32 research outputs found
Egyptomania: A History of Fascination, Obsession and Fantasy
No full textHistorian Ron Fritze, Dean of Arts & Sciences at Athens States University, was the featured speaker in WKU Libraries’ Far Away Places series on Thursday, April 13, 2017 at Barnes & Noble Bookstore, Bowling Green, KY. Fritze talked about his newest book Egyptomania: A History of Fascination, Obsession and Fantasy, which, being the 11th of his books, has been drawing international attention.
Fritze received his MA and MLS from LSU and a D Phil from Cambridge and has taught history at LSU, Lamar and Central Arkansas. His early research focused on the Tudor-Stuart period of English history. He’s since expanded his interests to include the history of the great discoveries and historical legends. He’s the author of 11 books. Among the most popular include Legends and Lore of the Americas Before 1492 published in 1993, Travel Legend and Lore published in 1998, and New Worlds: The Great Voyages of Discovery, 1400-1600 published in 2002. While all of these drew plaudits from the critics and several won awards, his 2009 book Invented Knowledge: False History, Fake Science and Pseudo-Religions has been the most widely discussed in the U.S. and the U.K., translated into several different languages and even recommended by the Times Educational Supplement.
In his newest book he describes how Ancient Egypt has been the focus of awe and fascination from its beginnings in the Age of Pyramids to the present day. In Egyptomania Fritze takes us on a historical journey to unearth the Egypt of the past, a place inhabited by strange gods, powerful magic, spell-binding hieroglyphs, and the uncanny, mummified remains of ancient people. To quote the reviewer for Publisher’s Weekly “the book delves into how the realities of Egyptology have been reimagined or misinterpreted as sources of hermeticism, portals to another reality, or tokens to confer knowledge and respectability.” He covers the pyramids, archaeology, film, popular fiction and a wide range of concerns and forms
Shining a light behind closed doors
No full textThis report explores how legal services can better protect the human rights and dignity of people with mental illness and cognitive disabilities who have been detained for compulsory treatment.
The report’s author, Eleanore Fritze, a senior lawyer in Victoria Legal Aid’s Mental Health and Disability Law program, was awarded a Churchill Fellowship sponsored by the Jack Brockhoff Foundation to travel to the United States, England and Hungary. She explored issues of access to legal assistance, advocacy on behalf of individuals and the use of strategic advocacy, as well as factors which support high-quality and effective legal services.
Her report is a significant legal and policy resource about the treatment of people with mental illness and cognitive disabilities across comparative legal systems. This will hopefully stimulate debate about new possibilities for better access to legal advice and representation by vulnerable people detained across Australia
Politisches Denken. Jahrbuch 2016
No full textDas »Jahrbuch Politisches Denken« 2016 ist von der Kontroverse geprägt. Ein aktueller Schwerpunkt diskutiert die Grundlagen und den Stand des europäischen Integrationsprozesses. Frank-Lothar Kroll legt die historischen und geopolitischen Fundamente frei, auf denen ein europäisches Denken Fuß gefaßt hat. Jürgen Gebhardt macht darauf aufmerksam, dass eine Europäische Union sich nur dann sinnvoll selbst verstehen kann, wenn sie sich als Teil der Konstruktion des »Westens« in transatlantischer Perspektive begreift. Karl A. Schachtschneider formuliert eine fundamentale Kritik am Integrationsprozess der Europäischen Union aus der Perspektive des Staatsrechtslehrers. Diese Kritik kann mit Emanuel Richter als eines jener »neuen Narrative« eingeordnet werden, das als solches zur Demokratisierung der EU gehört.Kontrovers geht es auch in den weiteren Beiträgen zu, wenn Manuel Becker den »Mythos Humboldt« auf den Prüfstand stellt, wenn Rainer Enskat pointiert gegen die derzeitige Hochschulpolitik polemisiert und Felix Dirsch die Wertgrundlagen der Demokratie untersucht. Hinzu kommen die beachtenswerten Interpretationen, die die Italiener Cristiana Senigaglia und Pierpaolo Ciccarelli zu den deutschen Denkern Max Weber, Edmund Husserl und Leo Strauss vorlegen.Die Buchkritiken, die den Band 26 abrunden, behandeln neue Publikationen von und über Lothar Fritze, Raul Heimann, Otfried Höffe, Christoph Hübner, Aurel Kolnai, Wolfgang Neugebauer, Samuel Salzborn und Carl Schmitt.The z (»Yearbook of Political Thought«) has been appearing since 1991 in collaboration with the Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Erforschung des Politischen Denkens or German Society for Research into Political Thought (DGEPD). In keeping with the aims of the Society, the Yearbook promotes interdisciplinary scholarly research on political thought internationally and in its entire breadth, as well as exchange between political thought and practical politics.All manuscripts submitted must go through an anonymous review process. Manuscripts should not exceed 50,000 characters in length. Please submit your manuscripts (in English or German) to the editorial board.Editorial Board address: Prof. Dr. Clemens Kauffmann, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Lehrstuhl für Politische Philosophie und Ideengeschichte, Kochstr. 4/21, 91054 Erlangen. Email: [email protected] main topic of volume 26 comprises the basic principles and current status of the process of European integration. The subject is presented from the differing standpoints of the historian, the teacher of public law and political theory. Other articles provide a critical examination of the »myth of Humboldt«, offer a polemic against current higher education policy in Germany, and discuss the basic values of democracy. In two further contributions, Italian authors consider German theorists such as Max Weber, Edmund Husserl and Leo Strauss.The book reviews that round out the volume deal with new publications by and about Lothar Fritze, Raul Heimann, Otfried Höffe, Christoph Hübner, Aurel Kolnai, Wolfgang Neugebauer, Samuel Salzborn, and Carl Schmitt
Data for 'Microbial carbon use efficiency along an altitudinal gradient'
No full textThis dataset is related to the manuscript “Microbial carbon use efficiency along an altitudinal gradient“ by Kevin Mganga, Outi-Maaria Sietiö, Nele Meyer, Christopher Poeplau, Sylwia Adamczyk, Christina Biasi, Subin Kalu, Matti Räsänen, Per Ambus, Hannu Fritze, Petri Pellikka, and Kristiina Karhu. Corresponding author: Outi-Maaria Sietiö ([email protected]
Rezension: Björn Clemens: Der Begriff des Angriffskrieges und die Funktion seiner Strafbarkeit
No full textWas heißt und zu welchem Ende betreibt man Totalitarismusforschung?
No full text"In his article, originally intended for internal discussion, the author speaks out
in favor of research on totalitarianism, which is orientated toward practical political questions. He pleads for research on how to avoid totalitarianism, which involves reflections on totalitarian dangers to the democratic constitutional state. The expounded understanding of research on totalitarianism requires interdisciplinary exchange to
attain its maximum potential." (author's abstract
Leading the African agenda or following the African consensus? South Africa's implementation of the African agenda in the United Nations Security Council
No full textA Support System for Sensor and Information Fusion System Design
No full textAbstractThe complexity of industrial applications has constantly increased over the last decades. New paradigms arise in the context of the fourth industrial revolution by bringing together mechatronic systems and information technologies. Tasks like information processing, extensive networking, or system monitoring using sensor and information fusion systems are incorporated with the aim to design applications that are capable for self-configuration, -diagnosis, and -optimisation. This contribution focuses on the design of sensor and information fusion systems. A methodology for the design process of such systems is proposed that serves as tool for auto-configuration to facilitate self-diagnosis and -optimisation
Collaborating beyond the boundaries of citizenship: a transcultural perspective on public participation in the development of Swiss immigrant policy.
No full textThis thesis examines Switzerland’s conflict around the integration of non-citizens in the context of the Swiss system of direct democracy. Through a case study on three recent referendum initiatives on immigrant policy, my research sought to answer the question: How does the use of referenda on immigrant policy impact public discourses on the social and political integration of non-citizens in German-speaking Switzerland? In exploring this question, I focused on how public discourses addressed the link between direct democracy, immigrant policy and non-citizen experiences. I analysed political advertisements, newspaper articles, and data collected in an interview with Swiss resident author Dragica Rajčić. My research findings showed that the use of referendum initiatives to make decisions on immigrant policy has had a significant impact on integration discourses. In particular, it has provided the conservative nationalist Swiss People’s Party with the opportunity to move their political agenda to the forefront of public debates. My findings also demonstrated that non-citizen perspectives were marginalized in the public discourses under examination. I therefore concluded that the process of transforming the Swiss conflict around the integration of immigrants will require Swiss governments to re-imagine how the political participation of non-citizens can be institutionalized. Granting non-citizens a more active political role would promote cross-cultural dialogue and understanding, making Switzerland’s direct democracy more democratic.Graduat
O2S: Open-source open shuttle
No full textROMR is an open-source modular mobile platform for research, navigation and logistics applications. Its design leveraged off-the-shelf (OTS) components, additive manufacturing technologies, aluminium profiles, and consumer hoverboard high-torque brushless direct current (BLDC) motors. It is compatible with the robot operating system (ROS), has a maximum payload of 90kg, and costs less than $1500. It features several lidar sensor technologies for potential applications for perception, simultaneous localisation and mapping, deep learning tasks, and many more
