750 research outputs found
"United in Diversity": The Church's Experience and the European Union's Identity Motto. European Diversity and Autonomy Papers. EDAP 2/2008
Full text linkThe paper analyses a potential relationship between religion and politics in the context of the EU’s motto, unity in diversity. It’s aimed at verifying the thesis that claims the European Union’s identity motto has its roots in the ecclesial model of identity. The following analysis is a two–stage one. First, it considers whether the Church’s and the EU’s respective “unities in diversity” mean a similar thing; secondly, it elaborates the channels (cultural, ecclesial and political) through which the ecclesial model has been transferred into European politics. In the last part of the contribution, the author considers the significance of the ecclesial experience for the current European integration debates
Experiences Using Large Scale Video Walls for Distance Education
No full textWe describe our experiences building and using the Rutgers Videowall, a low-cost telepresence system that has been used teaching 15 courses and colloquia. By relaxing typical spatial telepresence features, such as background continuity, we greatly reduced costs and gained flexibility in the rooms it could be deployed in. The lower costs and room flexibility enabled academic departments to use the wall, in contrast to traditional telepresence systems which remained inaccessible. We found that the Videowall’s spatial distortions did not have a significant impact on useability, as our initial survey results show that students had an overall positive experience.Technical report DCS-tr-72
Self-Assembly: Be What You Aren’t
No full textBodybuilders is a photographic project by London and Milan based photographer and DJ, Alien that investigates themes of identity, extravaganza and new means of self-expression by documenting 30 of the most intriguing club performers in the UK.
Sitting at a crossroads between visual and performing arts, gender studies, queer activism and positive affirmation, Bodybuilders shows how bodies can be built, distorted and transformed against the binary of systematic male domination.
Bodybuilders includes introductory texts by co-author of The Xenofeminist Manifesto, Helen Hester and Inferno London’s founder, Lewis G. Burton
Reading acts of narrative appropriation: four instances of fraudulent memoir
No full textPhDThis thesis examines acts of narrative appropriation, the telling of purportedly‘authentic’ life stories by those for whom the stories are not theirs to tell. This
misuse or subversion of genre - the discipline of historical writing and the category
of autobiography - becomes a means for cultural, social and political dissimulation,
and the analysis focuses both on the act: the event, trespass, or ‘theft’ of another’s
life story, and on the cultural meaning that this event reveals. These narrative acts
are approached theoretically through discussions of what it means to be an author, a
reader, and through the consideration of literary and social genre, category and form.
In exploring identities at particular risk of appropriation, this thesis shows how
fraudulent appropriated narratives affect our reading of the world, and in turn
influence our perception of already marginalized social groups. My primary
examples include prostitution ‘narratives’, Native North American ‘memoir,’ and
fraudulent Holocaust survivor ‘testimony,’ with each text providing decoded
evidence of ‘genre-bending’ exhibiting a social and political intent. These works
seek to be read as authentic personal narratives, as autobiography, and that is how
they have been presented to the reader. However, they are imposters – fictional tales
desiring the elevated status of historical authenticity and willing to bend the rules
and contracts of genre to achieve their end. Here the appearance of authenticity is
achieved through the use of cultural and social ‘myth,’ or perceptions of cultural
identity, and as such its fraudulent construction is first and foremost a social act,
with a social and economic motivation. As this thesis concludes, these texts are
most successful when their own political and social ideologies echo and confirm that
of the readership; when their subjects, the fraudulent ‘I’ at the center of the text is
also a performative elaboration of cultural belief
Het literaire motto: een raadsel dat om ontcijfering vraagt. Drie motto's in Bidsprinkaan, 'n ware storie (2005) van André P. Brink [Bespreking van: A.P. Brink (2005) Bidsprinkaan: 'n ware storie]
Full text linkA literary motto can encapsulate various meanings. Not only the quotation itself has significance, but also the source and the cited author thereof. A writer may borrow authority from the chosen author, but even express his or her admiration, indebtedness or kindredness. Belonging to the zone between title and text, Jan Erik Antonsen considers the motto as a particularly suitable place for statements from the author. Klaus Beekman claims that the appeal to mottoes implicates a confirmation of a specific notion of literature. It is even possible to indicate in which literary scene or, in the terms of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, in which "champ" an author evidently wants to participate. In this article three mottoes which André P. Brink selected for his novel Bidsprinkaan (2005) will be discussed in the light of these possibilities
Mutual Recognition, Unemployment and the Welfare State. ENEPRI Working Paper No. 13, September 2002
Full text linkContents: 1. Introduction; 2. Rules and Regulations on Mutual Recognition in the European Union Markets; Mutual recognition, equivalence, competition and harmonisation; "Equal treatment" and "social dumping"; The minimum threshold; 3. Proposals for the Introduction of Mutual Recognition in the European Labour Markets and Welfare States; Existing general rules for social protection in Europe; Health care; Mandatory pension schemes; Supplementary pension schemes; Classical unemployment and labour mobility; Mutual recognition and labour market rigidities: A theoretical model; 4. Policy Conclusions. [From the Introduction]. In the post-war process of its economic and social construction, the European Union has been following different paths ranging between open assimilation to mutual recognition. The former arises in the attempts, either negotiated between partners or proposed by Community institutions, to attain harmonisation, coordination, convergence, strengthened co-operation, through peer pressures or moral suasion, looking at benchmarks or at best practices. These are all forms of mediation, compromise, variable geometry between Member States, which show a certain degree of success, but also many failures, mainly because they are unable to accept unity in diversity making the large, existing heterogeneity in Europe a form not of weakness but of wealth. This is indeed the very gist of the principle of mutual recognition: its symbolic value can be easily perceived simply by thinking that, if the American currency bears the caption "ex pluribus unum", the Euro motto becomes "unity in diversity", as stated in her May 4 2000 speech by Mme. Nicole Fontaine, Chairperson of the European Parliament.... In what follows we will analyse the main reasons for the observed facts concerning the advantages of mutual recognition in three out of the four European freedoms (Section 2). We will then see the disadvantages of using an oposite principle in Union’s labour markets and Welfare States. Some possible extensions of the principle of mutual recognition in these fields will thus be proposed: using a simple theoretical game theory model, the positive implications on labour mobility and on the fight against the European classical unemployment will be shown (Section 3). Section 4 will illustrate some policy conclusions
Severino Boecio y el sentido de la vida
Full text linkThe author argues that Boethius' theory about the sense of living never becomes old. De Consolatione Philosophiae is set in its historical context. It shows stoic and neo platonic sources. The latter support the definition of eternity, the former that of imperturbability. As an end, the author peers into two categories: destiny and providenceEl autor plantea la actualidad de los planteos de Boecio acerca del sentido de la vida desde una relectura y puesta en contexto histórico del De Consolatione Philosophiae. Además de las fuentes neoplatónicas, el A. indaga en las estoicas. Pertenece a las primeras la clásica definición de eternidad y a las segundas la propuesta de imperturbabilidad del sabio. Finalmente, trabaja las categorías de providencia y destino como una distinción de la teodicea boeciana
Chrześcijańska tożsamość olimpijskiego motta citius – altius – fortius
Full text linkIn this article, the author will attempt to show the Christian identity of the citius-altius-fortius motto, which is the basic motto of Olympism. It was introduced during the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 by its creator Pierre de Coubertin. Since then, it has been associated with the Olympic spirit and the idea of sports excellence, as well as commonly known as the principle of athletes striving to achieve the best possible results in the spirit of fair play, breaking records and exceeding their own limits.The author of the motto is the Dominican priest Henri Didon. The words come from Latin and mean faster-higher-stronger
Remembrance to Mother
No full text(Color) The image is mainly poetry text underneath a crest with a Latin motto, a crown, and a cannon. (The English translation reads "in all places in which right and glory lead.") This card is uninscribed and unposted
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