Europeanization and the new politics of language

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Democracy, communication and language in Europe's transnational political space

"The external communication of the European Union (EU) suffers from the fact that the flow of information from the Europe of institutions to the Europe of citizens has until now had little success in inspiring popular political participation. This problem can be related to the politics of language in the EU. The paper begins with a discussion of two prominent views of the European problematic of language and the public sphere. The essential interconnections between public political communication and the issue of language in the EU are set forth in contrast with these positions. The paper then turns to the main parameters of an EU language policy directed to the external sphere of communication. A possible strategy for shaping the relation between multilingualism and a transnational public sphere in Europe is sketched out in the final sections." (author's abstract)"Die Europäische Union (EU) hat im Bereich der öffentlichen Darstellung ihrer Politik Defizite: Bisher hat der Informationsfluss vom Europa der Institutionen zum Europa der Bürger nicht nennenswert dazu beigetragen, politische Partizipation im transnationalen Maßstab anzuregen. Das Problem verweist auf die Herausforderungen europäischer Sprachpolitik. Der Beitrag beginnt mit einer Diskussion von zwei prominenten Sichtweisen des Verhältnisses von Sprache und Öffentlichkeit in Europa. Wesentliche Verbindungen zwischen Sprachenfrage und den Strukturen öffentlicher Kommunikation in der EU werden im Kontrast zu diesen Positionen herausgearbeitet. Im Anschluss daran werden die Hauptparameter der auf die Sphäre der externen Kommunikation gerichteten Sprachpolitik der EU kritisch betrachtet. Der Schlussteil des Beitrags skizziert eine mögliche Strategie zum Umgang mit der Sprachenvielfalt in einer transnationalen europäischen Öffentlichkeit." (Autorenreferat

Filling a need or seeing an opportunity? The Evolution of grant writing and research instruction in the libraries at the University of Utah

ManuscriptAbstract An investment in continuing education in the area of grantsmanship for a public services librarian has resulted in the teaching of Grant Writing & Research offered at the J. Willard Marriott Library and the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library on the campus of the University of Utah. This has led to an unexpected method of library outreach to the university faculty and to the community at large, promoting the overall collections and services of the libraries on campus

Information literacy for German language & literature at the graduate level: new approaches and models

ManuscriptAt the University of Utah the recent hiring of several new faculty members in the German Language and Literature Section of the Modern Languages department has resulted in an increased demand for library services in the area of instruction and technical support. Areas explored will include approaches to instruction, content of instruction, assessment of teaching and library outreach and how these efforts foster an inter-disciplinary relationship between the library and German Section of the Modern Languages Department

Boys from the Brooklyn Museum venture to Zion

Journal ArticleThe Brooklyn Museum is the second largest museum in New York City, and one of the largest in the United States. Although now known primarily as an art museum, prior to the Second World War, the Museum pursued an aggressive acquisition policy in the field of Natural History and Archeology. Various members of the curatorial staff made expeditions to southern Utah to study plant and animal life. This paper will center on the work of George P. Engelhard, a Curator and Entomologist at the Museum, who made 4 trips to Utah and collected a wealth of materials for the Brooklyn Museum. While other museum's expeditions to Utah are well documented, little has been written about the expeditions conducted by the Brooklyn Museum

Place of death correlated to socio-demographic factors in a South African hospice

Background: The palliative care literature continually supports the view that home remains the preferred place of death of most patients with terminal illness. However, it also reports that in many countries, palliative care patients sometimes change their minds with regard to this preference. A variety of factors appears to intervene preventing patients from dying at home. The socio-demographics of patients presenting to St. Luke's Hospice, and how this relates to place of death, has never been evaluated. It is believed that in this setting, there is ironically more likelihood of many patients from poorer socio-economic circumstances dying at home. This could be as a result of living with larger families, more difficulty in obtaining access to institutional beds and cultural beliefs. Aim: To determine factors which influence the place of death of patients referred to St. Luke's Hospice over a one-year period. Method: This is a prospective, descriptive, quantitative study of the place of death of new patients referred to St Luke's Hospice, a palliative care service with an inpatient unit and home care programme, between 1 May 2001 and 30 April 2002. Only those patients who died within this time frame were analysed. A "teleform" was designed with the assistance of the Alberta Cancer Board Palliative Care Research Initiative. This form allowed the information to be entered directly into a database for analysis. The variables to be analysed with regard to place of death include: - • Age • Gender • Race • Social Structure • Category of Patient i.e. State or Private • Formal Educational Level • Duration of Illness • Palliative Performance Scale Result This study suggests that. almost two-thirds of patients with a terminal illness can be supported in their homes by a home care programme, without referral to an institution. These statistics correlate well with death statistics of other palliative home care services in industrialised countries. Variables such as age, gender, category of patient, palliative performance scale and duration of illness bore no significant relationship to place of death. However, place of death was strongly associated with race, social structure and socio-economic status. Interestingly, black patients were more likely to die in an institution. Conclusion: Studying socio-demographic factors related to place of death is only one aspect of evaluating and determining the needs of the terminally ill and their families in South Africa. Should or can more people die at home? Are home deaths feasible, and if so how? The task that lies ahead of us in South Africa is to decide what kind of palliative care or other service is optimal. cost effective and appropriate to meet the needs of our multi-cultural society

Popular republicanism versus populism: articulating the people

In problematic ways, populism has become a catch-all formula used with discretion to capture all kinds of discontent with democratic politics today. Populism is not only an essentially contested, but also an unavoidably blurred concept. Its recurrent use as a weapon to discredit all kinds of projects that challenge contemporary liberal democracies has led to a situation in which protest movements that aim at democratic renewal end up being conflated with opposite tendencies whose objective is a reactionary scaling down of democracy. Against this background, this article argues that both for political and for analytical purposes, the key point for distinguishing between “progressive” and “regressive” projects that address the crisis of democracy is to determine how such projects conceive of the identity of the people. Invoking the people is not per se an attribute of populism, but ultimately a feature of all kinds of democratic politics. What does make for a critical difference, though, is how peoplehood is articulated in the process of collective mobilization. The distinction becomes particularly relevant with regard to current debates on how to tackle the issue of diversity and democratic integration in Europe and North America. To substantiate this relevance, the article introduces the concept of popular republicanism, which is fleshed out by discussing two recent examples: Catalan sovereignism and the Kurdish-Turkish HDP

On Nonperturbative Exactness of Konishi Anomaly and the Dijkgraaf-Vafa Conjecture

In this paper we study the nonperturbative corrections to the generalized Konishi anomaly that come from the strong coupling dynamics of the gauge theory. We consider U(N) gauge theory with adjoint and Sp(N) or SO(N) gauge theory with symmetric or antisymmetric tensor. We study the algebra of chiral rotations of the matter field and show that it does not receive nonperturbative corrections. The algebra implies Wess-Zumino consistency conditions for the generalized Konishi anomaly which are used to show that the anomaly does not receive nonperturbative corrections for superpotentials of degree less than 2l+1 where 2l=3c(Adj)-c(R) is the one-loop beta function coefficient. The superpotentials of higher degree can be nonperturbatively renormalized because of the ambiguities in the UV completion of the gauge theory. We discuss the implications for the Dijkgraaf-Vafa conjecture.Comment: 23 page

Theoretical Study of Molecular Electronic and Rotational Coherences by High-Harmonic Generation

The detection of electron motion and electronic wavepacket dynamics is one of the core goals of attosecond science. Recently, choosing the nitric oxide (NO) molecule as an example, we have introduced and demonstrated a new experimental approach to measure coupled valence electronic and rotational wavepackets using high-harmonic generation (HHG) spectroscopy [Kraus et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 243005 (2013)]. A short outline of the theory to describe the combination of the pump and HHG probe process was published together with an extensive discussion of experimental results [Baykusheva et al., Faraday Discuss 171, 113 (2014)]. The comparison of theory and experiment showed good agreement on a quantitative level. Here, we present the generalized theory in detail, which is based on a generalized density matrix approach that describes the pump process and the subsequent probing of the wavepackets by a semiclassical quantitative rescattering approach. An in-depth analysis of the different Raman scattering contributions to the creation of the coupled rotational and electronic spin-orbit wavepackets is made. We present results for parallel and perpendicular linear polarizations of the pump and probe laser pulses. Furthermore, an analysis of the combined rotational-electronic density matrix in terms of irreducible components is presented, that facilitates interpretation of the results.Comment: 14 figure