233 research outputs found
Farideh Goldin, 26th Annual Literary Festival
No full textFarideh Goldin is the author of Wedding Song, the first autobiography by an Iranian Jew to be published (September 2003 by Brandeis University Press). In addition to her own stories, which have been widely published, Goldin has shared her knowledge of Iranian Jews with audiences around the United States, recreating Iranian Jewish women’s lives and discussing their writings both in Iran and in exil
Mass Secondary Schooling and the State
No full textIn the three decades from 1910 to 1940, the fraction of U.S. youths enrolled in public and private secondary schools increased from 18 to 71 percent and the fraction graduating soared from 9 to 51 percent. At the same time, state compulsory education and child labor legislation became more stringent and potentially constrained secondary-school aged youths. It might appear from the timing and the specifics of this history that the laws caused the increase in education rates. We evaluate the possibility that state compulsory schooling and child labor laws caused the increase in education rates by using contemporaneous evidence on enrollments. We also use micro-data from the 1960 census to examine the effect of the laws on overall educational attainment. Our estimation approach exploits cross-state differences in the timing of changes in state laws. We find that the expansion of state compulsory schooling and child labor laws from 1910 to 1939 can, at best, account for 5 percent of the increase in high school enrollments and can account for about the same portion of the increase in the eventual educational attainment for the affected cohorts over the period.
Cultural economy intersects contemporary Art in Goldin+Senneby’s work
No full textMy name appears as cultural economist in the credits in three of Goldin+Senneby’s works that constitute their Nordenskiöld Model series which started in 2010 and is ongoing. These three works are Discreet Charm (Goldin+Senneby 2011), I dispense, divide, assign and hold (Goldin+Senneby 2012) and Shorting the Long Position (Goldin+Senneby 2013). There is indeterminacy, both conceptually and practically, in naming and describing the set of collaborations between Goldin+Senneby, the artists, or more accurately contemporary artists, and myself, the economist or more accurately cultural economist. An academic’s relationship with another academic colleague is clearly defined: it is a precisely classifiable activity like being a co-author of an academic publication or being a participant in a funded or unfunded research project or in applications for research projects. Non-academic knowledge exchange relationships, usually, can be easily classifiable as well as they may take the form of consultancy, policy advice, expert opinion, etc. And increasingly, especially in the U.K., such non-academic engagements are formally recognised and encouraged to enhance career prospects of academics as they are deemed to be practically relevant academic work contributing to solutions for societal and business needs
Labor Markets in the Twentieth Century
No full textThe study of the labor market across the past hundred years reveals enormous progress and also that history repeats itself and has come full circle in some ways. Progress has been made in the rewards of labor -- wages, benefits, and increased leisure through shorter hours, vacation time, sick leave, and earlier retirement. Labor has been granted added security on the job and more safety nets when unemployed, ill, and old. Progress in the labor market has interacted with societal changes. Women's increased participation in the paid labor force is the most significant. The virtual elimination of child and full-time juvenile labor is another. Two of the most pressing economic issues of our day demonstrate that history repeats itself. Labor productivity has been lagging since the 1970s. It was equally sluggish at other junctures in American history, but the present has unique features. The current slowdown in the United States has been accompanied by a widening in the wage structure. Rising inequality is a far more serious problem because of the coincidence. The wage structure was as wide in 1940 as today but there is, to date, no hard evidence when it began its upward trend. The wage structure has, therefore, come full circle to what it was more than a half century ago. Union strength has also come full circle to that at the turn of this century.
Gesture in the eye of the beholder: Exploring how children interpret instruction containing gestures
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Wakefield, E. M., Kersey, A., J., Carrazza, C., Mathias, K., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2026). Gesture in the eye of the beholder: Exploring how children interpret instruction containing gestures. Cognitive Development
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Homo faber : continuidad y rupturas
No full textHomo Faber: Continuity and Ruptures. -- Abstract: The author undertakes a reflection on the evolution of human work and its relationship with the man who works. This approach rules out ab initio the hypothesis of the end of work, which is considered absurd, since it would imply the end of humanity creating new objects and symbols. From an objective perspective, the homo faber adapts his living environment to his needs, develops his ecumenus and makes the earth not an object of appropriation but the vital environment on which man depends. Work is truly human insofar as it gives man the possibility of putting a part of what he is into what he does; from this perspective, one must avoid dehumanizing work by denying the thinking character of the worker (which implies assimilating the worker to animals or machines). Fictions such as abstract or commoditized work and the notion of human capital that was formulated by Stalin in 1935, long before Gary Becker popularized the idea in 1964, are considered. The latter is held to constitute a dehumanized notion of human labor, only tempered by trade union rights and social democracy in the professional sphere, as well as by democracy in the public sphere. The challenges that this valuable conception of work must face are made explicit. Ecological, due to the need to avoid overexploitation of natural resources; technological, since this impact is due to the technical mutations produced since the first industrial revolution and institutional one, due to the conflict of legal logics between the rules of international trade and finance and the principles and rules of social justice.Fil: Supiot, Alain. Université de Nantes. Faculté de Droit et Sciences Politiques. Institut d'Etudes Avancées. Paris, FranceTema: El Derecho del Trabajo en la Actualidad / Adrián O Goldin, coord. -- Sección Doctrina. -- "Publicado originalmente en francés en la obra SUPIOT, Alain (dir.), "Le Travail au XXIe siècle. Livre du centenaire de l'Organisation Internationale du Travail Ivry-sur-Seine", Éditions de l'Atelier, 2019. Se publica aquí con la amable autorización de Éditions de l'Atelier. La traducción fue realizada por Adrián Goldin.". -- Resumen: El autor emprende una reflexión sobre la evolución del trabajo humano y su relación con el hombre que trabaja. Este enfoque descarta ab initio la hipótesis del fin del trabajo, que se juzga absurda pues implicaría el fin de la humanidad creadora de nuevos objetos y símbolos. Desde una perspectiva objetiva, el homo faber adapta su entorno vital a sus necesidades, desarrolla su ecúmeno, y hace de la tierra no un objeto de apropiación sino el medio vital del que el hombre depende. El trabajo es realmente humano en tanto le da al hombre la posibilidad de poner una parte de lo que él es en lo que hace; desde esa perspectiva, ha de evitarse deshumanizar el trabajo negando el carácter pensante de quien trabaja (lo que implica asimilar al trabajador a los animales o a las máquinas). Se consideran ficciones como el trabajo abstracto o el trabajo- mercancía y la noción de capital humano que fuera formulado por Stalin en 1935, mucho antes de que Gary Becker popularizara la idea en 1964. Se sostiene que esta última constituye una noción deshumanizada del trabajo humano, solo atemperada por los derechos sindicales y la democracia social en el ámbito profesional, así como por la democracia en la esfera pública. Se explicitan los desafíos que debe afrontar aquella concepción valiosa del trabajo: el ecológico, en razón de la necesidad de evitar una sobreexplotación de los recursos naturales; el tecnológico puesto que ese impacto se debe a las mutaciones técnicas producidas desde la primera Revolución Industrial, y el institucional, en razón del conflicto de lógicas jurídicas entre las reglas del comercio y las finanzas internacionales y los principios y reglas de la justicia social
The Development of Socialist Magic: Reflections on the Place of Power and Ideology in Magic Performance
No full textThe author seeks to establish a historical context for his own performance practice, which combines radical left politics with magic tricks and ventriloquism. A survey of the iconography of magic performance from the time of Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin onwards reveals an ideological underpinning which reflects hierarchies of class, gender and race in society.
However, the magician’s role is complex, as he (or less commonly she) practises an art which is part of ‘low’ culture, despite its association with the rich and powerful. Moreover, the modern magician is associated with rationalism and scepticism, which sometimes puts the conjurer on the side of a progressive view of society. The author examines his own attempts to overcome this disjunction in his practice and explains why, for him, the combination of agitprop and magic performance can only be effective through the use of humour
Desarrollo de software de simulación de propósitos generales
No full textDesarrollo de un software de Simulación de propósitos generales que permite: -Realizar modelos generales de diversos tipos, simularlos y explotar los resultados del mismo. Con una plataforma amigable, sin necesidad de poseer conocimientos específicos de programación. -Plasmar en el mismo software las condiciones iniciales del modelo y un análisis previo, que luego llevarán a la realización de forma automática del diagrama de flujo, existiendo la posibilidad de editar el diagrama del modelo obtenido con el fin de ajustarlo a la necesidad de cada una de las simulaciones en particular, y -A partir del diagrama de flujo y el modelo computacional se podrá llevar a cabo la ejecución de la simulación. -Permitir que dicha herramienta establezca una nueva plataforma educativa que le permita tanto al alumno como al docente resolver ejercicios de simulación con el uso de computadoras, descubrir errores y obtener la corrección correspondiente de los mismos.
Development of simulation software that allows general purposes: Perform general models of various types, simulate and exploit the results. With a friendly platform, that does not need special programming skills. Incorporate the initial conditions of the model and a preliminary analysis in the same software , which will then lead to the realization of the flowchart automatically, with the possibility to edit the model diagram obtained in order to adjust it to the each simulation in particular and the execution of the simulation can be carried out from the flowchart and the computational model. Allow this tool to establish a new educational platform which will be useful for both the student and the teacher to solve exercises from computer simulation and also discover errors and be able to solve it!.Fil: Goldin, Leandro. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional Buenos Aires; Argentina.Fil: Martel, Hernán. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional Buenos Aires; Argentina.Fil: Kosakovski, Pablo. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional Buenos Aires; Argentina.Fil: Viegas, Leonardo. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional Buenos Aires; Argentina.Fil: Quiroga, Silvia. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional Buenos Aires; Argentina.Fil: Milin, Erica M.. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional Buenos Aires; Argentina
Miguel de Cervantes y el librillo de memoria de Cardenio. Historias. Revista de la Dirección de Estudios Históricos. Num. 60 (2005) enero-abril
No full textEn la primavera del 2004, en el marco del primer Festival de la Palabra en la ciudad de México, uno de los invitados especiales fue Roger Chartier. Durante sus tres presentaciones, el autor de “El mundo como representación” estuvo acompañado por Daniel Goldin, Gustavo Cobo Borda y Antonio Saborit. Ésta es la transcripción de un diálogo que dio comienzo en el mismo festival, pero que en realidad se desarrolló y concluyó varias horas después
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