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Spring 2020: MBA Students Videoconference With Simon Sinek and Amy Cuddy
No full textSimon Sinek, best-selling author of “Start With Why,” will present during a free webinar for Schneider School MBA students and alumni, Center for Exceptional Leadership (CEL) clients, and others. The opportunity is delivered courtesy of Matt Sullivan ’95, advisory board member for the CEL.https://digitalcommons.snc.edu/snc_magazine_archives_2019-2023/1210/thumbnail.jp
The Shrine of St. Simon and Zadar Architecture Around 1600
No full textAutor razmatra povijest izgradnje i arhitektonske osobine dva sakralna prostora namijenjena smještaju škrinje s moćima sv. Šimuna u Zadru: nedovršene crkve sv. Šimuna (prekid izgradnje 1623.) i svetišta crkve sv. Stjepana koja je prilikom postave škrinje i posvećenja sv. Šimunu 1632. godine promijenila titulara.The Shrine of St. Simon was commissioned by Elizabeta Kotromanić, wife of the Croatian-Hungarian king Ludovik I (Louis I of Anjou), daughter of the Bosnian Ban Stjepan Kotromanić, and it was made by Francesco da Milano in 1377. The shrine was in the church of St. Mary the Greater until 1572, when the Council of the city of Zadar decided to construct a Baroque church of St. Simon to house the Saint's relics. It commissioned a Venetian architect to do so. The facade was completed up to the concluding gable, and then interrupted in 1623. Immediately afterwards, the apse of the Early Christian basilica of St. Stephen was removed, and a new sanctuary was constructed to contain the shrine; the church was re-consecrated as St. Simon in 1632.
The author of this study has established that the Venetian architect, following a request by his Zadar patrons, combined in his project for the church of St. Simon two contemporary Venetian designs - a hall nave covered by a flat ceiling as in Sansovino's San Giuliano, and the main facade of the church of Santa Maria Formosa modeled on an ancient temple from Sebastiano Serlio's third book on architecture, published in Venice in 1543.
The building of St. Simon took half a century, so due to the change in architectural taste, its Renaissance style made it appear unacceptable to hold the Saint's shrine. The new sanctuary to house the shrine, added to the church of St. Stephen, is based on Palladio's scenic concept of church space. The immediate stimulus for the designer of the sanctuary, the Zaratine Dominican and nobleman Kornelije Nassis, was the Venetian church of St. Niccolò di Lido built in 1626
Transient observations : the textualizing of St Helena through five hundred years of colonial discourse
No full textThis thesis explores the textualizing of the South Atlantic island of St Helena (a
British Overseas Territory) through an analysis of the relationship between
colonizing practices and the changing representations of the island and its
inhabitants in a range of colonial 'texts', including historiography, travel writing,
government papers, creative writing, and the fine arts.
Part I situates this thesis within a critical engagement with post-colonial
theory and colonial discourse analysis primarily, as well as with the recent
'linguistic turn' in anthropology and history. In place of post-colonialism's rather
monolithic approach to colonial experiences, I argue for a localised approach to
colonisation, which takes greater account of colonial praxis and of the continuous
re-negotiation and re-constitution of particular colonial situations.
Part II focuses on a number of literary issues by reviewing St Helena's
historiography and literature, and by investigating the range of narrative tropes
employed (largely by travellers) in the textualizing of St Helena, in particular
with respect to recurrent imaginings of the island in terms of an earthly Eden.
Part III examines the nature of colonial 'possession' by tracing the island's
gradual appropriation by the Portuguese, Dutch and English in the sixteenth and
early seventeenth century and the settlement policies pursued by the English
East India Company in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century.
Part IV provides an account of the changing perceptions, by visitors and
colonial officials alike, of the character of the island's inhabitants (from the late
eighteenth to the early twentieth century) and assesses the influence that these
perceptions have had on the administration of the island and the political status of
its inhabitants (in the mid- to late twentieth century).
Part V, the conclusion, reviews the principal arguments of my thesis by
addressing the political implications of post-colonial theory and of my own
research, while also indicating avenues for further research.
A localised and detailed exploration of colonial discourse over a period of
nearly five hundred years, and a close analysis of a consequently wide range of
colonial 'texts', has confirmed that although colonising practices and
representations are far from monolithic, in the case of St Helena their continuities
are of as much significance as their discontinuities
La proportionnelle a-t-elle des effets vertueux ? Une etude experimentale
No full textAnnexe A: Les protocoles experimentau
La proportionnelle a-t-elle des effets vertueux ? Une etude experimentale
No full textAnnexe A: Les protocoles experimentau
The Hamlet Doctrine
No full textThis talk is based on Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster’s 2013 book “Stay, Illusion!: The Hamlet Doctrine” (Pantheon). Simon Critchley is the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School. In addition to authoring numerous books (some are listed on the ST poster so I don’t need to repeat the list here), Simon also moderates “The Stone,” The New York Times’ philosophy blog. Simon Critchley’s posts on The Stone can be found here: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/author/simon-critchley
Education and Training in St.Lucia: A Partially Annotated Bibliography
No full textThis bibliography on “Education and Training in St. Lucia” has been specifically prepared for the UWI School of Continuing Studies’ St. Lucia Country Conference. An attempt has been made to be as comprehensive as possible, but because of the weak bibliographical coverage of the literature of the region, important items may have been omitted. This is especially true for policy documents emanating from official sources. It covers all aspects of education and training in St.Lucia including distance education, educational finance,health and family life education and educational reform
Adapting authoritarianism: institutions and co-optation in Egypt and Syria
No full textThis PhD thesis compares Egypt and Syria’s authoritarian political systems. While the tendency in social science political research treats Egypt and Syria as similarly authoritarian, this research emphasizes differences between the two systems with special reference to institutions and co-optation. Rather than reducibly understanding Egypt and Syria as sharing similar histories, institutional arrangements, or ascribing to the oft-repeated convention that “Syria is Egypt but 10 years behind,” this thesis focuses on how events and individual histories shaped each states current institutional strengthens and weaknesses. Specifically, it explains the how varying institutional politicization or de-politicization affects each state’s capabilities for co-opting elite and non-elite individuals.
Beginning with a theoretical framework that considers the limited utility of democratization and transition theoretical approaches, the work underscores the persistence and durability of authoritarianism. Chapter two details the politicized institutional divergence between Egypt and Syria that began in the 1970s. Chapter three and four examines how institutional politicization or de-politicization affects elite and non-elite individual co-optation in Egypt and Syria. Chapter five discusses the study’s general conclusions and theoretical implications.
This thesis’s argument is that Egypt and Syria co-opt elites and non-elites differently because of the varying degrees of institutional politicization in each governance system. Rather than view one country as more politically developed than the other, this work argues that Syria’s political institutions are more politicized than their Egyptian counterparts. Syria’s political arena is, thus, described as politicized-patrimonialism. Syria’s politicized-patrimonial arena produces uneven co-optation of elites and non-elites as they are diffused through competing institutions. Conversely, the Egyptian political arena remains highly personalized as weak institutions and individuals are manipulated and molded according to the president’s ruling clique. This is referred to as personalized-patrimonialism. As a consequence, Egypt’s political establishment demonstrates more flexibility in ad hoc altering and adapting its arena depending on the emergence of crises.
This study’s theoretical implications suggest that, contrary to modernization and democratization theory’s adage that institutions lead to a political development, politicized institutions within a patrimonial order actually hinder regime adaptation because consensus is harder to achieve and maintain. It is within this context that Egypt’s de-politicized institutional framework advantages its top political elite. In this reading of Egyptian and Syrian politics, Egypt’s personalized political arena is more adaptable than Syria’s. These conclusions do not indicate that political reform is a process underway in either state
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