This article argues that the text of a hendecasyllabic fragment of Cinna, transmitted by Aulus Gellius, is defective, and that a neglected conjecture made by the sixteenth-century scholar Gyraldus gives a better reading. mannis, a loanword from Cisalpine Gaulish, may be the first usage of this word in Roman literature. Furthermore, reading mannis allows for the recognition of echoes of Cinna’s poem in the elegies of Ovid and Propertius. While Gellius definitely read nanis (since he builds an entire chapter around the reading), a palaeographical corruption in Gellius’ text of Cinna is simple to explain, although conjecture cannot be dismissed. The article shows the danger of linguistic biases in texts which transmit fragments: in this case, a bias towards reading Greek loanwords in place of those from Celtic languages.

This article examines how efforts to improve maternal and perinatal health among Britain’s South Asian population served to uphold medical hierarchies and construct post-imperial racial formations. It uses the “Asian Mother and Baby Campaign” (AMBC) to assess state responses to health inequity. The AMBC was set up in 1984 by the Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) in conjunction with the Save the Children Fund (SCF). By using the Department of Health and SCF archives, as well as original oral history interviews, this article shows that while the AMBC was designed to make healthcare more accessible, its attempt to “medically integrate” South Asian women helped to pathologize them and place them under medical surveillance. As the testimonies of healthcare professionals, users of the campaign, and women’s health activists show, the AMBC’s vision for healthcare reform was tied to racialized and class-based discourses around citizenship and belonging. This article thus interrogates what campaigns like the AMBC tell us about healthcare spaces and how they recalibrated imperial racial formations in order to manage and maintain racial difference in Britain. It argues that the AMBC created knowledge systems that were oftentimes at odds with community-based expertise. The campaign ultimately shaped South Asian women’s experiences of maternity care, as well as the national dialogue on race and notions of welfare state inclusivity. By focusing on British South Asian women’s healthcare in this way, this article makes a critical contribution to scholarship on race, health citizenship, and the limitations of multicultural ideals in late twentieth-century Britain.

Cross-sectional imaging in children on an extracorporeal membranous oxygenator can be challenging due to logistics of transportation and technical aspects of image acquisition. Nevertheless, cardiac CT can be of value in answering important clinical questions in these patients. We share our experience while establishing a successful clinical workflow to perform cardiac CT in children with CHD on extracorporeal membranous oxygenator, which has not been previously described.

This paper draws on feminist disability scholarship on care to examine the figure of a sacrificial mother located within the moral unit of family, which is identified as central to the public discourse of disability around the Kasargod-endosulfan episode. It is an instance of pesticide poisoning that resulted in the acquisition of disabilities by the populations living in the region. The paper argues that the figure of the sacrificial mother who forsakes her job and social life is discursively constructed by feminised notions of care, absence of formal care structures, and the state’s imagination of care as a packageable/givable product. Caregiving has often been thought of as a linear process or mobilised as a moral force to organise familial structures or care containments. By reflecting on the ethnographic fieldnotes and interviews with mothers of endosulfan-affected people at a private care home in the Indian state of Kerala, the study attempts to locate ways in which disability-care destabilises these containments. It also deliberates on the possibilities of socialities and solidarities enabled by disability-care, forming newer spatialities.

In a profession designed for men with housewives, academic mothers continue to shoulder a disproportionate burden. Motherhood penalties in academia are well-documented, with research consistently showing negative impacts on mothers’ publication rates (Di Leo et al. n.d.; Lutter and Schröder 2020; Morgan et al. 2021), citations (Lawson et al. 2021), and promotion trajectories (Antecol et al. 2018; Finkel and Olswang 1996; Mason et al. 2019) — effects not observed among fathers. In recent years, both institutional frameworks and grassroots movements have sought to address these inequities, yet their strategies and impacts differ significantly.

Staging an experimental sex therapy in which Black characters act as enslaved, Slave Play depicts erotic encounters charged with stereotypes of Black sexuality. While many critics dismiss this representation as distasteful, I argue that it is by staging Black sexuality in such challenging scenarios that Harris resists the dehumanising power of stereotypes. Instead of concealing stereotypes or seeking to supplant them with positive representation, Slave Play restores the unpredictability that they deny. In confronting this representation, our preconceptions short-circuit, and we are forced to apprehend Black sexuality on its own terms. This essay charts the rethinking of pleasure and agency that this confrontation compels.

This study investigates the environmental literacy (EL) and pro-environmental behaviours of urban adolescents in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with a focus on the role of education in shaping their environmental awareness, attitudes, and actions. The research aims to assess students’ knowledge of global and local environmental issues, their attitudinal orientations (biocentric vs. anthropocentric), and their self-reported pro-environmental behaviours. A cross-sectional survey of 403 secondary school students was conducted using structured questionnaires. The findings reveal moderate awareness of global environmental issues like climate change, but a limited understanding of local ecological solutions. While many students expressed positive attitudes toward nature, a significant value-action gap was identified, with environmental awareness and concern not consistently translating into sustainable practices. The study highlights the need for more context-specific, experiential, and community-based educational interventions to bridge this gap. By integrating emotional, cognitive, and ethical dimensions of EL into curricula, the study suggests that educators and policymakers can better equip youth to address environmental challenges. The findings emphasise the urgency of reforming environmental education to foster a generation of environmentally responsible citizens in developing urban contexts.

Comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation, in which all attributes are protected on an equal footing and well-resourced equality agencies are empowered to effectively enforce such obligations, is not common in the Asia-Pacific region. Centring the Asia-Pacific as a critical site of inquiry, this article examines incremental changes to discrimination laws in the region. It draws on discrimination law reform in Australia and Hong Kong to demonstrate how these processes have resulted in piecemeal rather than comprehensive reform, adding to the patchwork nature of discrimination protections and contributing to uncertainty as to the scope and coverage of anti-discrimination laws. Patchwork protections also exacerbate the regulatory burden on duty holders where there are inconsistencies between obligations and differing compliance requirements. This article argues that governments in the region should enact comprehensive legislation prohibiting discrimination, enabling states to meet their international human rights obligations, minimise legislative inconsistencies and potentially provide greater legal certainty to citizens and duty holders alike. This analysis is timely as jurisdictions in the region – such as Singapore and Taiwan – are considering new legislative frameworks prohibiting discrimination.

Remarkably, twenty-five years into the twenty-first century, there remains an enormous “political empowerment” gender gap between men and women around the world, even as the health and survival and educational attainment gender gaps are nearly closed, and the economic participation and opportunity gender gap is on the way to being closed. The political empowerment gender gap—like the others, a component of the Global Gender Gap Index (World Economic Forum 2025)—measures ratios of women to men in parliaments, in cabinets, and as executives (presidents and prime ministers). On average, the gap is 25 percent women to 75 percent men. This is as true for Africa as for the rest of the world.

This article examines the shifting valences of multilingualism and bilingual education from the late colonial era through political decolonisation. It reveals how post-war discussions of language in education drew on but also diverged from earlier nationalist and imperial discourses that portrayed multilingualism as a threat. Across this divide, the concept of the ‘mother tongue’ was often used as a proxy for cultural belonging. However, after 1945, widening participation in the international arena also fostered more positive interpretations of multilingualism. I focus on the Paris-based UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as a hub that linked North and South and an amplifier of findings that were supportive of bilingual education. UNESCO’s conferences and publications helped shift political and scientific opinion, at times by defying conventional geographies of knowledge production and dissemination, as, for instance, studies from the postcolonial Philippines found their way, via Paris, into American bilingual education advocacy.

This study of Manchester conservatoire training during and immediately after the Great War is an outcome of the research project ‘Making Music in Manchester’, which was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and was a collaboration between the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) and community partners, Manchester Central Library and the Hallé Concerts Society. It focuses on musical life and training at the Royal Manchester College of Music (RMCM) to consider the extent to which the war made a difference to musical life at the College. The first part of this study examines the RMCM in the years leading up to the Great War, starting with the celebrations in the region to mark the twenty-first anniversary of the College in 1914 and examining the typical repertoire in the College’s public performances. Part two focuses on the impact of war on student numbers, gender balance, instruments played and any changes in repertoire. It discusses the conundrum of performing Wagner, on which perspectives differed sharply between Paris and Manchester. The final section examines the impact the temporary presence of ex-service students – who had been given Government grants to study music – had on the ecology of the RMCM and its mission to serve the North of England.

This article examines the forgetting of the collective memory of the Filipina “comfort women” prior to the 1990s transnational redress movement. It argues that the prevailing social norms around prostitution, postwar narratives of heroism versus collaboration, and the interests of state and elite actors contributed to the initial silencing of this memory. However, shifts in societal norms towards sexual slavery and the return of democratic spaces in Asia enabled the later remembering and eventual mobilization of the “comfort women” memory which facilitated the emergence of the redress movement in the Philippines, challenging the state’s homogenized official memory of the Asia-Pacific War.

While the judgement of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in KlimaSeniorinnen v. Switzerland has been hailed by many as a landmark in climate change and human rights litigation, the response by Switzerland and many intervening parties has been less favorable. For instance, the Swiss legislative has been very critical in its review of the judgement, claiming it to be “judicial activism.” By dissecting the criticism voiced in the aftermath of the KlimaSeniorinnen judgement and by comparing this case to similar cases by national and international courts in regard to climate change this paper asks whether this is a unique and swiss-specific criticism or if there is an inherent problem when it comes to climate change litigation and the separation of powers. While acknowledging persistent general criticism of the ECtHR, this article concludes that it is likely that the connection to human rights drives such criticism more than the connection to climate change. This might be because human rights, especially in the international context, leave ample room for interpretation and the margin of appreciation doctrine leaves room for disagreement. Additionally, this paper finds that situations of vertical separation of powers are more prone to criticism than horizontal ones.