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Attitudes towards the use of mechanical restraints in psychiatric facilities: contrasting practices in Ireland and Ontario
Get PDFThe use of restraints on patients with mental illness is controversial within healthcare and society at large. One must balance the liberty and safety interests of patients and staff to minimise harm and maximize freedom
Do doctors have a duty to treat during a pandemic?
Get PDFMedicine is a humanitarian profession and as stated in the Oath, doctors have a duty to help the sick. However, is this duty absolute? Can physicians refuse to treat patients? Even when there is significant risk to their own health? How about their duty as a spouse, parent or family member? These questions emerge during a health emergency and have been debated during the current COVID-19 pandemic
Dramaturgies of presence: Il teatro ad Asinitas: dall’apprendimento linguistico all’acquisizione di presenza personale e collettiva
No full textNel presente articolo viene descritta la pratica dell’associazione Asinitas di Roma che accompagna percorsi di apprendimento linguistico per stranieri (migranti, rifugiati e richiedenti asilo) a laboratori teatrali condotti da teatranti professionisti. A partire dal laboratorio “La voce umana” condotto con la compagnia Bartolini-Baronio si vuole evidenziare la potenzialità del teatro per: la costruzione di un contesto multilingue che valorizza il repertorio plurilingue di ciascuno; lo sviluppo della capacità espressiva attraverso l’attenzione agli aspetti co-verbali della comunicazione che includono il corpo, lo spazio, la voce con le sue caratteristiche prosodiche; la narrazione biografica individuale che diventa drammaturgia collettiva consolidando la costruzione di una comunità in grado di aprire una finestra di dialogo con la città. L’articolo vuole offrire spunti di riflessione su come questi aspetti possano essere particolarmente significativi in ambito migratorio per l’acquisizione di presenza individuale e sociale, l’accrescimento delle competenze linguistico-espressive, la costruzione di legami sociali significativi, la rielaborazione dell’esperienza migratoria stessa.This article describes the practice of the association Asinitas in Rome, which accompanies language learning paths for foreigners (migrants, refugees and asylum seekers) with theater workshops. Beginning with the workshop “The Human Voice” conducted with the Bartolini-Baronio company, the aim is to highlight the potential of theater for: the construction of a multilingual context that enhances the multilingual repertoire of each; the development of expressive capacity through attention to the co-verbal aspects of communication that include the body, space, voice with its prosodic characteristics; individual biographical narration that becomes collective dramaturgy consolidating the construction of a community capable of opening a window of dialogue with the city. The article aims to offer insights into how these aspects can be particularly significant in the context of migration for the acquisition of individual and social presence, the enhancement of linguistic-expressive skills, the construction of meaningful social ties, and the reworking of the migration experience itself.
Let’s create what happens next: Translation as transformative experience
Get PDFThis article builds on a collective conference paper delivered at the 3rd International Scenario Conference in May 2024. The article discusses a final-year undergraduate class that took place at Trinity College Dublin in the autumn semester of 2023 entitled “Experimental Translation”. It focuses on the experiences of the teacher and three students who took the class by analysing the relationship between experimentation, experience, and translation, and it presents examples of the creative work that the students produced for their end-of-semester assessments
Review of Tau, R., Kloetzer, L., & Henein, S. (2024). Barefoot academic teaching: Performing arts as a pedagogical tool in higher education (Edition Scenario Vol. VII). Schibri.
Get PDFIn the true spirit of improvisation, this book is an across the board “yes”! It places embodied teaching and learning at the centre of the university curriculum and as such,it should appeal to readers with a strong interest in the role of the arts in academia: students, researchers, administrators, performers, and teachers/lecturers alike, because it thoughtfully encompasses voices from almost each of these groups
International Law & the Sustainable Development Goals
Get PDFLaw and policy are essential tools to tackle ongoing and emerging environmental challenges and are critical to the fulfilment of sustainable development. Adopted by all 193 United Nations (UN) Member States, the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs, also known as the 2030 Agenda) act as the 21st-century framework for sustainable development. This doctoral project seeks to investigate the interactive dynamics between international law and the SDGs to discern the potential of this relationship to strengthen, reinforce, and facilitate the realisation of existing and emerging obligations in international law
The Encounter Between Xiao Youmei and Nie Er: Two Divergent Approaches to National Salvation Through Music
No full textMusic played a functional role in spreading new ideologies and cultural perspectives from the outset of the establishment of the Republic of China (1912–1949). However, even musicians who shared the aim of modernising the nation and were active in the same locations could differ markedly in their positions, both in their ideas on how to achieve this and in the actions they undertook towards that goal. This article explores the contrasting approaches of two twentieth-century Chinese composers, Xiao Youmei (1884–1940) and Nie Er (1912–1935), toward Western classical music. Xiao, classically trained in Western music, founded China’s first specialised music conservatory, the National Conservatory of Music (Guoli Yinyue Xueyuan), later renamed the National College of Music (Guoli Yinyue Zhuanke Xuexiao), advocating for the role of Western classical music in elevating Chinese musical standards. In contrast, Nie, a left-wing composer, had a more complicated relationship with Western music. He publicly debated the role of music in China’s modernisation and criticised fellow musicians in both the press and his writings. This article explores Nie’s evolving attitude toward Western music in China by addressing key questions: Did Nie truly regard Western classical music as irrelevant, even though he studied violin under foreign instructors and recorded in his diary that he practiced classical music intensively? Furthermore, if he considered the National College of Music unimportant, how can his repeated attempts to gain admission be understood?
Drawing from these inquiries, this article reconstructs the encounter between the ideologies of two of China’s foremost musicians during the Republican era. It highlights Xiao’s advocacy for progressive social change through the promotion of Western musical education, while also demonstrating that Nie was more receptive to certain elements of Western music than has previously been acknowledged. Through this analysis the article enhances the understanding of the complex roles both composers played in shaping the modernisation of Chinese music and musical practices
