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A Three-dimensional Study of Grand Strategy. An interview with Simon Reich
No full textcontribution à un site webCERI Associate researcher Simon Reich and his co-author Peter Dombrowski have recently published Across Type, Time and Space. American Grand Strategy in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge, 2021). According to the two authors’ claim, the goal of this book is to “offer a framework that scholars can use to compare grand strategies in three dimensions - across type, time and space” and “to reveal both the similarities and the differences between different national grand strategies, as well as their sources of continuity and change in a dynamic global environment.” Interview with Simon Reich by Miriam Périer
Parables of care: Creative responses to dementia care, as told to carers
No full textParables of Care presents true stories of creative responses to dementia care, told by carers, taken from a group of over 100 case studies. Creativity, emotional intelligence and common sense are amply shown in these 14 touching and informative stories. Drawn by Dr Simon Grennan with Christopher Sperandio. Edited and adapted by Dr Simon Grennan, Dr Ernesto Priego and Dr Peter Wilkins. Parables of Care explores the potential of comics to enhance the impact of dementia care research.
http://carenshare.city.ac.uk.Not peer reviewedSocial careHealth careComicsImpactParables of carePublished.Graphic comicsGraphic novelsComicsMedical humanitiesMental healt
An incomplete project: Graphic adaptations of Moby-Dick and the ethics of response
No full textThe chapter, "An incomplete project: Graphic adaptations of Moby-Dick and the ethics of response" was written by Peter Wilkins (Douglas College Faculty). A cross-disciplinary collection of essays in the fields of nineteenth-century history, adaptation, word/image and Victorianism. Featuring new writing by some of the most influential, respected and radical scholars in these fields, Transforming Anthony Trollope constitutes both a close companion to Simon Grennan’s 2015 graphic novel Dispossession – an adaptation of Anthony Trollope’s 1879 novel John Caldigate – and a forward-looking, stand-alone addition to current debates on the cultural uses of history and the theorisation of remediation, illustration and narrative drawing. -- Back cover.
This volume is part of the Studies in European comics and graphic novels seriesbook chapterPublished
Zechariah 9-14 as the substructure of 1 Peter’s eschatological program
No full textThe principal aim of this study is to discern what has shaped the author of 1 Peter to regard Christian suffering as a necessary (1.6) and to-be-expected (4.12) component of faithful allegiance to Jesus Christ. Most research regarding suffering in 1 Peter has limited the scope of inquiry to two particular aspects—its cause and nature, and the strategies that the author of 1 Peter employs in order to enable his addressees to respond in faithfulness. There remains, however, the need for a comprehensive explanation for the source that has generated 1 Peter’s theology of Christian suffering. If Jesus truly is the Christ, God’s chosen redemptive agent who has come to restore God’s people, then how can it be that Christian suffering is a necessary part of discipleship after his coming, death and resurrection? What led the author of 1 Peter to such a startling conclusion, which seems to runs against the grain of the eschatological hopes and expectations of Jewish restoration ideology?
This thesis analyzes the appropriation of shepherd and fiery trials imagery,
and argues that the author of 1 Peter is dependent upon Zechariah 9-14 for his
theology of Christian suffering. Said in another way, the eschatological program of
Zechariah 9-14, read through the lens of the Gospel, functions as the substructure
for 1 Peter’s eschatology and thus its theology of Christian suffering.
In support of this hypothesis, this study highlights the fact that Zechariah 9-
14 was available and appropriated in early Christianity, in particular in the Passion
Narrative tradition; that the shepherd imagery of 1 Pet 2.25 is best understood
within the milieu of the Passion Narrative tradition, and that it alludes to the
eschatological program of Zechariah 9-14; that the fiery trials imagery found in 1
Peter 1.6-7 and 1 Pet 4.12 is distinct from that which we find in Greco-Roman and OT
wisdom sources, and that it shares exclusive parallels with some unique features of
the eschatological program of Zechariah 9-14; that Zechariah 9-14 offers a more
satisfying explanation for the modification of Isa 11.2 in 1 Pet 4.14, the transition
from 4.12-19 to 5.1-4, why Peter has oriented his letter with the term διασπορά,
and why he has described his addresses as οἶκος τοῦ θεοῦ; and finally that 1 Peter
contains an implicit foundational narrative that shares distinct parallels with the
eschatological program of Zechariah 9-14.
We can conclude that 1 Peter offers a unique vista into the way in which at
least one early Christian witness came to understand and to communicate the fact
that Christian suffering was a necessary feature of faithful allegiance to Jesus Christ
Parables of care: Instrumentality, aesthetics and utility in devising a comic for dementia caregivers
No full textConference presentation delivered at the Comics & Medicine Conference (June 2017), in Seattle, Washington.
This presentation reports on work in progress by Ernesto Priego at City University of London, Peter Wilkins at Douglas College, and Simon Grennan at The University of Chester to develop two short comic book manuals of best practices for dementia care in the UK and Canada. This project collects information in focus groups from caregivers from across disciplines (e.g. nurses, psychiatric nurses, healthcare support workers, therapeutic recreation practitioners, dental assistants) in consultation with comic book artists to create comics that speaks to a variety of audiences. The project explores the possibility of synthesizing qualitative data--interdisciplinary attitudes and approaches--in comics form. So doing it tackles a logistical problem (gathering the information) and a technical one (representing the information). Furthermore, the project looks at the significance of the aesthetics of conveying information: what are the advantages of depicting best practices in comic book form as opposed to using an infographic or other document. Do caregivers (and family members of dementia sufferers) find the information in comics form more subjectively and objectively accessible than in other conveyances. We are intrigued by the possibility that the artistic representation of medical information develops and enhances empathy and identification that otherwise might be suppressed. The project also explores the different practices and approaches of two different health systems: the NHS in the UK and health authorities in British Columbia, Canada. The differences between the two comics will illuminate discrepancies between the two systems vis a vis dementia care and provide opportunities to analyze those discrepancies. At the time of the conference, we will be in the middle of the project, and we propose to present how it is going, the pitfalls and triumphs. We will be able to report on the focus groups/ artist consultations and show some preliminary work on the comics.Not peer reviewedMental healthGraphic medicineSocial careHealth careComicsParables of careGraphic comicsMedical humanitie
A proposal for a study of motive processing
No full textThis was a contribution to the Cognition and Affect project that led to the Ph.D. thesis of the first author (Luc P. Beaudoin). This paper was mostly written by the first author, although it is based on and develops ideas of the second author. The nursemaid scenario was first described by the second author (Sloman, 1986). The first author was in the process of implementing the model described in the paper.Thanks to Aluizio Arujo, Peter Greenfield, Inman Harvey, Tim Read, Edmund Shing, Sharon Wood, and Shiu Yuen for reading and commenting on drafts. The first author was supported by the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the United Kingdom, and FCAR of Quebec
Narrative worlds and fictional worlds: (be)coming and going in the novels of Raymond Queneau, Claude Simon, and Alain Robbe-Grillet
No full textThrough a focused exploration of “experimental” novels by Raymond Queneau, Claude Simon, and Alain Robbe-Grillet, the reading experience is reexamined in this dissertation. Special attention is paid to the process of “worldbuilding,” namely the symbiotic relationship between synthetic reading competency and higher-level acts of interpretation. It is argued throughout that readers interact with literary texts not simply as verbal structures, but also by co-creating a multiplicity of imaginary worlds subtended by intentional structures that span the divide between reader and text. The intentional attenuation of subject and object is characteristic of the aesthetic experience as described by Dufrenne, Iser, and Merleau-Ponty, and it is further intensified in the novels of Queneau, Simon, and Robbe-Grillet, which address the status of fiction in fiction. In this way, the reader’s attention wanders between the worlds depicted by texts and the words by means of which these worlds are depicted.
The work of these authors is marked by transition and transaction on the part of character and reader. Behind Queneau’s language-games, a multiplicity of fictional worlds rapidly cycles in and out of being. Simon’s densely packed prose shifts the novice reader into his fictional worlds through the figure of the “soldier-subject.” The geometric simplicity of Robbe-Grillet’s descriptions hides the impossibility of deciphering the events of his fictional worlds. The reader’s interaction with these texts is dynamic, relying upon the basic process of building a world out of disparate textual and extra-textual elements.
Following possible worlds theorists such as Dolezel and Pavel, the two primary worlds engendered by the literary artwork are conceived of as (1) “narrative,” whereby the reader manipulates the linguistic building blocks of the text, and (2) “fictional,” in which the reader transcends such language-based constraints to emerge into a space clearly distinguished from everyday life. Examination of the reader’s nonlinear movement between intertwined narrative and fictional worlds demonstrates Matei Calinescu’s provocative notion that every reader is a rereader. It is suggested that understanding the reader’s movement between absorption in a text and interaction with a text by means of worldbuilding might elucidate a novel kind of “rereading” exemplified by new technologies.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 409-432)by Peter Sorrel
Recall of random and distorted positions: Implications for the theory of expertise.
No full textThis paper explores the question, important to the theory of expert performance, of the nature and number of chunks that chess experts hold in memory. It examines how memory contents determine players' abilities to reconstruct (a) positions from games, (b) positions distorted in various ways and (c) and random positions. Comparison of a computer simulation with a human experiment supports the usual estimate that chess Masters store some 50,000 chunks in memory. The observed impairment of recall when positions are modified by mirror image reflection, implies that each chunk represents a specific pattern of pieces in a specific location. A good account of the results of the experiments is given by the template theory proposed by Gobet and Simon (in press) as an extension of Chase and Simon's (1973a) initial chunking proposal, and in agreement with other recent proposals for modification of the chunking theory (Richman, Staszewski & Simon, 1995) as applied to various recall tasks
Russian popular eschatology and the legend of Peter the Great as antichrist
No full textThe article examines the legend about Peter the Great as Antichrist, in the form in which it circulated
during Peter’s lifetime. The author considers some of the ‘evidence’ that Peter was Antichrist:
predictions that the world would end soon after 1666; the calculation that Peter was the eighth tsar of
Muscovy (cf. the eight kings of the Apocalypse); that his name resembled that of Simon the Magician
(Simon Petrov), the first precursor of the Antichrist; and that his policies, behaviour and appearance
were Satanic. These ideas about Peter as Antichrist were derived from sources such as the prophetic
books of the Bible, the writings of the Church fathers, and the Book of St Cyril of Jerusalem (1644).
Some of the motifs of the legend of Peter as Antichrist resembled those of the legend that Peter was
a ‘substituted’ tsar: both legends attempted to explain the strange nature of Peter’s Westernising
innovations, but the Antichrist legend was more ‘intellectual’, based as it was on a profound knowledge
by its advocates (Old Believers and others) of Holy Scripture and eschatological literature. Refs 21
Simon Winchester, Map that changed the world
No full textreviewThe author, noted writer Simon Winchester (who graduated with a Geology degree from Oxford University), makes no secret of the fact that this text is an unabashed tribute to his hero, William Smith, a nineteenth century surveyor and canal digger whose passionate hobby was geology. In the course of Smith\u27s vocation and avocation he went on to create what became the first geologic map of the British Isles in 1815 and to become the individual who many believe to be the father of modem geology
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