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The Hebrew Spinoza
No full textSpinoza has gained acceptance into Hebrew culture in the last two centuries, a period that includes the Jewish Haskalah in Europe, the culture created in Eretz Yisrael in the pre-statehood days, and contemporary Israeli culture. This acceptance is rather intimate by nature. Hebrew authors and their readers turned to Spinoza to clarify their own problems. To these audiences, Spinoza was not only a great philosopher, whose writings are worth interpreting and spreading. He was also perceived as someone who could help formulate what Judaism is and learn the possible meaning it can find in the world of Jews who had moved away from a religious lifestyle
A Map of Research on Spinoza in Brazilian Universities
No full textThis paper presents a profile of the research on Spinoza’s philosophy in Brazil, providing information concerning the beginning of the academic work, its place of origin and influence, the leading training centers, and the aspects of Spinoza’s philosophy that are most studied. First, it presents a brief history of Spinoza’s presence in Brazil and the beginning of academic studies on the author. Next, data is shown on the current state of training of philosophy researchers on Spinoza in Brazil. The data was obtained from the CNPq Lattes Platform, which brings together information on all Brazilian researchers affiliated with universities and research institutes. Spinoza’s philosophy was absent from intellectual circles in Brazil during the colonial period and started to be mentioned in Brazil only in the nineteenth century. Only with the strengthening of universities in the twentieth century did Spinoza become the object of investigation by many researchers
Re-wilding the Night: Understanding How Darkness Is Valued Through the Nighttime Light Ecology of Bonn Botanical Gardens
No full textRewilding the Night is an interdisciplinary research project that aims to reimagine the urban night by capturing and communicating the qualities and rhythms of both artificial and natural light at night. Through a collaborative and experimental approach, the project seeks to make the urban night legible by employing sensor technologies and data visualization techniques, thus fostering a deeper engagement with and appreciation for urban darkness. The project has three aims—first, to capture and analyse environmental light data in Bonn Botanical Gardens, Germany to create an accessible understanding of the variations in natural and artificial nighttime light. Second, to use this groundwork to inform subsequent workshops to capture public perceptions and values regarding darkness; and third, to develop lighting prototypes that respond to light data and the insights gained through the workshops. Central to the project is the re-evaluation of urban darkness by questioning and expanding the normative frameworks surrounding urban lighting. The project underscores the importance of interdisciplinary research and design in addressing complex urban challenges, offering a model for future research aimed at creating more livable, sustainable, and inclusive urban night environments for both humans and non-humans
Genderview Berteke Waaldijk: De universiteit leeft dankzij haar studenten
No full textIn de Genderview gaat Berteke Waaldijk in op het belang van kritische studenten voor de universiteit. Haar loopbaan van vrouwengeschiedenis naar genderstudies wordt besproken en haar onderzoek naar gender binnen het maatschappelijk werk en raciale ideeën binnen de vrouwenbeweging aan het begin van de twintigste eeuw. Haar interesse gaat verder uit naar geschiedenis van instituten en de waarde van academische vrijheid
Perception of the prosodic features of newscaster speech
No full textIt is frequently posited that the speech of groups with particular communicative goals constitutes cohesive prosodic genres. Here we investigate American English newscaster speech to discover whether listeners can distinguish it from non-newscaster speech based on prosody alone, and, if so, which features they use to do so and which are ignored. In a perception experiment, participants classified low-pass filtered audio clips as “newscaster” or “everyday” speech. We find that listeners were able to identify newscasters at a rate better than chance. They correctly utilized newscasters’ use of lower pitch, more intonational breaks, and little non-modal phonation, but overlooked the range of pitch accents that characterize newscaster speech. Whether this results from a coherent Newscaster genre or an interacting collection of indexical traits, our results suggest that listeners’ competence about speech registers includes sub-phonemic information about intonation, impacting the kind of data linguists must attend to when designing intonational models
When less is more
No full textThe grammatical ambition to distinguish well-formed from ill-formed structures very often leads to more complicated analyses, which in turn can impede the use of analyses in further studies. We argue thus that less ambitious and less complicated analyses can often provide more scientific insight. Two concrete cases are presented where less discriminating analyses enabled interesting investigations. In one case it was fortunate that the researchers could appeal an external, quantitative standard of quality to justify the simplification. At the risk of platitude, we conclude by confirming that the pursuit of simplicity shouldn’t be exaggerated
Boevenhumor: Een kleine geschiedenis van de relatie tussen humor en criminaliteit
No full textDit artikel behandelt de geschiedenis van humor in criminele sferen, waarin ook voorbeelden van een wat meer recente aard aan bod komen, zoals Willem Holleeder als \u27onze nationale knuffelcrimineel\u27. Naast de historische blik gebruikt Dekker ook psychologie en taalwetenschap om de humor van criminelen beter uit te lichten.Dit artikel behandelt de geschiedenis van humor in criminele sferen, waarin ook voorbeelden van een wat meer recente aard aan bod komen, zoals Willem Holleeder als \u27onze nationale knuffelcrimineel\u27. Naast de historische blik gebruikt Dekker ook psychologie en taalwetenschap om de humor van criminelen beter uit te lichten
An Overlooked Source of Wangerooge Frisian: The Birthday Invitation of Louwine Luths
No full textThe paper presents and discusses a hitherto overlooked text in Wangerooge Frisian, a short birthday invitation written in 1934 by the native speaker Louwine Luths. The text was first published in the members’ bulletin of a local genealogical society, which is currently only available in print in a few German archives. In the paper I re-publish the birthday invitation – along with another short fragment of Wangerooge Frisian from the bulletin – and discuss a number of salient linguistic features. The two short texts are of particular interest because they were written down by native speakers of Wangerooge Frisian
Wopke de Jong: fan hege retoryk yn it Nederlânsk nei Nederlânske oersettingen fan klassiken en folksaardich Frysk
No full textWopke de Jong (1799-1852) began his poetic career by writing poems in Dutch. In time, he joined the emerging Frisian literature of his time. As well as continuing to write highly rhetorical Dutch and Frisian poetry, he eventually turned to writing popular entertainment in Frisian. His rhetoric was based on a deep knowledge of the Bible and the classics. De Jong’s new orientation shows the strong position of the Frisian language at that time. Wopke Eekhoff had helped him along the way in 1832, and around 1845 de Jong took advantage of the rapidly growing opportunities for publishing in Frisian. He probably did not do so wholeheartedly, for in 1844 he had tried to found his own Dutch literary journal. Towards the end of his life he also began to write poetry in Latin
Focus. Over de vraag of God overal aan het werk is
No full textN.a.v.: Stefan Paas, Vrede op aarde. Over heil en redding in deze tijd (Utrecht: KokBoekencentrum, 2023) 368 p., € 29,99 (ISBN 9789043540070).