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Die Luther-Gesellschaft 1918–2018. Beiträge zu ihrem hundertjährigen Jubiläum ed. by Johannes Schilling and Martin Treu

Reviewed by: Die Luther-Gesellschaft 1918–2018. Beiträge zu ihrem hundertjährigen Jubiläum ed. by Johannes Schilling and Martin Treu Robert Kolb Die Luther-Gesellschaft 1918–2018. Beiträge zu ihrem hundertjährigen Jubiläum. Edited by Johannes Schilling and Martin Treu. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2018. 351 pp. For a century the Luther-Gesellschaft has served as an important institution for conveying Luther's life and thought among both professional and lay audiences. Writing a history of an institution is a delicate task, filled with the danger of external criticism in the service of an ulterior agenda or the weakness of internal bragging. This sober assessment of the Society's development avoids both dangers even though it is written by a team of insiders. The editors, the current president of the Society, Johannes Schilling, retired professor of Reformation history at the University of Kiel, and Martin Treu, the Society's business manager, retired from long years of service at the Luther House in Wittenberg, marshalled eleven others to assist them in reviewing the activities of the Society in the turbulent century since its founding in the last days of World War I. The authors render careful assessments of how scholarship and culture are interwoven in the practice of the scholarly task. Essays focused on the presidents of the Society provide a chronological thread that highlights how the general atmosphere of German culture shaped the agenda and activities of the Society at each stage. In addition, the current editors of the Society's scholarly periodical, the Lutherjahrbuch, Christopher Spehr, and its more popular journal, Luther, Helmut Zschoch, trace the development of their publications, revealing how cultural pressures from German nationalism, National Socialism, and the concerns of a divided Germany, with the necessity of taking Marxist Reformation scholarship seriously in the 1960s–1980s, stood in tension with the ever-present concern to preserve text-driven scholarship while providing aid for parish pastors and laypeople through exposition of Luther's way of thinking. [End Page 461] Further essays explore the vital work of regional groups organized to conduct seminars and conferences dedicated to fostering Luther's theology through good scholarship brought to the popular level. The regional groups have come and gone in various parts of Germany but have provided a forum for demonstrating the relevance of Wittenberg thought. Other essays treat recently developed prizes and the valuable Luther bibliography of the Lutherjahrbuch. Personal recollections of two presidents, Schilling and Bishop Gerhard Müller, provide insights into the challenges of fulfilling the goals of the Society, among which scholarship in its purest form sometimes took second place to bringing Luther's insights to the educated public. Müller's and Schilling's particular perspectives lend depth and color to reviews by others of other leading personalities, including Karl Holl, who served briefly as president; Paul Althaus, whose thirty-seven years as president (1927–1964) spanned the break in the Society's existence caused by National Socialist crackdown and the collapse of 1945; Walther von Löwenich; Reinhard Schwarz; and also the founder and organizer of the Society, Rudolf Eucken, a philosopher, winner of the Nobel prize for literature, and ardent German nationalist. Eucken devoted the Society to making his vision of the German Luther speak to contemporaries in the dreary days after the German defeat of 1918. Eucken soon abandoned the Society, but in the 1920s the concern for the German Volk and nation that drove Karl Holl into Luther scholarship continued to influence the activities of the Society. The long, dedicated service of Theodor Knolle, pastor in Wittenberg and Hamburg, as vice-president held the Society together from the 1920s to the 1950s. His rejection of his initial commitment to the German Christian movement sympathetic to National Socialism and his later activities in the Confessing Church embody the tensions that all Germans felt throughout the first half of the twentieth century. The post-war situation revived earlier desires to attract participation from those outside Germany, particularly the Nordic lands and North America. Details of the pressures placed upon Luther scholars and those who used his thinking in preaching and teaching enrich the feel of the book for the interaction of...

Alfred Adler Sesquicentennial: The Timeliness Revisited

Alfred Adler Sesquicentennial: The Timeliness Revisited Marina Bluvshtein This is a special issue published in the first quarter of a very special year—marking 150 years since Adler was born in Vienna on February 7, 1870. In 1970, during the centennial celebrations of Alfred Adler, Willard and Marguerite Beecher concluded their “Memorial to Dr. Alfred Adler” with the following: “He needs no adulation since his work speaks for him to each of us differently in a language of its own” (p. 5). A goal of this issue is not to worship but to honor Adler’s life and his legacy—in many languages. As a reader, you will hear many more voices than what you would usually experience when reading other issues of the journal. All together, 28 authors have contributed to this issue. There is a full-length article (“Adlerian Theory and Practice Wisdom Promote Democratic Leadership and Organizational Health,” by John), shorter essays (“The ‘Un-understood’: Adler’s Grasp of Unconscious,” by Prinsloo and Qu), an interview (“Adler’s Theory and Therapy as a River: A Brief Discussion of the Profound Influence of Alfred Adler,” by Watts and Bluvshtein), and a poem (“I Am an Adlerian,” by O’Leary). You will hear about the continuation of Adler’s legacy in Europe (“Looking Back on the Development of Alfred Adler’s Individual Psychology in Parts of Europe on the 150th Anniversary of His Birth,” by Eife, Ferrero, Neudecker, and Prina) and successful efforts to create evidence-based therapy consistent with Adlerian theory in the United States (“Adlerian Therapy Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow,” by Len Sperry). You will read inspiring stories about Sophia J. de Vries (“An Inspiring Legacy: Sophia J. de Vries,” by Stein) and Rudolf Dreikurs (“The Contribution of Rudolf Dreikurs to the Theory and Practice of Individual Psychology,” by Abramson). You will read a passionate tribute to Adler’s legacy by the current president of the North American Society of Adlerian Psychology (“Celebrating 150 Years: A President’s Perspective,” by Belangee) and will revisit Adler’s life with his biographer (“Alfred Adler: The Man Who Understood Superheroes,” by [End Page 1] Click for larger view View full resolution Alfred Adler in California, 1936. A photo from the Adler University Archives, donated by Dr. Penny Silvers, Professor of Education, Dominican University (niece of Evelyn Feldman Roth, Adler’s secretary). Hoffman). You will enrich your knowledge in discussions by veteran Adlerian researchers and practitioners (“Adler’s Motivational Theory: An Historical Perspective on Belonging and the Fundamental Human Striving,” by Dreikurs Ferguson, and “Are Alfred Adler and Rudolf Dreikurs Relevant for Parents Today?,” by Bettner) as well as—in a brave attempt to swim in Adler as a river, quoting Richard E. Watts—by those who had different theoretical upbringings (“And They Lived Happily Ever After: An Intimate Closeness of Systems and Adlerian Theories in the Case of a Transgender Couple,” by Brown and co authors). You will enjoy writings by authors with a wide range of years devoted to studying Adlerian psychology, from graduate students (Londergan, a coauthor of “And They Lived Happily Ever After”) to professors with decades of Adlerian practice (“The Miracle of Early Recollections in Adlerian Psychotherapy and Supervision,” by Shifron, and “Adler’s Original Contributions to Psychology,” by Griffith and Maybell). You will revisit some unfinished philosophical business (“The Fourth and Fifth Life Tasks as Existential Challenges,” by Linden) and be invited to tackle new clinical challenges (“Adler’s Interview Questions: Incorporating Diversity and [End Page 2] Sociocultural Contexts Holistically,” by Johnson- Migalski and co authors). Though not named in any particular article, Adler University Senior Director of Library and Learning Services Ariel Orlov and students Noah DeBruyn, Neena Mathew, and Shannon Zofkie have contributed to this special issue in its many tasks, and so they belong to this issue, too. I would like to encourage you to read the authors’ biographies to grasp a full cultural experience of each author and to listen to the many accents fully present in this issue of the English-language journal—with authors from Austria, China, Germany, Great Britain, Israel, Italy, Switzerland, and many states in the United States. In doing so, please remember that Adler, too, spoke...

Белоруссия: политическая ситуация вокруг выборов президента – 2020

The elections of the President of Belarus were held on August 9, 2020. According to official reports the current President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko won them in the first round of voting. The election campaign was extremely tense. Throughout it, protest moods were growing in the Belarusian society. The reason for the mass protests was distrust of the electoral system of the Republic. The harsh actions of law enforcement agencies to disperse demonstrators caused an outraged reaction in the Belarusian society, which led to an increase in protest activity. After Lukashenko's appeal on August 17, 2020 to workers at enterprises that went on strike, civil society activity declined – the transfer of power did not take place. The development of the situation in the future largely depends on the position that the newly elected President Lukashenko will take.

Fourth Annual Clinician Scientist Trainee Symposium at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry

The Annual Clinician Scientist Trainee Symposium (CSTS) gathers the local medical research community at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, including research trainees at the medical student, resident and fellow levels. Trainees showcase their current and upcoming work, and leaders in the community impart their perspectives on the importance and future of research in medicine. At the 4th Annual CSTS, perseverance and cautious optimism emerged as the characteristics that trainees should foster through their future careers as clinician scientists. This was echoed by the challenges and encouraging findings presented by trainees, who conducted their work as part of research projects within the MD, MD/PhD and clinical investigator programs. The four oral presentations and 10 three-minute thesis presentations covered the full breadth of medical disciplines across the spectrum of translational medicine, from fundamental sciences through knowledge translation. The CSTS concluded with the keynote presentation by Michael Strong, current president of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, who gave a glimpse into his decades-long path of overcoming and overturning dogmatic views in the world of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis research, demonstrating how roadblocks in research can become an impulse for stronger science.

Introducing our Inaugural Early Career Advisory Board

Introducing our Inaugural Early Career Advisory Board

THREE CONGRESSES, ONE DECISION: KAZAKH LATIN ALPHABET

1926 ж. Бакуде өткен атақты І-ші Баку Түркітану Құрылтайына сілтеме жасай отырып, қазіргі Түркия елінің алфавитінің нұсқасы мен арада ондаған жылдар салып барып қолға алынған Ортақ түрік алфавитіне шолу жасауға талпыныс жасалған. Ыстамбұлда Мармара Университеті жанындағы Түркітану институты үйымдастырған «Қазіргі түркі алфавиттері халықаралық симпозиумы - 1991» мен «Қазіргі түркі алфавиттері халықаралық симпозиумы - 2018» туралы, осы жиынның тарихи шешімі туралы сөз болады. Мұндай келелі басқосу мен шешімнің түптамырында Түркия Республикасының сегізінші Президенті Тұрғыт Өзал мен Қазақстанның тұңғыш Президенті – Елбасы Н.Ә.Назарбаевтың 1990 жылғы кездесуі мұрындық болғандығы айтылады. Қорытынды ретінде Қазақстан Республикасының Президенті Қ.К.Тоқаевтың «Тіл мамандары жаңа әліпбиді жетілдіру керек» деген тапсырмасын орындау мақсатында А.Байтұрсынұлы атындағы Тіл білімі институты ұйымдастырған Республикалық дөңгелек үстел шешімі мен үндеуі туралы, көптен бері бейресми түрде қолданыста жүрген 32 қаріптік «жаңа қазақ» яки «Ортақ түрік алфавиті» туралы баяндалады.

Bolsonaro’s take on the ‘absence of racism’ in Brazil

Historically, the myth has grown up of Brazil as a racial democracy, despite its marginalisation of its substantial Black population, and the writing out of the Black presence from the national narrative. This article seeks to analyse the extremist political position of Jair Bolsonaro in relation to the Black population of Brazil, within the context of the historical trajectory of official discourses surrounding the question of race. The current far-right president has made racist statements throughout his political career, during his campaign and as president. These are framed here within a broader perspective, relating their content to other views of the state, its agents and its ideologues concerning the Black presence in Brazil since the nineteenth century, at the time of the Brazilian Empire and the struggles by Black organisations to assert their place in the nation.

Thinking About Government Authority: Constitutional Rules and Political Context in Citizens Assessments of Judicial, Legislative, and Executive Authority

This study explores how citizens think about the appropriate exercise of authority across the branches of government. Three similarly designed experiments with nationally representative samples reveal that what individuals are told about compliance with decision-making rules matters across institutions, but so does the political context in which officials are acting. Participants’ policy preferences about the issues that are the subject of government action are particularly important in such assessments. Evidence suggests that participants’ feelings about the current President and their policy views are more important now in assessments of the appropriateness of unilateral action than they were during the Obama administration, and that what participants are told about the President’s compliance with rules is less important. This could reflect an erosion in the importance of constitutional norms in citizens’ assessments of executive authority, but other explanations specific to our inquiry are also discussed.

The 12th AFMC International Medicinal Chemistry Symposium (AIMECS 2019) in Istanbul, Turkey.

AFMC-AIMECS meetings are internationally organized biannually by the Asian Federation for Medicinal Chemistry (AFMC) and are focused on recent studies in drug discovery and development both in academia and industry. Member organizations of the AFMC are the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan, the Chinese Pharmaceutical Association, the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, the Pharmaceutical Society of Korea, the Korean Chemical Society, the Chemical Society Located in Taipei, the Indonesian Society of Medicinal Chemistry, the Medicinal Chemistry Section of the Israel Chemical Society, and the Computer-Aided Drug Design & Development Society in Turkey. Each time, the symposium is organized within these member countries. The AIMECS 2019 symposium was held in Turkey this year, as Prof. Dr. Esin Aki-Yalcin is the current president of the AFMC (2018-2020); the next AIMECS meeting will be organized in 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. In this report, we discuss key topics at the 12th AFMC International Medicinal Chemistry Symposium - New Avenues for Design and Development of Translational Medicine (AIMECS 2019) held in Istanbul, September 8-11, 2019.

Book Review—Anne Applebaum’s <i>Red Famine</i> (2017)

The theme setting and particular relevance of artificial or man-made famines seems to come up in intervals, when tensions re-arise between ‘Western’ powers and Russia and seems to be useful for the purposes of ‘demonizing’ ‘Putin’—the current President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin (2000–2008; 2012–)—, ‘the Kremlin’, the Russian government; or simply ‘Russia’ in the eyes of ‘the West’. In recent years, the famine of 1932–1933 has reached new heights as a politicized event to be instrumentalized in a ‘memory war’ on many discursive levels (history, mass media, memorialization, etc.) between key-representatives of the current countries Ukraine and Russia (Hordijk 2018). This should, symptomatically, remind us of the sheer power that media narratives have in shaping public imaginations.
 The reviewed book: Anne Elizabeth Applebaum. Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine. ISBN-13: 978–0–241–00380–0. London: Allen Lane, September 2017. Hardcover; 512 pages; recommended retail price: £25.00.

Challenging bigotry in the Freirean classroom

In order to understand the current social, cultural, and political period of ascendant racism, homophobia, sexism, ableism, classism, and xenophobia – personified in the actions and statements of the current President of the United States – and its relationship to education, Ken McGrew suggests that the scholarship of Paulo Freire is particularly helpful. In this essay he positions his use of Freirean inspired pedagogy in the history of the social foundations tradition in education. He reflects on opposition to the foundations project, drawing upon his own teaching experiences and those of other scholars. Classroom experiences like those described in this essay, including institutional responses to them, are identified as locations of struggle with larger agendas – which include neoliberal efforts to repress the social foundations tradition in teacher training and advance banking education – to manipulate, divide, and dominate the lower-classes. He observes that the radical commitment to dialogue in the Freirean classroom tends to inadvertently embolden an organized minority of students with right-wing agendas to express extreme bigotry regarding race, gender identity, religion, and sexual orientation. This highlights a delimma for the Freirean teacher in hoping to positively influence the perspectives of teachers in training towards broader consciousness and greater compassion, but without imposition. Using Freirean analysis, he identifies the relationship of bigotry with ideologies of white supremacy and fascism. He traces the roots of these ideologies and the movements they serve, connecting them to the current moment, and argues that educators must understand themselves as being engaged in a historical struggle against bigotry. Despite the challenges that come with engaging in such struggles, McGrew argues that it is necessary to do so, and that modeling Freirean pedagogy in the foundations classroom, joined with solidarity in and outside the university, remains an important front in the struggle for a more just future.

Is Guyana a new oil El Dorado?

Abstract The Co-operative Republic of Guyana has become one of the most interesting and dynamic oil producing countries in the world at the start of the 21st century. The country already holds 5 billion barrels of proved reserves, which will certainly grow with new discoveries. Exxon leads a consortium of four companies that have the concession of the Stabroek Block (Liza Field), where nine discoveries have been made so far. Five FPSOs will be operating in the future, one of which is due to arrive in Guyana before the end of 2019 and another is due for 2020. By then, the country will be producing 340,000 barrels a day. This production will double and then reach 1 million barrels a day before the end of the next decade. The challenges and opportunities regarding the Guyanese people are dire. The lack of proper infrastructure is certainly one of the biggest challenges. But it is important to stress that the oil proceeds will transform Guyana into the highest GDP per capita of South America. The political stage is also analysed, since political instability might raise concerns for long-term investors. The Venezuela–Guyana differences regarding the sovereignty of the Essequibo Region are again a cause for concern. Brazil is a key player in supporting the geopolitical stability of South America. Presidential elections will be held in 2019/2020: the dispute will probably be between the current President Granger and the Opposition candidate Irfaan Ali. Guyana has a lot to profit from the wealth brought by oil exploitation, but its people fear the risk of growing corruption.

CIPA - Heritage Documentation: 50 Years: Looking Backwards

Abstract. The ICOMOS-ISPRS Scientific Committee, CIPA-Heritage Documentation is proud to present this publication in the occasion of its 50th birthday.Our intention with this publication is to look backwards at the achievements of CIPA while at the same time to look ahead the future of cultural heritage documentation.The publication begins with the introductory messages from the Presidents of CIPA, ISPRS and ICOMOS respectively. The first contribution concerns the future of cultural heritage documentation, with respect to the editor’s perspective. Andreas Georgopoulos, current CIPA President (2015–2019) discusses the CIPA slides on architectural photogrammetry and the application of contemporary technologies from its early years. Peter Waldhäusl, past and honorary President of CIPA, writes on the foundation and fundamentals of CIPA in memory of Maurice Carbonnell (1923–2015) and Hans Foramitti (1923–1982), the so-called “fathers of CIPA”. Ross Dallas, an honorary committee member of CIPA, is looking backwards to the late 80s to share some personal thoughts. Bill Blake also is looking towards the history of CIPA and the English Heritage Metric Survey Publication Programme 2000–2009. The publication concludes with the contribution of Fulvio Rinaudo, concerning two CIPA initiatives, the "O. Wagner Pavillon Test" and the "RecorDIM Initiative".

Recognition of the Armenian Genocide after its Centenary: A Comparative Analysis of Changing Parliamentary Positions

On April 23, 2014, as Turkey anticipated increasing international pressure to recognize the Armenian genocide as such on its centenary in 2015, Turkey's then-prime minister and current president, R...

#FeesMustFall: Lessons from the Post‑colonial Global South

The protests that engulfed South African universities in 2015 and 2016 revealed a dissatisfaction by students with regard to higher education fees. This article looks at some of the lessons that could assist South Africa in understanding the role of universal fee‑free higher education or fee‑free higher education for the poor. Most countries in the post‑colonial global South indicate a shift to cost-sharing as mounting financial pressures on state budgets make universal free education unsustainable. The current study shows that the cost-sharing model in South Africa has not resonated with students and may also be exclusionary to poor students. The lessons from the post‑colonial global South show that the trend in higher education is that the poor are often left out of most fee structures – including dual track, universal fee‑free, and cost-sharing models. The current study explores some implications and considerations of the current means test model that has been introduced by the current South African president, while using the global South as reference point for the implications of this fee structure, particularly in relation to poor and working-class students. Keywords: cost-sharing; funding; #FeesMustFall; global South; higher education; students; student movement; student politics

Special issue: Palaeobotanical papers written in honour of Professor Dr. Hans Kerp, current president of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft, on the occasion of his 65th birthday

Special issue: Palaeobotanical papers written in honour of Professor Dr. Hans Kerp, current president of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft, on the occasion of his 65th birthday

Проблемы правового регулирования управления многоквартирными домами

The article reveals the existing problems of the management of apartment buildings. In connection with the development of the real estate market and the possibility of choosing the form of management by the owners of residential buildings - this issue is important. The article shows all the advantages and disadvantages of the main ways to manage an apartment building. This article discusses some problems of legal regulation of the management of apartment buildings. The first problem is the dissatisfaction of the decisions taken between the current President of the homeowner’s association and homeowners. The second problem - the lack of regulation of the law management of apartment building housing cooperatives. To solve the above problems, the author suggests: residents to closely communicate with management companies; management companies should actively work with the house council for subscribers who have debts; monitor residents without registration, etc. the Author concludes that one of the solutions to the above problems will be the management of apartment buildings - management organization. This will reduce the negative on the part of residents, solve problems, as well as acquire - control by the administration and housing inspection, which will allow feeling the support ‘from above’. Apartment buildings operation - management organization has proven effective in the housing sector. There is positive feedback from homeowners, reducing the amount of debt, constant control over the apartment building.

The Practical Controvership of Nepotism

This article aims to provide the reader with some enlightening basic points about the possible appointment of the son of the current President of the Republic of Brazil by his father, current President. Some say it is nepotism because it is the direct appointment of a son (relative) by the Chief Executive to the position of Ambassador of Brazil in the US embassy, while others say that the practice does not hurt Binding Precedent No. 13 by the Brazilian Supreme Court. fact of office without Administrative and not political. Let's look at some points that will solve some doubts arising from the subject, whether it is legal or illegal.

An Interview with Daniel O’Donnell, Current President of FORCE11

ABSTRACTAn interview was arranged with the current President of FORCE11 in order to discover how this group arose, what its mission and activities are and how and why it might be of interest to readers of Serials Librarian.

Generosity in performance

ABSTRACTThis paper is interested in positing a new performance analysis concept in support of both seeking and recognising performances that include generosity as a key component. The politics of distemper allow for insults and derogatory remarks to be shared widely by anonymous online trolls and via Twitter and press conferences by the current President of the United States. These feel like dangerous times. I seek to provide a counterbalance by turning to a performance analysis of plays and performances that feature the enactment of generosity as a key part of what was experienced by audiences.There are three kinds of generosity in performance that I wish to trace. These three types are:1. Structural generosity2. Improvisational generosity3. Intimate generosity