Cultural Studies

Sexual harassment in professional fields can hinder economic development globally. The epidemic of sexual harassment within the law profession has created a hidden barrier, predominantly for females. This study seeks to examine the effect of Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace ( Prevention, Prohibition, and Redressal) Act 2013 (In.) (SHWWPPRA) among the legal professionals in India to determine whether sexual harassment affects the profession and whether sexual harassment is gender-biased. Empirical and descriptive research methods were adopted by administering questionnaires to three hundred and forty-seven (347) legal professionals. The results revealed that 57.1% of the total respondents did not think that the SHWWPPRA is significantly enforced, and 71.6% of 204 male and 83.2% of 143 female respondents viewed sexual harassment as a hindrance to the growth of the Indian legal profession. Based on these, it was recommended that The Advocates Act 1961 (In.) (AA) be revamped to include sexual harassment in the list of professional misconduct.

Disregarding the opposition of France, Germany, and Russia, as well as an unprecedented tide of global antiwar protests, the Bush administration brazenly launched its invasion of IraqwithoutU.N. authorization. President Bush—in a display of arrogance and self-righteousness—labeled the Iraq war “Operation Iraqi Freedom,” while his Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, proclaimed that the inhabitants of Iraq could be expected to offer the invading army a jubilant welcome of fresh-cut flowers and music. But the outcome of the invasion was only the provocation of more violence and even greater chaos. Surveys ofworld popular opinion show thatmost people, including those of America’s most slavish ally, England, have only contempt for America’s warmongering. America, not Iraq, is perceived as the greatest threat to global security.

Este articulo tiene como corpus de estudio la ultima produccion escritural de la poeta Chilena Rosabetty Munoz titulada En Nombre de Ninguna y publicada el ano 2008. En la obra el sujeto de la enunciacion presenta diversos hablantes innominados, aunque determinados e identificados con la perdida en el contexto de relaciones de parentesco y comunitarias. Esta condicion permite interrogar como se articula la relacion entre las diversas voces y la inscripcion de un nombre, condicion que permite proscribir la perdida. Es decir, como la obra En Nombre de Ninguna mediante la nominacion hace posible la redencion. La hipotesis a analizar consiste en suponer que el texto presenta la polifonia como mecanismo, que permite no solo presentar la perdida, sino tambien realizar un duelo, entendido en su dimension ritual como bautismo religioso e inscripcion de un nombre.

Alexandru Duțu (1997)

„Ușurătatea și dificultatea cu care ne adaptăm la situațiile noi provine din faptul că nu ne cunoaștem bine tradiția culturală; pentru că avem puține de apărat asimilăm tot ce ne cade sub priviri şi adeseori cu teama să nu rămânem în urma Europei care este „cu ochii pe noi”. Ca vechi europeni ar trebui să ne apărăm mai dârz valorile, libertatea menținută prin secole, credința subtilă pe care o înțelegem pe jumătate din manifestările exterioare. Când apar grupurile anticreștine, suntem foarte atenți să nu supărăm Europa, deși în multe țări din Europa acele grupuri sunt interzise. O mai clară definire a tradiției noastre (nu din punctul burgheziei rapid formate sau al ideologiilor de import) ne-ar ajuta să ne înțelegem mai bine și, cum spune Chesterton, să nu mai dăm cu piciorul la scara pe care ne-am suit. Și continuă scriitorul britanic: pentru a înțelege peștele, va trebui să renunțăm (mental) la picioare, așa cum cel care cercetează păsările va trebui să uite de brațe, numai așa vom putea descoperi bucuria ce ne înconjoară. Ca și toleranța, a cărei definiție am găsit-o în Pateric unde un bătrân ajuns pe culmile înțelepciunii și ale păcii sufletești spune că „douăzeci de ani m-am rugat ca pe toți oamenii să-i văd ca pe unul” [...].”

ABSTRACTThis article traces negotiations over the epistemic, ethical, and political authority of Judaism, Protestantism, Catholicism, and science in mid-twentieth-century America. Specifically, it examines how the president of the Jewish Theological Seminary, Rabbi Dr. Louis Finkelstein, led a diverse group of intellectual elites as they planned and convened the 1940 Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion in Their Relation to the Democratic Way of Life (CSPR). Based on the conference's transcripts, proceedings, and papers, in addition to Finkelstein's writings from the period, this article shows how Finkelstein used his vision of the Jewish tradition as a model to form a pluralistic intellectual space that brought together the representatives of multiple religious traditions and modern science. To accredit the American way of life to Judaism, Finkelstein traced America's ethical values, democratic politics, and scientific genius back to the Hebrew Prophets throug...

Both in opera studies and in most operatic works, the singing body is taken for granted. In Postopera: Reinventing the Voice-Body, Jelena Novak reintroduces an awareness of the physicality of the singing body to opera studies. Arguing that the body-voice relationship itself is a producer of meaning, she furthermore posits this relationship as one of the major driving forces in recent opera. She takes as her focus six contemporary operas - La Belle et la Bête (Philip Glass), Writing to Vermeer (Louis Andriessen, Peter Greenaway), Three Tales (Steve Reich, Beryl Korot), One (Michel van der Aa), Homeland (Laurie Anderson) and La Commedia (Louis Andriessen, Hal Hartley) - which she terms ‘postoperas’. These pieces are sites for creative exploration, where the boundaries of the opera world are stretched. Central to this is of the impact of new media, a de-synchronization between image and sound, or a redefinition of body-voice-gender relationships. Novak dissects the singing body as a se...