ISRA’ MI'RAJ TRADITION AS A FORM FOR MILLENIAL GENERATION CHARACTER

A psychological reading of Isra and Miraj

The present paper makes some attempts to provide a psychological reading of Prophet Muhammad’s Night Journey, introducing it as a perfect example of the psychological and spiritual flourishing model. Although some flourishing models have been formerly proposed by psychologists like Maslow, Rogers, Jung, and Freud, they have merely emphasized self-actualization and individuation which seem someh...

Character Networks for Narrative Generation

In this position paper, the author proposes the use of social networks of characters as an AI narrative generation mechanism. The first part of the paper offers examples of recent research by literary critics on the relationship between character networks and narrative structure. The second part of the paper offers a simple example of story generation based on a structural balance network model...

An Explicit Form for Kerov’s Character Polynomials

Kerov considered the normalized characters of irreducible representations of the symmetric group, evaluated on a cycle, as a polynomial in free cumulants. Biane has proved that this polynomial has integer coefficients, and made various conjectures. Recently, Śniady has proved Biane’s conjectured explicit form for the first family of nontrivial terms in this polynomial. In this paper, we give an...

XIX ISRA World Conference

THE CHALET AS ARCHETYPE: THE BUNGALOW, THE PICTURESnUE TRADITION AND VERNACULAR FORM

The history of the Swiss chalet is a history of recycled form. This paper considers the nature of the chalet as a vernacular building type, its appropriation beginning in the eighteenth century within picturesque theory and high-style architecture in England and America, and its eventual return to the vernacular in the form of the early-twentieth-century bungalow. The goal of the paper is to ex...