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Dr. Elisabeth Gruner - Faculty Author Interview
Dr. Elisabeth Gruner, Associate Professor of English, discusses her new book, Constructing the Adolescent Reader in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction, published recently by Palgrave Macmillan. The book considers a range of contemporary titles in order to explore the types of reading sparked through various forms of adolescent fiction
The electronic structure of ultrathin [111]-oriented tin nanowire with hydrogen passivation
Inter-generational family support provided by older people in Indonesia
Most social research on ageing in Asia has focused on the support provided by adult children to their parents, and thereby suggests that as a matter of course older people are in need of support. This paper offers a different perspective. Drawing on ethnographic and quantitative data from a village in East Java, it examines the extent of older people's dependence on others and highlights the material and practical contributions that they make to their families. It is shown that only a minority of older people are reliant on children or grandchildren for their daily survival. In the majority of cases, the net flow of inter-generational support is either downwards – from old to young – or balanced. Far from merely assisting with childcare and domestic tasks, older people are often the economic pillars of multi-generational families. Pension and agricultural incomes serve to secure the livelihoods of whole family networks, and the accumulated wealth of older parents is crucial for launching children into economic independence and underwriting their risks. Parental generosity does not generally elicit commensurate reciprocal support when it is needed, leaving many people vulnerable towards the end of their lives
Ambiguity of Scale:Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain — an Anthropocene Novel?
Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain is obsessed with questions of scale. Whether in its incessant reflection on days, weeks, months, years, minutes, or depths of fathoms and meters of altitude, the novel is driven by questions of the measurability of time and space. At the same time, one would hardly want to speak of measurability with regard to The Magic Mountain, either in terms of time or space. What, then, is this obsession with scale? The Magic Mountain, Strowick will argue, generates literary scales beyond measurability that address what the novel calls the ‘dual nature’ [Zwienatur] of time and space. The talk will explore this ambiguity of scale and its consequences for the question of narrative and the form of the novel. About 100 years after the publication of Thomas Mann’s novel, questions of scale are often discussed in theories of the Anthropocene. In fact, ‘scale critique’ is one of the most promising ways to analyse the Anthropocene. Is The Magic Mountain a setting for ‘scale critique’, an Anthropocene novel avant la lettre? Elisabeth Strowick is a Professor of German in the Department of German at New York University. Before joining NYU, she was Professor of German and Humanities, Chair of the Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures, and Co-Director of the Max Kade Center for Modern German Thought at Johns Hopkins University. Elisabeth Strowick has held numerous academic positions, including visiting professorships, at universities in the United States, Germany (FU Berlin, Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin, University of Hamburg), and Switzerland (University of Zurich, University of Basel). She was awarded a Feodor Lynen Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Yale, Johns Hopkins, 2004-2006). Her areas of expertise are German literature, culture, and thought from the 19th century to the present, with special emphasis on literary theory, psychoanalysis, aesthetics, the poetics of knowledge, and ecocriticism. She is the author of Passagen der Wiederholung: Kierkegaard — Lacan — Freud (Metzler, 1999), Sprechende Körper — Poetik der Ansteckung (Fink, 2009), Gespenster des Realismus. Zur literarischen Wahrnehmung von Wirklichkeit (Fink, 2019) and has (co-)edited numerous volumes and special issues of peer-reviewed journals. Elisabeth Strowick is currently working on a book on ‘Literary Scale Critique: The Anthropocene as Deep War Time’.00:00 Introduction by Claudia Peppel07:29 Talk by Elisabeth Strowick1:09:48 Discussio
St. Elisabeth Heritage Garden: Refurbish of St. Elisabeth complex
St. Elisabeth complex is located at the edge of Nieuwstad. The site includes valuable heritages such as Berkelpoort, city wall and tower from the 14th century. However St. Elisabeth building has separated these monuments from the public since 1993, and these cultural assets are not being properly maintained. Is cultural property justified by means of private use?Heritages are a national asset. Everyone has the right to learn history through heritage. Therefore, when the circumstances allow it, heritage must be shared in public. The historical elements in this complex can provide great future opportunities to Nieuwstad. In this project, I suggest a ‘Heritage garden’ as a cultural hub of the Nieuwstad. Architecture, Urbanism and Building Science
Detection of rare mutations using bead emulsion amplification : optimization of water-in-oil emulsion stability for simultaneous detection of rare mutations
Author Elisabeth Palzenberger, B.Sc.Abstract in deutscher und englischer SpracheMasterarbeit Universität Linz 201
"Harmonious coexistence" - St. Elisabeth nursing home renovation project
The renovation project of St. Elisabeth in Zutphen is guided by the concept of "sustainable city". Meanwhile as a graduation project in the studio of heritage and architecture, how to deal with the relation between historic relics and modern architectures is important. During the whole process of my project, I started my design assignment with previous analysis and research.Architecture, Urbanism and Building Science
Zagłada, ofiara i zwierzęta w myśli Elisabeth de Fontenay
The Shoah, the Sacrifice, and the Animal in Elisabeth de Fontenay’s ThoughtThe article aims at presenting the views of a French philosopher Elisabeth de Fontanay on the issue of proximity between the Shoah and the inhuman, industrial treatment of animals.The author not only explains the history of such a contextualisation of the problem, but also tackles the question of the meaning of a sacrifice, which is a term often used to define both the extermination of the Jews and the mass animal slaughter.
Key words: Elisabeth de Fontenay, Shoah, sacrifice, animals, mass slaughte
Peningkatan Hasil Belajar Materi Pemanasan Global melalui Pembelajaran Berdiferensiasi pada Peserta Didik Kelas X3 Di SMA Negeri 19 Surabaya
Learning activities in the classroom should be able to accommodate the diversity of needs and characteristics of students. Differentiated learning is a series of decisions and strategies made by the teacher to organize a learning process that can accommodate the characteristics and learning needs of students. Differentiated learning in this study is devoted to categorizing students' learning needs based on aspects of students' learning profiles, namely students' learning styles. The differentiated learning carried out includes the preparation and implementation of content and process differentiation based on students’ learning styles. This study is a form of Classroom Action Research (CAR) which was carried out over 2 cycles. The stages in each cycle are planning, action, observation, and reflection stages. This research was conducted in the even semester of the 2022/2023 academic year in class X3 at SMA Negeri 19 Surabaya. The subjects of this research were 36 students. Based on the analysis, in the cycle I, 58.33% of students passed the passing grade. The number increases to 80.56% in cycle II. It can be concluded that the application of differentiated learning can improve the learning outcomes of class X3 students at SMA Negeri 19 Surabaya on Global Warming topics.Kegiatan pembelajaran di kelas hendaknya dapat mengakomodasi keragaman kebutuhan dan karakteristik peserta didik. Pembelajaran berdiferensiasi adalah serangkaian keputusan dan strategi yang dibuat oleh guru untuk menyelenggarakan proses pembelajaran yang dapat mengakomodasi karakteristik dan kebutuhan belajar peserta didik. Pembelajaran berdiferensiasi pada penelitian ini dikhususkan pada pengkategorian kebutuhan belajar peserta didik berdasarkan aspek profil belajar peserta didik yaitu gaya belajar peserta didik. Pembelajaran berdiferensiasi yang dilakukan meliputi penyusunan dan implementasi diferensiasi konten dan proses berdasarkan gaya belajar peserta didik. Jenis penelitian yang digunakan adalah Penelitian Tindakan Kelas (PTK) yang dilakukan selama 2 siklus. Adapun masing-masing tahapan dalam setiap siklus yaitu tahap perencanaan, tindakan, observasi, dan refleksi. Penelitian ini dilakukan pada semester genap tahun pelajaran 2022/2023 di kelas X3 SMA Negeri 19 Surabaya. Subjek penelitian ini berjumlah 36 peserta didik. Berdasarkan analisis ketuntasan klasikal hasil belajar peserta didik, persentase ketuntasan klasikal pada siklus I adalah 58,33% dan naik menjadi 80,56% pada siklus II. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian tersebut dapat disimpulkan bahwa penerapan pembelajaran berdiferensiasi dapat meningkatkan hasil belajar peserta didik kelas X3 SMA Negeri 19 Surabaya pada materi Pemanasan Global
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