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Unfortunately, it Ended: Slavery in Islamic Law and Muslim Societies Conference in Murtensee

open access: yes, 2023
Report on the Conference "Slavery in Islamic Law and Muslim Societies" organised by TraSIS (Trajectories of Slavery in Islamicate Societies. Three Concepts from Islamic Legal Sources) in cooperation with the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies
Anchassi, Omar   +3 more
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Histories in bone: Navigating the ethical landscape of human skeletal collections in South Africa

open access: yesAnatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Provenance is at the center of addressing the complicated ethical stewardship of legacy human skeletal collections. Many South African (SA) health science institutions have skeletal collections. While the history of the collections and the demographics of the skeletons have been reported, the provenance of the individuals within the ...
Quenth Chinenere   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Story-telling as memorialisation: Suffering, resilience and victim identities

open access: yesOñati Socio-Legal Series, 2020
Is there a relationship between story-telling and memorialisation in the construction of victim identities? This paper seeks to examine these questions and shed light on the cultural dynamics of victimisation with reference to examples from sociological ...
Simon Green   +2 more
doaj  

A man of his time: Joseph Leidy, racial science, and American anatomy

open access: yesAnatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Professor Joseph Leidy M.D. was arguably the most influential anatomist in the nineteenth‐century United States, having written over 500 publications and serving as the first President of the Association of American Anatomists. While many of Leidy's diverse contributions to American science and medicine are well‐known, scholars have said much ...
Christopher D. E. Willoughby
wiley   +1 more source

Drawing Lessons from the Culture Wars in England’s Black Country

open access: yesInternational Public History
Reflecting wider national and international political trends and discourses around heritage and identity, an analysis of the controversies regarding the symbolism of the popular and widely-adopted regional flag of the Black Country in the West Midlands ...
Stallard Matthew
doaj   +1 more source

“Queen of the fields”: Slavery’s Graphic Violence and the Black Female Body in 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, 2013)

open access: yesTransatlantica, 2019
This paper examines Steve McQueen’s strategy in 12 Years a Slave, which consists in filming the horrors of slavery through a narrative construction that mostly concerns Solomon Northup, a “temporary” slave who survives slavery, and a visual construction ...
Hélène Charlery
doaj   +1 more source

Synchronization‐Performance‐Oriented Frequency‐Domain Iterative Learning Control for Wafer and Reticle Stages

open access: yesAsian Journal of Control, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The synchronization accuracy between the wafer stage and reticle stage in lithography is critical to overlay and critical dimension uniformity. Existing iterative learning control (ILC) methods indirectly optimize synchronization via time‐domain errors, failing to balance low‐frequency tracking accuracy and high‐frequency noise suppression ...
Xin Zhou   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

What makes a market in preindustrial societies? A comparative, spectrum-based analysis of Byzantium and the prehispanic Andes

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Dynamics
This article reconsiders the nature of marketplace exchange in premodern economies by comparing two distinct cases: the monetized system of the Byzantine Empire and the exchange networks of the prehispanic central Andes.
Katerina Ragkou, Christian Mader
doaj   +1 more source

Hobbesian Slavery

open access: yesPolitical Theory, 2017
Although Thomas Hobbes’s critics have often accused him of espousing a form of extreme subjection that differs only in name from outright slavery, Hobbes’s own striking views about slavery have attracted little notice. For Hobbes repeatedly insists that slaves, uniquely among the populace, maintain an unlimited right of resistance by force.
openaire   +1 more source

Slaves and slavery in the Smṛticandrikā

open access: yes, 2020
Donald R. Davis, "Slaves and slavery in the Smṛticandrikā", The Indian Economic and Social History Review (2020), pp.
Davis, Donald R.
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