Ambiguous Longings: Nostalgia as the Interplay between Self, Time and World

This article explores nostalgia’s multi-facetted character by linking its discursive and experiential dimensions. In a first move I highlight its importance as an analytical category that grew out of a very particular history of knowledge. Focusing on a specific case that played a crucial role in the two distinct phases of nostalgia as a concept I show how it has come to be inextricably linked to ideas of displacement and loss. In a second move I juxtapose this metaphorical treatment of loss and nostalgia with a focus on the lifeworld of one individual who has experienced physical displacement. In focusing on two particular nostalgic moments in her life, I sketch the contours of an anthropological phenomenology of nostalgia

Religion as Social Reality. A Take on the Emic–Etic Debate in Light of John Searle’s Philosophy of Society

In this article I argue that the shift from a private to a public–social understanding of religion raises new ontological and epistemological questions for the scientific study of religion\s. These questions are deeply related to three central features of the emic– etic debate, namely the problems of intentionality, objectivity, and comparison. Focusing on these interrelated issues, I discuss the potential of John Searle’s philoso- phy of society for the scientific study of religion\s. Considering the role of intentional- ity at the social level, I present Searle’s concept of “social ontology” and discuss its epistemological implications. To clarify Searle’s position regarding the objectivity of the social sciences, I propose a heuristic model contrasting different stances within the scientific study of religion\s. Finally, I explore some problematic aspects of Searle’s views for a comparative study of religion\s, and sketch a solution within his frame- work. I shall argue that a distinction between the epistemological and ontological dimensions of religious affairs would help clarify the issues at stake in the past and future of the emic–etic debate.

Displaced Stories: The Interplay of Telling and Being in the Face of Displacement

Throughout the last decades, narrative approaches have become quintessential tools for understanding crisis and displacement. While a focus on individual stories allows for a deep look into the particularity of being-displaced, it simultaneously runs the risk of romanticising the outcome (the life story) of what is indeed the product of a rather complex process (the telling of the life story). In this paper I will discuss a change of perspectives: Rather than laying the focus on life stories as texts, I will suggest to shift the attention towards the existential dynamics of storytelling. By zooming in on my longstanding collaboration with a Somali woman in Melbourne, Australia, I will map out the interplay of telling and being that marked this process. Focusing on one particular storytelling moment, I will suggest the importance of appreciating the intersubjective force of storytelling. Rather than melting the set of stories into a coherent “life story”, I will look at the storytelling moment in its lived messiness. In doing so, I will sketch out its potential to shed light both on the teller’s hopes, imaginations and ambitions, and on the reality of being part of a wider world that often contradicts and shatters these hopes.

Decision Support Models for Composing and Navigating through e-Learning Objects

Libraries of learning objects may serve as basis for deriving course offerings that are customized to the needs of different learning communities or even individuals. Several ways of organizing this course composition process are discussed. Course composition needs a clear understanding of the dependencies between the learning objects. Therefore we discuss the metadata for object relationships proposed in different standardization projects and especially those suggested in the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. Based on these metadata we construct adjacency matrices and graphs. We show how Gozinto-type computations can be used to determine direct and indirect prerequisites for certain learning objects. The metadata may also be used to define integer programming models which can be applied to support the instructor in formulating his specifications for selecting objects or which allow a computer agent to automatically select learning objects. Such decision models could also be helpful for a learner navigating through a library of learning objects. We also sketch a graph-based procedure for manual or automatic sequencing of the learning objects.

The Character of Christian-Muslim Encounter: Essays in Honour of David Thomas

The Character of Christian-Muslim Encounter is a Festschrift in honour of David Thomas, Professor of Christianity and Islam, and Nadir Dinshaw Professor of Inter Religious Relations, at the University of Birmingham, UK. The Editors have put together a collection of over 30 contributions from colleagues of Professor Thomas that commences with a biographical sketch and representative tribute provided by a former doctoral student, and comprises a series of wide-ranging academic papers arranged to broadly reflect three dimensions of David Thomas’ academic and professional work – studies in and of Islam; Christian-Muslim relations; the Church and interreligious engagement. These are set in the context of a focussed theme – the character of Christian-Muslim encounters – and cast within a broad chronological framework.

The Rise and Fall of the Doctor-Patient Relationship

This talk will outline the history of the doctor-patient relationship in the West. It will touch briefly on medicine in Greek and Roman antiquity, using key texts from Hippocrates and Galen. It will also sketch the changing balance of the religious and the secular in medieval medicine. Finally, it will outline the rise of the modern personal doctor-patient relationship in the 18th century and analyze the chronic dissatisfaction that settled over relations between doctors and patients in the last quarter of the 20th century.

1906 Polk's Medical Register and Directory of North America (Texas Portion Only)

List of Physicians and Surgeons arranged by location, giving post office address with population and location, the School practiced, date and college of graduation, all the existing and extinct medical colleges in North America, with locations, officers, number of professors, lecturers, demonstrators, etc., the various medical societies, penal, reformatory and charitable state institutions, hospitals, sanitariums, dispensaries, asylums and other medical institutions, boards of health, boards of medical examiners, health officers at principal points, the laws of registration and other laws relating to the profession, medical journals with names of editors, frequency of publication and subscription rates, medical libraries, a therapeutic classification of American health resorts, mineral springs, official list of officers of the medical departments of the U.S. Army, Navy and Marine Hospital Service, the U.S. Indian Service, roster of examining surgeons of the U.S. Pension Department, a descriptive sketch of each state, territory and province, embodying such matters as location, boundary, extent in miles and acres, latitude and longitude, statistics relating to climate, temperature, rate of mortality, etc. Full particulars of all national and inter-state associations and societies relating to medicine and surgery, and an INDEX TO THE PHYSICIANS OF THE UNITED STATES. Arranged alphabetically, with the number of the page and column in which the name appears.

1902 Polk's Medical Register and Directory of the United States and Canada (Texas portion only)

List of Physicians and Surgeons arranged by states and provinces, giving post office address with population and location, the School practiced, date and college of graduation, all the existing and extinct medical colleges in the United States and Canada, with locations, officers, number of professors, lecturers, demonstrators, etc., the various medical societies, state prisons, hospitals, sanitariums, dispensaries, asylums and other medical institutions, boards of health, boards of medical examiners, a synopsis of the laws of registration and other laws relating to the profession, medical journals with names of editors, frequency of publication and subscription rates, medical libraries, mineral springs, official list of officers of the medical departments of the U.S. Army, Navy and Marine Hospital Service, roster of examining surgeons of the U.S. Pension Department, a descriptive sketch of each state, territory and province, embodying such matters as location, boundary, extent in miles and acres, latitude and longitude, statistics relating to climate, temperature, rate of mortality, number of deaths from consumption, etc. full particulars of all national associations and societies relating to medicine and surgery, and an INDEX TO THE PHYSICIANS OF THE UNITED STATES. Arranged alphabetically, with the number of the page on which the name appears.

La poética teatral de Sacha Barrera Oro

Un balance del desarrollo del teatro durante el siglo XX arroja como dato fundamental, quizás como punto decisivo, la consabida dialéctica entre texto y escena. En la actualidad, sin embargo, al menos en la Argentina, parecen advertirse los signos de una síntesis y se propagan los escritores que ponen en escena sus textos, los actores que colaboran en la escritura, los directores que deciden asumirse dramaturgos al publicar su texto luego de la representación. El propósito de este trabajo es estudiar la producción de Sacha Barrera Oro, la cual, de reciente aparición en el campo teatral mendocino, aúna la labor dramatúrgica y la directorial. Tras una breve reseña biográfica, se deslindan los principios fundamentales de su poética teatral.

La psicología en el saber carolingio : el tema de la mente en Alcuino de York

In this paper the author analyses the concept of the mind in the Alcuin’s treatise De ratione animae. Following the teaching of the Fathers, specially Augustine and Isidore of Sevilla, Alcuin of York comprehends the mind as a nominal part of the soul and as its highest peak, the way in which the man is a God’s image. Finally is presented an sketch of the Alcuin’s knowledge theory as exposed in this treatise.

Notas sobre el recorrido de los enfoques institucionales y sus grupos en las universidades argentinas

Se presenta la alocución realizada en ocasión de la inauguración del Centro “Fernando Ulloa" en la Facultad de Ciencias Políticas de la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Incluye breves noticias del inicio y el desarrollo de los enfoques institucionales en Argentina, referencias al grupo de profesores que han creado el Centro y una semblanza de Fernando Ulloa, uno de los creadores de la psicología institucional argentina recientemente fallecido.

Borges, Cortázar, el galache y la gurupa sureña. Apostilla al debate sobre el (anti)hispanismo en Argentina

Una historia del Hispanismo en Argentina no estaría completa, tal como ha demostrado José Luis de Diego, sin la larga serie de manifes¬taciones antiespañolas que se registraron desde el siglo XIX hasta el presente. Entre los numerosos integrantes de la lista de reconocidos intelectuales que polemizaron con la antigua metrópolis, se encuentra Julio Cortázar, quien en distintos momentos de su carrera expresó a través de la ficción sus divergencias con una estética y una forma de concebir la literatura caducas que identificaba con España. Alentando el propósito de mantener vivo el debate sobre el tema iniciado en el número 5 de Olivar, la siguiente nota desmonta las operaciones que lleva a cabo el autor de en un capítulo de Un tal Lucas análisis detenido del fragmento así como de las relaciones que tiende hacia otras obras del mismo escritor, me ha permitido esbozar una hipótesis sobre la construcción del antihispanismo cortazariano.

Comunicología e investigación de las prácticas deportivas. Elementos hacia una comunicometodología del deporte

Texto en que se propone en forma sintética un esquema de trabajo para la investigación de las prácticas deportivas, desde la perspectiva de la Comunicología, como ciencia, y de la Comunicometodología, como Ingeniería social. El texto está construido en dos partes. En la primera se presentan algunos elementos de trabajo sobre el deporte desde la perspectiva de la Comunicología. En la segunda se presentan algunos elementos de trabajo sobre el deporte desde la perspectiva de la Comunicometodología.

Paisaje : Imagen, entorno, ensamble

Aun reconociendo su situación mediadora entre cultura y naturaleza, tanto las disciplinas estéticas como las ciencias sociales suelen reducir el paisaje, o bien a una mera construcción de la mirada que lo abarca o bien al resultado material que la intervención humana deja al "culturizar" su entorno natural. Este ensayo argumenta que, en cambio, tenemos que volver a pensar al paisaje como el proceso que va de la imagen al entorno y viceversa, ensamblando lo humano con lo no-humano. De esta manera, se propone esbozar un marco teórico para historizar el paisaje en la modernidad latinoamericana.

La representación literaria del caos y la re-unificación de las Dos Tierras : Breve esbozo de dos textos literarios del Reino Medio

Parte del conocimiento y la comprensión que poseemos de las sociedades del mundo antiguo procede del análisis de los textos literarios. El eje estructurador es el derrumbe de los valores y las instituciones que organizaron la vida quienes habitaron el Antiguo Egipto en el paso del Reino Antiguo al Reino Medio. Analizaremos la Profecía de Neferty ylas Admoniciones de Ipuwer. Habrían sido elaborados durante el Reino Medio y poseerían connotaciones propagandísticas de legitimación y justificación de la toma del poder por parte de Amenemhat I y sus sucesores. Elaborados dentro de los círculos palatinos, poseen una marcada intencionalidad política