The Sylff Association secretariat is pleased to share the following News and Voices articles:
News
Sylff@Tokyo: Integrating Disaster Management into Tourism Development (Jan 19, 2023) https://www.sylff.org/news_voices/30759/ Voices
Teaching Myself to Be a Teacher, Learning How to Be a Student, Educating Others to Educate Themselves (Jan 23, 2023) Rui Caria, a PhD candidate and teacher at the University of Coimbra, describes his personal journey to becoming the teacher that he wished he had had. The journey has led him to create a YouTube channel as well as a new course at the university that addresses the questions of why study and how to study. He draws on literature as a means of bringing to life the concepts that he teaches. https://www.sylff.org/news_voices/30765/ The Rise of Civilizational States: Civilizational Discourse in International Relations (Dec 20, 2022) Tamas Dudlak, a 2021 Sylff fellow from Corvinus University of Budapest and a recipient of a Sylff Research Abroad grant in 2021, here discusses the concept of the civilizational state, developments surrounding it, and how it is exploited in politics. Confrontational civilizational narratives serve to create group cohesion by building on a sense of in-group pride, Dudlak points out, but efforts feeding on such differences cannot be the basis for peaceful coexistence. https://www.sylff.org/news_voices/30725/ The Experiences of Indian Couples during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Dec 6, 2022) Priyanshi Chauhan is a 2021 Sylff fellow conducting doctoral research at the Centre for South Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. In this article, which is based on a study first published in Gender Issues, Chauhan discusses how gender inequalities have become more prevalent in India under the COVID-19 pandemic. Read on to learn about the ways in which the adoption of work-from-home arrangements has affected men and women differently among dual-earner families in Indian cities. https://www.sylff.org/news_voices/30663/