bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Composite Objects are Mere Manys
Authors: Thunder Simon 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
A ubiquitous assumption about composite material objects is that—if they exist at all—they are single things. This chapter articulates and defends manyism, which rejects that assumption. According to manyism, each composite object is simply its many parts. Since manyism accepts the existence of composite objects, it is distinct from nihilism; since manyism denies that composite objects are each one in number in addition to being many in number, it is distinct from the view known as composition as identity (CAI). What’s more, manyism is both coherent and attractive. Manyism is coherent because it can be underwritten by a defensible quasi-Quinean metaontology, and because it’s not analytic that objects are each one in number. Manyism is attractive because it shares all of the benefits of CAI without having to join CAI in objectionably positing many–one identities, and without incurring other serious costs.
Introduction
Authors: Houston Lloyd (Meadhbh) 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
The Introduction establishes the literary, historical, and theoretical contexts for this study and articulates the nature of its intervention in the fields of Irish Studies, Modernist Studies, and the Medical Humanities. Drawing on the work of figures such as Michel Foucault, Sander Gilman, and Alain Giami, and building on the work of Greta Jones, Maria Luddy, and Diarmaid Ferriter, it offers a detailed account of the medicalization and politicization of sex in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Irish, European, and Anglo-American culture, and delineates the normative ideal of ‘sexual health’ to which these processes gave rise. In doing so, it identifies the four conceptual components of sexual health that will structure this study—hygiene, autonomy, heredity, and fertility—and, through a survey of recent scholarship on ‘sexual modernism’, modernism in Ireland, and Ireland’s contribution to modernism, outlines their implications for critical understandings of the emergence and development of Irish modernism.
‘Sterilization of the mind and apotheosis of the litter’
Authors: Houston Lloyd (Meadhbh) 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
Chapter 4 situates Samuel Beckett’s personal, journalistic, and literary responses to the 1929 Censorship of Publications Act, and its infamous prohibition of all printed material related to birth control, in relation to the comments of other modernists (W. B. Yeats, Oliver Gogarty, George Bernard Shaw) and a range of public and political figures, to demonstrate how wider European debates over fertility, population control, and eugenics became bound up with a competition for political influence and cultural capital between intellectual, governmental, and confessional factions within the emergent Free State. In doing so, it complicates the traditional picture of Beckett’s heroic opposition to censorship by emphasizing the debts which Beckett’s infamous anti-natalism in texts such as Murphy (1936), Premier amour/First Love (written c. 1946), and the early play Eleutheria (written c. 1947) owes to a strand of Irish sectarian eugenicism which both contributed to and was intensified by the passage of the Act.
Conclusion
Authors: Houston Lloyd (Meadhbh) 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
The Conclusion recapitulates the study’s key arguments, outlines its implications for the wider terrain of Irish Studies, Modernist Studies, and Early Twentieth-Century Literary Studies, and suggests future avenues for scholarship in these areas. It explores how a focus on the medicalized and politicized model of sex surveyed in the preceding chapters raises questions about the period boundaries within which Irish modernism may be situated, and asks how the ‘sexual revolution’ of the 1960s should factor in to emerging critical theorizations of late modernism in Ireland and elsewhere. It considers which figures and institutions in the nation’s cultural and political history, such as the Gate Theatre, might take on new significance as contributors to Irish modernism when read in such a light. Finally, drawing on the work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and the New British Queer History, it invites historians of culture, medicine, and sexuality in Ireland, and further afield to explore the ramifications of the medicalization and politicization of sex for late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary culture at large, particularly in its ‘popular’ and ‘middle-brow’ manifestations.
A Flattened Protagonist
Authors: Bateman Benjamin 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
Building on Jean-Luc Nancy’s reflections on sleep and the suspension of sovereignty, this chapter argues that Lydia Millet’s novel How the Dead Dream connects somnolent tendencies to environmental reprieve and restoration. As the novel’s primary protagonist endures a series of personal losses, he simultaneously loses faith in the mitigation techniques, or set-asides, used to protect endangered species on the land he develops. The novel’s form echoes the untenability of a compartmentalizing approach to conservation, laminating its protagonist with the natural environments he previously sought dominion over and limning his sleeping body alongside animals ranging from his household dog to a threatened tapir. Flattening rather than developing its central character while refusing to sentimentalize his personal losses, the novel delivers a powerful critique of the affective and acquisitive norms subtending conventional notions of human flourishing.
Civil Liability, Regulation, and Accountability
Authors: Bennett Belinda , Freckelton Ian , Wolf Gabrielle 
Published: February 2023

AbstractChapter 9, ‘Civil Liability, Regulation, and Accountability’, engages with a cross-section of the civil litigation and regulatory issues that have arisen during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the bringing of actions by persons who have been detrimentally affected by public health measures. This chapter examines legal actions that have been brought in tort and contract, and cases that have dealt with the construction of insurance policies. It considers issues of civil liability that have arisen in the context of debates arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic, including immunity for health practitioners for vaccination services and other forms of provision of care during the health crisis, as well as the introduction of no-fault state compensation schemes. This chapter explores measures taken by consumer protection and therapeutic goods regulators to inhibit the making of false representations about the efficacy of devices, medications, and prophylactics. In addition, it considers steps taken by regulators of health practitioners to restrain the making of unscientific claims and assertions that have called into question the measures adopted by public health authorities to inhibit the spread of the virus.
Law, Regulation, and Rights: Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic
Authors: Bennett Belinda , Freckelton Ian , Wolf Gabrielle 
Published: February 2023

AbstractChapter 13 reflects on the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic and the role of law and regulation in relation to how governments have responded to it. It considers the evolving nature of the pandemic and the potential contributions of law and regulation to living with the ongoing presence of COVID-19. It draws together the themes of the book, and considers each of them in turn, namely: layers of law and polycentricity, the role and scope of law, legal responses to risk, human rights, and civil law and regulatory obligations. This chapter identifies lessons that can be learned from the COVID-19 pandemic for tackling global health crises in the future and, in particular, so that responses to the next pandemic can be quicker and more effective. It also considers the potential role that might be played by a pandemic treaty.
Sentencing and Artificial Intelligence
Authors: Ryberg Jesper , Roberts Julian V. 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
This chapter provides an introduction to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) at sentencing. It deals with the questions: What does it mean to talk about using artificial intelligence at sentencing? And why is it important to consider the ethical and penal theoretical aspects of the use of artificial intelligence in the determination of sentences? Furthermore, it provides an overview of the varied topics that are considered in the ensuing chapters of the book.
Learning to Discriminate
Authors: Davies Benjamin , Douglas Thomas 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
It is often thought that traditional recidivism prediction tools used in criminal sentencing, though biased in many ways, can avoid direct racial discrimination. They can avoid this by excluding race from the list of variables employed to predict recidivism. A similar approach could be taken to the design of newer, machine learning-based (ML) tools for predicting recidivism: information about race could be withheld from the ML tool during its training phase, ensuring that the resulting predictive model does not use race as an explicit predictor. However, if race is correlated with measured recidivism in the training data, the ML tool may “learn” a perfect proxy for race. Is this a problem? We argue that, on some explanations of the wrongness of discrimination, it is. On these explanations, the use of an ML tool that perfectly proxies race would (likely) be more wrong than the use of a traditional tool that imperfectly proxies race. We end by drawing out four implications of our arguments.
Reconciling Artificial and Human Intelligence
Authors: Schwarze Mathis , Roberts Julian V. 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
Proposals to incorporate AI into the sentencing process range from merely supporting judges, to replacing them entirely. This chapter discusses the appropriate role of AI at sentencing and explores some of its potential applications. We argue that the more ambitious proposals overlook several key characteristics of sentencing that render it an inherently human task. Nevertheless, AI is capable of making a much greater contribution to the sentencing process than at present. We discuss the benefits of what we term an Advisory Sentence—a sentence recommendation derived by an AI program based on past judicial practice. The Advisory Sentence has the potential to support and improve judicial decision-making, for example, by reducing discrimination at sentencing, detecting local sentencing anomalies, and facilitating appellate review. Lastly, the chapter touches on AI’s potential to shape and enhance existing sentencing guidelines.
Choral Artistry
Authors: Houlahan Micheál , Tacka Philip 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
This book is a practical and organic approach to teaching choral singing and sight-reading. The text is grounded in current research from choral pedagogy, music theory, music perception, and cognition. Topics include (1) framing a choral curriculum based on the Kodály concept, (2) launching the academic year for beginning, intermediate, and advanced choirs, (3) building part-work skills, (4) teaching sight-reading, (5) building progressive music theory sequences for middle school to college-level choirs, (6) developing choral rehearsal plans, as well samples of how to teach specific repertoire from medieval to contemporary choral composers. We include two models for learning choral literature. The first is the Performance Through Sound Analysis model for understanding commercial songs, global folk musics, and arrangements. The second is the Performance Through Sound Analysis and Notation model for learning classical music and recently composed music. Both models delineate an approach to teaching a choral work that significantly improves students’ musicianship while engaging the ensemble in learning the overall composition in partnership with the conductor. The final chapter includes rubrics for assessing the effectiveness of a choral program. This book does not purport to be a comprehensive choral pedagogy text. It is a detailed guide to helping choral directors at all levels improve the choral singing and musicianship of their students from a Kodály perspective.
Choral Sight Reading
Authors: Houlahan Micheál , Tacka Philip 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
Choral Sight-Reading: A Kodály Perspective for Middle School to College-Level Choirs is a practical approach to teaching sight-reading according to the Kodály concept. The overarching goal is to provide choral directors with a musical way to include teaching sight-reading and music theory as part of their choral rehearsals. This book also aims to guide students in developing their capacity to think about sound and apply that aural experience to learning music notation and choral repertoire. In the text, this twofold procedure is laid out in a specific order in which each unit focuses on a particular element of music theory and provides sight-singing examples for practicing the element. The units progress from basic and easy concepts to more complex ones and end with exercises for practicing singing styles from various periods in Western music history. All music concepts are taught from both a basic level and an advanced viewpoint.
Beat, Meter, and Rhythm
Authors: Houlahan Micheál , Tacka Philip 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
This unit teaches students how to aurally identify aspects of music associated with rhythm. After working with a focus melody, students are introduced to elements of beat and meter, including the notation of rhythmic values of varying lengths on the staff. Sight-reading exercises reinforce the learning of rhythmic values, time signatures, and duple, triple, and quadruple meters and their notation.
Dreamgirls, Size, and the Body Politics of Padding
Authors: Donovan Ryan 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
Body shaming, fat phobia, and fat stigma run rampant in the United States. This chapter opens with a discussion of size and how casting Broadway musicals reiterates dominant attitudes toward all fat women, and fat Black women in particular. It then traces the multiple and conflicting narratives around Jennifer Holliday’s casting and performance as Effie in Dreamgirls, and how her presence continues to loom over the role even when it’s played by another actor. The chapter’s final sections highlight how casting and recasting Effie became the locus for a myriad of labor issues. Broadway musicals, even ostensibly fat-positive ones, are complicit in labor practices that prolong a fat stigma at the same time they enforce gendered and racialized stereotypes of size—sometimes including racist, sexist, and size-ist representations. The onstage and offstage narratives of Dreamgirls demonstrate how Broadway musicals and US society reify the structural inequalities that regulate gender, race, and size. Broadway is a battleground for body politics, and it demands that fat ladies sing.
Writing Dance
Authors: Ma Nan 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
Chapter 4 investigates the origin of (modern) Chinese ethnic dance in relation to modern dance by examining the life, career, and choreographies of Dai Ailian, the Trinidad-born Chinese dancer who collected and adapted ethnic dances in China’s southwestern borderlands in the mid-1940s. In existing historiography, Dai’s experiences are subsumed within a narrative of “homecoming” and “root-searching” through dance. Consequently, the account of the origin of Chinese ethnic dance has become a nationalist and nativist one, predicated on a coherent “Chinese” identity. To challenge this narrative, the chapter recasts Dai’s experiences into a framework of “multi-diaspora” along the geopolitical borders between “empires.” Dai’s multi-diasporic anxieties and aspirations, as an undercurrent, rode on the nationalist mainstream and vice versa, but with diverging momentums. This suggests that the emergence of Chinese ethnic dance was not just a nationalist response to China’s political imperatives, but an outgrowth of the extensive global circuit of intercultural exchanges conditioned by the world colonial hierarchy. Moreover, dance per se turned out to be inadequate in addressing the precarity of Dai’s multi-diasporic experiences. Ethnic dances, in Dai’s case, must be (trans)mediated by labanotation (developed by Rudolf Laban) to enter her negotiation of gender, racial, and national identities on both domestic and international stages. That is, Dai’s adaptation of ethnic dances was informed and mediated by the theory and symbols of modern dance, and by distributing Chinese ethnic dances in Labanotation on the international stage, Dai expanded Laban’s vision of “a literature of dance” into “a world literature of dances.”
Divide and Conquer
Authors: Jordan Daniel David 
Published: February 2023

AbstractThis chapter reveals that the Sección Femenina’s missions of cultural diplomacy in the United States, France, and Belgium were designed to fuel anti-communist sentiments and gain support for the Franco regime during the first years of the Cold War (1947–1953). Cartee (1997) in her analysis of political campaigns writes that propaganda is better at strengthening people’s views rather than changing them. While cultural diplomacy can promote a sense of mutual understanding, it can also help enlarge strategic political divisions within the host nation. Rivera, leader of the Sección Femenina, knew that there was no chance of gaining the support of foreign citizens who were already anti-Franco. In fact, she and other Spanish diplomats saw protests against the touring Coros y Danzas as unavoidable. Instead, Rivera used the tours of the Coros y Danzas as a means of identifying and ostracizing the Franco regime’s critics. The Western Bloc’s general animosity toward leftist politics helped the Franco regime conflate exiled Spanish Republicans, the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, and other anti-Fascist protesters with the USSR. Referring to literature on cultural diplomacy and political campaigns, this chapter shows how the Sección Femenina used American and European anti-communist rhetoric to extract itself from political isolation.
Nigidius Figulus and the Birth of a Future Dominus for the World
Authors: Lewis Anne-Marie 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
The future Augustus was born on September 22, 63 b.c. in the midst of a serious political crisis when Cicero, the senior consul for the year, was beginning to face an attempted coup d’état. The birth was announced when the Roman Senate was debating at an emergency meeting about how to respond to the apparent threat of insurrection on the part of Catilina and his fellow conspirators. Upon hearing the news of the birth, the Roman mathematicus Nigidius Figulus, who was taking minutes at the meeting, is said to have declared before the Senate that a future dominus for the world had been born. The source of his pronouncement was the celestial display before sunrise on this day.
Celestial Display and Cicero’s Consular Year
Authors: Lewis Anne-Marie 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
Cicero watched the heavens carefully during his consular year, 63 b.c. He placed a report of his celestial observations in his De Consulatu Suo, an epic poem that he wrote about his consulship and published in 60 b.c. The verses from this poem, which are spoken by Urania, the Muse of Celestial Matters, are evidence for Cicero’s attempt to use planetary celestial display in a political context to support the controversial decision he made in early December 63 b.c. to execute five Catilinarian conspirators without trial. Cicero was the first leading politician at Rome to use celestial display in this way.
Cicero’s Aratea and the Education of Octavius in the Fixed Constellations
Authors: Lewis Anne-Marie 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
Systematic study of observational astronomy was a recognized and respected part of elite education in the Late Roman Republic. Octavius began studying the celestial sphere formally as a young man, perhaps in the year 46 b.c., a time when interest in the celestial sphere was at a high point in Rome. The most useful source for an introduction to the study of the constellations at this time was Cicero’s Latin translation of Aratus’ Phaenomena. By means of a three-part “curriculum” based on Cicero’s translation, Octavius, like other Roman aristocratic young men, could have gained a thorough introduction to the fixed constellations and their bright stars.
Theogenes of Apollonia and the Geniturae of Agrippa and Octavius
Authors: Lewis Anne-Marie 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
Octavius and his close friend Agrippa, while still young men, are said by Suetonius to have visited the mathematicus Theogenes in Apollonia and requested astrological forecasts. It is possible to reconstruct, in part, the natal horoscope of Agrippa based on the birth data that can be gathered from various ancient sources as well as the full natal horoscope of Octavius based on the more comprehensive birth data that is found in the biography of Suetonius and the account of the historian Dio. Theogenes’ interpretation of the geniturae (natal horoscopes) of Octavius and Agrippa is consistent with the interpretive guidance found in contemporary astrological sources that date to the period of the saeculum Augustum or before.
Triumphs and Temples after the Battle of Actium
Authors: Lewis Anne-Marie 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
Four important celebratory events took place after the Battle of Actium in 31 b.c. and the deaths of Cleopatra and Antonius in Alexandria that followed about a year later in 30 b.c.: the closing of the twin doors of the Shrine of Janus in 29 b.c.; the triple triumph for Octavianus’ victories in the Dalmatian campaigns, at Actium, and over Egypt in 29 b.c.; Octavianus’ dedication of the long-delayed Temple of Divus Iulius in 29 b.c.; and Octavianus’ dedication of the Temple of Apollo Palatinus in 28 b.c. All four coincided with notable celestial displays demonstrating the presence of Octavianus’ Julian celestial kin for the celebrations of his victory in the civil wars and the peace that came afterwards.
Deaths in the Family and the Ara Pacis Augustae
Authors: Lewis Anne-Marie 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
In the several years following celebration of the Ludi Saeculares, Augustus endured the deaths of several close members of his family: his son-in-law Agrippa, his stepson Drusus, and his younger sister Octavia. These years were also marked by three important public milestones. In 12 b.c., Augustus assumed the position of Pontifex Maximus upon the death of Lepidus. In 11 b.c., Augustus saw to completion the Theater of Marcellus, which commemorated the life of his nephew and son-in-law Marcellus, who had died in 23 b.c. And in 9 b.c., Augustus dedicated the Ara Pacis Augustae, a monument to the Augustan Peace. These three public events were accompanied by meaningful celestial displays that reinforced the connection of Augustus and his family to the celestial sphere.
“To Share Music with Children”
Authors: Yang Mina 
Published: February 2023

Abstract
In the fall of 2018, the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s celebrated conductor, Gustavo Dudamel, star architect Frank Gehry, the orchestra’s board chair and philanthropist Thomas Beckmen, Inglewood mayor James Butts, and other local luminaries unveiled plans for a new concert hall, the Beckmen YOLA Center, in the heart of Inglewood. Attendees touted the state-of-the-art building as a sign of the success of Los Angeles Philharmonic’s youth orchestra program and a proof of the impact of classical music outreach programs in underserved—and in this particular case, predominantly black and brown—neighborhoods. This chapter situates this gift within the expanding sphere of neoliberal philanthropy, particularly in the arts for social change sector, and global discourses of classical music and “starchitecture” as saviors of distressed communities. The author weighs the actual costs and benefits of neoliberal philanthropy, interrogates who really benefits from starchitecture like the Beckmen YOLA center, and unpacks the neocolonialist subtext that underlies much of this recent wave of classical music social programs.