Socialist Patriarchy and the Limits of Reform: A Reading of Irmtraud Morgner\u27s Life and Adventures of Troubadora Beatriz as Chronicled by her Minstrel Laura

Irmtraud Morgner\u27s Life and Adventures of Troubador Beatriz is one of several important anti-patriarchal texts to come out of the GDR over the past ten years. It is a complex and ambitious attempt to elaborate the meaning of women\u27s emancipation in a socialist society, an attempt which is structurally and thematically marked by a struggle between oppositional and orthodox approaches to questions of sexuality, knowledge and power. This particular reading of the text emphasizes the limitatons which traditional Marxist analysis and representational practices impose upon a textual field which necessarily introduces conflict and difference into the repressive stability of GDR socialism and its conventional narrative representation. Having made women\u27s radically different desires, experiences and relationships with one another a legitimate subject, the text opens up knowledges which threaten to violate traditional political, social and sexual orders, and conventional narrative consistencies. I have attempted to read the text\u27s transgressions and radical oppositions against the pressure of its insistently conclusive Marxism and to suggest the need for a critical re-thinking of the relations between sexuality, representation and power

Fluid Phase Equilibria 236 (2005) 53--57 Monte Carlo molecular simulation predictions for the heat of vaporization of acetone and butyramide

Vapor pressure and heats of vaporization are computed for the industrial fluid properties simulation challenge (IFPSC) data set using the Towhee Monte Carlo molecular simulation program. Results are presented for the CHARMM27 and OPLS-aa force fields. Once again, the average result using multiple force fields is a better predictor of the experimental value than either individual force field. 2005 Published by Elsevier B.V

Groundbreaking Ceremony of the Life Sciences Technology Building

This is a video of the Groundbreaking Ceremony for the Life Sciences Technology Building on March 11, 2005 at the Phillips Auditorium Duffied Hall Atrium at Cornell University.1_g71s9oi