Situated Knowledge Production,International Impact: Changing Publishing Practices in a German Engineering Department

In this paper, I analyze how recent calls to internationalize publication behavior affect research practices at an automotive engineering department in Germany. Automotive engineering is a field with traditionally rather scarce publication activity and strong connections to industry. Substantial authority to define suitable research problems and ways of organizing knowledge production on a daily basis was therefore reserved for local academic elites as well as corporate partners. However, as engineers are increasingly expected to prove their performance through publishing in international peer-reviewed journals, the judgment as to what should be considered “interesting” or “robust” research is partly relegated to a gradually globalizing community of academic peers. This generates a variety of tensions with established ways of coordinating epistemic work at the department studied here. For example, the thematic interests of journals tend to exert a disruptive centrifugal pull in the context of an otherwise highly modular research culture, and possibilities to publish in international venues are unequally distributed across individual research projects. But while department members agree that there is a lack of fit between current practices and new expectations towards their publishing behavior, their opinions about the conclusions that should be drawn differ significantly. Some researchers argue that profound organizational changes are necessary to foster the academic rigor of German engineering research. Others believe that evaluation criteria should simply be adapted. This situation is arguably characteristic for research areas with a traditionally strong orientation to local stakeholders, and it suggests a need for more deliberative, participatory approaches to research evaluation in such fields.     

“全国文明村”繁荣村

2009年5月22日下午,浙江电视台公共新农村频道与台州市黄岩区在橘乡院桥繁荣村联合举办“浙江农民创富大赛”文艺专场演出。在村剧场里,来自省、区的文艺工作者和当地农民联袂演出了歌舞、魔术、武术、器乐等节目,赢得了四邻八乡观众的阵阵掌声。     

长中国人志气的江墅铁路

正上世纪初,火车尚属稀奇事物,杭州建造了浙江第一条铁路——江墅铁路。据书刊回忆,当年沿线的老杭州人,每有蒸汽火车途经时,总在铁轨两旁惊奇地看着那庞然大物隆隆而行,嘴里发出啧啧之声。江墅铁路早已不复存在,如今我们只能在遗址公园内怀想当年的盛况。初秋一个下雨的午后,笔者在遗址公园管理员兼讲解员刘美玲志愿者的陪同下,开启了一段寻踪之旅。     

Performing Difference: Repetition in Context

Abstract

In this essay, I sketch a performative, constitutive theory of difference that avoids the major trappings of this discussion in current communication scholarship. Building from Gilles Deleuze and Judith Butler, I argue that by focusing on difference in intercultural communication scholarship we can, as a discipline, create more complex understandings of people in cultural contexts. I first examine how difference has been written in communication scholarship. Second, I offer a reading of Deleuze and Butler who, together, provide the grounding for seeing the repetition of difference as political and contingent ontology. I conclude by examining an everyday context, showing how intercultural communication scholarship can benefit from this kind of analysis.     

昆曲再度辉煌正待时

古希腊戏剧和印度的梵剧已经基本消失了,昆曲这株被誉为“幽兰”的奇葩,作为世界三大古老戏剧中唯一完整地保留舞台演出形式的戏剧艺术,如今亦娇喘微微,唯存一息。 昆曲曲高和寡,虽说乐如行云流水,     

Women in Science: International Perspectives

Editorial Board

Women in Science: International Perspectives     

两袖清风“于青天”

葬在西湖畔的民族英雄于谦,是世代敬仰的“于青天”。清明节前,怀着无限敬意,拜谒了他的故居和陵墓。     

Arguing in Portugal: A cross-cultural analysis

We report data on Portuguese understandings of interpersonal arguing, based on a survey conducted in Portugal (N?=?252). Employing concepts and methods developed for studying interpersonal arguing, we report on the levels of argumentativeness, verbal aggressiveness, personalization of conflict, and argument frames. After comparing Portuguese men and women, we compare Portuguese respondents with two groups of US respondents. In contrast to US respondents, Portuguese report to argue more prosocially, cooperatively and civilly, and are more sophisticated in their reflections about arguing. We discuss these results in the context of the Portuguese notion of argumentation (argumentação) and Portuguese culture more broadly.     

一生铸就工笔魂

正美国时间2015年12月24日平安夜,徐启雄先生在美国南加州橙县家中因病离世,搁下了他心爱的画笔,"平安"地走了。徐先生曾任慈溪画院名誉院长,因工作关系,我与他接触的机会也多。20多年前的徐先生,已是满头银发,很容易让人记得。他衣着朴素,气质儒雅,看上去很"工笔",话语不多且语速不快、音调不高,一字一句有板有眼严密得很,这是给我的深刻印象。     

黄岩翻簧：一朶竹艺奇葩

近期,台州市黄岩区的翻簧艺术家罗启松正在为筹建翻簧艺术馆的事情忙碌着。多年来,他和顾启望等翻簧艺人不懈努力,使这项创始于清同治九年、已有百余年历史的传统工艺得到抢救、保护和发展。     

振太的田园牧歌

振太——这个被莽莽无量山系怀抱着的狭长坝子,古朴中透着几分安静祥和,让每个置身其间的人都能唤起沉睡在心底的对田园牧歌般生活的向往……     

"世界首富之国"卡塔尔

如果要问当今世界上哪个国家最富？许多人马上就会想到美国、日本或瑞士。其实最有钱的是中东沙漠小国卡塔尔。美国《金融杂志》最新公布的数据显示,卡塔尔2010年人均国内生产总值高达90149美元,雄居全球第一!近日它又因奇迹般地获得了2022年世界杯主办权,引起人们关注。