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Bogdan Bogdanović: Dissident in life, architecture and writing
No full textThe paper analyses selected works of Bogdan Bogdanović (1922- 2010). This Serbian architect, writer and Professor of Architecture at
the University of Belgrade, was the author of numerous monuments devoted to the victims of fascism in former Yugoslavia (1952-81). As the Mayor of Belgrade (1982-86) Bogdanović was a liberal member of the Yugoslav Communist Party and later, a strong opponent of Milošević’s regime. This paper argues that Bogdanović has always been both a dissident and an avant-garde proponent of architectural surrealism and its wider culture. Living with the belief that the vocation of an architect presupposes lifetime devotion to learning and experimentation, Bogdanović carried on with this attitude throughout his life. This approach, spiced up with playfulness and mystery as presented in his early volume Zaludna mistrija (The Futile Trowel) 1968, is the focus of this paper. In this unusual book the narratives are an intrinsic part of the architectural realm including design, drawings of various kinds, and the built form itself
Surrealist signatures of Bogdan Bogdanović
No full textThe main goal of the article is to explore relations of literature and architecture in works of Bogdan Bogdanović, the Serbian architect, writer, politician and dissident. The author focuses on surrealist influences that pervade Bogdanović’s work i.e. famous memorials of WWII, sketches, political and architectural essays and autobiographical narratives. Analyzing both aesthetic and ideological aspects of surrealist signatures etched into this ouvre, the author defines them as a subversive strategy aimed against the communist discourse of Yugoslavia as well as against the modernist discourse of postwar architecture
A transgressive pendulum of Bogdan Loebl’s poetry
No full textThe article discusses the questions of poetics and philosophy in Bogdan Loebl’s poetry comparing two poems: Dopóki bolisz [Until You Hurt] by the aforementioned author and Leopold Staff’s sonnet Kowal [Blacksmith]. The confrontation of the two poems is designed as a ready-to-use lesson plan, especially helpful for students attending the last year of high school in view of the final exam. The article includes the contexts of both genesis of the two discussed poems and functions of cultural discourse
Defending crime: Right to counsel as a natural human right
No full textDouglas College and the New Westminster Museum collaborated to host the Tick-Talk: Crime and Consequences Student Conference, which featured criminology students' presentations on a variety of crime, justice, and social issues. Adopting a fast-paced presentation format, students raised key issues and challenges, described personal experiences, and disseminated unique ideas in a public forum. Presentation topics included the right to legal representation, the over representation of Indigenous peoples in Canada’s criminal justice system, youth justice policy, and connections between mental health and criminal justice. The conference also included several discussion sessions that generated valuable dialogue among students, academics, practitioners, and members of the public. --- Bogdan Maksimcev presented on the right to defence counsel within the Canadian legal system. Maksimcev outlined the legal rights of Canadians and discussed the role of defence counsel in people's lives, arguing that every person should have fair access to justice.Not peer reviewe
Bez retuszu George F. Kennan i jego dzienniki
No full textIn his article Bogdan Grzelonski, Polish ambassador to Canada between 1997 and 2000, discusses a book edited by author and historian Frank Costigliola Kennan diaries. He states that the masterfully selected and annotated diaries make for a fascinating reading about Kennan’s professional and personal life. He specifically brings to attention these parts, that are concerned with the Soviet Union, Europe and Poland. B. Grzeloński underline that Kennan raised in his diary issues which still ring clearly today
Investigating the Causality and Perceptions of Adverse Events Following Immunization (AEFI) and the awareness of the Novel mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine in Tallinn Upper Secondary Schools
No full textThe COVID-19 pandemic launched a multi-billion dollar and highly time-sensitive global search for a vaccine, leading to the world\u27s first mRNA vaccines, which employed a revolutionary method of inoculation. Although mRNA vaccines have proven to be highly effective against COVID-19, their impact on the human body is still being investigated and there have been instances of public distrust of the vaccine, leading to some people refusing to take it. This study investigates three aspects in Tallinn secondary school students: how well they understand the basics of mRNA vaccination technology, why those who refused vaccination did so, and their perception of adverse reactions to the vaccine they received. For the practical part of the research, a questionnaire was used, among students of the 10th and 12th grades of a total of 20 schools. The questionnaire consisted of 13 questions: 10 multiple-choice and three open-ended. Each of the multiple-choice questions also had an "Other" option, which allowed students to input their own answer. The questionnaire was bilingual, including both Estonian and Russian speakers. A total of 168 10th grade students participated in the questionnaire, representing 61.5% of the respondents, and 105 12th grade students, representing 38.5% of the respondents. The results showed that awareness of mRNA vaccines among students in Tallinn was low, and adverse reactions to vaccination consisted mainly of fatigue and muscle pain. Parental refusal was the main reason for not vaccinating, and information was mainly obtained from social media
Sociologia proastei guvernări în România interbelică, Editura RAO, București, 2019. Bogdan Bucur: Sociology of Bad Governance in Interwar Romania, RAO Press, Bucharest, 2019, Bogdan Bucur
No full textThis review seeks to critically unravel Bogdan Bucur's Sociology of Bad Governance in Interwar Romania by using both an emic and an etic approach. From an emic perspective, that is, from inside the book, Bogdan Bucur's intellectual effort is really impressive. Despite a huge amount of data, Sociology of Bad Governance in Interwar Romania proves itself quite easy to read thanks to a solid organization. Additionally, due to the fact that the author has employed a classic academic recipe, the abovementioned book is also very coherent. However, looked at it etically, the book loses its internal coherence due to some conceptual and methodological blunders. Conceptually, despite the fact that the book brings to the fore the issue of bad governance and that it includes a theoretical chapter, the concept of good governance is left unaddressed. Methodologically, the author seems to have fallen in the trap of methodological nationalism. A consistent liberal and neo-marxist literature has already addressed the state as a historical institution which is more or less dependent on the international milieu. In his attempt to explain the administrative failures of the interwar Romanian state, the author has completely overlooked the path dependence explanation and the impact former empires had had on post-colonial states. Thus, a confusion between causes and manifestations of bad governance has emerged
Ambasador Stalina w Londynie 1932–1942 i jego dziennik
No full textDiaries of the Soviet ambasador to Great Britain published by emeritus Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and emeritus professor of history at Tel Aviv University Gabriel Gorodetsky are analyzed from the point of view of a historian and diplomat by Bogdan Grzeloński. The author is interested in Maiskis personality and also in a manner he presents himself. At the same time he evaluates his work as a representative of Stalin in London. The author notes that, outside of politics and diplomacy, Maiski did not have other intrests like art or music. Having the ambition to play on active role in the Soviet policy formulation Maiski was not sucessful on Downing street. Churchill was immune to his pressures. Stalin however needed him in London as a propagandist of his policies. B. Grzeloński provides a critical assessment of the diaries and their author
What is reading literature today? Questionnaire
No full textQuestionnaireWhen asked about the most important book in his life-long reading experience, Bogdan
Mazan selects the Bible. When feeling blue, he chooses the collection This is the Day the
Lord Has Made: 365 Daily Meditations (Dziś jest dzień Pański. Rozważania na każdy dzień,
Polish translation by J. Iwaszkiewicz, Poznań 2000) by a Belgian Carmelite and Doctor
of Philosophy Wilfrid Stinissen or a book by Henri Brunel, The Smile of Buddha. Zen
Humor (transl. M. Pluta, Warsaw, 2004); when sad, he also reads Hašek’s Adventures of
Good Soldier Svejk. In hopelessly grim situations, the author recommends to read the
novel by Gottfried Burger The Adventures of Baron Münchhausen.Publikacja dofinansowana przez Wydział Filologiczny Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Erratum to the paper Bogdan, M., ”Some comments on a linear programming problem”
No full textThe present paper corrects an assertion of the author from [1]. The pivoting algorithms referred to, search for solving the linear programming problem.
Mathematics Subject Classification (2010): 90C05.
Received 6 February 2020; Accepted 31 March 2020
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