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In this dissertation, I analyze the idea of cultural citizenship in the participation of the Erasmus+ Program and the reality of its manifestation in German culture and society. Following Máiréad Nic Craith, cultural citizenship is defined here as a "set of practices (juridical, political, economic and cultural) that define a person as a component member of society" and has been neglected as a form of study by anthropologists (2004). Drawing from Nic Craith's definition, my notion of cultural citizenship is that it is an inherently cultural process, fluid and constantly evolving (2004). The focus for my investigation is the EU-sponsored Erasmus+ Program, created 30 years ago to develop and transfer a common sense of community and European cultural identity through study exchange throughout the EU Member States. The longstanding goal of the Erasmus+ Program is that current and former Erasmus+ students will be catalysts and members of this shared European identity. This doctoral research questions how do these European university students, who each bring their own individual notions of nationalism and cultural citizenship, experience this program in Germany? To answer this question, over the 2015-2016 academic year, I have documented the Incoming- and Outgoing- Erasmus+ students' experiences at a historic and international German university, Georg-August-Universität-Göttingen in Lower Saxony, Germany. My infield ethnography comprised of multifaceted semi-structured interviews (with the Erasmus+ students, Universität-Göttingen Erasmus+ coordinators, and EU policymakers in Brussels and Bonn), participant-observations, surveys, spontaneous conversations, and demographic data. The procedure of analysis was grounded theory, coding of interviews with qualitative data analysis software ATLAS.ti, and data triangulation. . The results show that 10 Key Themes emerged including European Identity, the Erasmus+ Experiences, European Shared Belonging, and Cultural citizenship. Through data triangulation, these students are engaged in citizenship and living this European project dream, during their Erasmus+ stay.In conclusion, this doctoral research probes deeply the larger questions of how are these students practicing citizenship in an uncertain EU and hesitant Europe and how does the German university foster a transformative notion of cultural European citizenship.

The precedents of the MeToo University movement, both in USA and Spain, has been led since the 1990s both by people who have taken a stand against sexual harassment in universities. The present study reflects the history of the MeToo University in Spain with an emphasis in the start of organized movement in 2013, also simultaneously with the one organized in the USA. For this purpose, in-depth interviews were conducted with people who led this transformation since its beginnings, as well as with others who have joined recently, in order to learn about the historical scope of this movement from a qualitative approach. Those people have suffered from isolating gender violence for daring to break the silence, being a loudspeaker and putting a name to a problem still silenced in Spanish universities and in the world. The movement has achieved great advances in academic settings, such as the obligation of all universities to have protocols for action in case of sexual harassment or gender violence, the legislation of isolating gender violence, and an unstoppable number of people who come out to tell their cases. ; Los precedentes del movimiento MeToo Universidad, tanto en EE.UU. como en España, han sido liderados desde la década de los 90 por personas que se han posicionado contra el acoso sexual en las universidades. El presente estudio refleja la historia del MeToo Universidad en España con énfasis en el inicio del movimiento organizado en 2013, también simultáneamente con el organizado en EE.UU. Para ello, se realizaron entrevistas en profundidad a personas que lideraron esta transformación desde sus inicios, así como a otras que se han incorporado recientemente, con el fin de conocer el alcance histórico de este movimiento desde un enfoque cualitativo. Esas personas han sufrido violencia de género aisladora por atreverse a romper el silencio, ser altavoz y poner nombre a un problema aún silenciado en las universidades españolas y en el mundo. El movimiento ha conseguido grandes avances en el ámbito académico, ...

This paper deals with the chequered history of academic writing in one of the state public universities in Kerala, India, the University of Calicut. Academic writing was introduced in 2009 and was taught till 2014. It was removed for a short duration of three years before being reintroduced in 2017.The paper argues that there are political, administrative and educational reasons for the uneven history of the course. While the political and administrative reasons stifled the course, the educational reasons drained its core principles. Since academic writing was introduced along with the semester system, the history of the course is examined alongside the semester system. The paper elaborates on the limitations of introducing a course that demands flexibility within a rigid educational system. It is proposed that discipline specific research writing courses must be introduced in core subjects and integrated with generalist academic writing courses for achieving the learning objectives envisaged in it.

Unique institution through seniority, structure and organization, "Carol I" National Defense University has remarkably stood out, over time, among the military organizations of higher education in Romania, through the scope of its activities of training the officers in theory and practice. The article presents aspects of the constituting elements of the Superior War School (the initial name from 1889), with brief mentions of the years 1919, 1937 and 1939, illustrated with archival documents. The research is based on the documents studied at the National Military Archives, the Service of the Central National Historical Archives, the Library of the Romanian Academy and the Library of the "Carol I" National Defense University.

Education in specific periods of social development has been treated as a priority no doubts, educational-learning activity has been one of the not substitutable elements of communication between people and progress of every civilization. It serves to the nation and every development to this field is welcomed. With termination of Second World War Albania would be faced with many difficulties, as a result of damages also of poor educational inheritance. The solution to the problems would require the active involvement of the state but also of the wide civilization of that time. a powerful influence would exercise economic, political, and social factors where no doubt the most active one remained the politic one. Communist leadership would apply totalitarian socialist system undertaking for more than five decades radical changes, with consequences in the educational development in general and the high one in special. The first decades would be defining of lying of foundations and gradually for the formation as a school category oriented toward Leninism -Marxism ideology. The end of the 50s that conformed with the opening of the first Albanian University would take a special place in this process. Within the limits of an article not pretending for exhaustive treatment, we will have a tendency toward a new approach about some of the most specific aspects of higher education performance in this period. DOI:10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n5s2p663

Theology has been an integral part of the University of Pretoria since its inception and Church History has been taught since the establishment of the Faculty of Theology in 1917. At that time, the Presbyterian Church of South Africa and the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika (NHK) were partners. The Presbyterian link with the Faculty ceased in 1933. From 1938 the Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk (NGK) joined the NHK and this remained the situation until 2002 when the Uniting Presbyterian Church of Southern Africa re-established its links with the Faculty. At the present time, the Department of Church History and Church Polity is staffed by representatives of all three partner churches.

Issue of The Governance, the newsletter of the University of Scranton's student government, clubs, and organizations.

Mendel Museum has been a part of Masaryk University since 2007 and is the first comprehensive university museum in the modern history of the Czech Republic. It aims to promote the legacy of Gregor Johann Mendel, the Augustinian monk who discovered the basic principles of heredity in the Abbey of Old Brno. These principles have become the starting point for a new field of study – genetics. Mendel Museum prepares short-term exhibitions that promote the work of the university. Although Czech legislation does not acknowledge the independent category of 'university museum', the Mendel Museum conducts its operations under the Czech legislation for museums; this ensures the protection of collections and collection objects.

The main purpose of the Order of St George -refounded in 1 729 -was to tie the leading members of the Bavarian nobility closer to the House of Wittelsbach and to create a strong esprit de corps. Taking up an older idea of the creation of a Bavarian Priory of the Order of St John there was also intended to provide another platform for military excellence and training for young Bavarian aristocrats. To achieve that was aimed a confraternity with the knights of St John and the employment in the Austrian wars against the Ottomans. To bring this project of the confraternity into gear in early 1731 Max Emanuel von Sandizell was sent to Malta as head of a delegation of knights of St George. Sandizell and his comrades of the Order of St George also should participate in the famous caravans of the Order's navy. The further history of the knights of St John and St George in the 18th century had several parallels. What might have contributed to the keenness of many Bavarian nobles to enroll into the Order was -most likely unconsciously the search to compensate symbolically for lost authority and influence. In this respect, the Orders of Malta and of St George shared an important issue in a period marked by new concepts of state, utility, and nascent nationalism. The political power in the then prevailing times of 'enlightened absolutism' had been long since moved from the nobility into the hands of the princes and the leading representatives of centralized administrations. ; peer-reviewed

During the 1820s, 30s, and 40s, national politics operated under the influence of Andrew Jackson's political rise and enduring influence. The Jacksonian Era saw dramatic changes occur in the United States. Most importantly, the United States's national borders expanded to reach the Pacific Coast of North America, encompassing an area that Mexico, Great Britain, Russia, and numerous Native American groups claimed. At the same time, American letters burgeoned into a vibrant and unique national literature, one that practitioners believed rivaled any European discourses of nationalism in passion and erudition. George Bancroft operated at the nexus of these developments. He wrote the first popularly acclaimed and professional history of the United States, while simultaneously participating in Democratic Party politics. Ultimately, Bancroft served in the Presidential administration of James Knox Polk, influencing national policy and international diplomacy. This dissertation articulates the ideological assumptions and functions of the first three volumes of Bancroft's History of the United States, which covered the Colonial Era of American history, during the Age of Jackson, a period in which the United States ceased to operate on the periphery of European colonialism and became a colonial power in its own right.

This paper is a study of the Late Roman and Early Byzantine solidi from the province of Scania in southern Sweden and the solidi kept in the coin cabinet of the Lund University History Museum. The catalogue lists 34 solidi and classifies the recorded issues according to modern numismatic standards using the current DOC, MIBE and RIC typologies. It is argued that most of the preserved coins from Scania are probably of different types than those originally imported during the solidus influx to Scandinavia. It is more probable than not that the vast majority of solidi imported to Scania in the fifth century came as war booty with returning veterans. As Scania may have had a more hierarchical structure than other parts of Scandinavia, it seems likely that most solidi were recast as ring gold or jewelry in an effort to concentrate wealth and power to inland central places. The few solidi that remain are mainly found along the shorelines of Scania, many of which are looped and have been worn as pendants. As symbolic manifestations of political alliances, these solidi have served a different function than most solidi preserved elsewhere in Scandinavia, notably on neighboring Bornholm, and Öland.

This article was accepted for publication in the journal, Anarchist Studies [© Lawrence and Wishart]. ; In ordinary language, a ghost writer is someone who stands behind or writes on behalf of a named author. In dubbing George Woodcock the ghost writer of anarchism we instead want to suggest that Woodcock identifi ed anarchism's 'essence' or, as Stirner has it, 'the spirit that walks in everything'.2 Aft er considering the evolution of Anarchism in the context of Woodcock's political activism we discuss Woodcock's contribution to the construction of the anarchist canon and his treatment of anarchism's 'essence'.

The history of the language represents a moment of deep knowledge in the development of the political thought of the Nation. With regard to the Italian language, we must recognize observations and summaries of linguistic history produced ever since the origins of the language itself. A short number of examples, coming from the history of the Italian language, and from the history of Italian literature, will be considered. We will consider in which way the language has been taught over time and the University statement.

In this article we would like to concentrate on the figure of Georges Gurvitch. Gurvitch developed a considerable body of work in the field of political philosophy, legal science as well as sociology. But he did not limit himself to theoretical work: he also sought to intervene in and influence the social and political evolution of his time. Thus, while in exile in New York during World War II, in 1944 he wrote The Bill of Social Rights (La déclaration des droits sociaux 3), whose purpose was to inspire the constitution of the French Fourth Republic. It is this form of intervention that we would like to focus on here. If it deserves our attention, it is because, beyond its mere historical interest, it allows us to readdress the question of the intellectual intervention of the philosopher in the social realm in an original way. What is unique in Gurvitch's intervention in the social realm is that it is motivated by a genuine ambition to go beyond the aporia of a purely ideal approach based on the illusion of the omnipotence of ideas, all the while refusing to sacrifice the desire to strengthen the "hold of the ideal over the real". Neither purely ideal nor purely real, Gurvitch qualifies his method as an "ideal-realism". As we shall see, Gurvitch's aim in The Bill of Social Rights is to render possible a more effective hold of the ideal over the real.

The articles deal with the statements made by the Georgian and foreign politicians on the 12th anniversary of the August War of 2008. Representatives of the government of Georgia argued Russia to withdraw occupation forces from the territory of Georgia, whereas the former president of the Russian Federation tried to justify the aggressive politics of Russia. The West still depicted its support to the territorial integrity of Georgia.