We examine whether individual differences in needs for security and certainty predict conservative (vs. liberal) position on both cultural and economic political issues and whether these effects are conditional on nation-level characteristics and individual-level political engagement. Analyses with cross-national data from 51 nations reveal that valuing conformity, security, and tradition over ...

The emergence of the “digital humanities” as a new research domain is an exciting development in the ongoing evolution of a scholarly enterprise. But it is important to remember that the engagement between the humanities and technology is not a new conversation. For example, in tracing the development of the “philosophy of technology” as a specific enterprise within the sub-disciplines of that ...

Literary scholars and psychologists have long remarked striking similarities in the depiction of male heroes in the world's folk tale traditions. The best-known attempt to document and explain these similarities is Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1936). Campbell's work differs in detail from other prominent attempts to define universal features of heroes, however its grand the...

in recent centuries, women were provided with the proper space to be active in social, political, economical, cultural, intellectual and literary areas. therefore, they have done valuable activities and helped their countries to achieve increasing growth and manage fundamental changes. in this regard, the lebanese women have been active, despite all difficulties they have encountered. they try ...

This essay has two mutually related goals. At a more theoretically oriented level of the general problematics of modern Jewish literary studies, it aims to foreground and reappraise several assumptions upon which the works of modern Jewish writers are usually approached, analyzed and interpreted. The essay begins with a brief discussion of the use of such concepts and interpretative categories ...

The report is devoted to the analysis of directions in the study of D.Fonvizin's literary works, which developed in Russian and foreign literary criticism in more than two centuries of recognizing the comedian as a key figure in Russian literature of the 18th century. The problem of the integrity of the Fonvizin’s heritage in the school and university interpretation is posed; conclusions ...

This review essay surveys recent literature in the history of science, literary theory, anthropology, and art criticism dedicated to exploring how the artificial life enterprise has been inflected by--and might also reshape--existing social, historical, cognitive, and cultural frames of thought and action. The piece works through various possible interpretations of Kevin Kelly's phrase "life is...

This article uses the mass-media career of the British psychiatrist David Stafford-Clark (1916-1999) as a case study in the exercise of cultural authority by celebrity medical professionals in post-war Britain. Stafford-Clark rose to prominence in the mass media, particularly through his presenting work on medical and related topics for BBC TV and Radio, and was in the vanguard of psychiatrists...

CaCoCu (Canal de Cultura Contemporánea, Contemporary Culture Channel) is a multimedia website started up by the Association of Public Andalusian Universities (AUPA) in order to promote in the Internet the cultural events they produce. As part of their cultural contribution, these ten Andalusian universities offer a rich program of cultural activities throughout the academic course that include ...

We present an overview of CultureSampo, an ambitious system for creating a collective semantic memory of the cultural heritage of a nation on the Semantic Web 2.0, combining ideas underlying the Semantic Web and the Web 2.0. The system addresses the semantic web challenge of aggregating highly heterogeneous, cross-domain cultural heritage collections and other contents into a semantically rich ...