Meditating and Mediating Change: State – Society – Religion

Off Campus: Seggau School of Thought 4
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-3-7011-0445-1
Verlag: Leykam

Buch, Englisch, Band 57, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Grazer Universitätsverlag - Allgemeine wissenschaftliche Reihe

The fourth volume of the Off Campus: Seggau School of Thought publication series follows the established tradition of offering international academics at all levels of their career a platform for presenting their research and engaging in academic exchange. In this collection, interdisciplinary essays from different backgrounds and contexts reflect on how change is mediated and meditated. Starting from questions such as how resignation and ignorance are negotiated, aggressive and violent disputes are addressed, quick fix, temporary solutions to life’s problems are avoided, or in more general terms how radical resistance is expressed or challenges and difficulties are articulated, the volume provides a mediation and meditation in itself on the scope of issues raised during the Graz International Summer School Seggau 2018. By addressing strategies that can be used to engage in vigorous intellectual investigation, meditating and mediating change offers sets of strategies for vigorous intellectual inquiry into social, cultural, economic, religious, and political enigmas.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goggin, Maureen Daly

Marinsek, Ursa

Über Autor(innen)

Goggin, Maureen Daly
Professor of Rhetoric at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, Arizona, USA, where she teachers courses in women and material culture, history and theories of rhetoric, and research methods. Author and editor of eight scholarly books, a textbook, a pedagogical book, and numerous essays, her latest book is Women and the Material Culture of Death (Ashgate, 2013), a collection that examines the compelling and often poignant connection between women and the material culture of death by focusing on the objects maek, the images they keep, the practices they use or are responsible for, and the places they inhabit and construct through ritual and custom. Receipt of numerous awards for teaching and scholarship, Professor Maureen Daily Goggin was the 2015-2016 recipient of a Fulbright Scholar award that brought her to the University of Graz in Austria to teach and do scholarship for summer term 2016.

Marinsek, Ursa
holds BAs in English Language and Literature and Sociology, and an MA in English from the University of Maribor, Slovenia. During her studies, she worked as a nursing home assistant and as a tour guide in a karst cave. Now, she works as a coordinator for the Graz International Summer School Seggau at the University of Graz. Her research interests include Slovene translations of Shakespeare’s plays, stylistics, drama, as well as aging studies.