This course investigates the historical roots of modernity through an examination of the cultural and intellectual developments associated with the Enlightenment. This course places 18th-century thinkers in the context of the development of commercial society, the beginnings of globalization, and debates on the outbreak and consequences of the…[Read more]

Syllabus for Western Civilization course on Medieval and Early Modern Europe taught at UCLA in Spring 2016.

Being part of a monography on the origins of Portuguese and Galician identities, this paper studies how future Portugal and Galicia, being part of a same polty in the Early Middle Ages, became different countries although maintaining strong cultural and historical links.

Case study on the territorialization of Early Medieval Galicia (NW Iberia) centered on the land of O Salnés, taking into account the meaning of the place-name, the Roman past, the political organziation (county of Slnés), the appropriation of the land and the defensive system agains the Northmen iand Moslem sea-attacks.

A new economic model for the analysis of scholarly publishing – journal publishing in particular – is proposed that draws on club theory. The standard approach builds on market failure in the private production (by research scholars) of a public good (new scholarly knowledge). In this model, publishing is communication, as the dissemination of inf…[Read more]

Being part of a monography on the origins of Portuguese and Galician identities, this paper studies how future Portugal and Galicia, being part of a same polty in the Early Middle Ages, became different countries although maintaining strong cultural and historical links.

Case study on the territorialization of Early Medieval Galicia (NW Iberia) centered on the land of O Salnés, taking into account the meaning of the place-name, the Roman past, the political organziation (county of Slnés), the appropriation of the land and the defensive system agains the Northmen iand Moslem sea-attacks.

A new economic model for the analysis of scholarly publishing – journal publishing in particular – is proposed that draws on club theory. The standard approach builds on market failure in the private production (by research scholars) of a public good (new scholarly knowledge). In this model, publishing is communication, as the dissemination of inf…[Read more]

Doing action research in your own organisation is a daunting task for novice researches. When the organisation is toxic due to destructive leaders, susceptible followers and a conducive environment it is even more difficult to navigate through the research processes. As an HRD Manager in a TVET college I have personally experience and witnessed…[Read more]

Doing action research in your own organisation is a daunting task for novice researches. When the organisation is toxic due to destructive leaders, susceptible followers and a conducive environment it is even more difficult to navigate through the research processes. As an HRD Manager in a TVET college I have personally experience and witnessed…[Read more]

Doing action research in your own organisation is a daunting task for novice researches. When the organisation is toxic due to destructive leaders, susceptible followers and a conducive environment it is even more difficult to navigate through the research processes. As an HRD Manager in a TVET college I have personally experience and witnessed…[Read more]

This paper considers how the narratives composed by seventh- and eighth-century authors reflect conceptions of one of the communities of which the authors were a part; the community of the
regnum Francorum. I will focus on five historical authors who particularly embody the developments which took place in these centuries: the compiler of the…[Read more]

This paper considers how the narratives composed by seventh- and eighth-century authors reflect conceptions of one of the communities of which the authors were a part; the community of the
regnum Francorum. I will focus on five historical authors who particularly embody the developments which took place in these centuries: the compiler of the…[Read more]

This paper considers how the narratives composed by seventh- and eighth-century authors reflect conceptions of one of the communities of which the authors were a part; the community of the
regnum Francorum. I will focus on five historical authors who particularly embody the developments which took place in these centuries: the compiler of the…[Read more]

How might scholarly societies, libraries, and other nonprofit partners work together towards an expansive vision of scholarly communication outreach and dissemination that goes beyond institutional and national boundaries? The author discusses the Modern Language Association’s collaboration with Columbia University Libraries on CORE, or the…[Read more]

How might scholarly societies, libraries, and other nonprofit partners work together towards an expansive vision of scholarly communication outreach and dissemination that goes beyond institutional and national boundaries? The author discusses the Modern Language Association’s collaboration with Columbia University Libraries on CORE, or the…[Read more]

How might scholarly societies, libraries, and other nonprofit partners work together towards an expansive vision of scholarly communication outreach and dissemination that goes beyond institutional and national boundaries? The author discusses the Modern Language Association’s collaboration with Columbia University Libraries on CORE, or the…[Read more]

This paper examines a 9th-century Arabic text of genethlialogical astrology, arguing that while it presents itself as heir to a Greek science deriving from India, it is also a testament to the pervasive role played by Sasanian intellectual culture in the 8th- to 10th-century Greek-Arabic translation movement. After a description of the…[Read more]

Spaniards often feel surprised when they visualise the renowned drawing reproduced below, ascribed (erroneously as it seems, but that is another story) to Lucas Cornelisz van Kunst, the successful Dutch painter of the Tudor era. A brief glance to John of Gaunt’s portrait suffices to notice the distinctive coat of arms of the English members of t…[Read more]

This article discusses the labor on the ground in Pakistan’s Tribal Areas that sustains U.S. bombardment of that region. It argues that the relations on the ground co-constitute with the time-space compression of drone warfare.