scholarly journals Construction and Consumption of the Past. From "Montaillou" to ''The Name of the Rose"

1987 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Palle Ove Christiansen
Keyword(s):  
The Past ◽  
The Rose

“Forward to David the Builder!” Georgia's (re)turn to language-centered nationalism

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 522-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christofer Berglund
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
The State ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
The Past ◽  
Building Project ◽  
The Rose ◽  
State Language

After the Rose Revolution, President Saakashvili tried to move away from the exclusionary nationalism of the past, which had poisoned relations between Georgians and their Armenian and Azerbaijani compatriots. His government instead sought to foster an inclusionary nationalism, wherein belonging was contingent upon speaking the state language and all Georgian speakers, irrespective of origin, were to be equals. This article examines this nation-building project from a top-down and bottom-up lens. I first argue that state officials took rigorous steps to signal that Georgian-speaking minorities were part of the national fabric, but failed to abolish religious and historical barriers to their inclusion. I next utilize a large-scale, matched-guise experiment (n= 792) to explore if adolescent Georgians ostracize Georgian-speaking minorities or embrace them as their peers. I find that the upcoming generation of Georgians harbor attitudes in line with Saakashvili's language-centered nationalism, and that current Georgian nationalism therefore is more inclusionary than previous research, or Georgia's tumultuous past, would lead us to believe.

scholarly journals Exchange Listing Changes: Volatility and Liquidity Effects in Taiwan

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lloyd P. Blenman ◽  
Dar-Hsin Chen ◽  
Chang-Wen Duan
Keyword(s):  
Trading Volume ◽  
Abnormal Returns ◽  
Relative Volatility ◽  
The Past ◽  
Listing Change ◽  
The Rose

We examine the volatility, liquidity and returns effects on stocks that switch exchange listings from the ROSE to the TSE in Taiwan from 1992 to 2000. Switching firms earn statistically positive returns before the transfer day and earn statistically negative returns after that day. We find evidence of improved liquidity, ownership dispersion and actual trading volume for such firms. The relative volatility of trading volume, compared against the firms’ own histories, and volatility of returns also increase after a listing change. We show that increased trading volume and liquidity are associated with the abnormal returns around the transfer date. We find no evidence that the past earnings of firms significantly affect the abnormal returns realized in the post-listing period.  

THE VIRTUAL TEAM CHALLENGE: IS IT TIME FOR TRAINING?

2009 ◽  
Vol 06 (02) ◽  
pp. 169-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
TERRY SCHUMACHER ◽  
LANCE POEHLER
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Virtual Teams ◽  
Virtual Team ◽  
The Past ◽  
Fortune 100 ◽  
Training Simulation ◽  
Training Need ◽  
The Rose ◽  
Primary Author

There has been considerable growth in the use of Virtual Teams in the past decade, and further growth is broadly assumed. Researchers investigating Virtual Teams describe problems these teams encounter, assert that training for virtual team assignments is necessary, and offer suggestions on the issues that such training should address. Further evidence of the training need is that a fortune 100 company employed the primary author to develop the initial version of a virtual team training simulation for their internal use. The 'Virtual Team Challenge' is being used in the Rose-Hulman Project Management course. Participants manage a simulated project for three hours. To successfully complete the project within schedule, they must avoid or resolve problems typically encountered by virtual teams. Participants receive advice and are guided to adopt best practices as defined by our literature review and those offered by the client.

Ec[H]Oing the Ass-Novel: Reading and Desire in Onos, Metamorphoses and the Name of the Rose

Ramus ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Ní Mheallaigh
Keyword(s):  
Northern Italy ◽  
Umberto Eco ◽  
Living Thing ◽  
The Past ◽  
Novel Reading ◽  
The Rose ◽  
As If

Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realised that not infrequently books speak of other books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then a place of a long centuries-old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing…Umberto Eco The Name of the Roseat ego tibi sermone isto Milesio uarias fabulas conseram auresque tuas beniuolas lepido susurro permulceam… (But I would join together a variety of tales for you in that Milesian mode, and I would enchant your kindly ears with a charming murmur…)The speaking book? Apuleius MetamorphosesIn the chapter called ‘Terce’ of the Second Day, the Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young apprentice Adso visit the scriptorium of an abbey in northern Italy, and discover, among the papers of the murdered Greek translator Venantius, a surprising text:Another Greek book was open on the lectern, the work on which Venantius had been exercising his skill as translator in the past days. At that time I knew no Greek, but my master read the title and said this was by a certain Lucian and was the story of a man turned into an ass. I recalled then a similar fable by Apuleius, which, as a rule, novices were strongly advised against reading.(Eco, The Name of the Rose, 128)

scholarly journals Le trasformazioni urbane nella Tbilisi post-sovietica

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincenzo Zenobi
Keyword(s):  
Urban Form ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Institution Building ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Narrative ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The City ◽  
The Rose

After the Rose Revolution, a process of transformation of the city begins. Very different public and private architectures from the past arise, while the strategies for the conservation of old Tbilisi are matter of discussion. To understand the factors that determine the creation of new urban spaces we first need to focus on two factors: the process of Institution Building that follows the Rose Revolution and the emergence of a political narrative that combines modernisation and nationalism. The hypothesis is that these two factors create the ground for developing the specific practices of transformation of the city and for the emergence of a new urban form.

scholarly journals Reproducing Iphigenia at Aulis

Early Theatre ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison G. Findlay
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
World War I ◽  
World War ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Rose ◽  
The Sacrifice ◽  
Iphigenia At Aulis

<p>Lady Jane Lumley’s <em>Iphigenia at Aulis</em> exemplifies the process of dramatic reproduction in the mid-sixteenth century and in 2014. Lumley’s translation (ca 1554) of Euripides’ tragedy is a text which revivifies the past to confront the emotional consequences of betrayal and loss.  In the sixteenth-century context of Lumley’s own family, her translation disturbs and manages the emotional consequences of her father’s involvement in the sacrifice of Lady Jane Grey to fulfil the family’s political ambitions. My historicist approach juxtaposes a consideration of the play's performances in the Rose Company Theatre in 2014. Drawing on interviews with the director and actors and my observation of spectators’ reactions, I discuss the production's testing of  the script’s immediacy for audiences in a present which had its own preoccupations with the past; namely, the centenary of the outbreak of World War I.</p>

scholarly journals Introduction: Politics as a communicative project

2021 ◽  
Vol 06 (02) ◽  
pp. 5-9
Author(s):  
Gregory Paschalidis
Keyword(s):  
Political Language ◽  
Linguistic Turn ◽  
The Past ◽  
Power Of Language ◽  
The Rose ◽  
Semiotic Theory

In the past few years, there has been a noticeable surge in semiotic engagement with politics. One is tempted to associate it with Laurent Binet’s international best-seller The seventh function of language (2017) that offers a satirical yet critically reflexive view of the 1970s linguistic turn and its luminaries. The novel’s detective-cum-conspiracy story revolves around the different political sides’ bloody scramble to procure a presumably secret semiotic formula for making political language irresistibly persuasive. It would be more accurate, though, to suggest that, just as Umberto Eco’s Name of the Rose (1980) – the most successful hitherto merging of semiotic theory and fiction– was an oblique contribution to the linguistic turn’s emphasis on the power of language, Binet’s novel offers an equally poignant commentary on the ‘magic words’ of modern-day populism.

Observations of the continuum near the galactic centre

1967 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 405
Author(s):  
F. J. Kerr
Keyword(s):  
Galactic Centre ◽  
The Past ◽  
Centre Region ◽  
The Continuum

A continuum survey of the galactic-centre region has been carried out at Parkes at 20 cm wavelength over the areal11= 355° to 5°,b11= -3° to +3° (Kerr and Sinclair 1966, 1967). This is a larger region than has been covered in such surveys in the past. The observations were done as declination scans.

The Origin of the Moon and its Relationship to the Origin of the Solar System

1962 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 133-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold C. Urey
Keyword(s):  
Solar System ◽  
The Moon ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Origin Of The Moon

During the last 10 years, the writer has presented evidence indicating that the Moon was captured by the Earth and that the large collisions with its surface occurred within a surprisingly short period of time. These observations have been a continuous preoccupation during the past years and some explanation that seemed physically possible and reasonably probable has been sought.

On The Possibility of an Autonomous History of Modern Southeast Asia

1961 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. W. Small
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of

It is generally accepted that history is an element of culture and the historian a member of society, thus, in Croce's aphorism, that the only true history is contemporary history. It follows from this that when there occur great changes in the contemporary scene, there must also be great changes in historiography, that the vision not merely of the present but also of the past must change.

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