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De \u27andere\u27 ander: Philo van Alexandrië over de Egyptenaren in zijn historische werken
No full textJoodse intellectuelen in het Romeinse Rijk bevonden zich in een lastige positie. Ze schreven in het Grieks, maar waren onderdeel van een etnische minderheid waarover Grieken en Romeinen sterke vooroordelen hadden. Deze vooroordelen werden bovendien versterkt door een serie conflicten. Hoe dienden Joodse schrijvers zoals Philo van Alexandrië hun Griekse en Romeinse collega’s van repliek?Joodse intellectuelen in het Romeinse Rijk bevonden zich in een lastige positie. Ze schreven in het Grieks, maar waren onderdeel van een etnische minderheid waarover Grieken en Romeinen sterke vooroordelen hadden. Deze vooroordelen werden bovendien versterkt door een serie conflicten. Hoe dienden Joodse schrijvers zoals Philo van Alexandrië hun Griekse en Romeinse collega’s van repliek
Opacity in Open Air: Producing Queer Outsides through Glissant’s Poetics of Relation
No full textThis essay provides a queer reading of Édouard Glissant’s critique of Western metaphysics as presented in his 1990 work Poetics of Relation. Glissant’s text is interpreted as offering conceptual tools for understanding the production of an outside of the gender binary, as well as for a critique of the naturalisation of the bourgeois framework underlying queer visibility and inclusion as political ends. Based on the self-transgressive character shared by the notions of Relation and queerness, it is further argued that both the potentialities and the aporetic elements of Glissant’s proposal can elucidate those of queer theories and practices
Vrouwelijke creativiteit omwille van de Nederlandse krijgsmacht. Het belang van verlotingen van vrouwelijke handwerken in de jaren 1830-1831 voor negentiende-eeuwse liefdadigheid
No full textEen grote mobilisatie in de roerige eerste jaren van de Belgische Afscheiding (1830-1831) leidde tot een nationale inzamelingsactie voor armlastige Nederlandse militairen en hun achterblijvende gezinsleden. Vrouwen ondernamen allerlei initiatieven op het terrein van liefdadigheid. Vooral het succes en de reikwijdte van verlotingen van handwerken springen daarbij in het oog. 
Genderview Martijn Icks. De latente misogynie in karaktermoord
No full textMartijn Icks is docent Oude Geschiedenis aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam. Hij promoveerde met een proefschrift over de Romeinse keizer Elagabalus en diens postume reputatie. Icks bestudeert onder meer de representatie en perceptie van de keizerlijke macht, Romeinse kunst, rituelen en gender. Als medeoprichter van het interdisciplinaire onderzoekscentrum CARP (Character Assassination and Reputation Politics) heeft hij veel expertise opgebouwd in de studie van karaktermoord. Een gesprek over karaktermoord, mannelijkheid, politiek en de meerwaarde van een interdisciplinair onderzoeksteam
The remodelling of u-stem adjectives in West Germanic
No full textIn Proto-Germanic, strong adjectives are declined according to stem type. The minor u-stem class of adjectives is only preserved in Gothic, and even there it is under pressure from more frequent classes. In West Germanic, members of this class are redistributed into the common a-/ō-stem and ja-/jō-stem classes. The present study analysed the reflexes of all Proto-Germanic u-stem adjectives in Kroonen (2013) in the different West Germanic languages. It was found that a plurality are transferred into the ja-/jō-stem class in all languages. However, a considerable number of them have a-/ō-stem reflexes in some languages but ja-/jō-stem ones in others, while certain adjectives can show reflexes of both types within one language. Anglo-Frisian has the largest number of a-/ō-stem outcomes, and High German the most ja-/jō-stem ones, with Dutch and Low German falling somewhere in between. Therefore, the remodelling of u-stem adjectives necessarily postdates a period of West Germanic unity
Internationalizing the curricula through COIL in Japanese higher education: Towards inclusive, accessible, and pluralistic internationalization
No full textPresented in this paper are findings from a research project exploring policies and pedagogies for collaborative online international learning (COIL) in the context of Japanese higher education. Our study comprised a qualitative investigation of a government-funded COIL project, in which 13 Japanese universities were awarded funding from 2018 to 2023 to establish and implement COIL programs with international partner universities primarily in the United States. Through our study we aimed to gain an understanding of the perceived opportunities and challenges of COIL as a policy idea for internationalization and as a pedagogy for internationalization of curricula (IoC) in the Japanese context. To achieve this aim, our research design entailed a comprehensive document analysis and 12 semi-structured interviews with educators involved with the funded COIL programs at eight different Japanese universities. Findings revealed that various actors both enabled and blocked COIL as a form of IoC, and that COIL itself served in many contexts as a mechanism that shaped IoC at institutional and personal levels more broadly, beyond the confines of the respective COIL programs. We argue that COIL offers a viable means to contribute to an inclusive and collaborative internationalized curriculum in Japanese universities, given adequate institutional support and faculty buy-in
Editorial
No full textOften resulting from grassroots initiatives by which teachers from different institutions connect their classes to work on collaborative projects, virtual exchange (VE) has led to the creation of networks and joint endeavors on a global scale. Moreover, such initiatives, which for a long time have not received institutional recognition or have not been included in internationalization policies, are now getting attention with programmes such as Erasmus+ VE (2018-20). This Special Issue on Global Perspectives on Virtual Exchange for University Internationalisation shows how VE can be applied to different disciplines and projects in universities across the globe, highlighting multiple benefits for students, lecturers and universities. These benefits include opportunities for the development of students’ multilingual and intercultural competence, academic and digital literacies, and greater awareness of global issues. The results of the studies in this SI can pave the ground for research-informed university internationalization policies for more internationalized, digitilazed and transdisciplinary curriculum design which can help students develop the global competences needed in changing academic and professional scenarios
Editorial
No full textWelcome to this special issue of the Journal of Virtual Exchange, featuring eight engaging contributions that highlight the transformative potential of virtual exchange (VE) for education. Arising from works presented at the International Virtual Exchange Conference in 2023, hosted by the Brazilian Association for International Education (FAUBAI) and São Paulo State University (UNESP) in São Paulo, Brazil, this collection consists of seven practice reports and one research article, offering valuable insights into innovative pedagogies, intercultural collaboration, and professional development. We are gratified and delighted to present these works that reflect the increasing diversity and depth of VE practices worldwide
‘Because of People Like You…’: Banal Politics in the Making of the Pandemic Governmentality in Italy
No full textAt first sight, social media comments seem to be the place where anti-vaxxer discourse and mocking regularly occurred during the global pandemic. Based on an exploratory analysis of comments that were published on the social media account of the Italian Department of Civil Protection from February 2020 to December 2021, this paper argues that social media comments can also help to detect the subjectivity augured by discourses of COVID19 crisis management: the responsible subject. Drawing on governmentality studies and a social semiotic understanding of social media comments as ‘banal politics’, this paper discusses the reconfiguration of the political during and beyond the global pandemic. It looks at the reconstitution of a new political subject that emerged throughout the COVID19 crisis: the responsible, a subject who does not limit herself to following the governmental rules but also reproduces and enforces them on a molecular communication scale
A Political Ecology of Modernist Resistance: Turning the Tide on Ecomodernism and Ecofascism in the New Climatic Regime
No full textThis article claims that the material and epistemic disruption of climate and ecological collapse engenders feedbacks of ecomodern and ecofascist resistance that undercut democratic capacities for mitigation and adaptation (IPCC 2022). Moreover, that opposing these positions engender a second-order adversarial feedback, which further hampers climate action. Analyzing this modernist resistance in an “ecology of practices” (Stengers 2005) shows it to occur in defence of a modern timespace and on behalf of affordances of Whiteness. To mitigate this resistance, the article concludes by calling for a ‘politics of life’ that decentres humanistic agency as the locus of historical progress and territorial integrity by emphasizing habitability in an emergent field of environmental relations