Arte e criação artística em contexto urbano: um estudo de caso de política pública em Porto Alegre (RS, Brasil) by Ana Luiza Carvalho da Rocha, Cornelia Eckert

“…It is a reflective essay on the place of public art in the contemporary urban space.…”
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Phantom Writing by Michael Hirschbichler

“…Building upon this, I propose ‘phantom writing’ or ‘phantasmography’ as a situated, multidisciplinary and multisensory approach aimed at understanding and designing contemporary places, landscapes and environments, acknowledging and mediating the agency of diverse phantoms and phantasms.…”
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Architectural models: legacy and critical perspectives by Filippo Fiandanese

“…In fact, nowadays the notion of model, with its longstanding heritage, may be an effective and still up to date device to study the contemporary conception and production of space in the global stage.…”
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METHODOLOGICAL NOTES ON THE METAPHYSICAL IMPRESSIONS (SUMMING UP THE RESULTS OF THE CONFERENCE) by Ludmila B. Logunova, Yuriy Yu. Petrunin

“…The authors have analyzed the trend of creating transdisciplinary methodology, combining achievements of natural science, modern neuroscience and the humanities in the study of creativity, its capacity and status in contemporary epistemology.…”
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An integration of art education into preschool instruction by Hana Stadlerová

“…The present paper describes the educational possibilities of art activities in preschool education which correspond to the contemporary priorities of preschool instruction. It presents the goals and aims of some action research which was conducted in kindergartens. …”
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Les « amazoones », des chimères du mouvement antispéciste ? by Nolwenn Veillard

“…To better understand these tensions, the article first reviews the concept’s theoretical genealogy, looking at both its premises and its more contemporary developments. Then, based on the case study of a militant collective that claims a femalist identity, the article highlights the discursive appropriations made of these theoretical works on the scale of the organization and its activists, as well as the contrasting reception of this current within the antispeciesist movement itself.…”
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The Role of Multinational Corporations in International Relations by Ana DAMASCHIN

“…This research provides an overview of the most important theoretical concepts and practical issues by describing the negotiation process in the contemporary international system with multinational corporations. …”
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Du traumatisme à l’effacement : la spirale vertigineuse dans Theories of Forgetting de Lance Olsen (2014) by Anthony Remy

“…Through the observation of these writing processes Lance Olsen reveals a contemporary metafictional text in crisis as well. By examining concepts such as the conscious and the unconscious, or the importance of memory – both individual and collective – in the construction of one’s own identity, the author underlines the fact that everything is actually doomed to disappear. …”
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La réplique d’expérience en musique : la question de la jouabilité des instruments au musée de la Musique by Marie-Anne Loeper-Attia

“…The question will be treated here using a variety of modern and contemporary musical instruments, including a Fender Stratocaster electric guitar, Martenot Waves and a Max Mathews aluminium violin.…”
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Taking the Evolution of the Standards of Proof for a Criminal Conviction Seriously by Jacopo Della Torre

“…The final part looks to the future, asking whether traditional decision-making criteria should be maintained or replaced by new ones based on the principles of contemporary epistemology. …”
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Artifice and Medium-Specific Art: Poetry Performance and Film by Geneviève Cohen-Cheminet

“…The editing work undertaken with film artist Meryem De Lagarde led to a clearer understanding of issues of remediation, immediacy and hypermediacy, from the oppositional, Modernist legacy of artifice to the contemporary awareness of our collective, compliant fascination with images. …”
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The CEO Art Museum Director: Business as Usual? by Jennifer A. Donnelly

“…The juxtaposition of contemporary and historical examples is meant to help analyze the tensions between the realms of art history and of business in American museums as they continue to redefine their role as not-for-profit cultural institutions responsible for their own financial soundness.…”
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Assessing and Improving Animal Welfare Using Applied Ethology by Emma Fàbrega, Maria J. Hötzel

“…The papers in this Special Issue, entitled “Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Behaviour, Applied Ethology and Welfare of Farmed Animals”, bring to the forefront empirical data and theoretical discussions that contribute to the discussion of contemporary issues, from environmental enrichment to improvements in animal welfare, the intensification of animal rearing systems, and innovations like virtual fencing and dietary adjustments to improve animal health and welfare in organic systems [...]…”
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Georg Friedrich Knapp and Modern Monetary Theory by Jan Greitens

“…Money is regulated by the modern state, but this could also be done by non-governmental communities. Contemporary criticism of Knapp reads like criticism of MMT: The danger of inflation is not taken seriously, there is an overreliance on the state, and the approach is too narrowly focused on the monetary side of the economy. …”
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Fluidités victoriennes by Béatrice Laurent

“…The culturally-constructed concept of a « natural » femininity defined by its fluidity and absorbency makes women the source at the same time as the container of vital fluids and serves the dominant discourse on gender as it conversely establishes masculine substantiality and impermeableness.This paper aims at examining a corpus of paintings illustrating the feminisation of water, and at suggesting interpretations in the light of contemporary, and sometimes fluctuating, scientific, medical or political discourses.…”
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Les politiques du tracteur chez les Wichís du Chaco argentin by Alberto Preci, Marco Flamini

“…Our hypothesis is that these machines, caught in a web of clientship relations, play a central role in contemporary political reordering. They not only engage in the evolution of interethnic relations, but they also catalyze tensions amongst the communities. …”
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Shi‘i religious thinkers and the issue of Apostasy by G. R. Nuei, Faisal Ahmad Shah

“…This article is to assess the status of killing fatwas among contemporary Islamic thinkers in general and two Shi‘i religious thinkers in particular. …”
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«È stato perché sono uscita di casa». Esperienze di prostitute a confronto con i modelli di femminilità proposti a Mekelle (Tigray, Etiopia) by Altea Vatteroni

“…Through the stories of some prostitutes in the city of Mekelle, the two models of femininity - modern and traditional - proposed by contemporary Ethiopian society will be discussed. It will reflect on the contradictions these models of identity bring into play, forcing women to make uncertain choices, and on their pervasiveness, which permeates the discourses and individual behavior. …”
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Dheepan, un film postcolonial by Anthony Goreau-Ponceaud, Paul Veyret

“…Dheepan questions a contemporary trope, that of a migrant from a state torn apart by an internal war that raged from July 1983 to May 2009 between the army of Sri-Lanka and the separatist Tamil Tigers struggling for the liberation of Tamil Eelam. …”
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Formation and development of Russian university technical education by I. . Fedorov, V. . Baltyan

“…The complex program for the development of university technical education in Russia on the contemporary stage is presented.…”
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