The University, the City, and the Arts

1970 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 408
Author(s):  
William O. Winter
Keyword(s):  
The Arts ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

Literary Contributions of Catholics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico: Part Two: The Díaz Regime (1867–1910)

1945 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-50
Author(s):  
Francis Borgia Steck
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Municipal Government ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Second Empire ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Bar Examination ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
Made In

Another gifted writer whose name has almost passed into oblivion is Tirso Rafael Córdoba. Like Rafael Gómez, he from Michoacán, a circumstance that seems to explain why during the period we are considering these two men stood on such intimate terms of friendship and in their literary career had so many things in common. His biographer tells us that in 1853, at the early age of fifteen, Córdoba, then a student in the Seminario de Morelia, was admitted to membership in the Liceo Iturbide, a distinction conferred upon him in view of the exceptional progress he had made in the arts and sciences. Only for the disturbed times in which his youth and early manhood fell, Córdoba would have entered the priesthood, this being his intention when he studied philosophy in the Seminario Conciliar Palafoxiano in the city of Puebla. From this celebrated school he graduated with high honors and then proceeded to Mexico City where he studied canon and civil law in the Colegio de San Ildefonso and passed the bar examination in the University of Mexico. But again he became a victim of circumstances, unable to engage freely and fully in the legal and political circles for which he was so richly qualified. After the fall of the Second Empire, at which time he was Secretary General of the municipal government of Puebla, he retired from public life and thereafter took a prominent part, chiefly in Mexico City, in social and literary activities. He was one of the founders of the organization known as La Sociedad Católica and collaborated in the founding and editing of periodicals, popular as well as literary, such as La Voz de México, El Obrero Católico, El Hijo del Obrero, La Lira Poblana, La Aurora, and La Oliva.

scholarly journals Web accessibility analysis of the Universities and Public Polytechnic Schools of Guayaquil applying the NTE INEN ISO / IEC 40500: 2012 Standard

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (27) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Luis Rodríguez V ◽  
José Antepara B ◽  
Luis Braganza
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
Web Content ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Four Blocks ◽  
Evaluation Metric ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

Introductionthe purpose of analyzing the way in which electronic public administration is presented in the environment of Public Higher Education, for which the accessibility of web content is evaluated by applying the Ecuadorian standard NTE INEN ISO / IEC 40500: 2012. These criteria will serve as a basis for the necessary adjustments in the interfaces. Objectiveto promote an inclusive service. The selected websites correspond to the University of Guayaquil, Agraria del Ecuador, Escuela Politécnica del Litoral and the Arts, all of them of a public nature and settled in the city of Guayaquil. Materials and methodsinvolves five pages of each website as a representative sample. The research has a non-experimental character, transversal design and descriptive type. For this evaluation metric, only the 38 criteria that comply with compliance levels A and AA were taken into account. Automatic and manual tools for the measurement of accessibility are applied to the criteria, excluding the user test. Resultsare presented in four blocks where the levels of accessibility found in the four universities are described. Discussion The websites of the Public Higher Education Institutions of Guayaquil on average have a level of accessibility. ConclusionThe websites of the Public Higher Education Institutions of Guayaquil on average have a deficient level of accessibility in the application of the NTE INEN ISO / IEC 40500: 2012 Standard.

scholarly journals Artes de Intervenção, Inventar Cidades

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (56) ◽  
Author(s):  
Deisimer Gorczevski ◽  
Aline Mourão Albuquerque ◽  
João Miguel Diógenes de Araújo Lima
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Aesthetic Experiences ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Living Together ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

Habitamos a cidade que nos habita, atravessamos a cidade que nos atravessa. Com interesse sobretudo na resistência pelos afetos e nas micropolíticas acionadas pelo desejo e pelo que nos faz querer viver, partimos em pesquisa-expedição, no encontro da arte contemporânea com a cartografia. Como pesquisar e intervir pode ativar experiências estéticas, com diferentes espaços-tempos da cidade e da universidade? Esta questão norteia as ações realizadas pelo Laboratório Artes e Micropolíticas Urbanas (LAMUR), entre elas: ConversAções na Praia do Vizinho e Micropolítica e Revolução, apresentadas neste trabalho. Movimentar as artes e a universidade com o cotidiano urbano demanda a invenção de modos de fazer-saber. As questões da cidade instigam conversas e encontros com as ruas; revolução, utopia e heterotopias transbordam em imagens que tomam corpo em projeções audiovisuais colaborativas, lambe, fotografia e colagens. As artes de intervenção entrelaçam-se com modos de viver e conviver, impulsionando a potência de processos coletivos e singulares em resistir e inventar cidades. Palavras-chave: Arte contemporânea. Cidade. Micropolíticas. Invenção. Cartografia.  ARTS OF INTERVENTION, INVENTING CITIES Abstract: We inhabit the city that inhabits us, we go through the city that goes through us. Especially interested in resistance through affects, and the micropolitics activated by desire and what makes us want to live, we go on a research-expedition, where contemporary art meets cartography. How to research and intervene as a way to activate aesthetic experiences, with the different times-spaces of the city and the university? This question guides the activities of LAMUR, the Arts and Urban Micropolitics Laboratory (Laboratório Artes e Micropolíticas Urbanas), and among them, ConversAções at the Vizinho Beach, and Micropolitics and Revolution, presented in this work. Moving the arts and the university with urban everyday life demands inventing ways of savoir-faire. The city’s questions instigate conversations and gatherings with the streets; revolution, utopia and heterotopias overflow in images that become collaborative audiovisual projections, wheatpaste, photography and collages. The arts of interventions are entwining with ways of living and living together, propelling the potency of collective and singular processes in resisting and inventing cities.Keywords: Contemporary art. City. Micropolitics. Invention. Cartography.

Literary Contributions of Catholics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico: Part Two: The Díaz Regime (1867–1910)

1945 ◽  
Vol 2 (01) ◽  
pp. 30-50
Author(s):  
Francis Borgia Steck
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Municipal Government ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Second Empire ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Bar Examination ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
Made In

Another gifted writer whose name has almost passed into oblivion is Tirso Rafael Córdoba. Like Rafael Gómez, he from Michoacán, a circumstance that seems to explain why during the period we are considering these two men stood on such intimate terms of friendship and in their literary career had so many things in common. His biographer tells us that in 1853, at the early age of fifteen, Córdoba, then a student in the Seminario de Morelia, was admitted to membership in the Liceo Iturbide, a distinction conferred upon him in view of the exceptional progress he had made in the arts and sciences. Only for the disturbed times in which his youth and early manhood fell, Córdoba would have entered the priesthood, this being his intention when he studied philosophy in the Seminario Conciliar Palafoxiano in the city of Puebla. From this celebrated school he graduated with high honors and then proceeded to Mexico City where he studied canon and civil law in the Colegio de San Ildefonso and passed the bar examination in the University of Mexico. But again he became a victim of circumstances, unable to engage freely and fully in the legal and political circles for which he was so richly qualified. After the fall of the Second Empire, at which time he was Secretary General of the municipal government of Puebla, he retired from public life and thereafter took a prominent part, chiefly in Mexico City, in social and literary activities. He was one of the founders of the organization known as La Sociedad Católica and collaborated in the founding and editing of periodicals, popular as well as literary, such as La Voz de México, El Obrero Católico, El Hijo del Obrero, La Lira Poblana, La Aurora, and La Oliva.

Vocational Higher Education

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Willetts
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
University Education ◽  
Stained Glass ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Full Sense ◽  
University Colleges ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
Education Courses

A beautiful large stained-glass window dominates the end of the Great Hall of Birmingham University. My great-grandfather was one of the glaziers who made it—my family were Birmingham artisans, craftsmen, and engineers. His son, my grandfather, remembered being taken to the opening of Birmingham University in 1902—Joe Chamberlain, the founder of the university, believed that the workers who had built it should be invited, not just the academics. From a distance it looks like the stained-glass window in an ancient cathedral with figures of saints, but close up you see the radicalism of Joe Chamberlain’s vision. It is dedicated to the arts and sciences. Instead of saints and bishops the figures represent disciplines like geometry or music, but alongside them, equally prominent, are contemporary trades: there is an electroplater, a rather Michelangelesque miner, and a demure bookkeeper too. It is a celebration of the range of trades and professions of the early twentieth century, ‘as practised in the university and in the City’, said the local paper. England’s first university in one of its great bustling industrial cities was claiming a new role for the university based on its civic commitment. This great window embodies a very different idea of the university from the Oxbridge tradition. It is a vigorous statement in an argument that was raging within Government at the very time that Chamberlain was planning his new university. The question was whether public funds should go to help pay for higher education courses outside Oxbridge on a systematic basis and if so which courses at which institutions. (At this point what would become our Redbrick universities were typically university colleges teaching for the external degree of the University of London and funded locally, though with occasional public grants.) The question came to the Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1895, who replied: ‘As an old Oxford man myself I must confess to a feeling, which you may call a prejudice, that University education, in the full sense of the term, can hardly be obtained except at our old Universities.’ The Treasury consulted Oxford and Cambridge on what they should fund.

Cecco d’Ascoli (Francesco Stabili)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Hannam
Keyword(s):  
Natural Philosophy ◽  
Central Italy ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Long Poem ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Practice Of Medicine ◽  
Santa Croce ◽  
The University ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The City

Cecco d’Ascoli (c. 1269–1327) was the diminutive used by the writer and poet Francesco Stabili, from the commune of Ascoli Piceno in central Italy. He was a lecturer on astrology at the University of Bologna, best known for being burnt at the stake as a relapsed heretic. He was first convicted of heresy in Bologna in 1324 by the inquisitor Lambert of Cingoli (fl. 1316–1324), who stripped him of his lectureship and forbade him to practice astrology. Cecco moved to Florence where he became the court astrologer of Duke Charles of Calabria (1298–1328), then ruler of the city. However, he was quickly caught up in the politics of the ducal court. His rivalry with Duke Charles’s chancellor, the Bishop of Aversa, led to the Inquisition’s file on him being reopened. In 1327, following an investigation by the Florentine inquisitor, Accursius, Cecco was found to have relapsed into heresy and was burnt outside the Church of Santa Croce. It is likely that Cecco earned a master of the arts degree at Bologna before being appointed to teach astrology in about 1315. Astrology was then considered an essential adjunct to the practice of medicine and physicians were expected to be competent in casting horoscopes. Material from his lectures is preserved in his Latin commentaries, including one on the Sphere of John Sacrobosco (d. c. 1250). The Commentary on the Sphere was specifically condemned to be burned in 1327 at the same time as Cecco. Cecco also composed a long poem in Italian on the nature of the universe, with a focus on astrology and magic, called l’Acerba. This was also condemned by the Inquisition at the time of his execution. The poem of 4,867 lines is in five books, the last of which was left unfinished at the time of his death. L’Acerba covers the constitution of the heavens (Book 1), virtues and vices (Book 2), the magical properties of minerals and a bestiary (Book 3), questions of natural philosophy (Book 4), and an incomplete theology (Book 5). It is widely interpreted as a criticism of the natural philosophy of Dante Alighieri. It enjoyed some popularity in the early modern period, most likely because of the notoriety of its author. During the 19th century, Cecco’s fate at the hands of the Inquisition led to a revival of his reputation as a potential “martyr of science.” Since then, it has become clear that Cecco’s interests were not “scientific” in the modern sense and most scholarly attention has consequently been focused on l’Acerba.

The Platonic Academy of Florence*

1961 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 147-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Oskar Kristeller
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Lyrical Poetry ◽  
Religious Devotion ◽  
University Centers ◽  
Medieval Universities ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

Since the beginnings of its greatness, Florence was a town of merchants and of craftsmen where the arts, literature, and religious devotion were highly cultivated and where the vernacular tongue, probably after the French and Provençal model, was used as a literary language much earlier than in the rest of Italy, not only in lyrical poetry but also in all other branches of literature. The example of Dante alone is sufficient to show that the interest in philosophy and theology was very much alive in early Florence. Yet the university which was founded during the fourteenth century never occupied a predominant place in the intellectual life of the city, and hence the learned disciplines characteristic of the medieval universities were less strongly represented in Florence than in the old university centers.

Book Review

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 386-389
Author(s):  
Eduardo Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
City Image ◽  
European Capital Of Culture ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The World ◽  
The City ◽  
The Olympic Games

Evinç Doğan (2016). Image of Istanbul, Impact of ECoC 2010 on The City Image. London: Transnational Press London. [222 pp, RRP: £18.75, ISBN: 978-1-910781-22-7]The idea of discovering or creating a form of uniqueness to differentiate a place from others is clearly attractive. In this regard, and in line with Ashworth (2009), three urban planning instruments are widely used throughout the world as a means of boosting a city’s image: (i) personality association - where places associate themselves with a named individual from history, literature, the arts, politics, entertainment, sport or even mythology; (ii) the visual qualities of buildings and urban design, which include flagship building, signature urban design and even signature districts and (iii) event hallmarking - where places organize events, usually cultural (e.g., European Capital of Culture, henceforth referred to as ECoC) or sporting (e.g., the Olympic Games), in order to obtain worldwide recognition. 

Humanist Engagements

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howell A. Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
Educational Provision ◽  
The Third ◽  
Social Composition ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Law Faculty ◽  
Editorial Work ◽  
Governmental Institutions ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

Bodin arrived in Toulouse c.1550, a brief account of the economy, social composition, and governmental institutions of which opens the chapter. There follow comments on its cultural life and identification of its leading citizenry, with remarks on the treatment of alleged religious dissidents by the city itself, and especially on discordant intellectual influences at work in the University, most notably the Law Faculty and the modes of teaching there. The chapter’s second part reviews Bodin’s translation and edition of the Greek poem Cynegetica by Oppian ‘of Cilicia’, assessing the quality of his editorial work, the extent to which allegations of plagiarism levelled against him were valid, and the nature and merits of his translation. The third section recounts contemporary wrangling over educational provision in Toulouse and examines the Oratio in which Bodin argued the case for humanist-style educational provision by means of a reconstituted college there.

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