Many scholars have argued that climate change is, in part, a problem of time, with ecological, political and social systems thought to be out of sync or mistimed. Discussions of time and environment are often interdisciplinary, necessitating a wide-ranging use of methods and approaches. However, to date there has been practically no direct…[Read more]

As the past years have proven, the methods for conducting and distributing research that we’ve inherited from our disciplinary traditions can be remarkably brittle in the face of rapidly changing social and mobility norms. The ways we work and the ways we meet are questions newly opened for practical and theoretical inquiry; we both need to s…[Read more]

No creo que haya mejor ocasión que este homenaje alcalaíno al maestro Alberto Blecua para vencer las reticencias y dudas del neófito que, en palabras de Márquez Villanueva, ha de pisar por vez primera los “senderos de alto riesgo” por los que camina el Libro de buen amor. Por motivo de mi admiración y reconocimiento al homenajeado, voy a dejarme…[Read more]

Presentation about the divinatory texts in the Bairische Bild-Enzyklopädie.

Manuscripts:
Erlangen, Universitätsbibliothek, MS.B 200, http://digital.bib-bvb.de/webclient/DeliveryManager?custom_att_2=simple_viewer&pid=5281832
Kraków, Biblioteka Jagiellońska, Rkp. Przyb. 35/64, http://jbc.bj.uj.edu.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=271106&from=FBC

Tal vez uno de los procesos más destacados de la historia de Europa en el siglo XIII sea la configuración de la primera época de esplendor de justas, torneos y todo tipo de espectáculos de riesgo. Aproximadamente entre los años 1170 y 1260, el Viejo Continente asistió a la explosión de estos encuentros, en los que brillaron con luz propia los no…[Read more]

This monograph does not represent the 1979 Revolution as a rapture in Persian poetry, rather it sees the continuity; Shams demonstrates that Islamic Republican poetry was in fact in the making decades before the Revolution. In its study of war poetry, this monograph remains focused on official poets alone. For an understanding of other (official)…[Read more]

This chapter analyses Global Byzantium by situating the medieval empire of New Rome in the history of statehood’s generalisation worldwide. Arguing that statehood remains the implicit mental furniture of History at a macro-civilizational scale, and so more or less at the micro too, the chapter proposes the dual concepts of hegemony and c…[Read more]

यह लेख उत्तर-मानववाद से संबंधित विमर्श से हिंदी पाठकों को परिचित करवाने के उद्देश्य से लिखा गया है।

इस लेख में कहा गया है कि विकास केवल भौतिक-प्राकृतिक जगत में ही नहीं, विचारों के क्षेत्र में भी होता है। दुनिया लगातार बदल रही है, विकसित हो रही है। आज न हम कार्ल मार्क्स के ज़माने में हैं, न गांधी-आम्बेडकर-लोहिया के ज़माने में। आर्थिक-साम…[Read more]

In the last two decades, the concept of ecological citizenship has become a recurrent theme in both popular and academic discussions. Discussions around the prospects of, and limitations to, ecological citizenship have mostly focused on the idea of political agency and the civic responsibility of individuals in relation to their environments, with…[Read more]

[COMPLETE OPEN-ACCESS CURRICULUM INCLUDED] ReMobilizing the Future is the third project in the ReImagining the Future series launched by Greenbacker Capital and Global Citizenship Experience Lab School. By asking “how can we design a sustainable future?,” the purpose of this project is to understand the systems and policies that facilitate and…[Read more]

En este artículo sobre teoría narrativa evolucionista releemos y comentamos algunos textos y nociones clave de la teoría de Charles Darwin, en el ‘Origen de las Especies’ y ‘El Origen del Hombre’, a la luz de la sociobiología cognitiva con…[Read more]

कोविड महामारी से निपटने के लिए विज्ञान की भूमिका को सर्वोपरि बताया गया। लेकिन विज्ञान के नाम पर अनेक ऐसी चीजें भी हुईं, जिसने इस विभिषिका को निर्मित करने तथा इसे और भयावह बनाने में योगदान किया। इस दौरन सांख्यिकी के आंकड़ों को विज्ञान बनाकर प्रचारित किया गया तथा दुनिया के अधिकांश हिस्से को लॉकडाउन में धकेल दिया गया। ऐसे में सवाल यह…[Read more]

Pramod Ranjan wirft einen Blick aus Indien auf die Coronakrise und das wissenschaftliche Verständnis von der Welt, das oft erwähnt, aber meist ignoriert wird, sowie die Frage, wem das nutzt.

Die übertriebene Angst vor Covid-19 hat die menschliche Zivilisation und Kultur in Gefahr gebracht. Die Richtung, in die sich die Menschheit bewegte, br…[Read more]

El presente libro pretende establecer unas premisas básicas en el conocimiento que, desde la perspectiva historiográfica, puede realizarse del Cancionero de Baena, basándose en la inserción de gran parte de sus poemas en el contexto histórico en que fueron compuestos, además de acotar —hasta donde su autor le ha sido posible llegar— las biografía…[Read more]

[COMPLETE OPEN-ACCESS CURRICULUM INCLUDED] ReDesigning the Future is the second project in the ReImagining the Future series launched by Greenbacker Capital and Global Citizenship Experience Lab School. By asking “how can we design a sustainable future?,” the purpose of this project is to understand the grand challenges we must overcome to achieve…[Read more]

Climate activist Disha Ravi was arrested by the police on 13 February 2021. The Government of India charged her with sedition.

The 22-year-old Disha Ravi was charged with contributing to the ‘toolkit’ prepared by Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg for mobilizing support for the ongoing agitation of the landowners (farmers) of…[Read more]

भारतीय पर्यावरण कार्यकर्ता दिशा रवि को 13 फरवरी, 2021 को पुलिस ने देशद्रोह के  आरोप में गिरफ्तार किया गया था। आरोप था कि उन्होंने पंजाब के भू-स्वामियों (किसानों) के आंदोलन को जन-समर्थन दिलाने के लिए स्वीडन की पर्यावरण कार्यकर्ता ग्रेटा थनबर्ग द्वारा तैयार की गयी रूप-रेखा (टूल-किट) के निर्माण में भूमिका निभायी थी।

भारतीय मीडिया ने दिशा रवि की गि…[Read more]

The drama of the Niger Delta region has enjoyed robust scholarship. This essay interrogates J. P. Clark-Bekederemo’s drama against the cultural milieu of the region and tries to investigate the connections between the rich folklore of the area and the wealth of poetry and imagery contained in his drama. The essay investigates the terrain,…[Read more]

The chair of chymiatria created at the University of Marburg was among the earliest academic initiatives aiming to integrate chymistry into the medical curriculum. If its practical applications in pharmacy and its relationship with patronage have been examined by historians, the theoretical part of the chymiatria programme still remains to be…[Read more]