American Learned Societies.

Allegheny Chapter American Musicological Society a Constituent Member of the American Council of Learned Societies

S April 24, 2010 Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 8:30 a.m. REGISTRATION AND COFFEE 9:00 a.m. MORNING PRESENTATIONS: Composers, Styles, and Contexts Aaron Grant Pennsylvania State University Duality in Igor Stravinsky’s Compositional Process as Seen in The Nightingale (1908-1914) Igor Stravinsky’s opera The Nightingale (1908-1914), based on a fairy tale by the Danish author H...

A comparative sociopragmatic analysis of wedding invitations in American and Iranian societies and teaching implications

Wedding invitations (WIs), as a uniquely socially and culturally constructed genre, provide a distinct opportunity  to  compare  the  sociocultural values of different  speech  communities  as reflected  in  the  textual  content  and  organization  of  the  different  moves.  Students  can  be exposed  to  this  genre  and  its  different moves  using  a  genre-based  pedagogy. Genre-based ped...

The pursuit of knowledge in the early American Republic. American scientific and learned societies from Colonial times to the Civil War

American Lessons Learned – European Future Rethought

The most notable feature of the notion of states of emergency is the assumption of their unpredictability. As such, it has been both normatively and positively deeply embedded in constitutional thought and practice to this day. However, notwithstanding its unavoidable advantages, I try to claim that it represents a somewhat outdated concept that stands in opposition to the normative development...

Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB).

NSF’s mission is “to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; [and] to secure the national defense.” Although NSF receives less than 5% of the federal research and development (R&D) budget, it has a leading role in advancing U.S. science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). In addition to providing necessary support for large scale re...