International Gathering Research Articles

A Glimpse of the CLISS 2: The Children's Literature Summer School and Symposium, Roehampton University, London, England. July 2003

What is CLISS? For an overview, we offer three perspectives, three voices, each offering a personal view: tutor Lissa Paul, organizer Kim Reynolds and participant Wally de Doncker. The essays in this issue offer in-depth views: close looks at the range of subjects discussed at the international gathering of children's literature specialists. A Tutor's View: Lissa Paul The anticipation of returning to a place where you've been happy is perhaps one way adults reconnect with childhood selves, recapturing the sense of living in the future rather than through the filters of experience and memory. My return to the Children's Literature International Summer School (CLISS, sponsored by the National Centre for Research in Children's Literature [NCRCL]) in late July 2003 felt that way. I'd been one of the first international group tutors at the first CLISS in summer 2001, and had quickly become part of the international community of students living, studying, touring, and eating together on the welcoming campus, which also houses Froebel College, named after the founder of kindergartens, Friedrich Froebel (1782–1852). Froebel believed that education should be a "creative and interactive process," so it is likely that he would have approved of the CLISS seminars taking place on the campus that week in late July. The weather was English summer: slightly cool, but not uncomfortable. There's a lovely little pond on the grounds, with a blue heron often present. And just outside the campus walls is Richmond Park, protected [End Page v] in the late seventeenth century as a royal deer preserve. On one early-morning walk in the park, tutors Lynne Vallone, Peter Hunt, and I all observed a large herd of stags quietly grazing. Inside the walls of the college, the lectures, seminars, displays, and conversations are all focused on children's literature—in an array of international aspects. One of my favorite moments from CLISS 2 occurred during a lecture by Peter Hunt on "Children's Literature and the Loss of God." Two Israeli students sitting next to me were taking notes in graceful Hebrew script in their right-to-left notebooks. Those kinds of cross-cultural moments were frequent, though ephemeral. There were, however, many more enduring cross-cultural connections with students and colleagues from Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East. For people like me, living in North America, children's literature by default almost always means English-language children's literature. The teeming creative and academic inventiveness alive in the rest of the world remains almost invisible, existing on the very edges of our anglophone peripheral vision. CLISS brings the children's book world of those cultures up close, and makes us rethink ourselves. My first visit in 2001, for example, included a meeting with Anette Steffensen from Denmark, seeding the opportunity for a lecture and subsequent connection with the wonderful Centre for Children's Literature in Copenhagen—and with some of the people who have since been invited to join the editorial board of The Lion and the Unicorn, including Wally de Doncker from Belgium and Tomoko Masaki from Japan. An Organizer's View: Kim Reynolds The idea of running a Children's Literature International Summer School in the United Kingdom was part of a general movement in that nation to reassess the contribution made by children's literature, in all its forms, to culture. The Arts Council of England was central to this process and has helped to finance CLISS since its inception (and has contributed funds to this issue of The Lion and the Unicorn). The Literature Department there recognizes that literature for children has played a significant role in shaping aesthetic tastes, literary heritage, social mores, and attitudes to being British at least...

2004 ASM Conference on the New Phage Biology: the ‘Phage Summit’

In August, more than 350 conferees from 24 countries attended the ASM Conference on the New Phage Biology, in Key Biscayne, Florida. This meeting, also called the Phage Summit, was the first major international gathering in decades devoted exclusively to phage biology. What emerged from the 5 days of the Summit was a clear perspective on the explosive resurgence of interest in all aspects of bacteriophage biology. The classic phage systems like lambda and T4, reinvigorated by structural biology, bioinformatics and new molecular and cell biology tools, remain model systems of unequalled power and facility for studying fundamental biological issues. In addition, the New Phage Biology is also populated by basic and applied scientists focused on ecology, evolution, nanotechnology, bacterial pathogenesis and phage-based immunologics, therapeutics and diagnostics, resulting in a heightened interest in bacteriophages per se, rather than as a model system. Besides constituting another landmark in the long history of a field begun by d'Herelle and Twort during the early 20th century, the Summit provided a unique venue for establishment of new interactive networks for collaborative efforts between scientists of many different backgrounds, interests and expertise.

A Message From the Editor.

A Message From the Editor.

Expanded papers from an international workshop on performance-based design—concepts and implementation

An international workshop on performance-based design was held in Bled, Slovenia, on June 28–July 1, 2004. This workshop provided a valuable forum for the exchange of research results and design practice ideas on issues important for seismic risk reduction and the development of performance-based earthquake engineering concepts. The theme of the workshop was to assess the state of knowledge and practice related to performance-based design and to identify challenges that need to be addressed so that progress in research and implementation in engineering practice can be accelerated and a common foundation can be established on which to base the various approaches advocated in different countries. At the workshop, 45 invited participants and 12 observers from 14 countries addressed the following topics in four working groups: loss estimation, fragility and vulnerability, and impact on risk management; implementation in engineering practice; performance-based design concepts; and integration of experimental and analytical simulations. The workshop has led to a greater understanding of many of the issues involved in performance-based design, and much progress has been made in the development of concepts and procedures suitable for implementation in engineering practice. Nevertheless, many issues remain unresolved and additional research and studies are needed to implement rigorous performance-based design with confidence. Performance-based design concepts provide a suitable framework for future seismic code development. Common interests exist among researchers and practitioners of the countries represented at the workshop. Progress in research and implementation in engineering practice can be accelerated by the international dialog on new ideas and concepts. Cooperative research on issues of common interest should be encouraged. The participants recognize that performance-based design has many facets and may take on very different meaning and approaches depending on prevailing economic and societal priorities. Nevertheless, by continuing the international dialog, a common foundation can be established on which to base the various approaches advocated in different countries. An urgent need exists for worldwide sharing of data obtained from experimental and analytical studies and from field measurements taken during earthquakes. A protocol for international data sharing should be developed and efforts should be initiated for the creation of a worldwide data repository. In order to accelerate the transfer of knowledge from researchers to engineering practice, a need exists for incorporating performance-based design concepts and reliability theory into educational curricula. Recognizing the benefits of the exchange of ideas that occurred at the workshop, international gatherings should be held on a periodic basis to share information on the development of performance-based design. To further increase the impact of the work discussed in Bled, the workshop participants were encouraged to submit expanded versions of their papers to the Journal, provided they report on previously unpublished material appropriate for a journal publication. Submitted manuscripts have undergone the regular review process, which was handled by Anil K. Chopra. Seven papers, printed in this issue, have been accepted for publication. The full workshop proceedings, which contain 43 papers as well as the workshop resolutions, conclusions and recommendations, can be obtained from the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, 1301 South 46th Street, Richmond, CA 94804, U.S.A. (info@nisee.berkeley.edu).

"Master" versus "Servant": Contradictions in Drama and Theatre Education

Master" versus "Servant":Contradictions in Drama and Theatre Education Shifra Schonmann (bio) Mr Jourdain: You mean to say that when I say "Nicole, fetch me my slippers" or "Give me my night-cap" that's prose? Philosopher: Certainly, sir. Mr Jourdain: Well, my goodness! Here I've been talking prose for the last forty years and never known it, and mighty grateful I am to you for telling me! —Molière, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme1 My basic claim is that our young field—drama and theatre education—feels old. Are we being stifled by applied drama and theatre, so that it has put real obstacles in the way of broadening the horizons of the field? I know that by asking this question I risk setting myself up as a living target for all those who maintain that applied theatre is the "hot" and the appropriate concept in the field. For more than twenty-five years now, we have been working with our students in teacher education departments and with children in schools in the manner of applied drama and theatre, but we have named it differently. It is as if we had been speaking the language of applied drama and theatre for twenty-five years—and we did not know that this was the case. (It reminds me of Moliere's Monsieur Jourdain who suddenly discovers that he has been speaking prose for the past forty years.) I would like to make it very clear from the outset that my claim is not against applied drama and theatre; it is a claim for another proportion (balance) between the instrumental function and the artistic-aesthetic function of our drama and theatre work in education. Is this a new claim? Not at all. But in the midst of our intensive endeavors in the field, it strikes me again and again that we have been running after our own tails, doing almost the same things over the past twenty-five [End Page 31] years. I have tried to understand why we are wandering around, surrounded by the same basic circles and experiencing a feeling of déjà-vu. What, really, is our problem? As a result of asking myself these questions, I began to analyze programs of the major conferences of the last ten years in drama and theatre education: Exeter (Researching Drama and Theatre in Education), AATE (American Alliance for Theatre and Education), IDEA (International Drama/Theatre and Education Association), and IDIERI (International Drama in Education Research Institute). These are considered to be the main international professional gatherings in the field (most of which I have attended). I have been looking into the headings that express the topics that were discussed. My data show that the majority of the topics were concerned with the by-products that drama and theatre can produce but not with the artistic and/or the aesthetic dimensions of the field. Sometimes I wonder if we fail to see the wood for the trees. In the Dictionary of Developmental Drama, written by Richard Courtney, an attempt was made to clarify the terms of drama used in a variety of practical fields.2 In this dictionary, we cannot find the applied theatre entry or process drama entry, but we can find entries such as developmental drama, drama in education, drama therapy, dramatic activity, educational drama, educational theatre, forum theatre, and many others. The terminology used among drama workers, leaders, and researchers is not precise. When drama educators and researchers meet, we engage in extensive discussion, often exchanging experiences and successful strategies. Quite some time can pass before we realize that our concepts of drama education differ considerably. These concepts range from completely spontaneous activities, such as improvisational exercises, to very carefully planned work, such as staging written scripts. Courtney's dictionary is the only one that I know that tries to define the basic concepts in our field: It is necessary but not adequate or up to date. In the "Drama Way" Project, a comprehensive work by Jouni Piekkari et al., coordinated by the University of Turku in Finland, I found a good attempt to set up a "mini" dictionary.3 The "Drama Way" Project identified a number of...

Life cycle assessment in management, product and process design, and policy decision making: A conference report

On 24 September 2003, life cycle assessment (LCA) practitioners and decision makers gathered at the InLCA/LCM Conference in Seattle, Washington, USA (see http://www.lcacenter.org/InLCA-LCM03/index.html) to discuss the role of LCA in management, product design, process development, and regulatory/policy development decisions and to compare life cycle-based methods and tools with traditional product evaluation methods and tools. This article is a summary of that meeting and was prepared by the organizers as an overview of the many different technical, regulatory policy, and decision-making policy perspectives presented to an international gathering of participants representing academia and the industrial and regulatory communities.

Roscoe R. “Ike” Robinson

Roscoe R. “Ike” Robinson

Pounded in Scotland

Pounded in Scotland

EJIAS: The Journal of HIV/AIDS Science and Medicine in the Developing World

On behalf of the International AIDS Society (IAS), Medscape, and our editors, we are pleased to introduce eJIAS: eJournal of the International AIDS Society , a new peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the science and practice of HIV/AIDS medicine in the developing world. And, on the occasion of the largest international gathering of HIV/AIDS scientists and healthcare and public health workers in 2 years, we are privileged to present the official online abstracts of the XV International AIDS Conference (Bangkok, Thailand; July 11–16, 2004) in this inaugural issue of eJIAS . (Published: 15 July 2004) doi:10.1186/1758-2652-6-3-56 Full text: BioMed Central: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1758-2652/content/6/3/56 PubMed Central: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2738662/

Revised plenary format among new AGA offerings at DDW

The annual Digestive Disease Week, widely known as DDW, is the largest international gathering of physicians, researchers, and academics in gastroenterology, hepatology, endoscopy, and gastrointestinal surgery. Jointly sponsored by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA), the American Society for Gastrointestinal Surgery (ASGE), and the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT), DDW occurs every May in cities throughout the U.S. The 2004 meeting will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, May 15–20. For the edification of more than 14,000 attendees, DDW will showcase approximately 5000 abstracts and hundreds of lectures on the latest advances in GI research, medicine, and technology. The AGA Plenary session, Tuesday, May 17, features a new format that will include 2 concurrent tracks (basic and clinical) in segment 1 and the Presidential Plenary in segment 2. There will be 5 Distinguished Abstract Plenary presentations and one state-of-the-art lecture in each concurrent session. “We tried to make this year’s Plenary more interesting and relevant to attendees as possible,” says Dr. Loren Laine, Chair of the AGA Council and Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases at the University of Southern California. Laine notes that the “breadth of the AGA’s overall offerings to the GI community is reflected in the association’s extensive programming at DDW, which ranges from basic science to clinical practice to practice management issues.” Also in the AGA program at DDW are Problem-Based Learning Luncheon Sessions. Offered by the AGA Education Committee, these sessions involve discussion of real-life case presentations by a small group with the teacher as a facilitator. The group identifies the relevant facts, hypotheses, and learning agenda items and resolves the problem put forth in the case presentation. One-hour State of the Art lectures this year vary widely. A sampling includes angiogenesis and cancer, biomedical-imaging research, chemopreventive strategies for GI malignancy, and selective adhesion molecules as targets for IBD. For this year’s AGA Morton I. Grossman Distinguished Lectureship, Dr. Elizabeth H. Blackburn of the University of California, San Francisco, describes her recent work and progress to date on targeting telomeres and telomerase. Her work shows that altering the action of telomerase can block tumor cell growth. For the John Walsh Memorial Lecture, Dr. Laine discusses treatment and prevention of ulcer bleeding. AGA has also created Focused Clinical Updates to help participants choose the “must-see” abstracts. In each breakfast session, an expert moderator will review and preview selected abstracts from the DDW Program. Prior to the meeting, registrants will be sent a link to a Web site where they can download and print abstracts to be presented during the sessions. “The AGA Council has worked diligently to develop a program of invited speakers and research-driven sessions that will be of great interest and value to our members,” Laine says. For more details, go to http://www.ddw.org/

Aux Frontieres de la Paix: Bons Offices, Mediations, Arbitrages du Saint-Siege (1878-1922) (review)

Reviewed by: Aux Frontières de la Paix: Bons Offices, Médiations, Arbitrages du Saint-Siège (1878–1922) John Pollard Aux Frontières de la Paix: Bons Offices, Médiations, Arbitrages du Saint-Siège (1878–1922). By Jean-Marc Ticchi. [Collection de l’École Française de Rome, 294.] (Rome: École Française de Rome. 2002. Pp. ix, 483. Paperback.) This is a study of the development of the papacy's role as arbitrator, mediator, and 'honest broker' in international disputes, in the reigns of Leo XIII (1878-1903), Pius X (1903-1914), and Benedict XV (1914-1922). Most of the disputes in which Vatican diplomacy involved itself were between Latin American nations, but some involved the large and small European powers, and the United States of America. The study is original because relatively little attention has been focused on this important aspect of the diplomacy of the modern papacy, and it has been carried out with meticulous scholarship, providing the reader with an exhaustive [End Page 332] historiographical contextualization and an elaborate scholarly apparatus, including a complete list of all the disputes in which the papal diplomacy was involved and a full itemization of the archival sources consulted. In this regard it's a pity that there is not a subject as well as a name index. Ticchi presents Leo XIII's 'active' diplomacy within the context of the ongoing struggle with the Kingdom of Italy over the "Roman Question." A high diplomatic profile certainly was a very effective way of asserting the pope's continued claim to the status of "sovereign pontiff" despite the loss of the Papal States in 1870, and of re-establishing the moral authority of the papacy in the world. He gives us a very detailed examination of Leo's most famous diplomatic intervention, the Spanish-German dispute over the Caroline Islands, mediation in other disputes between Latin American states, and also the Vatican's failed attempts to prevent war between Spain and the United States over Cuba in 1898. Leo also had his diplomatic failures, and the most notable was the exclusion of the Holy See from the Hague Peace of 1899. Ticchi explores the complex diplomatic negotiations surrounding the organization of the conference, including the extremely duplicitous diplomacy of the Russians when faced by the intransigent refusal of Italy to allow the papacy to participate in a major international gathering for fear that its representative would exploit the occasion to raise the "Roman Question." Ironically, it was the poor Dutch, hosts of the conference, who got the blame for papal exclusion. The Holy See was also to be excluded from the Hague Conference of 1907. In his analysis of the pontificate of Pius X, Ticchi demonstrates that though the diplomacy of Papa Sarto and his secretary of state, Cardinal Rafael Merry del Val, in many ways demonstrates a break with Leonine diplomacy, they continued to regard a peace-making role as normal to the Holy See. This is a good book, but there is one disappointment. The title defines the period under study very clearly, "1878-1922." Consequently, the reader not unnaturally expects a full examination of papal peace diplomacy during World War I, whereas in fact the important pontificate of Benedict XV is effectively subsumed into the Conclusion. Thus the really crucial mediatory role that Benedict and his secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Gasparri, both pupils of Rampolla and Leo XIII, sought to play to bring the belligerents to the negotiating table is dealt with in exactly six pages. One understands the author's dilemma; a full examination of wartime papal diplomacy would have required a very much longer work: Would it not have made more sense to restrict the book to the study of the reigns of Leo XIII and Pius X, and then add some remarks about the pontificate of Benedict XV as a postcript? John Pollard Trinity Hall, Cambridge Copyright © 2004 The Catholic University of America Press

The intriguing encounters of Pavlov and Cushing.

Ivan Petrovich Pavlov and Harvey William Cushing were two of the most prominent neuroscientists of the early 20th century. Their contributions helped advance the understanding of the brain and its disorders, and propelled neuroscience into a new era of research and treatment. Although separated geographically and culturally, Pavlov and Cushing exchanged letters and followed one another's careers from afar. They met only a few times, during international scientific gatherings in the US and abroad. These encounters were captured in journal entries, letters, and photographs, and provide a glimpse into the lives of these two great men and the history of neuroscience at the turn of the last century.

Encyclopedia of international games

The Olympic Games, revived in 1896, are the most well-known international multisport gathering of our times. Since 1896, hundreds of other multisport competitions based on the model of the Olympic Games have been established whose histories have not been as well documented.

Voices - The Gathering

Soon music therapists will be gathering again for another World Congress of Music Therapy, this time in Oxford, UK. Each time these gatherings become more and more exciting. It is good that the numbers of music therapists around the world keep increasing. But the exciting aspect of these International gatherings, for me, is the opportunity to experience the tremendous diversity, which is also growing each year. More and more countries are learning about music therapy and setting up training programs for music therapists. And the organizers of the Oxford conference are creating an event that is very respectful of this diversity and one that will provide many opportunities for cross-cultural exchanges.

Congenital heart disease outcome analysis: Methodology and rationale

Congenital heart disease outcome analysis: Methodology and rationale

Software development, nomenclature schemes, and mapping strategies for an international pediatric cardiac surgery database system

The field of congenital heart surgery has the opportunity to create the first comprehensive international database for a medical subspecialty. An understanding of the demographics of congenital heart disease and the rapid growth of computer technology leads to the realization that creating a comprehensive international database for pediatric cardiac surgery represents an important and achievable goal. The evolution of computer-based data analysis creates an opportunity to develop software to manage an international congenital heart surgery database and eventually become an electronic medical record. The same database data set for congenital heart surgery is now being used in Europe and North America. Additional work is under way to involve Africa, Asia, Australia, and South America. The almost simultaneous publication of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery/Society of Thoracic Surgeons coding system and the Association for European Paediatric Cardiology coding system resulted in the potential for multiple coding. Representatives of the Association for European Paediatric Cardiology, Society of Thoracic Surgeons, European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery, and European Congenital Heart Surgeons Foundation agree that these hierarchical systems are complementary and not competitive. An international committee will map the two systems. The ideal coding system will permit a diagnosis or procedure to be coded only one time with mapping allowing this code to be used for patient care, billing, practice management, teaching, research, and reporting to governmental agencies. The benefits of international data gathering and sharing are global, with the long-term goal of the continued upgrade in the quality of congenital heart surgery worldwide. Copyright © 2002 by W.B. Saunders Company

Fertility preservation in cancer patients

This symposium was an international gathering of clinicians and scientists working in the field of preservation of fertility for male and female cancer patients and was organized by Professor Ettore Cittadini. Two days of invited lectures covered the spectrum of options for cryopreservation of fertility, from sperm, testicular tissue and germ cells, to eggs and ovarian tissue. The UK was represented by invited talks from Daniel Brison (sperm cryopreservation), John Radford (ovarian tissue cryopreservation), Kate Hardy (in vitro culture of follicles) and David Baird (ovarian tissue cryopreservation and regrafting in sheep).

The G8 Summit and Japan

In the following article, Akira Kojima, managing director and editorial page editor of the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, evaluates the 2000 Kyushu-Okinawa Summit. In contrast to those critics who contend that the summit has deteriorated into an irrelevant and redundant international gathering, Kojima argues that the summit is even more important than it has ever been. In this evaluation of the 2000 G8 Summit, he outlines the role of the summit and, in particular, explains the significance of the summit for Japan, both for politicians and for the general public. He also discusses the rationale for the choice of Okinawa as the venue for the last G8 Summit of the twentieth century.

Introduction and Overview: New and Continuing Challenges and Opportunities for Black Women in the Academy

Introduction and Overview During the latter half of the 20th century, Black women achieved dramatic progress in institutions of higher education. Despite the pervasive, interactive effects of institutionalized racism and sexism, these women made tremendous strides as students, faculty, and administrators. Out of the intense struggles of the civil rights and women's movements, they currently occupy leadership roles in the academy that were once formally denied to-them. For example, since 1986, the percentage of women college presidents rose from 9.5% to 19% while the percentage of minority presidents increased from 8% to 11% (American Council on Education, 2000). By 1998, 6% of all minority college presidents were African Americans, and minority presidents were more likely than White presidents to be women. Notwithstanding these advances, confronting inequities and making colleges and universities more inclusive and hospitable for Black women continue to represent ongoing struggles as the new millennium begins. As Benjamin (1997) maintains, the ivory tower, the voices [of Black women] are shrouded beneath a racist and sexist cloud that is often chilly at White institutions and lukewarm, at best, in Black ones (p. 211). The idea for this special issue of the Journal of Negro Education (NE) arose from our own personal recognition of the struggles and triumphs of Black women in the academy and from the many similar victories and setbacks that were brought to light during the Black Women in the Academy II: Service and Leadership Conference held in Washington, D.C., in June 1999.(1) This special issue serves not only to highlight some of the issues discussed at that international gathering but to document the continued oppressive experiences of Black women in the academy while accentuating the lessons of survival, strength, and resilience gained from adversity. We hope that the perspectives put forth will help readers of this JNE issue to better understand the totality of Black women's experiences in the academy. We hope also that these articles will make readers be aware of the many ways in which race, gender, and ethnicity intersect and define these experiences. The contributors cover a variety of areas and contexts. Unifying themes among the articles are their attention to institutional climate, support systems and networks (or the lack thereof), role ambiguity and role overload, the connections between racism and sexism, and other systemic barriers facing Black women faculty in the academy. In considering articles for this issue, our aim was to be as inclusive as possible-to bring together a diversity of voices, perspectives, and backgrounds to address the conditions, challenges, and opportunities faced by and available to Black women in the academy, not only in the United States but also abroad. Therefore, we divided this issue into two major sections. Section One focuses on African American women in U.S. colleges and universities. In particular, the articles in this section provide insights into the historical and contemporary status of African American female faculty members, students, and staff in higher education and their continuing struggles for institutional change. Sheila T. Gregory gives special attention to the thorny issues of appointment, promotion, and tenure as well as to the more macrolevel issues such as institutional culture and systemic barriers. Veronica G. Thomas examines the motivators, obstacles, and support systems of reentry or older college women, highlighting the special challenges faced by older African American women who return to undergraduate school. In another article, Cheryl Evans Green and Valarie Green King share findings from an Africentric leadership development program for Black women in the academy that utilizes a collective mentoring process. …

Ways of Understanding the Culture: Re-examining the Performance Paradigm

The tendency for ‘performance studies’ to embrace and even supplant ‘theatre studies’ can usefully enlarge our perceptions of the relevance of theatricality to other disciplines and activities – but fully extended into the ‘performativities’ of everyday life can be counterproductive when definitions are so loose as to be redundant. Here, Ian Watson considers the boundary-crossing qualities of two variants on the ‘performance paradigm’ – Eugenio Barba's bridge-building concept of ‘Barter Theatre’ and Augusto Boal's deliberately provocative ‘Invisible Theatre’. He proceeds to relate the characteristics identified to an event no less clearly staged, though less often discussed as such: the set-piece political speech, in this case President Clinton's acceptance of his renomination as Democratic candidate at his party's Chicago convention in 1996. Ian Watson is an Advisory Editor of NTQ who teaches at the Rutgers campus of the State University of New Jersey. The last of his several contributions to the journal was his report on the Ninth International Gathering of Group Theatre in Ayacucho, Peru, in NTQ58 (May 1999).