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Allaah, Allaah, Allaah: The Role Of Context In Translation, Zeinab Taha

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Zeinab Taha, associate professor of Arabic language and linguistics, delivered a lecture entitled, "Allaah, Allaah, Allaah: The Role of Context in Translation," as part of the Center for Translation Studies' In Translation Lecture Series.

Cosmopolitanism And Constitutional Self-Government, Vlad Perju, Matt Grellette, François Tanguay-Renaud

François Tanguay-Renaud

Vlad Perju, Assistant Professor, Boston College Law School, discusses the jurisprudential foundations that make domestic constitutionalism a welcoming host to cosmopolitan attitudes and sensibilities in law.

Respondent: Matt Grellette, McMaster University.

Islamic Legal Theory And The Legitimacy Of Secular Positive Law: Is Modern Religious Liberty Sufficient For The Islamic Legal Maqsad ('Ultimate Objective') Of Hifz Al-Din ('Preserving Religion')?, Andrew March, Mohamad Al-Hakim, Michael Giudice, François Tanguay-Renaud

François Tanguay-Renaud

Andrew F. March, Associate Professor of Political Science, Yale University, examines some treatments of the meaning and extension of the Islamic legal purpose (maqad) of protecting religion (hifz al-din), with an eye towards Islamic legal theorists’ explicit or implicit encounter with modern liberal and secularist understandings of what it means to “protect religion.”

Respondent: Mohamad Al-Hakim, York University, Philosophy.

Risk Taking And Force Protection, David Luban, Dan Priel, François Tanguay-Renaud

François Tanguay-Renaud

David Duban, University Professor and Professor of Law and Philosophy at Georgetown Law, defends Michael Walzer’s reconstruction of the Doctrine of Double Effect (DDE) and its implications for the risks that just warriors must take to minimize harm to civilians.

Respondent: Dan Priel, Osgoode Hall Law School

Discussion Of Frederick Schauer's 'Or 'Emet Lecture: On Law And Coercion, Frederick Schauer, Craig Scott, Michael Giudice, François Tanguay-Renaud

François Tanguay-Renaud

Follow-up seminar on Frederick Schauer's ‘Or ‘Emet Lecture, delivered on Thursday, March 12, 2009. Part of the Legal Philosophy Between State and Transnationalism Seminar Series.

Respondent: Craig Scott, Osgoode Hall Law School.

Discussion Of Frederick Schauer's 'Or 'Emet Lecture: On Law And Coercion, Frederick Schauer, Craig Scott, Michael Giudice, François Tanguay-Renaud

Craig M. Scott

Follow-up seminar on Frederick Schauer's ‘Or ‘Emet Lecture, delivered on Thursday, March 12, 2009. Part of the Legal Philosophy Between State and Transnationalism Seminar Series.

Respondent: Craig Scott, Osgoode Hall Law School.

Risk Taking And Force Protection, David Luban, Dan Priel, François Tanguay-Renaud

Dan Priel

David Duban, University Professor and Professor of Law and Philosophy at Georgetown Law, defends Michael Walzer’s reconstruction of the Doctrine of Double Effect (DDE) and its implications for the risks that just warriors must take to minimize harm to civilians.

Respondent: Dan Priel, Osgoode Hall Law School

Year Of The Portuguese Speaking World, Ana Guimaraes, Aajay Murphy

Research Guides & Subject Bibliographies

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Incorporating Online Materials And Digital Learning/Assessing Tools Into Advanced Chinese Newspaper Reading And News Watching, Ying Wang, Lisha Xu

Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts Conference

This is the report of a year-long blended learning project designed for advanced Chinese newspaper reading and news video watching. In advanced Chinese learning, newspaper reading and news video watching are considered quite challenging for Chinese language learners for their formal style, large and time-sensitive vocabulary, and limited exposure through traditional ways of learning/teaching. To meet these challenges, we incorporated three blended learning components into the traditional language teaching/learning, including: online video news subtitling, the digital exercises and assessment system, and computerized vocabulary-learning modules tailored to the course materials used for two advanced Chinese classes. The project is carried out …

Special Glasses, Matthew Gavin Frank

Journal Articles

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Changes In Latino/A Adolescents' Engineering Self-Efficacy And Perceptions Of Engineering After Addressing Authentic Engineering Design Challenges, J. A. Mejia, D. Drake, Amy Wilson-Lopez

Teacher Education and Leadership Faculty Publications

Community-based engineering design activities were used to provide Latino/a adolescents with authentic engineering experiences with the intention of increasing their engineering self-efficacy and changing their perceptions of engineering. Twenty five Latino/a adolescents (ages 14 to 17)- most of whom were either immigrants or English learners - were purposefully selected to work on different community-based engineering design activities, which are engineering experiences where the adolescents had the opportunity to research, analyze, and/or design solutions to problems affecting their community. The adolescents worked in teams of three or four members over the course of one school year to develop a solution to …

Bodies Of Exception And Transactional Microaggressions, Sonny Nordmarken

Sonny Nordmarken

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