A permanência de Tlaxcala frente ao poderio mexica nos séculos XV e XVI

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Memoria rota, tensión y armonía en crónicas mestizas novohispanas

Las crónicas de la conquista de México ponen en escena una peculiar tensión entre experiencia y saber como formas de acreditación del relato acerca del pasado. En estas polémicas, la apelación a la memoria (propia y de los antepasados) se convierte en un tópico, enunciado primero por el cronista y retomado, siglos después, por el analista. Aquí, se trata de poner en escena algunos de los usos de la memoria en crónicas de tradición mestiza, para responder a la pregunta acerca de la configuración textual del argumento memorialista. Así, al interrogar estas crónicas a partir del funcionamiento de la memoria, volvemos a asistir al cruce de concepciones y cosmovisiones: a las nociones de "memorial", "recuerdo" y "monumento" en la tradición occidental debemos sumarle las acepciones del término "memoria" en el mundo nahua. A analizar brevemente estas modulaciones dedicaremos estas páginas

Memoria rota, tensión y armonía en crónicas mestizas novohispanas

Las crónicas de la conquista de México ponen en escena una peculiar tensión entre experiencia y saber como formas de acreditación del relato acerca del pasado. En estas polémicas, la apelación a la memoria (propia y de los antepasados) se convierte en un tópico, enunciado primero por el cronista y retomado, siglos después, por el analista. Aquí, se trata de poner en escena algunos de los usos de la memoria en crónicas de tradición mestiza, para responder a la pregunta acerca de la configuración textual del argumento memorialista. Así, al interrogar estas crónicas a partir del funcionamiento de la memoria, volvemos a asistir al cruce de concepciones y cosmovisiones: a las nociones de "memorial", "recuerdo" y "monumento" en la tradición occidental debemos sumarle las acepciones del término "memoria" en el mundo nahua. A analizar brevemente estas modulaciones dedicaremos estas páginas

Memoria rota, tensión y armonía en crónicas mestizas novohispanas

Las crónicas de la conquista de México ponen en escena una peculiar tensión entre experiencia y saber como formas de acreditación del relato acerca del pasado. En estas polémicas, la apelación a la memoria (propia y de los antepasados) se convierte en un tópico, enunciado primero por el cronista y retomado, siglos después, por el analista. Aquí, se trata de poner en escena algunos de los usos de la memoria en crónicas de tradición mestiza, para responder a la pregunta acerca de la configuración textual del argumento memorialista. Así, al interrogar estas crónicas a partir del funcionamiento de la memoria, volvemos a asistir al cruce de concepciones y cosmovisiones: a las nociones de "memorial", "recuerdo" y "monumento" en la tradición occidental debemos sumarle las acepciones del término "memoria" en el mundo nahua. A analizar brevemente estas modulaciones dedicaremos estas páginas

The monster chronicles : the role of children’s stories featuring monsters in managing childhood fears and promoting empowerment

Children’s fascination with monsters is a normal part of childhood development. Children’s literature reflects this with a wealth of stories featuring monsters, ranging from fairy tales to picture books to books for independent readers. These stories can raise concerns from educators, parents and other sections of the community such as political and religious institutions on the basis that they could be disturbing or harmful to children. In contrast, there is evidence to indicate the potential for managing fears and enhancing feelings of empowerment in children through the reading of stories featuring monsters. A reappraisal of these stories from a predominantly therapeutic perspective reveals that they may act as agents of positive change in six ways – catharsis, naming, taming, integration, transformation and moral empowerment. Two of these functions, transformation and moral empowerment, are examined further in three case studies of stories for the older reader that feature monsters, Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver, Monster Blood Tattoo, Book One: Foundling by D.M. Cornish and my manuscript, ‘The Monster Chronicles’. The insights from this research have been used to inform the writing and editing of ‘The Monster Chronicles’ and inherent to that, my goal of creating a children’s story featuring monsters that is sensitive to children’s fears and their desire for empowerment.

Late Svecofennian leucogranites of southern Finland : Chronicles of an orogenic collapse

Leucogranite magmatism occurred in southern Finland during the later stages of the Paleoproterozoic Svecofennian orogeny. The leucogranites are considered to have formed from pre-existing crustal rocks that have undergone anatexis in the extensional stage of the orogeny, following continental collision and resultant crustal thickening. The leucogranites have been studied in the field using petrographic and mineralogical methods, elemental and isotope geochemistry on whole rocks and minerals, and U-Pb geochronology. On outcrop scale, these granites typically form heterogeneous, layered, sheet-like bodies that migmatize their country rocks. All of the leucogranites are peraluminous and rich in SiO2, but otherwise display significant geochemical variation. Their Nd isotope composition ranges from fairly juvenile to very unradiogenic, and the Hf isotope composition of their zircon shows a varying degree of mixing in the source, the zircon populations becoming more heterogeneous and generally less radiogenic towards the east. The leucogranites have been dated using U-Pb isotopic analyses, utilizing thermal ionization mass spectrometry, secondary ion mass spectrometry, and laser ablation multicollector ICP mass spectrometry on zircon and monazite. The results show that the granites were emplaced between 1.85 Ga and 1.79 Ga, which is a considerably longer period than has traditionally been perceived for these rocks. The rocks tend to become younger towards the east. Single crystal data also display a wide array of inherited zircons, especially in the eastern part of the leucogranite belt. The most common inherited age groups are ~2.8 2.5 Ga, ~2.1 2.1 Ga, and ~1.9 Ga. Magmatic zircon and monazite usually record similar ages for any one sample.Thermobarometric calculations indicate that the leucogranites in the Veikkola area of southcentral Finland were formed from relatively low-temperature melts, and emplaced at 17-25 km depth, i.e. at mid-crustal level. It is likely that these conditions apply to the Svecofennian leucogranites in general. Large differences in the Hf and Nd isotope compositions, emplacement ages, and distributions of inherited zircon ages show that these granites were formed from different types of source rocks, which probably included both sedimentary and igneous rocks.

The "Art" of Criticism: Rubén Darío and his Unknown Chronicles of the 1895 Salon for "La Prensa"

With the impetus that has led recent studies on Latin American Modernism to a reevaluation of the sense of cultural fluxes from the modernity capitals to its peripheries –discarding categories such as “influence”, “exotism” and “ivory tower”, stereotypes that have clouded critical understanding of this aesthetics for decades- the present study intends to investigate a persistent practice of the main writers of the movement. This practice is modernist pictorial criticism, a genre that will be approached through the analysis of an unknown corpus: the seven chronicles Rubén Darío published in the journal La Prensa on occasion of the third art exposition of the Ateneo de Buenos Aires. Our hypothesis is that the rare creators of images portrayed by Darío by the end of 1895 work as a visual counterpoint of the eccentric writers’ biographical sketches that a year later will be part of the fundamental volume Los raros (1896). In this early “salon”, which we reproduce in its entirety, accompanied by explanatory notes, the leader of Modernism rehearses and consolidates his transcultural work with the universal tradition –now applied to the Salons (1845-1860) by Charles Baudelaire and to the monumental project by John Ruskin in Modern painters (1843-1860)- to legitimate, from another subgenre of Modernist criticism, a new figure of the critic, in dissent with the Enlightenment model of the writer.

Faith lost and regained : the evolution of Anne Rice's critique of christianity in The Vampire Chronicles

Ce mémoire réunit trois romans de la série Les Chroniques de vampires de la populaire écrivaine américaine Anne Rice (The Vampire Lestat, Memnoch the Devil et Blood Canticle) afin d'étudier l'évolution de sa critique de la religion à travers l'écriture. Une analyse précise et complète de Lestat de Lioncourt, le personnage principal de la série, est faite afin de mieux comprendre l'impact de la transformation spirituelle du protagoniste sur l'ensemble de l'oeuvre de Rice. Dans The Vampire Lestat, le rejet de toute forme de croyances religieuses de la part de Lestat ainsi que la déconstruction et l'érotisation de rituels religieux traditionnels reflètent l'influence de l'athéisme. Memnoch the Devil représente la transition entre le refus de croire de Lestat et son retour subséquent à la religion catholique. Finalement, Blood Canticle symbolise le retour vers la foi du protagoniste et de l'auteur, en plus de marquer la fin des Chroniques de vampires de Rice. L'analyse s'inspire d'éléments biographiques afin de démontrer l'importance de la religion dans les récits de Rice, sans toutefois considérer ses romans comme des autobiographies.

Espacio Mestizo : lenguajes artísticos desde la comunidad con menores en riesgo, en los barrios de León.

Monográfico con el título: La educación en el tiempo libre : encrucijada de caminos. Resumen en inglés y catalán

La creación del español mestizo en la literatura chicana : identidad y elección lingüística.

Título del congreso: 'El español, lengua del mestizaje y la interculturalidad'

El grafiti en educaci??n de calle para el fomento de la autoestima, las relaciones sociales y la promoci??n social : el caso de Espacio Mestizo

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Chronicles of a disagreement foretold. CEPS Commentary, 28 November 2012

In the wake of the collapsed talks on a new EU budget for 2014-20, a new CEPS Commentary by Jorge Núñez Ferrer allows that there is a good chance that agreement will be reached before the summer but that the instrument will remain largely disconnected from the fundamental needs of the EU, foremost of which is the imperative to address imbalances in the eurozone.