This presentation will narrate a history of Curtis’s institutional recordings, a collection that spans much of the Institute’s nearly 100-year existence. As an archive of student and faculty recitals recorded on a range of formats, the collection constitutes an audio and video history of musical training, performance practice, and recording tec…[Read more]

Associated with disaster metaphors such as floods, avalanches, tsunamis, and icebergs, older people have come to take the symbolic form of the environmental impacts they are imagined causing. Yet even as older people are posited as the cause and imaginatively take the shape of the disaster, they are also registered as especially vulnerable to the…[Read more]

This article provides an overview of the special issue. It argues that attention to literary forms plays an important role when it comes to issues of social justice and aging. Forms enable and disable what can be said; they shape the way we receive and process information; they conjure affects that can supplement or contradict the content that…[Read more]

Alarmist demography often situates older people as natural
disasters: images of the “gray flood” and “silver tsunami” imbue
senescence with the destructive force of climatic proportions. This
Element focuses on the demographic dread arising from the relative
shift in younger and older populations: not of a world lacking children,
but of one…[Read more]

The power conferred by Section 7 of the Arbitration & Conciliation Act 1996 (“the Act”) is the primary element motivating parties to choose arbitration. Section 7 of the Act is based on the mutual consent of parties with a legal connection to refer to arbitration. Courts have construed Section 7 over time based on the interests of the parties, the…[Read more]

Book review of Alessandro Ottaviani’s “Natura ed esattezza all’alba della scienza galileiana. Le ‘Observationes’ di Fabio Colonna”

The re-discovery of Diego Hurtado de Mendoza’s herbaria in the Library of El Escorial allows us to offer a somewhat different look at the library of this aristocrat, diplomat, collector and poet from Granada. As his library passed into the hands of Felipe II when Mendoza died in 1575, the herbaria were incorporated into the whole cultural, p…[Read more]

Globalization has had an effect on the effectiveness of justice in countries all over the world. It connects and disseminates legal developments and debates taking place in one region of the world to another. The emergence of laws and concepts linked to Human Rights is the best example of this. The right to live in a healthy environment is one…[Read more]