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Chair: Rachel Sandwell, McGill University Rachel Sandwell, McGill University (rachel.sandwell@gmail.com). “As powerful as an atom bomb”: Women’s Militant Politics in 1950s South Africa Katie Carline, Michigan State University (carlinek@msu.edu). Mothers on the move: women's organizations and the history of mobility in a South African township Diane Whitelaw, Queens University (16dew1@queensu.ca). Gender and Decolonization in Zambia

Turning upon the assumption that art can, in fact, perform a function, and that its function is social, political, and/or cultural, this essay investigates the effectiveness of art as a form of activism. Not all art must be created with political intentions, but somewhere in the process, context, product, or interpretation of art lies social, political, and cultural value. Every work of art is a product of its time and place, and it is indicative of a relationship, sentiment, or occurrence in the artist’s life—and when that life belongs to a marginalized community, those relationships, sentiments, and occurrences take on a different weight. This essay will discuss how art and activism bring out positive and negative attributes in each other, helping each other in some ways and hurting each other in other ways. Finally, it will argue that art, in both its process and product, is an effective and necessary means for Indigenous peoples to engage in healing, decolonization, and social, cultural, and political processes.

Location: south side aisle, 4th from sanctuary. Lead Investigator: C. Cody Barteet (cbarteet@uwo.ca). Photograph: Katie Oates. https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/chriswallis_stainedglass_on_arva_stjohnunited/1008/thumbnail.jpg

What role does the concept of representation play in the contexts of experimentation and explanation in cognitive neurobiology? In this article, a distinction is drawn between minimal and substantive roles for representation. It is argued by appeal to a case study that representation currently plays a role in cognitive neurobiology somewhere in between minimal and substantive and that this is problematic given the ultimate explanatory goals of cognitive neurobiological research. It is suggested that what is needed is for representation to instead play a substantive role. Copyright 2010 by the Philosophy of Science Association. All rights reserved.

The United States Supreme Court during the period between 1860 and 1910 has been portrayed as the source of a laissez-faire style of constitutional interpretation under which the nation and the Court largely abdicated their obligation to protect society's common interests from the ideologically conservative influences of new and powerful economic interests.;Recent trends in legal/intellectual history have moderated this critical view and have begun to rehabilitate the Supreme Court's image by placing it in a more accurately drawn intellectual context. This approach reasserts the role of ideas in shaping the law and reduces that of economic determinism. This thesis extends that trend by examining the powerful influence of antebellum Moral Philosophy, particularly as it was presented in the antebellum Protestant colleges, upon legal theory and practice during the last third of the nineteenth century.;The thesis examines the philosophical public statements and legal opinions of a select group of justices appointed after 1862 who shared exposure to an antebellum college education, to the doctrines of American Protestant theology, and to varying levels of legal education. This examination avoids, as far as practically possible, adopting a legal typology of the subject and adopts instead the typology of nineteenth-century moral science, with a view to illustrating the relationship between American Protestant theology, academic Moral Philosophy, and legal theory. This approach provides a better understanding of late nineteenth-century judicial conservatism in its own terms of reference. It demonstrates that the acceptance by conservative jurists of voluntaristic, moral view of the individual, society, and the economy led them to conclusions concerning individual liberty and responsibility, race and the question of quality, and the role and function of government profoundly different from those of late nineteenth-century reformers. It demonstrates that judicial conservatism had less to do with belief in a gospel of wealth than an attempt to preserve a vision of man and society founded upon moral values.

Location: West Wall. Lead Investigator: C. Cody Barteet (cbarteet@uwo.ca). Photograph: Katie Oates https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/chriswallis_stainedglass_on_arva_stjohnunited/1027/thumbnail.jpg

The coherence of 1 Cor. 1:10-4:21 is studied in three steps. With regard to the textual syntax it is shown that this passage consists of an introduction (1:10-17), followed by four separate sections elaborating first the theme of wisdom (1:18-2:5; 2:6-3:4) and next the division among the Corinthians (3:5-4:5; 4:6-21). At the semantic level it is argued that adherents of Apollos are Paul's main target and that in 1:18-19 he alludes to them. Further it is clarified that in rejecting σoϕiα λoγoυ he does not attack rhetoric as such, but human reasoning which they greatly admire. Finally a pragmatic analysis demonstrates that, following classical status theory, Paul defends himself in four steps against the depreciatory opinion adherents of Apollos harbor against him.