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The Somali Studies International Association: A Brief History

2008· article· en· W1593252729 on OpenAlex
Lee V. Cassanelli

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Bibliographic record

VenueHIMALAYA · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGlobal Maritime and Colonial Histories
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSomaliScholarshipPoliticsQuarter (Canadian coin)DozenPolitical scienceInternational relationsHistoryLawArchaeology
DOInot available

Abstract

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Launching a new international journal devoted to Somali Studies at the turn of the millennium provides an opportune moment for an historian to reminisce. Since one of Bildhaan’s major objectives is “to deepen historical memory and the search for explanations,” it seems appropriate, at this juncture, to take a brief look back at the history of an organization that has played a central role in defining the field of modern Somali Studies. The Somali Studies International Association (SSIA) was founded in 1978. Since that time, it has organized seven international scholarly congresses and helped promote at least half a dozen smaller regional meetings of Somali specialists on three continents. Over the past twenty-two years, its members have written and commented on virtually all aspects of Somali life, including those events and forces of the past decade that drove the country into political chaos and civil war. While academic congresses were certainly not the only places where knowledge about Somalia was produced and disseminated, the Association’s work can serve as a useful barometer to measure the condition of Somali scholarship over the past quarter century.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.689
Threshold uncertainty score0.925

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.042
GPT teacher head0.295
Teacher spread0.254 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it