The following talk will seek to do three things: first, understand how the attacks on 9/11, and the subsequent anthrax attacks, have succeeded in compromising our networks; second, suggest how early American communication networks played a central role in winning American independence from the British Imperial system. Finally, I will end this talk by arguing that 9/11 should not mean that we reconfigure American networks by bartering away our liberty in the name of security. Instead, in the wake of 9/11, we should think through ways to make our networks more secure by making them more robust, more extensive, and more intelligent.

Henry Fielding(1707-1754) was playwright, journalist, reforming magistrate, and the inventor of the comic novel in English. Out of Fielding’s practice of literature and law there emerges the concept of society as a complex, interdependent totality.

This article critically examines current discourses of internationalizing higher education both inside and outside the humanities and considers whether some contemporary practices and positions taken on by departments of languages, literatures and cultures might actually undermine public perspectives on language study by encouraging conceptually reductive views of language. Three common myths about language study that commonly surface in discussions of internationalization are then identified and analyzed, with the intention of exposing the discursive traps that scholars of languages and literatures often set for themselves and finding new ways of explaining our potential role in institutional efforts to internationalize curricula.

This paper assesses the sustainability practices of wild-caught fisheries by analyzing the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch (SFW) ratings database. U.S. domestic fisheries are held to federal sustainability standards via the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act, and the Endangered Species Act. However, since the United States imports 65-85% of its seafood, this study focuses on the foreign fisheries that export to the U.S.’s import-dependent seafood market. SFW assesses fisheries using performance-based metrics based on four criteria; Impacts on Species Under Assessment, Impacts on Other Capture Species, Management Effectiveness, and Impacts on the Habitat and Ecosystem. Over 65% of U.S. imported seafood evaluated by SFW is rated as “Avoid,” largely due to management ineffectiveness, bycatch, and the overarching issue of data deficiency. Through rating and criterion analysis, our study finds that bycatch and overall management are limiting for U.S. import fisheries. The forthcoming implementation of the Marine Mammal Protection Act import provisions has the potential result in improved bycatch management in foreign fisheries. However, there are risks of unwanted transfer effects if these fisheries are unsupported in their efforts to comply with the new regulations.