1,446 research outputs found
Schreiben in Kontakt- und Konfliktzonen: Marica Bodrožić und Anna Kim
No full textIn my contribution attention is focused on writings that develop within or upon areas of intercultural contact and conflict, in particular the territory of the former Yugoslavia which has recently been theatre of war. In the novels of two German language writers, Marica Bodrožić, born in Dalmatia and currently living in Germany, and Anna Kim, born in South Korea and grown up from the age of two first in Germany then in Austria, themes of cultural contact and conflict, migration, and displacement are revised, discussed and renegotiated, outlining new “geographies of memory”.
Marica Bodrožić' s "Das Gedächtnis der Libellen" (2010) and Anna Kim's "Die gefrorene Zeit" (2008) offer new configurations of the intercultural experience in German history and literature and create a different poetics of migration, refusing the binary oppositions between nationalities and ethnic groups and subverting at the same time stereotypical images of the Balkan immigrants. These writers are not so much interested in developing a nostalgic dream of another Europe, lost in Dalmatia, Croatia or Bosnia etc., or to rebuild it in Germany or Austria, but in allowing us to think about our position of observers, readers, actors of both a near and far history
Una vida sense razo
No full textCompagna Perrone Capano Anna Maria. Una vida sense razo. In: Annexes des Cahiers de linguistique hispanique médiévale, volume 14, 2000. Ausias March (1400-1459). Premier poète en langue catalane. pp. 81-89
Transitorte auf der Flucht in den Exilromanen von Anna Gmeyner und Irmgard Keun
No full textIm Jahr 1941 veröffentlicht die österreichische Schriftstellerin Anna Gmeyner ihren zweiten
Exilroman unter dem Titel “Café du Dôme”, der den Alltag der Exilanten im Paris der
dreißiger Jahre beschreibt, in einem Geflecht von Geschichten, deren Kern das Café bildet,
wo sich die Exilanten treffen und Zuflucht finden. In Irmgard Keuns Roman “Kind aller
Länder” (1938) erscheint das Exil als permanenter Lebenszustand. Transit-Räume werden
entscheidend für die Subjektivitätsentwürfe der Frauengestalten in den Romanen und
Transit wird zur Lebensweise, der ein Moment des Widerstands gegen starre Identitätszuschreibungen
beigemessen wird
Women Academics in England, 1870-1930
No full textBased on the author's dissertation, this article traces the development of the academic profession for women in England in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, focusing on women at Oxford, Cambridge and London universities. Unlike in the United States, where women's role in higher education expanded and then retracted during this period, British women slowly and steadily made inroads into this male-dominated profession.Peer reviewe
Catholic Women’s Colleges in the United States: An Archival, Bibliographic and Historical Survey
No full textBrief history of Catholic women's colleges in the United States and bibliographic essay on published and archival sources
'To Save Them from the Dangers to their Faith’: Documenting Student Life at Catholic Women's Colleges
No full textThis article focuses on student life at Catholic women's colleges in the United States during the 20th century. These colleges helped acculturate many daughters of immigrants to middle-class American society, at the same time creating a specifically female and Catholic culture on college campuses. This evolving culture, which was characterized by the ideals of femininity, religion, and service, can be reconstructed through documentation from the college archives.Peer reviewe
‘A Well-Balanced Education’: Catholic Women’s Colleges in New Jersey, 1900-1970
No full textBy examining Catholic women's colleges in New Jersey during the period 1900-1970, this paper illustrates the complexity of developing a typology of Catholic women's colleges in the United States. The first Catholic women's college in New Jersey, College of Saint Elizabeth was established in 1899 by the Sisters of Charity; followed by Mount St. Mary's, later known as Georgian Court College, in 1908; Caldwell College in 1939; and Felician, originally a junior college, in 1967. Earlier typologies of Catholic women's colleges have divided them into elite liberal arts institutions and local, vocationally-oriented colleges which served the working and lower-middle-class daughters of immigrants. Using college catalogs and yearbooks from the four New Jersey colleges, this study compiles data on curriculum, the education of faculty, college costs, and student origins, and compares it to similar data from two elite colleges, Trinity in Washington, D.C. and Manhattanville in Purchase, New York. In spite of some pressure to offer vocational courses and the challenge of giving women religious faculty members the opportunity to pursue doctoral degrees, during this period New Jersey's Catholic women's colleges provided a Catholic liberal arts education for white middle-class women not unlike that offered at better known and more prestigious colleges. Only after 1970 did social and demographic changes begin to have an impact on the curriculum and student population of this sector of Catholic higher education.Peer reviewe
Gone and Forgotten? New Jersey's Catholic Junior Colleges
No full textIn the late 1960s, New Jersey had eleven seemingly-thriving Catholic junior colleges; by the mid-1970s, all but one of these colleges had closed. This article analyzes why these institutions appeared and disappeared so quickly, and explores what contribution they made to Catholic higher education. While private junior colleges declined throughout the U.S. during this period, in some respects the situation of New Jersey was unique. Research suggests that the greatest contribution these short-lived institutions made was to the education of women religious.Peer reviewe
Vanished Worlds: Searching for the Records of Closed Catholic Women’s Colleges
No full textThis article presents the results of a survey of the archives of 36 Roman Catholic women's colleges that have closed or merged with other institutions since 1967. The majority of these archives are held by the women's religious communities that originally sponsored the colleges, although about one third are held by universities. These archives are rich resources on the history of women, education, religion, and culture that to some degree have been neglected by scholars who have focused on the history of colleges that are still open. As well as suggesting avenues for future research, this article contributes to the literature on how archives can cope with the voluminous records of twentieth-century institutions, and to emerging scholarship on the relationship of archives and memory. The survey upon which it is based revealed certain limitations on preservation, access, and use of these archives, so the article concludes with recommendations on how to make them more visible.Peer reviewe
The how and why of a firm’s approach to CSR and sustainability: A case study of a large European company
No full textThis paper aims to analyse “how” and “why” a company engages in CSR and sustainability. The “how” concerns the features of the firm’s CSR and sustainability approach, defined in terms of a firm’s strategy (implemented issues, initiatives and activities) and organization (organizational structures and roles and managerial systems adopted). The “why” refers to the key determinants, both internal and external, of CSR and sustainability. Finally, how the firm’s CSR and sustainability approach evolves over time and the relation between CSR determinants in various stages of the CSR evolutionary path are also investigated. The research method is based on the longitudinal analysis of a case study concerning a large multinational company operating in the telecommunications industry in Europe. The analysis of the case study shows that sub-cultural differences in the approach to CSR and sustainability may occur across hierarchical levels and functional units. Moreover, embedding CSR and sustainability principles doesn’t follow a linear and continuous process, made by sequential stages. Indeed, it can be characterized by an up and down evolutionary path, based on different stages with a changing emphasis given to CSR and sustainability issues. Finally, we find that the firm CSR and sustainability approach is not an autonomous choice, but it is a consequence of the contingent role played by both the external and the internal drivers and by their relative importance during the company’s CSR history
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