Alien Registration- Gallien, Frant (Rumford, Oxford County)

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S17RS SGR No. 1 (Extended Hours of Magnolia Room)

To urge and request LSU Dining to extend the daily hours of the Magnolia Roo

A GaAs MMIC chip-set for 10 to 15GHz radio-links applications

This paper describes the development of a GaAs MMIC chip-set for Ku-band radio-links transmitter. This chip-set includes two circuits, a times-two multiplier 5-7.5GHz to 10-15GHz, and a single side band up-converter. The development and the results of these circuits are analysed. The times-two multiplier is based on a specific balanced configuration leading to a very high level of input frequency suppression at the output (typically 50dBc) on a 2.7mm² chip. The mixer circuit is a broadband build-in single side band mixer of 10mm², with typically 30dBc image suppression

Smugglers and states: illegal trade in the political settlements of North Africa

This project explores the political economy of informal and illegal cross-border trade in North Africa, focusing in particular on Tunisia’s border with Libya, and Morocco’s North-East bordering Algeria and the Spanish enclave of Melilla. Based on extensive fieldwork, the project traces the informal institutions that regulate smuggling across the region, examines the resulting rent streams, and analyses their relationship to the region’s states through a political settlement framework. Following shifts in the domestic politics of Tunisia and Morocco as well as the regional border infrastructure, the project also traces the recent re-negotiation of the role of smuggling in the region. It argues that contrary to common assumptions, smuggling rarely occurs 'under the radar' of the state, but is instead embedded in a tight network of institutional regulation in which the regions' states play a key role. Furthermore, rather than subverting states, smuggling activities are a central feature of the region’s political settlements. The project highlights that the ability of different groups to navigate and negotiate the terms of their inclusion into these settlements is highly uneven, posing serious challenges for borderland populations

Addressing Cultural Pluralism from an Evangelical Christian Perspective

The complex issues surrounding cultural pluralism are rapidly turning the public square into a battlefield that divides our country. As Charles Haynes summarized, “At issue for this nation, as for much of the world, is the simple but profound question that runs through modern experience: How will we live with our deepest differences?” (Haynes, 1994). At a time when many citizens of our diverse nation have become disillusioned with the motto e pluribus unum, the Christian higher education community deals with issues involving race, ethnicity, and gender through a variety of responses ranging from isolationism to unqualified inclusion. Evangelical institutions of higher learning are not new to the discussion of multiculturalism. They have rather a rich history of commitment to living out Christ’s commandment to love one’s neighbor as oneself (Mk 12:31) regarding each other through the unity of faith in Christ (Gal 3:28). This paper addresses the historical context for understanding cultural pluralism together with the scriptural and religious imperatives for engaging Christian and secular audiences on this issue. It identifies several of the issues surrounding cultural pluralism faced by evangelicals today, while also developing criteria for celebrating and confronting pluralism. Finally, it articulates strategies for pursuing common ground in the public arena and discusses implications for Christian higher education in addressing cultural pluralism within and beyond the college classroom

A prize winning essay: Why it matters to understand the informal economy

Max Gallien, PhD candidate in The Department of International Development, is the joint runner-up of this year’s Economic and Social Research Council writing competition. Max’s eloquently written piece makes a strong case for examining the informal economy through a fresh pair of eyes

“From Tension to Cooperation: Complex Interactions Between British Orientalists and Indian Scholars in Calcutta, 1784-1794”

International audienceThis paper is part of a larger research project which aims at revisiting – but not erasing – the history of colonial encounters in India. The present paper shows that, within a context of colonial domination, the personal relationships that both British orientalists and their Indian counterparts engaged in were based on scholarly conviviality and even friendship. These intellectual bonds, as we shall see, clearly run across the usual pattern of colonial domination

Dissocier les taxes sur le tabac du commerce illicite en Afrique

Smoking tobacco has been much less common traditionally in Africa than in Europe or North America. But this is changing. As Africa has become a growth market for the tobacco industry, adverse health effects are increasingly visible. While increasing tobacco taxation has been shown as the most effective policy tool in curbing tobacco consumption, many countries in Africa have maintained relatively low levels of tobacco taxation. One of the most common arguments against raising taxes on tobacco has been that this would increase smuggling. Drawing on recent studies from across Africa, this brief highlights the complex relationship between smuggling and taxation, and argues that smuggling should not deter African governments from increasing taxes on tobacco products.Le tabagisme est traditionnellement beaucoup moins commun en Afrique qu'il ne l’est en Europe ou en Amérique du Nord. Mais la situation est en train de changer. Au fur et à mesure que l'Afrique devient un marché croissant pour l'industrie du tabac, les effets néfastes du tabagisme sur l'état de santé publique deviennent plus visibles. Bien qu’il ait été démontré qu’une augmentation des taxes sur le tabac soit la politique publique la plus efficace pour en réduire la consommation, de nombreux pays africains maintiennent des niveaux de taxation relativement bas. L'un des arguments les plus récurrents contre une augmentation de ces taxes est que cela entraînerait une augmentation de la contrebande. Ce bulletin politique met en évidence la complexité de la relation entre la contrebande et la taxation- avec à l'appui plusieurs études récentes menées à travers tout le continent- et affirme que la contrebande ne devrait pas être un facteur dissuasif pour les gouvernements africains qui envisageraient d’augmenter les taxes sur les produits du tabac.Bill and Melinda Gates FoundationDFI

'God Will Crown Us': The Construction of Religious Nationalism in Southern Sudan, 1898-2011.

My study examines the ways in which Biblical themes and idioms have historically been adopted to enhance arguments for Southern Sudanese self-determination and sovereignty. Beginning with the conclusion of the Mahdist War and continuing through the attainment of national sovereignty, I argue that the Bible not only provided a critical lexicon of resistance and communal identity-formation but also served as a source with which to levy spiritual critiques against the Arab racial Other. ‘Blackness’ became an identity-marker adopted by Southerners of various ethnicities and—within a framework of Arab ‘oppression’—a physical trait marking Southerners as God’s spiritually oppressed people destined for liberation. In this vein I illustrate that Southern Sudan is an important example of the ways in which religious thought can combine with racial politics to fuel revolutionary political action in the modern world. It is also a unique case in African Christianity whereby a liberatory religious thought was aimed against non-white, non-Christian co-citizens. The diversity of thinkers that contributed to this theology illustrates that the sociology of theological knowledge production was not the exclusive preserve of clergy but involved a tapestry of thinkers. Rather than focusing on a specific subset of people or communities in the vein of Sudanese anthropology, I show that a wide range of ‘oppressed’ actors have used theology to interpret their circumstances, define enemies, script action, and define the future—one that conflated spiritual liberation with material political reformation and revolution. This theology has developed along an historical trajectory since at least the early twentieth century. By placing vagarious situations into a familiar script of liberation, actors and circumstances have been placed into Biblical archetypes that render understandable action. Less than four years into independence, however, ethnic factionalism threatens the nation that nationalism envisioned. This explosion, I suggest, did not occur spontaneously but reflects longer tensions between missionary, colonial, and African efforts to define ethnicities as distinct social groups and the emergence of ‘Southern’ as both a subject racial category and nationality. My study shows strengths and limits of racial and religious thoughts as instruments for nation-making in a particular African national context.PhDHistoryUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/116734/1/cgtoun_1.pd