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Sexual Knowledge in Late-Colonial Bombay: Contested Authority, Politicized Sciences

Date: 2022-01-01

Creator: Rahul Prabhu

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Sexuality was at the fulcrum of various issues facing late-colonial India from social reform projects such as child marriage, women’s rights and birth control to concerns of socioeconomic, physical and sexual weakening. The question of sexual modernity became implicated in imaginations of the modern post-colonial nation, setting the stage for a period of energized, linguistically plural projects of sexual knowledge production. While science was used to authorize such projects in the West, where could authority be located in a context where science held plural meaning and authority itself was highly contested? This paper asks how scientific authority was understood, deployed and shaped by the eugenics project of Narayan Sitaram Phadke (1894-1978) and the sexology project of A.P. Pillay (1890-1956). This thesis argues that the mechanics of each figures’ utilization of science captures how the interaction between scientific authority and society was understood by Phadke and Pillay in different ways. While both figures subscribed to the idea that science was universally authoritative in the making of sexual modernity, Phadke’s and Pillay’s projects show the plurality in how science was understood by social reformers. Furthermore, the thesis presents the differences between Phadke’s and Pillay’s projects as a product of the larger movements – British-era birth control advocacy, Hindu nationalism, upper-caste marriage reform and global sexology – that Phadke and Pillay were distinctly invested in or separated from. Scientific authority and the mechanics of its use is proposed as a vivid lens into the complex dynamics of modernization in late-colonial India.


Miniature of From Bleeding to Breathing: Embodying Violence and Healing in the Performances of Ana Mendieta, Regina José Galindo and Ruby Rumié
From Bleeding to Breathing: Embodying Violence and Healing in the Performances of Ana Mendieta, Regina José Galindo and Ruby Rumié
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      Date: 2021-01-01

      Creator: Norell Sherman

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        Miniature of Art of the Profile: Profile Journalism in Theory and Practice
        Art of the Profile: Profile Journalism in Theory and Practice
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          • Embargo End Date: 2028-05-18

          Date: 2023-01-01

          Creator: Halina E. Bennet

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            Narration, Nation et Nationalisme dans les récits d’enfance de Mouloud Feraoun et Mohammed Dib

            Date: 2022-01-01

            Creator: Reed Foehl

            Access: Open access

            During the mid-20th century, a new form of Algerian literature emerged, thematically detached yet linguistically tied to France. Novelists aligned with this littérature algérienne de langue française used their narrative power to expose the atrocities of the colonial period, while emphasizing the rising nationalist spirit throughout the country. A peculiar aspect of this national literature is the presence of a child protagonist. Many of Algeria’s most prominent authors centered their first novels on a young boy. This leads to my central question: does the récit d’enfance (childhood narrative) possess certain qualities that lend it useful for representing ubiquitous suffering, as well as an imminent national awakening. My research focuses on two Algerian novelists, Mouloud Feraoun and Mohammed Dib, who employ the récit d’enfance for different aims. In this paper, I first define the récit d’enfance and show how Feraoun and Dib implement this literary style. Secondly, I argue that Mohammed Dib’s trilogy is distinctly political. Employing the critical theories of Frantz Fanon and Benedict Anderson, I contend that Dib’s trilogy, published between 1952-1957, is a littérature de combat (combat literature). Although Feraoun’s publication of Le Fils du Pauvre in 1950 inaugurated Franco-Algerian literature, his work is more reflective than political. Comparing Feraoun and Dib’s early work, allows me to expose the disparate narratives arising in the decade prior to Algerian independence. Their portrayal of colonial oppression, as well as the courage and ambition of an exploited people, remains useful when studying models of colonial and post-colonial nationalism and nation-state.


            Miniature of Testing conservation of an mRNA transport pathway in yeast
            Testing conservation of an mRNA transport pathway in yeast
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                Date: 2021-01-01

                Creator: Kyu Young "Kevin" Chi

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                  Miniature of Investigating the photoacidic properties of 8-benzylideneamino-2-naphthol
                  Investigating the photoacidic properties of 8-benzylideneamino-2-naphthol
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                    • Embargo End Date: 2027-05-19

                    Date: 2022-01-01

                    Creator: Oliver M. Nix

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                      The Role of ELMO5 in Arabidopsis thaliana Cell Adhesion

                      Date: 2022-01-01

                      Creator: Isabel Kristina Ball

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                      Plant cell growth and development relies on proper cellular adhesion. As the extracellular matrix serves as the area of connection between two cells, its synthesis and maintenance are essential for cellular adhesion. The middle lamella region, the layer of the extracellular matrix between two adjacent cell walls, is diffuse with the polysaccharide pectin due to its delivery by Golgi vesicles early during cell division. A Ruthenium Red screen for cellular adhesion mutants identified the family of 5 ELMO proteins that are critical for proper cellular adhesion. To further our understanding of plant cellular adhesion and pathways of pectin synthesis and modification, this work investigates ELMO5. Plants homozygous for a T-DNA insertion in ELMO5 and a new deletion mutant allele generated using CRSPR do not have a cellular adhesion phenotype, suggesting it is either not critical for cellular adhesion or is redundant with another gene. Redundancy within the ELMO family is identified through the analysis of double mutants of elmo5 and each of the other four elmo genes. Both elmo1-/- elmo5-/-and elmo4-/- elmo5-/-mutants have a visibly worse cellular adhesion defect phenotype, suggesting partial redundancy through the ELMO family. The mutants are also rescued by growth on agar, pointing to the importance of turgor pressure and osmotic potential in modulating cellular adhesion. Both ELMO4 and ELMO5 were found to localize to the Golgi using a GFP fusion, consistent with a role for ELMOs as scaffold for pectin biosynthesis.


                      Miniature of Characterization of Spaetzle-Toll Ligand-Receptor Pairs in <i>Gryllus bimaculatus</i>
                      Characterization of Spaetzle-Toll Ligand-Receptor Pairs in Gryllus bimaculatus
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                        Date: 2023-01-01

                        Creator: Tabarak Al Musawi

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                          Miniature of Literary <i>Stolpersteine</i> that Produce Memory, Identity, and Belonging in Contemporary German Narratives of Migration
                          Literary Stolpersteine that Produce Memory, Identity, and Belonging in Contemporary German Narratives of Migration
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                            Date: 2022-01-01

                            Creator: Lauren Katz

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                              Miniature of Ink
                              Ink
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                                • Embargo End Date: 2025-05-19

                                Date: 2022-01-01

                                Creator: Andrew MacGregor Nicholson

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