Humanities & Social Sciences

In recent years, Italian cinema has experienced a quiet revolution: the proliferation of films by women. But their thought-provoking work has not yet received the attention it deserves. Reframing Italy fills this gap. The book introduces readers to films and documentaries by recognized women directors such as Cristina Comencini, Wilma Labate, Alina Marazzi, Antonietta De Lillo, Marina Spada, and Francesca Comencini, as well as to filmmakers whose work has so far been undeservedly ignored. Through a thematically based analysis supported by case studies, Luciano and Scarparo argue that Italian women filmmakers, while not overtly feminist, are producing work that increasingly foregrounds female subjectivity from a variety of social, political, and cultural positions. This book, with its accompanying video interviews, explores the filmmakers' challenging relationship with a highly patriarchal cinema industry. The incisive readings of individual films demonstrate how women's rich cinematic production reframes the aesthetic of their cinematic fathers, re-positions relationships between mothers and daughters, functions as a space for remembering women's (hi)stories, and highlights pressing social issues such as immigration and workplace discrimination. This original and timely study makes an invaluable contribution to film studies and to the study of gender and culture in the early twenty-first century.

The contributors analyse the mutual impact of colonial and postcolonial governance on the development, organisation and mobilisation of Islam paying special attention to the ongoing battles over the codification of Islamic education, religious authority, law and practice while outlining the similarities and differences, the continuities and ruptures in British, French and Portuguese colonial rule in Islamic regions. Using a shared conceptual framework they examine the nature of regulation and its outcomes in different historical periods in selected African, Middle Eastern, Asian and European countries. This authoritative study opens up new vistas for research in Islamic studies.

This book is a compelling blend of mystery, history, and creative non-fiction, that brings to life the wartime story of Norah Hodgkinson (1925-2009), a working-class schoolgirl, later clerical worker, and a prolific diarist. The book opens with a sailor’s letter of thanks for a pair of socks that Norah had knitted for the Royal Navy Comforts Fund in 1940―a gift that led to an exciting romance with the sailor’s dashing airman brother. But as the author pieces together Norah’s diary entries and the sailor’s letters, questions emerge about the men’s identities and intentions. 'A Place of Dreams' uncovers a dark tale of male rivalry and wartime anonymity, and a young woman’s appetite for life and love amidst unexpected dangers. Blending microhistory with family history and life-writing, the author navigates the challenges of Norah’s tweet-like diary entries. Inviting the reader into Norah’s world, she explores ways of uncovering the lives of ordinary women, so often absent from official archives. A Place of Dreams is a timely story in the era of #MeToo, juxtaposing Norah’s wartime experiences with contemporary feminist writing to pose questions―about sex, desire, modesty, and shame—that Norah could not voice in 1940s England. By reflecting on the relevance of history today, the story explores whether narratives like Norah’s can spark broader conversations about “intimate justice” and its connection to politics and cultural change. On a personal level, it delves into what Norah’s wartime experience means to the author as a historian, feminist, Norah’s great-niece, and a mother of girls. This volume will appeal to readers with an interest in women’s lives in the past, and academics and students in the fields of women’s and gender history, the history of sexuality, the social and cultural history of war/WW2 studies, diary studies, and the relationships of history, fiction and life-writing.

Die Psychosen stellen die Psychoanalyse vor große Probleme, vor denen sie lange zurückgewichen ist. 14 Autoren, alle Mitglieder der lacanianisch orientierten Gruppierung »Assoziation für die Freudsche Psychoanalyse«, zeigen, dass eine fruchtbare Arbeit mit Psychotikern möglich ist. Erforderlich sind eine genaue Kenntnis der Strukturen und Methoden, die sich vom klassischen Setting unterscheiden. Die psychoanalytische Arbeit mit Psychotikern stützt sich auf ein kreatives Potential, das sich in künstlerischen Produktionen zeigt, von denen einige in diesem Band dargestellt und kommentiert werden. U.a. mit Beiträgen von Antoine Mooij, André Michels, Marianne Schuller, August Ruhs, Peter Widmer.

The Nako temple complex with its earliest structures dating back to the 11th century is an extraordinary testimony of early Tibetan Buddhism not anymore preserved in today’s Tibet. Endangered by the rough environment, improper treatment and frequent earthquakes, the outstanding monuments were re-discovered by scholars from Austrian universities in the 1980s. The transdisciplinary research project carried out over more than 20 years led to in-depth studies, preservation and model-like conservation of the temples and their artworks.

The present volume takes its starting point in the crisis situation surrounding Covid-19. It aims to counteract the uncertainty and the break with what was previously seen as "normality" by means of academic practices. Involved in educational research and teaching, which in the face of the pandemic are re-locating and re-shaping themselves in a variety of ways, the authors turn to fundamental determinations of educational relations in their ideational, categorial, social and material re-locations. In doing so, they also focus on topics that have so far been rather marginal in educational studies, but which are emerging as future research topics, for example, the mechanisation of interaction.

This volume presents two works elaborating a general theory of words and their structure written by René de Saussure, younger brother of Ferdinand de Saussure. Although originating in René de Saussure's concerns for the structure of Esperanto, these essays are clearly intended to articulate a general account of word formation in natural language. They appear here in the French original with facing English translations, accompanied by some remarks on René de Saussure's life and followed by essays on the Esperantist background of his analysis (by Marc van Oostendorp), the contemporary relevance of his morphological theory (by Stephen Anderson), and the semantic theory of words underlying his analysis (by Louis de Saussure). These two works have remained essentially unknown to the community of scholars in general linguistics since their publication in 1911 and 1919, respectively, although Esperantists have been aware of them. They develop in quite explicit form a theory of what would later be called morphemic analysis, based primarily on data from French (with some material from German and English, as well as occasional examples from other Indo-European languages). In its fundamental aspect, René's view of word formation differed significantly from that of his brother, who saw the structure of complex words as revealed not through their decomposition into smaller "atomic" units but rather in the relations between words, relations which could be presented in analogical form and which anticipate rule-based theories of morphological structure. The contrast between the two brothers' views thus anticipates basic issues in current theorizing about word structure.

The here collected contributions relating to the 46th International Conference of the Representation Disciplines Teachers, organized jointly by Sapienza University of Rome, Roma Tre University, and San Raffaele Roma University, aim to offer the scientific community a reflection on the theoretical and methodological aspects related to the concept of èkphrasis, a term that, in the field of representation, concerns descriptive, analogical, and digital activities that generate new knowledge in several areas of application. The Conference aims to place at the center of the discussion an interpretation of the concept of research that, without neglecting an idea of study, protection, and enhancement of environmental and cultural heritage, focuses on the needs of contemporary society and its possible developments, making use of innovative theoretical, methodological, and operational activities, including those characterized by an interdisciplinary approach. According to this interpretation, research can also be seen as a foreshadowing of the definition and testing of experimental proposals aimed at exploring new areas of investigation: this opens up imaginative and utopian perspectives in the relationship between the sciences, the arts, and the disciplines that contribute to common goals, through the experimentation of methods, techniques, and languages for conceiving, prefiguring, designing, and representing.

In the 18th century, the power of the imagination, which had previously been regarded as problematic, experienced a radical upsurge in esteem. In the modern era, imagination has been viewed as an essential moment in processes of planning, designing, and organizing the world. The creative capacity to place things in relation to each other in time and space has since been considered a vital force in history.

Unter dem Motto ‚Brücken gestalten – mit Deutsch verbinden: Menschen – Lebenswelten – Kulturen‘ fand 2017 in Freiburg (CH) die XVI. Internationale Tagung der Deutschlehrerinnen und Deutschlehrer (IDT) statt. Die Ziele der IDT sind: - über den aktuellen Stand von Forschung und Entwicklung im Fach Deutsch als Fremdsprache (DaF) und Deutsch als Zweitsprache (DaZ) informieren; - die Zusammenarbeit der DaF- und DaZ-Akteure weltweit und innerhalb der deutschsprachigen Länder fördern; - bildungspolitische Akzente setzen. Die drei Tagungsbände widerspiegeln diese Ziele in vielfältiger Weise und konturieren sie zukunftsgerichtet. Dieser Band versammelt ausgewählte Beiträge zu den Sektionen der Freiburger IDT, in denen der Fokus auf dem Unterricht und auf praxisbezogener Forschung liegt. Thematisch widmen sich die Beiträge dem ‚Bedürfnisorientierten Unterricht‘, dem ‚Sprachenerwerb (zwei- und mehrsprachiges Lehren und Lernen)‘, ‚erweiterten Lehr- und Lernformen‘ und ‚Kompetenzorientiertem Unterricht‘, aber auch ‚Kulturbezogenem Lehren und Lernen‘, ‚Lehr- und Lernmaterialien‘ sowie dem ‚Prüfen und Testen‘. Die verschiedenen Perspektiven auf die Situation des Lehrens und Lernens von Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache weltweit bringen nicht zuletzt die kulturelle Dimension des Deutschunterrichts zum Ausdruck. The XVI International Conference of German Teachers (IDT), which in 2017 took place in Freiburg (CH), went under the slogan “Designing bridges - connecting through German: people – environments – cultures”. The goals of the IDT are: • to inform about the current state of research and developments in the subjects German as a Foreign Language (DaF) and German as a Second Language (DaZ); • to promote the cooperation of DaF and DaZ stakeholders worldwide and within the German-speaking countries; • to highlight relevant topics within educational politics. The conference proceedings (in three volumes) reflect these objectives in a variety of ways and outline them in a forward-looking manner. The 2nd Volume is collection of contributions that focus on teaching and practice-oriented research. Thematically, the contributions are devoted to ‘needs-oriented teaching’, ‘language acquisition (bi- and multilingual teaching and learning)’, ‘extended forms of teaching and learning’ and ‘competence-oriented teaching’, but also ‘culture-related teaching and learning’, ‘teaching and learning materials’ and ‘testing’.

Was macht Europa als Bildungsraum aus, wie wird es gebildet und wie bildet es sich? Der vorliegende Sammelband thematisiert Bildungsprozesse aus einer transnationalen Perspektive, aus der heraus Europa eine doppelte Funktion hat: Einerseits bilden die von der Europäischen Union implementierten Steuerungsstrukturen einen Rahmen für Erziehungs- und Bildungsprozesse im Staatenverbund sowie darüber hinaus. Andererseits bringt die Teilhabe an formalen, non-formalen und informellen Lehr-/Lernangeboten europäische Bildungs-, Erziehungs- und Sozialisationsprozesse hervor. In den Beiträgen werden Bildung in Europa sowie damit einhergehende Begriffskonstruktionen von Wissenschaftler:innen sowie Praktiker:innen kritisch beleuchtet.

Als der Musikwissenschaftler Reinhold Hammerstein 2010 verstarb, hinterließ er unter seinen skizzierten Vorhaben auch eine größere Abhandlung zum Thema der Instrumentendarstellung in Liedern Schuberts. Die Klavierbegleitung stellt im Schubertlied nicht nur eine Gesamtstimmung her, konkretisiert vielmehr auch das Abbildhafte des Textes. Hierbei handelt sich um Anspielungen auf die Natur- oder Menschenwelt, Bewegungsvorstellungen etwa oder Phänomene aus der Seh- und Hörwelt. Zu den nachgebildeten akustischen Anklängen gehören auch Musikinstrumente. Schubert greift die sprachlich benannten Instrumente auf und bringt sie in der Vertonung real zum Erklingen. Diesem Phänomen tonmalerischer Nachahmung geht Hammersteins Studie nach, ausgehend von Glocken über Blas- und Saiteninstrumente bis hin zur Drehleier und zum Klavier selbst.

The German Linguistic Studies Series is a comprehensive and outstanding forum in its field. It has borne the name of its subject in its title since the foundation of the series in the eighth decade of the last century. The series is comprehensive in the broad spectrum of topics covered (language levels, varieties, communication forms, epochs) in the range of research perspectives (theoretical and empirical studies, fundamental research and applications, interdisciplinarity with psychology, the social sciences etc.) and methodologies (the sole criterion is quality), in the rhythm of research (trends are perceived and also set, achievements are secured) and in the forms of presentation (monographs, textbooks, collected volumes, dictionaries). Professorial theses, outstanding doctoral theses, pioneering research findings from wider contexts, but also the surprising ‛stroke of genius’ set the standards for inclusion in the series. Call for Book Proposals: https://blog.degruyter.com/call-for-book-proposals-reihe-germanistische-linguistik/

This book highlights the importance of cybersecurity in the maritime domain, including the human and societal aspects of both cyber-crime and cyber-defense. The authors present mechanisms for early detection and prevention of cyber-attacks, as well as security protocols based on testbed nautical simulator experiments, machine learning algorithms and artificial intelligence applications. This collection of research articles addresses the ethical, societal and technical aspects of maritime cybersecurity and offers solutions to mitigate the threat of cyber-attacks. The book is designed to help both researchers and stakeholders across the maritime ecosystem, including shipping and port logistics. Research findings are presented in the following areas: human factors in maritime cyber security, cyber security awareness and skills of seafarers, vulnerabilities in electronic maritime navigation on manned and unmanned vessels, internal and external attack vectors on bridge and propulsion systems, cyber security threats and countermeasures in seaports. The book serves as a handbook for those professionally involved in or interested in cybersecurity of IT and OT systems. This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access.

Li He (790-816) gained his early renown particularly for his lyrical reimaginings of lost song traditions from ancient times. The poet's premature death, along with the otherworldly quality of many of his works, led later readers to view Li He as the emblematic cursed poet, whose lyrical fascination with ancient history, with ghosts, and with celestial and demonic beings seemed to have presaged the brevity of poet's own earthly existence.