From Masterpiece to Math-terpiece

I have developed a deep appreciation for and love of mathematics by using famous works of art as a bridge to energize my mathematics teaching and inspire my students.

The international law of jurisdiction: A TWAIL perspective

The concept of jurisdiction is a relatively undertheorized category of international law. Mainstream international law scholarship advances an ahistorical and asocial account of the rules of jurisdiction in international law. The present article contends that any serious understanding of the categories and rules of jurisdiction, in particular that of extraterritorial jurisdiction, calls for deep appreciation of the evolving material structures over time. It argues that the key factors that have influenced the evolution and development of the doctrine, rules, and practices of jurisdiction are the emergence of the modern state, capitalism, and imperialism. In order to appreciate this contention there is a need to undertake on the one hand a genealogical analysis of modern state and capitalism and on the other hand problematize the categories ‘territory’ and ‘extraterritorial’. The internal relationship between capitalism and imperialism has meant that, despite the territorial organization of the international system, a process of harmonization of legal rules has taken place across geographical spaces in both colonial and postcolonial eras. The outcome is a critical loss of policy and legal space for nations of the Global South. In the colonial era the outcome was achieved through legislation in the instance of colonized nations and through capitulation regimes in the case of semi-colonies. The strategy of advanced capitalist states in the postcolonial era for achieving harmonization of laws has been multi-layered and multi-dimensional. The article concludes by touching on two models of reform of the rules and practices of jurisdiction viz., liberal and subaltern internationalism.

7th World Multidisciplinary Earth Sciences Symposium - WMESS 2021

The current “IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science (EES)” volume includes papers presented in the capital city of the Czech Republic, Prague for the 7th Anniversary of the “World Multidisciplinary Earth Sciences Symposium” from 6th September to 10th September 2021. The purpose of the WMESS 2021 is to give a place to converse and consider the current data, discoveries, and mechanics in various areas of Earth Sciences, to provide favourable circumstances for forthcoming cooperation. It is a stage for contributing information and skills in the areas of Earth Sciences, by arranging a conference for researchers at the beginning of their career and letting them present their findings and leave them space to discuss it with for the presentation of their work and discussion of their ideas with specialists in diverse fields of Earth Sciences. WMESS 2021 (www.mess-earth.org) is the 7th of the Annual series. The main aim of WMESS 2021 is to make work in multidisciplinary studies connected with Earth Sciences and to develop collaborations with researchers. WMESS 2021 arranged a conference for varying studies communicating the most recent findings and recording arising knowledge of connected systems and our place in them. We give our deep appreciation to the respected Scientific Committee and Institutional Scientific Partners of WMESS 2021. The Scientific Committee and Institutional Scientific Partners of WMESS 2021 were achieved by paying rigorous concentration, and all members were picked from acclaimed, highly valued, creative scientific communities representing countries from all around the world. List of Editors of WMESS 2021, Committee WMESS 2021 are available in this pdf.

Who do the people want to govern?

Relative to the well-developed theory and extensive survey batteries on people’s preferences for substantive policy solutions, scholarly understanding of people’s preferences for the mechanisms by which policies should be adopted is disappointing. Theory rarely goes beyond the assumption that people would prefer to rule themselves rather than leave decisions up to elites and measurement rests largely on four items that are not up to the task. In this article, we seek to provide a firmer footing for “process” research by 1) offering an alternative theory holding that people actually want elites to continue to make important political decisions but want them to do so only after acquiring a deep appreciation for the real-world problems facing regular people, and 2) developing and testing a battery of over 50 survey items, appropriate for cross-national research, that extend understanding of how the people want political decisions to be made.

Komunikasi Visual Kartun Sompret Karya I Wayan Sadha

This paper was written to read visual signs and verbal marks contained in the cartoon Sompret by I Wayan Sadha. I Wayan Sadha's Sompret cartoon has its uniqueness as a work of visual communication. The uniqueness is that the visual communication of this cartoon presents illustrations, typography, and layouts with a deep appreciation of Balinese culture. The illustration presents a Balinese wearing a headdress is a representation of a Balinese in traditional culture. The illustration of a Balinese without a headdress is a representation of a Balinese who is in the modern culture. The typography used utilizes the display font to present the conversation and clarify the description of the image. The letters are used to explain the issue raised as Sadha's opinion and point of view on the Bali issues. Sadha's Sompret Cartoons only use lines, no color, so his works appeared as black and white cartoons. Sompret cartoons used the symmetrical balance composition and hidden balance layout, the perspective of human eye level, and the perspective of a bird's eye. This research uses descriptive qualitative research method. Semiotic theory is used in this research and focus on denotation and connotation meaning. Denotationally, the Sompret cartoon of Sadha presents a narrative of events based on the issue raised related to Balinese traditional culture and the flow of globalization. The work is created in a one-panel cartoon. The story of this cartoon sometimes with conversations of several characters or only illustrations of the characters without any conversation. With the narrative being built, the meaning of the connotation can be read. The connotations meaning of Sompret cartoons as opinion cartoons is showing the flow of globalization or modern culture in the middle of the strength of the Balinese traditional culture. Connotatively this cartoon can be read as a development of globalization in Bali.

Anglican moral theology today

Anglican moral theology is a genealogy, in MacIntyre’s use of this concept. It is a tradition that is handed on from one generation to another, practically and theoretically. Moral theology is part of the tradition of moral virtue, practiced by Christians, in local communities, families, and of course the church. What is distinctive in Anglicanism was that after 1580 there emerged an Anglican tradition of moral enquiry, which recognized the Protestant emphasis on scripture and a quite different role for the clergy, alongside a deep appreciation of the old, pre-Reformation tradition of moral theology. Today, the Anglican exemplary tradition also incorporates debates on sexuality, gender, and questions of identity. In social ethics, postcolonial voices show both the idolatry of political life and how our common life can be a locus of divine grace. Anglican moral theology is both very vibrant and deeply pluralist today.

DISTRIBUTED INTERCULTURAL PROJECT-BASED LEARNING - A NOVEL APPROACH - EXPERIENCES FROM A QUADRILATERAL INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION

This paper describes a new concept and experiences of a distributed interdisciplinary learning programme for students across continents. The aim is to provide students with a truly Global Intercultural Project Experience (GIPE) by working together with peers from around the world, and solving real-life client’s problems. We have received seed-funding for four annual projects to engage students from Germany (Europe), Namibia (Africa), Indonesia (Asia), and Peru (Latin-America). In 2020, 30 students from four continents engaged in a one-semester distributed software development project for a Namibian client. Despite Covid-19 they successfully completed the project expressing deep appreciation for the learning opportunities overcoming challenges of working across wide-spread time zones, cultures, changing requirements, and various technical challenges. Considering the vast learning benefits, we suggest to incorporate such projects in all tertiary education curricula across the globe.

Special Issue on Disaster Storytelling, in Commemoration of 2020 TeLL-Net Forum, Kobe, Japan

This special issue of the Journal of Disaster Research focuses on disaster storytelling, an emerging concept in disaster risk reduction. Despite its popularity and importance, its individual practices and activities, as they tend to be spontaneous and local, have received only limited attention from academia and have not been given special attention by the disaster research community. The papers included in this volume contain multi-dimensional discussions on disaster storytelling, including ones that focus on concepts and theory, the functions of disaster museums, tourism, local communities, UNESCO geoparks, disaster ruins and heritage, art and culture, and disaster education. The readers can understand the variety of disaster storytelling activities that exist around the world and their potential contribution to building resilience in society. We believe this issue is the first academic publication to focus specifically on disaster storytelling, and we hope that this volume contributes to creating scientific value, attracts additional attention, and develops further discussions about the role of disaster storytelling within the disaster research community. We also believe that such discussions will help various individuals and entities reidentify the importance and significance of their activities of disaster storytelling as well as contribute to continuing or strengthening such activities around the world. All of the contributors to this issue participated in the International Forum on Telling Live Lessons from Disasters (TeLL-Net Forum), held January 24–26, 2020 in Kobe, Japan. The articles included in this issue include ones that were inspired by discussions during and after the forum. Readers interested in this forum can obtain the official report from the TeLL-Net website: https://tell-net.jp/forum2020/pdf/00_Tell_Net2020_Report_print.pdf. We, the editorial board of this special issue, would like to express our deep appreciation to the Hyogo Earthquake Memorial 21st Century Research Institute for the research grant on disaster storytelling. We also would like to express our gratitude to the Kobe Machizukuri Rokko Island Fund Charitable Trust (Tokyo, Japan) and AIG Institute (Osaka, Japan) for financial contributions that supported the publication of the issue.

NATION AND PERSONAL CHARACTER BUILDING BASED ON PANCASILA IDEOLOGY AND HEROIC LEADERSHIP APPROACH

The first president of the Republic of Indonesia, Sukarno, reminded the importance of the nation's strength of character which was built on the basis of a deep appreciation of the nation's view of life. Character is not only determine the existence and progress of individuals, but also the existence and progress of a group of individuals like a nation. Like an individual, in essence each nation has its own character that grows from shared experience. Referring to Sukarno's important ideas about character building, to provide life-contents and life-direction, the soul of this nation needs to be built intentionally to re-establish Indonesian values, through awareness, empowerment, and civilization of Pancasila values and morality. Based on the problem of the target subject, efforts are needed to develop an adaptive coaching program approach model in accordance with the objectives of the target subject. The model is used as an adaptive approach in the "Nation and Personal Character Building based on the Pancasila Ideology and Heroic Leadership Approach" as an effort to change the character and mindset of prisoners. The results of this dedication are expected to contribute to the Salemba class IIA correctional institutions (prisons), the prisoners, and all parties who are concerned in guiding prisoners.

The Sayyid Qutub and His Criticism on Western Civilization

Sayyid Qutb was one of the most influential Islamic thinkers of the 20th Century. He fervently believed that Islam should govern the social, economic and political order of the society to improve the human condition and purge ills of society. He emphasizes that Islam must combat any system that usurps God’s sovereignty by giving man power over other men. Qutb argued that a key characteristic in the Islamic society was social justice that did not exist in the West because of its materialistic philosophy of life. He called upon the Muslims to examine Islam’s comprehensive philosophy of the universe, life and human kind. In his view, a clear understanding of the universe, and the harmony between the cosmos and life, would lead Muslims to a deep appreciation of Islam as a religion of unity, encompassing all elements of life.