Since the mid-nineteen-nineties, the idea of connecting science, technology and society has become one of the key factors in the design of science policy in Latin America. Scholars and policymakers have become highly interested in finding ways to connect them to each other through different processes and strategies, and to explicitly reflect such approaches in […]
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Poststructuralism: Past, Present, Future Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Faculty of Philosophy March 6-7, 2019. In the 1960s and 1970s, a new approach to doing philosophy arose in France that subsequently came to be labelled ‘poststructuralism.’ Building on the insights of structuralism, a number of thinkers, most of whom rejected the label ‘poststructuralist,’
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The 1960s are known as a period of profound economic, social and political turmoil. In Western societies, revolutionary uproars directly impacted the bourgeois ideal of the nuclear family inherited from the 19th century. In this family structure, the head of household is an all-powerful father wielding his authority over wife and children. The male breadwinner–female
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The use of Twitter and other Web 2.0 applications as a contemporary practice to write or re-write literary texts is developing participative, multimodal, and co-constructed creations where the roles of authorship and audience become intertwined. This panel aims to investigate the multifaceted aspects of this phenomenon in the Italian and in the international context. Can
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Between 1970 and 1975, black and white directors made so-called “Blaxploitation” movies to profit from African American audiences. They took the film industry by storm in the brief period of time following the collapse of the studio system. While films like Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971), Shaft (1971), Super Fly (1972), and Foxy Brown (1973) earned substantial revenue at the box-office, demonstrating the value
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