İnsanlığın kültürel ve sosyal tarihinde küçük bir bölüm olan satrancın köken tartışmaları güncelliğini korumaya devam etmektedir. Satranç kimine göre entelektüel spor dalı, evde oynanan basit oyun, strateji oyunu, ise zekâ geliştirici egzersiz türüdür. Chaturanga olarak adlandırılan tüm dünyaya yayılan satranç 6. yüzyılda Hindistan’da ortaya çıkan kendisinden en çok bahsettiren oyunlardan sadec...

We present a demonstration of the intelligent agent-based system ORIENT (Overcoming Refugee Integration with Empathic Novel Technology). We summarise the application domain: education for inter-cultural empathy; the technology used and the innovations this involves; and finally interaction with ORIENT.

In a globalised world, cultural diversity is a challenge for everyone. Even for those staying “at home” cultural diversity enters their daily lives by people migrating from other regions of the world, sharing their social world. While intercultural encounters pose a great enrichment to one’s experiences and perspectives, they also represent an immense challenge, confronting us with different la...

This article is a case study of Yokomitsu Riichi’s (1898-1947) novel Shanghai (1928, 1932) and the way the novel reflects changing Japanese views of China during the period of Japanese imperial expansion. Drawing for its theoretical framework on Edward Said’s epochal Orientalism (1978), the article argues that Japan’s perception of China in the early twentieth century was shaped by the emergenc...

The Indian Dhat syndrome is a culture-bound symptom complex. The clinical picture includes severe anxiety and hypochondriasis. The patient is preoccupied with the excessive loss of semen by nocturnal emissions. There is a fear that semen is being lost, and mixed in urine. A study was carried out to investigate the cultural basis of the Dhat syndrome. One hundred and seven respondents from the g...