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Emmanuel Kutik
No full textabstract: Emmanuel Kutik was almost eight years old when he left his home. He walked for three months and traveled with fifty people.
“Lost Boys Found” is an ongoing, interdisciplinary project that is collecting, recording and archiving the oral histories of the Lost Boys/Girls of Sudan. The collection is a work-in-progress, seeking to record the oral history of as many Lost Boys/Girls as are willing, and will be used in a future book.Age: 23Region: BentiuThis picture and bio was donated to the Lost Boys Found project from The Arizona Lost Boys Cente
Honorable Emmanuel Okocha Oral History Interview
No full textThis is an oral history interview with the Honorable Emmanuel Okocha, author of Blood on the Niger, the only book about the Asaba Massacre, a mass killing of civilians which occurred in 1967 during the Nigerian Civil War. Okocha, a survivor of the massacre, was a small child at the time; his father was killed at Asaba, and two older brothers also died during the war. Okocha began researching the massacre after finishing his university studies, and has interviewed hundreds of survivors and relatives of those who were killed. He describes some of his research, the publication of his book, and his efforts to document the massacre
Emmanuel Cooper OBE 1938–2012 A Retrospective Exhibition
No full textDr Emmanuel Cooper OBE (HonDFA) 1938–2012 was a distinguished craftsman, writer, teacher and broadcaster. A potter of international standing, his work is represented in many public collections. The author of nearly thirty books, he was editor of Ceramic Review, visiting Professor at London’s Royal College of Art, and a regular broadcaster on television and radio. He was awarded an OBE in 2002 for services to art. Emmanuel’s contribution to the world of ceramics was hugely significant. This will be celebrated with a touring exhibition of his ceramics and a publication looking at his life in pots – produced by Ruthin Craft Centre in collaboration with the University of Derby
Trois siècles de variabilité phénotypique dans la vallée du Saint-Laurent durant la période coloniale (Québec) : application de la morphométrie géométrique 3D à la variation morphologique de l’os temporal
No full textcodirection : Emmanuel Milot (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières)La bioarchéologie donne un accès inédit à l’histoire des populations passées à travers l’analyse directe des restes humains. Au Québec, peu d’études bioarchéologiques explorent l’histoire des populations à grande échelle durant la période coloniale en raison de divers facteurs (ex. fouilles peu exhaustives des cimetières en raison de mandats limités, mauvaise conservation des squelettes, aspects historiques minimisés comme la traite des esclaves). Seules les études génétiques, généalogiques et démographiques ont permis de constituer un portrait phylogénétique des différentes populations qui ont cohabité depuis les premières colonies européennes. Cette thèse vise à appliquer des approches méthodologiques issues de la morphométrie géométrique 3D pour contribuer à explorer l’histoire coloniale à travers la variation phénotypique de l’os temporal.
L’os temporal qui constitue la partie latérale (voire basale) du crâne est l’un des ossements les mieux préservés dans les collections bioarchéologiques au Québec. Comme cet os formé très tôt in utero est reconnu pour être moins influencé par les pressions environnementales externes, sa morphologie reflète des signaux biologiques directement hérités des ancêtres. Un total de 214 os temporaux issus de sept cimetières coloniaux ; cinq catholiques (ascendance française) et deux protestants (ascendance britannique) établis dans la vallée du Saint-Laurent ont été numérisés en 3D au moyen de la photogrammétrie. Des analyses en morphométrie géométrique 3D ont permis d’explorer la variation phénotypique au niveau intra — et inter-régional des cimetières qui retracent des périodes clefs de l’histoire coloniale ; de la formation de la Nouvelle-France sous le régime colonial français, à sa capitulation au profit du régime colonial britannique, jusqu’à l’ère industrielle (XVII-XIXe siècles). Les résultats morphométriques ont révélé une différenciation régionale significative entre tous les cimetières catholiques canadiens-français. Ils montrent notamment (i) la faible variation morphologique observée à Montréal au cours de deux siècles d’occupation coloniale, et (ii) des différences morphologiques significatives entre les cimetières catholiques les plus anciens, reflétant une régionalisation rapide des populations liée à l’effet fondateur, aux goulots d’étranglement et à un éventuel isolement géographique entre la ville et la campagne. L’absence de différences entre le cimetière protestant de Saint-Laurent (Montréal) et tous les cimetières catholiques récents, par rapport au cimetière protestant de Saint-Matthew (Québec), pourrait indiquer la présence potentielle d’individus irlandais. Les cimetières Saint-Lawrence et Saint-Antoine étaient tous deux en usage durant les importantes migrations irlandaises et épisodes épidémiques qui ont causé une importante mortalité chez ses populations. Enfin, trois individus d’origine potentiellement non européenne ont été identifiés dans les cimetières protestants de Saint-Matthew à Québec (n=2 ; ascendance africaine ou métissée) et dans le cimetière catholique de Notre-Dame à Montréal (n=1 ; ascendance autochtone ou métissée). Les deux cimetières reflètent deux périodes importantes : (i) le développement de la colonisation française (Notre-Dame, 1683-1799) et (ii) britannique (Saint-Matthew, 1771-1860). Ces deux périodes et lieux ont également connu la plus forte concentration d’esclaves ; ce qui indique le potentiel statut social de ces trois individus.
Cette recherche met en évidence les avantages de l’utilisation de l’os temporal et de la morphométrie géométrique pour documenter la variation inter — et intra-groupe au niveau phénotypique de populations passées apparentées. Ces nouveaux outils méthodologiques offrent des alternatives aux contraintes taphonomiques tout en minimisant la manipulation des restes humains archéologiques. Combinées à des approches éthiques basées sur la réciprocité, ces méthodes démocratiques permettent d’engager plus activement les communautés de descendants dans le domaine de la bioarchéologie, pour à terme, faciliter les demandes de rapatriement et ramatriement, particulièrement dans le cas d’individus sans documentation précise ni contexte archéologique.Bioarchaeology provides unique access to past population histories through the direct analysis
of human remains. In Quebec, few bioarchaeological studies explore the history and processes
of admixture during the colonial period, due to a variety of factors (e.g. limited cemetery
excavations, poor skeletal conservation, neglected historical aspects such as the slave trade).
Only genetic, genealogical and demographic studies have provided a phylogenetic overview
of the different populations that have lived alongside each other since the first European
colonies. This thesis aims to apply innovative conceptual and methodological approaches to
help in exploring colonial history through phenotypic variation.
The temporal bone, which forms the lateral (or basal) part of the skull, is one of the bestpreserved bones in general, and in bioarchaeological collections in Quebec in particular.
Because this bone is formed in utero, it is known to be less influenced by external
environmental pressures. Its morphology reflects biological signals directly inherited from
ancestors. Temporal bones (n=214) from seven colonial cemeteries, five Catholic and two
Protestant ones, in the St. Lawrence Valley were digitized in 3D using photogrammetry.
Geometric morphometric analyses explored phenotypic variation at intra- and inter-regional
levels for cemeteries that illustrate key periods of colonial history; from the formation of New
France under French colonization to its handover under British colonization through to the
industrial era (17th-19th centuries). Morphometric results revealed significant regional
differentiation between all French-Canadian Catholic cemeteries. They demonstrate (i) low
morphological variation observed in Montreal over two centuries of colonial occupation, and
(ii) significant morphological differences between the oldest Catholic cemeteries. It reflects,
rapid regionalization linked to the founder effect, bottlenecks and possible geographical
isolation between city and countryside. The absence of differences between the Protestant
cemetery of Saint-Lawrence (Montreal) and all recent Catholic cemeteries, compared with the
Protestant cemetery of Saint-Matthew (Quebec), could indicate the potential presence of Irish
individuals. Finally, three individuals of potentially non-European origin were documented in
the Protestant cemeteries of Saint-Matthew in Quebec City (n=2; African ancestry or admixed)
and in the Catholic cemetery of Notre-Dame in Montreal (n=1; Indigenous ancestry or admixed). Both cemeteries reflect two important periods: (i) French colonization (NotreDame, 1683-1799); (ii) followed by British colonization (Saint-Matthew, 1771-1860). Both
periods and locations also had the highest concentration of slaves, indicating their potential
social status.
This research highlights the benefits of using temporal bone and geometric morphometrics to
document, inter- and intra-group variation at the phenotypic level and investigate colonial
variability along the St. Lawrence Valley. These new methodological tools offer alternatives to
taphonomic constraints while minimizing the manipulation of archaeological human remains.
Combined with ethical approaches based on reciprocity, these democratic methods make it
possible to engage descendant communities more actively in the field of bioarcheology,
ultimately with the aim of easing repatriation and rematriation requests -especially in the case
of individuals without precise documentation or archaeological context
Immobile History: An Interview with Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
No full textThe author spoke with renowned French historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie about Computers, Geography and History. Le Roy Ladurie was the "standard bearer" of the third generation of the French Annales school, a group of French intellectuals that combined different disciplines such as history, geography, anthropology, and more to delve into social history
Statistical distance as a measure of physiological dysregulation is largely robust to variation in its biomarker composition.
No full textPhysiological dysregulation may underlie aging and many chronic diseases, but is challenging to quantify because of the complexity of the underlying systems. Recently, we described a measure of physiological dysregulation, DM, that uses statistical distance to assess the degree to which an individual's biomarker profile is normal versus aberrant. However, the sensitivity of DM to details of the calculation method has not yet been systematically assessed. In particular, the number and choice of biomarkers and the definition of the reference population (RP, the population used to define a "normal" profile) may be important. Here, we address this question by validating the method on 44 common clinical biomarkers from three longitudinal cohort studies and one cross-sectional survey. DMs calculated on different biomarker subsets show that while the signal of physiological dysregulation increases with the number of biomarkers included, the value of additional markers diminishes as more are added and inclusion of 10-15 is generally sufficient. As long as enough markers are included, individual markers have little effect on the final metric, and even DMs calculated from mutually exclusive groups of markers correlate with each other at r~0.4-0.5. We also used data subsets to generate thousands of combinations of study populations and RPs to address sensitivity to differences in age range, sex, race, data set, sample size, and their interactions. Results were largely consistent (but not identical) regardless of the choice of RP; however, the signal was generally clearer with a younger and healthier RP, and RPs too different from the study population performed poorly. Accordingly, biomarker and RP choice are not particularly important in most cases, but caution should be used across very different populations or for fine-scale analyses. Biologically, the lack of sensitivity to marker choice and better performance of younger, healthier RPs confirm an interpretation of DM physiological dysregulation and as an emergent property of a complex system
Emmanuel B. Dongala
No full textA chapter on Congolese writer Emmanuel B. Dongala in the Dictionary of Literary Biography. (Vol. 360: Contemporary Arican Writers). --author-supplied descriptio
Can reforming global institutions help developing countries share more in the benefits from globalization?
No full textGlobalization could significantly expand trade, international investment, and technological advances, but the gains from global integration have been unevenly distributed across and within nations. Greater global interdependence has also brought greater macroeconomic volatility, resulting in several serious financial crises in the second half of the 1990s. The global matrix of Bretton Woods and United Nations institutions that developed starting in the 1940s, formed under a different balance of power, in a world of fixed exchange rates and limited capital mobility. Since the 1960s regional financial institutions have emerged because of the greater autonomy of different regions and the greater financial needs of development. The author reviews different proposals for reform of the international financial institutions and changes in the roles of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. He highlights the implications for developing countries of (1) Policy conditionality. (2) The countercyclical role of multilaterals'lending. (3) Greater lending to middle-income than to low-income developing countries. (3) Access to liquidity at times of crisis. (4) Mechanisms for giving low-income countries a greater voice in IMF and World Bank decisionmaking. The author streses the overlapping responsibilities of the Bretton Woods and regional financial institutions and the need to reassess the allocation of responsibilities and to develop better coordination mechanisms between these institutions. Those designing institutional reform must consider the corporate capabilities of each type of institution. The corporate cultures of global and regional institutions differ. So does the kind of knowledge they generate and disseminate, and so do patterns of interactions with, and mechanisms for representation of, client countries.Finally, the author calls attention to the need to harmonize national and global growth-oriented policies in a way that reduces volatility and promotes social equity.Environmental Economics&Policies,Governance Indicators,Financial Intermediation,Economic Theory&Research,Banks&Banking Reform
A formação de professores em e para direitos humanos na perspectiva filosófica de Emmanuel Levinas
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciências da Educação, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação, Florianópolis, 2013.O presente trabalho tem como proposta refletir a formação de professores em e para direitos humanos na perspectiva filosófica de Emmanuel Levinas. Este autor propõe a ética como filosofia primeira, uma vez que a concebe como resposta à interpelação do Outro. Ela seria um caminho para resistir à ontologização e, consequentemente, à totalização. A ética levinasiana origina-se no reconhecimento da alteridade do Outro, sendo o rosto a manifestação da singularidade de cada pessoa, motivo pelo qual todo ser humano é possuidor de dignidade, um dos fundamentos dos direitos humanos. A relação ética Eu-Outro, bem como com terceiros (estrangeiro) é assimétrica, pois, desestabiliza e exige dos sujeitos dialogantes abertura, acolhimento e responsabilidade, emergindo daí a necessidade de pensar uma política na perspectiva da outridade. Portanto, uma proposta formativa pensada e articulada a partir do reconhecimento da alteridade faz irromper o inesperado, o imprevisível da vida que viria questionar concepções e práticas formativas que subordinam e colonizam o Outro, reduzindo-o ao Mesmo. Neste sentido, ainda que se reconheça a complexidade quanto à fundamentação filosófica dos direitos humanos, é intransferível a responsabilidade de pensar a formação de professores em uma perspectiva de uma pedagogia da alteridade, justificando-se assim a relevância da abordagem a qual nos propomos. Por isso, uma formação em e para direitos humanos na perspectiva filosófica de Levinas tem de ter seu fundamento na interpelação ética do Outro, cujos encaminhamentos curriculares e metodológicos se constituem em respostas aos seus apelos. Esta formação não possui encerramento em uma cerimônia de colação de grau, pois se caracteriza como inacabamento, incompletude e constante abertura à novidade que se manifesta no rosto do Outro, exigindo outros tempos, espaços, currículos e metodologias para processos formativos emancipadores. Este trabalho é de cunho qualitativo e está organizado em cinco momentos: no primeiro apresentamos o contexto e a introdução à temática da formação e dos direitos humanos; no segundo momento, tratamos da complexidade que entorna o conceito de direitos humanos; no terceiro, abordamos o pensamento levinasiano, especialmente as categorias alteridade, responsabilidade e interpelação ética; no quarto momento, refletimos os desafios e possibilidades de pensar a formação de professores na perspectiva da ética e pedagogia da alteridade e; finalizamos com algumas considerações que percebemos como necessárias, reconhecendo várias aberturas para possibilidades futuras de pesquisas, estudos e reflexões. Abstract : This present work aims to reflect the teachers education in and for human rights in the philosophical perspective of Emmanuel Levinas. This author proposes ethics as first philosophy, once conceives it as a response to the interpellation of the Other. It would be a way to resist to the ontologization and hence aggregation. Levinasian ethics originates in the recognition of the otherness of the Other, being the face, the manifestation of the uniqueness of each person, which is because every human being is possessed of dignity, one of the foundations of human rights. The ethical relation me - Other, and with third parties (foreign) is asymmetric because destabilizes and requires from the subjects dialoguers openness, acceptance and responsibility, emerging hence the need for a policy thinking from the perspective of othernes. Therefore, a training proposal conceived and articulated from the recognition of otherness does erupt the unexpected , the unpredictable of life and it would come to question concepts and training practices that subordinate and colonize the Other , reducing him to the Same . In this sense, although it recognizes the complexity as the philosophical foundation of human rights, is non-transferable responsibility of thinking about teacher education in a perspective of alterity pedagogy, thus justifying the relevance of the approach which we propose. Therefore, training in and for human rights in Levinas philosophical perspective, must have its foundation in ethical interpellation of the Other, whose curricular and methodological referrals constitute responses to their requests. This training does not have closure in a graduation ceremony, because it characterizes itself as unfinished, incompleteness and constant opening to novelty manifested on the face of the Other, requiring other times, spaces, curricula and methodology for emancipatory educational processes. This work is a qualitative one and it is organized into five parts: the first presents the context and introduction to the theme of education and human rights, in the second moment, we deal with the complexity that spills the concept of human rights, on the third, approach the Levinasian thought, especially the categories otherness, responsibility and ethical interpellation, in the fourth part, we reflect on the challenges and possibilities of thinking about teacher education from the ethics perspective and otherness pedagogy and finalizing with some considerations that we have perceived as necessary, recognizing several openings for future research possibilities studies and reflections
The relative efficiency of public schools in developing countries
No full textWith the demand for schooling expected to increase and the tightening of fiscal constraints, changes will be necessary in order to meet ambitious educational targets. Instead of charging fees for public schools, a more cost-effective option is to rely on private schools to handle the growing demand for education. Private school students generally out perform public school students on standardized math and language tests. This finding takes into account that private school students usually come from slightly more advantaged backgrounds than their public school counterparts. In addition, school expenditure data show that unit costs for private schools are dramatically lower than those of public schools. The comparative advantage of private schools has important policy implications for public schools. Some efficiency gains can come from replicating the input mix of private schools. Also effective would be to mimic the organizational incentive structures of private schools.Teaching and Learning,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Gender and Education,Primary Education,Education Reform and Management
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