress theme.
The theme of Mobilities and Inequalities should be interpreted broadly. Topics may include, but should not be limited to:

·      Trafficking

·      Women, War and Refugees

·      Migration of Care Workers

·      Global Movement of Food and Food Security

·      Minorities and Barriers to Migration

·      Medical Tourism

·      Reproductive Tourism

·      Communication Technologies in Healthcare

·      Assistive Devices in Disability

The conference organisers welcome submissions from a wide range of disciplines, including: philosophy, social sciences, mobility studies, gender and migration studies, development studies, and others. We particularly encourage submissions from early career researchers. For more information visit the FAB site, http://www.fabnet.org/announcements.php?announcement_id=31&from=congress.

Read for Free in November

Every month we invite you to access some of our newest content at no cost to you. Explore the depth and importance of research available at IU Press/Journals.

Gabeba Baderoon, The African Oceans—Tracing the Sea as Memory of Slavery in South African Literature and Culture, Research in African Literatures Dec 2009, Vol. 40, No. 4: 89–107.
 
Rita Falbel, Family Letters, Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal, Oct 2009, Vol. 14, No. 2: 6–14.
 
Bahar Davary, Miss Elsa and the Veil: Honor, Shame, and Identity Negotiations, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion Oct 2009, Vol. 25, No. 2: 47–66.
 
Martin Mhando, Keyan G. Tomaselli, Film and Trauma: Africa Speaks to Itself through Truth and Reconciliation Films, Black Camera: An International Film Journal (The New Series) Jan 2009, Vol. 1, No. 1: 30–50.

Ronald Broude wins Jo Ann Boydston Award in Textual Cultures

The Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) announced on October 15th that its Jo Ann Boydston Award for 2009 has been presented to Ronald Broude for his article "The Gilbert & Sullivan Critical Edition and the Full Scores that Never Were." The award is presented every two years for an article that has been published during the preceding two years and that best addresses the aims and methodologies of sound documentary editing. Broude's article was published in Volume 3.2 of Textual Cultures, the journal of The Society for Textual Scholarship. It deals with the problems of preparing a full-score critical edition of an opera from a complex of sources, no one of which provides all of the necessary information. Broude expressed satisfaction that the award recognizes the unique problems posed by musical texts and that it has been presented to a piece in this relatively young journal.

War By Other Means

The Global South 3.1: War By Other Means

A special issue of The Global South, “War By Other Means” examines the (post)modern nature of war. Following Carl von Clauswitz, guest editors Mike Hill and Tom Cohen suggest that we can no longer see war only in terms of time or nations, but must understand it as omnipresent in every aspect of human endeavor.  The editors and contributors, then, seek to recognize the pervasive fluidity of contemporary violence in both visible and invisible actions. Featuring essays by Jan Mieszkowski, Jason Groves, Jody Berland, Angela Mitropoulos, Henry Sussman, Kevin Bell, Randy Martin, Warren Montag, and Robert Marzec, the journal examines war from rhetorical, ecological, domestic, literary, financial, and political angles.

Find the special issue here.

Women and Leadership in the Evolving 21st Century World

Prominent women leaders who have served in various national and international capacities will discuss “breaking barriers” at the University of Central Florida, Tuesday, Oct. 27. The forum is part of an annual focus, “Women and Leadership in the Evolving 21st Century World.”

Organized by the UCF Global Perspectives Office in a partnership with retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Jay Garner, the forum will take place in the Cape Florida Ballroom of the Student Union from 2:00 p.m. to 4:15 p.m. It is free and open to the public.

Robin Buckelew, retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Claudia J. Kennedy, Mary C. Rawlinson and The Honorable Winifred Sharp will all make presentations during the event. Maria Cristina Santana, interim director of UCF’s Women’s Studies Program and associate professor of journalism in the Nicholson School of Communication will serve as moderator.

Mary C. Rawlinson is the editor of the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics and an associate professor at Stony Brook University.  She served four years as associate dean for curriculum in the College of Arts and Sciences and founded the Learning Communities Program. She won the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1998 and was Stony Brook's nominee for Carnegie Teacher of the Year in 1997. She is an Affiliated Faculty in both Comparative Literature and Women's Studies.  Rawlinson is also the co-editor of “The Voice of Breast Cancer in Medicine and Bioethics” and “Derrida and Feminism,” as well as the editor of five issues of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. She has lectured all over the world.

Read for Free in October

Each month we give you a chance to sample some of our newest scholarly content. Choose a selection below and learn something new today! Then subscribe to receive regular issues.

Gerrit Bos, Maimonides on Medicinal Measures and Weights, from his Galenic Epitomes, Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism Jul 2009, Vol. 9, No. 2: 254–276

Rosemarie Tong, Long-term care for the elderly worldwide: Whose responsibility is it?, International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Oct 2009, Vol. 2, No. 2: 5–30

Dillon Bustin, Essay on a Flapjack: Philology and the Urvolk, Journal of Folklore Research: An International Journal of Folklore and Ethnomusicology May 2009, Vol. 46, No. 2: 117–140

Alessandro Gusman, HIV/AIDS, Pentecostal Churches, and the “Joseph Generation” in Uganda, Africa Today Sep 2009, Vol. 56, No. 1: 66–86

JEMCS editor, Devoney Looser to lecture at the Burney Society Conference

Devoney Looser, Professor of English at the University of Missouri, will deliver a plenary lecture at the Burney Society Conference in Bethlehem, PA, on October 8, 2009. Looser's lecture, “‘An Elderly Lady With No Remains of Personal Beauty’:  Frances Burney and Old Age,” considers Burney's lesser-known writings, published in her later years, for their self-conscious treatment of female aging and for the strong responses they provoked. The lecture follows up on arguments in Looser's book, Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850 (2008). The Burney Society http://burneycentre.mcgill.ca/burneysociety.html honors the celebrated novelist and diarist Frances Burney d'Arblay (1752-1840), in order to promote the study and appreciation of Burney's works and of the life and times of her and her family. Looser serves as the co-editor of the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, published by Indiana University Press.

http://burneycentre.mcgill.ca/conferences_2009_bethlehem.html

Cultural Globalization

English Faculty Begin Journal's Third Year Responding to Literary, Cultural Globalization
Written by Edwin Smith  
09/15/2009

http://news.olemiss.edu/index.php/Ole-Miss-News/News-Releases/The-Global-South.html

OXFORD, Miss. - A scholarly movement addressing the impact of globalization on Southern societies around the world continues at the University of Mississippi with the research journal The Global South beginning its third year of publication. The interdisciplinary journal, started in 2007 by faculty in UM's Department of English, is published once each semester by Indiana University Press. It focuses on how world literatures and cultures respond to globalization.

The journal's editor, Adetayo Alabi, UM associate professor of English who teaches courses in Caribbean, African and African-American literatures, said the university is the ideal locale for the journal's headquarters.

"Being a major university in the South, we're located where the action is," Alabi said. "Also, having the Center for the Study of Southern Culture here on campus fits very well with what we do. The two entities complement each other well."

"Having The Global South (journal) here has helped put the university at the center of an important scholarly movement that studies the American South from multiple and transitional perspectives," said Ted Ownby, CSSC director. "Taking a global perspective is part of a movement that involves new conferences, new courses and new ways of teaching, along with some inspired and exciting recent scholarship."

Addressing such themes as the environment, poverty, immigration, gender, race, hybridity, cultural formation and transformation, colonialism and post-colonialism, and transatlantic encounters, the journal has experienced rapid readership growth. Each peer-reviewed volume logs approximately 1,700 subscribers to either its online or print version.

"Since assuming sole editorship of The Global South, Professor Alabi has kept the journal on the cutting edge of academic scholarship," said Ivo Kamps, UM chair and professor of English.

Other members of the journal's staff include Assistant Professor of English Sarah Lincoln, who serves as assistant editor, and graduate assistant James Christopher O'Brien of Memphis, who works as an editorial assistant.

Advisory editorial board members include faculty at the University of New South Wales, University of London, University of Macau, University of Nottingham, Delhi University, University of Wollongong and University of Western Australia, as well as those at several state and private universities in the United States.

Alabi said that from the North American South to the European South, Latin and Central America, Africa, Asia and Australia, the various Souths share comparable experiences that differentiate them from mainstream cultures.
"Findings indicate that while expansion and trade are generally beneficial for those living outside the South, those in the South don't always get the best of the pie," he said.

For example, globalization directs mass production of items manufactured by various industries, a change that usually causes the production of materials indigenous to the local citizenry to significantly dwindle, Alabi said. In another instance, the influx of textiles from China into Nigeria has adversely affected that country's own textile industry.

"The research shows that many of the Souths have not had a completely positive experience of globalization," Alabi said. "While they may not necessarily share a common wealth, they do intersect over various issues of marginalization and inadequate access to means of production and amenities under globalization.

For more information, call Alabi at 662-915-6948 or visit http://inscribe.iupress.org/loi/gso/

Engaging Christianities: Negotiating HIV/AIDS, Health, and Social Relations in East and Southern Africa

Special Issue: Christianity and HIV/AIDS in East and Southern Africa   
Africa Today VOLUME 56, ISSUE 1

From the introduction by Ruth Prince, Philippe Denis, Rijk van Dijk:

The purpose of this special issue is to explore and analyze the ways in which Christianity is becoming one of the most influential factors in the engagement of AIDS in some African countries. This special issue addresses the consequences of this rapidly expanding Christian engagement with AIDS and the questions it raises. These questions can be grouped into three main themes: first, those concerning the ways people are dealing with illness and death, treatment and care for the sick, and questions of morality, kinship, gender relations, and sexuality; second, those concerning the place of religion in the public sphere, in relation to civil society and government, development, and public health; third, those concerning transformations within Christian practices and worldviews in Africa. This special issue explores not only some diverse responses of African churches to AIDS, but also the place of Christianity in (inter)national AIDS programs and initiatives, and the Christianization of public discourse and debate about AIDS and its effects on other institutions, practices, and debates in African societies experiencing the AIDS epidemic.

This special issue thus offers recent research and timely reflections on the interrelationships of Christianity, AIDS, and society in African countries. As the studies presented here encompass East and Southern Africa (specifically, Botswana, Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania), this collection does not claim to present an overview of research in the whole continent, nor of the relations between Christianity and AIDS in Africa today; rather, it offers insights into the sometimes surprising relationships between AIDS and Christianity at particular moments and places over the last ten years.

Special Issue: Christianity and HIV/AIDS in East and Southern Africa   
Africa Today VOLUME 56, ISSUE 1

Introduction to Special Issue: Engaging Christianities: Negotiating HIV/AIDS, Health, and Social Relations in East and Southern Africa
Ruth Prince, Philippe Denis, Rijk van Dijk

Faith and the Intersubjectivity of Care in Botswana
Frederick Klaits

The “Failures of Culture”: Christianity, Kinship, and Moral Discourses about Orphans during Botswana's AIDS Crisis
Bianca Dahl

“Keep Holy Distance and Abstain till He Comes”: Interrogating a Pentecostal Church's Engagements with HIV/AIDS and the Youth in Kenya
Damaris Seleina Parsitau

HIV/AIDS, Pentecostal Churches, and the “Joseph Generation” in Uganda
Alessandro Gusman

Doing Better? Religion, the Virtue-Ethics of Development, and the Fragmentation of Health Politics in Tanzania
Hansjörg Dilger

BOOK REVIEWS

The Pitfalls of Liberal Democracy and Late Nationalism in South Africa. Mueni wa Muiu
E. Ike Udogu

Radicalism and Cultural Dislocation in Ethiopia, 1960–1974. Messay Kebede
Christopher R. Green

Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is Another Way for Africa. Dambisa Moyo
Ama Biney

To subscribe or order a special issue visit http://inscribe.iupress.org/loi/aft.

Arts and Culture in Victorian Britain

The North American Victorian Studies Association met in November of 2008, for its sixth annual conference, at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, to explore the broad theme of “The Arts and Culture in Victorian Britain.” This issue presents work originally presented at the conference. One art historian, Tim Barringer, and one literary scholar, Jonah Siegel, each select three papers that embody emergent possibilities in scholarship on the Victorian period, and that exemplify some of the intellectual excitement and conversation participants experienced that weekend at Yale. This issue presents their selections, and their responses to those selections. In addition, Catherine Hall’s plenary address from the conference, titled “Macaulay’s Nation” is included.

NAVSA’s seventh annual conference was held at the University of Cambridge, UK, in July 2009; in 2010, NAVSA will reconvene in Montreal. For more information on the organization and the annual conference, see its website: http://www.cla.purdue.edu/academic/engl/navsa/.

Victorian Studies VOLUME 51, ISSUE 3

Special Issue: Papers and Responses from the Sixth Annual Conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association

AESTHETICISM AND THE VICTORIAN PRESENT

Listening: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Persistence of Song
Elizabeth Helsinger

White Girls: Avant-Gardism and Advertising after 1860
Rachel Teukolsky

“Smite this Sleeping World Awake”: Edward Burne-Jones and The Legend of the Briar Rose
Andrea Wolk Rager

Response
Tim Barringer

LOOKING AT THE LIMITS OF AUTONOMY

“To wipe a manly tear”: The Aesthetics of Emotion in Victorian Narrative Painting
Pamela Fletcher

See Josephus: Viewing First-Century Sexual Drama with Victorian Eyes
Simon Goldhill

Turner's Titles
Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Response
Jonah Siegel

PLENARY ADDRESS   

Macaulay's Nation
Catherine Hall

BOOK REVIEWS

Socialism, Sex, and the Culture of Aestheticism in Britain, 1880-1914, by Ruth Livesey
Talia Schaffer

Poetry and the Pre-Raphaelite Arts: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris, by Elizabeth K. Helsinger
Catherine Maxwell

Ophelia and Victorian Visual Culture: Representing Body Politics in the Nineteenth Century, by Kimberly Rhodes
Alison Smith

J. M. W. Turner: The Making of a Modern Artist, by Sam Smiles
Leo Costello

The Mass Image: A Social History of Photomechanical Reproduction in Victorian London, by Gerry Beegan
Matthew Rubery

The Performing Century: Nineteenth-Century Theatre's History, edited by Tracy C. Davis and Peter Holland
Alan Fischler

Children and Theatre in Victorian Britain: “All Work, No Play”, by Anne Varty
The Nineteenth-Century Child and Consumer Culture, edited by Dennis Denisoff
Laurie Langbauer

Music and Orientalism in the British Empire, 1780s-1940s: Portrayal of the East, edited by Martin Clayton and Bennett Zon
Representing Non-Western Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain, by Bennett Zon
Grant Olwage

Volunteers on the Veld: British Citizen-Soldiers and the South African War, 1899-1902, by Stephen M. Miller
Stephen Badsey

Ireland, India and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature, by Julia M. Wright
Margaret Kelleher

Tourism, Landscape, and the Irish Character: British Travel Writers in Pre-Famine Ireland, by William H. A. Williams
Donald Ulin

The Politics of Vaccination: Practice and Policy in England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland, 1800-1874, by Deborah Brunton
Jacqueline Jenkinson

Cholera and Nation: Doctoring the Social Body in Victorian England, by Pamela K. Gilbert
Alison Bashford

Neurology and Literature, 1860-1920, edited by Anne Stiles
Nicholas Dames

Jane Austen & Charles Darwin: Naturalists and Novelists, by Peter W. Graham
Amy M. King

Servants and Paternalism in the Works of Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell, by Julie Nash
Brian McCuskey

Worshipping Walt: The Whitman Disciples, by Michael Robertson
Ellis Hanson

The Playfulness of Gerard Manley Hopkins, by Joseph J. Feeney, SJ
Julia F. Saville

Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction, by John Rieder
Nicholas Daly

Enacting Englishness in the Victorian Period: Colonialism and the Politics of Performance, by Angelia Poon
Lynn Voskuil

The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle, edited by Gail Marshall
Regenia Gagnier

Dickens and the Unreal City: Searching for Spiritual Significance in Nineteenth-Century London, by Karl Ashley Smith
The Magic Lantern: Representation of the Double in Dickens, by Maria Cristina Paganoni
Tyson Stolte

Cities in Modernity: Representations and Productions of Metropolitan Space, 1840-1930, by Richard Dennis
A Mighty Mass of Brick and Smoke: Victorian and Edwardian Representations of London, edited by Lawrence Phillips
David L. Pike

Imagining Roman Britain: Victorian Responses to a Roman Past, by Virginia Hoselitz
Jennifer Wallace

Caught in the Machinery: Workplace Accidents and Injured Workers in Nineteenth-Century Britain, by Jamie L. Bronstein

A Fair Day's Wage for a Fair Day's Work? Sweated Labour and the Origins of Minimum Wage Legislation in Britain, by Sheila Blackburn
Marjorie Levine-Clark

Hard and Unreal Advice: Mothers, Social Science and the Victorian Poverty Experts, by Kathleen Callanan Martin
Mark Freeman

Intellect and Character in Victorian England: Mark Pattison and the Invention of the Don, by H. S. Jones
David Mitch

Reading Gladstone, by Ruth Clayton Windscheffel
Michael Partridge

Gladstone: God and Politics, by Richard Shannon
Joseph S. Meisel

Victorians and the Virgin Mary: Religion and Gender in England, 1830-85, by Carol Engelhardt Herringer
Kimberly VanEsveld Adams

Clio's Daughters: British Women Making History, 1790-1899, edited by Lynette Felber
Susan Hamilton

Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer, by Sally Mitchell
Frances Power Cobbe and Victorian Feminism, by Susan Hamilton
Linda K. Hughes

Comments & Queries
Daniel Hack

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