INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY - 8 MARCH 2008 (Shaping Progress)
Ilari Valbonesi @ March 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
15,000 women marched through New York City in 1908 demanding shorter hours, better pay and voting rights.
http://www.internationalwomensday.com/about.asp
100 years on, the pertinence of this event is honored through IWD’s 2008 global theme ‘Shaping Progress’.
Around the world, websites link to this site. Add your own IWD events and news.
There are currently 612 IWD 2008 events listed […]
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L’assedio Sonoro. Benedetto XVI (incongrue evento) alla Sapienza di Roma
Ilari Valbonesi @ January 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet
In nome della laicita’ della scienza e della cultura e nel rispetto di questo nostro ateneo aperto a docenti e studenti di ogni credo e di ogni ideologia, auspichiamo che l’incongruo evento possa ancora essere annullato.
Queste le conclusioni dei 67 docenti firmatari , tra cui Marcello Cini, ordinario di Fisica Teorica, poi di Teorie […]
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Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) on “The Second Sex - 25 years later”
Ilari Valbonesi @ January 9, 2008 # No Comment Yet
French philosopher, novelist, and essayist, Simone de Beauvoir was born 100 years ago.
Her work “The Second Sex “was originally published as a two-volume book in France. “It was begun in October it 946 and finished in June 1949; but I spent four months of 1947 in America, and America Day by Day kept […]
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Benazir Bhutto Sustainable Heredity
Ilari Valbonesi @ January 3, 2008 # No Comment Yet
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Benazir Bhutto is dead
Ilari Valbonesi @ December 27, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Shock around the world. Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated today in a suicide attack that also killed at least 20 others at the end of a campaign rally.
The death of the charismatic former prime minister also threw the campaign for the next election into chaos and created fears of mass protests and […]
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My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love: Kara Walker
Ilari Valbonesi @ November 12, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Kara Walker, You Do, 1993-94 (detail). Cut Paper on canvas. Courtesy the artist and Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
Kara Walker was born in Stockton, California in 1969. The artist is best known for exploring the raw intersection of race, gender, and sexuality through her iconic, silhouetted figures. The use of the traditionally proper Victorian […]
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Daily Echo. Boy George - The War Song
Ilari Valbonesi @ November 10, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Boy George - The War Song
George Alan O’Dowd, better known as Boy George (born June 14, 1961 in Eltham, London) is a rock singer-songwriter and Club DJ. His music is often classified as blue-eyed soul, since he was heavily influenced by Rhythm and Blues and reggae. Mainly O’Dowd is a essential part of the British […]
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Sonia Katyal, Semiotic Democracy
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Katyal, Sonia, “Semiotic Disobedience” . Washington University Law Review, Vol. 84, No. 2, 2006
Available at SSRN: Katyal, Sonia, “Semiotic Disobedience” . Washington University Law Review, Vol. 84, No. 2, 2006:
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Nearly twenty years ago, a prominent media studies professor, John Fiske, coined the term “semiotic democracy” to describe a world where […]
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