Series Of Talks Research Articles

Centering the margins: Restorative and transformative justice as our path to social equity

The COVID-19 pandemic magnified the cracks and chasms in our social structures. It threw a hard truth into sharp relief: in an emergency response, it is the marginalized members of our community who are most at risk of being left behind. This article aims to contribute to the COVID-19 dialogue series by highlighting the social justice and social equity concerns related to disability justice in an emergency response. Specifically, we examine the case of K-12 school closures in Washington State in response to the COVID-19 public health crisis, for its impact on students with disabilities. We find that the response to COVID-19 emergency guided by utilitarian approaches, led to further marginalization and inequitable impact on special education students and their families. We propose that an alternative approach of Targeted Universalism that involves universal goal-setting and targeted strategy development, when modified to include Restorative and Transformative justice practices, may be a valuable tool to create the conditions for an emergency response that promotes social equity and social justice.

Understanding earthquakes using the geological record: an introduction

Understanding earthquakes using the geological record: an introduction

Más allá del antifascismo… preguntas en torno a la «normalización» del campo de estudios sobre el antiperonismo en Argentina

Las interpretaciones que vinculan el régimen peronista con experiencias fascistas y autoritarias han circulado con cierto éxito en España. La lectura del antiperonismo como variante del antifascismo es uno de los canales que ha nutrido esta tesis. A la luz de los últimos debates de la historiografía argentina en torno al peronismo, hemos organizado una serie de diálogos que buscan brindar una mirada más compleja sobre el antiperonismo. En concreto, se trata de un estado del arte sobre los últimos avances del campo. En estos diálogos una pregunta organizó nuestras intervenciones ¿podemos pensar en una «normalización» de los estudios sobre el antiperonismo equivalente a la que se ha postulado para los estudios sobre el primer peronismo? Hemos organizado los trabajos analizados en tres ejes: ruptura-continuidad con los años treinta; fronteras porosas o límites inexpugnables para analizar las identidades; homogeneidad– heterogeneidad en cada bloque.

Inner transformation to sustainability as a deep leverage point: fostering new avenues for change through dialogue and reflection

This article provides a rationale for inner transformation as a key and hitherto underresearched dimension of sustainability transformations. Inner transformation relates to various aspects of human existence and interactions such as consciousness, mindsets, values, worldviews, beliefs, spirituality and human–nature connectedness. The article draws on Meadows’ leverage points approach, as places to intervene in a system, to reveal the relevance of inner transformation for system change towards sustainability. Based on insights from a series of dialogue and reflection workshops and a literature review, this article provides three important contributions to sustainability transformations research: first, it increases our conceptual understanding of inner transformation and its relevance for sustainability; second, it outlines concrete elements of the inner transformation-sustainability nexus in relation to leverage points; and third, it presents practical examples illustrating how to work with leverage points for supporting inner transformation. In sum, the paper develops a systematized and structured approach to understanding inner transformation, including the identification of deep, i.e., highly influential, leverage points. In addition, it critically discusses the often contentious and divergent perspectives on inner transformation and shows related practical challenges. Finally, current developments in inner transformation research as well as further research needs are identified.

Corseted Choristry: Arthur Schnitzler's Reigen as Chor(e)ography∗

Arthur Schnitzler's drama Reigen is primarily known for its explicit content and the scandals it produced. Yet Reigen also reads as an attempt to modernize, and localize, the classical form of the chorus which had not found a place in modern bourgeois theater. Curiously overlooked in studies on literary choruses, the play—its title being one of the possible translations of the Greek χoϱός (choros)—can in fact be resituated as χoϱός‐literature, as choreo‐graphy, as literal transposition of a dance into a series of dialogues. The stringency of its serial format, the attention it gives to movement and location, entering and exiting, up to its suspension of language for the sake of rhythmical notation (– – –) reveal Reigen as theatrical hybrid: as chorus bursting with its copulating individuals. Radically questioning the conventions of “domestic” theater, Schnitzler's Reigen brings to the stage a critique of theatrical genres and conventions that, by the end of the nineteenth century, had clearly outgrown their use.

АНАЛІЗ ФУНКЦІОНУВАННЯ ФІНАНСОВО-БЮДЖЕТНОЇ СИСТЕМИ НІМЕЧЧИНИ

This paper examines the draft federal budget of Germany for 2022 and the government's fiscal plan until 2025. The main budget indicators, official statistics on budget expenditures and revenues, budget balance, the ratio of national debt to gross domestic product and the growth rate of GDP in 2021 and the forecast for 2022–2025 are analyzed. In addition, the implementation of the budget in 2021, measures to stabilize the economic and financial situation implemented by the German government in connection with the pandemic COVID-19 were considered. An analysis of the social component of the budget, the role of financial control in stabilizing the situation causrd by a pandemic and Germany's participation in finding solutionto such global challenge as unprecedentedly rapid climate change was also made. The next few years are crucial for strengthening Germany and Europe — for the major challenges posed by climate change, the need for digitization, securing our prosperity, social cohesion and demographic change. Germany needs a stable and reliable government that addresses the challenges facing the country. Following the elections in Germany in September 2021, a series of talks were held between the elected parties, during which they reached agreements on the main areas of their cooperation. SPD, BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN and Free Democrats recognize that Germany needs a new beginning. Even more than 30 years after the peaceful revolution, Germany remain committed to the task of completing internal unity – socially and economically. Meeting climate protection targets will also require an accelerated phase-out of coal-fired power generation. In order to respond to changes in the world of work and to address the wishes of employees and companies for more flexible working time arrangements, parties want to support trade unions and employers to enable flexible working time models. Germany's economy is leading not only in Europe but also in the world, so all the processes taking place in its financial system of Germany have a direct impact on the state and trends of further development of economic processes in the European Union. Analysis of the formation of the draft German budget, its main indicators and the government's fiscal plan until 2025, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, is important for understanding the general state of the German economy.

The Case for Irish Modernism: Denis Devlin at the League of Nations and 1930s International Broadcasting

The Case for Irish Modernism:Denis Devlin at the League of Nations and 1930s International Broadcasting Karl O'Hanlon (bio) In September 1935, the League of Nations Assembly was convened to discuss the Abyssinia crisis, with Italy's belligerence making war seem increasingly likely. On September 3, the Irish delegation to the League departed from Dun Laoghaire en route to Geneva, the city where, as Susan Pedersen writes, "internationalism was enacted, institutionalised, and performed," with "a genuinely transnational officialdom" functioning as "its beating heart."1 The delegation was headed by Éamon de Valera, President of the Executive Council and Minister for the Department for External Affairs. The delegation had Cabinet backing for de Valera's support for a League-mediated solution.2 The secretary to the delegation was the poet and diplomatic cadet, Denis Devlin (fig. 1). Devlin was among the "youngest generation" of Irish poets, modernists such as Thomas MacGreevy and Brian Coffey, in whom a year earlier Samuel Beckett located "the nucleus of a living poetic in Ireland" in his August 1934 essay in The Bookman "Recent Irish Poetry," a blistering attack on the "antiquarians" in the line of the Irish Revival.3 On October 4, two days after Italy invaded Ethiopia, de Valera addressed the nation a day later than scheduled on Radio Athlone (known as 2RN prior to 1933), in which he conceded that all hopes for a League-sponsored resolution to the crisis were now gone. Several hours earlier on the same station, Devlin, de Valera's most junior diplomat in the delegation, delivered a talk on Irish poetry, "A Reply to F. R. Higgins," in which he waded into debates surrounding modernism and revivalism in response to an earlier series of radio talks by Higgins, an associate of [End Page 157] Click for larger view View full resolution Fig 1. Denis Devlin (center) and other Irish diplomats seated with Èamon de Valera, Geneva, mid-1930s. Dorothy Macardle, de Valera papers, UCDA P150/2818, c. 1935. W. B. Yeats and one of the leading proponents of an anti-modernist, postrevivalist "racial consciousness" in anglophone Irish poetry. De Valera's Abyssinia crisis address and Devlin's defense of modernist poetry airing in the same evening program on Radio Athlone emphasizes the cross-fade complexity of Irish modernism's radiophonic mediation, as well as modernism's inextricable situation within national and transnational political contexts. As this article explores, Devlin's involvement in international broadcasting against the backdrop of the September 1935 session of the League has a curious, significant place in the history of Irish modernism.4 While the centrality to modernism of what Timothy Campbell calls "the radio imaginary" has been firmly established thanks to pioneering scholarship, Irish modernism's broadcasting context, with notable exceptions, has not been extensively investigated, studies tending in the main to focus on major figures such as Yeats, and the BBC rather than Irish radio.5 This article recovers Radio Athlone's role in the 1930s international mediascape as a fertile site for debates about Irish revivalism versus modernism, debates which also had echoes in the intrigue surrounding the legitimacy of the station's state-mandated role as a transmitter of a specifically "Irish-Ireland" collective consciousness.6 By the mid-1930s, Radio Athlone played a crucial role in relaying Irish national identity to international listeners, an identity which was the discursive subject of many of its broadcasts. This article reconstructs the "radio imaginary" of these debates in the absence of surviving recordings, weaving the conflicted dynamics of Irish modernism as they emerge in all their density. By reconstructing Irish modernism's archival traces, this article resituates competing statements on Irish poetry by modernists and their opponents within the full context of their delivery. [End Page 158] The case for Irish modernism as made by one of its most intriguing voices, the poet Denis Devlin, clarifies the case for the categorical and critical value of Irish modernism (and modernism tout court) in contemporary scholarship, which has recently been questioned. The most striking intervention in this regard is made by Edna Longley in Yeats and Modern Poetry (2013), in which the rap sheet against modernism includes the assertion that its post-hoc...

Communicating COVID-19 health information to culturally and linguistically diverse communities: insights from a participatory research collaboration

To consider the challenges of communicating COVID-19 directives to culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities in Australia, and present evidence-based solutions to influence policy and practice on promoting relevant health behaviours; to advance participatory research methodologies for health behaviour change. Type of program or service: We present a case study of a participatory research collaboration between CALD community leaders and health behaviour change scientists during the COVID-19 crisis. The goal was to better understand the role of community leaders in shaping health behaviours in their communities and how that role might be leveraged for better health outcomes. This article is the culmination of a series of dialogues between CALD community and advocacy leaders, and health behaviour change scientists in July 2020. The academic authors recruited 12 prominent CALD community leaders, conducted five semi-structured dialogues with small groups, and worked with all participants to develop insights that were applicable to the many different CALD communities represented in the research collaboration. Three key findings emerged: 1) partnerships between CALD leaders, communities and government are critical for effective health communication; 2) shifting behaviour requires moving beyond disseminating information to designing tailored solutions; and 3) the diverse needs and circumstances of people and communities must be at the centre of health communication and behaviour change strategies. The collaborative process we undertook in this study enabled us to identify key challenges experienced and solutions offered by CALD leaders in communicating health information throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Partnering with communities that are subject to health messaging can reduce inequalities in healthcare communication by enabling the development of strategies that help align human behaviour with the recommendations of health experts. This - along with sustained partnership and collaboration with CALD communities, understanding the cultural context, and the appropriate tailoring and delivery of communications - will ensure health-related messages are not lost in translation. The lessons provided in this paper are applicable not only to the current pandemic but also to post-pandemic social and economic recovery.

Towards faster feedback in higher education through digitally mediated dialogic loops

How feedback is understood and enacted has shifted from the traditional practice of providing individual feedback on summative tasks at key points to a more ongoing series of dialogues between the teacher and students during the teaching period. This paper reports on the experiences of designing faster feedback through weekly dialogic feedback loops to enhance students’ personal connection to their learning while providing teachers with faster, actionable feedback data to inform learning design. A pragmatic inquiry considered how benefits might potentially be amplified through the use of digital technologies. Data included student reflections collected via the GoingOK web application, interviews and focus groups. The findings identify and theorise four types of digitally mediated feedback loops: students in computer-mediated dialogue with themselves; students and teachers in dialogue with each other; the reflection on how feedback informed learning; and the sociotechnical dialogue informing ongoing technical design. Three design dilemmas that were experienced by teachers as they enacted digitally mediated dialogic feedback loops are articulated, alongside the principles that enabled responsive design. Understanding these design elements is fundamental if automation of some parts of the feedback loop through reflective writing analytics is to be considered both feasible and desirable.
 Implications for practice or policy:
 
 Digitally mediated feedback loops can facilitate faster feedback, enabling students to reflect on their learning and providing teachers with access to new insights about diverse learners.
 Feedback technology can challenge existing ideas about feedback.
 Faster feedback can save teachers time, but efficiencies are likely to depend on an increased human workload in the short term as automation technologies can be slower to develop.
 Sociotechnical innovation requires collective dialogue between educators and digital developers, across asynchronous timelines.

PHILOSOPHISING TOWARDS WISDOM AS NURTURING THE TREE OF LIFE IN US

In this essay the author poses the hypothesis that the metaphor “to philosophise is to nurture the Tree of life in us” is a better metaphor than “to philosophise is to cease living” when it comes to conceptualizing what people might experience when philosophising the so called “Dialogos Way”. First, the author outlines different usages of the Tree of life metaphor. In line with reflective practice research methodology, she then explores how the metaphor corresponds to the Dialogos approach as a process- and wisdom oriented form of philosophical practice. Further, through original reflection, she narrates six examples from her experience as a philosophical practitioner. From this, six themes are extracted through critical reflection: aha-experience, peak-experience, heart-to-heart synchronization, life-guiding concepts, plateau experience and pluralism. The themes are then reflected upon theoretically and generally. Summing up, the participants seemed to have experienced forms of psychological growth rather than psychological suffering and “death” through participation in Dialogos dialogue series or workshops. The author concludes that even though the long term aim of philosophy might well be to cope with death, and even though philosophising might imply practicing “dying” through letting go of one`s more or less well founded opinions and stances, this might lead to a new “birth” and thus to psychological growth rather than psychological suffering and death, supporting the initial hypothesis.

IEEE CAS-EDS-SSCS Wuhan Joint Chapter Holds Technical Talk Series: The Spark of Thought Lighted in May [Chapters

IEEE CAS-EDS-SSCS Wuhan Joint Chapter Holds Technical Talk Series: The Spark of Thought Lighted in May [Chapters

E-Learning Emergency? A Student-Teacher Dialogue on Sudden Shifts to Online Medical Education

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 has forced medical educators worldwide to make sudden and unexpected shifts from face-to-face teaching to e-learning. These emergency changes can be quite unlike coordinated and planned shifts to digital education, and some institutions have found themselves with limited time for preparation of teachers and students, as well as digital infrastructure. This article explores issues raised through a series of student-teacher dialogues. These were conducted online and outside of the formal curriculum development processes as a form of rapid and informal exchange on the subject of the sudden shift to e-learning. Three salient issues were raised from our iterant discussions; the first of which being the generation gap leading to expectation mismatches of students between media they normally consume and those which teachers are able to produce. We propose mutual understanding and sharing of best digital practices as methods to reduce the degree of mismatch. The second issue was the potential benefits and pitfalls of students as co-creators of elearning. Potential benefits of technical proficiency in e-learning production and a peer-teaching element must be balanced with respect for students’ time and effort in any such endeavours. Finally, the issue of wealth inequality within medical student bodies was identified, which is likely to be exacerbated by lack of access to equalising provisions such as university computing facilities. This article serves to highlight issues that teachers and students face in this emergency e-learning era, and to demonstrate how informal student-teacher dialogue can identify issues for further scholarly exploration.

The Civilisational and Cultural Heritage of Iran and the Malay World: A Cultural Discourse

The event was hosted and organised by IAIS Malaysia in collaboration with the Embassy of France in Malaysia and Alliance Francaise de Kuala Lumpur. The public talk is part of the French Talks series aimed at creating a space for dialogue and a bridge between French and Malaysian cultures. The event featured Abdennour Bidar, French philosopher and author of L'Islam sans soumission (Islam without Submission), and IAIS Deputy CEO, Mohamed Azam Mohamed Adil, as the moderator. The event brought together a healthy crowd of 150 attendees, which included local activists, NGO workers, and representatives from the French community in Malaysia.

Experiment on the empathic reaction of an animatronic structure determined by a voice command

This paper presents an experiment on the affective reaction of a modified biomimical structure Chimpanzee Alive at a series of comands or vocal dialogues. The experimental structure includes and a biomimetic structures Scary Terry Talking Skull which has the possibility, through own development board, to send voice commands to the biomimetic structure Chimpanzee Alive. These voice commands are taken by using a the smartphone with android operating system and which has Arduino BlueControl applications installed. After processing of the voice commands by Arduino BlueControl, the smartphone send control signals by bluettooth, to biomimetic structures controller. This commands the motors of the biomimetic structure (for the movement of the eyebrows, mouth and eyelids), the result being the following expressive states: euphoric, pensiveness, annoyance. After obtain the expressive states, the Chimpanzee Alive structure returns into neutral state by activate a gestures sensor.

The Art of Feminist-Queering the Museum: Gate-leaking

This paper takes part in the ongoing debate around how museums have begun to address LGBTQI+ and feminist issues in the 21st century. While Portugal is a particularly interesting country to consider, given that it has passed some of the most advanced legislation on LGBTQI+ rights in Europe (Santos 2012), this progressivism is not reflected in Portuguese museum practices, given that gender museology has been slow to emerge (Vaquinhas 2014). After briefly contextualising initiatives addressing gender in Portuguese art museums, we present as a case study Trazer a margem para o centro (Bringing the Margin to the Centre), a series of three talks hosted by the Berardo Collection Museum, which is considered Portugal’s primary modern and contemporary art museum. Unlike previous initiatives in art museums, which were museum-led, the series of talks was led by the small intersectional feminist collective FACA. A sociologist (Rita Grácio) and the three members of FACA (Andreia Coutinho, Laura Falé and Maribel Sobreira) designed and conducted the three talks that constitute the initiative Bringing the Margin to the Centre. Grácio designed and conducted the qualitative study of the audiences that attended Bringing the Margin to the Centre. This study consisted of participant observation at the event series, at which an adapted version of the Personal Meaning Mapping technique (Falk and Storksdieck 2005) was applied; semi-structured phone interviews with participants were then conducted after the event (Falk and Dierking 2011). The main findings show this event raised awareness among cisgender visitors with heteronormative perspectives and provided a space for counter-narratives of the queer community, showing the role of collective curatorial activism and museums in promoting gender equality and inclusiveness, if acting as gate-leakers, rather than as gatekeepers. Hence, museums can provide lessons to other organisations interested in promoting diversity and inclusion.

Language use in pop culture over three decades

AbstractAnalyzing variation in language features in literature and telecinematic discourse provides valuable insights into society’s shifting values and perspectives. In this study, we carry out a keyword analysis on the language of three series ofStar Trektelevision dialogues, broadcast in the 1960s, 1980s, and 1990s, from two perspectives: (i) keywords across the three series highlighting words that are unique to one series in contrast to the other two, providing insights about changes of foci across time; (ii) keywords in relation to gender depicting potential differences in gender roles and how these may change through time across the series.

출애굽기 33:7-11의 정경적 읽기 - 회막(אהל מועך)과 성막(משׁכן)의 구분을 위한 제언 -

This is a paper to delve into the canonical significance of Exodus 33:7-11 in order to make a distinction between the tent of meeting (אהל מועך) and the tabernacle(משׁכן). I have wrestled with two problems, i.e. translation of the tent of meeting and integral reading of Exodus 33:7-11 in the present canonical context. Scholars had discussed the text in question as a later insertion redacted by the so-called Priestly Historian. Without it, the preceeding text of 33:1-6 would flow smoothly into the following 33:12-23. Both texts consist of a successive dialogue between God and Moses regarding the judgment of God in the face of Israelites’ idolatry worship of the Golden Calf. Why does the text of the tent of meeting interrupt the divine-human dialogue in the chapter of 33? Moreover, the verb forms of yiqtol and weqatel indicate that the tent of meeting in 33:7-11 had been installed occasionally even before the construction of the tabernacle. What is the relationship between those two tents?BR Several canonical readers have suggested their own interpretations on the meaning of the text in the context of chapters 32-34. Some of them regard the function of the text as a focal point of change from the judgment to restoration. Others argue that the role of Moses as an intercessor is highlighted. This claim is strengthened by the expression of “face to face” encounter between Yahweh and Moses. Still others notice that the theme of the presence of God is the main issue that is consummated by the inauguration of the tabernacle in chapter 40. However, structural analysis of chapters 32-34 has revealed that the tent of meeting is situated at the heart of a series of divine-human dialogues. Also, the structure of chapter 33 itself shows a chiasmus whose focus is placed on the conversation of Moses with God. Furthermore, the extended context of chapters 19-40, which contain the legal codes such as the Ten Commandments, Covenant Code, the Law of Tabernacle, displays that the legal provisions and regulations are the result of personal conversation between God and human.BR Through these observations, I have asserted that Exodus 33:7-11 conveys a theological remedy to misunderstandings of Israelites who had considered the meaning of the tabernacle as an experience of divine presence by seeing the clouds and fire. When the P placed the text at the center of chapters 32-34, they must have intended to emphasize the experience of ‘listening’ to the divine words that transpire in the tent of meeting. I have found, in agreement with Menahem Haran, that the tradition of tabernacle represents the priestly experience of seeing while the tent of meeting’s tradition represents the prophetic experience of listening. In conclusion, I have proposed that the tent of meeting should be translated as ‘tent of Words’ or ‘tent of listening.’

Finding a Way Forward

Abstract In May and June of 2020, the editors of Mechanical Engineering magazine convened a series of talks with experts from a range of engineering disciplines to explore these issues that are at the heart of the engineering response to COVID-19. The title of that series, Rebooting After the Pandemic, may have sounded a bit premature as many American states were grappling with a rising wave of infection in June. The forward-facing focus is, however, critical. The time to prepare for the post-pandemic world is now.

Facing the Challenges of Distance Learning: Voices from the Classroom

This article reports on the first webinar in the IATEFL Learner Autonomy Special Interest Group’ series of online events dedicated to supporting teachers in this unprecedented and unexpected pandemic situation. Learner Autonomy in the Time of Corona: Supporting Learners and Teachers in Turbulent Days featured a series of talks and open discussion panels, allowing participants to actively share their thoughts and ideas. In the following, the outcomes of the webinar will be discussed.

Re-Visioning Management: Quantum Perspectives

This symposium addresses the AOM 2020 theme through a series of opening talks and an hour of dialogue around the theme of Quantum Perspectives. The presenters turn to quantum concepts through which physics has described a reality which is unexpectedly conscious and interconnected. The discovery in physics of the quantum realm as a subjective as well as objective reality is opening new possibility for social sciences such as management. Each of the presenters in this symposium explores the relationship between practices of connectedness to gain direct-intuitive insight into the quantum nature of reality and transformation of the discipline of management to be an agent of human flourishing. Our contributions are to eliminate the dichotomies that conventional management theory enact, and to propose alternative narratives from quantum perspectives. Quantum Empathy and Global Transcendence Presenter: Kathryn Pavlovich; Waikato Management School Driving Organizational Entrainment Through Spiritual Leadership Presenter: Danny Sandra; U. of Antwerp Presenter: Sharda Nandram; Nyenrode Business U. V-Theory: A Quantum-Field Approach to Leadership Development Presenter: Anil K. Maheshwari; Maharishi U. of Management Practices, Purpose, and Consciousness: How Business Leaders Move Toward Positive Business Outcomes Presenter: Joseph S. Leah; Florida Gulf Coast U. / Case Western U. Catalyzing the Quantum Shift: Exploring Pathways for Business Education and Research Presenter: Julia Storberg-Walker; George Washington U. Experience and Understanding of Wholeness in Consciousness-Based Education Presenter: Dennis P. Heaton; Maharishi International U.