On March 6, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences held a Book Launch and Celebration of Research and Scholarship. The celebrated works included:

• Hardcopies of single authored and edited books produced by FASS faculty;
• Hardcopies of edited volumes in which FASS members have published a chapter;
• Hardcopies of journals in which FASS members have published an article;
• A Powerpoint presentation that contained images of online publications, blogs and sketches of costumes from Dalhousie’s Theatre Department.

Congratulations to all FASS faculty who had work recognized.

The following is the complete list of  books and edited volumes published by FASS faculty in 2012:

Judith Thompson, “John Thelwall in the Wordsworth Circle: The Silenced Partner” (Palgrave, 2012).

Finn Laursen (ed.), The Making of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty: the Role of the Member States (Brussels: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2012), 324pp.

Finn Laursen (ed.), The Lisbon Treaty: Institutional Choices and Implementation (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012), 302pp.

Finn Laursen (ed.), The EU, Security and Transatlantic Relations (Brussels: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2012), 344pp.

Finn Laursen (ed.), The EU and the Political Economy of Transatlantic Relations (Brussels: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2012), 319pp.

Finn Laursen (ed.), Designing the European Union: From Paris to Lisbon (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), 317 pp.

Robert Huish (2012) Where No Doctor Has Gone Before: Cuba’s Place in the Global Health Landscape (Wilfred Laurier Press)

Simédoh, Vincent (2012) L’humour et l’ironie en Littérature francophone subsaharienne. Des enjeux critiques à une poétique du rire. Series: Francophone Cultures and Literatures – Volume 60

Schnurr, M.A. and Swatuk, L.A., eds. (2012) Natural Resources and Social Conflict: Towards Critical Environmental Security. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Yuri Leving (2012) Anatomy of a Short Story. Nabokov’s Puzzles, Codes, “Signs and Symbols.” (Ed.) New York: Continuum, 2012.

Barber, Pauline Gardiner and Winnie Lem (eds) Migration in the 21st Century: Political Economy and Ethnography 2012. Routledge.

Barber, Pauline Gardiner, Belinda Leach, and Winnie Lem (eds) Confronting Capital: Critique and Engagement in Anthropology 2012. Routledge.

Fitting, Elizabeth. 2012 Japanese translation (Minoru Satomi) The Struggle for Maize: Campesinos, Workers and Transgenic Corn in the Mexican Countryside, with new preface. Publisher: Nobunkyo Rural Culture Association.

Len Diepeveen  and Tomothy van Laar (2013) Artworld Prestige: Arguing Cultural Value. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Roberta Barker and Kim Solga, eds. New Canadian Realisms: Eight Plays. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, May 2012. (Edited book)

Roberta Barker and Kim Solga, eds. New Essays in Canadian Theatre 2: New Canadian Realisms. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, May 2012. (Edited book)

Deborah McGrady and Jennifer Bain, eds. A Companion to Guillaume de Machaut. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Publishers, 2012.

Christopher M. Bell, Churchill and Sea Power, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

David Nicol (2012) “Middleton and Rowley: Forms of Collaboration in the Jacobean Playhouse”. University of Toronto Press

Vittorio Frigerio (2012) Nouvelles anarchistes : La création littéraire dans la presse militante (1890-1946). Ellug.

Melanie Frappier, Letitia Meynell and James Robert Brown, eds. Thought Experiments in Science, Philosophy and the Arts (Routledge, 2012).

The following is the complete list of  chapters published by FASS faculty in 2012: 

Colin Mitchell (2012) “Persian Rhetoric in the Safavid Context: A 16th Century Nurbakhshiyya Treatise on Insha” in Literacy in the Persianate World: Writing and the Social Order, eds. Brian Spooner and William L. Hanaway, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2012, pp. 196-231.

Chike Jeffers (2013) “Should Black Kids Avoid Wearing Hoodies” in George Yancy and Janine Jones (eds.), Pursuing Trayvon Martin: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Manifestations of Racial Dynamics.

Wayne Hankey (2012) “Aquinas, Plato, and Neo-Platonism,” for the Oxford Handbook to Aquinas, edited Brian Davies & Eleonore Stump (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), Chapter 4, 55–64.

Wayne Hankey (2012) “Visio: the Method of Robert Crouse’s Philosophical Theology,” a paper for the 2011 Atlantic Theological Conference, Recognizing the Sacred in the Modern Secular, University of King’s College, June 26th to 29th, 2011, published in the proceedings, Recognizing the Sacred in the Modern Secular. How the sacred is to be discovered in today’s world, edited by Susan Harris and Nicholas Hatt (Charlottetown, St Peter Publications, 2012), 115-148.

Wayne Hankey (2012) “Philosopher-King, Legislator, Mystic, Prophet, Cosmic Priest: the Moses of Philo Judaeus and his Islamic and Christian Successors,” a paper for “Philosophy and the Abrahamic Religions: Scriptural Authority and Theories of Knowledge,” Istanbul, 9-11 December, 2010, to be published in Philosophy and the Abrahamic Religions: Scriptural Hermeneutics and Epistemology, edited by Torrance Kirby, Rahim Acar and Bilal Bas (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2012), 1-18.

Helland, Chris (2012). Ritual in Cyberspace. In: Heidi Campbell (Ed.). Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in New Media Worlds (pp.25-40). Routledge: New York.

Helland, Chris (2012). Online Religion in Canada: From Hype to Hyperlink. In: Lori Beaman (Ed.). Religion and Canadian Society: Traditions, Transitions, and Innovations (375-390). Canadian Scholar’s Press: Toronto

Jerry Bannister, “The Oriental Atlantic: Governance and Regulatory Frameworks in the British Atlantic World,” in H.V. Bowen, Elizabeth Mancke, and John G. Reid, eds., _Britain’s Oceanic Empire: Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds, c.1550-1850_ (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).

Jerry Bannister, “Planter Studies and Atlantic Scholarship: The New History of Eighteenth-Century Nova Scotia,” in Stephen Henderson and Wendy Robicheau, eds., _The Nova Scotia Planters in the Atlantic World, 1759-1830_ (Fredericton: Acadiensis Press, 2012).

Judith Thompson, “The Poetry of John Thelwall.” *Blackwell Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature.* Ed. F. Burwick, N.M. Goslee, D. L. Hoeveler. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).

Judith Thompson, “The Prose of John Thelwall.” *Blackwell Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature.* Ed. F. Burwick, N.M. Goslee, D. L. Hoeveler. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).

Strik, N. (2012). Wh-questions in Dutch: bilingual and trilingual acquisition compared. Multilingual individuals and multilingual societies, K. Braunmüller & C. Gabriel (Eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 47-61.

Wright, Julia M. “‘The Gothic Frontier of Modernity’: The ‘Invisible Hand of State-Formation in Deadwood.” The Last Western: Deadwood and the End of American Empire. Ed. Jennifer Greiman and Paul Stasi. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2012. 42-61.

Wright, Julia M. “Thomas Moore and the Problem of Colonial Masculinity in Irish Romanticism.” United Islands? The Languages of Resistance. Ed. Michael Brown, John Kirk, and Andrew Noble. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2012. 153-65.

Wright, Julia M., and Joel Faflak, eds. A Handbook of Romanticism Studies. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

Shao-Pin “Intertextuality in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide” in: History, Narrative, and Testimony in Amitav Ghosh’s Fiction Ed. Chitra Sankaran, SUNY Press, 2012.

David Black, “The Harper Government, Africa Policy, and the Relative Decline of Humane Internationalism.” In H. Smith and C. Turenne Sjolander, eds., Canada in the World (Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2012).*

David Black, “Between Indifference and Idiosyncracy: the Conservatives and Canadian Aid to Africa.” In S. Brown, ed., Struggling for Effectiveness: CIDA and Canadian Foreign Aid (Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012).*

Rogers, Donna M. “The Astrological Sources of the Donzella Teodor.” In Essays in Homage to John Esten Keller, ed. Roger Tinnell. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta, 2012. Pp. 231-40.

Roberta Barker. “‘A Freshly Creepy Reality’: Realist Acting and Jacobean Tragedy on the Contemporary Stage.” Performing Early Modern Drama Today. Ed. Pascale Aebischer and Kathryn Prince. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2012. 121-41. (Book Chapter).

Jennifer Bain: “‘…et mon commencement ma fin’: Genre and Machaut’s musical language in his secular songs.” in A Companion to Guillaume de Machaut, 79-101. Brill.

Anthony Enns “Post-Reunification Cinema: Horror, Nostalgia, Redemption.” A Companion to German Cinema. Ed. Terri Ginsberg and Andrea Mensch. Oxford: Blackwell, 2012. 110-133.

Anthony Enns “The Undead Author: Spiritualism, Technology and Authorship.” The Ashgate Research Companion to Victorian Spiritualism and the Occult. Ed. Tatiana Kontou and Sarah Willburn. London: Ashgate, 2012. 55-78.