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Conflict of cultures: a marginalised orphan of the colonial discourse ‘disinterred’ in Jack Maggs by Peter Carey

Currents, 2023
Jack Maggs by Peter Carey, being the Australian version of Dickens’s Great Expectations, challenges the Victorian propaganda about the primacy of a white race, openly opposing the Empire’s misdeeds and hypocritical behaviour of its citizens. Carey undermines the colonial discourse in the shape of Dickensian imperialistic England as a motherland ...
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Newspaper: The Colony Herald, Volume 1, Number 1

, 1936
The first issue of The Colony Herald, published at the Dyess colony in Dyess, Arkansas. This issue contains an article on the coming two-year anniversary of the colony and its history, and expected visits from Works Project Administration leader, Harry ...
Williams, Oden S.; Newsom, Gene; Dyess Colony, Inc.
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A Sephardic Quevedo? Abraham Gómez Silveira, Between Controversy and Poetry

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A book published in 2000, El barroco sefardí Abraham Gómez Silveira (The Sephardic Baroque Abraham Gómez Silveira), introduced us to this hitherto unknown author, baptised in Castile in 1651, who was educated at the school of the sacred congregation of the Sephardic Jews in Amsterdam.
Mercedes Blanco
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Muhammadiyah Orphanages and The Institutionalization of Relief of Indonesian Orphans in Dutch Colonial Period

Studia Islamika
This study analyzes Muhammadiyah and the organization of the orphan care in the Dutch East Indies in colonial Indonesia. This study, using various primary sources in Indonesian and Dutch, suggests that the number of native orphans increased during the colonial period and Muhammadiyah responded to it by establishing orphanages.
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Recently Orphaned Newspapers: From Archived Webpages to Reusable Datasets and Research Outlooks [Video]

Recording of a presentation reporting on the progress of converting the web archives of a recently orphaned newspaper into accessible article collections in IPTC (International Press Telecommunications Council) standard format for news representation ...
Chuang, Tyng-Ruey, Wu, Hung-Yen, Wang, Chia-Hsun   +2 more
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Translating gut microbiome research into therapies for type 1 diabetes

Experimental Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is characterised by the loss of functional pancreatic β‐cells, for which lifelong insulin therapy remains the standard of care. Given that the gut microbiome can influence host health and that shifts in gut microbial profiles have been observed in T1D, growing interest has emerged in the role of the gut microbiome in T1D,
Shanti P. Kok, Max Nieuwdorp, Elena Rampanelli   +2 more
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Inheritance and expectations: the ambivalence of the colonial orphan figure in post-colonial re-writings of Charles Dickens s Great Expectations.

, 2005
This thesis considers the colonial literary relationship between the centre and the margin in the field of post-colonial counter-discourse. As such, this thesis investigates the possibility of disrupting the dominance of Empire, which is often rhetorically constructed through the certainty of the parent and child binary relationship.
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Teaching Through Making: |xam and !xun Material Culture of the Bleek and Lloyd Collection

Museum Anthropology, Volume 50, Issue 1, Spring 2027.
ABSTRACT At Wits Art Museum (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa) is a small collection donated to the former Wits Museum of Ethnology by Percival Kirby in 1952. A note in the accession register ties the items into the context of the renowned ‘Bushman researches’ of Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd in Cape Town in the 1870s and ...
Vibeke M. Viestad, Justine Wintjes
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Infrastructure as Inherited Knowledge: Artificial Intelligence and the Governance of Long‐Life Infrastructure

Journal of Critical Infrastructure Policy, Volume 8, Issue 1, Spring/Summer 2027.
ABSTRACT Epistemic orphaning, responsibility drift, loss of institutional memory, and non‐stationarity are not new problems in infrastructure governance—they have accompanied long‐life infrastructure throughout its history. What artificial intelligence changes is not the existence of these problems but their scale, opacity, and the structural ...
Priscilla P. Nelson
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The ultimate forgery: A semiotic deconstruction of large language models as engines of simulated selfhood

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 77, Issue 12, Page 1514-1529, December 2026.
Abstract Information science rests on a compact: its mediating signs maintain a traceable relation to what they describe. Large language models (LLMs) break it architecturally, generating discourse that is statistically plausible yet epistemically ungrounded, while standard metrics (precision, recall, relevance) cannot detect the rupture.
Martin Thellefsen, Alon Friedman
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