Toward U.S. Acceptance of the International Criminal Court

The US would be undermining its own interests by insisting on insulation of its personnel as the price for its toleration or support for the International Criminal Court. Broomhall argues that the US ought, in its own interest, to lay the foundations for eventually supporting the ICC, notwithstanding the potential (albeit remote) risk of investigation of its nationals

A Helioseismic Perspective on the Depth of the Minimum Between Solar Cycles 23 and 24

The solar-activity-cycle minimum observed between Cycles 23 and 24 is generally regarded as being unusually deep and long. That minimum is being followed by one of the smallest amplitude cycles in recent history. We perform an in-depth analysis of this minimum with helioseismology. We use Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG) data to demonstrate that the frequencies of helioseismic oscillations are a sensitive probe of the Sun's magnetic field: The frequencies of the helioseismic oscillations were found to be systematically lower in the minimum following Cycle 23 than in the minimum preceding it. This difference is statistically significant and may indicate that the Sun's global magnetic field was weaker in the minimum following Cycle 23. The size of the shift in oscillation frequencies between the two minima is dependent on the frequency of the oscillation and takes the same functional form as the frequency dependence observed when the frequencies at cycle maximum are compared with the cycle-minimum frequencies. This implies that the same near-surface magnetic perturbation is responsible. Finally, we determine that the difference in the mean magnetic field between the minimum preceding Cycle 23 and that following it is approximately 1G.Comment: Accepted for publication in Solar Physics, 16 pages, 4 figures, 4 table

Writing doctors, body work and body texts in the French Revolution

This paper explores the construction of the identities of Philippe Curtius and his protégé Marie Grosholtz, known as Madame Tussaud, as providers of medical and health services, body workers, and entrepreneurs in key works that charted their experiences during the volatile period of the French Revolution. As purveyors of entertainment that derived its attraction from perceived close rendering of the likenesses of noteworthy individuals, modellers in wax required attentive discernment of bodies, or at least the capacity for imaginative descriptive skills, establishing a professional language for body work. Moreover, Tussaud's account explicitly foregrounds complex gender dynamics as a young woman interacting with the bodies of male and female clients. This essay explores how important eighteenth-century gendered conceptualizations of body work are revealed in the body texts produced in this period

Some a hundredfold : the life and work of James R. Adam among the tribes of South-West China

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Deathly Hallows Swedish-style : The gloves of Charles XII

[Extract] Can objects touch us in the classroom without being touched? How can we learn from the way that they touched others in the past as they were handled, visualized, and displayed? How do the haptic and the affective come together in teaching about emotions in history through material culture? In recent years, a new approach, ‘history of emotions,’ has shaped historical analysis. Although there are many differences among the humanities and social science scholars who explore this field, broadly speaking they share an understanding that emotions, as they are conceptualised, expressed and performed, are culturally, socially and historically-specific.26 That means that what we think an emotion is, what name we give the physical and intellectual experience we have, and how we give voice or action to it is shaped by the cultures we live in and has changed over time, sometimes in very obvious ways and others more subtle. Extending from this, some scholars consider how emotions are conveyed or expressed through objects, and as objects move across time and space.27 We can explore this last point in more detail through a pair of gloves that once were worn by the King of Sweden. Charles XII (1682-1718) was an eccentric and divisive monarch who ruled through much of the Great Northern War (1700-21) (Figure 1). On 11 December 1718 (new style), he was inspecting siege fortifications at a fortress, Fredriksten, on the border with Denmark when he was shot through the head and killed instantly. Who was responsible for this dramatic regicide remains a dynamic, popular talking point today.2

Encountering Karl : Willem de Vlamingh and the VOC on Noongar Boodjar

[Extract] This essay examines key feelings that Dutch East India Company (VOC) crews attached to fires they saw in the southwest of the Australian continent, and understood to be the work of Indigenous peoples. It considers both their own feelings and those they projected onto Indigenous populations. To do this, I use a case study of Willem de Vlamingh’s expedition of 1696–97, analyzing documents that conveyed perceptions of the fires and fire culture that the crews encountered on Whadjuk Noongar boodjar (Land or Country), the lands in and around what is now occupied by the city of Perth, Western Australia.[2] On this expedition to explore the region, VOC crews saw Indigenous peoples but reported they had not been able to meet with them. However, this essay argues that, through fire, Indigenous and VOC peoples were interacting, and the VOC records contain interpretations of these interactions

Devoted politics: Jesuits and elite Catholic women at the later sixteenth-century Valois Court

This essay analyses how elite women at the sixteenth-century French court interacted with the Jesuits, in the context of the spiritual and political ambitions of all participants. Focusing particularly on the dynamic relationship between Catherine de Medici and the Jesuits, contextualized by the experiences of other elite women and men, it explores the period from the 1560s to the end of the 1580s during which Catherine occupied a powerful role and when individual members of the Society of Jesus rose to prominence at the court. To date, the scholarship of elite Catholic politics in which the Jesuits were involved has prioritized the activities of France’s monarchs, Charles ix and Henri iii, and its leading men in dynasties such as the Gonzaga-Nevers and Guise. Re-reading many of the same sources with an eye to the contribution and activities of women offers the potential for a broader narrative