Morning Session

Fritz Graf A mass of Orphic poems Daniel Malamis Formulae and resonance: the Orphic Hymns\u27 engagement with the Sinai Palimpsest Anne-France Morand Sound, meaning, and motion in Palimpsest sin. ar. nf. 66 and in the Orphic Hymns Giambattista D\u27Alessio The Sinai Hexameter Palimpsest: a Revised Text and Interpretative Issue

Mass political murder: What and where is the hate?

This article explores the meaning and importance of hate in intergroup conflict, especially in conflict that moves to genocide or politicide. Review of controversies in defining hate leads to definition of hate as an extreme form of negative identification that includes perception of bad essence. Negative identification is inverse caring for others, as seen in studies of schadenfreude and gluckschmerz. Studies of dehumanization suggest that two forms of bad essence can be distinguished: evil human (entitativity essentializing) and infrahuman animal (natural kind essentializing). Studies also show that those who essentialize more are more ready to punish indiscriminately all members of a rival group—thus essentializing facilitates killing by category. Application of the negative-identification-bad-essence definition of hate in the Nazi, Cambodian, and Rwandan cases indicates that leaders of political mass murder hate their victims, but that hate is relatively unimportant for those who do the killing. For the mass public that leaders and perpetrators claim to represent, the importance of hate as defined here is currently unknown. Implications are considered for measuring hate in texts and polls and for future directions of research on hate

Legendrian torus and cable links

We give a classification of Legendrian torus links. Along the way, we give the first classification of infinite families of Legendrian links where some smooth symmetries of the link cannot be realized by Legendrian isotopies. We also give the first family of links that are non-destabilizable but do not have maximal Thurston-Bennequin invariant and observe a curious distribution of Legendrian torus knots that can be realized as the components of a Legendrian torus link. This classification of Legendrian torus links leads to a classification of transversal torus links. We also give a classification of Legendrian and transversal cable links of knot types that are uniformly thick and Legendrian simple. Here we see some similarities with the classification of Legendrian torus links but also some differences. In particular, we show that there are Legendrian representatives of cable links of any uniformly thick knot type for which no symmetries of the components can be realized by a Legendrian isotopy, others where only cyclic permutations of the components can be realized, and yet others where all smooth symmetries are realizable