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Laura Valentini wins a Philip Leverhulme Prize for her research
Full text linkDr Laura Valentini has been awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Politics and International Relations. The Philip Leverhulme Prizes recognise the achievement of ‘outstanding’ and ‘exceptionally promising’ researchers whose work has ‘attracted international recognition’, making up to thirty awards of £100,000 a year across a range of academic disciplines. Laura tells us more about her research and how the award will enable her to embark on new projects
Laura Valentini wins a Philip Leverhulme Prize for her research
No full textDr Laura Valentini has been awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Politics and International Relations. The Philip Leverhulme Prizes recognise the achievement of ?outstanding? and ?exceptionally promising? researchers whose work has ?attracted international recognition?, making up to thirty awards of pounds100,000 a year across a range of academic disciplines. Laura tells us more about her research and how the award will enable her to embark on new projects
12 février 2019 : Laura Valentini
No full textLa quatrième séance de l’année du séminaire de philosophie politique normative aura lieu mardi 12 février 2019, de 17h à 19h, à l’EHESS, 105 bvd Raspail (Paris, 6e), en salle 2. Nous aurons le plaisir d’accueillir Laura Valentini (London School of Economic) qui interviendra sur le thème : « Respect for Persons and the Moral Force of Socially Constructed Norms ». La discussion portera sur le texte qui peut être téléchargé ici. Les participant(e)s sont invité(e)s à en prendre connaissanc..
Landscapes of Central Italy through Science, Poetry and Music. A perspective for educating to the planet sustainability.
No full textBorn from a desire to promote the Italian landscape by integrating its physical aesthetic with its cultural and artistic
heritage, we develop a story about the landscape told in popular science, and supported by visual stimulations,
poetry and ancient music. Our work proceeds through two different routes. The first route analyzes the landscape
from the scientific point of view trying to understand how it evolves and responds in response to changes in
independent variables. The second path examines the landscape from a perspective more closely related to the
visual and emotional impact that a place evokes, its history, its cultural significance, and perception of its fragility.
The latter is perhaps a more complex path, more intimate, which develop fully only through the intersection of
different forms of language, linked to specific arts.
Three different disciplines focused on the same site, the combination of which results in an emotional experience
where the encounter between different languages becomes an expression of the place. Among the many
amazing landscapes of Italy, we focus on three known sites from the hystorical region of Montefeltro, in central
Italy: "The flatiron of Petrano Mount", "The Stones of Montefeltro", "The sea-cliff of San Bartolo".
Since a few years we have created a team of five researchers-artists, called “TerreRare” (Rare Earth Elements),
whose mission is the desire to promote the gorgeous Italian landscape. Olivia Nesci, geomorphologist, begins
this story analyzing the processes and the "forces" that have created and modified the landscape over time. Laura
Valentini, a geologist and a musician, through the musical language, try to reproduce the emotional impact of the
site, by searching for a piece of ancient music, composed for harpsichord. The choice of the musical instrument
and the historical period is not accidental: the harpsichord has a punchy and gritty tone that clearly expresses the
"strength" of the landscape early music aptly suited to represent natural forms whose history began millions of
years ago. Lorenzo Carnevali, artist from Urbino, is the poet that has expressly dedicated verses to these places,
in an effort to grab that balance which summarizes the History and Nature. The poems are performed by Maxx
Brizigotti, eclectic actor and director, deeply linked to his territory. Music and verses are the soundtrack of videos
made by Stefano Baiocchi that, by using beautiful images of these places, creatively interprets the science, art
and history. Our purpose is to educate to a new perception of the place, starting from its beauty and arriving to a
knowledge of its problems and weakness
THREE KNOWN MARCHEAN GEOMORPHOSITES PRESENTED USING GEOMORPHOLOGY, POETRY AND ANCIENT MUSIC. A NEW PERSPECTIVE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE AREA.
Full text linkBorn from a desire to promote the Marche landscape by integrating its physical aesthetic with its cultural and artistic heritage, we develop a story about the landscape told in popular science, and supported by visual stimulations, poetry and music. Our work proceeds through two different routes. The first route analyzes the landscape from the scientific point of view trying to understand how it evolves in response to climatic, tectonic and anthropogenic changes. The second path examines the landscape from a perspective more closely related to the visual and emotional impact that a place evokes, its history, its cultural significance, and perception of its fragility. The latter is perhaps a more complex path, more intimate, which develop fully only through the intersection of different forms of language, linked to specific arts.
Three different disciplines focused on the same site, the combination of which results in an emotional experience where the encounter between different languages becomes an expression of the forms of relief. Among the many sites of the Marches of interest, we focus on three known geomorphosites: "The natural arch of Fondarca", "The Stones of Montefeltro", "The cliff of San Bartolo". Lorenzo Carnevali, artist from Urbino, is the poet that has expressly dedicated verses to these places. Laura Valentini, a geologist and a musician, try to reproduce the emotional impact of the site, by searching for a piece of ancient music, composed for harpsichord. The choice of the musical instrument and the historical period is not accidental: the harpsichord has a punchy and gritty tone that clearly expresses the "strength" of the landscape; early music aptly suited to represent natural forms whose history began millions of years ago
Environmental regulation, multinational companies and international competitiveness
No full textConcerns have been expressed that in a global market place with mobile capital, national governments will have incentives to set weak environmental policies (“environmental dumping”) to protect the international competitiveness of their domestic firms, that these incentives are particularly strong in industries where plants may be relatively footloose, so that governments are concerned to prevent “capital flight”, and that footloose plants are particularly associated with multinational firms. It is then often suggested that appropriate policy responses would be to seek to harmonise environmental regulations or impose minimum standards for environmental regulations. In this paper we set out these concerns in terms of a number of more precisely made claims and then review recent developments in economic analysis (including some of our own work) and empirical evidence to show that the claims cannot be generally sustained and that the suggested policies may be harmful. However, devising more appropriate policies is by no means straightforward
Environmental liability and the capital structure of firms
No full textA number of countries have recently introduced legislation which holds polluters liable for the costs of cleaning up environmental damage they have caused. While in principle this gives polluters appropriate incentives to reduce the risk of environmental damage, these incentives are weakened if polluters enjoy limited liability and can avoid paying large damages through bankruptcy. A solution which has been suggested is to extend liability also to lenders such as banks. This in turn leads to fears that holding banks liable for environmental risks could substantially reduce the use of bank debt by firms. In this paper we analyse both theoretically and empirically the impact of different environmental liability regimes on the capital structure of firms, and in particular how much bank debt they will use. We use US industry-level data to estimate a reduced-form model of bank borrowing by polluters. We show that the introduction of environmental liability only on firms caused bank borrowing to increase, but when liability was extended to banks, borrowings returned to a level only slightly higher than with no liability. Our findings suggest that extending environmental liability to banks does not have drastic consequences for bank lending to firms
Correspondence: Laura Kephart and Arthur Stupka
No full textThis 1936 correspondence, between Laura Kephart (Mrs. Horace Kephart) and Arthur Stupka, concerns a possible Kephart Memorial. Horace Kephart (1862-1931) was a noted naturalist, woodsman, journalist, and author and promoter of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Arthur Stupka (1905-1999) was the first park naturalist to work at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Mindscapes: Laura Riding's poetry and poetics /
Full text linkTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão.Esta tese propõe uma leitura revisionista da poesia contemporânea através do exame do caso de um dos mais esquecidos escritores norte-americanos do século XX: Laura (Riding) Jackson (1901-1991). O objetivo é demonstrar que Riding não apenas possuía uma poética definida e singular, mas que ela permanece uma das instâncias mais extremas e paradoxais do modernismo anglo-americano, a ponto de Riding abandonar a escrita da poesia em 1938. Recorrendo a conceitos de "formação do cânone" bem como às noções de "discurso" e "função do autor", em Foucault, investigo a construção do cânone da poesia moderna anglo-americana, recuperando o contexto e as circunstâncias da ocultação de Riding. Enquanto cubro os "discursos" poéticos em circulação na primeira metade do século XX-o "imagismo" de Pound, a "dissociação da sensibilidade", "impersonalidade" e "tradição" de Eliot, a "unidade orgância" e "ambigüidade" da Nova Crítica-ofereço um panorama crítico de modernismos alternativos sendo articulados à época. Minha intenção é demonstrar que os poemas de Riding são expressões vigorosas de um escritor para quem "a mente pensando se torna a força ativa do poema", para usar a apta formulação de Charles Bernstein. Entre minhas descobertas sobre as várias e complexas razões que levaram à não-canonização de Riding estão a hegemonia da Nova Crítica, o exílio voluntário de Riding da cena literária (onde são feitas ou desfeitas as reputações), sua recusa em ser antologiada, bem como em ser explicada em termos críticos que não os dela. Todos esses fatores, mais a "dificuldade" de sua poesia, contribuíram para fazer de Riding "a maior poeta esquecida da poesia norte-americana", como escreveu Kenneth Rexroth. Ajudado pelos insights de dois importantes críticos de poesia norte-americana, Charles Bernstein e Marjorie Perloff, defendo que a "poesia da mente" de Riding-onde o que está em jogo é que o que pensamos ser a nossa realidade-representa uma mudança radical no paradigma da poética modernista: de uma poesia centrada na imagem para uma poesia centrada na linguagem. Focalizando a experiência consciente e o tempo duracional do pensamento presente em seus poemas, concluo que as "pensagens" de Riding têm o objetivo preciso de constatar um fato universal: enquanto seres humanos e pensantes, estamos numa condição permanente chamada linguagem
Pobreza global o desigualdad doméstica. Una crítica a las propuestas de David Miller y Laura Valentini
No full textEn este trabajo cuestiono las razones que ofrecen David Miller y Laura Valentini para afirmar que el deber de reducir la desigualdad dentro del propio Estado tiene prioridad sobre el deber de reducir la pobreza extrema global. Según Miller, los deberes globales, a diferencia de los domésticos, no pueden legítimamente hacerse cumplir mediante la fuerza, y por esa razón son meros deberes humanitarios que tienen menor peso que los deberes domésticos, que son deberes de justicia. Según Valentini, el deber de reducir la desigualdad doméstica tiene prioridad sobre los deberes humanitarios globales porque el primero es un deber de no dañar, mientras que los segundos son meros deberes de ayudar. El problema principal de ambas propuestas consiste en que fallan en su intento de mostrar que los deberes de reducir la pobreza extrema global no son también deberes de justicia
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