Plenary Panel Research Articles

Should Wellness Be a Core Competency for Physicians?

There has been a recent rise in calls for action around wellness and physician health. In medical education, wellness has been proposed as a physician competency. In this article, the authors review the history of the "wellness as a competency" concept within U.S. and Canadian residency programs and medical schools. Drawing from literature on the discourses of wellness and competence in medical education, they argue that operationalizing wellness as a physician competency holds profound implications for curricula, admissions, evaluation, and licensure. While many definitions of "wellness" and "competency" are used within medical training environments, the authors argue that the definitions institutions ultimately use will have significant impacts for trainees who are considered "unwell." In particular, medical learners with disabilities-including those with mental health, chronic health, learning, sensory, and mobility disabilities-may not conform to dominant conceptions of "wellness," and there is a risk they will become further stigmatized or even be considered unsuitable to practice in the profession. The authors conclude that framing wellness as a competency has the potential to legitimize support-seeking and prioritize physician health, yet it may also have the potential unintended effect of excluding certain learners from the profession. They propose a universal design approach to understand wellness at a systems level and to remove barriers to wellness for all medical learners.

Developing an Effective Professional Panel.

Plenary panel planning and implementation, carried out by temporary teams, are described for nursing organizations and professional development across settings. The conference or meeting theme and objectives frame panel member selection and moderator focus. Panelist conversations highlight different career trajectories and connect with attendees. [J Contin Educ Nurs. 2020;51(3):100-102.].

The emergence of an education policy dispositif in South Africa: An analysis of educational discourses associated with the fourth industrial revolution

The notion of the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) has recently entered the public and policy domain in South Africa. It has rapidly found resonance in policy discourse and the popular media. It has also entered the language of educational policy and institutions. The impact of 4IR on educational thinking and practice has hitherto not featured in academic discussion on education in South Africa except for a keynote plenary session at the annual conference of the South African Education Research Association (SAERA) in Durban (October 2019). The South African Education Deans Forum recently published a call for the submission of chapters for a book on teacher education, 4IR, and decolonisation. In this article, I develop an address that I delivered at the SAERA 2019 conference as part of the plenary panel. The article consists of four sections. The first offers a consideration of the entry of 4IR discourse into the educational imaginary. I suggest in this section that 4IR discourse has installed a socio-technical imaginary in South Africa's unequal educational dispensation. The second section concentrates on the construction of educational governance. Based on research on 4IR-related policy making, I discuss the policy directions taken by the Department of Higher Education and Training and the Department of Basic Education in giving effect to ways of engaging with 4IR in each of their domains. The third section features a discussion of the impact of technological disruption on society, the economy and education. The final section presents a discussion of the emerging educational architectures in the 4IR and a critical consideration of the curriculum and pedagogical dimensions of 4IR, which, I argue, are informed by an orientation that prioritises the acquisition of generic skills. Sidelining knowledge and concepts as central to the structuring of the curriculum, a generic skills approach succumbs to what might be called a knowledge blindness that holds pernicious consequences for epistemic access in South Africa.

ADTA 2018 Keynote Plenary Panel: Power and Privilege Within the ADTA

ADTA 2018 Keynote Plenary Panel: Power and Privilege Within the ADTA

Proceedings of the 2019 Global Business Anthropology Summit


 
 
 The second Global Business Anthropology Summit was held May 28-29, 2019 at Fordham University in New York City. The 2019 Summit brought together 160 industry practitioners and academic scholars to build upon the work of the 2018 Summit. The 2019 Summit was explicitly and emphatically forward thinking and action oriented to advance anthropological ideas in business. Its broad aims were to (1) advance thinking on the value of anthropological perspectives in business; (2) generate ways to spread appreciation of our work to academics, students, industry leaders, and the general public; and (3) build community among scholars and practitioners. The Summit's plenary panels and workshops demonstrated how anthropologists penetrate nearly every domain of business and are most adept at handling issues that are humanistic and complex. Throughout the two days, the Summit acknowledged the need to continue to grow the demand for anthropologists in business.
 
 

Technologies of Governance in Context: Four Global Windows Into Neoliberalism and Audit Culture in Higher Education

This partial special issue of Qualitative Inquiry, titled “Technologies of Governance in Context: Four Global Windows Into Neoliberalism and Audit Culture in Higher Education,” examines various aspects of the academic impact of neoliberal technologies from four context-specific locations that include Australia, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and the United States, in addition to my own Canadian perspective in this introduction. It is based on a similarly themed plenary panel that was held in 2018 as part of the 14th Annual International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry at University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign titled “The Politics, Places, Forms, and Effects of Accountability, Quality Assurance, and/or Excellence Frameworks in these Global Troubled Times.”

Nation-to-Nation Evaluation: Governance, Tribal Sovereignty, and Systems Thinking through Culturally Responsive Indigenous Evaluations

Abstract: This paper was presented as part of the opening plenary panel at the 2018 Canadian Evaluation Conference in Calgary, Alberta, on May 27, 2018. Through telling the origin stories of First Nations/Indigenous people and Western evaluation colleagues, we can begin to understand the history and practical applications for advancing the truth through evaluation. The Doctrine of Discovery is rarely told as part of the Western canon of history or contemporary evaluation practice. There are significant and negative cultural, human rights, and social impacts that have deep institutional and systemic roots that continue to cause harm to First Nations/Indigenous populations throughout the world. To change centuries of old negative outcomes and impacts, we must understand our personal origin stories and the origin stories embedded within evaluation. Governance, policy, and evaluation can work as transformative levers for professional and sustained change if systems, critical and Indigenous theories, and methods are utilized. This paper offers origin stories of First Nations and colonial nations as a historical perspective and a new Tribal Critical Systems Theory to change contemporary Nation-to-Nation evaluation practices.

Latin American Adult Immunisation Advocacy Summit: Overcoming regional barriers to adult vaccination.

Older adults in Latin America are at an increased risk of hospitalisation, ill health, catastrophic disability and death due to vaccine-preventable diseases such as influenza, herpes zoster, and pneumonia. The Latin American Adult Immunisation Advocacy Summit, held in Mexico City, gathered 40 experts in health, ageing and immunisation from 12 Latin American countries to explore good practices of adult vaccination, key country and regional barriers, and strategies to overcome these barriers. The Summit comprised of introductory lectures, plenary panels and breakout sessions with the overarching goal of improving adult vaccination uptake rates throughout the region. Several key messages and recommendations arose from the Summit. Delegates agreed upon the need for a paradigm shift in thinking towards a life course perspective on vaccination to sustain good health throughout life and promote well-being, dignity and functional capacity in older age. Delegates revealed the need for national financial commitment to fixed and irrevocable funding for universal vaccination and the urgent requirement for robust scientific, epidemiologic research in Latin American communities on the cost benefits of such coverage. The recommendations were strengthened through a common understanding of the unique multisectoral and multidisciplinary collaborations essential to influence and help shape public policy.

Where the Poles Come Together: POLAR2018 Joint Open Science Conference

Where the Poles Come Together: POLAR2018 Joint Open Science Conference

Editorial: Many Voices

In February of this year, I was fortunate to attend Bodies in/and Asian Theatres, a regional conference of the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR, the scholarly organization with which this journal is affiliated). It was held at the University of the Philippines Diliman under the aegis of the IFTR Asian Theatre working group. Toward the end of a plenary panel on contemporary South East Asian dance on the final day, a debate arose over the work of one of the speakers, Eisa Jocson. A dancer and choreographer, Jocson's work explores the aesthetics of local and transnational performative labour, and is often based on forms she learns from Filipinos working in the entertainment industry. For example, Macho Dancer (2013) is based on a distinctive style of erotic male nightclub performance, Host (2015) on the work of Filipinas in Japanese hostess clubs, and the HAPPYLAND series (2017) on the high number of Filipinos employed at the Hong Kong Disneyland. In response to her presentation on these and other works, some scholars from the Philippines asked Jocson, who mainly performs in Manila and on the international contemporary performance circuit, why she did not tour nationally. After all, they reasoned, since Jocson's performances are inspired by the work of entertainers who often come from regional cities and rural areas, is it not right to present the work ‘back’ to such a workforce and their communities? Such questions are, of course, complex and loaded. In so far as Jocson's performances address the exploitation of Filipino entertainers’ affective labour, is there any risk that Jocson compounds that exploitation for her own benefit? And in so far as those performances explore the choreographies of entertainment capital and commodified desire, should Filipino audiences not be informed and perhaps educated about such things? Jocson countered that while wider local exposure for her work was desirable, it was wrong to presume that it could readily be presented in such circumstances. She makes her work within a specific critical and discursive context, she explained, and as part of a long-term thematic and aesthetic enquiry. To present it outside such contexts would benefit neither the audience, nor the artist, nor the work. If anything, she seemed to be suggesting, the work is not made for the producers of such performance forms, but for their consumers, and those who elsewhere participate in and benefit from such economies. She recounted making the ‘mistake’ of asking the owners of a ‘macho dancer’ nightclub if she could perform Macho Dancer there, as part of their regular line-up, late at night. They offered her an early slot, so as not to disrupt business as usual.

Cognitive Computing

Cognitive Computing (CC) is a contemporary field of studies on intelligent computing methodologies and brain-inspired mechanisms of cognitive systems, cognitive machine learning and cognitive robotics. The IEEE conference ICCI*CC'17 on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing was focused on the theme of neurocomputation, cognitive machine learning and brain-inspired systems. This article reports the plenary panel (Part II) in IEEE ICCI*CC'17 at Oxford University. The summary is contributed by distinguished panelists who are part of the world's renowned scholars in the transdisciplinary field of cognitive computing.

Cognitive Informatics

Cognitive Informatics (CI) is a contemporary field of basic studies on the brain, computational intelligence theories and underpinning denotational mathematics. Its applications include cognitive systems, cognitive computing, cognitive machine learning and cognitive robotics. IEEE ICCI*CC'17 on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing was focused on the theme of neurocomputation, cognitive machine learning and brain-inspired systems. This paper reports the plenary panel (Part I) at IEEE ICCI*CC'17 held at Oxford University. The summary is contributed by invited keynote speakers and distinguished panelists who are part of the world's renowned scholars in the transdisciplinary field of CI and cognitive computing.

Open Debate on Accounting for the European Public Sector

Abstract This article contains the proceedings of the open debate that followed the plenary panel on ‘Accounting for the European Public Sector: The Ongoing Reform of European Public Sector Accounting Standards’ at the international workshop on ‘Which accounting regulation for Europe’s economy and society?’ organised under the auspices of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, on 20 May 2015.

Open Debate on Accounting Regulation and the Public Good

Abstract This article contains the proceedings of the open debate that followed the plenary panel on ‘Accounting Regulation and the Public Good’ at the international workshop on ‘Which Accounting Regulation for Europe’s Economy and Society?’ organised under the auspices of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, on 20 May 2015.

Open Debate on Accounting for the European Private Sector

Abstract This article contains the proceedings of the open debate that followed the plenary panel on ‘Accounting for the European Private Sector: Reconsidering Accounting Objectives From Economy and Finance’ at the international workshop on ‘Which Accounting Regulation for Europe’s Economy and Society?’ organised under the auspices of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, on 20 May 2015.

The Other Victorians at Fifty Introduction

The Other Victorians at Fifty Introduction Daniel Bivona (bio) The Other Victorians has lived an unusually long scholarly life since its initial publication in 1967. Like all long-lasting and oft-cited works, Marcus’s text has attracted its share of criticism as well as praise. Writing in the 1990s, Andrew H. Miller described The Other Victorians as “the single most influential account of sexuality in Victorian Britain before the work of Foucault” (2). The Other Victorians has served as a touchstone text—one to which scholars in both the humanities and the social sciences turn again and again when thinking about the history of human sexuality and its literary representations. It is a book of intellectual history whose central argument many of us feel obliged to engage to this day, even if, in some cases, mainly to contest its claims. Drawn from a plenary panel presented at the 2016 meeting of the North American Victorian Studies Association, these essays offer a “critical celebration” of Marcus’s contributions. They each consider this signal text by Marcus, who was at the time of its publication not only an author, but also a dissertation director, a university professor, a New York Intellectual, and a crusader for the end of the Vietnam War. In these pages, Simon Joyce, Seth Koven, and Collette Colligan assess the contexts for the writing of The Other Victorians, and the legacies of this landmark work. Taken together, these contributions suggest that what many of us value above all in this work is the way it has challenged (and continues to challenge) us all to engage in a debate opened up by Marcus in his consideration of nineteenth-century pornography, a topic long neglected—or [End Page 463] underplayed—by scholars until his work helped to make it a respectable scholarly pursuit. It is fitting that, despite arguing that the realms of literature and pornography ought to be kept distinct, as Colligan reminds us in her essay, Marcus himself was the first to invite scholars to fully investigate the neglected riches of the pornographic archive. Although Marcus clearly stipulated a position that can now seem somewhat quaint to interdisciplinary scholars—that “literature” is a culturally and ethically superior genre to pornography, with its endlessly repetitive narrative elements and its libertine indifference to conventional morality—one ought to consider the historical context: The Other Victorians was published only nine years after the 1957 Supreme Court decision, in Roth v. United States, that allowed literary works containing sexual representations to be sold in the U. S. only if they were works of “redeeming social importance.” The essays by Joyce, Koven, and Colligan offer three critical readings of Marcus’s work and its legacies. In so doing, they provide three distinctly different acknowledgements of its importance. In his essay “Past, Present, and Pornography,” Joyce makes a broad but ultimately compelling claim in response to Marcus’s contention that there is no homosexual canon of Victorian pornography. Joyce re-poses Foucault’s question about whether, when it comes to sex and sexuality, we are “modern” or still stubbornly “Victorian.” If “modern,” then we “align,” so it seems, with the position of Victorian pornography. If still “Victorian,” then do we “compliment the past for being a lot more modern than we typically admit?” (466). In a rereading of Teleny; Or, the Reverse of the Medal (1893) and The Pearl (1879–80), Joyce contests Marcus’s claim. He notes that there is neither a homosexual nor a heterosexual pornography in the nineteenth century, because the characters in many of these narratives move from male-female sex to male-male sex and back again without the texts taking overt notice that a significant boundary has been crossed and re-crossed. As Joyce concludes, rereading Marcus through the lens of Foucault reminds us of the “continued residual force of a unitary model of sexuality through the nineteenth century and beyond” (474). Koven’s essay “The Marriage of Social Science and Literary Criticism in The Other Victorians” returns us to an emphasis on the more intellectually revolutionary aspects of Marcus’s 1966 book. Koven’s essay is a generously appreciative reading of The Other Victorians as an inspirational...

Abstract Intelligence

Basic studies in denotational mathematics and mathematical engineering have led to the theory of abstract intelligence (aI), which is a set of mathematical models of natural and computational intelligence in cognitive informatics (CI) and cognitive computing (CC). Abstract intelligence triggers the recent breakthroughs in cognitive systems such as cognitive computers, cognitive robots, cognitive neural networks, and cognitive learning. This paper reports a set of position statements presented in the plenary panel (Part II) of IEEE ICCI*CC'16 on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing at Stanford University. The summary is contributed by invited panelists who are part of the world's renowned scholars in the transdisciplinary field of CI and CC.

Introduction to the Special Issue: Honoring Linda Peterson

Introduction to the Special Issue:Honoring Linda Peterson Alexis Easley, Editor, VPR In the cover photo to this special issue, Linda Peterson smiles as she looks up from her laptop computer. She is clearly in her element—preparing a lecture aboard the Sea Cloud II with her husband Fred Strebeigh at her side. Those of us who knew Linda recognize her welcoming smile and remember the engaging conversation that was always soon to follow. Fred tells me that the photo was taken during the winter of 2013 when they were co-teaching a course for Yale alumni titled "The History and Gardens of the Caribbean." I can only envy the lucky students who listened to Linda's lectures and spent time sailing with her among those tropical isles. I, like so many other members of RSVP, was a frequent beneficiary of Linda's mentorship and collegiality. She was the first scholar to cite one of my published works in a talk at RSVP and the first to invite me to speak on a plenary panel. For Linda, mentoring fellow scholars was an integral part of her scholarly practice. A colleague, Dal Liddle, recently recounted a characteristic instance of Linda's generosity. He was attending the 2010 RSVP Conference at Yale and mentioned to Linda in passing that he was doing some research on Harriet Martineau. Moments later, Linda appeared with a stack of handwritten notes from her archival research abroad. Even though she was busy managing the conference, she took time to find a quiet room where Dal could study these archival materials between panel sessions. Such generosity was not unusual for Linda. In 2015, Linda Hughes noted how dozens of scholars stepped forward to acknowledge Linda Peterson's instrumental role in their careers, recounting how she "had helped them with recommendations, encouraged them in their work, or served as a role model for all that a scholar might be, whether they knew her or not" (VPR 49.3 [2015]: 303). "Among those lucky enough to know her," Hughes reflects, "each of us felt we had a special tie to Linda—because she made us feel this way and because friendships and collegiality were so important to her" (303). Linda Peterson's scholarship on gender, life writing, poetry, authorship, and the periodical press defined the field of Victorian studies in instrumental ways. Her monographs, Victorian Autobiography: The Tradition of Self-Interpretation (1986), Traditions of Victorian Women's Autobiography: The Poetics and Politics of Life Writing (1999), and Becoming a Woman of Letters: Myths of Authorship and Facts of the Victorian Market (2009), inspired a whole generation of feminist scholarship. And her editions of Harriet Martineau's and Margaret Oliphant's autobiographies [End Page 271] were crucial in establishing the importance of both writers in the history of Victorian journalism. She also contributed two important essays to VPR, "Mother-Daughter Productions: Mary Howitt and Anna Mary Howitt in Howitt's Journal, Household Words, and Other Mid-Victorian Publications" (VPR 31.1 [1998]: 31–53) and "Nineteenth-Century Women Poets and Periodical Spaces: Letitia Landon and Felicia Hemans" (VPR 49.3 [2016]: 396–414). RSVP will always treasure these and her many other contributions to our field. This special issue highlights the ongoing resonance of Linda's work within our scholarly community. Some contributors take Linda's theories of life writing as their starting point, using her critical insights as inspiration for new explorations of auto/biographical narratives in the periodical press. Others build upon her legacy by shedding new light on the careers of women journalists that Linda was instrumental in bringing back into the scholarly conversation: Mary Howitt, Margaret Oliphant, and Alice Meynell. It is with deep gratitude and ongoing admiration that we dedicate this special issue to the memory of Linda Peterson, whose work and life testify to all that we value most in our scholarly society—critical daring, passionate inquiry, and generous collegiality. [End Page 272] Copyright © 2017 The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals

Cognitive Intelligence

The theme of IEEE ICCI*CC'16 on Cognitive Informatics (CI) and Cognitive Computing (CC) was on cognitive computers, big data cognition, and machine learning. CI and CC are a contemporary field not only for basic studies on the brain, computational intelligence theories, and denotational mathematics, but also for engineering applications in cognitive systems towards deep learning, deep thinking, and deep reasoning. This paper reports a set of position statements presented in the plenary panel (Part I) in IEEE ICCI*CC'16 at Stanford University. The summary is contributed by invited panelists who are part of the world's renowned scholars in the transdisciplinary field of CI and CC.

Current progress on understanding the impact of mercury on human health

Mercury pollution and its impacts on human health is of global concern. The authors of this paper were members of the Plenary Panel on Human Health in the 12th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant held in Korea in June 2015. The Panel was asked by the conference organizers to address two questions: what is the current understanding of the impacts of mercury exposure on human health and what information is needed to evaluate the effectiveness of the Minamata Convention in lowering exposure and preventing adverse effects. The authors conducted a critical review of the literature published since January 2012 and discussed the current state-of-knowledge in the following areas: environmental exposure and/or risk assessment; kinetics and biomonitoring; effects on children development; effects on adult general populations; effects on artisanal and small-scale gold miners (ASGM); effects on dental workers; risk of ethylmercury in thimerosal-containing vaccines; interactions with nutrients; genetic determinants and; risk communication and management. Knowledge gaps in each area were identified and recommendations for future research were made. The Panel concluded that more knowledge synthesis efforts are needed to translate the research results into management tools for health professionals and policy makers.