De l’Antiquité à la science-fiction : la réinvention de Babylone dans les représentations artistiques occidentales des xxe et xxie siècles by Ariane Aujoulat

“…From an ancient Eastern city, Babylon became a contemporary Western megalopolis and the myth of Babel was the object of a total inversion of values: from nostalgia for the cohesion through language to the fear of having a unique language imposed on oneself and losing all individuality. …”
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Beyond the body – Rethinking the architectural module to promote social inclusion by Mickeal Milocco Borlini, Ambra Pecile, Christina Conti

“…The paper concludes that the evolution of the concepts of the module and the human being requires a revision of their very meanings, calling for a more inclusive approach to design and planning in our contemporary world.   Article info Received: 16/09/2023; Revised: 19/10/2023; Accepted: 30/10/2023 …”
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Transforming global governance: Crafting sustainable peace through Global South perspectives by Ibrahim Khan

“…By bridging historical critiques with contemporary challenges, this analysis offers a framework for transforming global governance to create a more peaceful world for future generations. …”
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Virtual Laboratories: Mesocosms and Gameworlds by Dustin Breitling

“…Building upon these developments, we will explore how digital games share parallels with mesocosms, attempting to render ecological and Earth systems phenomena legible while simultaneously contributing to contemporary debates surrounding biodiversity, species loss, and climate change. …”
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REFLECTION OF NIETZHES PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS IN AVANGARDIZM ART by Ya. S. Demydenko

“…It was proved that the creative legacy of Nietzsche can be the intellectual base for overcoming the crisis in contemporary art culture and initiate the ascent of man to the new spiritual and artistic heights.…”
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Défense de la langue et développement des territoires : l'aragonais et ses promotrices/promoteurs by Carmen Alén Garabato

“…This article focuses on the efforts that contemporary activists are making to ensure that this language, Aragonese, does not disappear. …”
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The politics of liturgy between tradition and modernity in South Africa by J. Rossouw

“… How can Catherine Pickstock’s statement that “Traditional communities governed by liturgical patterns are likely to be the only source of resistance to capitalist and bureaucratic norms today” be interpreted in contemporary South Africa in such a way that justice and recognition are upheld? …”
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Alice ainda mora aqui: narrativa juvenil contemporânea by Alice Áurea Penteado Martha

“…Such aspects shall be emphasized in juvenile narratives selected from the contemporary Brazilian literature, such as Laura Bergallo’s “Alice no espelho” [Alice in the Mirror] and Jorge Miguel Marinho’s “A maldição do olhar” [The Curse of the Gaze]. …”
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La retraduction shakespearienne : espace d’accomplissement ou captation contemporaine ? by Julie Vatain-Corfdir

“…Antoine Berman’s “retranslation hypothesis,” which offers retranslation as a space for gradual accomplishment, is thus confronted with examples of textual choices in several productions of Julius Caesar and Macbeth, in order to interrogate the aesthetics of a truly “contemporary” approach to retranslating Shakespeare.…”
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Medikalizace smrti na přelomu 18. a 19. století. Okamžik smrti, zdánlivá smrt a vzorce chování k mrtvým z hlediska dějin lékařství by Václav Grubhoffer

“…Having considered some research results of contemporary historiography and some period medical treatises it is structured into three parts. …”
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MOBILIZING THE HALAL LIFESTYLE OF MIDDLE-CLASS MUSLIMS IN INDONESIA by Putri Kamilatul Rohmi

“…In doing so, the government contributes to mobilizing middle-class Muslim lifestyles in contemporary Indonesian culture.…”
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The garden of love: some orthodox perspectives on the spirit and the Church by N. Dumitrascu

“… In contemporary cultures, we often observe a strong shift of values. …”
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Las memorias de Mario Onaindia: geminación e iluminaciones by Miguel Olmos

“…Finally, they provide samples of his knowledge of contemporary political language​, and the essential keys of his ideological evolution.…”
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Produced by Sun, Wind or Water: Visions of Renewable Energy in the West German Electricity Industry’s Advertising During the 1980s by Lisanne Rother

“…The article explores how and why they shaped specific visions about contemporary and future energy provision. Following visual history’s social constructivist approach, the paper argues that image advertisements by RWE and IZE performatively produced visions of renewable, sustainable energy.…”
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Representação feminina na narrativa infantojuvenil brasileira contemporânea by Leda Cláudia da Silva

“…This article investigates female representation turned to the public in question, based on a large research regarding the profile of the personage of the Brazilian contemporary children’s and youth narrative. It is our aim to reflect about the building of the feminine role in a tentative of identifying and questioning matters related to the absence of representation, to the stereotype, or still to the possibility of the literary building of the feminine identity in a multiple and representative manner. …”
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„Rózga i karcenie udziela mądrości…” . O społecznym micie przydatności bicia w wychowaniu by Ewa Jarosz, Cezary Kurkowski

“…The paper presents the problem of violence in upbringing from a historical and contemporary perspective. The reflection is focused on the situation in Poland – both in the past and today. …”
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Pulsujące metafory dydaktyki w kleszczach języka. O lingwistycznych blokadach konstruktywistycznej zmiany w kształceniu by Astrid Męczkowska-Christiansen

“… The content of the article includes analyses of the linguistic plane of the reception of constructivist didactics, carried out in order to seek a partial answer to the question: why does the paradigmatic change in the area of school education in Poland, which has been intensively postulated by scientific circles over the last thirty years, not materialise in the space of contemporary educational practices in their institutional settings? …”
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A Stochastic-Variational Model for Soft Mumford-Shah Segmentation

“…<p>In contemporary image and vision analysis, stochastic approaches demonstrate great flexibility in representing and modeling complex phenomena, while variational-PDE methods gain enormous computational advantages over Monte Carlo or other stochastic algorithms. …”
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معاصر تحریکی سیرتی ادب میں اصول ِتدریج کی روایت by Dr. Hafiz Muhammad Hassaan Saeed

“…In this article, the above principle in the contemporary Islamic Movements have been examined in detail from an analytical study. …”
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Yorùbá Proverbial Metaphor: A Rhetoric tool and Guiding Principle to Conflict Resolution by Emmanuel Oluniyi Ademola

“…Suggestions are raised that application of proverbial maxims with Yorùbá perception on conflict and conflict resolution could be useful for peaceful handling of contemporary conflicts that are rampaging the African nations. …”
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