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Suffrage and citizenship in Ireland, 1912-18
Get PDFProfessor Senia Pašeta argues that our understanding of modern Irish and British politics would be enormously enriched if we recognized two things: that the Irish and British suffrage movements were deeply connected; and that the women’s suffrage movement across the United Kingdom was shaped in fundamental ways by the Irish Question from the late nineteenth century and into the twentieth. In other words, the women’s suffrage movement did not exist in a political vacuum. It interacted with, influenced and was influenced by the other main political questions of the day, and with the main political question of the day - Ireland
Terrorism and Asylum (RLI Working Paper Series Mini-volume)
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31. Introduction (page 1)
Guest editor: James C. Simeon
32. Refugees, terrorism and Article 1 of the Refugee Convention (page 6)
Patricia Tuitt
33. An introduction to the common security narrative of terrorism and asylum and its influence on Austrian migration law (page 17)
Julia Kienast
34. The fight against terrorism and the need for international protection: the Hungarian solution (page 32)
Barbara Kőhalmi and Anita Rozália Nagy-Nádasdi
35. Manufacturing fear: The social component of anti-immigration policies in the United States (page 46)
Selina March
36. Terrorism and exclusion from asylum in international and national law (page 56)
James C. Simeo
Gender in medieval places, spaces and thresholds
Get PDFThis collection addresses the concept of gender in the middle ages through the study of place and space, exploring how gender and space may be mutually constructive and how individuals and communities make and are made by the places and spaces they inhabit. From womb to tomb, how are we defined and confined by gender and by space? Interrogating the thresholds between sacred and secular, public and private, enclosure and exposure, domestic and political, movement and stasis, the essays in this interdisciplinary collection draw on current research and contemporary theory to suggest new destinations for future study
Travel writing reception theory and the history of reading reconsidering the late Middle Ages
Get PDFThis article seeks to explore the value of a reader-oriented approach to late medieval European travel writing. It offers a brief overview of the development of reception theory and the ‘history of reading’ before discussing issues related to the definition of the genre in this period. Examining how medieval readers approached the celebrated accounts of Marco Polo and John Mandeville, as well as a broader range of literature pertaining to travel, it argues that reconstructing the contemporary reception of such works can help us to better understand their position in late medieval culture. Particular attention is paid to the permeability of boundaries between fact and fiction, with a case study exploring two literary imitations of travel accounts produced in early fifteenth-century Florence. The article concludes with some considerations regarding the significance of the reader for our understanding of travel writing’s historical development
Why the whole is more than the sum of its parts: Salience-driven overestimation in aggregated tactile sensations
Get PDFExperimental psychology often studies perception analytically, reducing its focus to minimal sensory units, such as
thresholds or just noticeable differences in a single stimulus. Here, in contrast, we examine a synthetic aspect: how
multiple inputs to a sensory system are aggregated into an overall percept. Participants in three experiments judged the
total stimulus intensity for simultaneous electrical shocks to two digits. We tested whether the integration of component
somatosensory stimuli into a total percept occurs automatically, or rather depends on the ability to consciously
perceive discrepancy among components (Experiment 1), whether the discrepancy among these components influences
sensitivity or/and perceptual bias in judging totals (Experiment 2), and whether the salience of each individual component
stimulus affects perception of total intensity (Experiment 3). Perceptual aggregation of two simultaneous component
events occurred both when participants could perceptually discriminate the two intensities, and also when they could
not. Further, the actual discrepancy between the stimuli modulated both participants’ sensitivity and perceptual bias:
increasing discrepancies produced a systematic and progressive overestimation of total intensity. The degree of this
bias depended primarily on the salience of the stronger stimulus in the pair. Overall, our results suggest that important
nonlinear mechanisms contribute to sensory aggregation. The mind aggregates component inputs into a coherent and
synthetic perceptual experience in a salience-weighted fashion that is not based on simple summation of inputs
SLS/BIALL Academic Law Library Survey 2017/2018
Get PDFSurvey report outlining the activities and funding of academic law libraries in the UK and Ireland in the academic year 2017/2018. The figures have been taken from the results of a survey questionnaire undertaken by Academic Services staff at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies on behalf of the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS). The report is based on returns from 93 university and college libraries in the UK and Ireland (institutions offering either undergraduate, postgraduate or vocational courses) who responded to the survey conducted in March 2019. It is the only survey of its kind and provides data which academic law library managers use to bench-mark their own services and law course validation bodies note when appraising the provision of institutions seeking to run law courses. The report includes a summary of key findings, a compilation of the statistics, conclusions drawn from the figures and illustrative diagrams
The East Pediment of the Parthenon: From Perikles to Nero
Get PDFThe sculptural decoration of the Parthenon, conceived at the height of Athens’ power, was deeply rooted in the culture and aspirations of the city-state. The group of huge figures carved completely in the round and set in the triangular gable at the east end, the front of the temple, were perhaps among the most important.
This new study by Dyfri Williams uses all the visible clues provided by the sculptures and the floor blocks on which they were once mounted to reconstruct the figures and the way they interacted. Securer identifications for the figures are thus reached and a better understanding of the allusive way the pediment’s subject, the birth of Athena, was treated. To aid the process, a series of sketch-drawings of each figure seen from the front, combined with a bird’s eye sketch of it in place on the pediment floor, has been prepared by Kate Morton.
Detailed observation and analysis lead to an unexpected identification of the superb Figure D, shown on the cover, that opens up new ways of reading the remaining groups. It also reveals how the arrangement of the sculptures that has come down to us is in fact Roman rather than Classical, for several sculptures were disturbed by a rarely mentioned Roman repair. Finally, a highly intriguing historical context is suggested for this repair and its motivation
Concept-Metacognition
Get PDFConcepts are our tools for thinking. They enable us to engage in explicit reasoning about things in the world. Like physical tools, they can be more or less good, given the ways we use them – more or less dependable for categorisation, learning, induction, action-planning, and so on. Do concept users appreciate, explicitly or implicitly, that concepts vary in dependability? Do they feel that some concepts are in some way defective? If so, we metacognize our concepts. One example that has been studied is a person’s judgement about how well they have learnt a new category. There are many other forms that concept-metacognition could take. This paper offers a preliminary taxonomy of different forms of metacognition directed at concepts. It suggests that concept-metacognition may affect the way one concept from a range of candidates is selected for use, and the way a concept is relied on in reasoning. Concept-metacognition may also play a pivotal role in the social process of constructing concepts, in replacing the old and constructing the new tools for thinking