scholarly journals Presidential Address: Some Mediæval Conceptions of Ancient History

1921 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
C. W. C. Oman
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Address ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
Historical Knowledge ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Many

It has been the laudable and most natural custom of my predecessors in this Presidential Chair to deliver as their swan-song of farewell to the Society a prophecy or forecast of the progress of Historical Study in the future, setting forth the many fields of historical knowledge that remain yet unconquered, and describing how best the attack on the tcrra incognita may be conducted. This is a worthy ambition: and no doubt such addresses may, from time to time, have set some newly-joined member of the Society on the track of some line of research where his energies have been well employed. But being myself too modest to assume for your benefit the rôle of prophet and guide, I have thought it worth while to-day, for the sake of variety, to ask you to look backward rather than forward, and to contemplate history as it presented itself to our ancestors, rather than as it will present itself to our successors.

The future role of the psychiatrist in Europe – a UEMS perspective

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (01) ◽  
pp. 35-42
Author(s):  
M. Hermans
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
General Interest ◽  
Future Role ◽  
Personal Opinion ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Many

SummaryThe author presents his personal opinion inviting to discussion on the possible future role of psychiatrists. His view is based upon the many contacts with psychiatrists all over Europe, academicians and everyday professionals, as well as the familiarity with the literature. The list of papers referred to is based upon (1) the general interest concerning the subject when representing ideas also worded elsewhere, (2) the accessibility to psychiatrists and mental health professionals in Germany, (3) being costless downloadable for non-subscribers and (4) for some geographic aspects (e.g. Belgium, Spain, Sweden) and the latest scientific issues, addressing some authors directly.

Address by the President of the Institute of Actuaries: Communication, Culture and Companionship

2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Nigel Stuckey Clark
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Address ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
The Future ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Communication Culture ◽  
Changing World

ABSTRACTThe Presidential Address relates events which occurred during significant years in the life of the President with matters relevant to the Institute, past, present and still to come, and with what was written by previous Presidents. It considers actuarial education, and specially its links with universities, and then comments on the President's career as a life actuary.The role of the Appointed Actuary is discussed, and also what an actuary is and does. The international actuarial perspective is covered through a description of the Groupe Consultatif and of the President's other international involvement, especially with Africa. Other subjects covered include with-profits contracts, the dispersion of actuaries throughout England and Wales, the role of the actuary in today's changing world, the relationship between the Institute and the Faculty, and the role of the President. Finally, the President looks forward to what actuaries might be and do in the future.

scholarly journals 2013 Canadian Historical Association Presidential Address: On Local History and Local Historical Knowledge

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-49
Author(s):  
Lyle Dick
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Address ◽  
Local History ◽  
First Nation ◽  
Historical Knowledge ◽  
Northern Irish ◽  
The Future ◽  
Changing Demographics ◽  
Inuit Community ◽  
Historical Production

This article considers two undervalued aspects of historical production — local history and local historical knowledge. It distinguishes between microhistory as carried out by professionals and local history as practised by vernacular historians, sometimes in collaboration with professionals. Relating his own experience with the genre of local history, the author highlights the importance of local historical knowledge as held and transmitted by community elders. His collaboration with the Elders of the Inuit community of Grise Fiord, Nunavut, is discussed as an illustration of its potential. The collaborative and dialogical character of local historical knowledge is further exemplified by folklorist Henry Glassie’s work with a small Northern Irish community. Noting current challenges of changing demographics, uprootedness and diaspora, the article considers how emerging communities and minorities are recreating new opportunities for local historical knowledge in Canada’s cities. Heeding the advice of senior Elders such as the late William Commanda of the Algonquin First Nation at Maniwaki, Quebec, the author asserts the importance of local historical knowledge to Canadians’ identities as members of communities with a common history, strengthening connections between people, past and present, and positioning us to better face the future.

The Role of the Institute

1955 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
D. H. Sadler
Keyword(s):  
Present State ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
Continuous Service ◽  
The Future ◽  
Post War ◽  
Precise Role ◽  
Do So

When, last year, you did me the honour of electing me your President you gave me the duty, and the privilege, of composing and delivering a Presidential Address. It does not lie within my abilities to make a grand survey of the present state of any great and important navigational development—such as might fittingly form the central theme of such an Address, and which has, in fact, been so admirably treated by my predecessors in this office. I have, however, been privileged to serve on the inner councils of the Institute since the earliest days of its conception, and feel that I may be in a position to take the Institute of Navigation itself as a central theme. I do so at this time particularly because the by-laws of the Institute quite rightly operate to ensure that no one person shall remain on the Council indefinitely and I must be the last to have such continuous service since the foundation. But there is a more cogent reason: the Institute was founded in the enthusiasm of the immediate post-war application of war-time navigational methods to civil use, and its precise role was deliberately left vague. It will be my object this afternoon to examine the extent to which the Institute is fulfilling its initial purpose and, on the basis of seven years' experience, how it can best play its part in the future.

Mechanics as a Basic Component of Future Engineering Curricula

1994 ◽  
Vol 47 (6S) ◽  
pp. S297-S300
Author(s):  
Daniel C. Drucker
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Undergraduate Engineering ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
The Future ◽  
Undergraduate Engineering Education ◽  
The Many

A consensus is beginning to emerge that the time has come for a radical change in all of our engineering curricula to make each of them far more responsive to the needs of today and tomorrow. However, there is profound disagreement on what directions of change are appropriate. It is essential that you, the mechanics community in the universities, industry, government, and private practice, enter immediately and vigorously into these ongoing debates on the future of undergraduate engineering education. Similar controversial issues are emerging at the graduate level and also call for your early input. You appreciate that mechanics in all its aspects is but a fraction of the totality of engineering education. However, you best understand why education in mechanics and education through mechanics, and the many other branches of fundamental engineering science, are among the essential building blocks for all engineers. You owe it to your colleagues in the specialized engineering disciplines to reach consensus among yourselves first, and then share your insight on the appropriate role of mechanics in the future before they commit themselves and you to any course of action.

scholarly journals Friedman's Presidential Address in the Evolution of Macroeconomic Thought

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Gregory Mankiw ◽  
Ricardo Reis
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
American Economic Review ◽  
Half Century ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Central Bankers

Milton Friedman's presidential address, “The Role of Monetary Policy,” which was delivered 50 years ago in December 1967 and published in the March 1968 issue of the American Economic Review, is unusual in the outsized role it has played. What explains the huge influence of this work, merely 17 pages in length? One factor is that Friedman addresses an important topic. Another is that it is written in simple, clear prose, making it an ideal addition to the reading lists of many courses. But what distinguishes Friedman's address is that it invites readers to reorient their thinking in a fundamental way. It was an invitation that, after hearing the arguments, many readers chose to accept. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to view Friedman's 1967 AEA presidential address as marking a turning point in the history of macroeconomic research. Our goal here is to assess this contribution, with the benefit of a half-century of hindsight. We discuss where macroeconomics was before the address, what insights Friedman offered, where researchers and central bankers stand today on these issues, and (most speculatively) where we may be heading in the future.

Psychology in Europe: Developments, Challenges, and Opportunities *This article is based on the EFPPA Presidential Address held at the Vth European Congress of Psychology, Dublin, Ireland, July 1997.

1998 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Lunt
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Address ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Future Role ◽  
European Congress ◽  
The Future ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

The paper considers the development of psychology in Europe with a focus on the role of the EFPPA in these developments. It describes some of the challenges and opportunities for the future for psychology in Europe by considering the present circumstances for psychology and psychologists, the current situation in Europe, and the overall context of changes within the society in which we work and live. The paper concludes by addressing the future role and relevance of psychology in the rapidly changing context in which we live.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Kenneth McK. Norrie
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
The State ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Full Understanding ◽  
The Past ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The Future

In the summer of 2016, the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI) commissioned me to draw up a report on the legislative provisions regulating the various environments in which children were accommodated when they were, for whatever reason, not living with their own families. The overarching aim of that Inquiry was, through an examination of the experiences of children who had suffered while in the care of persons or bodies other than their parents, to seek to learn lessons from the past in order to make children safer for the future. It also sought to provide acknowledgement of the suffering of victims and to allow them “closure”. Given the ages of the oldest of the presently surviving victims of child abuse, it was assumed that my Report would start with the Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act, 1932. However, I soon realised that the 1932 Act, primarily an amending statute, could not be properly understood without exploring the earlier legislation which it amended. So that took me to the Children Act, 1908, which had substantially expanded the role of the state in the care of children. Yet like the 1932 Act, the 1908 Act did not start with a clean slate. It too built upon earlier foundations and to gain a full understanding of the 1908 Act I found it necessary to examine yet earlier legislation. And so the process, as is the nature of historical study, went on....

scholarly journals PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS ONE VIEW OF THE FUTURE

2006 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Warwick Catto
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Address ◽  
The Future ◽  
Time Capsule ◽  
The Many

I would firstly like to acknowledge the many members, presenters, organisers and executive members who have given there time and valuable input over the last 75 years making the NZ Grasslands Association the organisation it is today. The 68 proceedings are an invaluable record of NZ's post 1920s pastoral history and developments. It provides a scientific record with all its insights but also a time capsule of issues of the day and farm practices.

scholarly journals New Field, Old Practices: Promises and Challenges of Public History

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Cauvin
Keyword(s):  
Public History ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Tree Of Knowledge ◽  
The Future ◽  
Systemic Process ◽  
The Many ◽  
Process Tree

Although public history is becoming increasingly international, the field remains difficult to define and subject to some criticism. Based on sometimes long-established public practices, public history displays new approaches to audiences, collaboration and authority in history production. This article provides an overview of public history, its various definitions and historiography, and discusses some of the main criticisms of the field. Public history is compared to a tree of knowledge whose parts (roots, trunk, branches and leaves) represent the many collaborative and interconnected stages in the field. Defining public history as a systemic process (tree) demonstrates the need for collaboration between the different actors – may they be trained historians or not – and aim to focus on the role they play in the overall process. The future of international public history will involve balancing practice-based approaches with more theoretical discussions on the role of trained historians, audiences and different uses of the past.

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