133 research outputs found
[Book Review] The age of orphans, by Laleh Khadivi
No full textThe Age of Orphans, By Laleh Khadivi. Book review by Alev Adil.
Laleh Khadivi's debut novel, remarkable for its beautiful and brutal poetry, tells the story of a lost Kurdish child and the history of "this invisible thing called Iran" [From the Author
Laleh Khalili, Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula
No full textLaleh Khalili’s Sinews of War and Trade is an original contribution to the Arabian Peninsula’s history and political economy. Although it eventually hints at many references and shows great skills in documenting and connecting facts around the Arabian Peninsula, the book’s ambition is neither strictly academic, nor comprehensive. “It wanted to tell stories” claims the author (p. 6) so that the reader is plunged into the world of ports, in their material and intellectual infrastructures (the ..
Psychological and Cultural Treatment of Traumatized Subject(s): Reading Laleh Khadivi’s The Walking in Terms of Theories of Trauma
No full textThe present study aims to scrutinize the concept of trauma in Laleh khadivi’s work entitled, The Walking. The objective of the study is to examine how Khadivi’s work can be read through theories of trauma. The Freudian notion of trauma focuses on the remaining psychological wounds on subjects’ identity while Alexander’s concept, cultural trauma, concentrates on the cultural outcome of a horrendous event at the collective level. Traumas are not solely private psychological experiences and are restricted to one solitude individual as they can expose themselves as collective experiences. Literary works are valuable properties picturing the results and outcomes of trauma both at its individual and collective level. In the current paper, concepts related to traumas will be defined to examine the characters in Khadivi’s novel. The novel provides a set of chronological events that happened to a minority group during the Iranian revolution. The author chooses her characters of Iranians of Kurdish immigrants. The Walking, reminds us of events happening during 1976 in Iran, after The Islamic Revolution. The article will delineate that characters are psychologically traumatized after the revolution in Iran as well as experiencing cultural trauma during the twentieth century
Investigating the Relationship between Optimal Use of Knowledge and Intellectual Capital Management among Library Managers of Public Hospitals
No full textToday, the impact of intellectual capital is interesting for the scholars worldwide regarding the performance of the organizations, and knowledge comprises its primary core. Optimal use of knowledge contributes to explore needs of clients, leading to innovation and new valuable opportunities. Qualitatively improved services in the libraries of hospitals realizes through taking human capital and their optimal use of knowledge into consideration. The present study investigated the relationship between optimal use of knowledge and intellectual capital among library managers of public hospitals in Tehran. This study is a descriptive-correlation applied research holding all of the library managers of public hospitals in Tehran as the statistical population. The data collection was carried out via Bontis Intellectual Capital Questionnaire (2004) and Bukowitz & Williams Knowledge Management Questionnaire (1999). Cronbach's alpha was employed to measure the internal consistency reliability among the items and found at over 70%. To analyze the statistical data, the Pearson Correlation Test was used. The results showed that there were not any significant relationship between optimal use of knowledge and human resource capital and structural capital components (P>0.05). On the whole, between intellectual capital and optimal use of knowledge there is a significant relationship (P<0.05).The data analysis revealed that there is a positive and direct significant relationship with low intensity between optimal use of knowledge and intellectual capital among library managers of public hospitals in Tehran. In other words, the Foucault theory of power relation is confirme
Introducing the transfer function concept for a complex structure due to electromagnetic wave penetration using FDTD method
No full textConvergent One‐Pot Synthesis of 3‐Substituted Quinazolin‐4(3H)‐ones under Solvent‐Free Conditions.
No full textLes arcs brisés persans : remarques sur leurs particularités géométriques et techniques
No full textThe study focuses on the arches of the domed halls erected during the Saldjukid period inside of the big mosques, in the part reserved to the sovereign’s use. The author analyses the methods and technics used to trace and build these arches which reveal a great mastery of applied mathematics on the part of the architects and which, beyond their function, possess a distinguished decorative value.Laleh Haeedeh. Les arcs brisés persans : remarques sur leurs particularités géométriques et techniques. In: Histoire de l'art, N°11, 1990. Varia. pp. 3-13
A Lacanian Reading of Finnegans Wake in Relation to James Joyce's Feminine Structure
No full textAccording to Jacques Lacan, James Joyce was a rare man who could achieve a jouissance normally only accessible to women. The purpose of this study is to ascertain how a male author can obtain this jouissance, by identifying Joyce‘s sexual structure according to Lacan‘s definition of sexuation. Using late Lacanian concepts, this thesis will examine Joyce‘s Finnegans Wake (1939), along with his biography and letters, to find clues as to the sexual structure of the author. Since the paternal function determines the sexual structure of the subject, the function of phallic authority is explored in this thesis through Joyce‘s real father, John Joyce, the imaginary
father, in the form of H.C.E from Finnegans Wake, and the role of the symbolic father, played by institutions such as the church. John Joyce‘s inability to perform his patriarchal responsibilities is mirrored in H.C.E, while Joyce himself rejects the influence of the church. I contend that Joyce‘s ‗father foreclosure‘, due to the absence of a strong paternal figure, and his refusal of the Law,
results in the feminine structure of his mind and his feminine jouissance, which enables him to write Finnegans Wake. According to Lacan, it is the feminine qualities of the mind such as Infinity, a Phallus-less nature and the Real that makes biological women ‗mad‘; however, these
qualities function differently in Joyce, who selects this sexual position knowingly, resulting in genius rather than psychosis. This thesis also holds that the reason for the consciously obscure language of Finnegans Wake is due to Joyce‘s feminine structure, which enables him to create an
extremely subjective writing style that has defeated all efforts to analyse it.
Key words: Real, Symbolic, Other, Jouissance, Feminine/Real jouissance, Le Sinthome
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KC 4.4 Building Multi-cultural Understanding Through Translation and Dialogue: Languages and terminologies for ICOMOS IFLA ISCCL Rural Landscapes Principles
No full textRafaella Laviscio, Architect, Phd, adjunct professor at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) where she carries out research on the issues of protection and enhancement of cultural heritage and landscape in the context of national and international research programs. She is member of ICOMOS Italia and ISCCL and responsible for the scientific and organizational secretariat of the "World Rural Landscape Initiative". She is expert member of several Landscape Commission in Milan metropolitan area. She has participated in national and international conferences on the theme of cultural heritage and landscape. She is author of publications on the issues of knowledge and evaluation of cultural heritage.
Hossam Mahdy is an Egyptian and British conservation architect. Acquired PhD from Glasgow University, MSc from University of Louvain and BSc from Ain Shams University. His work focuses on Islamic views on the conservation of cultural heritage, Arabic terminology of conservation, and the translation of conservation literature from English into Arabic. He is an advisor to ICOMOS Secretariat on World Heritage and a consultant to EAMENA Project at Oxford University on Arabic heritage terminology and translations. Hossam is a member of ICOMOS-UK and ICOMOS-CIAV. He worked extensively on the study and conservation of vernacular built heritage in the Arab region.
Haeedeh Laleh is professor of Islamic archaeology at the Department of Archaeology, founderand head of the Bioarchaoelogy Laboratory, Central Library: University of Tehran. She is currently vice president for the Middle East region of the ICOMOS/IFLA International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes (ISCCL), and board member of Iran National committee of ICOMOS.The spread and put in action of the Principles’ text in the national context require, first of all, the translation of the original English version. It is not automatic and requires different considerations and challenges (as linguistic and cultural). For instance, some English terms have no known equivalent Arabic terms (such as landscape, vernacular and integrity), other terms have different equivalents used by different individuals or institutions, others (as bio-cultural diversity, conservation, heritage, sustainable development) require some specifications due to differences in worldview and value systems in the different national contexts (and according to different disciplinary sectors in the same national context). The Knowledge Cafe would encourage a multi-cultural discussion on building shared understanding of the issues and challenges regarding the translation and terminology. It will be organized as follows: Raffaella Laviscio will briefly introduce the topic and present, as responsible for the Italian translation, the challenges that arise from this particular context such as the need for a multidisciplinary approach (as required by the principles’ text) that clashes in Italy with a certain sectoriality of competences concerning rural landscape. Hossam Mahdy and Khalid El Harrouni, responsible for the Arabic translation, reflect on the challenges concerning Arabic terms for conservation-related concepts, methods and actions due to differences in worldview and value systems between traditional Arabic-speaking communities and modern Western/Westernized worldviews and value systems. Haeedeh Lahed and Gity Homa Irani Behbahani give some notes concerning the Middle East and the Iranian World. Li Xie and Hang Lu join the discussion by reflections concerning Chinese translation of the Principles’ Text. The open discussion will be guided by some questions: how do different contexts define and interpret words like landscape, rural landscape, heritage and so on? what is the scope of the Principles’ text that the different national socio-economic conditions define? what are the links with other sectors, policies and emerging themes in the national contexts that must necessarily be highlighted? The goal will be to gather as many diverse suggestions from around the globe on which key words may need to have local linguistic interpretations so that the text can be interpreted most appropriately for local use and to the further revision and implementation of the Principles' text on a world scale
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