Geistesheld und Heldengeist

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Heroic Action ◽  
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Heroic spirit and heroic action can be connected in many ways – when intellect and heroism compete, when poet and ruler complement each other or when spirit and act are synthesized to form one heroic character. Drawing on recent concepts of heroism and agency, this volume brings together articles from various disciplines. They shed light on the long history and broad intercultural relevance of the topic in order to determine its potential for future cultural studies. With contributions by Ronald G. Asch, Sabina Becker, Barbara Beßlich, Ulrich Bröckling, Emma Louise Brucklacher, Nicolas Detering, Monika Fludernik, Ralph Häfner, Hanna Klessinger, Wilhelm Kühlmann, Dieter Martin, Franziska Merklin, Isabell Oberle, Frédérique Renno, Günter Schnitzler, Anna Schreurs-Moret, Ralf von den Hoff, Mario Zanucchi, Bernhard Zimmermann

scholarly journals EMI and the Teaching of Cultural Studies in Higher Education: A Study Case.

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-113
Author(s):  
María José Gómez Calderón
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Metalinguistic Awareness ◽  
Academic English ◽  
English Studies ◽  
English Departments ◽  
Study Case ◽  
Shed Light

This paper examines students’ perspectives on the challenges raised by their first encounter with EMI pedagogy in higher education. The research was conducted with a group of beginner students with no previous experience in monolingual instruction in English. The case studied is based on two English Cultural Studies subject courses of the English Studies Program at a Spanish university and taught in a learning environment of total linguistic immersion. By activating their metacognitive and metalinguistic awareness, students were encouraged to take ownership of the stages of their learning process and assess it critically. Set at the intersection of EFL, ESP, and EAP, the specificities of these courses comprising linguistic and non-linguistic contents shed light on the teaching procedures employed in English Departments training programs, whose goals are to turn undergraduates into expert linguists and philologists and maximise their communicative proficiency in academic English.

scholarly journals The Controversy About 1944 in Hungary and the Escape of Budapest’s Jews from Deportation. A Response.

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 67-74
Author(s):  
Géza Jeszenszky
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
German Occupation ◽  
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The purpose of this Note is to clarify the interpretation of the volume, July 1944: Deportation of the Jews of Budapest Foiled (Reno, NV: Helena History Press, 2018), put forth by Peter Pastor in his book review, “A New Historical Myth from Hungary: The Legend of Colonel Ferenc Koszorús as the Wartime Saviour of the Jews of Budapest,” that was published in the 2019 issue of Hungarian Cultural Studies. Rather than making any attempt to remove or lessen blame for the acts committed following the German occupation of Hungary in March 1944, this collection of studies aims to shed light on whether Regent Horthy’s order to Colonel Ferenc Koszorús prevented the deportation of the remaining, nearly 300,000 Hungarian Jews who lived (or were just hiding) in Budapest. 

scholarly journals Zur subjektlosen Souveränität des traumlosen Schlafs: Dissoziation, Trauma und Erwachen bei Perec und Moshfegh

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-61
Author(s):  
Nikolaus Lehner
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Social Science ◽  
To Receive ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Dreamless Sleep ◽  
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AbstractMuch has been written about dreaming, but deep, dreamless sleep still seems to receive little attention within cultural studies and social science. This article analyses Georges Perec's A Man Who Sleeps and Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation in terms of the phantasm of metamorphosis enabled by sleep. These two novels show that the polarity of waking and dreaming can be relativized and shifted to the polarity between waking-dreaming/sleeping: This shift becomes particularly productive when it comes to the question of losing and finding ones identity, but also when we try to shed light on the relationship between (ideological or biographical) subjectification and self-overcoming. At the centre of this article is the notion of the sovereignty of sleep, which could allow both day life and dream life to be lifted out of joint.

scholarly journals Kulturkritikk av volden? Begivenhet, tilblivelse og det reelle

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (122) ◽  
pp. 359-386
Author(s):  
Hans Jacob Ohldieck ◽  
Gisle Selnes
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Critical Field ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Cultural Criticism ◽  
New Historicism ◽  
The Real ◽  
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This article discusses the topic of violence within the framework of cultural criticism. More specifically, it asks whether a scrutiny of the concept of the event (événement) in Gilles Deleuze’s and Alain Badiou’s different conceptions could provide new insights into today’s paradigm of cultural criticism and its access to violence as phenomenon. For both thinkers, the event causes a rupture in the existing order of discourse and could thus shed light upon the limits of cultural criticism as well as on the elusive “essence” of violence. Drawing on Michel Foucault’s conceptual framework, the last part of the article expands the discussion to include the critical field of New Historicism, which arguably shares a “programmatic inclusiveness” with both Cultural Studies and cultural criticism. As part of this expansion, Stephen Greenblatt’s Renaissance Self-Fashioning brings about a discussion of Hans Holbein’s The Ambassadors, a discussion that serves to illustrate the contrasts between the real violence of Badiou and the baroque fold of Deleuze, i.e. the vacuity (vide) of Badiou’s event versus the affirmative plenitude of Deleuze’s philosophy. Holbein’s painting thus serves to highlights the “parallax view” that might be the vantage point to access violence as the repressed other of today’s cultural criticism.

Teatrum Mundi

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-151
Author(s):  
Rebecca Gillis
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Medical Curriculum ◽  
Performance Theory ◽  
Physical Pain ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Teaching Shakespeare ◽  
Success Of Treatment ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
English I

Abstract Israeli doctors enjoy the dubious reputation of being unfeeling, arrogant and altogether incapable of listening to patients’ concerns, to such an extent that the success of treatment can be seriously compromised, on both a scientific and human level. In an attempt to combat these shortcomings, Israel has followed other countries’ lead in incorporating exposure to the humanities as an integral part of the medical curriculum. I argue that Shakespeare’s theatre provides a unique platform for discussion of the ways in which we approach our own and our patients’ mental and physical pain. I address the particular challenges of teaching Shakespeare to multicultural Israeli medical students and the value of drawing on performances in Hebrew and Arabic as well as English. I employ performance theory and cultural studies to shed light on the insights to be gained by exposure to Shakespeare performance which can directly impact these future medical practitioners’ experience.

Teatrum Mundi

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-151
Author(s):  
Rebecca Gillis
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Medical Curriculum ◽  
Performance Theory ◽  
Physical Pain ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Teaching Shakespeare ◽  
Success Of Treatment ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
English I

Israeli doctors enjoy the dubious reputation of being unfeeling, arrogant and altogether incapable of listening to patients’ concerns, to such an extent that the success of treatment can be seriously compromised, on both a scientific and human level. In an attempt to combat these shortcomings, Israel has followed other countries’ lead in incorporating exposure to the humanities as an integral part of the medical curriculum. I argue that Shakespeare’s theatre provides a unique platform for discussion of the ways in which we approach our own and our patients’ mental and physical pain. I address the particular challenges of teaching Shakespeare to multicultural Israeli medical students and the value of drawing on performances in Hebrew and Arabic as well as English. I employ performance theory and cultural studies to shed light on the insights to be gained by exposure to Shakespeare performance which can directly impact these future medical practitioners’ experience.

The sense of obligation is culturally modulated

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Bender
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Cultural Group ◽  
Target Article ◽  
Sense Of Obligation ◽  
Cross Cultural Studies

Abstract Tomasello argues in the target article that, in generalizing the concrete obligations originating from interdependent collaboration to one's entire cultural group, humans become “ultra-cooperators.” But are all human populations cooperative in similar ways? Based on cross-cultural studies and my own fieldwork in Polynesia, I argue that cooperation varies along several dimensions, and that the underlying sense of obligation is culturally modulated.

Elucidating cyclic AMP signaling in subcellular domains with optogenetic tools and fluorescent biosensors

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (6) ◽  
pp. 1733-1747 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Klausen ◽  
Fabian Kaiser ◽  
Birthe Stüven ◽  
Jan N. Hansen ◽  
Dagmar Wachten
Keyword(s):  
Cyclic Amp ◽  
Adenosine Monophosphate ◽  
Adenylyl Cyclases ◽  
Temporal Precision ◽  
Fluorescent Biosensors ◽  
Subcellular Domains ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Hydrolysis Of ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Cyclic Amp Signaling

The second messenger 3′,5′-cyclic nucleoside adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) plays a key role in signal transduction across prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Cyclic AMP signaling is compartmentalized into microdomains to fulfil specific functions. To define the function of cAMP within these microdomains, signaling needs to be analyzed with spatio-temporal precision. To this end, optogenetic approaches and genetically encoded fluorescent biosensors are particularly well suited. Synthesis and hydrolysis of cAMP can be directly manipulated by photoactivated adenylyl cyclases (PACs) and light-regulated phosphodiesterases (PDEs), respectively. In addition, many biosensors have been designed to spatially and temporarily resolve cAMP dynamics in the cell. This review provides an overview about optogenetic tools and biosensors to shed light on the subcellular organization of cAMP signaling.

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