The purpose of the study is to analyze the knowledge of natural calamity, its impact and level of preparations of respondents in Central Luzon, Philippines. This study employed a descriptive-correlation design. 125 respondents participated in the survey with the use of convenience sampling technique. We drafted a questionnaire and subjected it to…[Read more]

Over the last four decades of the 18th century, the image of Sparta began to include a few characteristic elements that later became an important point of reference for 19th-century writers, philosophers and historians. Issues of Spartan equality of citizens, fully responsible for their country, and also soldierly honour and Sparta’s military c…[Read more]

John R. Palandech was a well-known immigrant publisher, politician, and entrepreneur in Chicago from the Gilded Age to the post–World War II era. This article retraces his biography and crosses it with the transatlantic political, cultural, and economic world Palandech was a part of and actor in. At the core of this study is a collection of l…[Read more]

Abstract: The current article explores interesting, significant and recently identified nuances in disclosing the professed firm culture in the virtual realm. Its emphasis is set on two exotic instruments – organizational mantra and memorandum that senior managers in business organizations may use to successfully clarify and communicate what is t…[Read more]

Unofficial Description: In Arab American studies, it’s long been understood that Syrian immigrants became “legally white” in 1915’s George Dow v United States. This access to whiteness was critical in getting access to US citizenship. However, US laws governing Syrian racial status also bore implications beyond the US context. Starting with Dow…[Read more]

English abstract: A paper arguing the relevance of a cognitive narratological perspective and a retrospective stance attentive to hindsight bias in order to clarify the debate on racial differences and population diversity in biology. The issue is discussed with reference to the dichotomy between ‘lumpers’ and ‘splitters’ in paleoanthropology as…[Read more]

Mark Bray is a historian of human rights, terrorism, and political radicalism in Modern Europe as well as a political organizer. This interview outlines what fascism is, the history of anti-fascist resistance, the debate surrounding free-speech, anti-imperialism, World War II, and the Trump Era.

Mark Bray is a political organizer and historian…[Read more]

Edición argentina del libro “A experiência do cinema de Lucrecia Martel: Resíduos do tempo e sons à beira da piscina”, publicado en 2014 en Brasil. Colección “Imagen e Historia”, dirigida por Natalia Taccetta y Mariano Veliz, de Prometeo Libros. Traducción al español por Daniel Maggi.

Um estudo sobre a obra da cineasta argentina Lucrecia Martel, focado no som em seus três primeiros longas-metragens “La ciénaga”, “La niña santa” e “La mujer sin cabeza”.

O desejo de revelar as realidades conflitivas de seus países estimulou os cineastas latino-americanos a explorarem o potencial político do cinema e, especialmente, do documentário, a partir de 1950. Em um contexto de aceleradas mudanças, sob a égide do desenvolvimentismo, diversos diretores voltaram seus olhares a territórios marginalizados do co…[Read more]

A aproximação subjetiva e íntima dos cineastas em documentários políticos é uma tendência muito produtiva no cinema latino-americano contemporâneo. A perspectiva escapa do tom de denúncia e da documentação mais objetiva, retratando um diálogo com o passado pessoal – sem, no entanto, abdicar dos laços com o passado histórico. As diretoras dos d…[Read more]

Pretendemos hacer algunas consideraciones sobre la película “La mujer sin cabeza” (2008), de Lucrecia Martel, explorando la cuestión del olvido intrincada en su trama. A través de la protagonista, Verónica, la directora busca hacer un acercamiento personal a los mecanismos de silenciamiento y desmemoria en los cuales la sociedad (tanto hoy com…[Read more]

Catalogue of homonymous film festival that took place in Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil – CCBB Rio de Janeiro, from 21st September to 3rd October 2016, and CCBB São Paulo, from 21st September to 10th October 2016.

Purpose – This article aims to outline and analyze the role, structure and dominating content of professed organizational culture among the companies in the defense industry in Bulgaria as conscious and the official expression of their leadership intentions within the contemporary business environment, uniquely justifying the existence of each e…[Read more]

Faculty performance review, faculty development, and organizational climate are an essential element of the educational institution. More importantly, the mentioned variables have certain connections and interplay with each other. This study describes the performance review, faculty development, and organizational climate of a tertiary education…[Read more]

This research examines Tad Szulc’s writings and performance (1926-2001) in inter-American post-war relations. He was an American intellectual relevant to inter-American relations in the second half of the twentieth century. He was a press professional linked to The New York Times. He made an itinerant journalistic coverage that crossed America…[Read more]

Papers focusing on the urban environmental history of fires are invited for a panel to be submitted to
the European Society for Environmental History conference, which will be held at the
University of Bristol in July 2021.

I would like to deal with the following questions: What is the reason for the failure of Western states to protect refugees and to welcome migrants? And what is an ad-equate response? One popular hypothesis is that liberalism is the problem. The most elaborate version of this hypothesis comes from Christoph Menke, who employs his radical critique…[Read more]

Right-wing intellectuals often invoke Nietzsche’s concept of slave morality to underpin their criticism of ‘political correctness’ (‘PC’). This interconnection of Nietzsche’s slave morality and ‘PC’ criticism is correct, as a systematic analysis of their common elements shows, which leads to a new description of ‘PC’ criticism as a defense of…[Read more]

The article develops the concept of “political judgement” – a new, affirmative understanding of the phenomena which are criticized as “political correctness” by both right-wing and liberal commentators. To that end, it takes the right’s claims, that “political correctness” is slave morality in Nietzsche’s sense seriously and proposes a systematic…[Read more]