By Colleen Flaherty. Boston University and its non-tenure-track lecturers reached a first contract agreement last week, averting a planned walkout next week. Some 250 lecturers on campus have been affiliated with Service Employees International Union since early 2016. The tentative agreement includes a pay increase for each of the contract’s three years, and an average of 15 percent in the first year. More...
Faculty Departures Quadruple at U of Wyoming
By Colleen Flaherty. The University of Wyoming has lost four times as many faculty members in the past year than it has in recent memory, the Associated Press reported. More...
A Dangerous Withdrawal
By Colleen Flaherty. “The Case for Colonialism” has been revoked -- not over claims of shoddy scholarship or publication irregularities but rather threats to the journal editor. Some call it a disturbing precedent that could make academics less safe. More...
Poli-Sci for the Trump Era
By Colleen Flaherty. Political scientists see the discipline’s historical division across four subareas as hindering their collective ability to understand Trump’s America -- and its future. More...
Don't Call It a Comeback
By Colleen Flaherty. Long Island U says it is turning things around, financially and otherwise, one year after a faculty lockout. Professors say the institution continues to falter. More...
Breaking Out of the M-W-F Routine
By Colleen Flaherty. Coker College shakes things up by allowing interested professors to break out of the 50-minute routine. More...
Professor Allegedly Prompts False Report of Shooter
By Colleen Flaherty. The University of Southern California went into lockdown Monday afternoon after a faculty member told students -- wrongly -- that there was an active shooter in a building, the Los Angeles Times reported. USC sent out alerts about police activity on campus and told people to shelter in place, but the warning was called off within the hour. More...
Union Hopes Dashed, Minnesota Professors Try New Strategy
By Colleen Flaherty. Faculty organizers at the University of Minnesota at the Twin Cities are backing away from their formal unionization goal and instead forming a “workers' association,” the Star Tribune reported. More...
Oralité et écriture dans la Bible et le Coran
Auteur(s):
Philippe Cassuto & Pierre Larcher, dir.
Date de parution: 2014 trimestre 4
Ce volume rassemble des études reflétant différentes approches possibles de l’oralité et de l’écriture et de leurs rapports dans les domaines biblique et coranique. La première partie aborde les questions de l’articulation du texte écrit et du texte lu de la Bible, la cantilation du texte biblique, les rapports complexes qu’entretiennent oral et écrit dans le texte coranique et le caractère désordonné de leur relation. Dans la seconde section, sont étudiés le vocabulaire utilisé par le Coran pour parler de lui-même, la genèse, la transmission et la fixation du Coran, à travers les sources musulmanes, dont la lecture critique conduit à la conclusion d’une interaction de l’oralité et de l’écriture à toutes les étapes du processus. Enfin, la troisième partie traite de la figure du prophète biblique Élie, dont la dilatation dans la tradition juive puis les sources chrétiennes orientales a pu servir de modèle, par transposition, à la prophétologie coranique.
Cutting Everything … Except Athletics
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf. Some Wright State faculty members wonder why the university’s athletics budget is protected, but nothing else is. More...