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A Genealogy of the Study of Gender in Prehistory: From the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century to the Latter Half of the Twentieth Century
No full textThesis (B.A. in History, Minor in Humanistic Studies)--John Cabot University, Fall 2022.This thesis seeks to examine the evolution of the study of gender prehistory from the latter half of the nineteenth century to the latter half of the twentieth century. The first chapter discusses the development of the late nineteenth century myth of matriarchal prehistory. The matriarchal thesis was cradled comfortably within evolutionism, however wielded most strongly over time by socialists. The second chapter explores the internal theoretical shifts in academia and the external cultural and societal shifts which discredited the matriarchal myth and pushed the study of prehistory to the wayside during the first half of the twentieth century. The third chapter strives to explain the impact of the second-wave feminist movement on gender prehistory in relation to the androcentric scholarship from the past century and a half. Androcentrism permeated the scholarship on gender prehistory for much of its existence, however in the latter half of the twentieth century, feminist scholars emphasized the biological and cultural contributions of prehistoric women to human evolution. Gender prehistory remained a highly speculative study because it was limited by a lack of substantial evidence. In this regard, gender prehistory has been especially biased as some scholars have projected onto the relatively unknown remote past their desired human origin stories which reflect their desired futures. Hence, the leading interpretations of gender prehistory have changed drastically from their origins in the middle of the nineteenth century to the debate between androcentric and feminist scholars in the second half of the twentieth century because of internal academic shifts and external cultural and societal shifts, the discovery of new anthropological, archeological, ethnographic, and biological data, and projections onto prehistory which lead to the “discovery” of “findings” which affirmed the biases of some scholars
A Genealogy of the Study of Gender in Prehistory: From the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century to the Latter Half of the Twentieth Century
No full textThesis (B.A. in History, Minor in Humanistic Studies)--John Cabot University, Fall 2022.This thesis seeks to examine the evolution of the study of gender prehistory from the latter half of the nineteenth century to the latter half of the twentieth century. The first chapter discusses the development of the late nineteenth century myth of matriarchal prehistory. The matriarchal thesis was cradled comfortably within evolutionism, however wielded most strongly over time by socialists. The second chapter explores the internal theoretical shifts in academia and the external cultural and societal shifts which discredited the matriarchal myth and pushed the study of prehistory to the wayside during the first half of the twentieth century. The third chapter strives to explain the impact of the second-wave feminist movement on gender prehistory in relation to the androcentric scholarship from the past century and a half. Androcentrism permeated the scholarship on gender prehistory for much of its existence, however in the latter half of the twentieth century, feminist scholars emphasized the biological and cultural contributions of prehistoric women to human evolution. Gender prehistory remained a highly speculative study because it was limited by a lack of substantial evidence. In this regard, gender prehistory has been especially biased as some scholars have projected onto the relatively unknown remote past their desired human origin stories which reflect their desired futures. Hence, the leading interpretations of gender prehistory have changed drastically from their origins in the middle of the nineteenth century to the debate between androcentric and feminist scholars in the second half of the twentieth century because of internal academic shifts and external cultural and societal shifts, the discovery of new anthropological, archeological, ethnographic, and biological data, and projections onto prehistory which lead to the “discovery” of “findings” which affirmed the biases of some scholars
Child Early and Forced Marriages of Girls during Armed Conflicts: The Fragmentation of International Law and Judicial Protection
No full textModello di stima dell’impatto dei costi sanitari nei pazienti non ospedalizzati affetti da Covid-19 in trattamento con remdesivir
No full textObjectives: In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak caused significant negative changes worldwide. Important investments were suddenly needed in the economic, social, and healthcare fields. This analysis sets out to show the economic impact of the administration of remdesivir in ambulatory patients, who are affected by Covid-19, at high risk for severe progression, and eligible for the antiviral treatment.
Methods: The budget impact analysis is based on the assumptions already presented in a study published in 2020 by the same Authors. The analysis was updated with a new simulation of the pandemic curve which included the vaccination plan. Data were collected from official Italian sources and from the academic literature. The Italian National Health Service (NHS) perspective was used in the analysis. Remdesivir treatment was compared in terms of economic costs with the Standard of Care over a period of 20 weeks. Such timeframe was chosen because of the uncertainty of the pandemic evolution and considering that this is the time of a complete pandemic curve. A comparison with other therapeutic solutions was not performed in this analysis as the relative costs were not available at the time of the study.
Results: The model estimates that, in 20 weeks, 8,002,015 subjects are infected by Covid-19, with a 0.8% hospitalization rate. Among hospitalized patients, 19.6% could be eligible for remdesivir treatment, for a total number of 3,619 patients, with a 12% market share.
Conclusion: The analysis shows that remdesivir therapy is dominant and its use could determine a reduction in hospitalizations and transfers to intensive care units compared to the Standard of Care, with a potential saving of € 50.8 million and a decrease of the number of Covid-19-related deaths between 600 and 1,100
A European History of Michael Howard’s War in European History
No full textMichael Howard’s War in European History, published in 1976, was one of his most influential works. This article traces its reception in France, Italy and West Germany, contextualising the book within the post-Second World War development of military history in those countries. The ‘war and society’ approach for which Howard is celebrated developed along distinctive lines in each, so international scholars focused on different aspects of the book. War in European Historywas also used by Umberto Eco to explore the relationship between force and power. His insights offer fresh ways to examine more recent developments in the field of military history
Does ESG Disclosure Influence Firm Performance?
No full textThis study aims to analyze the impact of the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure on the firm performance, given the stakeholders’ increasing attention to the firm’s ESG practices. Looking at the European context, the Directive 2014/95/EU and its update encouraged European large companies to provide disclosure about their socially responsible practices. Acting within the Agency and Signaling theory frameworks, this paper focuses on the Italian situation where the Legislative Decree 254/2016 implemented the European Directive and forced the largest firms (those with more than 500 employees) to disclose comprehensive information about their social and environmental activities starting from 2017. By applying a panel regression analysis, using a sample of the largest Italian listed companies, and considering a time span of 10 years (from 2011 to 2020), this study finds that there is a positive relationship between environmental, social, and governance disclosure and firm performance, measured by EBIT. Our findings will help firms’ stakeholders, decision-makers, policymakers, as well as academics, to improve their awareness of the impact of ESG disclosure on the performance of the firm, both as a comprehensive factor and individually by pillar. The findings, which support the positive relationship between ESG disclosure and firm performance, should incentivize managers to invest in CSR practices
The Festa della Federazione and Visual Propaganda during the Roman Republic, 1798-1799: The Appropriation of Papal Symbols in the Urban Landscape
No full textMaster of Arts in Art History -- John Cabot University, Spring 2022.The brief period of the Roman Republic (1798-1799) envisaged to revolutionize a centuries old city and state government dominated by the absolute power of the Roman Catholic Church into a democratic and secular state. Republican festivities were adopted in this period as propagandistic means to accomplish the new government’s mission to extend public consent as well as to mark a historical justification with Rome’s millenary past. In this thesis I would like to address the case study of two paintings of the Republican Festa della Federazione celebrated on March 20th, 1798 commemorating the Republic’s proclamation by the artist Felice Giani, which are now conserved at the Museo di Roma at Palazzo Braschi. Although the two paintings are now looked uncritically by contemporary public and scholars, the paintings by Giani are instead fundamental in order to address important questions: are Republican festivities and the ephemeral stage sets erected in that period separate from the papal tradition of festivities in Rome? How was the event recorded and transcribed into visual representation? How is the representation of the event to be interpreted nowadays? What was the role of the artists and Academies both in the designing of the festivity and in the commemoration of the event? And finally, why are Republican festivities nowadays looked as separate elements from the history of festivities in Rome
Phenomenon of Ritual Killing in the First Dynasties Worldwide
No full textThesis (B.A. in Art History, Art and Design and Classical Studies)--John Cabot University, Spring 2022.The phenomenon of ritual deaths is identifiable and practiced only at the dawn of new socio-political organization, coinciding with their 1st dynasty. The topic of this thesis is the comparison of the phenomenon of ritual sacrifice in the context of the Sumerian civilization, specifically in the city of Ur of the Protodynastic Period IIIA, at the time of the 1st dynasty (2550-2340 BC ca.); Up to that moment such an act had never been found in the whole Middle East, especially in the Sumerian cultural alone. Then it will be compared with other civilizations in which the same phenomenon has been traced.
The analysis will argue about the in three superior civilizations: Sumerian city of Kish where, in Cemetery Y, three tombs dating back to the Protodynastic I-II (2900-2600 BC) were unearthed; Egypt and the Thinite dynasties (2920-2650 BC) with the necropolises of Abydos and Saqqara, given the good state of conservation of the burials; China and the Shang period, (second millennium BC) with the necropolis of Hsi-pei-kang.
Then the analysis moves to the Scythians, a nomadic people of breeders originating from Upper Persia, whose few architectural testimonies include the kurgans, funerary structures in which many bodies were housed. Finally, the research will end with the funeral practices of the Kingdom of Buganda, constituted of a federation of large patrilineal.
In the city-state of Ur, the ritual was traced in the tombs of the 1st dynasty, in Egypt the main testimonies date back to the period of the early dynasty, when the pharaohs unified the country, while in China this custom can be traced back for the first time when an organization capable of administering a vast territory consisting of several cities was formed. One of the triggers that led the cultures to elaborate staging the deaths of people affiliated with the ruling classes, such as prisoners and slaves, may be the series of social, political and religious changes which these societies, in a certain period of their history, have implemented
The Reconnection of The Past and Present and The Diaspora of Gen Z Aboriginal Activism
No full textThesis (B.A. in Political Science)--John Cabot University, Spring 2022.Since the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Generation Z political activists have used social media platforms such as TikTok and Twitter in order to advocate for the promotion of their human rights. While Aboriginal activism has a part of Australia’s history since the beginning. However, with the use of technology, activism, especially Generation Z activism has shifted to the use of social media platforms. Generation Z Aboriginal activists have used these same platforms in order to reach a larger target audience and hold discussions online regarding Aboriginal rights and issues that the community faces today. This developed the research question “How are Gen Z Aboriginal activists engaging with past and present injustices to push the Australian government to respect Aboriginal rights in its policies?” This thesis includes a literature review which discusses the academic literature behind Aboriginal history, government policy, and aboriginal activism as well as discussing the gaps and themes that might not be discussed by scholars. The first chapter introduces Aboriginal history briefly in order to give context and to examine how these issues and injustices came to be. The second chapter examines the history of Australian federal government policy pertaining to the Aboriginal community and their correlation with the issues that are discussed by activists. The third chapter is based on primary research that has been done through qualitative data analysis, 1st, a survey in which activists participated in and the use of the MAXQDA system for twitter in order to analyze tweets and present any themes or gaps. Lastly, the conclusion discusses the themes and gaps throughout the literature, research and government policies and provides an analysis of where there may be gaps