Humanities & Social Sciences

Today's universities are confronted with questions about the increasing scale of corporatisation and commercialisation, as well as their decreasing activity in the field of the social mission, i.e., engagement in the real problems of ordinary people, local communities and society at large. As a remedy for this problem, this book proposes using action research as a means of shaping collaboration between universities and their stakeholders, taking into account related benefits, opportunities and challenges. In this context, we understand action research somewhat more broadly, as universities’ conducting useful research that becomes a domain of their social mission. The core message of this volume is the development of a cooperation process in which the university leaves its ""ivory tower,"" builds relationships with its stakeholders and, as a result, engages more effectively in social life. In this book, readers will find an original perspective on action research, the application of which enables mutual benefits for universities and their stakeholders. It presents the authors’ original model of cooperation based on the AR approach and concrete examples of successful cooperation between universities and their stakeholders. Step by step, it illustrates how to initiate cooperation, conduct useful scientific research and together with stakeholders bring about changes in social life. This book will be of value to university managers, academics, students of social, management and economic sciences, as well as managers and specialists employed in organisations from various sectors that may be interested in cooperation with universities.

In the anthology Music Education – Diversity and Sustainability, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish music education researchers discuss different perspectives on diversity and sustainability in music education activities and research. The concept of diversity is itself diverse. It can be linked to gender and sexuality, ethnicity, social class, functional ability and age or to intersectional syntheses of these perspectives. In addition, music education research encompasses a theoretical and research methodological diversity. The concept of sustainability is also very diverse and can be linked to challenges of an economic, environmental, social and cultural nature. The first part of the anthology contains six chapters that discuss various diversity issues, with a particular focus on the significance of gender, class and ethnicity in music education activities. The three chapters in the second part of the book explore and discuss sustainability challenges in higher music education institutions, sustainable conceptions of musician health among students in higher music education, and issues of nature loss. The anthology's editors are Øivind Varkøy and Siw Graabræk Nielsen, both professors in music pedagogy and heads of the research center CERM (Center for Educational Research in Music) at the Norwegian Academy of Music.;I antologien Musikkpedagogikk – mangfold og bærekraft drøfter norske, svenske og danske musikkpedagogiske forskere ulike perspektiver på mangfold og bærekraft i musikkpedagogisk virksomhet og musikkpedagogisk forskning. Mangfoldkonseptet er i seg selv mangfoldig. Det kan være knyttet til kjønn og seksualitet, etnisitet, sosial klasse, funksjonsevne og alder, eller interseksjonelle synteser av disse perspektivene. I tillegg rommer den musikkpedagogiske forskningen et teoretisk og forskningsmetodisk mangfold. Også bærekraft-konseptet er svært mangfoldig, og kan knyttes til utfordringer av økonomisk, miljømessig, sosial og kulturell karakter. Antologienes første del inneholder seks kapitler som drøfter ulike mangfoldsproblematikker, med særlig søkelys på betydningen av kjønn, klasse og etnisitet i musikkpedagogisk virksomhet. Disse seks kapitlene følges av tre kapitler i bokens andre del – med fokus på bærekraft-perspektiver. Disse tre kapitlene kretser omkring ulike utfordringer knyttet til bærekraftsutfordringer i høyere musikkutdanningsinstitusjoner, bærekraftige konsepsjoner av musikerhelse blant studenter i høyere musikkutdanning, og naturtapsproblematikk.

This open access book constitutes revised selected papers from the International Workshops held at the Third International Conference on Process Mining, ICPM 2021, which took place in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, during October 31–November 4, 2021. The conference focuses on the area of process mining research and practice, including theory, algorithmic challenges, and applications. The co-located workshops provided a forum for novel research ideas. The 28 papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. They stem from the following workshops: 2nd International Workshop on Event Data and Behavioral Analytics (EDBA) 2nd International Workshop on Leveraging Machine Learning in Process Mining (ML4PM) 2nd International Workshop on Streaming Analytics for Process Mining (SA4PM) 6th International Workshop on Process Querying, Manipulation, and Intelligence (PQMI) 4th International Workshop on Process-Oriented Data Science for Healthcare (PODS4H) 2nd International Workshop on Trust, Privacy, and Security in Process Analytics (TPSA) One survey paper on the results of the XES 2.0 Workshop is included.

Much of the information that libraries make available is protected by copyright or subject to the terms of license agreements. This reader presents an overview of current issues in copyright law reform. The chapters present salient points, overviews of the law and legal concepts, selected comparisons of approaches around the world, significance of the topic, and opportunities for reform, advocacy, and other related resources.

"There is a widely held notion that death is not particularly visible in our culture; death is something we do not talk about. The premise for Døden i livet has been to challenge this preconception from a variety of perspectives and disciplines. The authors argue that death is present in our lives in many ways. We see it and experience it in our physical surroundings, for example in the various arrangements we make to remind ourselves of the dead. We hear or read about it in speeches, poems, music lyrics, psalms, obituaries, biographies, picture books, novels and newspapers. We talk about death in conversations with each other, in characterizing the dead and in clinical language about illness and death. We reveal our understanding of death through visual forms such as newspaper images, illustrations in books and in the imagery and metaphors we employ when we describe it. Døden i livet is a mult-disciplinary, scientific anthology consisting of 12 peer-reviewed chapters geared towards scholars and students interested in broader appreciation of how death is present in our culture. The chapters are written by researchers working in such diverse fields as health, pedagogics, idea history, religion, literature studies, linguistics and rhetoric."

This book explores experimental approaches to the design and construction of wooden structures in architecture, while presenting the results of an artistic research project. By using digital tools, experimental formations are created that are derived from the material logic. Selected guest contributions round up the documentation of the work processes.

This book provides an in-depth exploration of the Saudi judiciary in the 21st century. Drawing on interviews with leading members of the Saudi judiciary, seldom-seen legal literature and court judgments, the author addresses two main questions: First, what is the Saudi jurists’ understanding of an Islamic judiciary? And second, how is this understanding reflected in the Saudi legal system, its laws, its institutions, and court practices?

Der Band präsentiert die Druckfassungen der Vorträge zum Thema ‚Unendlichkeit‘, die anlässlich der Erlanger Universitätstage vom 24. Februar bis zum 24. März 2015 in Amberg und vom 22. Oktober bis zum 26. November 2015 in Ansbach gehalten wurden. Die fünf Erlanger Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler, Professor Dr. Christine Lubkoll, Professor Dr. Karl-Heinz Leven, Professor Dr. Wolfgang Schoberth, Professor Dr. Thomas Weth und Professor Dr. Jörn Wilms – aus den Disziplinen Germanistik, Geschichte der Medizin, Theologie, Mathematik und Astronomie – verstanden es auf ebenso informative wie unterhaltsame Weise, dem Thema ‚Unendlichkeit‘ faszinierende Aspekte abzugewinnen und ihr – erfreulicherweise stets großes – Publikum mit ihren geschickt didaktisch aufbereiteten Beiträgen zu begeistern.

The book addresses the period that runs from the second half of the 19th century, when the State launched the process of territorial occupation of La Araucanía (1862-1883), until the end of the 1950s, in the years prior to the agrarian reform. It thus includes a long cycle in which the structural conditions did not allow the conflicts generated by land ownership and the colonization of La Araucanía to break out, leaving the hegemonic and identity conflicts generated in specific spaces of modernization and colonization moderately subdued. of the Mapuche territory.

Volume 3 contains the biographies of Franz von Baader (1765-1841), Joseph Görres (1776-1848), Adolph Kolping (1813-1865), Franziska Schwervier (1819-1876), Ludwig Windthorst (1812-1891), Joseph Edmund Jörg (1819-1901), Franz Brandts (1834-1914), Elisabeth Gnauck-Kühne (1850-1917), Wilhelm Hohoff (1848-1923), Heinrich Pesch (1854-1926), Joseph Mausbach (1861-1931), Joseph Heß (1878-1932), Bernhard Otte (1883-1933), Otto Müller (1870-1944), Maria Schmitz (1875-1962), Helene Weber (1881-1962), Goetz A. Briefs (1889-1974), Hans Globke (1898-1973), Julius Kardinal Döpfner (1913-1976).

This volume critically discusses the role empathy plays in different processes of understanding. More precisely, it clarifies empathy’s role in interpersonal understanding and appreciating works of literature and art. The volume also includes a section on historical theories of empathy’s role in understanding. When it comes to understanding other persons, empathy is typically seen as a process that enables the empathizer to recognize a target person’s mental states, a process which is in turn seen as “understanding” this person. This volume, however, explores empathy’s role in understanding beyond mere mental state recognition. With contributions on processes of interpersonal understanding and understanding of literature and art, it provides readers with an overview over both differences and similarities regarding empathy’s epistemic role in two rather different areas. Since important roots of the debate about empathic understanding lie at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century, the historical section of the volume focusses specifically on this period. Empathy’s Role in Understanding Persons, Literature, and Art will appeal to scholars and advanced students working in the philosophy of mind, epistemology, aesthetics and the history of philosophy, as well as in literary studies and art history.

With a multi-perspective approach and transdisciplinary methods (humanities and sciences), this book offers an in-depth and systematic study of hand-drawn and hand-coloured maps from East Asia. Map colouring provides an insight into past societies, landscapes and territories. Colour is an important key to a more precise understanding of the map’s content, purposes and uses; moreover, colours are also an important aspect of a map’s materiality. The material scientific analysis of colourants makes it possible to find out more about maps’ material nature and their production as well as the social, geographical and political context in which they were made. ‘Reading’ colours in this way gives a glimpse into the social lives of mapmakers as well as map users and reveals the complexity of the historical and social context in which maps were produced and how the maps were actually made.

In Völkerschaustellung in Deutschland und Frankreich von 1874 bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg werden ethnologische Ausstellungen fremder Kulturen und Völker als Phänomen der Kolonialzeit untersucht. Es wird deutlich, dass diese heute befremdlich wirkenden Völkerschauen keineswegs allein aus imperialen Politiken und Praktiken heraus erklärt werden können. Anhand deutscher und französischer Quellen – Zeitungen, Zeitschriften und ausgewählte Ego-Dokumente – werden die jeweiligen gesellschaftlichen Diskurse rund um die Völkerschauen vergleichend untersucht, dabei die Frage nach zeitgenössischen Imaginations- und Konstruktionsformen des Fremden oder nach Wahrnehmung und Attraktivität von Exotik gestellt. Jenseits kolonialer Propaganda – und trotz der nationalen Unterschiede in Darstellung und Inszenierung – können in beiden Ländern unternehmerische Interessen der Veranstalter und insbesondere Neugier und Unterhaltungsbedürfnis der Ausstellungsbesucher als wichtige Faktoren zur Erklärung des Phänomens der Völkerschauen und der sie begleitenden Diskurse herausgearbeitet werden.

Staatliche Fördergeber sollten bei Förderprogrammen zur Legitimation des Mitteleinsatzes Beurteilungen vornehmen können, um den Erfolg von Förderprogrammen zu bewerten. Diese Analysen sind oftmals nicht möglich, da notwendige Gestaltungsvoraussetzungen nicht systematisch vorliegen. Vor diesem Hintergrund verfolgt der Autor in seiner Modellkonzeption das Ziel, entlang des Fördermanagementprozesses Förderprogramme zu analysieren, um Gestaltungspotentiale zur Optimierung eines Controllings abzuleiten. Durch eine prozessunabhängige Beziehungsanalyse von Fördergeber, -nehmer und Zielgruppe wird der individuelle Charakter berücksichtigt. Das Ergebnis dieser Analyse fließt als Komplexitätsgrad in die Gesamtbeurteilung ein. Die praktische Anwendbarkeit wird im Rahmen einer Fallstudie aufgezeigt.

The paper traces the evolution of certain ethical and aesthetic issues within mountaineering literature, from the assertion of the practice’s uselessness in the 1960s to the more recent ecological commitment, with a particular focus on Nuovo Mattino.