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Preventing HIV in Africa: Understanding Sexual Behavior Change

Roughly 25 million people in sub-Saharan Africa are infected with HIV, and the number is growing. Since 9095 percent of HIV infections in Africa result from heterosexual sex,understanding changes in heterosexual behavior in response to rising HIV rate...

Confessions of an Imperialist Princess: the Poetics (the habit) of Conquest

Peg Boyers was born in 1952 in San Tomé, Venezuela. She spent her first twelve years of school in twelve locations—including Havana, Cuba, Pakambaru, Indonesia, Venice, Italy and Tripoli, Libya— not to mention a year without any school at all and...

The First Biennial Norman Cutler Conference on South Asian Literature (Part 5)

The Norman Cutler Conference on South Asian Literature (COSAL) honors the life and work of the late Norman Cutler, former Professor of Tamil in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations.The purposes of the conference are:* to create an ...

The First Biennial Norman Cutler Conference on South Asian Literature (Part 4)

The Norman Cutler Conference on South Asian Literature (COSAL) honors the life and work of the late Norman Cutler, former Professor of Tamil in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations.The purposes of the conference are:* to create an ...

The First Biennial Norman Cutler Conference on South Asian Literature (Part 3)

The Norman Cutler Conference on South Asian Literature (COSAL) honors the life and work of the late Norman Cutler, former Professor of Tamil in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations.The purposes of the conference are:* to create an ...

The First Biennial Norman Cutler Conference on South Asian Literature (Part 2)

The Norman Cutler Conference on South Asian Literature (COSAL) honors the life and work of the late Norman Cutler, former Professor of Tamil in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations.The purposes of the conference are:* to create an ...

History Textbooks and the Profession: Comparing National Controversies in a Globalizing Age (Part 4)

This one-day symposium was convened to compare the controversies surrounding historical texts that emerged during the last fifteen to twenty years with the onset of the post-Cold War era and the acceleration of globalization, multi-culturalism and the ...

History Textbooks and the Profession: Comparing National Controversies in a Globalizing Age (Part 3)

This one-day symposium was convened to compare the controversies surrounding historical texts that emerged during the last fifteen to twenty years with the onset of the post-Cold War era and the acceleration of globalization, multi-culturalism and the ...

History Textbooks and the Profession: Comparing National Controversies in a Globalizing Age (Part 2)

This one-day symposium was convened to compare the controversies surrounding historical texts that emerged during the last fifteen to twenty years with the onset of the post-Cold War era and the acceleration of globalization, multi-culturalism and the ...

Truth, Lies, and Duct Tape

Sara Paretsky is the author of the bestselling V. I. Warshawski novels, including, most recently, Fire Sale and Blacklist. She is the winner of many awards, including the Cartier Diamond Dagger award for lifetime achievement from the British Crime Writ...