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The classical asset: receptions of antiquity under the dictatorship of 21 April in Greece (1967–73)
Keywords: Greece
Classical
1974
Antiquity
21 April
Colonels
1960s
Junta
Dictatorship
1967

This thesis stakes out to reframe the debates surrounding a widely criticised chapter in the cultural history of modern Greece: the receptions of the classical past under the Dictatorship of 21 April (also known as ‘the dictatorship of the Colonels’) during the period 1967 to 1973. Informed by the hermeneutics of classical reception studies, I aim to provide a new perspective on the dictatorship, one that focuses on the contemporaneity of its discursive and visual renderings of antiquity, but which departs from a conceptual framework that is dictated by the master narrative of the Cold War (by the polarisations between Right and Left).
The project converges on the ideological discourses, educational policies and the mass spectacles of the Colonels, each of which has been designated as fraught with 'ancestoritis' or 'pseudoclassicism' in the literature. In breaking away from value judgments and notions of misappropriation, it is my intention that the project functions as an exercise in a critical levelling with the dictatorship’s multifold classicisms. Concomitantly, I propose that in order to better understand the politics of reception of the Aprilians, which have often seemed impenetrable, it is necessary to branch out into more cross-disciplinary methods of enquiry than those that have been employed in the past. My own approach borrows analytical tools from theories of counter-intelligence, cultural studies, political theory, educational sociology and performance studies. With this exploratory patchwork, the present study hopes to contribute toward opening up a field on which it is possible to examine the dictatorship on its own terms, while taking into account the composite articulations of antiquity with power, upward social mobility, economic development, and entertainment and leisure culture in 1960s Greece.
Political theory as moral philosophy
Keywords: autonomy of politics
autonomy of political philosophy
autonomy of political theory

I argue against the claim that normative political theory is ‘autonomous’ with respect to moral philosophy. I take the simple view that political theory is a form of moral philosophy, and is differentiated by pragmatic rather than theoretically significant criteria. I defend this view by criticizing arguments for the autonomy thesis. In the first three chapters I introduce and analyse the autonomy thesis and provide a framework for understanding the various claims that are made in the literature. In Chapters 4 to 8 I proceed to criticize a series of arguments for the autonomy thesis. In Chapter 4 I explain why Kant’s division of morality into ethics and right is not as useful as it may seem to those who wish to defend the autonomy thesis, and argues that Arthur Ripstein gives no reason to think that political philosophy is autonomous that can be endorsed independently of commitment to a Kantian normative theory. In Chapter 5 I examine the political liberal argument for the autonomy thesis, concluding that even if a freestanding political conception of justice can be regarded as autonomous, it does not follow that political philosophy can also. Chapters 6 to 8 tackle various political realist arguments for the autonomy thesis. In Chapter 6 I argue that political theory is not required to deal with empirical facts in any way that distinguishes it from moral philosophy, and any argument for its autonomy that is based on a prior claim about the purpose of political theorizing would be question-begging. In Chapters 7 and 8 I provide various arguments against the idea that there is a distinctively political form of normativity, and diagnose some of the mistaken assumptions about morality that I take to lie at the heart of the realist case. In Chapter 9 I conclude.
Quantum groups at q=0, a Tannakian reconstruction theorem for IndBanach spaces, and analytic analogues of quantum groups
Keywords: Quantum Groups
Crystal Bases

This thesis is divided into the following three parts.
A categorical reconstruction of crystals and quantum groups at q = 0. The quantum co-ordinate algebra Aq(&gfr;) associated to a KacMoody Lie algebra g forms a Hopf algebra whose comodules are direct sums of finite dimensional irreducible Uq(&gfr;) modules. In Part I we investigate whether an analogous result is true when q = 0. We classify crystal bases as coalgebras over a comonadic functor on the category of pointed sets and encode the monoidal structure of crystals into a bicomonadic structure. In doing this we prove that there is no coalgebra in the category of pointed sets whose comodules are equivalent to crystal bases. We then construct a bialgebra over &Zopf; whose based comodules are equivalent to crystals, which we conjecture is linked to Lusztig’s quantum group at v = ∞.
A Tannakian Reconstruction Theorem for IndBanach Spaces. Classically, Tannaka-Krein duality allows us to reconstruct a (co)algebra from its category of representation. In Part II we present an approach that allows us to generalise this theory to the setting of Banach spaces. This leads to several interesting applications in the directions of analytic quantum groups, bounded cohomology and Galois descent. A large portion of Part II is dedicated to such examples.
On analytic analogues of quantum groups. In Part III we present a new construction of analytic analogues of quantum groups over non-Archimedean fields and construct braided monoidal categories of their representations. We do this by constructing analytic Nichols algebras and use Majid’s double-bosonisation construction to glue them together. We then go on to study the rigidity of these analytic quantum groups as algebra deformations of completed enveloping algebras through bounded cohomology. This provides the first steps towards a p-adic Drinfel'd-Kohno Theorem, which should relate this work to Furusho's p-adic Drinfel'd associators. Finally, we adapt these constructions to working over Archimedean fields.
Radiation dosimetry for studying the late effects of radiotherapy
Keywords: Retrospective dosimetry
Radiation-related cardiac disease
Hodgkin lymphoma

Evidence that radiation-related cardiovascular disease and second primary cancers can occur in cancer survivors following radiation therapy (RT) has emerged from several independent sources. Cardiotoxicity and second cancers are of particular concern for patients with good prognosis, such as those with Hodgkin lymphoma (HL). HL patients are among the youngest to receive RT, which means that those who are cured of their cancer have decades-long natural life-expectancies during which treatment-related long-term toxicities may cause years of excess morbidity or premature mortality. A considerable amount of research has been conducted to investigate the risk of radiation-related cardiotoxicity and second cancers. However, there are still substantial gaps in knowledge. It is therefore important to improve our understanding regarding these risks and develop treatment approaches and survivorship care to minimise their impact on patients’ quality of life. In this thesis, I have investigated the risk of congestive heart failure (CHF) in a cohort of 2619 HL survivors and presented, for the first time, dose-response relationships for risk of CHF versus cardiac radiation doses. I also validated the radiation dosimetry method used to estimate the cardiac doses in this study as well as for other reconstruction methods, versus a gold standard based on the patients’ own computed tomography scans. Additionally, I investigated what effect the dose reconstruction errors had on the dose-response relationships. I then focused on modern RT methods and specifically on proton RT. Based on published dose-response relationships (including that developed in this thesis) I predicted cardiovascular and second cancer risks for patients treated with advanced RT. This thesis has provided new knowledge in the study of late effects in HL patients who were treated decades ago as well as for patients treated more recently with advanced RT methods. The results here can be used to facilitate progress towards personalised RT in terms of choosing the appropriate RT method by integrating individualised risk prediction in advanced RT treatment planning. The research here provides the basis for further work towards evidence-based case selection for HL patients for the first NHS proton therapy centres in the UK, opening in 2018-2021.
The contagion of desire: two case studies of appropriation art
Keywords: Joseph Cornell
Clothes
Rose
Fiction
Voice
Zipper
Art Writing
Installation Art
Couture
Appropriation Art
Sexuality
Video Art
Charles James
Desire

My doctoral thesis is comprised of two bodies of research: two artworks taking the form of installations (videos, audio recordings, textiles, texts), which will be exhibited for viva.
Femme Fabrications, 2016, is made from research into the American artist Joseph Cornell’s (1903-1972) source materials held in the Smithsonian American Art Museum alongside research on Jean Wilkinson’s 1977 book Flower Fabrications.
A series of textile works encased in silk lined boxes trace my step-by-step construction of a rose from organdie. The floral emblem of the white rose (dried), ‘death is preferable to a loss of innocence’ , becomes an editing device, which I use to consider a number of possible recipients for the rose, such as Cornell himself. Spoken word audio recordings, which ruminate on how his sexuality pertain to the criteria of the rose are edited together with home-camcorder video footage of the house that Cornell lived in for most of his life - the house he made the entirety of his artworks within.
Central to The Cesspool of Rapture, 2017, are moving-image studies of zippers, stains, rips, abrasions, openings, and closings in a series of dresses made by the American couturier Charles James (1906-1978). These videos register and move through the material research, the garments, at alternating speeds. The changing speed is registered in sound by clicks synced to each individual frame. It is at times violent and at other times tentative and gentle as the uncovering of the damage to the dresses unfolds. Audio recordings of James explicating his interests in eroticism and sexuality persistently interject the footage.
This work includes the installation of a series of reconstructions of James’s 1932 Taxi dress. Its black linen body is reconfigured and abstracted as the splayed design makes unfinished seams and unzipped zippers visible.
In each artwork I configure viewing and consuming as a mode of authorship. I show how these diverse processes of identification become authored acts. When drawn into intimate relation with the leftover material of these historical authors, my contamination proves deviant: I gain possession of the capacity to speak for them, to expose, idolise, misrepresent, and fictionalise them. My thesis is composed of this group of methodologies, which were found and developed within the production of the artworks.
Islamic finance: the convergence of faith, capital, and power
Keywords: Islamic banking and finance
Shariah finance
Civil Compromise
Shariah scholars
Islamic bankers

This dissertation assesses how Islamic finance fares as an example of ‘civil compromise’ in Islamic law. By focusing on the Islamic project finance sector, my research examines how the industry’s main stakeholders (representing faith, capital, and power) cooperate and compete to bring about this compromise through the ‘Game of Islamic Bank Bargains’.
The Islamic finance industry is a work in progress, and while it has made some significant strides, it is still a niche in the global conventional financial order rather than an alternative to it. It has fallen short of fulfilling its originally-stated social justice aspirations, but has provided a previously unavailable form of banking and finance for Muslims to transact, at least formalistically, in accordance with widely-believed tenets of their faith. Thus, those who hold up Islamic finance as a universal panacea or dismiss it outright as a fraud have both got it wrong. It is neither. It is, rather, a complex myriad of incentives and aspirations of a multitude of stakeholders muddled together across numerous geographies and evolving incrementally and constantly. 
The state of the industry is the result of how the stakeholders (the shariah scholars, lawyers, bankers, government officials, and customers) have pursued their self-interest in the Game of Islamic Bank Bargains. My research examines who are the ‘winners’ and ‘losers’ of this game, and what religious, commercial, and political factors have influenced this outcome. I assess what may incentivise the incumbent ‘winners’ to guide the Islamic finance industry away from a formal and legalistic approach towards one that also incorporates principles from Islamic economics. I explore how the ‘losers’—whose interests are not accounted for due to their lack of sufficient financial and political clout—can sway the outcome of the game in their favour.
'Two congenial beings of another sphere': Peter Sterry as a theological precursor to William Blake
Keywords: Theology
Analogy
Contraries
Dualism

This thesis seeks to explicate, and develop an appropriate method for the elucidation of, the antecedents to the theology of William Blake in the writings of the seventeenth-century divine, Peter Sterry (1613-1672). While the radical religious scene of the English Revolution has long been recognised as offering important antecedents to Blake’s thought, Sterry is a figure who has largely been overlooked. The exception to this is an essay, published in 1929, in which Vivian de Sola Pinto asserted the existence of ‘startling affinities’ between their ideas. Pinto’s study was, however, limited by its failure to consider, firstly, the implications of its findings for our general understanding of the antecedents to Blake’s thought in the seventeenth century and, secondly, the insight Sterry’s writings may be able to offer into Blake’s theological vision. These are the very questions at the heart of this dissertation. By addressing them, it seeks to shed new light on the nature of Blake’s theology and its anticipations in earlier English thought. Given the lack of evidence that Blake read Sterry, and the limited effectiveness of the ‘genealogical’ method when it comes to Blake, it pioneers a bespoke ‘analogical’ method for the exploration of these issues. It proposes that Sterry is actually closer to the intellectual milieu of Commonwealth radicalism than one might expect and that his writings function effectively as a lens through which it is possible to discern how Blake consistently uses ‘dualistic’ language and imagery in an ethical and epistemological sense. The first finding suggests that the established view of the radical religious environment in Blake studies needs to be extended; the second challenges the widespread perception that Blake’s thought is ultimately dualistic in an ontological sense, thus contributing to the elucidation of a perennial problem for Blake scholarship. Together, they underline Sterry’s importance as a neglected theological precursor to the thought of William Blake.
Architectures for fault-tolerant quantum computation
Keywords: quantum error correction
magic states
surface code

Quantum computing has enormous potential, but this can only be realised if quantum errors can be controlled sufficiently to allow quantum algorithms to be completed reliably. However, quantum-error-corrected logical quantum bits (qubits) which can be said to have achieved meaningful error suppression have not yet been demonstrated. This thesis reports research on several topics related to the challenge of designing fault-tolerant quantum computers. The first topic is a proposal for achieving large-scale error correction with the surface code in a silicon donor based quantum computing architecture. This proposal relaxes some of the stringent requirements in donor placement precision set by previous ideas from the single atom level to the order of 10 nm in some regimes. This is shown by means of numerical simulation of the surface code threshold. The second topic then follows, it is the development of a method for benchmarking and assessing the performance of small error correcting codes in few-qubit systems, introducing a metric called 'integrity' - closely linked to the trace distance -- and a proposal for experiments to demonstrate various stepping stones on the way to 'strictly superior' quantum error correction.
Most quantum error correcting codes, including the surface code, do not allow for fault-tolerant universal computation without the addition of extra gadgets. One method of achieving universality is through a process of distilling and then consuming high quality 'magic states'. This process adds additional overhead to quantum computation over and above that incurred by the use of the base level quantum error correction. The latter parts of this thesis report an investigation into how many physical qubits are needed in a `magic state factory' within a surface code quantum computer and introduce a number of techniques to reduce the overhead of leading magic state techniques. It is found that universal quantum computing is achievable with &Tilde; 16 million qubits if error rates across a device are kept below 10-4. In addition, the thesis introduces improved methods of achieving magic state distillation for unconventional magic states that allow for logical small angle rotations, and show that this can be more efficient than synthesising these operations from the gates provided by traditional magic states.
The education of American Muslims: knowledge and authority in intensive Islamic learning environments
Keywords: American Muslims
authority
Islamic knowledge
muslims
ethnography
religious authority
narrative ehtnography
islam

This ethnographic study explores the ways in which religious teachers use intensive Islamic learning environments as sites to reshape understandings of Islam amongst American Muslims of Sunni orientation. The absence of longstanding traditional Islamic educational institutions in the United States poses challenges for Muslims looking to learn about Islam beyond parental teachings and Sunday schools. However, a range of innovative transmedial learning environments, bridging offline and online spaces, have emerged in recent decades. This is the first ethnographically informed study of such spaces which attends to the role of knowledge and the multidimensional nature of authority in the education of American Muslims.
Using 10 months of fieldwork in Canada, the United States, and Turkey, I draw on and explore narratives of students and teachers, revealing the bodies of knowledge that teachers deem relevant for the development of an American Muslim self and how these teachers situate their authority within a tradition of knowledge transmission. These narratives demonstrate how students seek out certain types of knowledge to develop their religious identities, and the ways teachers respond by selecting and deploying these and other bodies of knowledge in their teaching. Teachers and their associated educational programmes use various pedagogical techniques and accessories to link students to the imagined international Muslim community. This leads to an understanding of how teachers situate their authority within a tradition of knowledge transmission. These teachers ground narratives of self and place within religious and regional histories to define religious practice that is ethical and culturally relevant, and justify their own authority.
This research contributes to debates on the challenges of intra-Muslim dialogue in relation to the umma. It is a ground-breaking empirical study illustrating how, despite the tense geopolitics surrounding Islam and Muslims, American Muslim communities in the 21st century sustain Islamic tradition by developing an Islamic pedagogy relevant to its historical roots and contemporary possibilities in a digital age.
Summoning the believers as the Christians did? Religious differentiation in Muslim sources until the third/ninth century.
Keywords: Islam
Adhan
Hadith
Islamic Law

The Muslim tradition tells us that when Muslims migrated to Medina and their number increased, they felt the need for an efficient means to convoke the community for the daily prayers. Jews and Christians both had well-established summoning rituals involving different instruments, that Muslims considered adopting. They eventually developed a distinct, simple ritual consisting of a small set of chanted formulæ, which became known as the adhān, the Islamic call to prayer. This is the narrative thread that we find in all major Sunnī collections of aḥādīth – reported sayings of Muḥammad and his companions – which recount the introduction of the adhān. The present work postulates that this thread or ‘proto-narrative’ was used by several narrators, transmitters, and collectors until the third/ninth century who modified it and added new elements in order to settle political and religious controversies of their times. This proto-narrative is outlined in the main chapter (chap. 3), which highlights how it was modified and why, using close textual analysis of both Sunnī and Shīʿī texts with data-dense graphs of relations, locations, and times produced via network visualisation tools. Five major Sunnī legal treaties from the second/eighth century onwards were also scrutinised (chap. 4) to better understand the general context in which the aḥādīth about the introduction of the adhān were being circulated and confirm the results obtained through the textual analysis. The conclusions reveal specific mechanisms used in the formation and transmission of aḥādīth. In the case of the adhān, aḥādīth represent half of a ‘conversation’ between people, students, or rulers on one side, asking questions about the origins and the right form of the call to prayer, and on the other side, scholars or jurists who answer with adapted narratives. Only the latter was preserved, yet the present thesis shows that it is often possible to reconstruct, to a certain extent, the former part of this ‘conversation’.
Early Irish kingship
Keywords: Irish
Ireland
kings
rulers
kingship

This is not a piece of original research. It is merely an attempt to see what an anthropologist, using the discipline of modern social anthropology, can make of the material that has already been published on pro-Conquest Ireland. The earlier of the chapters on Ireland are little more than a rewriting (and not , I hope, a misrepresentation) of recent specialist publications. The later sections (especially those concerned with the virtues of the kings, and the symbolism associated with Irish kingship) involve a certain amount of analysis that has not, so for as I know, been attempted before in quite the some form, though, as I think, all the main points on which it is supported have been made before by others. It arises in particular from the work of Domézil on Indo-European concepts of sovereignty, of Hocart on kingship, and, in part, from Myles Dillon's consideration of the concept of "Truth" in Irish literature. This being so, and considering also the purpose for which this is written (i.e. for social anthropologists), it would be both ludicrous and pretentious to include extensive quotations in the little known language of Irish. Many (not all) of the quotations given have been referred to in Irish. but they are consistently given here in English. I have not, however, been able to prevent several Irish words and phrases from creeping in. A brief glossary of the most constantly used Irish terms is included for ease of reference, though it has not been possible to standardise the spelling throughout.