The Anglo-Bohemian political alliance, formalized in 1382 with the marriage of Anne of Bohemia to England’s King Richard II, would unexpectedly contribute to one of the most significant and controversial cultural exchanges of the later Middle Ages: that between the Wycliffites in England and the Hussites in Bohemia. Subsequent narratives of the exchange, up to the present day, are deeply indebted to sixteenth-century Protestant claims about official (and even divine)...
Postmodern medicine, psychiatry, and psychology are beginning to realize how much alternative approaches to human health, based on spirituality and religion, can be of great use. Premodern cultures were still deeply in harmony with spiritual healing and heavily resorted to religious rituals in order to build bridges to physical conditions in human life. Our eleventh symposium 2013 on Medieval and Early Modern Studies unites scholars from all over the world, North America, and The...
Our last Fisch out of Water of the academic year 2012/13 will invite the non-native voice of the translator. This will be an opportunity to share translations from a native into a foreign language or the other way around, and to celebrate the art of translation. We invite speakers of various foreign languages to share their translation projects or parts of them, and to discuss the troubles and joys of translating. You are also welcome to share your favorite translation of a poem or...
Speech acts have long played a ubiquitous role second language education, even if not explicitly designated as such. More recently, the theory’s formal inclusion in FL classrooms has taken shape as the explicit instruction of speech acts in the L2 (Pinner, 2008). However, comparatively less research has addressed speech acts as being a resource for stimulating participation in our modern communicative classrooms. In certain instances, an instructor’s use of particular speech acts...
A Moveable East is a one-day interdisciplinary symposium that explores how the cultures and societies of North Africa and the Middle East shape the concept and practice of Europeanness, through transnational and local forms of community, education, and media. There will be three panels, followed by a keynote address by Dr. Fatima El-Tayeb from UC San Diego. More information can be found here http://cmes.arizona.edu/middle-east-in-...
