Caminhos da distopia no romance contemporâneo: a espera sem horizontes do individualismo niilista by Ângela Maria Dias

“…La novela Herencias (2008), de Silviano Santiago, en su juego de pastiche y degradación con la célebre Memorias póstumas de Brás Cubas (1880), de Machado de Assis, al replicar el personaje machadiano en la arrogante figura de Walter, escenifica con elegancia esta nueva humanidad. …”
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Dark City, White City: Chicago’s World Columbian Exposition, 1893 by Hélène Valance

“…L’électricité, à la fois force de la nature et technologie ultra-moderne, joue un rôle central dans la célébration monumentale que les Etats-Unis s’offrent à eux-mêmes et au reste du monde : elle est l’étoffe des rêves dont se revêt l’Amérique, mais elle incarne aussi toutes ses ambiguïtés.…”
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Editorial by Dmitry A. Medvedev

“…In this year, the Chimica Techno Acta journal (CTA) celebrates its 10th anniversary. A tenth of a century is a long time, during which about 350 papers have been published. …”
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Ascent to “Natural Humanness”: Immanuel Kant in the Philosophical Anthropology of Gustav Shpet by Tatiana G. Shchedrina, Boris I. Pruzhinin

“…The Supplement contains the first ever publication of a historical document, a letter Shpet received from the German embassy in 1924, inviting him to Königsberg for the celebration of the 200th anniversary of Kant’s birth and a programm of the event with the names of speakers and the topics of their presentations. …”
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Analysis of Noise Pollution during Dussehra Festival in Bhubaneswar Smart City in India: A Study Using Machine Intelligence Models by Sourav Kumar Bhoi, Chittaranjan Mallick, Chitta Ranjan Mohanty, Ranjan Soumya Nayak

“…As population mass grows, the celebration of yearly festivals such as Dussehra in Bhubaneswar city is also getting popular. …”
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Negative spaces of Mumuye figure sculpture—style and ethnicity by Richard Fardon

“…Mumuye figures are celebrated as icons of African sculpture by the institutions and personnel of what we have grown accustomed to call the ‘artworld’, one that encompasses museums, galleries and auction houses; publications on Mumuye ethnography, language and history in what, for convenience, we can contrast as the ‘ethnoworld’ continue to draw upon research undertaken a half century ago or earlier. …”
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« Mourir dans un baiser » Un archétype du féminicide ? by Jacqueline Carroy, Marc Renneville

“…This case, which was very quickly made into a "cause célèbre", also raises questions about the status of the murderer, Henri Chambige. …”
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The Spartan King Leonidas I: History and modern times by E.A. Tchiglintsev, N.A. Shadrina

“…Anti-tyrannical ideas and the cult of freedom as opposed to slavery inspired the artists of the 17th – 18th centuries (Henry Purcell, Richard Glover) to create their poems celebrating the heroic ideal of Leonidas I. The European Romantic poets of the first half of the 19th century were inspired by the image of Leonidas I because of their sympathy to the struggle for freedom of the Greeks (Michel Pichat, Lord Byron, and Alexander Pushkin in Russia). …”
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The “Lieutenant Generation” and the Traditions of MGIMO-University by A. V. Shestopal

“…Thus, we see the coincidence of MGIMO's 70th anniversary and of the 70th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War as far more meaningful than just a reason for formal celebration. The establishment of the groundwork of the MGIMO corporate ethic: exigency and amicability, proactiveness and responsibility, openness to the outside world and firmness in defending one's positions - is inseparably connected with the years of the "lieutenant generation", with its first enrollments and first graduations. …”
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Falling Back in Love with Trans-Inclusive Feminism: Canadian Creative Artists Re-Story Death and Choose Transformation by Devon Harvey

“…Addressing the (inter)disciplinary possibilities of trans-inclusive feminism and comics studies, this article celebrates how these texts disavow and re-story the “Good” Trans Character, who dies to satisfy transmisogynistic ideologies, and theorizes the T4t Dead Trans Character, who dies to reclaim instances of trans death and recodify trans personhood as a site of hope, agency, and self-determination. …”
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Who’s In and Who’s Out? War News from Mexico and the Framing of Evil by Alan Hirsch

“…The exclusion of the blacks from the celebration mirrors the fact that the newspaper itself was produced by and for whites. …”
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Les laboratoires de l’espace-temps mondialisé : le science-fictionnel et les expositions universelles de 1851 à 1939 by Roger Luckhurst

“…Implacablement, cette perspective historique concevait la modernité comme un « progrès » racial hiérarchisant, mettant en scène le spectacle de « stagnations » anachroniques et de « déclins » dégénératifs. Bien avant le célèbre Futurama de 1939 à New York, les expositions universelles furent parmi les premiers lieux où l’on fit délibérément vivre à un public de masse un systématique désajustement du temps dans une zone bien délimitée, comme un avant-goût de l’immersion dans le « science-fictionnel ».…”
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Physician Kitasato Shibasaburō: Achievements and posthumous veneration in Shintō by V. A. Gorshkov-Cantacuzene

“…In 2024, the medical community celebrates an important date – 130 years since the discovery of the causative agent of plague, which was independently isolated by the Japanese physician Kitasato Shibasaburō (1853–1931) and the French physician Alexandre Yersin (1863–1943). …”
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The School of Energy Policy and Diplomacy of MGIMO by V. I. Salygin

“…This day MIEP is a large study, methodic and scientific center ensuring high-quality professional and fundamental training based on the best practices of Russian education as well as on the practices of worldleading universities and business schools.This year International institute of energy policy and diplomacy celebrates its 15th anniversary. This article describes history, evolution of MIEP; unique specific departments and international institutions created in cooperation with prestige European universities; reveals specific features of training of specialists. …”
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Navigating a Climate in Crisis through a Biomimetic Epistemology by Elizabeth McCormick, David Thaddeus

“…Though Biomimicry is often celebrated as a model for nature-inspired innovation, it can inadvertently reinforce notions of mastery over nature, a harmful phenomenon that environmental philosopher Freya Mathews calls ‘anthropocentric triumphalism.’ …”
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Hasan Al-Banna's Approach In Reconciling The Flow Of Salaf And Khalaf: Study And Evaluation by Nasron Yaacob

“…In that regard, this agreed point of commonality should be able to understand each trend in order to be open to celebrating disagreements and differences of opinion and methods that apply. …”
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Mihail Eminescu, Dora d’Istria şi visul lui Osman by Ileana Mihăilă

“…L’article apporte quelques nouvelles informations concernant la genèse de la première partie du poème de Mihaïl Eminescu, Scrisoarea III [Troisième Lettre], en l’occurrence la rédaction personnelle du célèbre poème médiéval turc Le Rêve d’Osman (XIIIe siècle), qu’il choisit comme ouverture de sa création poétique à structure polyphonique. …”
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Navigating a Climate in Crisis through a Biomimetic Epistemology by Elizabeth McCormick, David Thaddeus

“…Though Biomimicry is often celebrated as a model for nature-inspired innovation, it can inadvertently reinforce notions of mastery over nature, a harmful phenomenon that environmental philosopher Freya Mathews calls ‘anthropocentric triumphalism.’ …”
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Domestic, Not Private: Feminine Proposals for Carabanchel PAU Expansion, Madrid, Spain by Ángel Cordero Ampuero, Paula Ruiz Usero, Marta Muñoz Martín

“…Following this finding, we propose an incipient study of the transitional spaces between the private and the public, where contacts between neighbours and the exchange of care beyond the private sphere are celebrated, as well as the public representation of domestic life. …”
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Nota sobre una atribución de la oposición nómos-phúsis a la sofística (Platón, Protágoras 337d1-3) by Sergio Barrionuevo

“…Por esta razón, me propongo analizar una de dichas apariciones. Platón en un célebre pasaje del Protágoras (337c-e) incluye una intervención de Hipias de Elis en busca del acuerdo entre Protágoras y Sócrates, colocando en boca del sofista la oposición nómos-phúsis. …”
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