scholarly journals NEW METHODOLOGIES FOR THE DOCUMENTATION OF FORTIFIED ARCHITECTURE IN THE STATE OF RUINS

2017 ◽  
Vol XLII-5/W1 ◽  
pp. 411-418
Author(s):  
F. Fallavollita ◽  
A. Ugolini
Keyword(s):  
Reading Skills ◽  
Research Unit ◽  
The Past ◽  
Tangible Evidence ◽  
Emilia Romagna Region ◽  
New Methodologies ◽  
Sustainable Conservation ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The University ◽  
The Military

Fortresses and castles are important symbols of social and cultural identity providing tangible evidence of cultural unity in Europe. They are items for which it is always difficult to outline a credible prospect of reuse, their old raison d'être- namely the military, political and economic purposes for which they were built- having been lost. In recent years a Research Unit of the University of Bologna composed of architects from different disciplines has conducted a series of studies on fortified heritage in the Emilia Romagna region (and not only) often characterized by buildings in ruins. The purpose of this study is mainly to document a legacy, which has already been studied in depth by historians, and previously lacked reliable architectural surveys for the definition of a credible as well as sustainable conservation project. Our contribution will focus on different techniques and methods used for the survey of these architectures, the characteristics of which- in the past- have made an effective survey of these buildings difficult, if not impossible. The survey of a ruin requires, much more than the evaluation of an intact building, reading skills and an interpretation of architectural spaces to better manage the stages of documentation and data processing. Through a series of case studies of fortified buildings in ruins, we intend to describe the reasons that guided the choice of the methods and tools used and to highlight the potentials and the limits of these choices in financial terms.

Passenger in transit

1982 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 20-25
Author(s):  
Tito Valenzuela
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Mining Area ◽  
Psychological State ◽  
Military Coup ◽  
The Past ◽  
The University ◽  
In Transit ◽  
The Military ◽  
Film Making

This second piece by a Latin American about exile explores through that experience many aspects of his people's ‘personality’ and the events leading to exile. Tito Valenzuela is a 37-year-old Chilean poet and … now … novelist. After studying painting and graphic design at the School of Fine Arts of the University of Chile in Santiago, he worked during the years of Salvador Allende's Popular Unity government in film-making and television. A book of his poetry was published in 1971, and more appeared in an anthology of work by young Chilean poets in 1972. At the time of the military coup of 11 September 1973 he was working on a film on the nitrate mining area of northern Chile. During the coup the military raided his home, removing books and manuscripts. After living clandestinely for several months, Tito left the country for Peru. Unable to remain there he took up an offer by the United Nations to go to Rumania. Finding the atmsophere there restrictive and stifling, he left for Sweden, where he worked in a ham factory, then travelled on to Berlin and finally London in 1975. After a long battle with British immigration authorities he was given permission to stay. Pasajero en transito (‘Passenger in Transil’) is Tito Valenzuelas's first novel, as yet unpublished. It concerns a young Chilean photographer, Ignacio (García, who is exiled (like the author) first in Bucharest and then in Stockholm. The protagonist's profession is itself an image of his psychological state, where the past freezes in the present, tending to mystification and distortion. By tracing Ignacio's obsessions in exile and the deterioration in the past of his relationship with Soledad … who disappears during the first days of the coup … the novel explores the Chile of both Allende and the months following the coup, as well as exile itself. The extract we publish finds Ignacio in Bucharest, playing chess with another exile, Pedro ‘El Peluca’ Morales, whose situation is also producing crisis and domestic rupture. Certain references need explanation. Chileans make great use of nicknames, and most of the characters are referred to by these. El Peluca means ‘the wig’. Loco ‘crazy’ and El Caluga ‘the candy’ (as in sweet). Others have been translated - The Philologist, the Marquis. Coco is untranslatable. Huevón is the all-purpose Chilean interpolation, used incessantly, affectionately and in anger. Literally obscene, it means ‘big balls’. El Pedagogico is the Instituto Pedagogico, the Teacher Training Institute in Valparaiso. The Lebu was a ship used by the military as a prison during the military coup. Milico is slang for military. The tanquetazo was the attempted coup carried out by a tank regiment in June 1973.

scholarly journals Myles Brand’s College Sports Sustainability: “Amateurism”, Finances, and Institutional Balance

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodney Fort
Keyword(s):  
Academic Integrity ◽  
College Sports ◽  
Athletic Department ◽  
The Past ◽  
University Mission ◽  
Central Elements ◽  
The Future ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The University

As NCAA President, Myles Brand championed three major college sports initiatives: academic integrity, diversity, and sustainability. This paper is about the last. The first step is to distill the elements of college sports that Brand identified repeatedly in his documents and speeches on sustainability. The central elements are the NCAA definition of “amateurism”, athletic department finances, and balance between athletic and academic spending as a part of the university mission. An assessment of these three suggests that NCAA amateurism has changed since his death, in ways Brand stated should raise worries about sustainability. Finances and balance within the university have changed very little over the past ten years and appear sustainable into the future.

The Biological Electron Microscope Facility, University of Hawai‘I at Mānoa: a Shared Microscopy Resource in the Pacific

1997 ◽  
Vol 3 (S2) ◽  
pp. 285-286
Author(s):  
T.M. Carvalho ◽  
M.F. Dunlap ◽  
R.D. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Electron Microscope ◽  
Research University ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Research Unit ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
University Of Hawai'i ◽  
The University ◽  
And Training

The Biological Electron Microscope Facility (BEMF) at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM) is located 2400 miles over water from the next nearest research university. BEMF is a multi-user core facility, administered by the Pacific Biomedical Research Center (PBRC), an organized research unit at the UHM. The mission of the BEMF is to provide state-of-the-art instrumentation, services and training for electron microscopy to the biomedical and biological researchers in Hawai‘i and the Pacific region. The BEMF was established in 1984 under the direction of Dr. Richard D. Allen, and has since grown steadily in its instrumentation, expertise, and use. In the past 5 years it has served researchers from over 50 laboratories in PBRC and the colleges of Natural Sciences, Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, Engineering, Medicine, and Ocean and Earth Sciences and Technology, as well as visiting investigators from other Hawai‘i, mainland and foreign institutions.The BEMF has a full line of instrumentation for conventional transmission and field emission scanning electron microscopy as well as a complete line of instruments for cryoelectron microscopy.

scholarly journals Polish presence on Belarusian lands in the twentieth century: the experience of interaction between historians of the two countries 2017–2020

2021 ◽  
pp. 497-509
Author(s):  
Yuriy A. Borisenok ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
State Universities ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
Scientific Project ◽  
Serial Publication ◽  
The University ◽  
The Military

In 2017–2020 The Center for Eastern European Studies of the University of Warsaw has published four voluminous volumes of the serial edition “Poles in Belarus” edited by the historian Tadeusz Gawin. The books reflect the results of a large-scale Polish-Belarusian scientific project, in the course of which Polish and Belarusian historians focused their attention on the problems of history that are urgent for both countries, first of all, of the twentieth century. In particular, separate volumes and scientific conferences preceding them were devoted to the Polish and Belarusian ideas of state independence in 1918–2018 and the military action of 1920 against the backdrop of political changes in the twentieth century. The uniqueness of the serial publication is that historians from Belarusian state universities and research institutes actively participated in it; this practice, in the context of a sharp deterioration in Polish-Belarusian political relations, has already become a thing of the past.

scholarly journals Socio-rhetorical interpretation: Theoretical points of departure

2001 ◽  
Vol 57 (1/2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernest Van Eck
Keyword(s):  
Rhetorical Analysis ◽  
Narrative Criticism ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Past ◽  
Working Definition ◽  
New Methodologies ◽  
Biblical Texts ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of

In the past two decades, narrative criticism (narratology) and social-scientific criticism have come to the fore as the two most prominent new methodologies to be associated with gospel research. When these two methodologies are integrated in the reading of biblical texts, this is now referred to as "socio-rhetorical interpretation". This article departs from a specific understanding of what is meant by a narratological reading of a text on the one hand and, on the other hand, by a social-scientific interpretation of biblical texts, in order to propose a working definition of a socio-rhetorical analysis of texts.

scholarly journals The Evolution of the Concept of War in the Modern World (Some Considerations Inspired by Mary Kaldor’s Book)

2019 ◽  
pp. 66-73
Author(s):  
E. Shanchenko
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Nature ◽  
Conflict Solution ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Military ◽  
Violent Conflicts

The paper presents some considerations, partly polemic, inspired by Mary Kaldor’s book New and Old Wars. For this end, a brief comparative analysis is suggested of large-scale wars of the past (starting from the17th and with particular attention to the end of the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries), on the one hand, and the so called “new wars”, on the other. The concept of “war” has been actual permanently, but it underwent changes, the most serious of them took place at the beginning and in the middle of the 20st century. However, the current political situation on the world scene shows that the conflicts of the globalization era differ considerably from those of previous centuries which were mainly conducted according to the generally adopted “rules of war” considered now as classical.The substantial role in modern violent collisions is played by a conflict of identities which was not so important when wars were conducted mainly between national states. Unlike conflicts of the previous centuries, the military confrontations of today may occur not only between states, but also inside the single country, where different groups of participants are pursuing their own goals in frameworks of identity policy. The traditional notion of civil war is not enough to cover this variety. Due to the global nature of the modern conflicts and involvement of the variety of participants, the conflict resolution seems to be more complicated than ever. Moreover, the identity factor has become an effective tool for different parties of the conflict who tend to use it at their own convenience. Consequently, resolution of modern violent conflicts, wherever they develop, demands contemporary and often non-trivial solutions, as well as close attention of the global community. The author believes that to resolve modern conflicts effectively, the world society should create a unified and comprehensive definition of the concept of “war” as well as invent new ways of the conflict solution taking into consideration, among other things, the diverse dynamics of globalization processes.

scholarly journals What is so theological about a faculty of theology at a public university? Athens – Berlin – Pretoria

2019 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Buitendag
Keyword(s):  
Theological Education ◽  
Public University ◽  
Christian University ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
University Of Pretoria ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Opening Up

In this article, the author engages with the question ‘what is so theological about theological education?’, which he calls a genealogy of theology. This matter is approached from a very specific vantage point as the author was the former dean of the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Pretoria (South Africa) and has engaged in this research project over the past 5 years, as the Faculty was under severe review as to its composition, and ultimately its very future. This article endeavours to bring to the surface the underlying theology of the author and the paradigm he is operating from. It concludes with a definition of theology as he sees it, but with the explicit qualification of it being situated at a research-intensive university competing for a notable position on the ranking indexes of world universities. A new niche is thus opening up for theology (vis-à-vis a seminary or even a Christian university), namely, a ‘scholarly endeavour of believers in the public sphere in order to inquire into a multi-dimensional reality in a manner that matters’.

Shifts in Sex-Role after a Decade of Cultural Change

1985 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darhl M. Pedersen ◽  
Barbara L. Bond
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Bem Sex Role Inventory ◽  
Brigham Young University ◽  
The Past ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Role Behaviors

Traits and behaviors shift with cultural changes. During the past decade substantial changes have occurred in our society in the definition of appropriate sex-role behaviors. Consequently, a shift toward more androgynous sex-role behaviors, especially by individuals in their formative years, would be expected. The Bem Sex-role Inventory was administered to 98 women and 113 men at Brigham Young University and to 38 women and 84 men at the University of Tulsa. t tests between corresponding mean scores for the two universities were nonsignificant indicating the equivalence of those two samples of contemporary students. However, as expected, t tests showed that current students differed significantly from students a decade ago in that their scores represented an increase in androgynous sex-roles.

scholarly journals Porcupine and Other Stories: Legal Relations in Secwépemcúlecw

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-201
Author(s):  
Hadley Friedland ◽  
Bonnie Leonard ◽  
Jessica Asch ◽  
Kelly Mortimer
Keyword(s):  
Research Unit ◽  
Indigenous Law ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
The Face ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

For thousands of years, Secwépemc laws (like other Indigenous laws) related to the Secwépemc lands, or “Secwépemcúlecw,” developed and were learned and practiced within a context where the personhood of Secwépemc individuals, as well as animals and the earth itself, was not in dispute. Nor was the existence, legitimacy or efficacy of Secwépemc laws. All of these crucial legal relationships still exist, and are ongoing. However, for the past 150 years or so, Secwépemc laws, and people, have lived in relation to something quite distinct — a set of laws that were jurispathic in nature —laws that would not recognize or tolerate any other law but themselves. The Secwépemc Nation’s resilience and perseverance in upholding and revitalizing Secwépemc laws in the face of this colonial disregard, attests to their strength and enduring value. In this article, the authors discuss the purpose, as well as some of the methods, outcomes and limits of the Secwépemc Lands and Resources Laws project produced in collaboration with the University of Victoria Indigenous Law Research Unit. They then examine present interactions between Secwépemc and state land and resources laws operating within Secwépemcúlecw, including the challenges and limited opportunities that exist within the way these legal and political relations are currently structured and implemented on the ground. Finally, they draw on the Secwépemc “Story of Porcupine” to suggest a constructive way forward towards a more mutually respectful Nation-to-Nation relationship between the Secwépemc people and the Canadian State.

American Musicology and “The Archives of Eden”

1998 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
HARRY WHITE
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
High Schools ◽  
American Culture ◽  
The United States ◽  
High Culture ◽  
The Past ◽  
Advanced Study ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The University

In his T. S. Eliot Memorial Lectures delivered at the University of Kent in March, 1971, and subsequently published as In Bluebeard's Castle or Some Notes Towards A Re-definition of Culture, George Steiner apostrophized the condition of American culture in the following way:America is the representative and premonitory example [of the democratization of high culture]. Nowhere has the debilitation of genuine literacy gone further (consider the recent surveys of reading-comprehension and recognition in American high schools). But nowhere, also, have the conservation and learned scrutiny of the art or literature of the past been pursued with more generous authority. American libraries, universities, archives, museums, centres for advanced study, are now the indispensable record and treasure-house of civilization. It is here that the European artist and scholar must come to see the cherished after-glow of his culture. Though often obsessed with the future, the United States is now, certainly in regard to the humanities, the active watchman of the classic past.So far, so good. But Steiner's encomium (notwithstanding that second sentence) carried with it a conditional scrutiny which was less attractive in its implications.

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