Academic Gatherings Research Articles

Rukurato Hall, Banyoro, Uganda and the Great Hall, KNUST, Ghana

This article presents two modernist building case studies, one each from East and West Africa which explore approaches to modernist public building conservation. The Rukurato Hall in East Africa, formerly used as a regional assembly hall for the Bunyoro Kingdom in Uganda, is now used as the parliament building of the Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom.The Great Hall in West Africa at the Kumasi University of Science and Technology (KNUST) serves as an institutional hall; it is a monument of academic and cultural significance in Kumasi. This article delves into the historical evolution of the Great Hall, which has hosted numerous essential events, ranging from local academic gatherings to distinguished international conferences since 1967. The Great Hall’s rich heritage and architectural prominence have been subject to various interventions aimed at conserving its essence. The examination of these interventions in maintaining the integrity of the building while adapting to the changing needs of the university underscores the delicate balance required between modernization and safeguarding cultural and architectural legacies.Both case studies present contrasting views on the challenges of conservation in the African context, resulting in different conservation efforts. In the case of the Rukurato Hall, arguable the loss of function for a significant period, before reinstatement in the late 1990s and challenges of funding have greatly influenced the ability to realize conservation ambitions. In the Great Hall, whilst conservation funds were secured, and the conservation effort was successful, the use of the Hall has been ‘controlled’ and various actions have arguably tested the authenticity of the conservation process transforming the building aesthetic in the process. This article employs methods of document analysis, archival research, and interviews with key stakeholders.

Decolonizing Religious Studies

Knowing that the working scholar cannot be everywhere at once, The Conference fills in readers on what they may have missed from various academic gatherings. In this issue, we are pleased to share a panel discussion from the 2022 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion in Denver, Colorado. On behalf of the Academic Relations Committee, Peter Valdina (Albion College) moderated a conversation on decolonization and the academic study of religion. The panel brought Bulletin Editor Richard Newton (University of Alabama), Natalie Avalos (University of Colorado) together to discuss the matter from their research expertise in this area. Also participating in the discussion was Jessica Albrecht, PhD. candidate at the University of Heidelberg, among other scholars.

Mapping Trans-Indigeneity Across the Trans-Tasman: Architectural Practice, Research, and Education

ABSTRACT The Indigenisation of the architectural practice, research, and education in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand has been an ongoing legacy from the early twentieth century until the present. This paper aims to begin mapping out significant agents, events, and processes of Indigeneity and Indigenising legacies when reviewing across the Trans-Tasman’s architectural education, research, and practice contexts. The study employs secondary data coupled with findings from action research and observations as architects, educators, and researchers positioned across the Trans-Tasman from each other. Trans-Indigeneity is an apt framework for this study because it centralises the experiences across Indigenous groups within globalised and colonial settler settings. The findings indicate an affinity that continues until the present between the closely connected circles of New Zealand and Australia’s Indigenous and non-Indigenous architectural researchers, educators, and practitioners at the forefront of Trans-Indigeneity. Across the Tasman, each Indigenous legacy has complemented and challenged the other towards common goals. The Trans-Tasman relationship, made possible through industry and academic gatherings and conferences, has assisted the Indigenisation and critical reflections of Indigeneity across the architectural profession in both locations.

Women Clerical Elite in Safavid Iran: Revisiting the Categorisation of Women in Safavid Society

ABSTRACT: The Safavid era witnessed the convergence of Shi'ism with political governance, reshaping Iran's societal and cultural landscape. European travellers of the time often depicted women as subordinate and deprived of educational opportunities, yet historical evidence reveals a more nuanced reality. Scholarly analysis, notably by Ferrier, categorises women into commoners and elites, overlooking the significant role played by women from the households of Shi'ite scholars. These women, including wives and daughters of prominent scholars, received education within familial settings and emerged as influential jurists and theologians. A revision of Ferrier's categorisation is proposed, emphasising two distinct groups within the elite: court women and those from scholar households. Women from scholar households played pivotal roles in disseminating Shi'ite teachings through academic gatherings, educational initiatives, and scholarly works, often published anonymously due to social constraints. This study reevaluates the status of women in Safavid society, particularly those associated with Shi'ite scholars, shedding light on their substantial contributions to socio-cultural transformations.

Editorial Introduction

Editorial Introduction

Calderón más allá de España: Traslados y transferencias culturales ed. by Hanno Ehrlicher and Christian Grünnagel

Reviewed by: Calderón más allá de España: Traslados y transferencias culturales ed. by Hanno Ehrlicher and Christian Grünnagel Philip Allen Ehrlicher, Hanno and Christian Grünnagel, eds.. Calderón más allá de España: Traslados y transferencias culturales. Reichenberger, 2020. 474 pp. ISBN: 978-3-967280-09-8. The articles that have been compiled in the present collection come to us as the result of the eighteenth Coloquio Anglogermano sobre Calderón celebrated in 2017 in the northern Italian cities of Vercelli and Turin. Following a tradition of academic gatherings that dates back over half a century, an international team of 22 Calderón scholars has joined forces to provide us with this intriguing volume on the Spanish playwright's works across a wide array of literary and cultural traditions and time [End Page 164] periods. Calderón más allá de España considers the textual transmission, performance history, recreations, adaptations, and enduring philosophical and literary influences of Pedro Calderón de la Barca's bibliography beyond Spanish territory, examining its presence in countries like Austria, Germany, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. In addition to transcending these political and linguistic boundaries, this compilation also offers a comprehensive overview of the titular author's presence in a variety of media and literary movements spanning the centuries since his death in 1681. Following a brief prologue from the collection's editors that delves into the origins of the colloquium and provides a brief explanation of the selection of topics included, we begin our journey back in the seventeenth century when Calderon's works first left Spanish shores and landed in Italy, where they were performed, rewritten, reworked, and adapted for new audiences. In the volume's first article, Fausta Antonucci compiles, systematizes, and analyzes an abundance of data on Calderón's presence in Italy over the course of the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. The conclusions drawn from this examination shed light on the author's lingering reception throughout this time of sociopolitical and literary transition from early modern to modern sympathies. The article goes on to explain that he was widely considered a "príncipe del drama y de la tragedia," surpassing even the esteem of his rival Lope de Vega on the Italian Peninsula (16). Andrea Baldissera provides readers with complementary data to Antonucci's findings by examining the textual transmission of an Italian translation of Calderón's semi-opera El hijo del sol, Faetón. The study offers a side-by-side close reading of the source text and translation in order to draw fascinating conclusions about how both the original author and the translator were able to customize the texts to accommodate local tastes and sensitivities. A similar—though no less fascinating and meticulous—consideration of a Dutch translation of La dama duende is provided by Robert Folger in the volume's subsequent contribution. The compilation continues with three articles that provide innovative studies of the television adaptations, first English translations, and rewritings of Calderón's dramas in their native Spain, England, and Italy, which offer invaluable insight into the malleability of the works that allow them to be tailored to audiences' tastes and sociocultural sensitivities across different linguistic, political, and audiovisual landscapes. Once the thematic versatility of Calderón's texts has been established by these articles, the volume transitions to demonstrations of how this literary flexibility permitted varying performative interpretations of some of the author's most emblematic pieces. Françoise Gilbert offers a thorough and eye-opening analysis of how Darlo todo y no dar nada was originally performed in 1651 and how this performance, along with printed translations of the source text opened foreign—non-Spanish-speaking—audiences to the luxury and "ostentación del poder de la monarquía" (165). Agustín Gómez and Nekane Parejo continue this examination of the adaptability of Calderón's texts for a broad audience in their contribution on the four film adaptations of El alcalde de Zalamea. Their study paves the way for an in-depth exploration of Calderón's texts in Venetian and Mexican operas and a thought-provoking reflection on the...

Remote Intimacy

Remote Intimacy

Notes From the Editors

Notes From the Editors Gregory S. Crider and Jürgen Buchenau The Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies convened March 4–8, 2020 for our Sixty-Seventh Annual Meeting in Austin, TX, just before the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered in-person academic gatherings. With the support from the Center for U.S.-Latin American Initiatives and the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas, the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP), the conference featured sixty-eight panels on a wide variety of topics. Program chairs Timothy Henderson (University of Auburn-Montgomery) and María Zalduondo (Bluefield College) completed the yeoman task of putting panels together in the areas of Literature & Humanities and History & Social Sciences, respectively. Monica Rankin (University of Texas at Dallas), Jürgen Buchenau (University of North Carolina Charlotte), Steven Hyland (Wingate University) and Gregory Crider (Winthrop University) organized local arrangements. The conference also included two professional development workshops for junior faculty and graduate students, respectively, organized by Vanessa Castañeda, one of the authors in this volume. We are now beginning our third year of collaboration with the University of North Carolina Press. We enjoy the broader readership afforded by our inclusion in Project MUSE, an online database of peer-reviewed academic journals and books. We also highlight our ongoing collaboration with the SECOLAS podcast, Historias, which frequently includes interviews with TLA authors and other Latin Americanists from diverse disciplines. As always, the editors welcome new ideas and suggestions. This volume features some of the best papers from the conference in article format. Eighteen of the 252 presenters at the conference submitted revised papers of their papers for publication. Following editorial and peer review and another round of revisions, the six articles published in this issue represent a range of disciplines in both the humanities and social sciences. In presenting these articles, we appreciate the help by our graduate assistant, Julia Poppell, and the Managing Editor of The Latin Americanist, Leah Walton. UNC Charlotte, Winthrop University, and Wingate University, the three SECOLAS host institutions, offer significant financial and institutional support for the publication and success of this journal. In particular, we offer our gratitude to Dr. Nancy Gutierrez, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at UNC Charlotte; to Dr. Takita Sumter, Dean of the [End Page 7] College of Arts and Sciences, and the Ellison Capers Palmer, Jr. Professorship of History at Winthrop; and to Dr. Jeff Frederick, Provost at Wingate University, for their continuing encouragement of both The Latin Americanist and SECOLAS. [End Page 8] Copyright © 2021 Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies

Editor's Introduction: Modern Chinese Literature from Local to Global

Editor's Introduction:Modern Chinese Literature from Local to Global Wang Ning Given the current debate on world literature, more and more scholars realize the limits of old-fashioned views deriving from Eurocentric or Western-centric modes of conceptualizing it and start shifting their attention to the literatures of countries beyond the confines of the West. This new turn follows Goethe's initial conjectures about world literature. In recent years, world literature has been one of the most heatedly debated topics in international academic gatherings, at least since the concept was launched by Franco Moretti (2000) and David Damrosch (2003). However, in spite of a number of excellent analyses, the relations between world literature and modern Chinese literature have not yet been fully discussed. In the past decade, some of the leading journals in literary studies such as Modern Language Quarterly (2008), Neohelicon (2010), Comparative Literature Studies (2012) and Modern Fiction Studies (2016) have published special issues or clusters of articles on related topics; most of these were edited by myself in collaboration with Western colleagues; nevertheless, compared with other monographs and edited volumes on general topics of comparative literature, the results are still far from satisfactory. Here is one of the reasons why my colleague Peng Qinglong and I wanted to edit a special issue on this topic. This time, our perspective is wider and more international, for here we attempt to consider modern Chinese literature in the broad context of world literature, examining how it has changed from its original local context to the current global context and how it has formed a unique tradition, which defines our modern Chinese literary tradition. We also wanted to study how some of the major Chinese writers have been involved in the mainstream of world literature. We will discuss these issues both sychronically and diachronically. In this special issue, contibutions come from different perspectives so as to offer re-readings and interpretations both of influential theoretical trends and of important authors whose works are analyzed in the context of world literature. Indeed, Western literature has been dominant in the field of world literature studies and it hs been enthusiastically received in the Chinese context, which has helped shape a modern Chinese literary tradition. In this respect, translation has [End Page 1] played an important role: without it, modern Chinese literature would not have been able to form a new tradition. Obviously, this modern tradition is different from its precursors in classical Chinese literature. It is also quite different from its Western counterparts, although it has no doubt been inspired by the latter. This is the state in which modern Chinese literature finds itself, both "modern" and "Chinese." This special issue is divided into two parts. In the first part, five essays deal with modern Chinese literary and theoretical trends with regard to their relations with world literature in general, even though some contributors deal more specifically with genres like drama and poetry. Wang Ning analyzes the evolution of humanism that started with the New Culture Movement (1915–1923) and offers his construction of a cosmo-humanism in the age of globalization. Yang Mingming and Yang Xin survey how Russian-Soviet literature was translated and received in a Chinese context, which paved the way to the formation of modern Chinese revolutionary literature. Xiaohong Zhang and Jiazhao Lin focus on new Chinese poetry, which started at the period of the New Culture Movement and developed till the current postmodern era, moving from modernism to the postmodern. He Chengzhou discusses modern Chinese drama taking Cao Yu's plays as the most representative case. Tong-King Lee examines the hybridized elements of Hong Kong literature, made up of factors like colonialism, cosmopolitanism and consumption before offering a critical analysis. Thanks to historical contextualization and descriptive critical analysis, it is hoped that readers who are not familiar with Chinese literature will get a comprehensive picture of its developmen in the context of world literature. In the second part, the essays deal with the most prominent modern Chinese writers. Here are authors whose literary achievements are not only recognized by domestic scholarship but also have gained a wider international reputation. Ming Dong Gu's essay focuses on...

Coining Neoliberalism: Interwar Germany and the Neglected Origins of a Pejorative Moniker

Widespread academic use of the term neoliberalism is of surprisingly recent origin, dating to only the late 20th century. The vast and growing literature on this subject has nonetheless settled on an earlier origin story that depicts the term as self-selected moniker from the Walter Lippmann Colloquium, a 1938 Paris gathering of free-market academics that foreshadowed the post-war founding of the Mont Pelerin Society. This origin story, however, is a myth that likely derives from a misreading of French philosopher Michel Foucault, who first directed modern scholarly attention to the Paris gathering. By turning to neglected German-language sources, this study shows that the term and modern concept of neoliberalism predate the 1938 conference. Rather, neo/neu-liberalismus was first popularized by a succession of Marxist and Fascist political theorists in the early 1920s, who employed it as a term of disparagement against the Marginal Utility School of economic thought anchored at the University of Vienna. These critics of marginalism diverged sharply on the political far-left and far-right of interwar Austrian and German politics, but shared a common disdain for the theory of subjective value promoted by the Viennese circle around economist Ludwig von Mises. This earlier origin story of the term links it conceptually to modern-day uses, which often display a similar pejorative character to its interwar uses on the political left. It further helps to explain why several attendees of the 1938 conference, Mises among them, rejected the proposed term.

Active and passive information behaviour of the professoriate: A descriptive comparative pattern analysis

Background: The study explored and analysed patterns in active and passive information behaviour of the professoriate in different information sources in teaching and research context. Exploring patterns in human information behaviour fills the knowledge gaps in this under-researched area, besides having practical significance. Objectives: The study explored the patterns in active and passive information behaviour in different information sources used by the professoriate in the social sciences and humanities in three federal universities in Nigeria. Methods: The study used a descriptive survey to explore the active and passive information behaviour of the professoriate. The sample consisted of 246 professors from the social sciences and humanities departments at three federal universities in Nigeria. Data were collected using an adapted questionnaire and analysed descriptively using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences. Results: The patterns that emerged across electronic resources, media, print sources, interpersonal and academic gathering, in three usage categories, showed both consistent and divergent results. A broad pattern in frequently-used sources revealed that the more active information seeking takes place in an information source, the more chances of passive encounters, and vice versa. This pattern is, however, consistent in electronic resources, print sources, and academic gathering, but differs in media and interpersonal sources. Media has more instances of passive encounters than active usage whilst in interpersonal sources, information encountered in active engagements with professional colleagues did not yield significant result. Conclusion: Exploring patterns in human information behaviour is still evolving, with the benefit of advancing a better understanding of active and passive information behaviour at a micro level.

Workshopping: Exploring the Entanglement of Sites, Tools, and Bodily Possibilities in an Academic Gathering

The craftsperson’s workshop, the academic workshop – how comparable are they? Historically, craft workshops have been sites of sustained cooperation, imbued with elaborate social rituals and hierarchies, and are considered places of experimentation. Through close engagement with materials, tools, places, and other bodies, the body itself is acknowledged as a ‘learning’ and ‘knowing’ entity (Sennett 2008). Academic workshops, similarly, have rituals and hierarchies, and aspire to be experimental venues. Framed as cerebral affairs, however, their embodied dimension is far subtler and easier to overlook. This video essay focuses on an academic workshop that took place in Maastricht, in the Netherlands, in July 2018. The workshop focused on teaching and learning, particularly attending to how learning is related to the environment in which we learn, how materials and sensorality influences the development of embodied skills, and how technologies and global contexts shape learning. Over four days, 40 participants – all academics or practitioners – ran or participated in panel discussions, movement and object exercises, practical workshops, and a public event which delved into this topic, exploring how it related to their academic work. The main venue choice was very specific – a hotel school completely staffed by hospitality students. We learned alongside them. It was, in some sense, a skillshare workshop. We took seriously the assertion that making and performing are also acts of thinking, and that meaning is created and expressed in multiple modes (Kress 2010, Brown and Banks 2014, Kullman 2014); the workshop was inherently interactive, often using experiments and exercises to structure dialogue in creative ways, and involved contributions from makers and other practitioners. This video essay uses closely-observed insights which emerged from the video of the event, to consider what this workshop on learning and embodiment offers to thinking about the nature of the academic workshop more broadly, and its potential relationship to the kinds of craft workshops Sennett describes. It speaks in conversation with literature which recognises a relationship between bodies, environments, and materials in knowing about the world (eg. Pink 2017, Lave 2019, Ingold 2013) also drawing on literature which explores the nature of how we gather (Parker 2019). It adds new insights through exploring three themes from the small group workshops that aren’t always prominent in the literature – that are perhaps difficult to explicate in words – framing the workshop as a place of learning and apprenticeship: fumbling, traces of places, and the tactile-digital. Through reference to these themes, the videos link academic experimentation and embodied learning. And while these themes all emerge in the literature above, the video component reveals the extent to which we found them to be entangled – bodies with places, with materials, with digital landscapes. This palimpsest of interactions, and how they are inter-related, is difficult to recognise in a written treatment.

Preface

The 2020 4th International Workshop on Advances in Energy Science and Environment Engineering (AESEE 2020), organized by AEIC Academic Exchange Information Centre and supported by Guizhou Minzu University, was be held on April 10-12, 2020 via online platform due to the pandemic of COVID-19. Online AESEE 2020 provides a flexible way for holding a conference and enable more audience to join in this academic gathering. AESEE 2020 aims to disseminate the state-of-the-art advances to the experts and scholars in the field of Energy Science and Environment Engineering, and promote scientific information interchange between researchers, developers, engineers, students, and practitioners working all around the world.The committee of AESEE 2020 was composed by a bunch of sophisticated experts and scholars representing different renowned universities around the globe. We were pleased to have Prof.Feng Wu from Wuhan University, China, and Prof. Dong fang Yang from Guizhou University for Nationalities, China, as our General Conference Chairs. Thanks to the great influence of the excellent committee, we were honored to invite two distinguished keynote speakers to perform their insightful speeches during the conference. Assoc. Prof. Muhammad Shahzad Nazir, representing Huaiyin Institute of Technology, China, talked about his insightful views on Energy and Environment. He thinks that among the renewable technologies, the wind is a prominent source of energy and synchronizing its share in global energy production market remarkably. Considering this context, in the last decades, there has been a fast growth and spread of renewable energy plants. Then Prof. Jordi Arbiol, from ICREA and Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), Spain, held a wonderful speech on Energy Nanomaterials at atomic scale: from growth mechanisms to local properties. Technology at the nanoscale has become one of the main challenges in science as new physical effects appear and can be modulated at will. Materials for spintronics, electronics, optoelectronics, sensing, energy applications and new generations of functionalized materials are taking advantage of the low dimensionality, improving their properties and opening a new range of applications. The talk focused on several examples in advanced nanomaterials for optical, plasmonic and energy applications.AESEE 2020 has solicited a butch of excellent papers with the aim to present the latest research and results of scientists related to Energy Science and Environment Engineering. Therefore, we here compiled these papers featuring the latest advanced studies on the following topics but not limited to: Energy and Environment, Energy Materials, Environmental Engineering, Energy-Saving Technology, Pollution prevention in industry and other related topics. All the papers have been through rigorous review and process to meet the requirements of International publication standard.List of Committee members are available in this pdf.

Preface

After successfully held for five times, the 2020 6th International Conference on Energy Materials and Environment Engineering (ICEMEE 2020) was held on April 24-26 via online platform due to the pandemic of COVID-19. ICEMEE 2020 was organized by AEIC Academic Exchange Information Centre and supported by Tainjin Academy of Environmental Science, Tianjin Modern Vocational Technology College, Central University of Technology and the University of Nottingham. It was originally scheduled to be held in Tianjin City in China, but turned to online platform meeting due to the COVID-19 crisis. However, online ICEMEE 2020 provides a flexible way for holding a conference and enable more audience to join in this academic gathering. ICEMEE 2020 aims to disseminate the state-of-the-art advances to the experts and scholars in the field of Energy Materials and Environment Engineering all around the globe, and enhance the cooperation between China and other countries.List of Committee member, Honorary Chairs, Conference Chairs, Program Committees, Technical Committees, Organizing Committees, International Technical Program Committees are available in this pdf.

Fitting in, Standing Out, and Doing Both: Supporting the Development of a Scholarly Voice

What scholars call “writing” actually involves writing, reading, talking, thinking, and engaging. Yet how academic writing develops through this recursive, social process, is imperfectly understood. Although participating in academic gatherings like colloquia and international conferences can help researchers find a scholarly voice, not all new scholars have the opportunity to participate in such gatherings and the learnings they offer. Especially for those scholars, their academic writing must be consciously developed. We examine the process by which a new South African management scholar, supported by his writing coach, developed an academic voice. Analyzing their 15-month long communication (emails and summaries of conversations), we find three interweaving processes. Coaching guides the new scholar first to learn to fit in by becoming aware of genre conventions through practical writing-to-learn and show-and-tell coaching tactics. Then the challenge is to stand out by forcing tough trade-offs and intensifying the focus on novelty. Ultimately the scholar must do both, negotiating the tension between them. Our article provides evidence of how the emergence of self-reliant scholarly writing can be supported. This process is especially salient in developing country contexts with few enculturating opportunities, but we suggest that it applies more broadly, opening avenues for future theorizing.

The 3rd Duke of Alcalá and his epigraphic interests. Notes on his lapidary collection in Seville (XVII Century)

In the first decades of the 17 th century Fernando Enriquez de Ribera (1583-1637), 3 rd Duke of Alcala de los Gazules, reformed the Casa de Pilatos, constructing a library and an armory, as well as a large chamber (Camarin Grande). Sessions were periodically held here, creating one of the most important literary and academic gatherings in Seville, attended by painters, poets and art collectors; among them, Francisco Pacheco, Juan de Arguijo and the antiquarian Rodrigo Caro. The Duke also had his antiquarian interests and was an important antique collector. Inventories of his collection were made between 1637 and 1642. This work analyses the lapidary or epigraphic pieces; in particular three modern copies carved in slate of Roman inscriptions from Tarragona, the Isis pedestal from Acci (Guadix), as well as two honorary pedestals from Siarum (Utrera) and Hispalis (Seville). Fernando Enriquez also produced a study on the inscription and reliefs of the pedestal from Guadix, which was given to him by the 3 rd Marquis of Estepa, Adan Centurion, another Andalusian nobleman interested in antiquities and their study.

On Critical Humility

On Critical Humility Warren Cariou (bio) Tawnshay. Sit down, my friend; have some tea. This is not the usual kind of discussion we have around here, but it's something I hope you'll find useful. It's not an article exactly, but rather a meditation on the state of things in our discipline and the future we will make for it. I've taught Indigenous literatures for quite a few years now, yet sometimes I still think of myself as a beginner, especially when I visit with the Elders, the storytellers, the knowledge-keepers. I'm going to tell you about something I've learned from their examples, something I should have understood long ago, but I didn't pay close enough attention. I guess I was in too much of hurry to become an expert. Somewhere along the way, I forgot or didn't notice the most important things. I'll start with a common story, one that has repeated itself so often in the last few years that you have likely heard a version of it, or witnessed something like it yourself. In fact it has happened so many times that I'm going to tell a composite version of it, built out of several such incidents, and with names changed to avoid embarrassing anyone. It began at a gathering—a literary and academic gathering, held at a university that was taking its first steps toward what it called Indigenization. Many prominent Indigenous writers had been invited, along with publishers and scholars who were interested in their work. It was the opening reception for a week-long series of meetings, and excitement was in the air. People were mingling, recognizing names and publishing houses, trying to make a good impression. But in the midst of the laughter and the somewhat nervous conversation, I noticed a small, white-haired man sitting by himself, looking relatively uninterested in what was going on. I felt bad that he was alone, so I sat down and introduced myself and asked how he was doing. "Not bad," he said, and he told me his name was Dan. I asked Dan where he was from, and he said he had lived near one of the neighboring cities for a few years, but he had traveled quite a lot for his work. He didn't mention what his work was. But we [End Page 1] talked about travel, and it turned out that he had visited my hometown a few times, and we made the usual attempts to figure out whether we knew some of the same people. Gradually I learned that Dan had "done some teaching" for a while, and that he had also worked in counseling. He never did mention why he was there at the gathering, and I felt like it might be rude to ask. He didn't seem to like talking about himself. Nonetheless, we had plenty to talk about for the next hour or so, and by the time the reception was winding down, I felt like I was getting to know this Dan, and I was thankful to have a chance to talk with him. "Hope to meet you again," I said when it was time to leave. He smiled and said, "You just might." The next morning, we assembled for the beginning of the sessions and we received the official greeting from one of the figureheads of the institution where we were located. And as such people are wont to do, this figurehead spent a lot of time talking about how great the institution was, and how accomplished the faculty were, and how this was the beginning of a very important relationship. And finally when everyone was nearly asleep, this figurehead person said, "Oh, and we have an Elder here and he has a few words to say as well. Dan? By the way, Dan, we're running a bit late so we don't have much time." And then this figurehead excused himself and left the room before the Elder could speak. The room was dead silent for a few seconds after the door closed behind the fleeing administrator. But eventually, there was the sound...

Open Online Research : Developing Software and Method for Collaborative Interpretation

Inspired by the potentials of web-based collaboration, in 2014, a group of social scientists, students and information specialists started tinkering with software and methodology for open online collaborative research. The results of their research led to a gathering of academics at the #ethnography Conference Amsterdam 2014 , where new material was collected, shared and collaboratively interpreted. Following the conference, they continued to develop software and methodology. In this contribution, we report on the aims, methodology, inspiring examples, caveats and results from testing several prototypes of open online research software. We conclude that open online collaborative interpretation is both feasible and desirable. Dialogue and reflexivity, we hold, are able to transcend separated perspectives and stimulate agreement on a set of distinct interpretations; they simultaneously respect the multiplicity of understandings of social phenomena whilst bringing order into this diversity. URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs160327

Preface

Conference on Theoretical Physics and Nonlinear Phenomena 2018 (CTPNP2018)Conference on Theoretical Physics and Nonlinear Phenomena is an annual conference of the Indonesian Theoretical Physicist Group (Grup Fisika Teoretik Indonesia = GFTI). The conference has been an effective gathering place for theorists from Indonesia and neighboring countries to exchange and share ideas. The conference is mainly intended to motivate young physicists to actively do research in the fields. The first meeting (academic gathering) in the form of workshop commenced in 2004, held in Indonesia University. Since 2010, the workshop developed into a conference and named as CTPNP (Conference on Theoretical Physics Nonlinear Phenomena). This annual conference has been held in various major cities of Indonesia, such as Jakarta, Surabaya, Bandung and Jogyakarta. It is for the first time for this year (2018), the conference is held outside Java, here in Makassar, the capital city of South Sulawesi, on the 2nd July 2018, in conjunction with National Physics Seminar on 3rd July 2018, hosted by Physics Department of Hasanuddin University.As a phyiscs community in this university, we are happy that this important event finally comes to Hasanuddin University. We believe that having this event in Makassar will inspire our physics community in this region. The conference is aimed to strengthen the collaboration and networking among researchers in theoretical physics and nonlinear phenomena, so that members of this group could increase their academic productivity. We hope that this aim can be enlightened by this year CTPNP’s main theme: Cooperative phenomena in small and large scale world. Cooperative phenomena are ubiquitous in nature, emphasizing the importance of research collaboration.As organizer and editor of this proceeding, we would like to take this opportunity to thank all people and institutions who have give significant contribution for realizing this conference, in particular Hasanuddin university for having been a main sponsor. We thank our plenary speakers and all contributive presenters and audiences, coming from different universities and research institutes. Our appreciation is extended to the Head of Physics Department and Dean of Science Faculty for fully support this conference.We also would like to thank the Theoretical Physics division of the Indonesian Physical Society (IPS) who have given the opportunity to the Department of Physics, Hasanuddin University to host this conference.We wish all participants with a very pleasant and enjoyable time during the conference day and staying in Makassar, which is the gate city for eastern part of Indonesia.Faithfully,On behalf of the organizer and EditorsTasrief Surungan, PhDChairman and Chief Editor of CTPNP 2018

Reflections on the First IOTA Meeting Iasi, Romania, 9–12 January 2019

Reflections on the First IOTA Meeting Iasi, Romania, 9–12 January 2019 Gayle E. Woloschak1 INTRODUCTION The inaugural meeting of the International Orthodox Theological Association (IOTA) occurred in Iasi, Romania from 9–12 January 2019. Opinion pieces authored in the weeks after the meeting described it as “the largest international gathering of Orthodox scholars in modern history”;2 “a forum for worldwide, interdisciplinary scholarly interaction within the context of the Orthodox tradition”;3 and “an intellectual feast [with] a range of topics . . . [covering] ‘everything [End Page 101] that you ever wanted to know about Orthodoxy but were afraid to ask.’”4 To be sure, the conference was unprecedented in terms of its size (nearly three hundred scholars), global diversity (forty nations), and breadth of disciplines (anthropology, art history, cultural studies, gender studies, history, literature, liturgics, missiology, musicology, philosophy, political science, religious studies, science and religion, and theology). But it was unprecedented in other ways that signal significant demographic shifts in the academic study of Orthodox theology and Orthodox Christian studies more broadly. For example, the broad participation of scholars from secular institutions and the significant number of women academics constitute a dramatic change from the Orthodox academic gatherings in Europe, the Middle East, or the United States fifty or even twenty years ago. The following essay serves as a “Field Report” in the conventional sense—a summary and evaluation of what occurred—but it will also provide a brief history of the origins, rationale, and expectations for future IOTA meetings. BACKGROUND: SETTING THE STAGE The initial inspiration for IOTA stemmed from the participation and observations of several (mostly) American-based scholars volunteering in the press room at the Great and Holy Council of Crete, which occurred in 2016. Imagined as the largest gathering of bishops in the modern world, and in the works for more than fifty years, the Crete council was supposed to produce a number of documents on various themes that would help guide the highly diverse Orthodox Christian community in the modern world. One of the ground rules of the Crete council was that the assembly of bishops would issue only documents that had a broad consensus. Some interpreted the condition of consensus to mean “unanimity.” In the opinion of several participating scholars, too many of the bishops approached the council and its documents through the lens of their local or national concerns, making unanimity or even consensus virtually impossible. At best, the final documents’ teaching on the ethical, social, and scientific questions of our age were bland and did little to engage and clarify the increasingly complex issues of our day. What is more, many of the more pressing questions regarding ecclesial governance, such as the conditions for autocephaly, or the difficult ethical questions surrounding the advance of modern science, were simply avoided. Two of the founding members of IOTA, Pavel Gavrilyuk, and Gayle Woloschak, left Crete with a sense of dissatisfaction, not only for what had transpired, but also with respect to the Council’s mismatch between the localized interests of its participants and the assumption that pan-Orthodoxy required unanimity in all matters. [End Page 102] Is the wide diversity of experience and ideas within Orthodoxy, the two asked, not something that is desirable and even necessary for the vitality and survival of the Church? Drawing upon their experience of intellectual exchange and the diversity of approaches that exist within every academic sphere, the founders believed that the academic community might have something to offer the institutional Church. The idea for IOTA was to bring together a group of international scholars in a wide variety of disciplines that relate to the Orthodox Christianity from all countries where the Orthodox Church maintains a presence. One operating presumption was that assembling a broad collection of academics from different national, ethnic, and personal backgrounds would bring the rich diversity within Orthodoxy itself into the open. A second presumption was that the interaction of scholars from so many different perspectives, both in formal sessions and in informal conversations throughout the conference, would not only lead to an unprecedented exchange of ideas but also facilitate a greater understanding and mutual respect for various points of view on a...