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Verso nuove frontiere della comunicazione: l’interazione on line e la mediazione. Riflessioni sul Companion Volume del QCER e il Progetto Erasmus+DELCYME A cura di Monica Barsi, Anne Jardin

This introductory essay aims to shed light on the theoretical raison d’être, the intersections within, and the main lines shared by the five essays that make up this section. The section is dedicated to transnational and blended learning spaces in telecollaborative, trans-institutional projects. This piece pivots on the increasingly important and pervasive theoretical notion of the “Spatial Turn” (Bachmann-Medick 2016, 211-243), which has become increasingly visible in, among other fields, pedagogy and cultural studies, and more specifically in the idea of boundary-crossing and hybridisation not only of physical but also of methodological spaces. This introductory essay shows how these five scholarly pieces contribute in different ways to enriching the interdisciplinary scholarly space at the intersection of intercultural awareness and technology- enhanced teaching and learning of foreign languages and cultures.

This contribution draws on the article by Carloni and Zuccala (2017), that offered a preliminary discussion of a joint telecollaborative project between Italian Studies at Monash University and the University of Urbino. The present work aims at providing a theoretical, as well as pragmatic, starting point for developing a Pre-Service Teacher-centred model for a “sustainable”, cross-institutional, blended mode of delivering foreign language and culture tuition in the field of Italian

This paper discusses a foreign language acquisition project developed at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia) – in collaboration with the University of Urbino (Italy) – and aimed at incorporating Skype-mediated digital learning into an Italian studies advanced 1 Unit, in order to improve the students’ perceived exposure to spoken Italian and Italian culture. After discussing the project’s context, theoretical framework, and digital contents, the paper will focus on its results from the viewpoint of the students’ perception, by analysing the data collected via weekly online questionnaires completed by the participants throughout the course.

Abstract This article reviews research on homeschool learner outcomes and then focuses on one study and one conceptual theme related to both home education and schooling in general. It synthesizes research on learner outcomes related to homeschooling in areas of students’ academic achievement, children’s social, emotional, and psychological development, and the success of adults who were home educated. The summary finds generally that positive outcomes on a variety of variables are associated with homeschooling. The first special focus is one study on African American homeschooling families that explores the parents’ reasons for homeschooling and their Black children’s academic achievement. The second particular focus is the issue of whether compulsory school attendance laws are necessary in light of the findings of research on teacher preparation and certification in state/public schools and three decades of research on modern homeschooling.

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, who has been famous for five centuries, thought of himself as a philosopher. Today, however, few philosophers in the Anglophone world think of him as a philosopher: instead, he is now a humanist. But 'humanism' was not a category known to Pico, unlike the category 'philosophy'. Texts published in Pico's lifetime, when compared to modern accounts of this period, reveal problems arising from the application of these categories across long periods of time. Examination of these problems shows that the terms 'humanism' and 'humanist' have produced confusion of four types: ideological, narrative, philosophical and taxonomical. Since these terms have done more harm than good, students of the Renaissance should replace them with other terms - 'classicism' and 'classicist', perhaps. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A list of work and activity reports on topics related to Jesuits is presented.

A. G. Gus’kov, K. A. Kochegarov, S. M. Shamin, Russko-turetskaia voina 1686-1700 godov [The Russian- Turkish War of 1686-1700] (Moscow: Russkoe slovo, 2022).

La S. del BVerfG de 31 de octubre de 2023 ha declarado inconstitucional el Nr. 5 del § 362 StPO, que fue introducido en diciembre de 2021 para permitir la revisión contra reum de sentencias firmes por la aparición de nuevos hechos o medios de prueba. Se sustenta esta declaración en la vulneración, por el legislador, de la prohibición de bis in idem (art. 103.3 GG) y de la prohibición de retroactividad de disposiciones sancionadoras (art. 20.3 GG, entre otros). Los argumentos dados no son en su totalidad convincentes y la resolución no puede desmotivar a otros países a seguir un camino distinto. De lege ferenda propongo la inclusión en el art. 954 LECrim de una serie de normas que puedan encauzar una (constitucional) revisión contra reum de sentencias penales firmes.

Since 2016, French law has pursued the objective of no net loss of biodiversity by requiring projects with impacts on biodiversity to avoid, reduce, and then compensate for these impacts. Offset measures must generate sufficient ecological gains, which presupposes that they are carried out on sites in poor ecological condition. This article analyzes the ecological context in which 1153 offset measures were implemented between 2017 and 2021 in France. Using data on the "potential wilderness of mainland France", we compare the biophysical integrity scores of the selected sites on the one hand and the ecological quality scores, including an index of landscape connectivity around the sites, on the other hand, in relation to national scores. Our results show that 64% of the area of offset sites is located in areas where the biophysical integrity score is above the French median, and 40% is located in spaces where it is above the last quartile. However, the majority of offset sites are found in landscapes with lower ecological quality than the mainland territory. These findings suggest that the strategy for locating compensatory measures does not primarily aim to generate significant ecological gains but rather responds to other economic and land constraints. This raises questions about the effectiveness of offsetting in moving towards no biodiversity net loss.

Modern understanding of the emperor Justinian’s protracted war against the Gothic regime in Italy and Sicily is based almost entirely on the account of Procopius of Caesarea from 535 to 552. The chronology of the war therefore depends on the interpretation of Procopius’s narrative in the fundamental books by J.B. Bury, History of the Later Roman Empire (1923) and E. Stein, Histoire du Bas-Empire (1949), which underpin all modern accounts. Both Bury and Stein presumed that Procopius’ Gothic war year ran uniformly from the end of June of one year to the end of June of the next. This paper aims to demonstrate that the Procopian Gothic war year did not run at a fixed time from June to June each year, but from the beginning of the annual campaign season (normally March) to the end of the following winter, in clear imitation of his model Thucydides. Also explored are the implications for redating key episodes of the Gothic War

The Protagoras is the touchstone of Socrates’ moral intellectualist stance. The position in a nutshell stipulates that the proper reevaluation of a desire is enough to neutralize it.[1] The implication of this position is that akrasia or weakness of will is not the result of desire (or fear for that matter) overpowering reason but is due to ignorance. Socrates’ eliminativist position on weakness of will, however, flies in the face of the common-sense experience regarding akratic action and thus Aristotle was at pains to render Socrates’ account of moral incontinence intelligible. The key improvement Aristotle makes to Socrates’s model is to underscore that the conditioning of the akratic’s body plays a critical role in determining the power of one’s appetites and, accordingly, the capacity of one to resist the temptations these appetites present for rational evaluation. As Aristotle puts it, “For the incontinent man is like the people who get drunk quickly and on little wine, i.e., on less than most people.” (1151a 3-4). Aristotle presents what I shall call a somatic paradigm (i.e. the drunkard analogy) in order to tackle the problem of akrasia and it is this somatic solution that marks a significant improvement over Socrates’s intellectualist or informational model or so the tradition tells us. In this paper, I wish to push back on the above Aristotelian explanation. I argue that when one fully examines Socrates’ account of weakness of will that Aristotle’s solution is less effective than is traditionally thought. In fact, Socrates can bring Aristotle’s model into his own; just as Aristotle absorbs what is right about Socrates’s model, namely, that akratic action utilizes reason but to a limited degree, Socrates in Meno (77C-78A) develops his own somatic model of weakness of will that connects to the intellectualist paradigm of the Protagoras. To achieve this rapprochement between the two models, I zero in on the description provided by Socrates of those individuals who desire bad things knowing they are bad as “ill-starred” or “bad spirited” (κακοδαίμων ). The “bad-spirited” is the coward and, in contrast to Aristotle’s drunkard, becomes fearful quickly from little danger. This additional somatic component, when connected to Socrates’s position on akrasia in Protagoras adds a new twist to Socrates’s model in the following way: while no one wishes to be ill-starred such that more harm than good will befall one, one may become so as a result of the bad choices one knowingly makes. [1] “After him came Socrates, who spoke better and further about this subject, but even he was not successful. For he used to make the virtues into sciences, and this is impossible. For the sciences all involve reason, and reason is to be found in the intellectual part of the soul. So that all the virtues, according to him arise in the rational part of the soul. The result is that in making the virtues into sciences he is doing away with the nonrational part of the soul and is thereby doing away with passion and character…” (Aristotle, Magna Moralia 1.1. 1182 a15-26)

ABSTRACT Trans/plurilingual theory and pedagogies have been generating extensive attention within global English language teaching and teacher education. This article responds to the burgeoning area of trans/plurilingual pedagogies, outlining diverse pedagogical practices and perspectives from a group of English language educators at a large, cosmopolitan Canadian university. Considering recent assertions that there are onto-epistemological differences between multilingualism, plurilingualism, and translingualism, this article looks to demonstrate how (or even if) these differences manifest in the pedagogical practices of diverse faculty within the same language teaching and teacher education programs. Drawing on multiethnographic data, this article concludes with a discussion of the potential and limitations of critical pedagogies, the affordances of multiethnography as an accessible methodology for use by researchers and pedagogues, and a call for greater bi-directional knowledge flow between language researchers and classroom instructors.

Radiography codes and standards require that the detector be in direct contact with the weld. Until today, only film and computed radiography (CR) could satisfy that requirement for the inspection of oil and gas pipe weld discontinuities. Exposure techniques include but are not limited to double wall single view, single wall single view, or panoramic. An amorphous silicon conformable digital detector array (DDA) that is flexible allows for the detector to be in direct contact with the component. A conformable detector can be bent repeatedly around pipe welds of varying sizes resulting in image quality and workflow time savings productivity benefits for the static capture of welds with curved surfaces. For field radiography applications the detector design must be portable, thin, flexible, easily attached, and able to withstand harsh environments. Size, weight, scintillator type, pixel pitch, bit depth, radiation shielding, load limits, temperature, moisture, atmospheric pressure, vibration mitigation, drop resistance, and ingress protection are all additional considerations. High-quality digital images can be obtained for weld applications utilizing either tethered or wireless image acquisition modes. The improved productivity obtained from bendable detectors relative to film and CR benefit the industry. Discussion of the technology to some real-world radiography applications is presented as part of this paper.

Primary loop piping integrity is a regulatory and safety concern for the long-term operation (LTO) commercial light water reactor (LWR) nuclear power plants (NPPs). Typically, primary loop piping in existing LWRs was manufactured from cast or wrought austenitic stainless steel alloy material and operates at a pressure of ~2250 psi (16MPa) for a pressurized water reactor (PWR) design type and ~1000 psi (7 MPa) for a boiling water reactor (BWR). The objective of this research was to determine if measurement of surface strains can be used to characterize inner diameter flaws. For this feasibility study, wrought carbon steel Alloy A106 Grade B material was selected in lieu of stainless steel. This research was performed on pre-notched, 10 in. (25 cm) nominal outer diameter (OD) Schedule 120 (0.844 in. [21.4 mm) wall thickness) pipe samples of 24 in. (61 cm) length. The notches were made using electrical discharge machining (EDM) on the inner diameter (ID) of the pipe samples, with notch features two-dimensional (2D) and planar in nature to simulate cracking. The surface strains in the samples were evaluated under increasing hydrostatic pressure, up to a maximum of 2300 psi (16MPa) to determine their response to flaws with variable depth. Reusable end caps were utilized in lieu of welded caps for the pressure testing. This article describes the test procedure for the pressure testing and results of the feasibility study, which is the first phase of research with the end goal of the development of online crack monitoring capability for use at operating NPPs.

This article is organized in two parts: Sections 1-3 concern the CEFR Companion Volume, describing briefly what it is, what it contains, the paradigm shift it seeks to foster, and how it was developed. The second part, sections 4-6, goes into more detail on the action-oriented approach, giving an overview in section 4, an explanation of the crucial concept of the social agent in section 5, and a discussion of the three key aspects of the approach – affordances, agency and collaborative tasks – in section 6. Il QCER Volume complementare e l’approccio orientato all’azione Questo articolo è organizzato in due parti: Le sezioni 1-3 riguardano il Volume Complementar del QCER, descrivendo brevemente che cos’è, cosa contiene, il cambiamento di paradigma che cerca di promuovere e come è stato sviluppato. La seconda parte, le sezioni 4-6, approfondisce l’approccio orientato all’azione, fornendo, nella sezione 4, un quadro di riferimento, nella sezione 5 una spiegazione del cruciale cruciale di agente sociale e, nella sezione 6, una discussione sui tre aspetti chiave dell’approccio: opportunità di azione, apprendimento attivo e task collaborativi.

In Tao Lin's early books Eeeee Eee Eeee (2007), Bed (2007), Shoplifting from American Apparel (2009), and Richard Yates (2010) vulnerability is linked to a lack of context. Passages and sentences are semantically removed enough from each other that a space of vulnerability opens in which the unexpected can happen. Using the work of Quentin Meillassoux, Judith Butler, Jacques Rancière, and Levi Bryant, among others, this sense of vulnerability is argued to be the primary experience of our lives, but we often forget it. Lin's work makes this primary vulnerability visible in the three works analyzed using three different techniques: incomplete information, withdrawn context, and a monstrous vulnerability. In this sense, the author makes his writing vulnerable to the very problems that it foregrounds.

Este estudio analiza cuál es el rol que la discapacidad —como fenómeno social— despliega respecto de las normas contenidas en la parte general de la Ley 15/2015, de 2 de julio, de la Jurisdicción Voluntaria (arts. 1 – 19). Se trata de conocer qué implicaciones comporta la discapacidad para este conjunto normativo y, en última instancia, de proponer una serie de reformas (ya no restringidas a la parte general de la Ley 15/2015) que contribuyan a hacer efectivo el principio de no discriminación de las personas con discapacidad.

According to William Lane Craig, to avoid compromising God’s aseity we must embrace nominalism with respect to mathematical and logical objects. There are no numbers, propositions, possible worlds, properties, or relations. In this paper I argue that Craig’s nominalism threatens to undermine his theological stance on the atonement.

A century ago the pragmatists called for reconstruction in philosophy. Philosophy at the time was occupied with conceptual analysis, abstractions, a priori analysis, and the pursuit of necessary, universal truths. Pragmatists argued that philosophy instead should center on the pressing problems of the day, which requires theorists to pay attention to social complexity, variation, change, power, consequences, and other concrete aspects of social life. The parallels between philosophy then and jurisprudence today are striking, as I show, calling for a pragmatism-informed theory of law within contemporary jurisprudence. The realistic theory outlined in this essay focuses on what law does, what law is used for, what people think of law, how they act in relation to law, and what the social consequences of law are. It portrays law as a complex of institutions that evolve over time in connection with surrounding social, cultural, economic, political, technological, and ecological factors. Drawing on pragmatism, this essay sets forth the epistemological, ontological, and methodological aspects of the realistic theory of law, along with a sampling of insights that differ from or challenge widely held positions within jurisprudence. The topics covered, in order, are pragmatism, reconstruction in jurisprudence, naturalism, historicism and holism, social construction of law, and instrumentalism, power, and ideals.

This article explores the place of music in public education in Hong Kong. Over the past twenty years, the education system has been transformed, from the first year of primary school through university. The changes were initiated in the years immediately following the 1997 establishment of Hong Kong as a special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China, after more than 150 years as a British colony. In this article, sources examine include the Education Bureau’s guidelines on curriculum and government publications that outline the place of music and the importance of quality of life in the administration’s goals. The article focuses on the senior secondary music curriculum, comparing it with the music programs in Hong Kong universities. While the comparison shows that there are strong links between secondary and tertiary studies in music, it also illustrates some of the gaps in the system, especially in the areas of music theory and history.

District-names like Casey, in Provincia de Buenos Aires, or Murphy, in Provincia de Santa Fe, are mirrored by their Irish counterparts such as Ballycasey (Baile Uí Chathasaigh, “Casey’s town”), and Ballymurphy (Baile Uí Mhurchú, “Murphy’s town”). This paper explores some of the Irish Gaelic surnames which have not only made the transfer across the Atlantic, but subsequently found themselves immortalised in Argentinian place-names. In doing so, and by examining the corpus of Irish place-names containing these surnames, it attempts to establish a connection back to the native homelands of these Gaelic families, thus contributing to the wider narrative of the Irish in Latin America.

In this paper, we examine the figure of the elderly prosumers as they are located in the emerging platform societies of India and Italy. Recently, sociological literature has observed the growing significance given to the elderly as active consumers in consumer society in India and in Italy. In contrast, at present we do not know much about the practices of the elderly as prosumers, particularly in urban areas. While discussions of the sharing economy envision a particular type of collaborative consumption, they are still working with the assumption that the fundamental unit is an individual with dedicated and autonomous access to platforms and devices. This assumption, however, is in stark contrast to the multiple empirical incidences where technology is used in a shared manner. Such shared use has been extensively documented in non-Western contexts, although the gerontological literature also indicates that similar practices (such as 'proxy use') have also been documented in Western countries. Shared use may be especially pertinent to older users who rely on it to either learn anew or to navigate technology due to their health or cultural preferences. Consequently, this paper proposes the concept of collaborative use to understand the varied manner in which devices and platforms are shared in platform economies. The paper draws on ethnographic data to understand how the elderly use platforms in one non-Western city (Kolkata, India) and one Western city (Bologna, Italy). The paper found that the elderly in both cities actively engaged in platforms through collaborative use practices such as use on behalf and use of shared accounts. In the Indian case, such collaborative use also occurred through the shared use of devices and the interlinking of platforms. Based on the extent and variety of collaborative use documented, this paper argues that this type of use should be considered as a precursor and also as an important contemporary aspect of the sharing economy. The survey and the data are also part of the broader project Evolution of consumer behavior. The impact of digitalization and cryptocurrency upon consumption practices, a comparative study between Italy and India digital, between the Department of Sociology and Business Law University of Bologna - Italy and Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur - India, with the main objective to observe the approach to the digitisation processes of consumption and forms of payment of different generational cohorts analysed on the basis of socio-demographic and gender variables, through a comparative analysis of two local contexts.

The genus Arctesthes Meyrick (Geometridae: Larentiinae: Xanthorhoini), endemic to the South Island of New Zealand, is revised. Four species are recognised, including two new species, as follows: Arctesthes catapyrrha (Butler, 1877), A. siris (Hudson, 1908), A. titanica sp. nov. and A. avatar sp. nov. All except A. catapyrrha are restricted to subalpine and alpine localities. Adults and genitalia are fully described and illustrated for all species; larvae of A. catapyrrha are also briefly described and illustrated. Only Arctesthes catapyrrha is widespread; A. siris is restricted to a few mountain ranges of Central Otago; A. titanica is only known from two wetland localities in the Von Valley of the Otago Lakes district, and A. avatar is only known from a few wetlands in a restricted area of north-west Nelson. The two new species are considered of very high priority for conservation.

The poetry in Cathy Park Hong's Empire Engine (2012) is separated into three timelines: the period of Westward Expansion in the United States, a contemporary story of fine art reproduction in China, and a futurist story of data workers in California. These three sections are united in their interrogation of the role of ideology in creating and sustaining an empire. I argue that the first timeline stages a representation of ideology in the traditional Althusserian sense, that the second timeline shows this representation as inadequate, and most importantly, that the final section suggests a new model for oppression. The key for the new model presented in the third timeline lies in the job the workers have: they work with data. The main argument is that the ruling class no longer maintains its power through the ownership of capital. Instead, as McKenzie Wark maintains in Capital is Dead (2019), this ruling class »owns and controls information« (Wark 5). The owning and controlling of information is no longer capitalism, »but something worse« (29). Following on Wark, I argue that this use and abuse of data changes ideology in a fundamental manner. Rather than having a world from which an individual can feel more or less estranged in an Althusserian sense, the new reign of data suggests that estrangement is the fundamental experience of the world. In other words, there is no world to feel estranged from, thus leading to ideology; rather, the feeling of estrangement is already the fundamental experience of our data-driven reality. While in Hong's book this new model is located in the future, the end of the essay argues that a similar state is brought about not only by our data-driven world, but also pandemics such as that caused by COVID-19, which are part of our time now.

This paper gives a brief overview of the significance of the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) and its key aspects for teaching and learning. Starting with a reminder of the key characteristics of the CEFR, the paper outlines its origins in the work of the Council of Europe in the 1970s and the development following the intergovernmental Symposium in Switzerland that recommended both a common European framework with an accompanying portfolio. The paper then goes on to discuss which of the innovative aspects of the CEFR were taken up quickly (e.g. levels, ‘can do descriptors’, self-assessment), and which largely had to wait until the field would be ready for them. Among the latter one finds concepts such as the learner as a social agent, the move beyond the four skills model, the action-oriented approach, mediation, and plurilingual/ pluricultural competence. It is precisely these aspects which, twenty years after the initial development, are the main focus of the CEFR Companion Volume, first published online in English and French in February 2018, which now appears in its definitive form and in several translations this year. Il QCER rinnovato: ispirare il futuro dell’educazione linguistica Questo contributo offre una breve panoramica del significato del QCER (Quadro Comune Europeo di Riferimento per le Lingue) e dei suoi aspetti chiave per l’insegnamento e l’apprendimento. Partendo da un richiamo delle caratteristiche chiave del QCER, il contributo ne delinea le origini nel lavoro condotto dal Consiglio d’Europa negli anni ’70 e lo sviluppo successivo indicato dal Simposio intergovernativo svoltosi in Svizzera che raccomandava che il Quadro Comune Europeo fosse accompagnato da un portfolio. Si passa poi a discutere quali degli aspetti innovativi del QCER sono stati ripresi (ad esempio i livelli, il “è in grado di...” con cui sono indicati i descrittori, l’autovalutazione) e quali invece hanno dovuto aspettare che il terreno fosse pronto per accoglierli. Tra questi ultimi si trovano concetti come il discente come attore sociale, il superamento del modello delle quattro abilità, l’approccio orientato all’azione, la mediazione e la competenza plurilinguistica/pluriculturale. Sono proprio questi aspetti che, a vent’anni dallo sviluppo iniziale, sono al centro del CEFR Companion Volume, pubblicato per la prima volta online in inglese e francese nel febbraio 2018 e che esce quest’anno nella sua forma definitiva e in diverse traduzioni.

Enneads I: 8.14 poses significant problems for scholars working in the Plotinian secondary literature. In that passage, Plotinus gives the impression that the body and not the soul is causally responsible for vice. The difficulty is that in many other sections of the same text, Plotinus makes it abundantly clear that the body, as matter, is a mere privation of being and therefore represents the lowest rung on the proverbial metaphysical ladder. A crucial aspect to Plotinus's emanationism, however, is that lower levels of a metaphysical hierarchy cannot causally influence higher ones and, thus, there is an inconsistency in the Egyptian's magnum opus, or so it would seem. Scholars have sought to work through this paradox by positing that Plotinus is a "paleolithic Platonist" or Socratic. The advantage of this approach is that one may be able to resolve the tension by invoking Socrates's eliminativist solution to the problem of weakness of will, as found in The Protagoras. In the following article, I argue that such attempts are not wrong-headed just underdetermined. They take up the standard reading of Socratic moral intellectualism, namely the "informational" interpretation and, therefore, fail to render a coherent view of Plotinus's moral philosophy. The following paper, in contrast, utilizes a new reading of intellectualism advanced by Brickhouse and Smith, which, when subtended with a "powers approach" to causality, resolves the aforementioned, problematic passage of Enneads.

The first book printed in Sweden in 1483 was the North-Italian compilation Dialogus creaturarum moralizatus, usually dated to the middle of the fourteenth century and attributed to Nicolaus of Bergamo in some manuscripts and to Mayno di Mayneri of Milano in others. In his preface the author uses the practise of Jesus to justify his intentions, since "Jesus once used fabulis Palestinorum more to lead human beings to the road of truth through parables.” Claiming that his book might prove useful to preachers against spiritual fatigue, the author will "introduce moral teaching in an entertaining way to exterminate vices and promote virtues,” a view that reflects Phaedrus' motto risum movere et vitam docere in the prologue to his first Book of fables as well as e.g. Gregory the Great’s use of exempla, "The examples of the faithful sometimes convert the minds of the listeners better than the words of the teachers."

In this great, although old and difficult to find, paper A. B. Bosworth review Tarn's work on Alexander and many of the Historiographical issues on Alexander the Great during most of the XXth Century. THIS PAPER WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN Ancient Society Resources for Teachers 3 (1983). The Director of Karanos wants to thanks the Staff in Ancient Society Resources for Teachers (Macquarie University) for the kindness and managements to re-publish this paper.

Collaborative planning in the coast of Georgia, USA, at the regional scale, by applying a Geodesign framework used for the evaluation and negotiation of alternative plans from multiple stakeholders, using innovative tools for assessing, visualizing and sharing proposals. Each project evaluated issues of conservation, resilience, and regional development in a sensitive coastal area, with great historic and ecological value, in a region that has been exposed to the impacts of two hurricanes in the past three years. The second project integrates two dynamic models for ecological connectivity and for land use allocation using the most recent green infrastructure national datasets. A single negotiated regional plan was the result that will be used for future planning efforts by the coastal regional agency as well as other stakeholders.DOI: https://doi.org/10.20365/disegnarecon.20.2018.14

J.G. Ballard’s novel The Drought (1965) reimagines an ecological dystopia into a strategy for how to live through the catastrophe of the Anthropocene. We suggest the term “vacuum ecology” for a literary strategy which represents a way to live in our current ecological crisis. Ballard describes how a near-total emptiness of time and space is one way to respond to a global ecological catastrophe. Using Ballard’s novel as a guide, our concept of vacuum ecology is developed along with along with the work of Jason Moore, Roy Scranton and others. In The Drought, the concept of modulation is suggested as the mechanism for change. At the end of the essay, Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation (2014), along with Catherine Malabou’s notion of destructive plasticity, is seen as challenging the idea of modulation with a strategy of intermingling. In short, both texts foreground the possibility of new kinds of change when concepts of time and space are questioned. This has consequences for the different beings we must become in order to live in the Anthropocene.

In The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri conceived of the Inferno as a physical landscape which could be mapped and navigated through. In so doing, he helped create the language and imagery which modern-day writers and artists often turn to when describing Hell. It also created a shared reference point for discussion of horrific events such as the Holocaust/ Shoah. For example, in Survival in Auschwitz [Se questo è un uomo], Primo Levi turned to Dante’s Inferno to make sense of his experiences in the concentration camps. In this paper we suggest that comic book artist Art Spiegelman utilised the imagery and lexicon of theInferno to create Maus, a two volume biography of his father Vladek Spiegelman, a former inmate of Auschwitz and Holocaust survivor. Art Spiegelman utilises structural and the- matic elements of Inferno to help explain the tortured relationship he had with his parents, especially the effects on him of his mother’s suicide, as well as the difficulties of recording history, particularly an event as immense and traumatic as the Holocaust.

In this paper, which looks back at some of the principal ways of viewing the syllable that have been proposed and attempts to assess their relative validity, I will firstly refer to evidence for the existence of the syllable and lend support to the argument that the syllable must be part of speakers’ phonological knowledge because, not only can they count syllables, but they also know what sound sequences are permissible in them in their native language. Moreover, in this same vein I will also recall the fact that the syllable is the domain of many phonological processes (in English, note aspiration and the glottalling, tapping and rhotacization of [t], for example). Finally, I will defend the analysis of English syllabification proposed by Wells in the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary over and against other traditional linear models and the more abstract nonlinear models, while recognizing that Wells’ hypothesis still leaves unresolved some issues involving the presence/absence of phonetic correlates of morpheme boundaries.

This paper presents textography as a research strategy in writing research that enables texts and their surrounding contexts, practices and the relationships between these to be examined in detail. In order to illustrate the potential of textography, the paper explores how textography could be used to examine the relationships between writing in higher education and writing in the workplace. The paper argues that the time is ripe for the investigation of study-workplace connections for writing in plurilingual settings, such as in Nordic contexts.