This chapter discusses the emotional dynamics of migration in two main areas: migration experience and politics of migration. The first section considers migration experiences at the individual, family and community levels. ...
What does it mean to be the Socrates of Soviet philosophy, as Georgian-born philosopher Merab Mamardashvili has been called? More broadly, what does it mean to be a Socrates in Russia at all? Mamardashvili was known primarily...
DeBlasio, Alyssa, and Victoria Juharyan. Introduction: Socrates in Russia. In Socrates in Russia, edited by Alyssa DeBlasio and Victoria Juharyan, 1-16. Leiden: Brill, 2022., For more information on the published version,...
This volume explores the influence of the Socratic legacy in the Russian, East European, and Soviet contexts. For writers, philosophers, and artists, Socrates has served as a potent symbol—of the human capacity for...
Japanese fiction studied in American classrooms is more likely to emphasize Japan's suffering under the atomic bomb than to grapple with that nation's war crimes. Students should be informed of the horrific human costs of...
This volume is devoted to teaching works of Japanese fiction---novels, short stories, and manga (graphic novels and comics)---produced following the end of Japan's war with China, America, and their allies in 1945. The title is...
As Japan moved from the devastation of 1945 to the economic security that survived even the boom and bust of the 1980s and 1990s, its literature came to embrace new subjects and styles and to reflect on the nation’s changing...
Veniaminof Volcano on the Alaska Peninsula of southwest Alaska is one of a small group of ice-clad volcanoes globally that erupts lava flows in the presence of glacier ice. Here, we describe the nature of lava-ice-snow...
Economic education has emerged as an important subfield in economics over the last several decades. This paper explores the author gender breakdown found in economic education journals compared to top-tier, general-interest...
The authors describe an undergraduate economics elective focused on the Great Recession and the recession resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. They have taught the course with great success at both liberal arts colleges and...