Dalla geografia storica all’archeologia del paesaggio e dell’ambiente. Una irrinunciabile eredità di Massimo Quaini

2021 ◽  
pp. 293-294
Author(s):  
Alessandro Panetta ◽  
Valentina Pescini
Keyword(s):  
Active Participation ◽  
Environmental Archaeology ◽  
The University

This contribution discusses the legacy of Massimo Quaini’s research in the field of postclassical rchaeology and, in particular, in the study of landscape and environment. Its active participation in the archaeological theoretical debate is highlighted through the analysis of his bibliography and experiences from the 70’s until his last works with the Territorialist Society and the Laboratory of Environmental Archaeology and History (LASA) of the University of Genoa.

Greening the campus intentions: a study of the University of the Aegean non-academic staff

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 520-532 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chrysanthi Bellou ◽  
Vassiliki Petreniti ◽  
Constantina Skanavis
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The University ◽  
Attitudes And Behavior ◽  
E Mail ◽  
At Home

Purpose This study aims to focus on the University of Aegean’s non-academic staff’s environmental sustainability attitudes and behavior both at work and at home, their perceptions for sustainability enforcement and their active participation skills. Design/methodology/approach The research participants were the 101 non-academic staff working at the Xenia Hill campus in Lesvos island. The instrument used in this study was a questionnaire consisting of 45 questions, which was sent via e-mail during the summer of 2014. Findings The analysis of the results brings light on the environmental profile of the University’s non-academic staff on their intentions for greening their campus and the barriers that obstruct their attempts to promote sustainability at the University. Originality/value The paper provides useful insights which allow a better understanding of the role of non-academic staff’s environmental sustainability attitudes and behavior both at work and at home, their perceptions for sustainability enforcement and their active participation skills.

scholarly journals O planejamento de campi universitários como prática participativa e educativa

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 187
Author(s):  
Carlos Roberto Monteiro de Andrade ◽  
Alessandra Pavesi
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Studies ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
Campus Planning ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Academic Communities ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Oberlin College ◽  
The University

Neste trabalho, são discutidas duas experiências de planejamento de campi universitários norte-americanos que tiveram como principal pressuposto a participação ativada comunidade acadêmica: “The Oregon Experiment”, promovido pela Universidade de Oregon na década de 1970, e o projeto do Lewis Center for Environmental Studies no Collegede Oberlin (Ohio), realizado vinte anos depois, em uma década já fortemente marcada pela emergência da questão ambiental. Não obstante as duas experiências tenham se orientado por distintas teorias e princípios de planejamento historicamente situados, no artigo procura-se evidenciar o conteúdo comum a ambas, que remete ao entendimento da participação como práxis e do campus como um laboratório ideal para a sua realização. Palavras-chave: planejamento; campus; participação; educação; sustentabilidade. Abstract: This paper discusses two campus planning experiences carried out in the USA with the active participation of the academic communities: “The Oregon Experiment”, promoted by the University of Oregon in 1970, and the design of the Lewis Center for Environmental Studies at Oberlin College (Ohio), developed twenty years later, in a decade strongly characterized by the rise of environmental concerns. Despite being oriented by different theoretical backgrounds in different moments, the two experiences have common features. The article seeks to highlight these common aspects; the understanding of participation as a praxis and using the campus as an ideal laboratory for its achievement. Keywords: planning; campus; participation; education; sustainability.

scholarly journals A Reflection on the Artists and Academics Exhibition

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-231
Author(s):  
Eri Tsukamoto ◽  
Eri Tsukamoto
Keyword(s):  
Public Engagement ◽  
General Public ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Collaborative Project ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Negative Perceptions ◽  
Informal Setting ◽  
The University

On 26 November 2016, the Artists and Academics Exhibition was held at Fargo Village in Coventry. The Exhibition was a collaborative project between seventeen PhD researchers from the University of Warwick and seventeen local artists, in which each artist created a piece inspired by a research idea. The Exhibition fostered active conversation between artists, academics and the general public, thereby encouraging all participants to talk about academic works in an informal setting and to explore new ideas and perspectives. Collaborative projects like the Exhibition thus benefit all who participate, and wider participation should be encouraged. Negative perceptions of public engagement may be changed through such an active participation.  

scholarly journals Memories of Alan Edward Beck (1928–2020)

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 148-154
Author(s):  
Valiya M. Hamza
Keyword(s):  
Heat Flow ◽  
Faculty Member ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
Vice Chairman ◽  
Founding Member ◽  
The University ◽  
Scientific Achievements

This is article providing a brief description of the life and scientific achievements of Alan Edward Beck, emeritus Professor of Western University.  He was born in England on January 27, 1928 and passed away on December 1st, 2020 at his home in London (Ontario), Canada. He will be remembered not only for his significant contributions in Geophysics but also his active participation in activities of the International Heat Flow Commission- IHFC. In 1958 he was a founding faculty member of the Department of Geophysics of the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada. Shortly thereafter became Acting Head (1961), and then Head (1963) of the Department of Geophysics. He was a founding member of the International Heat Flow Commission, Vice Chairman for the period of 1979 to 1983 and then Chairman during 1983 to 1987. He retired in 1993 but continued to be active with participation in several international organizations. Beck was honored with the J. Tuzo Wilson Award of the Canadian Geophysical Union in 1993.

Book Reviews

2014 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 1183-1185
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Social Evolution ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Environmental Archaeology ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
The Arts ◽  
University Professor ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The University

Eric Alden Smith of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington reviews “The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire”, by Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Explores the creation of inequality and how our prehistoric ancestors set the stage for monarchy, slavery, and empire. Discusses genesis and exodus; Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ""state of nature"; ancestors and enemies; why our ancestors had religion and the arts; inequality without agriculture; agriculture and achieved renown; the ritual buildings of achievement-based societies; the prehistory of the ritual house; prestige and equality in four Native American societies; the rise and fall of hereditary inequality in farming societies; three sources of power in chiefly societies; the move from ritual house to temple in the Americas; aristocracy without chiefs; temples and inequality in early Mesopotamia; the chiefly societies in our backyard; how to turn rank into stratification--tales of the South Pacific; how to create a kingdom; three of the New World's first-generation kingdoms; the land of the ""Scorpion King"; an analysis of two African kingdoms for which both native and European accounts are available; the nursery of civilization; graft and imperialism; how new empires learn from old; and inequality and natural law. Flannery is James B. Griffin Distinguished University Professor of Anthropological Archaeology and Curator in Environmental Archaeology at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. Marcus is Robert L. Carneiro Distinguished University Professor of Social Evolution and Curator in Latin American Archaeology at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of Michigan.”

scholarly journals Reflecting On Practice: Embedding Student Engagement Through Interdepartmental Partnership

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 229
Author(s):  
Catherine McConnell
Keyword(s):  
Student Engagement ◽  
Information Quality ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
School Based ◽  
Extra Curricular Activities ◽  
Working Together ◽  
The University

This case study will reflect on the approach that the University of Brighton Student Engagement Group (SEG) has taken towards embedding student engagement across the University and through working together on the national REACT project. The SEG comprises colleagues from Engagement and Information (Quality), the Centre for Learning and Teaching and the Students’ Union. Working together - and bringing individual areas of specialism to this partnership - has provided both a productive approach to a range of aspects of student engagement and connected three areas of the university that previously did not have a joined-up approach. The types of activities the group has focused on include: recruiting School-based Student Engagement Champions; holding a Student Engagement staff away-day; attending local meetings with Champions to establish rapport and get a good idea of the context of student engagement and who the ‘hard-to-reach’ students are within each School. This paper situates the engagement of students in co- and extra-curricular activities, towards improving opportunities for students’ active participation, and student-staff collaboration. 

scholarly journals Freedom of Expression and The Civil Participation of the Youth

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Lindita Lutaj
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Free Expression ◽  
Active Citizenship ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Future ◽  
University Curricula ◽  
The University ◽  
Do So

This study treats the importance of the education and the civil formation of the youth. The real possibilities that they have in expressing their free opinion and their active participation in civil actions. Relating to the experience of other countries and our country in this direction the results and possibilities for interventions need to be indicated. The goal of the study is to evaluate what is the level of the free expression of the opinion, what prevents the youth to express their opinion freely, how much support do they receive from other citizens in order to solve their problems, to assess how the university curricula help them in education and equipping them with active citizenship, if they believe that situation of the future will change and the areas and possibilities created for active participation in society. The study included 258 university students (Bachelor and Master Programs) of the Education Faculty in the university “Aleksander Moisiu” Durres. The students filled in a questionnaire with 21 closed questions. The study evaluated the problems that the students encountered, their possibilities to freely express their opinion and the factors that prevented them to do so. The study indicated that the free expression of the opinions and the active participation of the students is not in satisfactory levels. These levels are not enough for the actual requirements, and for this is required an open mind, collaboration, and funds to enhance the active citizenship. We need to accept the reality as it really is with the belief that it belongs to the present, and we should try to change the future in order to increase the youth trust in this direction.

Towards an Ethnography of Rehearsal

1998 ◽  
Vol 14 (53) ◽  
pp. 75-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gay McAuley
Keyword(s):  
Performance Studies ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Dynamic Processes ◽  
Additional Tool ◽  
Cultural Anthropologist ◽  
Art Object ◽  
The People ◽  
Theatre Studies ◽  
Observation Selection ◽  
The University

Twenty-five years ago, the original Theatre Quarterly pioneered the documentation of the rehearsal process in a series of ‘Production Casebooks’ which, in a wide variety of formats – dictated by the people and the facilities available for any particular production – delved pragmatically into then-uncharted territory. That such analyses are now more commonplace is thanks not only to the active participation of academics in the field of theatre studies, but also to what Gay McAuley here describes as the postmodern ‘shift in interest from the reified art object to the dynamic processes involved in its production and reception’. But the need to refine happenstance into methodology has served only to highlight the problems of observation, selection, and presentation involved – and of how to determine the degree of objectivity that is possible or desirable. The availability of video alongside audiotape and notebook provides an important additional tool – but presents its own problems of ‘editing’ and interpretation. Here, Gay McAuley, Director of the Centre for Performance Studies in the University of Sydney, compares the dilemma of the rehearsal recordist with that of the cultural anthropologist, and proposes the value of an ethnographic model in recognizing and starting to embrace if not always to overcome the difficulties which confront the involved observer. An earlier version of her paper was read at the IFTR/FIRT conference ‘Actor, Actress on Stage’, held in Montreal in June 1995.

Undoing GDR Iconoclasm: The Return and Interpretation of a Spiritual and Academic Heritage through the Building of the Paulinum in Leipzig

2019 ◽  
Vol 88 (4) ◽  
pp. 1013-1038
Author(s):  
Kim Groop
Keyword(s):  
Saint Paul ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
Johann Sebastian Bach ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Church History ◽  
Felix Mendelssohn ◽  
University City ◽  
The University ◽  
The Church ◽  
Socialist Unity

On the first Sunday of Advent in 2017, a new university church was consecrated at Leipzig University in Germany. This celebration brought to an end the five-decade-long absence of a church within the old university. The inauguration of the Paulinum—as the combined church and assembly hall was named—visibly reconnected the university with a church history involving the active participation of personalities such as Martin Luther, Johann Tetzel, Felix Mendelssohn, and Johann Sebastian Bach. Under scrutiny in this article is the 1968 destruction of the University Church of Saint Paul, originally a medieval monastery, by the Socialist Unity Party (SED) as a kind of socialist iconoclasm. Through the destruction of the University Church of Saint Paul, I argue, the church became something of an architectonic and cultural martyr. Although the Paulinum is not viewed as a direct continuation of the university church, its completion and refurbishing with art treasures from the old church has, however, come to be viewed as a counterpart to SED barbarism and as an undoing of some aspects of the destruction. Moreover, some episodes from the university church and its destruction have been passed on and attached to the Paulinum as a mnemonic layer, much valued by the university, city, and region.

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