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The rich ecological and cultural heritage of Transylvania has survived despite a once depressed rural economy, a situation markedly improved after Romania’s EU accession in 2007. The last decade has seen accelerated change in the farmed landscape, with agricultural, conservation and rural development initiatives, a more prosperous society, and growing public awareness of the environment. In the Saxon Villages, as elsewhere, these trends present opportunities and challenges to local people and biodiversity. Positive change in the countryside includes more eco-tourism, guest houses and traditional food products. Expanding beef rather than dairy cattle herds may present both environmental threat and economic opportunity.
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Botanical art travels from various historical forms into a contemporary approach that calls for a bold redefinition of its practice. This article aims to introduce the reader to the general context of botanical art production today, and to its core new facets, mirroring environment, education, and new understanding in creative industries. Its relevance lies in its capacity to connect the wide public to general core climate and environmental debates; also botanical art is called to raise awareness on the interconnectivity of higher education sectors that whiteness the dissolution of their (de)limitations by hybrid new age creative approaches.
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The Trash Trout Motion Picture Show is a collaborative creative place making project that employs the power of the arts to help protect freshwater ecosystems in the Appalachian Mountains. Filmmaker Tom Hansell, musician Trevor McKenzie, and musician/dancer Julie Shepherd-Powell share a multimedia performance they developed in collaboration with local civic organizations.
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The paper uses the Matrix Categorization Devices theory in order to analyze the way in which the abandoned mines in Romania have been presented in newspapers over the period beginning with their closure up to the present time. In order to conduct the analysis, the paper provides a theoretical framework of the Membership Categorization Device (the category being mines and the members – the people and places); the last part discusses the results of the analysis.
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Documenting her unexpected deep connection to Romania, the Appalachian author shares her transformational experiences in this Eastern European country she embarrassingly knew nothing about prior to 2015. A conference call for proposals, co-authored submission on a whim, and subsequent conference acceptance changed her life in profound ways, both professionally and personally. The author’s scholarly dedication to Romania over these brief years led to a 2021 Fulbright Teaching & Research grant. From teaching Appalachian literature at Transilvania University-Braşov, to conducting ethnographic research and interviews in the Jiu Valley, Romania’s coalmining region, the author documents the depth of her professional and personal change after that fortuitous flashpoint of the 2015Appalachian-Carpathian Mountain Conference.
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This paper makes a case for academicians to promote, support, and participate in nonviolent direct action in our roles as teachers and scholars given the unfolding climate catastrophe and the extent to which academic institutions are complicit in the systems driving ecological breakdown. Drawing from recent experiences resisting fossil fuel infrastructure in Appalachia and the literature on social movements, I argue that specialists in marginalized economies and societies in the Appalachian and Carpathian Mountains are primed to critique dominant narratives about economic growth and state nationalism, to embrace the reputation of mountains as ungovernable, and to leverage international networks for the sake of mass disobedience and mutual aid.
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Book Review: Маркова, Магдалена & Цветков, Пламен (съст.). Език и професионална комуникация 4. Учене, преподаване и оценяване на чужди езици за общи и професионални цели. София: Университетско издателство „Св. Климент Охридски“, 2022, 160 с. ISBN 978-954-07-5406-2
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Beginning and the development of Yoruba written poetry was believed to be influenced by the Christian songs and hymns. However, this study demonstrates the impact of Yoruba traditional poetry and beliefs in the development of local Christian religion and beliefs in the present time. Relevant data on both Christian and indigenous Yoruba beliefs were sampled through observation as well as extracted from written texts such as songs, hymns and poems in the Yoruba language. On the basis of the ethnographic and empirical materials and texts examined, the study found out that there are many parallel elements relating to form and content in traditional Yoruba and contemporary Christian songs and beliefs. It is stated that the Yoruba religious poetry and songs are valuable cultural elements in contemporary time and actively participate in propagating the Christian beliefs in the Yoruba society. This study concludes that impact of Yoruba religious poetry and beliefs is felt on the Christian religion in the contemporary time just as the Christian religious songs contributed to the development of Yoruba poetry in the past.
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Pod tim je naslovom u Zagrebu 30. lipnja i 1. srpnja 2022. održan međunarodni znanstveni skup povodom 70. rođendana Ekrema Čauševića. Skup je popraćen i Zbornikom radova. (Napominjemo da je u travnju 2022. prof. Čaušević dobio nagradu HAZU za 2021. godinu u području filoloških znanosti za knjigu Ustroj, sintaksa i semantika infinitnih glagolskih oblika u turskom jeziku. Turski i hrvatski u usporedbi i kontrastiranju.)
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Book Review: Gjuha shqipe në kontakt me gjuhët e tjera (Përmbledhje e akteve të konferencës shkencore ndërkombëtare). Kryeredaktor Dhimitri Bello. Tiranë: Universiteti i Tiranës, Fakulteti i Historisë dhe i Filologjisë, 2018. 304 с.
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Book Review: Л. Антонова - Василева. Говорът на българите в Раховец, Призренско. София: Издателство на БАН „Проф. Марин Дринов“, 2021. 207 с.
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Book Review: A. Spiro. Nyjat ne gjuhёn shqipe. Diakronia dhe sinkronia e njё evolucioni tiplologjik: Prokliza binare dhe enkliza shqyese. Tiranё: Akademia e Shkencave e Shqipёrisё, 2021. 505 f.
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Book Review: Slovanské a slavistické reflexe. Sborník k životnímu jubileu profesorky Hany Gladkové. Ginka Bakardžieva, Markus Giger, Kateřina Lah (edd.). Praha: Pavel Mervart, 2021. 167 s.
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Book Review: Граматика на духа. Сборник статии в чест на доц. д-р Любка Стоичкова (по случай нейната 70-годишнина) (съст. Ст. Буров, В. Сашева, В. Петров, Т. Рабовянова). Велико Търново, 2020. 425 с.
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Book Review: Μαριάννα Κατσογιάννου & Άννα Αναστασιάδη-Συμεωνίδη, επιμ. Λεξικογραφία και μορφολογία: Η θέση της μορφολογίας στα λεξικά της νέας ελληνικής. Αθήνα: Πατάκη, 2022 [Marianne Katsoyannou & Anna Anastassiadis-Symeonidis, eds. Lexicography and Morphology: The Place of Morphology in Modern Greek Dictionaries. Athens: Pataki, 2022]
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