Diana Wynne Jones’s Fire and Hemlock (1984) and Ali Smith’s Autumn (2016) are two British novels that evoke an intense friendship between a girl and an older man. Their experimental narrative forms include a complex chronology, unreliable narrator, dream scenes, gaps, and a rich intertextual network to frame an intergenerational friendship that…[Read more]

Is er een leeftijdsgrens voor jeugdschrijvers? Als 89-jarige zei Jan Terlouw dat hij stopt met kinderboeken schrijven. De uitspraak leidde tot protest. Kun je alleen jonge lezers bekoren als je zelf dicht genoeg bij je kindertijd staat? En wat is dicht genoeg? Hoe oud is jong?

Vanessa Joosen bestudeert jeugdboeken sinds 2001. Met dit essay wil…[Read more]

You have your research topic and access to millions of resources – but how do you find relevant material? This session will help you turn your research idea into a comprehensive search strategy designed to get maximum results. It will cover creating targeted keywords, filtering results, evaluating materials and recording your methods to save you t…[Read more]

Accessible guide covering the basics of the responsible metrics movement. These guides can be printed as leaflets for distribution.

This essay uses Neil Gaiman’s Stardust, The Sleeper and the Spindle, and “Chivalry,” to examine the intersection of age and gender in his fairy-tale appropriations to consider how fantasy can reiterate stereotypical representations of older women. By drawing on the age studies work of Sylvia Henneberg and Susan Pickard to consider ageism as a…[Read more]

Ang pagtanggi na ang “pagkamakasarili” ay ang laganap na pamantayan at mayroon lamang “limitadong mga anyo ng altruismo” Upang magsimula, idiin ko na, “Kahit na ang bakterya ay mas matagumpay sa pagpaparami sa presensya ng iba sa kanilang sariling mga species.” Ang ibig kong sabihin ay may connectivity ang bacteria para sa Diyos!
1. Sa isang araw…[Read more]

As the authors of the article “Beyond the Group Mind: A Quantitative Review of the Interindividual–Intergroup Discontinuity Effect” which was published in Psychological Bulletin, observed, It is estimated that just in the final decade of the twentieth century, the deadly wars of places like Rwanda, Bosnia, and Ethiopia claimed the lives of 30 m…[Read more]

The Reformed tradition helped provide the rationale for Southern slavery and for South African apartheid. If Reformed theology is going to speak to the racial issues of our day, it must come to terms with the tradition of Black theology. Some Reformed evangelical theologians have begun to engage with the insights of Black theologians, but they…[Read more]