The Queerness of Black Matriarchal Praxis

I met Kyla at a small conference on a rainy weekend in February 2018. I wandered into the workshop shortly after it had started, and the room was filled with Black women designing vision boards. Kyla didn't stop what she was doing as she replied to the question the presenter posed to the room. Her hands continued moving, cutting glossy paper or pasting shiny gems onto her board: “When I tell people that my organization raises money to take girls abroad, so many of them say, ‘Well why wouldn't you raise money for them to buy clothes or eat. They need food and education before they need to travel.’ But I always say, ‘But what about Black joy?’”

Design of Office Seats for Meeting Room Environment and Visitors Area Based on Ergonomics

The design functions of office seats in the market are relatively weak. According to the requirements of different sitting positions in the office environment and the physiological and morphological characteristics of sitting positions, this paper analyzes the seats from the perspective of ergonomics to design conference room seats that are more suitable for forward leaning sitting positions. The research method adopts the investigation method, literature research method and other investigation methods to find the existing problems of office seats at present, and analyzes and improves the design in combination with relevant literature. The office seats in small conference rooms and visitor areas are redesigned to obtain office seats that are easy to move and conform to the human-computer interaction of the sitting posture of leaning forward in meetings.

Cultural transformations of love and sex in the digital age

This second volume of our journal addresses an uneasy topic. It is uneasy exactly because it is too easy to speak about love and sex and yet say nothing. It is uneasy because there has not been tremendous academic interest in this topic within the field of humanities and social sciences, and contributions to the field have thus been sporadic and unsystematic. Moreover, it is uneasy because, compared to other aspects of our everyday life, love and sex concern our being in a way that it is difficult to observe in a neutral or scientific way. However, we are here: organizing a small conference on the consequences for love and sex upon the advent of the internet and digital technologies. We could not resist engaging this topic because our program as a research center concerns the cultural changes of the digital age, and we can hardly think of another sphere of life more affected by the development of digital communications technologies.

PUT 2019 : “Fearless, 1000 days and still running...”

A combination of our previous research on the Tor network for PUT2019 (the ‘small conference’ before PETS). Including additions.

Expertise, Teaching, and Craft

My vision of the future: The business school is not an architectural masterpiece across the river from the main campus. It now sits squarely in the middle of campus, a slightly worse for the wear place where students of all disciplines come and go. On campus, it is not even called The Business School. Instead, it goes by its nickname, “The School of Getting Shit Done.” Small teams of students are gathered in small conference rooms working on projects to bring the work of the engineers, the artists, and the scientists into the wider world. They build the organizations that allow the rest of the university to have impact and fulfill its mission of benefiting society. This is where the business artists of the future learn their craft as they work with their peers across campus. Like most artists, they learn to work in many mediums, including money and buzz and connection between people. The faculty wander in and out of the business studios, offering practical demonstrations of craft skill, hands-on advice, and critique sessions. And you can feel the energy, you can feel that, indeed, shit is getting done.

Introduction

This issue contains three research articles and one obituary, which of them includes “Self-Initiated Expatriates: Taiwanese Migrant Professionals in China’s Global Cities” by Jianbang Deng, “Cultural Adaptation of Taiwanese Female Marriage Migrants in Hong Kong” by Lan-Hung Nora Chiang and Chia-Yuan Huang, “Settling Across the Strait of Taiwan under Japanese Colonialism (1895–1945)” by Leo Douw, and his another paper “Arif Dirlik (1940–2017) Obituary.” These four papers were invited to submit to the Translocal Chinese editorial board after a small conference entitling “Research on Taiwanese Overseas Qiaomin (台灣海外僑民之研究)” at Soochow University on 19 January 2018, but only two of them was accepted after blind peer review. Douw’s articles later joined this issue, which constructs a significantly common topic for the three research papers—Taiwanese Migration to Mainland China in Different Ages. Deng’s paper explores how about the transformation of Taiwanese migrants into self-initiated expatriates in China’s global cities. Chiang and Huang explain how successful the Taiwanese female marriage migrants in Hong Kong despite their ever much difficulties. Douw tells the distinct identities between Registered Taiwanese (台灣籍民) in China and Taiwanese Huaqiao (台灣華僑) in Taiwan.

Preface: Focus Meeting 10 - Stellar explosions in an ever-changing environment

This focus meeting builds on a small conference “Galaxies meet GRBs at Cabo de Gata” held in September 2013 in Spain, which, for the first time, brought together people from the GRB and starburst communities and proved to be a great success. Focus Meeting 10 at the XXIX IAU GA was the continuation of this interdisciplinary collaboration, supported by Division J (Galaxies and Cosmology), Division D (High Energy Phenomena and Fundamental Physics) and Division G Working Group “Massive Stars”.

Mental Hygienic Aspects of Animal Assisted Education

The Institution for Special Education at the Faculty of Pedagogic of the University of Kaposvár has been engaged in animal assisted activities for about three years. Our most recent research program was conducted for over two month in the Spring of 2014 with the involvement of 66 children - all kindergarten and elementary school age -, 11 special educators, physicians, psychologists, special educators, teachers, ethologists. The primary focus of our research was the development (and examination) of memory however observations with ethological and mental hygiene angles were a natural segment of our work. A significant part of the observations pointed to factors that both the children and their educators have experienced: the acceptance of each-other, an increased level of tolerance, an increased attention level towards the partner (human and animal). The teachers gave account of their respective observations in a small conference at the end of the last school year. Researches were offered a glimpse into the unique world of the relationship between a part of “living nature” - the pygmy rabbit in our case - and humans. During the 12 sessions of the training our colleagues have made observations that could serve as basis for a new system of paradigms of animal assisted pedagogics in the future. Our experience can also be re-considered with aspects of remedial pedagogics: we are convinced that animal assistance can become an accentuated part of the care of children and students with impairments. This is also implied by the fact that preparatory works for the continuation of this research at a kindergarten and at a school are already in progress.