Fons Trompenaars, a world-renowned expert on cross-cultural studies, often poses the following dilemma to seminar attendees.
They can learn new subjects, like film or cultural studies, or take advanced courses in familiar subjects like English and maths.
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Professor Young, who is Professor of Cultural Studies at Middlesex University, said American women writers tended to write on a more sweeping, epic scale.
Alan Sokal, the physicist who in 1996 hoaxed a journal of cultural studies with an article he wrote as a jest that the journal published, called Prof.
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It was here that he established the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) in 1964, an interdisciplinary postgraduate research centre that sought to synthesize literary studies with sociological ideas and analytical methods.
In 1972, UNESCO adopted a ten-year plan for the study of African oral traditions and the promotion of African Languages, the first Festival of the Arts of the Pacific was held in Fiji and two series of cultural studies on Latin America were launched.
The University of the West of England (UWE) was also considered, by RAE, to have "high levels of world-leading and internationally excellent research" in Biomedical Sciences, Art and Design and Communication, Cultural and Media Studies.
Director Generals and department heads and directors from the major Iraqi Directorates of Research and Development, Quality Assurance, Fellowships and Cultural Relations, Studies and Planning, Reconstruction and Projects, as well as Human Resources, participated in this four-day workshop.
It is able to confirm studies based on cultural, linguistic and archaeological evidence and in some cases contradict existing theories.
Through the application of analytics to Big Data, as well as ethnography the design and implementation of qualitative field studies to observe cultural patterns Xerox is answering important questions about congestion, our reaction to it, and how city governments most effectively can provide services to address this and related needs.
Students from the Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage (IIICH) World Heritage Studies MA met with the UK Ambassador to UNESCO, Matthew Sudders, on a university trip to its Paris Headquarters between the 16 and 19 February.
Despite our squeamishness about cultural stereotypes, there are tons of carloads of studies out there showing marked and quantifiable differences between our two cultures.
With the debut of new academic papers and symposia on boredom in the workplace and cross-cultural experiences of inactivity and boredom, there is a boomlet in boredom studies.
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Recent genetic studies generally contradict an earlier theory held by some archeologists that farming spread by cultural diffusion.
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The event included presentations by indigenous peoples of case studies where community-based knowledge complements and advances current scientific understandings, while sustaining cultural integrity and fulfilling local needs.
Psychological studies show that images of babies engender positive emotions and empathy in most people and across cultural and demographic divides.
The workshop will emphasize the role of the government in taking the necessary measures to ensure the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage in Kazakhstan, such as adopting a general policy, designating competent bodies, fostering scientific studies and putting in place appropriate legal, technical, and administrative measures.
They spurn the cultural and geographic stories of their forebears in favour of an approach rooted solely in institutional economics, which studies the impact of political environments on economic outcomes.
The training material emphasizes the role of the States in taking the necessary measures to ensure the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage on their territories, such as adopting a general policy, designating competent bodies, fostering scientific studies and putting in place appropriate legal, technical, and administrative measures.
The Nagel-Carpenter course cross-listed in the departments of visual arts, physics, and theater and performance studies is designed to explore the relationship between light and matter, especially the physiological and cultural impact of low-level light, inspired in part by a trip Messrs.
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