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Introduction a "Iraq After 2003: When Trauma Becomes Art. Myth, History, and Literature"
No full textThe article aims at introducing the volume "Iraq After 2003: When Trauma Becomes Art. Myth, History, and Literature", edited By Ada Barbaro. The volume aims to provide lenses that examine, from various angles, a country, Iraq, in the aftermath of the quintessential trauma of its contemporary history, namely, 2003.The volume is thus a collection of "narratives", of
narrative acts that render the relationship between reality and its discourse almost oxymoronic. The present work, born in the wake of the conference «Iraq After 2003: When Trauma Becomes Art. Myth, History, and Literature», is therefore published as an outcome of the scientific project "Forms, Languages, and [Con]texts of Tàrìkh: Writing and Rewriting History in Iraq", of which the author of these pages is the Principal Investigator
Daniele Barbaro and the Foundation of the Botanical Garden for the University of Padua
No full textWhen in the Renaissance the Venetian authorities decided to establish the Botanical Garden at the University of Padua in order to carry out experimental studies directly on plants, they entrusted Daniele Barbaro with the role of administrative supervisor. This essay, by comparing the Garden as built with documentary information and historical records, advances the hypothesis of a role not exclusively focused on economic aspects but also on considerations of design. Although information is scarce, the author reasonably speculates that Daniele Barbaro, probably assisted by other scholars and botanical experts, may have conceived the Hortus Sphaericus of Padua, an original design that was never completed
The very short story in the time of revolution. al-Mihmāz (the Spur) and the Syrian author Zakariyā Tāmir
No full textThe mass protests swept through the Middle East in early 2011 underlined the role of modern information-communication technologies (ICT). From a literary point of view, the “Arab Spring” inevitably marked the birth of a new model of writing, characterised by a more participatory, global and immediate manner of expression that could be defined as Humanism 2.0. In this context, we may insert the experimental writing by the famous Syrian author Zakariyā Tāmir: on the al-Mihmāz (The Spur) Facebook page the writer begins a literary journey publishing daily posts and explicitly supporting the Syrian revolution. This contribution intends to analyse a few of Tāmir’s most significant posts published on Facebook. The time span is 2012, just one year after the Syrian revolution: thanks to aphorisms, posts and short stories, a new literary pact with potential readers is inaugurated, within a phenomenon that we can call al-adab al-raqmī (digital literature
Zeus, Alessandro e barbaro a Sagalasso
No full textZeus, Alessandro e barbaro a Sagalasso. - In: Lisippo / progetto di Paolo Moreno. - Roma : Fabbri, 1995. - S. 169-17
Influence of Australian Black Summer smoke in Antarctic aerosol collected on board during the R/V Laura Bassi first campaign in the Ross Sea
No full textBiomass burning has been recognized as the largest source of primary fine carbonaceous particles, influencing the climate system and the Earth’s solar balance. During the 2019-2020 Australian bushfire season, and particularly from December to January, a lot of wildfires impacted the South-East of Australia, affecting local air quality. The huge amount of emitted smoke influenced stratospheric temperature over Antarctica and stratospheric aerosol optical properties (Damany-Pearce et al., 2022; Tencé et al., 2022). Long-range atmospheric transport to Antarctica and South America was also hypothesized.
Levoglucosan is an anhydrosugar widely recognized as a key tracer of biomass combustion, because it can be only produced by the combustion of cellulose. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are organic compounds typically produced during combustion processes and are known to be present in wildfire smoke. In this work, levoglucosan and PAHs, together with other complementary sugars, were determined in aerosol samples collected during the XXXV Italian Expedition in Antarctica on board the R/V Laura Bassi from 6th January to 16th February 2020, at the end of the so-called Australian Black Summer. Total suspended particles (TSP) with a diameter >1 mm were collected on a circular quartz fiber filter (Filtros Anoia S.A. Filter-Lab, Barcelona, Spain) using a TE 5000 High-Volume Air Sampler (Tisch Environmental Inc., Cleves, OH, USA). The sampling system was connected to a wind control system, to avoid contamination from the ship. For this reason, the sampling lasted between 2 and 7 days and was carried out mainly in the coastal area of the Ross Sea.
The results clearly indicate a contribution of Australian wildfires on Antarctic aerosol composition, by comparison with the detected levels of the same compounds during previous sampling campaigns in the Ross Sea area (Barbaro et al., 2016; Zangrando et al., 2016). Back trajectories indicate a local source of aerosol, confirming the hypothesis of long-term persistence of smoke over the globe, with a long-lasting influence on general air quality. Together with biomass burning tracers, a marine biogenic component was also identified using other chemical tracers, such as monosaccharides.
Barbaro, E., Zangrando, R., Kirchgeorg, T., Bazzano, A., Illuminati, S., Annibaldi, A., Rella, S., Truzzi, C., Grotti, M., Ceccarini, A., Malitesta, C., Scarponi, G., Gambaro, A., 2016. An integrated study of the chemical composition of Antarctic aerosol to investigate natural and anthropogenic sources. Environmental Chemistry 13(5), 867-876. https://doi.org/10.1071/EN16056.
Damany-Pearce, L., Johnson, B., Wells, A., Osborne, M., Allan, J., Belcher, C., Jones, A., Haywood, J., 2022. Australian wildfires cause the largest stratospheric warming since Pinatubo and extends the lifetime of the Antarctic ozone hole. Scientific Reports 12, Article number: 12665. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-15794-3.
Tencé, F., Jumelet, J., Bekki, S., Khaykin, S., Sarkissian, A., Keckhut, P., 2022. Australian Black Summer Smoke Observed by Lidar at the French Antarctic Station Dumont d’Urville. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 127(4), Article number: e2021JD035349. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD035349.
Zangrando, R., Barbaro, E., Vecchiato, M., Kehrwald, N.M., Barbante, C., Gambaro, A., 2016. Levoglucosan and phenols in Antarctic marine, coastal and plateau aerosols. Science of The Total Environment 544, 606-616. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.11.166
Iraq after 2003: when trauma becomes art. Myth, history, and literature
No full textThe volume aims to provide lenses that examine, from various angles, a country, Iraq, in the aftermath of the quintessential trauma of its contemporary history, namely, 2003.The volume is thus a collection of "narratives", of
narrative acts that render the relationship between reality and its discourse almost oxymoronic. The present work, born in the wake of the conference «Iraq After 2003: When Trauma Becomes Art. Myth, History, and Literature», is therefore published as an outcome of the scientific project "Forms, Languages, and [Con]texts of Tàrìkh: Writing and Rewriting History in Iraq", of which the author of these pages is the Principal Investigator
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