{"title":"“Moments of Grace?” The “Dramatic” Representation and the Aesthetic of Ageing","authors":"Jennifer Walden","doi":"10.18778/8142-286-4.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18778/8142-286-4.15","url":null,"abstract":"his paper will limit its focus to consideration of two ‘dramatic’ treatments of ageing, both of which involve an aged woman and both of which touch upon ageing and dementia. My focus is here as part of my proposition is that ‘dementia’ is on a spectrum of ‘cultural’ apperceptions of the ageing process associated as that process is with weakening and failing ‘powers’ both physical and mental. Dementia is also that which conjures up strong and complex emotions with apprehension and fear which I suggest additionally serves the ‘dramatic’ effects of representations of ageing. I want for the sake of economy to present some alternative commentaries upon the aged woman and dementia which refer to perhaps two ends of the spectrum for dramatization; the highly orchestrated ‘mainstream’ narrative film and the ‘close to home’ documentary , in this case made by the daughter of the aged person with diagnosed Alzheimer’s. I rely upon two papers which whilst referring to cultural productions were each placed in scientific journals. One is a paper by Megan. E. Graham presented in a journal Dementia in 2014 entitled “The voices of Iris: Cinematic representations of the aged woman and Alzheimer’s disease in Iris (2001)”1 The other is a paper by Aagje Swinnen in ‘The Gerontologist’ journal in 2012, entitled Dementia in Documentary Film: Mum by Adelheid Roosen (2009).2","PeriodicalId":227308,"journal":{"name":"What’s New in the New Europe? Redefining Culture, Politics, Identity","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134595177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conflicts of the soul and mind-body interaction in Descartes’s Passions of the Soul","authors":"Oberto Marrama","doi":"10.18778/8142-286-4.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18778/8142-286-4.38","url":null,"abstract":"n the following paper, I aim to provide a clear account of Descartes’ explanation of akratic behaviour in his Passions of the Soul.1 The analysis of Descartes’ arguments will give me the occasion to remark on some aspects, which I regard as seminal for the understanding of his controversial theory of mind-body interaction through the pineal gland.2 In particular, I will focus on Descartes’ insights into his theory of the “Natural Institution” and the role of the body as the effective place where the “conflicts of the soul” are determined to occur. In the first section I will briefly recall the Platonic theory of the partitioning of the soul, presenting it—in agreement with a long interpretive tradition—as Plato’s answer to the philosophical problem of akratic behaviour. In the second, I will introduce Descartes’ arguments in favour of the unity","PeriodicalId":227308,"journal":{"name":"What’s New in the New Europe? Redefining Culture, Politics, Identity","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133931327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Logic of Resentment in the Globalized World","authors":"Cristiana Senigaglia","doi":"10.18778/8142-286-4.35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18778/8142-286-4.35","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":227308,"journal":{"name":"What’s New in the New Europe? Redefining Culture, Politics, Identity","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130640605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Welcome speech at What’s New in the New Europe? Redefining Culture, Politics, Identity 2016 ISSEI Conference at the University of Łódź, Poland (11 July 2016–15 July 2016)","authors":"Stefan Höjelid","doi":"10.18778/8142-286-4.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18778/8142-286-4.03","url":null,"abstract":"adies and gentlemen! It is a pleasure for me to welcome you all to Poland, to Łódź (The Promised Land), to Łódź University and to the 15th ISSEI Conference. My name is Stefan Höjelid and I am Swedish (and European) even though married Polish. Actually I met my wife in September 1999 in conjunction with an EU Tempus project-conference in Łódź (Sic!). Then I also got to know Professor Krystyna Kujawińska Courtney, one of the two co-chairs of this conference, and a lot of other Polish colleagues who have over the years become close friends to me. So this background was maybe one of the reasons why Dr. Edna Rosenthal as a co-chair asked me to introduce this conference. I will do so by saying a few words about the theme of this conference and about ISSEI and its journal The European Legacy and finally by briefly reflecting upon Europe as a concept and what is happening right now with our old dear Europe.","PeriodicalId":227308,"journal":{"name":"What’s New in the New Europe? Redefining Culture, Politics, Identity","volume":"515 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116214198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bad Influences from Outside: State Anti-cosmopolitanism in Hobbes’ Leviathan","authors":"Giorgos Kataliakos","doi":"10.18778/8142-286-4.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18778/8142-286-4.24","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":227308,"journal":{"name":"What’s New in the New Europe? Redefining Culture, Politics, Identity","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115351894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Imagining the End of the World: Polish Perspectives","authors":"S. Barczewska, P. Barańska","doi":"10.18778/8142-286-4.41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18778/8142-286-4.41","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":227308,"journal":{"name":"What’s New in the New Europe? Redefining Culture, Politics, Identity","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114497434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Art and Science: 3D Technologies at the service of Culture","authors":"F. Blaya, S. Nuere, Manuel Islan","doi":"10.18778/8142-286-4.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18778/8142-286-4.06","url":null,"abstract":"he European Higher Education Area (EHEA) was launch to ensure more comparable, compatible and coherent systems of higher education in Europe. This scenario has developed new methodologies based on competences and force professors to redefine the way of teaching. One major change is related to focus on the formative processes, more specifically expressed in the results of learning in terms of competences","PeriodicalId":227308,"journal":{"name":"What’s New in the New Europe? Redefining Culture, Politics, Identity","volume":"161 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125892955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Politics in the New Europe","authors":"Tomasz Fisiak","doi":"10.18778/8142-286-4.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18778/8142-286-4.18","url":null,"abstract":"hat’s New in the New Europe? Redefining Culture, Politics, Identity was a conference offering a wide range of presentations, with papers exploring subjects as diverse as philosophy, culture and politics. The seven texts in the political part of the ISSEI 2016 proceedings present different epistemic perspectives. The first section entitled “Referendum as a New Tool of Democracy” consists of three texts which focus on direct democracy in the shape of national referenda – in the Baltic States (in Danuta Maj’s article), as well as Hungary and Albania (in the comparative study by Marcin Pomarański), and Belarus (in Wojciech Ziętara’s analysis). What follows is a section “New Politics through the Lens of (Modern) History and Philosophy.” Four articles constituting this part look at politics through the lens of (modern) history and philosophy. S. N. Nyeck examines strategic bargaining in East Africa in the 19th century. Inspired by Deleuze and Habermas, Geoffrey Hinchliffe writes about the society of control and the mechanics of rationalization, while Giorgos Kataliakos dissects the idea of “State anti-cosmopolitanism” in his study of Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan. Finally, in their collaborative work Richard R. Weiner and Iván López discuss the economic crisis in Spain that led to the formation of the so-called Indignados Movement. All of these contributions tangibly prove that the New Europe faces certain challenges, to which remedies cannot easily be found. However, there is a ray of hope. Dr Gesine Palmer (Zentrum Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg) aptly summarized the ISSEI 2016 conference by stating that","PeriodicalId":227308,"journal":{"name":"What’s New in the New Europe? Redefining Culture, Politics, Identity","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132316901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Lingustic and Cultural Manifestations of War and Terrorism","authors":"Hans J. Rindisbacher","doi":"10.18778/8142-286-4.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18778/8142-286-4.17","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":227308,"journal":{"name":"What’s New in the New Europe? Redefining Culture, Politics, Identity","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116714276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Local Direct Democracy in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia: A Comparative Study","authors":"D. Maj","doi":"10.18778/8142-286-4.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18778/8142-286-4.19","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":227308,"journal":{"name":"What’s New in the New Europe? Redefining Culture, Politics, Identity","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121497283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}