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The (SCOPUS / ISI) SOAS GLOCAL AFALA 2023 Mini Call for Papers, 2023

The (SCOPUS / ISI) SOAS GLOCAL AFALA 2023 theme, Linguistic Landscapes, Cultural Climates, Mazingira Ya Lugha, Hali Ya Hewa Ya Kitamaduni, foregrounds the complex inter-subjectivities among identities in African urban and suburban centres. The theme invites both analysis and rhetoric on the linguocultural complexity, of African regions, and by those working in African regions. The GLOCAL AFALA thus 2023 invites work which addresses the complexity of African Linguistic Landscapes and their Cultural Climates.

It is a book about pricing.

2016

Gift-giving was a crucial part of the regulation and practice of relations between European ambassadors and Ottoman state officials in Istanbul. Although largely dominated by textiles, timepieces played a crucial role in gift-giving practices on a number of levels. Taking the example of the British embassy in Istan-bul in the eighteenth century and examining the detailed financial records of that institution, this article considers the significance of watches and clocks gifted by the British to different Ottoman officials on different occasions. By considering timepieces as social gifts to build individual relationships, as ceremonial gifts conforming to Ottoman expectations and practices, and as objects used to stimulate commercial interest, this article emphasises the importance of financial records and material objects as sources for reconstructing the practice of diplomacy, and demonstrates the shifting role of time pieces in British-Ottoman relations in the eighteenth century.

Commitments as a consensual administration technique: brief comments on art. 26 of the Lei de Introdução às Normas do Direito Brasileiro (LINDB)* Compromissos como técnica de administração consensual: breves comentários ao art. 26 da Lei de Introdução às Normas do Direito Brasileiro (LINDB)

TUBULAÇÕES INDUSTRIAIS TELLES 10ED

International Journal of Cuban Studies

This text presents findings from a contemporary archaeology project that has been exploring the October Crisis (1962) and its material and immaterial remains in Cuba since 2005. The project is a cooperation between Swedish archaeologists and Cuban archaeologists, anthropologists and historians, and its primary aim is to complement the dominant narrative of the crisis with material and immaterial remains and memories in a way that approaches and explains the event “from below”. The current text focuses on the US Marston mats that can be found at a number of locations in farmsteads and villages surrounding the former missile sites in the Los Palacios and San Cristóbal areas, as well as on a photo of a Russian girl that was a gift from a Russian soldier to a Cuban peasant during the crisis. These objects present the reader with new material and human insights concerning the crisis that until now have been more or less concealed and unknown, contributing new complementary dimensions to ...

For longer than most of us have been around, the major political parties have been united by the goal of making more economic “growth” happen. They have been divided on the means, but there has been little or no disagreement about the goal. Only the Green Party has taken a somewhat different line, at times questioning the primary goal of “growth”, although I would argue that, even in their case, this focus has been inconsistent and poorly developed. However, there are indications that some sections of the Labour movement are at last beginning to accept that the pursuit of economic growth is highly problematic, and beginning to explore some alternatives. This ought not to be surprising, given the influence of the ecology movement on the New Left of late 60s and 70s. The New Left had some influence on Labour via things like the Greater London Council administration and the Institute for Workers Control, as well as through the influx of activists, feminist, Marxist, environmentalist, pacifist. However, the influence was marginalised both what Raymond Williams called the “productivism” of the mainstream labour movement and Labour's neoliberal turn under Kinnock and Blair. I'll review the evidence, or rather the straws in the wind, for an opening to the critique of “growth”,consider why it has been difficult for Labour politicians to accept the idea of a steady state economy, post-growth or degrowth, and finally look at what a Labour post-growth approach might look like. I will draw upon things I've written elsewhere but also add in some new material.

Vitruvius III.2.6: Hermogenes, Menesthes, and the Pseudodipteros Temple of Apollo (?) Roman architect Vitruvius’ “De architectura libri decem” mirrors architectural-engineering history and theories of the Classical Ages of the Mediterranean Basin that reached the present day and it has definitely taken its place in the literature as the most comprehensive study. Vitruvius mentions Hermogenes in his work for the first time in the 3rd book where that chapter subjects to temple plans and their examples (III. 2.6): “huius exemplar Romae non est sed│Magnesiae (aedis) Dianae Hermogenis, Alabandis etiam Apollinis a Menesthe facta ”. He quoted Hermogenes’ name when he was talking about pseudodipteros temples plans that did not exist in Rome and counted merely two of it. One of these temples is the Temple of Artemis, mentioned in the chapter where Hermogenes’ name is quoted. The temple is referred as his work in later chapters. Vitruvius states that the second pseudodipteros temple is dedicated to Apollo. Chapter III.2.6 of his book is one of the most significant chapters that carry the problematic of Hermogenes to the current literature. Outside of Rome, it is futile to discuss the presence of two pseudodipteros temples on the text which Vitruvius knew and reported. However, he mentioned the names of Alabanda (?) and Menesthes (?) that brings a significant discussion and some questions with it: Where is Hermogenes from? Apart from the Temple of Artemis, where is the Temple of Apollo, the second pseudodipteros temple? Who built it? This study brings a new perspective by evaluating all previous discussions and interpretations until the present day.

2019

Aids and Research Tools in Ancient Near Eastern Studies 2. Malibu: Undena Publications.