Learning New Things Often and All along the Way: A Personal Account of 50 Years in Science

2014 ◽  
Vol 118 (33) ◽  
pp. 6301-6303
Author(s):  
Franco A. Gianturco
Keyword(s):  
Personal Account ◽  
The Way

Walking Upright Together

2000 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-116
Author(s):  
Guy W. Rammenzweig
Keyword(s):  
Personal Account ◽  
Hans Küng ◽  
The Way

This is not the kind of lecture which old-fashioned German academics would present. It is much more a statement about my own 'learning' in the field of JCM trialogue: interfaith work amongst Jews, Christians and Muslims. Preparing my lecture I went through the writings of Wilfred Cantwell Smith, Raimundo Panikkar, John B. Cobb, Hans Küng and Jonathan Magonet again. I felt that most of the ideas and suggestions these great scholars of interreligous theology have made will be addressed directly or 'along the way' when I give you a rather personal account of my own interfaith pilgrimage: how my spirituality, my theology and my work have changed.

scholarly journals Complexities of Displaced Indigenous Identities: A Fifty Year Journey Home, to Two Homes

Genealogy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
Lou Netana-Glover
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Personal Account ◽  
Biological Father ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Indigenous Resistance ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

In colonised territories all over the world, place-based identity has been interrupted by invading displacement cultures. Indigenous identities have become more complex in response to and because of racist and genocidal government policies that have displaced Indigenous peoples. This paper is a personal account of the identity journey of the author, that demonstrates how macrocosmic colonial themes of racism, protectionism, truth suppression, settler control of Indigenous relationships, and Indigenous resistance and survivance responses can play out through an individual’s journey. The brown skinned author started life being told that she was (a white) Australian; she was told of her father’s Aboriginality in her 20s, only to learn at age 50 of her mother’s affair and that her biological father is Māori. The author’s journey demonstrates the way in which Indigenous identities in the colonial era are context driven, and subject to affect by infinite relational variables such as who has the power to control narrative, and other colonial interventions that occur when a displacement culture invades place-based cultures.

Journalism: The Way it is, as Seen by Black Reporters and Students

1969 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 499-544
Author(s):  
Melvin Mencher
Keyword(s):  
Personal Account ◽  
Racial Issue ◽  
The Way

In his personal account, the author tells of finding few black newsmen, virtually none of whom admit to handling meaningful assignments. Students shun journalism, charge newspapers lack understanding of racial issue.

Academic genealogy and direct calorimetry: a personal account

2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald C. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Heat Production ◽  
Animal Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Metabolic Heat Production ◽  
Personal Account ◽  
Direct Calorimetry ◽  
Metabolic Heat ◽  
Academic Genealogy ◽  
The Way

Each of us as a scientist has an academic legacy that consists of our mentors and their mentors continuing back for many generations. Here, I describe two genealogies of my own: one through my PhD advisor, H. T. (Ted) Hammel, and the other through my postdoctoral mentor, Knut Schmidt-Nielsen. Each of these pathways includes distingished scientists who were all major figures in their day. The striking aspect, however, is that of the 14 individuals discussed, including myself, 10 individuals used the technique of direct calorimetry to study metabolic heat production in humans or other animals. Indeed, the patriarchs of my PhD genealogy, Antoine Lavoisier and Pierre Simon Laplace, were the inventors of this technique and the first to use it in animal studies. Brief summaries of the major accomplishments of each my scientific ancestors are given followed by a discussion of the variety of calorimeters and the scientific studies in which they were used. Finally, readers are encouraged to explore their own academic legacies as a way of honoring those who prepared the way for us.

scholarly journals Exploding the Cancer Myths: Brian Lobel’s Narrative Performance Ball

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 147
Author(s):  
Yeliz Biber Vangolu
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Medical Condition ◽  
Social Stigma ◽  
Personal Account ◽  
The Social ◽  
Narrative Performance ◽  
The Way

In his personal account of cancer, Ball (2003), the performance artist, Brian Lobel, intently refuses to succumb to the myths about the illness, challenging the cancer narratives that have traditionally been based on a discourse of heroism or martyrdom. While his performance is, at times, sensational with a keen focus on sexuality and a determination to produce humour out of a grave matter, they invite criticism for the way cancer has been perceived and presented as a medical condition and for the social stigma attached to the disease. This paper addresses the numerous ways in which Lobel challenges the assumptions, expectations and taboos regarding cancer, cancer patients and survivors by examining his strategies in the light of cultural studies on cancer and humour theories.

Reflections on Pseudoscience and Parapsychology: From Here to There and (Slightly) Back Again

Pseudoscience ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher C. French
Keyword(s):  
Personal Account ◽  
Current Position ◽  
Subsequent Transformation ◽  
Scientific Status ◽  
The Way

This chapter presents a personal account of the author’s journey from being a believer in the paranormal to being a skeptic and his subsequent transformation from being one type of skeptic to another. Along the way, his views about parapsychology, and in particular its scientific status, were also transformed. His current position, an unusual one for a skeptic, is that parapsychology is indeed better described as being a science rather than a pseudoscience – even if paranormal forces do not exist.

scholarly journals That was then, this is now: Māori Performance Research Comes of Age

Te Kaharoa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Mazer
Keyword(s):  
Performance Studies ◽  
Film Studies ◽  
Academic Environment ◽  
Personal Account ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Male Dominated ◽  
The University ◽  
Performance Research ◽  
The Way

Then. The way I see it, Māori Performance Research as it is coming to be practiced now started in the late 1990s at the University of Canterbury. Te Rita Papesch and I had been thrown together there as its only two female heads of school – she in Māori Studies, I in Theatre and Film Studies. Bonded by gendered necessity in a male-dominated academic environment, our chat ran along the lines of ‘You show me your research, and I’ll show you mine’. She started talking about Kapa Haka, I started talking about Performance Studies, and twenty years on (although we’ve moved on from Canterbury), we’re still talking. After all, not only is the personal political, it is also simultaneously academic and performative. This then is a personal account, my own version of the story of how we have come to be here now in this room discussing a field of study that I will, today, call Māori Performance Research: research focused on Māori performance, performance research from a Māori perspective, performance research by and for Māori academics and artists. These are not the same thing, but an evolving mix of old and new ways both of knowing about performance and of performing that knowledge.

scholarly journals Lost in translation in the middle of nowhere

Translationes ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-45
Author(s):  
Tatjana Marjanoviš
Keyword(s):  
English Department ◽  
Educational Context ◽  
Personal Account ◽  
Banja Luka ◽  
The University ◽  
Lost In Translation ◽  
Critical Overview ◽  
The Way

Abstract Essentially a personal account of how translation is taught and assessed in the English department at the University of Banja Luka, this paper has been written in a very down-to-earth tone aiming to explain a broader social and educational context which determines the way translation is perceived in and outside the classroom. Going beyond a critical overview of how the department‘s translation class is managed, the paper ends with practical suggestions as to how translation teaching and assessment could be improved despite a number of institutional limitations surrounding it.

Self-sacrifice for in-group's history: A diachronic perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Babińska ◽  
Michal Bilewicz
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Psychology ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Emotional Events ◽  
Reciprocal Process ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe problem of extended fusion and identification can be approached from a diachronic perspective. Based on our own research, as well as findings from the fields of social, political, and clinical psychology, we argue that the way contemporary emotional events shape local fusion is similar to the way in which historical experiences shape extended fusion. We propose a reciprocal process in which historical events shape contemporary identities, whereas contemporary identities shape interpretations of past traumas.

What is the purpose of cognition?

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aba Szollosi ◽  
Ben R. Newell
Keyword(s):  
Infinite Number ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
The Way

Abstract The purpose of human cognition depends on the problem people try to solve. Defining the purpose is difficult, because people seem capable of representing problems in an infinite number of ways. The way in which the function of cognition develops needs to be central to our theories.

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