The Other at War: Performing the Spanish-Cuban-American War on U.S. and Cuban Stages

The Spanish-Cuban-American War, declared by the United States on April 25, 1898, marks a colonial shift in the history of the Caribbean and solidified the expansionist thrust of the United States outside national borders. Theatres in turn-of-the-century New York, which at this point was one of the theatrical centers of the nation, debated for audiences the imperialist character of the U.S. The Cuban struggle and the resulting Spanish-Cuban-American War permeated U.S. drama, thereby portraying a Caribbean in need of salvation by the military intervention of the United States. New York stages of the time became locations where various cultural representations came into contact. Those voices silenced in New York theatres also negotiated their identity through the construction of a U.S. Otherness. Cuban theatre around the time of the war portrayed a complex picture of the invading nation and the contradictions in its humanitarian mission to liberate the island from Spain. Cuban playwrights conceived their national identity in opposition and parallel to the United States. Their construction of a staged American otherness questioned U.S. imperialism amidst the invasion. This project establishes a dialogue between the representation of Caribbean Otherness on New York stages and American Otherness in plays produced in La Habana to examine how national stages commented on the encounter of nations that resulted from the Spanish-Cuban-American War. I contend that the representation of Caribbean difference in turn-of-the-century U.S. theatre about the Spanish-Cuban-American War must be examined alongside Cuban performances of American Otherness. By focusing on difference, this comparative analysis will not only reveal how the United States envisioned itself as an overseas empire, but also how theatres in La Habana questioned the U.S. humanitarian mission in the Caribbean

Crónica de una muerte anunciada: el ocaso del partido de Estado en Oaxaca

La movilización popular a partir del 14 de junio de 2006 en la ciudad de Oaxaca de Juárez y la victoria de la oposición en el estado en las elecciones federales del 2 de julio del mismo año están conectadas. Los dos procesos reflejan la crisis terminal de un régimen político sustentado en las tradicionales relaciones de dominación clientelista y autoritaria. Sin embargo, el vuelco electoral a favor de la oposición en las últimas elecciones presidenciales y legislativas no es una novedad absoluta. Al analizar en detalle la evolución de los resultados electorales en los 570 municipios de Oaxaca, aparece que tanto en el campo como en las ciudades el PRII no ha dejado de perder votos desde finales de la década de 1980. La oposición (el PRD, el PAN y, más recientemente, el partido Convergencia) han ido ganando terreno de manera continua en los últimos veinte años. Oaxaca ha dejado, paulatinamente, de ser un bastión del voto “verde” para el PRI.The popular movement that emerged on June the 14th, 2006, in the city of Oaxaca de Juárez and the opposition’s victory on the elections held on July the 2nd of the same year are connected. Both processes reflect the terminal crisis of a political regime based on traditional clientele and authoritarian relationships as forms of domination.However, the electoral shift that favored the opposition during the last presidential and legislative elections isn’t entirely new.After a detailed analysis of the evolution of the electoral results in the 570 districts of Oaxaca, one can conclude that the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) has been loosing votes since the end of the eighties decade. The opposition (PRD, PAN, and recently the Convergencia) have gained ground during the last 20 years.Oaxaca has gradually ceased to be a stronghold of the PRI

Mexique : L’Armée zapatiste de libération nationale, vingt ans après...

Le 25 mai 2014, le sous-commandant Marcos a cessé d’être le porte-parole de l’Armée zapatiste de libération nationale (EZLN). Ce personnage qui a beaucoup contribué à la visibilité du zapatisme, dès le soulèvement du 1er janvier 19941, a cédé sa place à une nouvelle « voix cagoulée », celle du sous-commandant Moisés. Celui qui incarnait le guérillero à la pipe et la casquette effilée a adopté un nouveau nom de guerre, celui de Galeano, en hommage à l’un des miliciens de l’EZLN tué par les membres d’une organisation rivale, dans un affrontement provoqué par le vol d’une camionnette, début mai 2014..

Experimental validation of a mathematical model for the evolution of the particle morphology of waterborne polymer-polymer hybrids: paving the way to the design and implementation of optimal polymerization strategies

Polymer-polymer composite nanoparticles allow both the improvement of the performance in stablished applications of waterborne polymer dispersions and targeting new applications that are out of reach of currently available products. The performance of these materials is determined by the particle morphology. To open the way to process optimization and on-line control of the particle morphology, the capability of the recently developed model to predict the evolution of the particle morphology during seeded semibatch emulsion polymerization process was evaluated. Structured polymer particles were synthesized by copolymerization of styrene and butyl acrylate (St-BA) on methyl methacrylate and butyl acrylate (MMA–BA) copolymer seeds of different Tgs. The model captured well the effect of process variables on the evolution of the particle morphology, opening the way to the design and implementation of optimal strategies.The financial support of the RECOBA project (funding from European Framework Horizon 2020, No. 636820) is gratefully acknowledged

Le Mexique après les élections législatives et régionales de 2009

Les élections législatives de juillet 2009 ont confirmé la tendance à l’oeuvre lors de la première moitié du mandat du président de la République Felipe Calderón (2006-2012), à savoir un renforcement progressif du Parti révolutionnaire institutionnel (PRI)1 tant à la tête des exécutifs régionaux (Etats fédérés) qu’au niveau fédéral. Cette évolution politique a pour toile de fond une augmentation des affrontements violents liés à la guerre contre le crime organisé. Nous examinerons ici les enjeux que pose la nouvelle configuration politique dans la perspective des présidentielles de 2012

New genius-entrepreneurs: Itinerary and trajectories of university educational excellence

The purpose of the present work is to rethink, in the university context, the concept of genius, related to the high intellectual abilities associated with intelligence; also, to connect the idea of entrepreneurial competences, such as leadership or social commitment. The hypothesis is that a university genius is defined by his high creative abilities and, in particular, entrepreneurial ones. From the methodological point of view, the recommendations of the National Association for Gifted Children were followed, and evidence collection was based on such practices, using the results obtained by two studies: the first one with professors and postgraduate students (from Argentina and Spain, from hard and soft sciences) who responded to a conceptual questionnaire, previously validated, in order to delineate common minimum denominators of geniuses. The other one comes from analyzing the results of an acceleration program of entrepreneurial competence with undergraduate students. Combining both data resulted in the need to think in an educational proposal (itinerary) with trajectories of excellence. One during the Degree level, with pilot training activities (in entrepreneurial competence), experimenting on a small scale; and the other in the Postgraduate level, encouraging them to be architects of their “routes”, allowing them to self-employ and to become agents of socio-community change

New genius-entrepreneurs: Itinerary and trajectories of university educational excellence

The purpose of the present work is to rethink, in the university context, the concept of genius, related to the high intellectual abilities associated with intelligence; also, to connect the idea of entrepreneurial competences, such as leadership or social commitment. The hypothesis is that a university genius is defined by his high creative abilities and, in particular, entrepreneurial ones. From the methodological point of view, the recommendations of the National Association for Gifted Children were followed, and evidence collection was based on such practices, using the results obtained by two studies: the first one with professors and postgraduate students (from Argentina and Spain, from hard and soft sciences) who responded to a conceptual questionnaire, previously validated, in order to delineate common minimum denominators of geniuses. The other one comes from analyzing the results of an acceleration program of entrepreneurial competence with undergraduate students. Combining both data resulted in the need to think in an educational proposal (itinerary) with trajectories of excellence. One during the Degree level, with pilot training activities (in entrepreneurial competence), experimenting on a small scale; and the other in the Postgraduate level, encouraging them to be architects of their “routes”, allowing them to self-employ and to become agents of socio-community change

Adenosine diphosphate glucose and starch synthesis

originalFil: Recondo, Eduardo F.. Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas Fundación Campomar; ArgentinaFil: Leloir, Luis Federico. Instituto de Investigaciones Bioquímicas Fundación Campomar; ArgentinaBlanco y negro2 páginas en pdfLFL-PI-O-ART. Artículos científicosUnidad documental simpleAR-HYL-201