Moralism as evil: The undertow of postcolonial cosmologies in East-Africa

Discussing evil is particularly challenging for state-salaried members of postcolonial Empires and Superpowers. The evil state of bewitchment, obsessed with finding ‘the cause’, is responsible for the deaths of innocent women and children in various parts of Africa. Yet, can we not recognize that evil in ourselves, and even more strongly in the ethics and epistemology we teach and disseminate, instead of merely attributing the witchcraft-related violence to certain ‘supernatural’ beliefs (Ellis and Ter Haar) or dissociating it from our history (Ranger)? ‘To each her own history’ seems politically correct. But is speech that testifies to our mastery of the right ethic not all too easy and gratuitous? Inclusion of the Other, through ‘human rights’ and ‘critical history’, has since about five decades been the great humanitarian wave which international politics, media, sciences and our discipline have surfed on. Its undertow, however, seems the conservation of hegemony, and the imposition of new exclusions - from the comfortable position of ‘the moral’ (Badiou, Luhmann; Agamben). This paper finds the opposite undertow in the (politically incorrect) speech of second-generation Bongo Flava hip-hop artists, of radical democrats (Ushahidi in Kenya) and of neo-traditional healers in Tanzania, who locate evil in moralism. A song never lies. Their emphasis on having ‘it’ or not, on ‘the call’ (mwito) or ‘soul’ (moyo), shifts attention away from the visible, hence forgeable ethical appearance, towards the actual topos of the good: the ultimate effect of words and deeds, also known as the Real. That experiential and sensorial domain is where evil such as albinist killings and government corruption can be confronted. This paper recounts some of the deep cultural misunderstandings about ethics that Africanists have to deal with, in order to propose an anthropological approach to the meaning of practices

2006 Major Sponsored Program and Faculty Awards for Research & Creative Activity

Awards of $3 million or more Awards of$1 million to $2,999,999 Awards of$200,000 to $999,999 Career and K Awards Arts and Humanities Awards of$50,000 or more Arts and Humanities Awards of $5,000 to$49,999 Patents Issued Intellectual Property Licences Creative Works in Fine and Performing Arts Books Recognitions and Honors Glossary of Federal Agency Abbreviations This is the fifth annual “Major Sponsored Program and Faculty Awards for Research and Creative Activity” report. This booklet highlights the successes of University of Nebraska–Lincoln faculty during 2006. The funding sources, projects and investigators on major grants and sponsored program awards received during the year are listed, as well as patents issued; published books and scholarship; fellowships and other recognitions; intellectual property licenses; and performances and exhibitions in the fine and performing arts. This impressive list grows each year and I am pleased to present evidence of our faculties’ accomplishments. During FY2005-06, we achieved a funding milestone — UNL faculty attracted $104.6 million in external funding to the institution. This is the first time we exceeded$100 million and this in fact tripled the comparable figure achieved ten years ago. How have we reached this success? We have worked to closely integrate our research priorities with our established programs of excellence building on each success. We zealously foster interdisciplinary research and collaborations with public and private partnerships, thus expanding our economic development efforts by working with business and industry. And we celebrate our achievements and recognize that excellence attracts excellence. This booklet reports only the largest dollar amounts as reported through our Office of Sponsored Programs. However, the majority of our research and creative activity is conducted by single investigators and scholars who are pioneering new frontiers across all fields. Many faculty obtain funding at levels below the significantly high thresholds set for inclusion in this report. This in no way diminishes their scholarly contributions and we are proud of all faculty achievement

Xavier University 179th Commencement, May 13, 2017

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Lawrence Today, Volume 89, Number 4, Summer 2009

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Washington University Record, March 2, 2000

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Major Sponsored Programs and Faculty Awards for Research and Creative Activity 2007

This is the sixth annual “Major Sponsored Programs and Faculty Awards for Research and Creative Activity” report. This booklet highlights the successes of University of Nebraska–Lincoln faculty during 2007. It lists the funding sources, projects and investigators on major grants and sponsored program awards received during the year, as well as patents issued; published books and scholarship; fellowships and other recognitions; intellectual property licenses; and performances and exhibitions in the fine and performing arts. This impressive list grows each year and I am pleased to present evidence of our faculty’s accomplishments. Researchers at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln have pushed the frontiers in their disciplines in the past year, setting new drilling records in Antarctica, winning the nation’s highest honor for technology and building an ultra-fast, high-intensity laser that has the highest combination of peak power and repetition rate of any U.S. laser. Our sponsored funding continues to grow, with awards of $171.9 million last year alone. How have we reached this success? We have worked to integrate our research priorities with our established programs of excellence, building on each success. We zealously foster interdisciplinary research and collaborations with public and private partnerships, thus expanding our economic development efforts by working with business and industry. And we celebrate our achievements and recognize that excellence attracts excellence. These accomplishments exemplify how UNL’s emphasis on innovation, interdisciplinarity and international collaborations is propelling our research into new arenas, producing new products and technologies for the marketplace and offering our students intensive research experiences

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Contract and Grant Awards Fiscal Year 2006

I invite you to read this report Contract & Grant Awards, fiscal year 2006, which lists contract and grant (C&G) awards received by the University of New Mexico (UNM) during the period from July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2006 (FY06). These awards represent new funds that were acquired during FY06 by the main campus, branch campuses and education centers, and the Health Sciences Center (HSC). The HSC includes the School of Medicine, College of Nursing, and College of Pharmacy. The awards received for FY06 total $298.6M, of which$165.4M is attributed to the main campus and $133.2M to HSC. These awards assist in providing resources that are necessary to support and enhance the quality of research and teaching at UNM, as well as the opportunities for students to be trained in state-of-the-art laboratories in a variety of disciplines