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.class public Landroid/media/audiofx/AcousticEchoCanceler;
.super Landroid/media/audiofx/AudioEffect;
.source "AcousticEchoCanceler.java"

# static fields
.field private static final TAG:Ljava/lang/String; = "AcousticEchoCanceler"

# direct methods
.method private constructor <init>(I)V
    .locals 3
    .param p1, "audioSession"    # I
    .annotation system Ldalvik/annotation/Throws;
        value = {
            Ljava/lang/IllegalArgumentException;,
            Ljava/lang/UnsupportedOperationException;,
            Ljava/lang/RuntimeException;
        }
    .end annotation

    .prologue
    .line 95
    sget-object v0, Landroid/media/audiofx/AcousticEchoCanceler;->EFFECT_TYPE_AEC:Ljava/util/UUID;

    sget-object v1, Landroid/media/audiofx/AcousticEchoCanceler;->EFFECT_TYPE_NULL:Ljava/util/UUID;

    const/4 v2, 0x0

    invoke-direct {p0, v0, v1, v2, p1}, Landroid/media/audiofx/AudioEffect;-><init>(Ljava/util/UUID;Ljava/util/UUID;II)V

    .line 96
    return-void
.end method

.method public static create(I)Landroid/media/audiofx/AcousticEchoCanceler;
    .locals 6
    .param p0, "audioSession"    # I

    .prologue
    .line 62
    const/4 v0, 0x0

    .line 64
    .local v0, "aec":Landroid/media/audiofx/AcousticEchoCanceler;
    :try_start_0
    new-instance v1, Landroid/media/audiofx/AcousticEchoCanceler;

    invoke-direct {v1, p0}, Landroid/media/audiofx/AcousticEchoCanceler;-><init>(I)V
    :try_end_0
    .catch Ljava/lang/IllegalArgumentException; {:try_start_0 .. :try_end_0} :catch_0
    .catch Ljava/lang/UnsupportedOperationException; {:try_start_0 .. :try_end_0} :catch_1
    .catch Ljava/lang/RuntimeException; {:try_start_0 .. :try_end_0} :catch_2
    .catchall {:try_start_0 .. :try_end_0} :catchall_0

    .end local v0    # "aec":Landroid/media/audiofx/AcousticEchoCanceler;
    .local v1, "aec":Landroid/media/audiofx/AcousticEchoCanceler;
    move-object v0, v1

    .line 72
    .end local v1    # "aec":Landroid/media/audiofx/AcousticEchoCanceler;
    :goto_0
    return-object v1

    .line 65
    .restart local v0    # "aec":Landroid/media/audiofx/AcousticEchoCanceler;
    :catch_0
    move-exception v2

    .line 66
    .local v2, "e":Ljava/lang/IllegalArgumentException;
    :try_start_1
    const-string v3, "AcousticEchoCanceler"

    new-instance v4, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    invoke-direct {v4}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;-><init>()V

    const-string/jumbo v5, "not implemented on this device"

    invoke-virtual {v4, v5}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    move-result-object v4

    invoke-virtual {v4, v0}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->append(Ljava/lang/Object;)Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;

    move-result-object v4

    invoke-virtual {v4}, Ljava/lang/StringBuilder;->toString()Ljava/lang/String;

    move-result-object v4

    invoke-static {v3, v4}, Landroid/util/Log;->w(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;)I

    move-object v1, v0

    .line 72
    .end local v0    # "aec":Landroid/media/audiofx/AcousticEchoCanceler;
    .restart local v1    # "aec":Landroid/media/audiofx/AcousticEchoCanceler;
    goto :goto_0

    .line 67
    .end local v1    # "aec":Landroid/media/audiofx/AcousticEchoCanceler;
    .end local v2    # "e":Ljava/lang/IllegalArgumentException;
    .restart local v0    # "aec":Landroid/media/audiofx/AcousticEchoCanceler;
    :catch_1
    move-exception v2

    .line 68
    .local v2, "e":Ljava/lang/UnsupportedOperationException;
    const-string v3, "AcousticEchoCanceler"

    const-string/jumbo v4, "not enough resources"

    invoke-static {v3, v4}, Landroid/util/Log;->w(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;)I

    move-object v1, v0

    .line 72
    .end local v0    # "aec":Landroid/media/audiofx/AcousticEchoCanceler;
    .restart local v1    # "aec":Landroid/media/audiofx/AcousticEchoCanceler;
    goto :goto_0

    .line 69
    .end local v1    # "aec":Landroid/media/audiofx/AcousticEchoCanceler;
    .end local v2    # "e":Ljava/lang/UnsupportedOperationException;
    .restart local v0    # "aec":Landroid/media/audiofx/AcousticEchoCanceler;
    :catch_2
    move-exception v2

    .line 70
    .local v2, "e":Ljava/lang/RuntimeException;
    const-string v3, "AcousticEchoCanceler"

    const-string/jumbo v4, "not enough memory"

    invoke-static {v3, v4}, Landroid/util/Log;->w(Ljava/lang/String;Ljava/lang/String;)I
    :try_end_1
    .catchall {:try_start_1 .. :try_end_1} :catchall_0

    move-object v1, v0

    .line 72
    .end local v0    # "aec":Landroid/media/audiofx/AcousticEchoCanceler;
    .restart local v1    # "aec":Landroid/media/audiofx/AcousticEchoCanceler;
    goto :goto_0

    .end local v1    # "aec":Landroid/media/audiofx/AcousticEchoCanceler;
    .end local v2    # "e":Ljava/lang/RuntimeException;
    .restart local v0    # "aec":Landroid/media/audiofx/AcousticEchoCanceler;
    :catchall_0
    move-exception v3

    move-object v1, v0

    .end local v0    # "aec":Landroid/media/audiofx/AcousticEchoCanceler;
    .restart local v1    # "aec":Landroid/media/audiofx/AcousticEchoCanceler;
    goto :goto_0
.end method

.method public static isAvailable()Z
    .locals 1

    .prologue
    .line 51
    sget-object v0, Landroid/media/audiofx/AudioEffect;->EFFECT_TYPE_AEC:Ljava/util/UUID;

    invoke-static {v0}, Landroid/media/audiofx/AudioEffect;->isEffectTypeAvailable(Ljava/util/UUID;)Z

    move-result v0

    return v0
.end method


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using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class SoundController : MonoBehaviour
{

    float soundCooldown = 0;
    float soundCooldownReset = 0.1f;
    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {

    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        soundCooldown -= Time.deltaTime;

    }

    public void PlayerMoveSound()
    {

        //Debug.Log("Playing player move sound");

        if(soundCooldown >0)
        {
            return;
        }
        AudioClip ac = Resources.Load<AudioClip>("Sounds/PlayerMove");
        AudioSource.PlayClipAtPoint(ac, Camera.main.transform.position);
        soundCooldown = soundCooldownReset;
    }

    public void AIMoveSound()
    {

        if (soundCooldown > 0)
        {
            return;
        }
        AudioClip ac = Resources.Load<AudioClip>("Sounds/AIMove");
        AudioSource.PlayClipAtPoint(ac, Camera.main.transform.position);
        soundCooldown = soundCooldownReset;
    }

    public void AIPlaceSound()
    {

        if (soundCooldown > 0)
        {
            return;
        }
        AudioClip ac = Resources.Load<AudioClip>("Sounds/AIPlace");
        AudioSource.PlayClipAtPoint(ac, Camera.main.transform.position);
        soundCooldown = soundCooldownReset;
    }
    public void MenuMusic()
    {
        AudioClip ac = Resources.Load<AudioClip>("Sounds/AIMove");
        AudioSource.PlayClipAtPoint(ac, Camera.main.transform.position);
        soundCooldown = soundCooldownReset;

    }

    public void GamePlayMusic()
    {
        GetComponent<AudioSource>().clip = Resources.Load<AudioClip>("Sounds/GameplayMusic");
    }
}

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Are we witnessing the best January transfer window in the recent years?
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It has been quite a busy January transfer window in Premier League this season. More often than not, the winter transfer window remains devoid of big transfers. And big clubs very rarely let go of their key players in January. Most managers hate this window and have publicly talked about abolishing it completely. However, circumstances have conspired in such a way this month that we can expect to see some very different-looking top sides in the league post-January. To start things off, Liverpool made a big statement in the first…
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The summer transfer market is just passed halfway, as it started on July 1 and ends on August 31. Time to list the 25 most expensive signings so far! 1. Gonzalo Higuain: from Napoli to Juventus – £76.5 million 2. Hulk: from Zenit to Shanghai SIPG – £47.4m 3. Leroy Sane: from Schalke 04 to Man City – £42.5m 4. Granit Xhaka: from Borussia Mönchengladbach to Arsenal – £38.3m 5. Henrikh Mkhitaryan: from Borussia Dortmund to Man United – £35.7m 6. Sadio Mane: from Southampton to Liverpool – £35m 7.…
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On Thursday, Manchester United announced their squad numbers for the upcoming 2016-2017 season. It's always interesting to see which numbers the new signings get. Zlatan Ibrahimovic will wear the number 9, with Anthony Martials switching to 11 and Adnan Januzaj to 15. Henrikh Mkhitaryan gets number 22 and Eric Bailly number 3. Check out the full list here: #MUFC's provisional squad numbers for 2016/17: pic.twitter.com/dlwFy62Iaq — Manchester United (@ManUtd) 21 juli 2016 No player is wearing number 13 but that's no exception. The big surprise was the number 6, which…
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Mourinho's Manchester United taking shape
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Manchester United have completed the signing of Henrikh Mkhitaryan, as Jose Mourinho continues working to reshape the club's squad ahead of the new season, according to the club's website. Trio of new signings with a fourth to potentially follow Following the arrivals of defender Eric Bailly from Villarreal & striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who was a free agent after his departure from PSG, Mkhitaryan becomes Mourinho's third new recruit, with the Portuguese manager enthusiastic about adding a fourth. "We decided four targets. From those four, we have three and whilst we…
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Manchester United's new signing's contract details leaked
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After securing the services of Eric Bailly and Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Manchster United secured a third summer signing with Borussia Dortmund's Henrikh Mkhitaryan joining the Red Devils this week. Mkhitaryan became Jose Mourinho's third signing at Old Trafford and will add a serious creative boost to the Red Devils, as he provided a staggering 23 goals and 26 assists in all competitions last season. Meanwhile, Dortmund have now lost three of their biggest players, seeing midfielder Ilkay Gundogan move to Manchester City and defender Mats Hummels to rivals Bayern Munich. Now, a report…
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Twitter feasts on Manchester United's deal for Henrikh Mkhitaryan
After securing the services of Eric Bailly and Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Manchster United have secured a third summer signing with Borussia Dortmund's Henrikh Mkhitaryan joining the Red Devils. Not surprisingly, Twitter was very positive on the deal: Mkhitaryan – Martial – Rashford Ibrahimovic I'm no tactics expert but that looks superb. All those three can interchange too. — Alex Shaw (@AlexShawESPN) 2 juli 2016 I've heard that Mkhitaryan's family had been to Old Trafford in 2014/15 season to "enjoy" a game. Seems player was always intent on a move. — Stefan Bienkowski…
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Official: Manchester United land Bundesliga star
July 2, 2016 July 2, 2016 Vincent Van Genechten
After securing the services of Eric Bailly and Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Manchster United have secured a third summer signing with Borussia Dortmund's Henrikh Mkhitaryan joining the Red Devils. The Bundesliga giants announced the news via Twitter: [email protected] wechselt zu @ManUtd // Henrikh Mkhitaryan moves to Manchester United. Details to follow. pic.twitter.com/mFxTgZoS3J — Borussia Dortmund (@BVB) July 2, 2016 This week, United submitted a £30 million bid to Borussia Dortmund for the Armenia international, with the German club's chief executive Hans-Joachim Watzke confirming that offer was under serious consideration, as reported by The Guardian. Now…
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Dortmund considering improved Manchester United offer for Mkhitaryan
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Manchester United have submitted a £30 million bid to Borussia Dortmund for Henrirkh Mkhitaryan, with the German club's chief executive Hans – Joachim Watzke confirming that offer is under serious consideration, as reported by The Guardian. Previous indications from Watzke were that Mkhitaryan was not for sale, despite the 27-year-old rejecting the opportunity to extend his current Dortmund contract, which has just 12 months to run. Dortmund officials are understood to have hoped that Mkhitaryan would stay at the club for the remaining year of his contract. However they have…
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Manchester United closing in on two huge signings
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Manchester United plotting expensive shock move for Arsenal star
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Manchester United bid for Bundesliga star confirmed, face competition for starlet striker
June 22, 2016 Vyom Chaudhary
Borussia Dortmund midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan's agent, Mino Raiola, has confirmed that Manchester United have placed a bid for his client. The Red Devils have been strongly linked with a move for the Armenia international recently. The 27-year-old has only one year left on his current deal with the Bundesliga club, and he has rejected to sign a new contract. However, Dortmund have on many occasions made clear that they don't intend to sell Mkhitaryan in the current transfer window. Raiola revealed that Dortmund are not willing to let go of their star player,…
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Agent hands Manchester United huge boost in pursuit of star transfer target
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Jose Mourinho wants German playmaker after failed attempt to sign Bundesliga star
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has set his sights on Wolfsburg attacker Julian Draxler, according to a report by German news outlet BILD. However, the German club are set to demand a substantial fee after they themselves paid £27 million for the 22-year-old just a year ago, as Draxler made the switch from Schalke 04 after being heavily linked with Juventus. The 22-year-old, who's currenlty playing for Germany at Euro 2016, provided nine goals and eight assists in 35 appearances in all competitions during his first season at Wolfsburg. He's capable…
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Arsenal receive two massive blows on the transfer market
Arsenal have been linked with a number of big names during the summer transfer market, even after signing Granit Xhaka from Borussia Monchengladbach fairly early. Arsene Wenger desperately wants to bring another Premier League crown to the Emirates, but has been given two massive blows regarding a couple of transfer targets. First up: Edinson Cavani. The Uruguayan international has been on the Gunners' radar for a long time and was rumoured to leave Paris Saint-Germain after another frustrating season in Paris. However, with Zlatan Ibrahimovic leaving the Ligue 1 champions…
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Arsenal suffer major setbacks in their transfer pursuits
June 10, 2016 June 10, 2016 Vyom Chaudhary
Yesterday, we reportedabout how Arsenal are going to be very busy in the transfer window. However, the Gunners' transfer plans have suffered some roadblocks if the latest reports are to be believed. Evening Standard has reported that Leicester City striker has informed his England teammates that he is almost certain to reject the offer to join Arsenal. The report has very specifically stated that Vardy is 80% sure of playing for the Foxes next season. The Gunners have earlier met Vardy's £20million clause and verbally agreed on a three-year contract-…
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Lots of transfer activity expected at Arsenal in the transfer window
June 8, 2016 June 9, 2016 Vyom Chaudhary
Arsenal are planning to go all guns blazing in the summer transfer window. The Gunners have already signed Granit Xhaka from Borussia Monchengladbach in a £30m deal and last week, they triggered the release clause of Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy. Earlier reports had suggested that Vardy was poised to join the Gunners, but that hasn't turned out be the case. According to the latest reports, the England international is still pondering over the move and will make a final decision only after the Euro Championships. Meanwhile, the Sun has…
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Three Premier League clubs on red alert as Bundesliga star refuses to sign extension
June 1, 2016 Vincent Van Genechten
With Euro 2016 not to start untill next week, the summer transfer market is in full swing. According to a report by German outlet Bild (via The Independent), Borussia Dortmund midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan has started a bidding war by refusing to sign a contract extension with the Bundesliga giants. The Armenia international has been linked with a summer transfer all season long, as talks about an extension stalled and a bunch of big clubs are looking to swoop in for the 27-year-old. "Why would we sign a contract renewal now?" Mkhitaryan's…
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Arsenal and Juventus compete for Bundesliga star, agent of La Liga youngster confirms interest
May 6, 2016 Vyom Chaudhary
Arsenal are facing competition from Serie A giants Juventus in their pursuit of Borussia Dortmund midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan. Last month, reports suggested that the Gunners were close to finalising a move for the 27-year-old, as he was already house-hunting in London. However, according to the latest report from transfermarketweb, Juventus are planning to hijack Arsenal's move and are ready to launch a £24 million bid for the Armenia international. Mkhitaryan's current deal with Dortmund expires in 2017, and it has been suggested that the Bundesliga club are planning to sell…
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Bundesliga star house-hunting in London ahead of Arsenal move
April 3, 2016 Vyom Chaudhary
Borussia Dortmund attacking midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan was recently linked with a move to Arsenal by the Guardian. The report claimed that the Gunners are tracking the midfielder, who will have one year left on his contract in the summer. Now, the Sun has gone one step ahead and claimed that the Armenia international has already started hunting for a house in London ahead of a proposed summer move to the North London club. The report states that Mkhitaryan has rejected a new £6.4 million contract from the Dortmund and has already…
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Mkhitaryan: "Jurgen Klopp was not attacking enough"
February 18, 2016 Vyom Chaudhary
Borussia Dortmund midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan has taken a swipe at former club manager Jurgen Klopp. The current Liverpool manager enjoyed a successful time with the Bundesliga club and won two league titles and one domestic cup during his time with the club. He also led them to the finals of 2012-13 Champions League. However, his final season with the Bundesliga club was rather an unforgettable one as he led them to the seventh position in the league table. Mkhitaryan, who arrived at Signal Iduna Park in the summer of 2013,…
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Mesut Ozil is no longer Europe's king of assists
February 4, 2016 February 4, 2016 Vincent Van Genechten
During the course of the current season, Mesut Ozil racked up the assists like no other player. However, the Arsenal playmaker's machine has stopped recently. The German is now no longer Europe's king of assists, as he was passed by Henrikh Mkhitaryan. The Borussia Dortmund ace has provided 17 assists in all competitions for the Bundesliga giants, which is one more than Ozil's 16 for Arsenal, according to Goal. That was pretty much unexpected as Ozil racked up his current total by Christmas, looking certain to break Thierry Henry's long-standing record. But the…
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Liverpool's £15m bid for Henrikh Mkhitaryan ACCEPTED by Borussia Dortmund
August 22, 2015 Jordan Harris
Despite enjoying a very busy summer already, Brendan Rodgers appears to not be entirely happy with his squad, after the Independent claimed that Liverpool had had a £15m bid accepted by Borussia Dortmund for midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan. The deal may not be done and dusted however, as Juventus are also keen on the 26-year-old, the Independent report, and may now be tempted to make a bid. Although the attacking midfielder has been fantastic during his time at Westfalenstadion – having scored 24 goals and bagging 20 assists since his move…
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Newly Discovered Goliath Galaxies from Early Universe Hint at Massive Dark Matter Trove
The colossal clump of dark matter is nearly as large as physically possible at the time
By Thomas Sumner December 6, 2017
Galactic Giants: Two titanic galaxies inhabited the early universe just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, as seen in this illustration. The larger of the pair, right, is the most massive galaxy ever seen from when the universe was young. Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF; D. Berry
A newfound pair of galaxies from the early universe is so massive that it nearly breaks the current understanding of how the cosmos evolved.
The larger of the pair is the most gargantuan galaxy ever seen inhabiting the universe during the first billion years following the Big Bang. The galactic heavyweight contains around 273 billion suns' worth of gas and dust, researchers estimate in the December 6 issue of Nature. The smaller galaxy is no lightweight either, comprising roughly 40 billion solar masses of gas and dust.
"Either of these galaxies on its own would be extreme, and here you have two of them together," study co-author Chris Hayward, an associate research scientist at the Center for Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute in New York City.
Further, two galactic giants in such proximity suggest the presence of an enveloping halo of dark matter clocking in at more than 1 trillion times the mass of the sun. Such structures began as small variations in the density of the cosmos during the expansion following the Big Bang. Gravity caused the relatively dense regions to attract and accumulate more and more material over time — eventually accruing larger and larger stockpiles of both ordinary and dark matter.
The vast amount of matter gathered around the two newly discovered galaxies nearly threatened to smash the current understanding of the universe's formation. Using the prevailing model of how the universe began and evolved, scientists can estimate just how big structures of this type could be at any given stage of the universe's evolution. Their calculations showed that at the point in time these galaxies existed and are observed, less than 800 million years after the Big Bang, the galaxies and their dark matter halo were among the most massive structures that the current model would tolerate. An equally extreme structure in the present-day universe would contain 10,000 trillion suns' worth of material.
"This is really pushing the limits of just how massive a dark matter halo can be at this time in the universe," Hayward says. "This is one of the rarest and most extreme clumps of dark matter in the universe."
"There are probably just a handful of objects like this in the whole sky," says study lead author Dan Marrone, an astrophysicist at the University of Arizona in Tucson. "We're lucky to have found it."
Marrone, Hayward and colleagues weren't originally hunting for giants. They were getting a closer look at light sources spotted by the South Pole Telescope in Antarctica. That telescope surveyed around six percent of the sky, but with relatively coarse resolution.
One of the surveyed sources is much further away from Earth than the others. The light from that source took around 13 billion years to reach Earth, implying that the source appears like it did when the universe was young. But scientists were unsure about the mass and brightness of the distant source because a galaxy is in the way. That in-between galaxy's strong gravity acts like a lens, bending the path of the incoming light and magnifying the source. Scientists didn't know if the source was heavily magnified and tiny, or lightly magnified and massive.
Based on modeling of the foreground galaxy and observations made by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chile, the researchers calculated that the mysterious light source is only lightly magnified, and therefore big. Hayward says that the source is so massive that he initially worried that the calculations were wrong.
Further study of the incoming light revealed that the source is two colossal galaxies merging.
Based on the amount of gas in the two galaxies and the typical ratio of dark to ordinary matter in galaxies, the researchers estimated the extent of the dark matter halo containing the two galaxies. The halo's estimated mass of 1 trillion times the sun's mass is conservative, Hayward says, and the actual number may be larger.
The colossal collection of dark and ordinary matter isn't just a record-setting curiosity, Marrone says. The merging galaxies will now serve as a testbed for astronomers to study how massive, star-forming galaxies evolved during the earliest stages of the universe. "There's still more work to do," he says.
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Freedom Is . . . a Sexual Ponzi Scheme?
by Carl R. Trueman 6 . 2 . 15
An article in the Washington Post last week ("How to break free from monogamy without destroying marriage") described the dynamics of an open marriage and the various "apps" now available for facilitating extramarital relations. The amorality might have been shocking twenty years ago but today such well-traveled territory likely provokes little more than a yawn. Yet the article is still instructive for what the author's analysis (or lack thereof) tells us about contemporary culture. Indeed, it is a classic example of what happens when your side in the debate is utterly dominant: You become lazy and put forward obvious stupidity as if it were compelling argumentation.
Take, for example, the attempts at offering evidential support for the incontinent sexual promiscuity described. All the usual tricks of persuasion are on display. Tendentiously selective history is wheeled out to make it seem that the idea of love as part of marriage is a recent innovation, emerging presumably after aeons where marriage was merely driven by pragmatic convenience. Homer would have disagreed, as would Dante and Shakespeare.
Bogus science makes a predictable appearance in the form of a piece of pure speculation about the marital motivation of cavemen. Real science, in the form of analysis of the significance of the statistics on, say, sexually transmitted diseases is conspicuous by its absence. That omission is, of course, now de rigueur in all politically acceptable discussions of sexual behavior and human "flourishing."
And, as the pièce de résistance, once again the Enlightenment axiom, that one cannot derive an ought from an is, is conveniently suspended in the cause of denigrating monogamy and denying any moral significance to incontinent fornication: People commit adultery and get divorced, so sexual promiscuity is therefore good and natural. Well, some people are foot fetishists and others are serial killers. These things may be "natural" but does that make them socially desirable?
Yet even more disturbing than the predictable casual amorality and the lack of argument and critical analysis are two other elements in the article. One is the role of boredom; the other is the language of freedom.
That boredom is presented as justification for remaking the marriage bond speaks of a self-absorbed approach to life where stimulation and personal entertainment are now almost the only ethical criteria (except for the increasingly tenuous principle of consent). Indeed, the unthinking moral solipsism of this present age is on full display here. "If it is good for me, it must be good for society" is dangerous enough as a principle of social ethics. To replace that with "If it cures my boredom, it must be good for society" is lunacy. And who will pay the interest—financial and social—on this sexual ponzi scheme? Everyone, from the poor and the children of broken homes to generations yet unborn.
The other disturbing element is the reductionist view of freedom. The rhetoric of liberation pervades the article from the title onwards, and yet in what does this woman's freedom consist? Her freedom and thus her personhood have been reduced to nothing more than the ability to have a series of loosely connected orgasms, unencumbered by any relational responsibility, as a means of punctuating the tedium of life.
That is a deeply impoverished notion of what it is to be free. Even a moment's reflection on the behavior described in the article raises obvious questions. Think of the husband who does not have to worry that his wife is finding better sex on her business trips than at home because she is committed to him alone. Or the wife who does not have to worry about contracting an STD because she knows her husband respects the marriage bond and does not jump into bed with any woman who takes his fancy. Or the children who do not have to fret about whom they will be expected to call "Mom" or "Dad" next year. Would being "freed from monogamy" really make these people more free? Much more can be said on the nature of freedom, but this gives at least some sense of the complexity of the notion and how it has been naively trivialized by a world where sexualized personal pleasure is the solvent of all social bonds and the measure of all things.
Strange to tell, this is where I found the article to be somewhat encouraging. A vision of personhood and freedom reduced to a series of sexual encounters designed to stave off boredom represents a somewhat childish and vacuous philosophy of life. Indeed, this is what now passes for thoughtful and provocative journalism in a quality newspaper and yet I hardly needed to break sweat in picking apart such nonsense. Conservative Christians may be in a minority, but thank God we have a richer understanding of what it means to be human and to be free than the rather simplistic and—dare I say it?—boring and predictable one which is exhibited here. The competition may currently control the airwaves but they really have nothing of interest or substance to say.
Carl R. Trueman is Paul Woolley Professor of Church History at Westminster Theological Seminary. His previous posts can be found here.
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(b) The governing body shall adopt integrated pest management (IPM) practices and principles to prevent unacceptable levels of pest activity with the least possible hazard to people, property, and the environment.
(c) The governing body shall have a written integrated pest management plan written by the governing body or provided by the contracted pest management contractor whether IPM is implemented as an internal process or contracted to a pest management professional. The plan shall include sections that cover the following topics: an IPM policy statement; IPM implementation and education; pest identification, monitoring procedures, reporting and control practices; approved pesticides; procedures for pesticide use; a policy for the notification of students, parents, and staff; and applicator requirements. Guidance for an IPM plan can be found in publications of the IPM Institute of North America. The Department or the Local Health Officer may require changes in a school's IPM plan if the plan neglects or causes a threat to the health or safety of the occupants of a school.
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Commerce minister Tofail Ahmed on Tuesday said that Accord and Alliance were no longer required for Bangladesh readymade garment sector and the time frame of the platforms would not be extended anymore beyond December this year.
'Accord and Alliance will leave Bangladesh after the six-month transition period on December 7 and then we will take over the responsibility of factory remediation and inspection,' the commerce minister said in a programme held at Hotel Purbani in the capital.
The labour ministry organised the event titled 'Capacity Building of Remediation Coordination Cell: Sharing Progress and Way Forward' attended by the state minister for labour Md Mujibul Haque, labour secretary Afroza Khan, US ambassador in Dhaka Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat, EU ambassador to Bangladesh Rensje Teerink, Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry president Md Shafiul Islam Mohiuddin and Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association president Md Siddiqur Rahman, among others.
'In the fourth review meeting of Sustainability compact held at Brussels last month the issue of extending time for Accord and Alliance was discussed and the meeting was told that Bangladesh was capable to take over the responsibility of factory remediation,' Tofail said.
He said that with the support of International Labour Organisation, the government formed RCC and already 60 engineers were appointed.
RCC would be able to take over the responsibility of factory remediation and oversee the industrial safety, the commerce minister said.
Tofail said that one of the entrepreneurs filed a case with the court against Accord and the Supreme Court has given its verdict that the continuation of Accord and Alliance will continue for six more months.
'We cannot violate the verdict of our Supreme Court,' he said.
After Rana Plaza building collapse, the government has taken various measures to ensure factory safety and no major incident took place in the RMG sector in last five years, Tofail said.
He said that Bangladesh was quite able to take over factory inspection and remediation.
Following the Rana Plaza Building collapse in April 2013 that killed more than 1,100 people, mostly garments workers, EU retailers formed Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh undertaking a five-year plan, while North American brands and retailers formed Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety and the platform.
'I challenge that no Rana Plaza-like incident will take place in future in the country…. and the country's readymade garment sector no longer required Accord and Alliance as we have made significant progress in strengthening the capacity of the Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments,' state minister for labour Md Mujibul Haque said in a press briefing following the meeting.
Accord and Alliance run their factory safety initiative through Bangladeshi engineers and engineering farms. RCC also hired those Bangladeshi firms to carry out factory remediation work so there was no necessity of the two foreign initiatives, he said.
Mujibul said that the government appointed 60 engineers and they already received five-day training in corrective action plan development and follow-up of remediation.


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"Global Realities: Precarious Survival and Belonging"
June 1–4, 2017 | Art Center Kobe, Kobe, Japan
The theme for The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies 2014 in Osaka was "Borderlands of becoming, belonging and sharing". In his presentation, Conference Co-Chair Professor Baden Offord wrote "Gloria Anzaldua's idea of the borderland has become a critical conceptual rubric used by cultural researchers as a way of understanding, explaining and articulating the in-determined, vague, ambiguous nature of everyday life and the cultural politics of border-knowledge, border crossings, transgression, living in-between and multiple belongings. Borderlands is also about a social space where people of diverse backgrounds and identities meet and share a space in which the politics of co-presence and co-existence are experienced and enacted in mundane ways."
Now we revisit that territory under the title "Global Realities: Precarious Survival and Belonging". While retaining the ideas expressed by Professor Offord in 2014, this conference will turn its focus on to the precariousness of life across the world, life being understood in all its amplitude. Since 2014 we have witnessed the horror of the refugee crisis in Europe and how borders which should have been crossed have been blocked off by barbed wire fences. The whole context of borders, belonging and survival has shifted resulting in an increase in racism, radical nationalisms, terrorism, infringements of human rights, and rising poverty levels, to mention only a few of the globalised problems confronting our world. The result of such precarity, even of the planet itself, has led to a generalised sense of communal and individual vulnerability.
Raimond Gaita recently noted, "It is striking how often people now speak of 'a common humanity' in ethically inflected registers, or ethically resonant tones that express a fellowship of all the peoples of the earth, or sometimes the hope for such a fellowship." Hopefully, this conference will discuss the ways and means by which a "common humanity" may be aspired to by future generations.
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Human interaction is at the root of all knowledge creation, and hence the great importance of the conference in introducing, testing and spreading ideas through challenging, rigorous and thought provoking discussion and debate. But beyond that, a conference is also a great chance to meet people from around the world, and to extend and grow ones's professional network, and above all, to make friends.
It may be impossible to tell the story of the conference, or rather the many hundreds of interlocking stories that go to make up the conference, but the documentary photography in this slideshow aims to give a taster of the more serious academic side of the event, as well as the lighter side…
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Precarious Futures, Precarious Pasts: Migritude and Planetarity
Keynote Presentation: Gaurav Desai
The Challenges of Doing Cultural Studies Today
Featured Panel Presentation: Donald E. Hall, Sue Ballyn & Yasue Arimitsu
Buddhist Terrorism?
Featured Presentation: Brian Victoria
"(…) For those in peril on the sea": The Important Role of Surgeons on Convict Transports
Spotlight Presentation: Sue Ballyn
Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Studies in Today's University Systems
Featured Presentation: Yasue Arimitsu
Not Just Your Average Cartoon – "Mainzelmännchen" As Agents of Conservative TV Propaganda
Spotlight Presentation: Holger Briel
Cross-Cultural Engagement and Media Integration in Japan and East Asia
Spotlight Presentation: Seiko Yasumoto
Yasue Arimitsu
Doshisha University, Japan
Sue Ballyn
University of Barcelona, Spain
Holger Briel
Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Donald E. Hall
Lehigh University, USA
Brian Victoria
Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, UK
Seiko Yasumoto
University of Sydney, Australia
The Organising Committee of The 12th Asian Conference on Asian Studies (ACAS) is composed of distinguished academics who are experts in their fields. Organising Committee members may also be members of IAFOR's International Academic Advisory Board. The Organising Committee is responsible for nominating and vetting Keynote and Featured Speakers; developing the conference programme, including special workshops, panels, targeted sessions, and so forth; event outreach and promotion; recommending and attracting future Organising Committee members; working with IAFOR to select PhD students and early career academics for IAFOR-funded grants and scholarships; and overseeing the reviewing of abstracts submitted to the conference.
Richard Donovan
Kansai University, Japan
Joseph Haldane
The International Academic Forum (IAFOR), Japan
Baden Offord
Centre for Human Rights Education, Curtin University, Australia & Cultural Studies Association of Australasia
ACAS2017 Review Committee
Dr Elena Kolesova, Unitec Institute of Technology, New Zealand
Dr Felix Tan, Singapore Institute of Management, Global Education, Singapore
Dr Ma. Junithesmer Rosales, Polytechnic University of The Philippines, The Philippines
ACCS2017 Review Committee
Dr Cecilia Fe Sta Maria-Abalos, University of the Philippines Baguio, The Philippines
Dr Eun Joo Kim, New York University-Shanghai, China
Dr Lourdes Nieva, Central Bicol State University of Agriculture-Sipocot, The Philippines
Dr Padmaja Kamat, Pes Shri Ravi Sitaram Naik College of Arts & Science, India
Dr Shulin Chiang, Chinese Culture University, Taiwan
Professor Teresa Chen, California State University-Long Beach, United States
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The 12th Asian Conference on Asian Studies (ACAS2022) will be held alongside The 12th Asian Conference on Cultural Studies (ACCS2022) in Tokyo, Japan. Registration for either conference will allow delegates to attend sessions in the other.
Founded in 2009, The International Academic Forum (IAFOR) is a politically independent non-partisan and non-profit interdisciplinary think tank, conference organiser and publisher dedicated to encouraging interdisciplinary discussion, facilitating intercultural awareness and promoting international exchange, principally through educational interaction and academic research. Based in Japan, its main administrative office is in Nagoya, and its research center is in the Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP), a graduate school of Osaka University.
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In this talk I will focus on the figure of the migrant in recent Anglophone fiction from Africa and South Asia. I am interested in the continuities and discontinuities in the experience of migration from the nineteenth century to the present, particularly, though not exclusively, for vulnerable populations. I then attempt to connect that experience to challenges posed to us by environmental changes and vulnerabilities in the same time frame. The aim is to think through the figure of the migrant not just as someone who moves from one sociopolitical context – village, town, city, nation – to another, but to think through migrant experiences as they relate to larger planetary concerns.
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Featured Panel Presentation: Professor Donald E. Hall, Professor Emerita Sue Ballyn & Professor Yasue Arimitsu
Given the rise of anti-globalisation, nationalisms and cultural isolationism, 2017 and beyond will prove particularly challenging times for those of us working in cultural studies. Our four panellists will each speak for five minutes about emerging geo-political constraints on their work, as well as their respective national and institutional contexts. This will be followed by a general discussion with the audience about collective experiences and strategies for individual and collective response to the challenges that we face.
Read presenter biographies on the 2017 Speakers page.
Buddhism has long enjoyed a reputation in the West as a religion of peace. It is only in recent years that the long history of those calling themselves Buddhists who engaged in warfare has been introduced to Western readers (see, for example, Buddhist Warfare). In an era in which terrorist acts carried out by those who identify themselves as Muslims attract our attention, it is noteworthy that Buddhists, too, are not immune to this form of religious fanaticism. The historical truth is that in 1930s Japan at least three Buddhist-related acts of terrorism took place. While introducing these terrorist acts, this presentation focuses on the Buddhist doctrine and practice undergirding the so-called "Blood Oath Corps Incident" (J. Ketsumeidan Jiken) of early 1932.
Image: "Blood Oath Corps Incident" defendants awaiting trial
Sailing in the eighteenth and nineteenth century was indeed dangerous. Without the sophisticated equipment we have today and out of reach of rescue services, those sailing the high seas did well to commend their bodies and souls to God. The long trip from England to Australia was fraught with difficulties, from storms, doldrums and leaky hulls to serious illnesses on board. It was the surgeons on the convict transports who were often the unsung heroes of hazardous passages to the Antipodes. While their role has not been ignored, it is only through reading their journals that complete maritime narratives emerge. In this paper I want to discuss the work of surgeons on female transports, the importance of their power at sea and on land, their care of their charges and how medical improvisation very often saved a patient's life. I have chosen female transports rather than male because of the added difficulties the women brought to the weeks at sea: pregnancy among others. The subject is very complex but I hope to be able to offer a general overview of the outstanding role played by these men in the project of expanding the British Empire into the Antipodes.
Image | The ship 'Mountstuart Elphinstone' offshore by William Adolphus Knell (1840)
In the last two decades, Japanese universities have been struggling to attract young students taking entrance examinations for universities, because 18-year-old students are drastically decreasing in number due to Japan's falling birthrate. It is said that the number of 18-year-old students will be the lowest ever in 2018, and a great number of private universities will be forced to close. In order to survive, universities in Japan are now reorganising their academic systems, and sometimes replace unpopular departments with new and perhaps more attractive departments. The current situation for universities goes along with the globalising movement in the academic world, and some traditional disciplines such as English, French, German or Russian literature (so-called national literatures) are replaced by global/regional studies or communication studies. In these new departments, cultural studies are widely accepted since they are recognised as interdisciplinary studies. However, interdisciplinary studies are still difficult for some academics to accept, especially those with a strong base in traditional disciplinary studies. I would like to examine questions about cultural studies in this globalising age: how to combine disciplinary and interdisciplinary studies.
While the West German TV broadcasting system had to a large part been modelled on Hugh Green's understanding of the BBC (who had been charged with creating a non-centralised German broadcasting system after WWII), it did, unlike the BBC, include moderate yet tightly controlled advertising time. Initially, advertising was only allowed between 17:00 and 20:00, excluding Sundays, and only in blocks of 5–10 minutes each. In order to break up the succession of adverts, stations used animations. First and foremost, these clips were meant to provide a light-hearted caesura or insert (Werbetrenner) between individual adverts. But ultimately, their remit went much further than that; on the one hand, these animations were intended to draw children into the advertising world and keep viewers on the station; on the other, they also provided a glimpse of social issues shaping the evolution of German society. The most famous ones were the "Mainzelmännchen", a collection of funny gnomes created for the ZDF broadcasting station. In my presentation, I will analyse a number of these clips according to their relevance as markers of social changes through the last 50 years or so. It will become clear that they are far from lighthearted entertainment but have a neo-conservative agenda regarding nationalism, gender, education, consumption and social change. Furthermore, I will also discuss changes made to them due to digitalisation and how they and their creators' agenda have become re-entrenched in new media in a changing and unequal world.
In East Asia a progressive multilateral process of cultural re-engagement and media integration is occurring. Japan has achieved the right and acceptance to trade media content in East Asia and beyond, particularly in the domain of popular culture for anime, manga and television drama (TV drama). Japan's media trade in Korea, and particularly in mainland China, has in the past been inhibited by respective government controls and regulations. These controls have progressively been relaxed and benefits have multilaterally accrued to creators of content. An outstanding example of this is South Korea's Korean Wave, which is directly attributable to the progressive dismantling of media controls in South Korea preventing Japanese content entering South Korea. This study examines the macro Japanese broadcasting content overseas exports from 2001 to 2014. Japanese content has been regionalised and disseminated beyond Japan, for example, with content adaptation, localised remaking and co-productions. This study further analyses the remaking of Japanese media products in South Korea and Taiwan, exploring three examples including the ground-breaking Japanese and Korean co-production of the TV drama Friends by Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) and Munhwa Broadcasting Cooperation (MBC Korea), which was broadcast simultaneously in South Korea and Japan, the remake of the Japanese manga Hana Yori Dango and remade into the TV drama format Meteor Garden in Taiwan with subsequent extensive regional adaptation, remaking and format changes, and the remake of the manga Jin into the TV dramas Jin in Japan and Dr. Jin in Korea. The study confirms the value attributable to the relaxation of controls inhibiting or preventing the flow of media content and in turn contributing to cultural re-engagement.
Yasue Arimitsu is Professor Emeritus of English and Australian Studies, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan. She is the author of Finding a Place: Landscape and the Search for Identity in the Early Novels of Patrick White (1986) and Australian Identity: Struggle and Transformation in Australian Literature (2003). She co-authored An Introduction to Australian Studies, 2nd Edition (2007). She has also edited and contributed to translating Diamond Dog: An Anthology of Contemporary Australian Short Stories ― Reflections on Multicultural Society (2008). Her article "Nation and Literature: Literary Possibilities in a Multicultural Society" was published in Racism, Slavery, and Literature (2010), edited by Wolfgang Zach/Ulrich Pallua, and another article, "Nam Le's The Boat: A Reflection of Multiple Selves", was published in Literatures in English: New Ethical, Cultural, and Transnational Perspectives (2013), edited by Michael Kenneally, Rhona Richman Kenneally and Wolfgang Zach. She was the president of the Australian Studies Association of Japan (2010 to 2013), and is currently the president of the Australia New Zealand Literary Society of Japan (since 2014). She has recently edited and authored Contemporary Australian Studies: Literature, History, Film and Media Studies in a Globalizing Age (2016).
Featured Presentation (2017) | Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Studies in Today's University Systems
Featured Panel Presentation (2017) | The Challenges of Doing Cultural Studies Today
Sue Ballyn is Professor Emerita at Barcelona University from where she graduated with a BA in 1982. Her MA thesis on the writings of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes won the Faculty prize in 1983. In 1986 she won the Faculty prize again, this time for her PhD thesis on Australian Poetry, the first PhD on Australian Literature in Spain.
She joined the English and German Philology Department on graduation 1982 and has remained at the university ever since. In 1990 she founded the Australian Studies Program which was recognised as an official Barcelona University Observatory - Studies Centre in 2000, known as CEA, Observatorio Centre d'Estudis Australians. It is the only Australian Studies Centre in Spain and one of the most active in Europe.
Over the last twenty-five years, Sue Ballyn's research has been focused on foreign convicts transported to Australia, in particular Spanish, Portuguese, Hispanics and Sephardim, and she works closely with the Female Convicts Research Centre, Tasmania. She has published and lectured widely in the area, very often in collaboration with Prof. Lucy Frost. 2016 will see the publication of a book on Adelaide de la Thoreza, a Spanish convict, written by herself and Lucy Frost.
More recently she has become involved in a project on ageing in literature DEDAL-LIT at Lleida University which in turn is part of a European project on ageing: SIforAge. As part of this project she is working on Human Rights and the Elderly, an area she started to research in 1992. In 2016 a book of interviews with elderly women, with the working title Stories of Experience, will be published as part of this project. These oral stories are the result of field work she has carried out in Barcelona.
She is also involved in a ministry funded Project, run out of the Australian Studies Centre and headed by Dr Bill Phillips, on Postcolonial Crime Fiction (POCRIF) This last project has inevitably intertwined itself with her work on convicts and Australia. She currently holds the position of Profesor Emerita and Founder/Co-Director of the Australian Studies Centre, at Barcelona University.
Spotlight Presentation (2017) | "(…) For those in peril on the sea": The Important Role of Surgeons on Convict Transports
Professor Holger Briel from Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University is the editor of the IAFOR Journal on Cultural Studies. Professor Briel holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Theory from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and an M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University Michigan, Ann Arbor. He also holds a B.A. in English from Eberhardt- Karls-Uiversitat Tubingen, Germany. Professor Briel also completed a portion of his graduate studies at the Universite de Paris, Sorbonne. Professor Briel has taught at several universities in the past including: UGSM-Monarch Business School (Switzerland), the Department of Communications & Media Studies at the University of Nicosia (Cyprus), the University of Innsbruck, Austria, the New York University Skopje (Macedonia) where he held Vice-Rector and Deanship positions, Aristotle University Thessaloniki, and the University of Athens (Greece) and the University of Surrey (UK). Over the years he has been the recipient of many research grants and fellowships and is a well-published academic with many books, book chapters and peer reviewed articles on Cultural Studies. Professor Briel is also a member of the EU Council for Higher Education.
Spotlight Presentation (2017) | Not Just Your Average Cartoon – "Mainzelmännchen" As Agents of Conservative TV Propaganda
Gaurav Desai is Professor of English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Author of Subject to Colonialism: African Self-fashioning and the Colonial Library (Duke University Press, 2001) and editor of Teaching the African Novel (MLA, 2009), he has guest edited a volume of essays on "Culture and the Law" (South Atlantic Quarterly, 100.4, 2001), on "Actually Existing Colonialisms" (Journal of Contemporary Thought, 24, 2006), on "Asian African Literatures" (Research in African Literatures, 42.3, 2011), and co-edited a volume of essays on "Multi-Ethnic Literatures and the Idea of Social Justice" (MELUS, 28.1, Spring 2003). Postcolonialisms: An Anthology of Cultural Theory and Criticism (Rutgers University Press, 2005) which he co-edited with Supriya Nair has become a standard reference and classroom text since its publication. Among Desai's other publications are articles in edited collections and journals such as PMLA, Genders, Representations, Boundary2, Interventions, Research in African Literatures, African Studies Review and Cultural Critique. Recipient of a residential fellowship at the National Humanities Center in 2001, Desai has also been awarded a Rockefeller Foundation award for a residency at the Bellagio Center in Italy, a visiting fellowship at the Center for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and the Humanities at the University of Cambridge, and an ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship for his research. In 2004, Desai was made a life member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. His latest book on narratives of Indian Ocean connections between Africa and India, Commerce with the Universe: Africa, India and the Afrasian Imagination (Columbia University Press, 2013), received the 2014 Rene Wellek Prize from the American Comparative Literature Association and was a finalist for the Bethwell Ogot Prize from the African Studies Association as well as the Asia-Africa Book Prize awarded by the International Institute for Asian Studies in Leiden.
Keynote Presentation (2017) | Precarious Futures, Precarious Pasts: Migritude and Planetarity
Donald E. Hall has published widely in the fields of British Studies, Gender Theory, Cultural Studies, and Professional Studies. Prior to arriving at Lehigh in 2011, he served as Jackson Distinguished Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English (and previously Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages) at West Virginia University (WVU). Before his tenure at WVU, he was Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at California State University, Northridge (CSUN), where he taught for 13 years. He is a recipient of the University Distinguished Teaching Award at CSUN, was a visiting professor at the National University of Rwanda, was 2001 Lansdowne Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University of Victoria (Canada), was Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Cultural Studies at Karl Franzens University in Graz, Austria, for 2004-05, and was Fulbright Specialist at the University of Helsinki for 2006. He has also taught in Sweden, Romania, Hungary, and China. He has served on numerous panels and committees for the Modern Language Association (MLA), including the Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion and the Convention Program Committee. In 2012, he served as national President of the Association of Departments of English. In 2013, he was elected to and began serving on the Executive Council of the MLA.
His current and forthcoming work examines issues such as professional responsibility and academic community-building, the dialogics of social change and ethical intellectualism, and the Victorian (and our continuing) interest in the deployment of instrumental agency over our social, vocational, and sexual selves. His book, The Academic Community: A Manual For Change, was published by Ohio State University Press in the fall of 2007. His tenth book, Reading Sexualities: Hermeneutic Theory and the Future of Queer Studies, was published in the spring of 2009. In 2012, he and Annamarie Jagose, of the University of Auckland, collaborated on a volume titled The Routledge Queer Studies Reader, which was published in July of that year. He continues to lecture worldwide on the value of a liberal arts education and the need for nurturing global competencies in students and interdisciplinary dialogue in and beyond the classroom.
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Brian Victoria is a native of Omaha, Nebraska and a 1961 graduate of Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, Nebraska. He holds a MA in Buddhist Studies from Sōtō Zen sect-affiliated Komazawa University in Tokyo, and a PhD from the Department of Religious Studies at Temple University.
In addition to a second, enlarged edition of Zen At War (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006), Brian's major writings include Zen War Stories (RoutledgeCurzon, 2003); an autobiographical work in Japanese entitled Gaijin de ari, Zen bozu de ari (As a Foreigner, As a Zen Priest), published by San-ichi Shobo in 1971; Zen Master Dōgen, coauthored with Prof. Yokoi Yūhō of Aichi-gakuin University (Weatherhill, 1976); and a translation of The Zen Life by Sato Koji (Weatherhill, 1972). In addition, Brian has published numerous journal articles, focusing on the relationship of not only Buddhism but religion in general, to violence and warfare.
From 2005 to 2013 Brian was a Professor of Japanese Studies and director of the AEA "Japan and Its Buddhist Traditions Program" at Antioch University in Yellow Springs, OH, USA. From 2013-2015 he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, Japan where he is writing a book tentatively entitled: Zen Terror in 1930s Japan. Brian currently continues his research as a Fellow of the Oxford Center for Buddhist Studies and is a fully ordained Buddhist priest in the Sōtō Zen sect.
Featured Presentation (2017) | Buddhist Terrorism?
Dr Seiko Yasumoto lectures and carries out research on Japanese and East Asian media and cultural studies at the University of Sydney. Her primary research, which she has published widely, includes Japanese government media policy and broadcasting media within the domain of popular culture. The scope includes transmission of content, textual analysis, copyright, media industries, adaptation theory, youth culture, audience analysis and trans-national media cultural flows in Japan and East Asia. She is the editor of the IAFOR Journal of Asian Studies, guest editor of the Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia special edition on Global Media 2010 and co-editor of the scholarly journal Ilha Do Desterro a Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies: Expression, Identity and Society.Vol.2006. She was the Japan and North, East Asia regional representative of the Asian Studies of Association of Australia (2009-2012), is an editorial board member of the Oriental Society of Australia, the East Asian Popular Culture Association and Journalism and Mass communication USA. She holds a prestigious Teaching Excellence Award from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Sydney, Australia.
Spotlight Presentation (2017) | Cross-Cultural Engagement and Media Integration in Japan and East Asia
Richard Donovan lectures in comparative literature and translation studies in the Faculty of Letters at Kansai University. He has also worked as a translator at the Kyoto City International Relations Office. He obtained a PhD in literary translation studies at Victoria University of Wellington in 2012. The title of his thesis was Dances with Words: Issues in the Translation of Japanese Literature into English. His other areas of interest include Japanese media subculture and environmental technology.
Spotlight Presentation | TBA
Joseph Haldane is the Chairman and CEO of IAFOR. He is responsible for devising strategy, setting policies, forging institutional partnerships, implementing projects, and overseeing the organisation's business and academic operations, including research, publications and events.
Dr Haldane holds a PhD from the University of London in 19th-century French Studies, and has had full-time faculty positions at the University of Paris XII Paris-Est Créteil (France), Sciences Po Paris (France), and Nagoya University of Commerce and Business (Japan), as well as visiting positions at the French Press Institute in the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas (France), The School of Journalism at Sciences Po Paris (France), and the School of Journalism at Moscow State University (Russia).
Dr Haldane's current research concentrates on post-war and contemporary politics and international affairs, and since 2015 he has been a Guest Professor at The Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP) at Osaka University, where he teaches on the postgraduate Global Governance Course, and a Co-Director of the OSIPP-IAFOR Research Centre, an interdisciplinary think tank situated within the university.
He is also a Member of the International Advisory Council of the Department of Educational Foundations at the College of Education of the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
From 2012 to 2014, Dr Haldane served as Treasurer of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (Chubu Region) and he is currently a Trustee of the HOPE International Development Agency (Japan). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society in 2012, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2015.
A black belt in judo, he is married with two children, and lives in Japan.
Baden Offord is an internationally recognized specialist in human rights, sexuality, education and culture. In 2012 he was a sponsored speaker to the 14th EU-NGO Human Rights Forum in Brussels where he spoke on ASEAN and sexual justice issues. In the same year he conducted a three-week lecture tour of Japan sponsored by the Australian Prime Minister's Educational Assistance Funds post the Great Eastern Tohoku Earthquake in 2011.
Among his publications are the books Homosexual Rights as Human Rights: Activism in Indonesia, Singapore and Australia (2003), Activating Human Rights (co-edited with Elizabeth Porter, 2006), Activating Human Rights Education (co-edited with Christopher Newell, 2008), and Activating Human Rights and Peace: Theories, Practices, Contexts (co-edited with Bee Chen Goh and Rob Garbutt, 2012). His most recent co-authored publication in the field of Australian Cultural Studies is titled Inside Australian Culture: Legacies of Enlightenment Values (with Kerruish, Garbutt, Wessell and Pavlovic, 2014), which is a collaborative work with the Indian cultural theorist Ashis Nandy. His latest chapter, 'Queer activist intersections in Southeast Asia: human rights and cultural studies,' appears in Ways of Knowing About Human Rights in Asia (ed. Vera Mackie, London, Routledge, 2015).
He has held visiting positions at The University of Barcelona, La Trobe University, the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University and Rajghat Education Centre, Varanasi. In 2010-2011 he held the Chair (Visiting Professor) in Australian Studies, Centre for Pacific Studies and American Studies, The University of Tokyo. In Japan he has given lectures and research seminars at Chuo, Otemon Gakuin, Sophia, Tohoku and Keio Universities.
Prior to his appointment at Curtin University, he was Professor of Cultural Studies and Human Rights at Southern Cross University, where he was a faculty member from 1999-2014.
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