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Record W2912163297 · doi:10.1353/ari.2019.0000

In Memoriam Professor Geoffrey V. Davis

2019· article· en· W2912163297 on OpenAlex

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenueAriel · 2019
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicAfrican studies and sociopolitical issues
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIndigenousColonialismThe artsEconomic JusticeCommonwealthSociologyResistance (ecology)Art historyMedia studiesHistoryClassicsLawPolitical science

Abstract

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In Memoriam Professor Geoffrey V. Davis Pamela McCallum Readers of ARIEL will be saddened to learn of the death of Professor Geoffrey V. Davis, a scholar who throughout his career was a strong advocate for Commonwealth and subsequently postcolonial literatures. Geoff taught at Aachen University (Germany) and had research and teaching fellowships at the Universities of Innsbruck (Austria); Verona (Italy); Cambridge (UK); Curtin (Australia); Växjö (Sweden); and Texas, Austin (USA). The author, editor, or co-editor of more than thirty books, Geoff engaged with a wide range of issues in postcolonial studies. His first commitment, and one that continued throughout his life, was to Zimbabwean and South African literatures. Matatu: A Journal for African Culture and Society, of which he was a founding co-editor, continues publication to this day. Recently, together with Ganesh Devy and Kalyan Chakravarty, he co-edited four volumes that situated indigenous issues transnationally: Indigeneity (Orient Blackswan, 2009), Voice and Memory (Orient Blackswan, 2011), Narrating Nomadism (Routledge India, 2013), and Knowing Differently (Routledge India, 2013). The [End Page 1] series Cross/Cultures: Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures and Cultures in English, which he co-edited with Gordon Collier, has proven to be an indispensible resource for scholars in postcolonial studies. One of Geoff’s books, Voices of Justice and Reason (Rodopi, 2003), took its title and epigraph from a comment by Nelson Mandela that the arts were sites where the case for resistance, liberty, beauty, and equality might still be made even in the darkest years of Apartheid. That claim echoes powerfully in Geoff’s research and writings and in the many conferences, seminars and talks he participated in or organized. He served as Chair of the European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (EACLALS) for three terms (2002–2005–2005–2008–2011–2014), and he was international Chair of ACLALS from 2008–2011. My personal memory of Geoff is his participation in a small session at the ACLALS conference in Vancouver in August 2007. He was a welcoming, insightful and gracious presence in the discussion. His voice will be profoundly missed. [End Page 2] Pamela McCallum Editor, ARIEL 2001–2011 Copyright © 2019 Johns Hopkins University Press and the University of Calgary

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Full frame distilled prediction

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)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.863
Threshold uncertainty score0.995

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.001

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 head0.017
GPT teacher head0.343
Teacher spread0.326 · 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