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La poesia swahili in italiano: sfide e soluzioni traduttive per i versi di Abdilatif Abdalla
No full textIn this essay devoted to the interpretation and translation of Swahili poetry, Flavia Aiello proposes a traductological analysis of the poetry of Abdilatif Abdalla, underlining the principal difficul¬ties and the solutions adopted in the recent work, Ushairi na Uhuru. Poesie scelte di Abdilatif Abdalla e Euphrase Kezilahabi, edited with Gaudioso (2017)
Shuwari
No full textHaji Gora Haji, born in 1933 on the island of Tumbatu, Zanzibar, represents a living archive of poetic and philosophical knowledge, which is transformed into verses with a characteristic voice enriched by dialectal features (from Tumbatu and Unguja). As a recognition of his life-long commitment to Swahili language and literature, the editors and translators, Flavia Aiello and Irene Brunotti, decided to work hard on conceiving a publishing project of Shuwari, his poetical anthology or diwani, fashioned as a bilingual Swahili-English edition which, along with the poems, could offer some analytical insights into Haji Gora Haji’s artistry
Michelle Aiello, \u2717
No full textMichelle Aiello was born and raised in Miami, Florida. She received her Associates in Arts from Miami Dade College. She is currently pursuing a bachelor\u27s degree in Psychology at the University of Central Florida. Her passion for translational research relating to anxiety disorders has led her to become an Undergraduate Research Assistant at UCF RESTORES, UCF\u27s Anxiety Disorders Clinic, under the guidance of Dr. Deborah Biedel and Dr. Sandra Neer. Michelle is currently researching the effect compassion mediation has on heart rate variability of veterans with PTSD under the guidance of Dr. Ariel J. Lang as apart of University of California San Diego, STARS Summer Research Program. She plans to obtain her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in hopes of conducting research, becoming a college professor, and helping other first generation students achieve their goals.https://stars.library.ucf.edu/mcnair_gallery/1002/thumbnail.jp
In memory of Elena Bertoncini Zúbková
Full text linkElena Bertoncini Zúbková, internationally renowned scholar and esteemed teacher of Swahili language and literature, passed away on 19th September 2018 in Pisa, Italy. In this obituary, her disciple Flavia Aiello pays tribute to her life and her major achievements. She highlights that Elena Bertoncini Zúbková educated generations of scholars in Italy and across Europe who specialised in Swahili studies, and had a remarkable impact on the advancement of Swahili literary studies. May she rest in peace
Confined to the edges. Reflections on visual research in Bologna
No full textThe Urban Archives (UA) project was conceived to create publicly available digital records of “ephemeral street texts, allowing them to continue speaking as documents long after they have been removed from the physical landscape” (Gendelman, Dobrowolsky and Aiello, 2010, p. 190). We collaborated with undergraduate students and the University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections to build a searchable database of images of the city. The outcome is an archive of over 2,000 fully catalogued and tagged images of political graffiti, ghost signs, commercial signage and storefronts, architectural landmarks, protest marches, murals, and so on (Urban Archives Database, n.d.)
Review: Roberto Gaudioso, The Voice of the Text and its Body. The Continuous Reform of Euphrase Kezilahabi’s Poetics (Cologne: Köppe, 2019)
No full textIn her review, Flavia Aiello states that Roberto Gaudioso’s monograph, his PhD thesis written under the co-tutelle of the University of Naples “L’Orientale” and the University of Bayreuth, is a robust study of Euphrase Kezilahabi’s dynamic “thinking poetry” as expressed in his poetry collections. She emphasizes that due to its well-informed theoretical grounding, original critical approach to Kezilahabi’s poetry and close-reading textual analysis, this book represents valuable reading for literary researchers investigating the works of Euphrase Kezilahabi and for scholars interested in new critical approaches to Swahili poetry
Shuwari - The Calm (English translation)
No full textHaji Gora Haji, born in 1933 on the island of Tumbatu, Zanzibar, represents a living archive of poetic and philosophical knowledge, which is transformed into verses with a characteristic voice enriched by dialectal features (from Tumbatu and Unguja). As a recognition of his life-long commitment to Swahili language and literature, the editors, Flavia Aiello and Irene Brunotti, decided to work hard on conceiving a publishing project of Shuwari, his poetical anthology or diwani, fashioned as a bilingual Swahili-English edition which, along with the poems, could offer some analytical insights into Haji Gora Haji’s artistry. The English translation of the Swahili poems and of the critical apparatus is by Flavia Aiello and Irene Brunotti
The Discursive Construction of the Modern Political Self: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the Age of Social Media
No full textThis book explores the impact of new media on politicians’ construction, presentation, and dissemination of their political selves, focusing on the social media presence of US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to offer new insights into the landscape of contemporary political discourse. Drawing on work from corpus linguistics, interactional sociolinguistics, and critical discourse analysis, Aiello charts the ways in which the politician employed a range of discursive strategies via social media in her first campaign to introduce her political identity to a wider audience, and the subsequent responses by media outlets. The volume examines how she continued to solidify her political agenda throughout the course of her tenure, unpacking her crafting of counterattacks and “clapbacks,” in particular, in counteracting delegitimizing attacks from both mainstream media outlets and user-generated content. Aiello brings these insights together to offer a more holistic understanding of American political discourse but also the intersection of language, power, ideology, and the role of social media in modern political campaigns and populist discourses. The book will be of interest to students and scholars in digital communication, political communication, critical discourse analysis, and sociolinguistics
Crustacea Ostracoda
Full text linkThe class Ostracoda is made up of small crustaceans, with a shell size generally ranging from 0.2 to 30 mm, living in a wide variety of aquatic environment, from deep-sea waters to the proximity of hydrothermal springs. A small number of species has been recorded in damp terrestrial environments. The majority of the taxa have a wholly benthic lifestyle, but ostracods are also well represented in the pelagic fauna.
Recent species presently described are about 8.000, and the number of living species is probably around 20.000. Ostracods have a low-Mg bivalve carapace showing a high preservation potential both in subrecent and in ancient sediments. Consequently many species have been described exclusively on the basis of the shell features and the known fossil species, approximately 25.000, largely surpass the Recent ones (Horne et al., 2002).
In the Italian seas both the living subclasses - Myodocopa and Podocopa - occur. Subclass Myodocopa includes the orders Myodocopida and Halocyprida; the subclass Podocopa comprises orders Platycopida and Podocopida, while Paleocopida, frequently recorded in Paleozoic sediments and represented by few living species, seem to lack in Mediterranean waters.
A critical reviewing of available literature data allowed to recognize as living in Italian waters 377 ostracod species, pertaining to 102 genera. It has to be noted that distribution data are quite heterogeneous among different areas. The Adriatic (zones 7-9) ostracofaunas, studied in a series of wide investigations by authors (Ascoli, 1964; Masoli, 1968, 1969; Bonaduce et al., 1974, 1976; Breman, 1975, 1976a, 1976b; Montenegro and Pugliese, 1996) are the best known of the Mediterranean. Beginning from the G.W. Müller's monograph on the ostracods of the Gulf of Naples (1894), a cornerstone of the modern ostracodology, several papers (Puri, 1963; Puri et al., 1964; 1969; Bonaduce, 1965; Bonaduce and Gervasio, 1966; Melis and Pugliese, 1985; McKenzie and Bonaduce, 1993; Arbulla et al., 2001, 2004; Bonaduce and McKenzie, 2004) considered different areas of the Tyrrhenian Sea (zones 2-3) describing a number of new species and furnishing their distribution and ecological preferences. Even if data regarding the remaining part of the Italian Seas are less complete some areas, especially the Gulf of Taranto, have been studied in detail (Puri et al., 1969; Bonaduce and Pugliese, 1979; Bonaduce et al., 1982b, 1983, 1985; Peypouquet and Nachite, 1984; Bonaduce and Mascellaro, 1985; Malz and Jellinek, 1994; Aiello et al. 2006).
Studies concerning the taxonomy and ecology of a small number of taxa report the occurrence of many ostracod species in Italian waters, providing scattered but noteworthy data (Decima, 1964; Puri and Dickau, 1969; Sissingh, 1975; Athersuch, 1976, 1977, 1978a, 1978b, 1978c, 1978d, 1979a, 1979b, 1980a, 1980b, 1981, 1982; Minichelli et al., 1976; Pugliese et al., 1976; Bonaduce et al. 1976b, 1977, 1980; 1982a, 1998, 1999; Breman, 1978; Athersuch and Whittaker, 1982, 1987a, 1987b; Bonaduce and Danielopol, 1988; Danielopol and Bonaduce, 1990; Danielopol et al., 1995; Aiello and Barra, 2001a, Aiello et al., 2001; Mostafawi, 2002).
Furthermore, due to the high paleontological value of the ostracod shell, studies which afford primarily the study of fossil specimens, furnish distribution data on Recent species (Ruggieri, 1959, 1975, 1976; Bonaduce et al., 1986, Abate et al., 1993, 1994; Aiello et al., 1993, 1996a, 1996b, 1996c, 2000; Barra et al., 1996; Barra and Bonaduce, 1996, 2000; Aiello and Barra, 2001b; Aiello and Szczechura, 2001).
We have to underline that, although the relatively large amount of data, the knowledge of Italian ostracods is still incomplete. Detailed studies on Mediterranean areas such as the Aegean Sea (e.g. Barbeito-Gonzalez, 1971; Stambolidis, 1985) and North African waters (e.g. Yassini, 1979; Bonaduce et al. 1988; 1996; Lachenal, 1989) evidenced that many taxa are still undescribed or unrecorded in Italian waters. Considering the vicinity of these areas and (especially for the Greek waters) the similarity of ecological conditions, it can be expected that new investigations are needed to define exhaustively the distribution and taxonomy of the ostracods of the Italian seas
Confined to the edges: Reflections on visual research in Bologna
Full text linkThe Urban Archives (UA) project was conceived to create publicly available digital records of “ephemeral street texts, allowing them to continue speaking as documents long after theyhave been removed from the physical landscape” (Gendelman, Dobrowolsky & Aiello, 2010,p. 190).We collaborated with undergraduate students and the University of WashingtonLibraries Digital Collections to build a searchable database of images of the city. The outcomeis an archive of over 2,000 fully catalogued and tagged images of political graffti, ghostsigns, commercial signage and storefronts, architectural landmarks, protest marches, murals,and so on (Urban Archives Database, n.d.)
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