Three poems

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the disease of expertise

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Three poems

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Call and response (poetry)

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The Warriors Who Do Not Fight

In September 2015 the world woke up to the fact that people seeking refuge from war and persecution were drowning by their thousands in the Mediterranean. From sub-Saharan Africa and conflicts across the Middle East bodies moved, died or survived. Alison Phipps and Tawona Sitholé were working together in Ghana at the time, which is where this conversation in poetry began. In an echoing call and response they offer words for these times of war; ways of wondering what it means to resist; to suffer with; to bear witness; to seek companionship; to be part of the agony of a family made in love, and parting, separated by land, sea and paperwork

Interrupting the cognitive empire: keynote drama as cultural justice

The authors of this paper present a performative, practice-led interpretation of interrupting keynotes. They analyse keynotes in which a performance poet interrupts the white, female, professorial, northern scholar, with his own poetry as a poet of the global south. Using Benjamin’s essay on Brecht’s Epic theatre and interruption as a critical device, the authors will consider how oral scholarship might offer ways of disturbing the epistemological dominance of scholarly forms such as the keynote. By creating, through interruptions, a performative poetics as a practice-led decolonial scholarship, the authors explore the keynote as form, within an intercultural, artistic, hospicing and conflict transformational frame. Vanyori vegwaro rino vanotipakurira mafungiro anotangira mukubata basa reanonzi ma keynotes. Vanopenengura ma keynotes avakaita, patinoona nyanduri achishandisa mutauro semafundiro aakaita kukurira mumatare nevakuru munyika yevatema. Apa achiita sokuganhura mumwe wake anotaridzika ari professor, ari wenyika dzevachena. Kutsigira benenguro iri, vanoshandisa zvinyorwa zva Benjamin uyo ainyora nezva Brecht. Mubasa iri vanyori vanozama kurapanura kutekeshera kwemafungiro akauya nevapambepfumi, vaine kariro yekuti marudzi ave nekunzwana kwakawedzera

The flow of people matters

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Catalytic dechlorination of 1-chlorooctadecane in supercritical carbon dioxide

Palladium catalyzed hydrodechlorination of 1-chlorooctadecane in supercritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO2) was performed and compared to dechlorination in isopropanol at atmospheric pressure (liquid isopropanol). The reaction utilized isopropanol as a hydrogen donor and its rate in SC-CO2 was significantly faster than in isopropanol at atmospheric pressure. The dechlorination yield in liquid isopropanol was increased by addition of NaOH, while the presence of either NaOH or triethylamine in SC-CO2 lowered the dechlorination yield significantly. Experimental parameters such as pressure, temperature, and the concentrations of reagents (isopropanol and palladium) in the absence of base were optimized in SC-CO2 to obtain complete dechlorination. Kinetic studies of the reaction were then performed to deduce the reaction mechanism. The apparent activation energies of the reaction were 43 ± 5 kJ mol-1 in SC-CO2 and 35 ± 3 kJ mol-1 in liquid isopropanol. The rate determining step of the reaction was deduced to be adsorption of 1-chlorooctadecane on the palladium surface