scholarly journals A History of the (Attempted) Institutionalization of Parapsychology

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 849-853
Author(s):  
Michael Nahm
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Robert Morris ◽  
Present Book ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The University ◽  
Society For Psychical Research

In addition to an introduction, the present book contains 14 chapters. Most of them represent elaborated text versions of contributions that were presented by the authors at a (nearly) eponymous conference held in Freiburg, Germany, on the 17.10.2014. As the book title announces, the chapter authors trace the development of parapsychological research in different countries. Usually they focusing on the more or usually less successful attempts to academicize and institutionalize parapsychology as a legitimate scientific discipline, but sometimes they cover also related aspects. The chapters include historical parapsychological treatises for Germany (Ulrich Linse, Anna Lux, Uwe Schellinger, Martin Schneider, Bernd Wedemeyer-Kolwe) including the GDR (Andreas Anton, Ina Schmied-Knittel, Michael Schetsche), France (Renaud Evrard), Great Britain (Elizabeth Valentine), Hungary (Júlia Gyimesi), the Netherlands (Ingrid Kloosterman), Russia in the Soviet and post-Soviet area (Birgit Menzel), and the USA (Eberhard Bauer, Anna Lux). The four chapters covering France, Great Britain, Hungary, and the Netherlands are written in English, the others in German. In the following, will briefly touch upon topics I found most interesting. Anna Lux from the university in Freiburg, Germany, identified several characteristic aspects of academic parapsychological work in Germany and compared them with those in the USA, which took place at about the same time and were more strongly focused on the experimental paradigm. She shows how different social circumstances and also private predilections of the main actors involved resulted in different developments. This also applies to the fate of parapsychology in the other countries mentioned, which is surprisingly multifaceted: While in the Netherlands the situation with official professorships at the University of Utrecht can be compared most closely to that of Germany where Hans Bender (1907-1991) held a professorship at the university of Freiburg, the academization of parapsychology in Hungary was hindered by an influential spiritualist and religious social current. In France, however, comparable efforts were mainly impeded by continued opposition of established scientists. After all, the private research institute “Institute Métapsychique International” (IMI) was founded in France in 1919, which has survived to this day despite adverse circumstances. Great Britain has always played a special role in Western parapsychology, mainly due to the foundation of the “Society for Psychical Research” as early as 1882, which is still considered an international figurehead for a constructive and critical examination of parapsychological topics. However, in Great Britain existed several other societies and “institutes”, which were often small and short-lived. It was not until 1985 that parapsychological research was able to gain a foothold at a British university for the first time through an endowed professorship in Edinburgh, held by Robert Morris (1942–2004) until 2004. From here, numerous graduates were able to carry the work on parapsychological research questions further to other universities.

The Anatomy of the Science Play

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 333-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seyedeh Anahit Kazzazi
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Specific Function ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Usa ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The University ◽  
Carl Djerassi

In the last three decades the English-speaking stage has witnessed an explosion of plays and performances that deal with scientific topics and issues. Along with the increasing popularity of this ‘science play’ phenomenon, theatre and literary scholars have begun to define, contextualize, and categorize these plays, based on the topics, means, and aims that they cover, via analysis of specific works. The result of these attempts are a number of taxonomies provided by Judith Kupferman, Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, Carl Djerassi, and Eva-Sabine Zehelein. In this essay Seyedeh Anahit Kazzazi provides a critical examination of these categorizations in order to demonstrate their assets and difficulties, and suggests a new taxonomy and analytical framework based on text-based drama, perform ance, and the specific function of science in the plays. The essay includes full listings of science plays written after 1990 in the United Kingdom and the USA, categorized according to the taxonomy suggested. Seyedeh Anahit Kazzazi received her doctorate from the University of Sussex in 2017, and is currently examining the intersection between science, literature, philosophy, and theatre.

scholarly journals Longitudinal, Transverse or Centrally Aligned? In the Search for the Correct Layout of the ‘Protesters’ Churches

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Harasimowicz
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Art History ◽  
Church Architecture ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Protestant Church ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
The University ◽  
The Church

The article was written within the framework of a research project “Protestant Church Architecture of the 16th -18th centuries in Europe”, conducted by the Department of the Renaissance and Reformation Art History at the University of Wrocław. It is conceived as a preliminary summary of the project’s outcomes. The project’s principal research objective is to develop a synthesis of Protestant church architecture in the countries which accepted, even temporarily, the Reformation: Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Island, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Sweden and The Netherlands. Particular emphasis is placed on the development of spatial and functional solutions (specifically ground plans: longitudinal, transverse rectangular, oval, circular, Latin- and Greek-cross, ground plans similar to the letters “L” and “T”) and the placement of liturgical furnishing elements within the church space (altars, pulpits, baptismal fonts and organs).

European Ceramics in the Spanish Philippines

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell K. Skowronek
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Spanish Colonial ◽  
Yield Information ◽  
The University

Nearly a century ago, in 1922, Carl Guthe, from the University of Michigan, conducted a three-year-long archaeological reconnaissance of the southern Philippines. He identified 542 sites. Twenty-six of these sites contained European-made ceramics dating from the 377 years of Spanish colonial rule. Significantly, the majority of these were made during the nineteenth century in Great Britain and the Netherlands, both of which were neighbouring colonial powers in Southeast Asia. The century-old Guthe Collection continues to yield information regarding life in this remote corner of the Spanish colonial world.

The Status of Doctors

1967 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lord Snow
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
General Practitioner ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Liberal Education ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Professional Relationship ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Usa

Lord Snow compares the status of doctors with that of engineers, and considers the status of both professions in Great Britain, the USA and the Soviet Union. He makes a plea for a more liberal education, and feels that doctors should play a larger part in advising Government. He proceeds to consider the special role of the general practitioner, which should embrace a personal as well as a professional relationship.

Native American studies: a place of community

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-25
Author(s):  
Tiffany S Lee
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Native American Studies ◽  
Community Sustainability ◽  
University Of New Mexico ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The University

Native American Studies at the University of New Mexico in the USA aims to practice a pedagogy of community, which facilitates students’ engagement and contribution to community. I first examine Native American Studies’ growth in the USA toward nurturing a collective and intellectual learning community. Then, I share students’ viewpoints to demonstrate how Native American Studies practices a pedagogy of community. Students exhibit critical Indigenous consciousness, which is the embodiment of perspectives beyond individualistic goals and places the significance of their education on community well-being. Students also display an inward gaze, a necessity for implementing a pedagogy of community. An inward gaze is a critical examination of our communities and how they might be perpetuating the hegemonic, oppressive, and assimilationist conditions under which colonialism has placed them. Practicing a pedagogy of community is about community sustainability.

scholarly journals Tax Mediation as a Tools for Resolving Tax Disputes

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (525) ◽  
pp. 318-325
Author(s):  
I. K. Shushakova ◽  
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I. D. Hrabova ◽  
I. V. Demianova ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Mediation Process ◽  
Legal Practice ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Scientific Papers ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Negative Factors

The article is concerned with the theoretical and practical issues of resolving tax disputes with the help of such tools as tax mediation. The article is aimed at examining the essence of the institute of tax mediation as an effective tools for pre-trial resolution of tax disputes, taking into account the experience of foreign countries. Statistics on the consideration of tax disputes in administrative order are provided. Approaches to interpretation of the essence of tax mediation in scientific papers are studied. The authors’ own definition of tax mediation is presented, by which is meant the method of resolving tax disputes between tax authorities and taxpayers, based on the principles of presumption of the legitimacy of decisions and the integrity of the taxpayer, allowing to resolve tax disputes at the stage of pre-trial proceedings with the participation of a mediator. The purpose, objectives, principles of tax mediation are provided. The effects of tax mediation, causing influence on both tax authorities and taxpayers, are determined. The positive and negative factors of tax mediation use are closer defined. The analysis of foreign experience in the implementation of the mediation mechanism for resolving tax disputes is carried out. Also the subject composition of the tax mediation process is closer defined. The principles of mediators’ activity: voluntariness, neutrality and confidentiality are analyzed. The experience of foreign countries, namely: the Netherlands, the USA, Germany, Great Britain, Belgium, Canada on the implementation and implementation of tax mediation is characterized. The analysis of the experience of foreign countries shows that legal practice of taxation has an extremely rich instrumentarium for alternative settlement of tax disputes Proposals for the regulation of the tax mediation mechanism at the legislative level are developed.

A Complementary Economy? National Markets and International Product in Early Australian Theatre Managements

2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veronica Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Global Market ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Commercial Theatre ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Gender And Nation ◽  
The University

The international circulation of commercial theatre in the early twentieth century was driven not only from the centres of Great Britain and the USA, but by the specific enterprise and habitus of managers in ‘complementary’ production sites such as Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand. The activity of this period suggests a de-centred competitive trade in theatrical commodities – whether performers, scripts, or productions – wherein the perceived entertainment preferences and geographies of non-metropolitan centres were formative of international enterprise. The major producers were linked in complex bonds of partnerships, family, or common experience which crossed the globe. The fractures and commonalities displayed in the partnerships of James Cassius Williamson and George Musgrove, which came to dominate and shape the fortunes of the Australian industry for much of the century, indicate the contradictory commercial and artistic pressures bearing upon entrepreneurs seeking to provide high-quality entertainment and form advantageous combinations in competition with other local and international managements. Clarke, Meynell and Gunn mounted just such spirited competition from 1906 to 1911, and their story demonstrates both the opportunities and the centralizing logic bearing upon local managements shopping and dealing in a global market. The author, Veronica Kelly, works at the University of Queensland. She is presently undertaking a study of commercial stars and managements in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Australia, with a focus on the star performer as model of history, gender, and nation.

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