Bearing Witness: Essays in Honour of Brij V. Lal

Essays in Honour of Michael Bliss

Thus reads the introduction to Figuring the Social, a collection of essays published by the University of Toronto Press in honour of Canadian historian Michael Bliss. This anthology, edited by E.A. Heaman, Alison Li and Shelley McKellar, consists of dissertations written by students and colleagues of Bliss, who has produced notable works such as The Discovery of Insulin, Plague: A Story of Smal...

Introduction: Essays in honour of Doug Mewhort.

On June 7, 2012, a meeting was held at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada to honour Professor Douglas John Kerr Mewhort, a recognised authority on human memory and computational cognitive modelling. This issue is a collection of articles from that meeting. Each article in this issue is written by a student or colleague. The common themes amongst the articles- computational theory, e...

Logos and Language Essays in Honour of Julius Moravcsik edited

Bearing Witness through Fiction

In her article, "Bearing Witness through Fiction," Carolina Rocha explores the ways in which three Argentine writers grappled with their roles as public intellectuals and witnesses to acts of terror, undeniable violence, and human rights abuses during the most recent military dictatorship. By examining three narrative texts written from the mid-1970s to the late 1990s Aquí pasan cosas raras (St...

Published in ‘ Sense in Social Science : A collection of essays in honour of

I have had the pleasure of working with Lisl for nearly forty years and we have a metaphor we use to assess the outcomes of our many efforts to work with organisations. For Lisl the outcome is always a half-empty glass; she is always acutely aware of all the things that did not happen. For me the outcome is a half-filled glass: I’m always surprised that anything changed at all. The metaphor see...