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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

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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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Voice, Power, and Responsibility in Health Care

IJFAB, International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, VOLUME 2, ISSUE 2
Special Issue: Voice, Power, and Responsibility in Health Care: Papers from the Sixth International Congress of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics   

From the Introduction by Wendy Rogers and Carolyn McLeod:

The new issue of IJFAB, Volume 2, Issue 2, is based on papers presented at the Sixth International Congress of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB). The theme of our 2008 congress, in Rijeka, Croatia, was “Voice, Power, and Responsibility in Health Care.” The congress offered two and a half days of stimulating thought, fresh insights, vigorous debate, and new perspectives on issues in bioethics. The papers in this issue reflect the current strength and diversity of feminist bioethics. The issue includes articles from eminent colleagues, together with papers from younger scholars whose strong contributions indicate very promising futures. The FAB biennial congress has played a significant role in the development of feminist bioethics. The first FAB congress in San Francisco in 1996 led to the publication of Embodying Bioethics: Recent Feminist Advances, edited by Anne Donchin and Laura Purdy. Several other collections based on papers from FAB congresses, including a special issue of Bioethics, provide critical resources for teaching and scholarship. In 2007, FAB established IJFAB to advance feminist approaches in bioethics. Beginning with this issue, every fourth issue of IJFAB will be based on FAB’s biennial congress.

The field of feminist bioethics has expanded far beyond an early focus on issues that primarily affect women. This volume includes papers that elegantly and successfully use feminist theory to investigate topics that are very much in the mainstream of bioethics (e.g., conflicts of interest or evidence-based medicine), as well as papers on topics that have particular resonance for women (e.g.,care of the elderly and hybrid embryos). As we write this, the World Health Organization has declared the emerging swine flu to be a level-4 pandemic. If a full-blown global pandemic ensues, health care systems and societies around the world will be challenged to find just and ethical ways to respond. Several of the themes in this issue are relevant here. Who will care for those affected, and who will receive care? It is unlikely that existing services will be able to care for all who become ill. How will resources be distributed, and will those who already are vulnerable be further disenfranchised? What notions of duty and responsibility will be at play, and on what basis will health care professionals advise their patients in this situation of uncertainty? The first congress issue of IJFAB demonstrates clearly that feminist bioethics plays a crucial role in addressing these and other questions in the potentially difficult times ahead.

IJFAB, International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, VOLUME 2, ISSUE 2

Special Issue: Voice, Power, and Responsibility in Health Care: Papers from the Sixth International Congress of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics   
VOLUME 2, ISSUE 2

ESSAYS
Long-term care for the elderly worldwide: Whose responsibility is it?
Rosemarie Tong

Shades of gray: From caring to uncaring labor
Monique Lanoix

Stories from the margins: Immigrant patients, health care, and narrative medicine
Anna Gotlib

“Babies with some animal DNA in them”: A woman's choice?
Françoise Baylis

Glass houses: The power of money in bioethics research
Jocelyn Downie

Trust and responsibility in health policy
Meredith Celene Schwartz

Evidence-based medicine and patient autonomy
Robyn Bluhm

Why reading the title isn't good enough: An evaluation of the 4S approach to evidence-based medicine
Kirstin Borgerson

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One of the World’s Coolest Cities: Tel-Aviv at 100

 

Israel Studies 14:3 / Special Issue: Tel-Aviv Centenary / Guest Editor: Maoz Azaryahu

From the Introduction:

"Anniversaries are powerful reminders of the human need for signposts to mark the continuous flow of time: they are perceived as extraordinary points in time that occasion, even compel, a celebration.

…

In the spring of 2009 Tel-Aviv celebrated its centennial with festive events and inauguration ceremonies of long due public projects, TV documentaries, academic conferences in Israel and abroad, albums, and anthologies. The idea of devoting a special issue of Israel Studies to Tel-Aviv on the occasion of its centennial appears self evident: it is a truism that Tel-Aviv occupies a special place in the history and geography of modern Zionism and Israel. 

…

The fact that it is celebrating its centennial is a powerful reminder that despite views to the contrary, Tel-Aviv is a success story at the center of which stands the transformation of a Zionist vision into a thriving metropolis. Although the founding of Tel-Aviv dates to 1909, the ideational constitution of the city was formulated by Akiva Arieh Weiss in the prospectus he wrote in 1906. In this visionary document, the ‘genetic code’ of a projected and still nameless city (the name Tel-Aviv was applied to the neighborhood under construction in 1910) was formulated: a modern city that would represent the redemptive aspirations of the Jewish people. The new city to be built on the sand dunes north of the mixed, Arab-Jewish port city of Jaffa would be ‘the first Hebrew city’. Moreover, his vision foresaw that “[T]he same as New York is the main entrance to America, so we have to modernize our city and one day it will become the New York of the Land of Israel.” A century later, Tel-Aviv’s skyline is dotted with towering high-rises. Although an eyesore for many Tel-Avivians who fear for the traditional character of their city and the social implications of residential towers as enclaves for the rich, these prominent structures suggest that the early quest to make Tel-Aviv a modern city has not lost its appeal."

About the Guest Editor: Maoz Azaryahu

Visiting Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies

Azaryahu is an associate professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Haifa. He has written extensively on urban landscapes, memory, and society, and has recently published Tel Aviv: Mythography of a City (2006). He has been a visiting professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Penn State University, and at Lakehead University, Ontario, Canada.

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Transition 101: Looking Ahead

From the issue:

“What is the community? is not a question that one can easily answer, and to make the community the bearer of human rights, and to define duties toward its preservation, predisposes one to an incarcerating conception of identity, one which eventually endangers the very notion of human rights.”
—Souleymane Bachir Diagne

“Democratic ideals must come to terms with economic ideals for the empowerment of the least among us. What is needed is less mysticism and more rational analysis of social situations—whether in Africa or elsewhere.”
—Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

“Mr. George takes a fifty-euro note. It has some markings on it, reddish brown, above the stars of Europe. He wipes it down with a cloth on which he has sprinkled a transparent fluid. The note emerges pristine.”
—Petina Gappah

“In the same week that Luxolo came in, a teenager was stabbed in the heart with a screwdriver; a mother of three children was shot in the head by her boyfriend; a middle-aged man was attacked with an ax; and a teenager was beaten to death by his neighbors after having stolen a CD.”
—Rebecca Rosenberg

“Purging territory designated as home of outsiders appears to be the most decisive and only accessible expression of power available to people in desperate conditions seeking to regain control over their lives and the spaces they inhabit.”
—Moradewun Adejunmobi

Plus: Poems from Sonata Mulattica, by Rita Dove

http://www.transitionmagazine.com/index.html

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Fall 09 Catalog: World-Class Journals from IUP/J

In the introduction to Changing Perspectives on International Education,* Patrick O’Meara, Professor and Vice President for International Affairs at Indiana University, wrote:

“More than 40 years ago, recognizing that higher education would have to take responsibility for educating Americans about other world cultures and societies, Congress passed the National Defense Education Act (later known as the Higher Education Act). Title VI of this act has provided extensive support for foreign languages and area studies development in the nation’s universities and colleges.  As a result, millions of Americans have been able to acquire knowledge about other parts of the world.
“Today, there are new issues, demands, and perspectives. Americans are more likely than ever to encounter different cultures, business practices, histories, ideologies, and ways of life.”

Indiana University Press/Journals is proud to play a part in today’s increasingly-essential global dialogue and to provide our readers with a world of ideas, discoveries, and perspectives. Our titles feature scholarly essays, fiction, poetry, and art in a wide range of subject areas, including African studies, Jewish and Middle East studies, globalism, philosophy, religion, bioethics, folklore, electronic services, film, transnationalism, cultural studies, and environmental ethics, among other topics, and are available in print and online.

Explore a world of ideas with Indiana University Press’s world-class, award-winning journals.
Download our new catalog now.

Kathryn Caras
Director of Electronic and Serials Publishing

*O’Meara, Patrick, Howard D. Mehlinger, and Roxana Ma Newman. 2001. Changing Perspectives on International Education.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press.