After Writes

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 427-447
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Reflective Thinking ◽  
Collaborative Writing ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Writing Group ◽  
Working Together ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
As If ◽  
The Way

In this paper we write our way into the space generated by the ending/not ending of the Bristol Collaborative Writing Group that we had all engaged with for over seven years. This writing was to have taken the form of a post script or ‘after writes,’ since we ended, or ‘petered out,’ some months before. Rather than ending responsibly, with attention to matters of ‘closure,’ talk of transition and carefully held space for reflective thinking (Birnbaum & Cichetti, 2008), we unravelled somewhat unceremoniously on the way back from lunch at the Pizza Express, perched outside the gents in the downstairs foyer at the university, unable to find an empty room to host our farewells. Yet in a manner completely congruent with our starting out and working together, the task we had set ourselves to end did not materialise as it ‘should.’ This special issue has afforded us the opportunity to attend differently to our endings/beginnings and also to each other “as if for the first time” (Eliot, 1944). And in doing so, we have learnt more about a richness of being together, an invisible dynamic, that has lurked secretly throughout our meanderings, revealing itself only when we abandoned intentfulness and allowed ourselves the indulgence of being, rather than doing.

scholarly journals Introduction: Transdiasporic Rencontres in Việt Kiều Literature

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Alexandra Kurmann ◽  
Tess Do
Keyword(s):  
New Caledonia ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Contemporary Writing ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
Vietnamese Diaspora

This special issue follows a conference entitled ‘Rencontres: A Gathering of Voices of the Vietnamese Diaspora’ that was held at the University of Melbourne, December 1-2 in 2016 and which sought to enable, for the first time, the titular transdiasporic rencontres or encounters between international authors of the Vietnamese diaspora. The present amalgam of previously unpublished texts written by celebrated Francophone and Anglophone authors of Vietnamese descent writing in France, New Caledonia and Australia today is the result of the intercultural exchanges that took place during that event. Literary texts by Linda Lê, Anna Moï and Thanh-Van Tran-Nhut are followed by writerly reflections on the theme of transdiasporic encounters from Hoai Huong Nguyen, Jean Vanmai and Hoa Pham. Framing and enriching these texts, scholarly contributions by established experts in the field consider the literary, cultural and linguistic transfers that characterize contemporary writing by authors of Vietnamese origin across the Francophone world. Ce volume spécial réunit les Actes du colloque ‘Rencontres : A Gathering of Voices of the Vietnamese Diaspora’ qui s’est tenue à l’Université de Melbourne les 1er et 2 décembre 2016 et qui visait à faciliter, pour la première fois, les rencontres entre les auteurs, chercheurs et universitaires internationaux de la diaspora vietnamienne. Les fruits de leurs échanges interculturels y sont réunis dans ce présent recueil sous deux formes complémentaires : d’un côté, les articles d’experts en littérature francophone comparée ; de l’autre, les contributions créatives de célèbres auteurs francophones et anglophones d’origine vietnamienne basés aujourd’hui en France, en Nouvelle Calédonie et en Australie. Les textes littéraires de Linda Lê, Anna Moï et Thanh-Van Tran-Nhut, suivis de réflexions d’auteurs par Hoai Huong Nguyen, Hoa Pham et Jean Vanmai sur le thème des rencontres transdiasporiques, se retrouvent enrichis par les études savantes menées sur les transferts littéraires, culturelles et linguistiques qui caractérisent l’écriture contemporaine des écrivains d’origine vietnamienne dans le monde francophone.

Academic Reputation, or Voluntary Epistemic Servitude

Reputation ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 216-240
Author(s):  
Gloria Origgi
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Economic Interest ◽  
Academic Reputation ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The University ◽  
As If ◽  
The Way

This chapter presents case studies of the way reputations are built at the university. If there is an institution that feeds on reputation, it is the academy. Prestige, notoriety, standing, and reputation reign supreme within its halls. Professors and scholars are not only more motivated by symbolic rewards than by economic interest. They also spend a great deal of time designing institutions whose primary purpose is the creation, maintenance, and evaluation of each other's reputation and eminence. Such rankings are sometimes even treated as if they were the most dependable hallmarks of the truth itself. The chapter shows how the very idea of an academic reputation changed radically after new systems for calibrating reputations came into their own.

scholarly journals Editorial

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Hawkridge ◽  
Steven Verjans ◽  
Gail Wilson
Keyword(s):  
High Standard ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Learning Technology ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Journal Review ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Review Procedure ◽  
Cultures Of Learning ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

This special issue contains the six research papers presented at the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) conference, “Building new cultures of learning”, held at the University of Nottingham, England, 10–12 September 2013. This was the first time that the research papers accepted for the annual conference were to be published as a special issue. The editors decided to use a full journal review procedure and required a high standard.(Published: 6 September 2013)Citation: Research in Learning Technology 2013, 21: 22564 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/rlt.v21i0.22564

Is the RIBA taking research seriously? At long last, it looks as if it is

2003 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-106
Keyword(s):  
Initial Response ◽  
Research Assessment ◽  
Research Assessment Exercise ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Architectural Research ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
As If

The repercussions of the results of the UK Government's highly controversial 2000 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) for architecture (arq 6/3, pp 203–207) continue to resonate. But this time the university architecture schools are not alone. For the first time ever, the RIBA, recognizing the seriousness of the situation for the profession, is giving architectural research the attention it deserves. Jack Pringle is masterminding the Institute's response. In late September, arq reminded him of his initial response to the RAE debacle (arq 6/3, pp 197–198), and asked him about current developments.

scholarly journals Society, Morality, Embodiment

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Sondra L. Hausner
Keyword(s):  
Special Issue ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
New Material ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
Over Time

This issue of Durkheimian Studies presents the collective efforts of the participants of a workshop held in late 2017, the centenary anniversary of Émile Durkheim’s death, at the University of Oxford. The articles that emerged from it, published together in this special issue for the first time along with some new material, demonstrate a continuation of classic Durkheimian themes, but with contemporary approaches. First, they consider the role of action in the production of society. Second, they rely on authors’ own ethnographies: the contributors here engage with Durkheimian questions from the data of their own fieldsites. Third, effervescence, one of Durkheim’s most innovative contributions to sociology, is considered in depth, and in context: how do societies sustain themselves over time? Finally, what intellectual histories did Durkheim himself draw upon – and how can we better understand his conceptual contributions in light of these influences?

Knowing the Place for the First Time

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Erikson
Keyword(s):  
Deviant Behavior ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Social World ◽  
Sociological Perspective ◽  
The Social ◽  
First Time ◽  
As If ◽  
The Way

This chapter considers a third approach to the sociological perspective, which has to do with viewing a wholly familiar social reality in the way a newcomer, a stranger, might. It may be assumed that sociologists know more about the lay of their land than most others do. After all, they spend a significant amount of time investigating various corners of the social world, and to that extent they can be thought of as seasoned, knowing, and experienced about human life. At the same time, however, sociologists can be viewed as strangers to the lands they study, for it is one of their tasks to look at the social world almost as if they were seeing it for the first time. The chapter explains how sociologists may be newcomers to the locations they study and discusses the ways that they deal with deviant behavior.

scholarly journals Symposium: Drawing the Human

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-119
Author(s):  
Timothy D Peters
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Representation ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Graphic Art ◽  
Word And Image ◽  
Law And Justice ◽  
Research Alliance ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

What does it mean to be human today in our globalised, technologised and hypermediated world? How do our modes of cultural representation relate to, affect and effect the role of being human? This special issue of Law, Technology and Humans seeks to explore the form of the comic as one means to address these questions. Comics are a means of cultural representation and discourse that not only reflect but refract — through their deployment of word and image, of grid and gutter, of both visual and textual mediation — the very means of human interaction and intersubjectivity. Arising out of the 2019 Graphic Justice Research Alliance conference, hosted by the School of Law and Criminology (now the School of Law and Society) at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia, the papers collected here examine not only the way in which comics and graphic art present narratives of law and justice, or representations of human rights and their abuses, but also the way in which comics in their form and multimodality call into question the law’s drawing of the boundaries of the human as it is challenged by its relation to the non-human, the environment and technology.

On: “Phase‐field imaging: The electromagnetic equivalent of seismic migration” by S. Lee, G. A. McMechan, and C. L. V. Aiken (GEOPHYSICS, 52, 678–693, May 1987)

Geophysics ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 53 (6) ◽  
pp. 863-863
Author(s):  
Seunghee Lee ◽  
George McMechan ◽  
Carlos Aiken
Keyword(s):  
Phase Field ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Seismic Migration ◽  
Electromagnetic Data ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Em Induction ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
Field Imaging

We were very happy to see the paper by Lee et al. which contains many interesting applications of electromagnetic migration to the solution of geoelectric problems. However, we were very suprised the authors were unaware of our previous papers published in both Eastern and Western international journals concerning the same subject (cf., bibliography). We proposed the generalization of seismic migration for electromagnetic data for the first time in 1982 during the Sixth Workship on EM-induction in the Earth and Moon (Zhdanov and Frenkel, 1982). Dr. John Booker from The University of Washington was the first to suggest calling our method “electromagnetic migration”; a detailed description of our method was given in Zhdanov and Frenkel (1983a and b). Work on electromagnetic migration was published by Zhdanov and Frenkel (1983c) in a special issue of the Proceedings of Oulu University. In 1985 we presented an invited paper (Velikhov et al., 1987) on this topic at the Prague General Assembly of IAGA.

scholarly journals Thinking in dark times: Assessing the transdisciplinary legacies of Zygmunt Bauman

Thesis Eleven ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 156 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-9
Author(s):  
Griselda Pollock ◽  
Mark Davis
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Zygmunt Bauman ◽  
Analysis Theory ◽  
Multiple Challenges ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
The Way

In 2018, the Bauman Institute and the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory & History (CentreCATH), both based at the University of Leeds (UK), initiated a transdisciplinary programme to assess the legacies of Zygmunt Bauman (1925–2017), whose prolific writings we felt to be profoundly relevant to the multiple challenges of the 21st century. In this special issue of Thesis Eleven, we are marking just over three years since the death of Zygmunt Bauman by bringing together some of the contributions to that programme in order to revisit, elaborate, and crucially to extend his intellectual archive. Taking Bauman’s revision of contemporary social realities as a point of departure, each of the participants in this special issue re-examine – critically but also generously – the many questions Bauman asked, tried to answer, and imbued on the way with new and sometimes shocking insights. This paper surveys those contributions by way of introducing the special issue.

scholarly journals An intellectual plein air: a walk through the Rozanov places of Yelets

2021 ◽  
Vol 103 ◽  
pp. 01044
Author(s):  
Aleksandr V. Skiperskikh
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Classroom ◽  
World Culture ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
Russian Philosopher ◽  
Tactical Decision ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
Outstanding Representative ◽  
The Way

This paper is an original reconstruction of the Yelets text of the Russian religious philosopher Vasily Rozanov. The author draws up a map of Rozanov’s addresses in Yelets and conducts an intellectual plein air over them, inviting students to it. During an intellectual walk along provincial Yelets, an attempt is made to reconstruct Rozanov’s Yelets routes. Each place, marked during the plein air could be described by Rozanov in his texts. This form of academic dialogue is held for the first time and can serve as an alternative to traditional classroom forms of communication. The author sees the intellectual plein air as an attempt to capture and describe the images of the departing Yelets in the way the Russian philosopher might have seen it. Any timely fixation of the memory of Rozanov today turns out to be the correct tactical decision. The current Yelets is gradually giving in to the impulses of modernization. In addition to the intellectual temptations of new readings of Rozanov’s texts in the framework of this plein air, this form of academic dialogue, taken outside the framework of the university audience, solves another problem. The author considers new aesthetic horizons of the familiar ethnic landscape. Yelets expands anew, containing the memory of an outstanding representative of Russian culture, and becomes a part of world culture.

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