SUMMARY he present report deals with the question of which changes should be made in the current environmental communication model so that information becomes a real tool to understand environmental problems, to orient decision-making towards their solution, and to behave and act towards sustainability. The transition phase to a new communication model is described as a process that moves infor...

Title of thesis: THE INTELLECTUAL ORIGINS OF LIN YUTANG’S CULTURAL INTERNATIONALISM, 1928-1938 Madalina Yuk-Ling Lee, Master of Arts, 2009 Thesis directed by: Professor James Z. Gao Department of History Cultural internationalism is international relations guided by intercultural affairs rather than by interstate affairs. From the outset of modern international history, two models of cultural i...

European museums and other cultural institutions host rich collections that have ability to attract EU citizens and tourists. Cultural objects, e.g. paintings, in these collections are related in many ways and in many cases they refer to same underlying concepts, people and places. The Cultural Heritage Knowledge Exchange Platform, SMARTMUSEUM requires that these collections are interoperable o...

This article reviews literature on cross-cultural approaches to assessment, research, and clinical practice, culminating in recommendations for using a “cultural exchange” approach when working with multicultural clients. It examines challenges in studying culture and mental illness, including methodological issues and problems in defining constructs in multicultural research. Measurement of di...

The Emory-Tibet Science Initiative (ETSI), a two-way exchange between Western science and Tibetan Buddhism, is a partnership between Emory University, the Dalai Lama, and the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives in Dharamsala, India. ETSI is a comprehensive 6-year science curriculum being implemented at Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in India, representing the most significant change in 600 year...

With the increase of international cultural exchange, training and strengthening college students’ cultural cognitive ability is a burgeoning research subject in today’s foreign language teaching profession of colleges and universities. Cross-cultural communication skills and cultural cognition abilities have become an important measure of the ability of the modern language talents. This paper ...