Mit dem Begriff der Kunstvermittlung wird Politik gemacht und er wird mit gegenläufigen Verständnissen verknüpft. Das Buch “Was heißt hier Vermittlung?” arbeitet heraus, dass die Bedeutungskonkurrenz bereits im Streitbegriff der Vermittlung angelegt ist. Der unternommene Gang durch sozialhistorische und philosophische Begriffsgeschichten wird mit…[Read more]

Selbstbeschreibungen der Kunstpädagogik greifen oft auf binäre Logiken zurück – sei es, um eindeutige Ein- und Ausgrenzungen vornehmen zu können oder um spannungsvolle Zweierverhältnisse zum Ausgangspunkt kunstpädagogischer Überlegungen zu machen. Kunstpädagogische Komplexität ist ein Angebot, das sich neben solche Logiken stellt, wirbt dafür, Kun…[Read more]

Early seventeenth century lute improvisation — a phrase that by its mere utterance may cause debates full of uncertainties, fears and fantasies. What is proper improvisa-tion? How did they do it 360 years ago? In this article I seek to revive a systematic prac-tice of teaching ornamentation and improvisation from the Renaissance scholars — i.e…[Read more]

What happens when a classical music instrument performance course at a Norwegian state university study programme is assessed for quality following a standardized procedure? The article explores frictions and negotiations between managerial quality assurance and classical music performance education in a contextual sense, focusing particularly on…[Read more]

Tout comme la compréhension, en France, des raisons (politiques et sociales), qui ont amené les Etats-Unis à « changer les règles du jeu capitaliste » est rarement connue, sinon comprise, le basculement de l’université américaine vers l’entreprise, profondément lié aux causes du changement économique susmentionné, est tout aussi méconnu. Son ex…[Read more]

It has long been thought that the optimum environment in which to teach Early Years and Year 1 is a large, open-plan classroom with access to outdoor space. The accepted theory that young children require a large amount of indoor and outdoor space to learn effectively through creative teaching and child-initiated creative experiences has been…[Read more]

The following investigation has the main purpose to reconstruct the social and institutional work development by Doctor Arturo Uslar Pietri in the camp of Venezuelan education during the historic time that should be to live. Uslar Pietri practiced educational as a vocational way in diverse moments of his life, outstanding like Professor in…[Read more]

This essay analyzes from the perspective of historical revisionism the Communism during the first half of the twentieth century, based on the specialized historiography. It is part of the analysis of Communism as an ideology, system and use of political violence and it is compared with Nazism. In both, Nazism and Communism, similar features are…[Read more]

We say, you belong to me, or I belong to you. But is it possible to be possessed by others? And can we ever possess ourselves? In this raw and intimate account, Eva-Lynn Jagoe merges memoir with critical theory as she recounts the unraveling of everything she thought she knew about selfhood, relationships, and desire. Through the story of an…[Read more]

This work provides a close linguistic and thematic analysis of the dialogues in the two novels Midaq Alley by N. Mahfouz and Rosa Mistika by E. Kezilahabi, as they reflect fundamental assumptions about gender, tradition, and modernity. Certain complex clauses that have been traditionally recognized in Logic and Philosophy to be used in argument…[Read more]

Important information needs to be shared with all those who can benefit. Only then can a discovery fulfill its potential for good. Yet researchers often communicate in silos. This means they commune with people in the same role (like researcher to researcher), field (such as economist to economist), or at the same site (like working at the same…[Read more]

This guide helps researchers in all fields share their findings, knowledge, and ideas effectively and beyond typical silos. By pursuing the
recommendations in this book, researchers can increase the exposure of their work to increase impact. Chapters cover the most effective ways to share readers’ research, such as:
• social media (ma…[Read more]

From Michel de Montaigne’s essay “Of Friendship” to Jacques Derrida’s rearticulation of the former in The Politics of Friendship, scholars both early modern and modern have sought ways to address the fluid co-mixture of bodies from which the discourse of friendship can and does emerge. More recently still, new materialist thinkers of ontolog…[Read more]

A reading of Shakespeare and Deleuze on the subject of Anthropocene air. Keywords: endurance, climate change, fossil capitalism, carbon ghosts, Hamlet.

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Can we imagine a Blue Humanities that takes the non-relation as a starting point for ecological thought? I believe we can. Following Shakespeare and Deleuze, this essay engages in a thought experiment that, if it is not too absurd, might, like the ship of fools of medieval times, unmoor the Blue Humanities from its current safe harbor by putting…[Read more]

This essay examines how the rhetoric of animalization in Shakespeare’s Othello compels us to think early modern categories of race in connection with early modern discourses of “human” versus “animal.” Beginning with Shakespeare’s representation of Iago, I suggest that it is the potential for sameness conditioned by Iago’s counterfactua…[Read more]

Syllabus for an upper-level English seminar at SUNY Cortland | Is Google racist? Is Wikipedia sexist? In this course, we will critically reflect on the digital tools and platforms that mediate so much of our daily lives. More specifically, we will explore how digital technologies can reproduce and challenge conditions of racial, class, and gender…[Read more]

Fall 2019 Syllabus | SUNY Cortland

What is literature and why does it matter? How can literary texts help us think differently about the world? In this course, we will explore these and other questions through works of modern and contemporary U.S. literature. In particular, we will consider the ways resources are unevenly distributed along…[Read more]