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The article presents an academic reflection on the experiencing and familiarising of strangeness. A theatrical performance for children, Yemaya - Queen of the Seas, is the base for a consideration of dealing with strangeness and the social changes generating such contact. The proposed analysis and interpretation of the play is based on selected philosophical views of Bernhard Waldenfels, Paul Tillich, Roman Ingarden and Zygmunt Bauman. Strangeness and change are topics rarely seen as appropriate for children. However, children experience these issues participating in them in different areas. Importantly - although these processes are taking place here and now, they are directed towards the future. It is today's children who will be living in a different world, in new situations and among people we consider strangers today. So how should we talk to children about familiarising strangeness and the changes that follow? Could art be an effective tool in this communication? From the interpretation of the content of the play, the conclusion about the primacy of ethical issues in dealing with strangeness emerges. It generate the need to draw the children's attention to this important aspect of social coexistence.

The Helikon Publishing House has published (2006--2018) Sándor Márai's (1900--1989) diaries in eighteen volumes of eight thousand pages under the title The Complete Diary. After Márai left the country for good in 1948 and went into exile, the communist regime eliminated him from the history of Hungarian literature, and generations grew up without reading his books or hearing about him in their literary studies. The diary is a testament to the existential vulnerability of the writer in exile. This major piece of work has four layers: the first is made up of notes on regular readings, the second is about recent Hungarian history, the third is personal memory, and the fourth is the material for the absorption of the host country's culture. The Complete Diary changes our view of Márai, whose vision of Hungarian history is disturbing. He sees Hungary as a failed attempt to create a modern bourgeois nation. What is unique about Márai's diary is the way it fuses memories of the personal past with reflections on the present. The recording of daily events goes beyond the genre of the diary: on the one hand towards the essay, on the other towards the novel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The research deals with the analytical study of the intellectual and aesthetic approaches to structural constructivism in the works of the Australian artist "John Morris", who gained international fame due to his artistic success, which is due to his creative ideas that are characterized by strangeness and innovation and his artistic vision that distinguishes him from other artists, and which distinguishes his artwork and woodwork from others. Because of its various plastic and technical features and innovative and unconventional vocabulary, Morris relied, in formulating his artwork, on the method of dissection and fragmentation of the mechanics of the human body organs, such as skeletons, muscular anatomy and prosthetic limbs, especially in the mirror, depending on the element of excitement, and also the expression of winged characters that She took a surreal aspect by adding some wings of butterflies and birds to the various human figures by disintegrating, disassembling, reassembling and reassembling the disassembled elements with an updated vision and conscious thought. The first approaches: Wooden crafts dealing with the characters - Figures  The second approaches: Wooden crafts dealing with winged figures - Winged Figures. The third approaches: Wooden artifacts that dealt with faces and heads - Heads and Faces. The Fourth approaches: For the Fourth Entrance: Wooden artifacts that dealt with birds and animals - Birds and Animals . The Fifth approaches: Wooden artifacts that dealt with drawing, painting and collage - Drawing and Painting and Collage.The researcher extracted the most important intellectual and aesthetic approaches to structural constructivism in the works of the artist “John Morris” and benefited from them in teaching the woodworks course to students of the fourth year at the Department of Art Education at Fayoum University by drawing inspiration from them and reaching artistic formulations and plastic and technical solutions that can help enrich the woodwork and include it with strangeness and innovation. Thus enriching the field of woodworking arts.

Hélène Gaudy’s story, Un monde sans rivage, was based on the authentic events of 1897. It is about the Swedish Andree’s balloon expedition to the North Pole, which ended in a catastrophe. The travelers’ remains were accidentally decanted in 1930 along with other items, including photos. Gaudy, taking historical facts as a starting point, translating visual into discursive ones, writes a story of an intriguing, heterogeneous form, which is the subject of analysis. The analytical key becomes the adjective “strange”, used by Andrée himself, which thus describes this journey. The presented analysis, with the help of the concept of strangeness, attempts to understand the essence of Andrée’s expedition in terms of human experience of the world and otherness, of crossing the limits of the possible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper focuses on the issue of multilingualism in contemporary literary texts, which contain examples of code-switching or words and expressions in different languages, which contribute to placing emphasis on the foreignness and strangeness of the characters or narrators of the stories. This study stems from the edition of a compilation of short narrative and dramatic texts translated into Spanish by authors who build up stories from a position of in-betweenness, rejection, or displacement. In this context, the presence of different languages contributes to revealing the multilingual and multicultural reality that provides the background for the different stories. They are all concerned about manifesting their vital experiences of (un)belonging to a certain labelled culture or identifiable group, often from a diasporic point of view. Some real examples of translation processes will be provided to show the strategies employed to preserve an effect of strangeness on readers, to reveal feelings of (un)belonging, to manifest a variety of identities, or to make explicit culturally marked terms. Translation is then approached from the perspectives of cosmopolitism, diversity, and postcolonial studies, which rely on multilingualism as a signal of a diversified and multicultural identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The AMADEUS Collaboration conducts research aimed to experimentally investigate the low-energy K− hadronic interactions with light nuclei like hydrogen, helium, and carbon, in order to provide new constraints to the antikaon-nucleon strong interaction studies in the non-perturbative quantum chromodynamics regime. K− nuclear absorption, both at-rest and in-flight, are explored using the unique low-momentum and monochromatic kaon beam from the DAΦNE collider interacting with the KLOE detector components, a detector characterized by high acceptance and excellent position and momentum resolutions. This paper presents an overview of the AMADEUS results.

A coupled-channel S- and P-wave next-to-leading order chiral-unitary approach for strangeness S = −1 meson-baryon scattering is extended to include the new data from the KLOE and AMADEUS experiments as well as the Λπ mass distribution of the Σ(1385). The positions of the poles on the second Riemann sheet corresponding to the Σ(1385) pole and the Λ(1380) and Λ(1405) poles as well as the couplings of these states to various channels are calculated. We find that the resonance positions and branching ratios are on average determined with about 20% higher precision when including the KLOE and AMADEUS data. Additionally, for the first time, the correlations between the parameters of the poles are investigated and shown to be relevant. We also find that the Σ(1385) has negligible influence on the properties of the Λ states given the available data. Still, we identify isospin-1 cusp structures in the present solution in light of new measurements of π±Λ line-shapes by the Belle collaboration.

We celebrate the legacies of our friend and mentor Professor Lianshou Liu who was one of the pioneers for the phenomenology of multi-particle interactions and initiated the physics of relativistic heavy-ion collisions in China. In this article, we discuss some of the recent exciting experimental observations on the collective phenomena including collectivity, chirality, criticality, strangeness production, and thermal equilibrium in high-energy nuclear collisions. Future directions, especially the physics at high baryon density, will be discussed with a focus on the first-order phase boundary and hyperon–nucleon interactions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Nuclear matter, at sufficiently energy density and high temperature, undergoes a transition to a state of strongly interacting QCD matter in which quarks and gluons are not confined known as the Quark–Gluon Plasma (QGP). QGP is usually produced in high-energy collisions of heavy nuclei in the laboratory, where an enhancement of strange hadrons' production is observed. Many of the effects which are typical of heavy ion phenomenology have been observed in high-multiplicity proton–proton (pp) collisions. The enhancement of strange particles' production in pp collisions was reported at s = 7 TeV and s = 13 TeV in 2017 and 2020, respectively, and it was found that the integrated yields of strange particles, relative to pions, increase notably with the charged-particle multiplicity of events. Here, we report the multiplicity dependence of strange particles at | y | < 0.5 in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV, 13 TeV, 20 TeV, and 27 TeV from a Monte Carlo simulation using PYTHIA8, EPOS-LHC, and Herwig7. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper focuses on the issue of multilingualism in contemporary literary texts, which contain examples of code-switching or words and expressions in different languages, which contribute to placing emphasis on the foreignness and strangeness of the characters or narrators of the stories. This study stems from the edition of a compilation of short narrative and dramatic texts translated into Spanish by authors who build up stories from a position of in-betweenness, rejection, or displacement. In this context, the presence of different languages contributes to revealing the multilingual and multicultural reality that provides the background for the different stories. They are all concerned about manifesting their vital experiences of (un)belonging to a certain labelled culture or identifiable group, often from a diasporic point of view. Some real examples of translation processes will be provided to show the strategies employed to preserve an effect of strangeness on readers, to reveal feelings of (un)belonging, to manifest a variety of identities, or to make explicit culturally marked terms. Translation is then approached from the perspectives of cosmopolitism, diversity, and postcolonial studies, which rely on multilingualism as a signal of a diversified and multicultural identity.

Hadronic resonances play an important role in the study of the physics of heavy-ion collisions. In these proceedings, we discuss how the resonances can probe the reaction dynamics, the strangeness production and the properties of the hadronic phase in heavy-ion collisions at center-of-mass energies of sNN = 4–11 GeV. The resonance properties predicted by the general-purpose event generators are found to be very sensitive to the properties and space-time evolution of the medium produced in heavy-ion collisions.

We present the dossier "Studies of Childhood: movements, limits and frontiers", a theme discussed in the III Brazilian Congress Childhood Studies (CEI). The Congress was organized by members of the Department of Childhood Studies (DEDI) and the Graduate Program in Education (ProPEd) of the State University of Rio de Janeiro. The articles that compose the dossier review the debates that took place during the event in the fields of education, international relations, and ethno-racial issues. In this presentation, inspired by Mario Benedetti's poem "The Bridge", we explore the power of three words to think about childhood and the relationship we establish with children: borders, strangeness and movements. How many borders do childhood and children cross into the political, cultural, social, and biological order of life? Which movements or changes do they produce, reproduce, and spread? How to destrange childhood, in the sense of challenging the actions and discursive productions that promote exclusions of various forms? Which movements - in the field of research and in society in general - are instituted to encourage the agency of childhood? Starting from the idea that both our culture and our subjectivity are constituted in the relationship between an interior and an exterior that are placed in tension, we draw on philosophy, literature, psychoanalysis, and cultural studies to explore these questions. In this dossier, the texts compose a set that dialogues with the philosophy of childhood and goes beyond conceptual and methodological limits, in the sense of making moves to understand children and childhood through their perspectives, actions, languages and positions, in an objective and subjective form. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this essay I attempt to draw some crucial theoretical parallelisms between ancient Greek cosmology and the Anthropocene. Taking inspiration from Marcel Detienne and Timothy Morton's work, I deploy the figure of Dionysus as a conceptual persona that can help us think of strangeness as a non-human trait that human societies in the Anthropocene must urgently engage with. Events such as the ongoing Covid-19 epidemic, through which non-humans are brought to the forefront of politics and social relations, traditionally result in attempts of sublating strangeness through human modes of knowledge. As I argue, epidemics instead demand the creation of mythic practices, collectives and techniques through which strangeness is not eliminated or understood but rather elevated to a fundamental feature of social relations. In such sense, Greek antiquity presents a critical vector of ethical and ecological intervention to the current state of the Anthropocene, because it showcases a cosmos in which human life and society are constantly embedded and negotiated amid non-human strangeness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

HélèneCixous, the renowned contemporary philosopher and feminist, provides such a heretic account of femininity which transcends the feminist social or political movements. She believes that “the female” can create a new identity for itself, when keeps its distance from the masculine symbolic order. Of course, this has nothing to do with the absence of women in the cultural realm, rather the problem is that if the female aspects of human being are not to be eliminated, a new ontology is required to sustain it in a pointlessness situation, so that it can always resist the conventional perceptual patterns. In other words, the female can only make its identity and the nature of rationality dynamic, when it injects the strangeness in the masculine order. This means keeping a position on the margins of history, while also infusing the feminine energies into the symbolic body. In this research, we try to show that for Cixous, emergence of the new is dependent both on some kind of feminine otherness and the marginality. This can be realized by various dismantling tools such as women’s writing and polyphonic identities. Finally we make it clear that through the female otherness or being on the margins, the feminine can provide a way of thinking about those realities which have not been thought up so far in the symbolic rationality, or have always been rejected as the unthinkable.

In spite of numerous studies exploring the attitudes of Polish society towards followers of Islam including Arabs or studies showing how Polish media shapes the image of Muslims and Islam, there are hardly any analyses assessing how these attitudes and images are perceived by the minority group. The purpose of this text is to fill this gap and analyse the perception of transformation of attitudes in contemporary Polish society towards Arabs from the perspective of members of the Arab and Muslim communities. The article’s analytical framework builds upon the conceptions problematizing a group sense of alienation and familiarity in the context of human mobility and immobility. In particular, the text shows the usefulness of the concept of otherness and strangeness developed by Ewa Nowicka in the late 1990s for the analysis of the transformation of attitudes towards Arabs and Muslims in Polish society in the last two decades.

Die Antike als das nächste Fremde zu bezeichnen, ist ein wiederkehrendes Phänomen in der Altphilologie. In diesem Kontext wird das zu erwerbende Verständnis für die Differenz, die aus der zeitlichen Distanz erwächst, als Argument für die Reflexion der Gegenwart formuliert. Dieser essayistische Exkurs offenbart, dass die Fremde, die in der lateinischen Literatur verhandelt wird, über die Reflexion der zeitlichen Distanz hinausgehende Argumente für die Reflexion des Begriffs Fremde per se bietet. Mittels einer interdisziplinären Zugangsweise wird ausgehend von Simmels soziologisch-philosophischer Deutung des Fremden diese mit der Latinistik dahingehend verknüpft, schulische Praxis zu reflektieren. So wird – exemplarisch an Caesars Germanenbild und Senecas commutatio loci – klar, dass die lateinische Literatur konkrete Anknüpfungspunkte ausweist, die vor allem in Inklusion betreffenden Aspekten praxisrelevant sind: die Deutung der Fremde aus dem Blickwinkel derjenigen Gruppe, welche die kulturellen Eigenheiten der als fremd beschriebenen Menschen für sich als wertvolle Erfahrungen schätzen lernen kann; und die durch Migration erworbenen Fähigkeiten im Sinne selbstreflexiver Erfahrungen, die gleichsam als Qualitäten bestehende Lerngruppen in vielfältiger Hinsicht bereichern können. Referring to antiquity as close strangeness is a recurring phenomenon in classical philology. In this context, the understanding to be acquired of the difference that arises from temporal distance is formulated as an argument for reflecting on the present. This essayistic excursus reveals that the strangeness negotiated in Latin literature offers arguments for the reflection of the concept of strangeness per se that goes beyond the reflection of temporal distance. Using an interdisciplinary approach based on Simmel’s sociological-philosophical interpretation of the stranger, this is linked with Latin studies to reflect on school practice. In this way, it becomes clear – using Caesar’s image of Germanic peoples and Seneca’s commutatio loci as examples – that Latin literature has concrete points of contact that are relevant to practice, especially in aspects relating to inclusion: the interpretation of strangeness from the perspective of the group who can learn to appreciate the cultural peculiarities of the people described as strange as valuable experiences for themselves, and the skills acquired through migration in the sense of self-reflective experiences that can enrich existing learning groups as qualities in many ways.

Nuclear matter, at sufficiently energy density and high temperature, undergoes a transition to a state of strongly interacting QCD matter in which quarks and gluons are not confined known as the Quark–Gluon Plasma (QGP). QGP is usually produced in high-energy collisions of heavy nuclei in the laboratory, where an enhancement of strange hadrons’ production is observed. Many of the effects which are typical of heavy ion phenomenology have been observed in high-multiplicity proton–proton (pp) collisions. The enhancement of strange particles’ production in pp collisions was reported at s=7 TeV and s=13 TeV in 2017 and 2020, respectively, and it was found that the integrated yields of strange particles, relative to pions, increase notably with the charged-particle multiplicity of events. Here, we report the multiplicity dependence of strange particles at |y|<0.5 in pp collisions at s = 7 TeV, 13 TeV, 20 TeV, and 27 TeV from a Monte Carlo simulation using PYTHIA8, EPOS-LHC, and Herwig7.

Monsieur M, 1968 (France, 2011), directed by Laurent Cibien and Isabelle Berteletti, is a documentary that originated from an agenda, dated 1968, found in a house after the death of its owner. Day after day, M, 41, an old boy living with his parents, an office worker at the National Geographical Institute, describes and recounts without passion the meagre events of his life, in a period when everything seems to be out of whack. Thus, the daily functionalism, lived by the strange diarist, transforms into a filmic daydream. But how does the audiovisual mediation create the poetry of daily life capable of making people think about the expression of history on screen? The ordinary daily life appears first of all essential. In addition, history is captured through the psychogeography of everyday life. Finally, the sound editing and the use of videography lead to affirm the disturbing strangeness of the story captured in M’s eye and the modalities of the resistance to May 68.

When reading Extensa (2002) by Jacek Dukaj and acquainting with its communicational and artistic implications, the reader becomes aware of relativization of otherness, as a result of the very essence of what the Other is. Thus Extensa is not exactly a story of otherness, but from the perspective of literary communication it is a story which exists outside of agreed taxonomy and is foreign to the clear, contemporary division into fantasy and mainstream. This means that Dukaj’s Extensa both presents the otherness of the novel (towards the reader’s expectations), as well as it is a story about otherness itself. Entangled in the strangeness of the novel, in the light of its line of communication and previous interpretational schema – created on the basis of previously read science-fiction novels – the reader is bound to feel alienated due to the difference between what is anticipated and what is presented. Paradoxically, the otherness both of the novel (in the context of the genre’s tradition and of the line of communication in which it functions) and its fictional world allows redefinition of the cognising subject who must manage his own, unpredictable “otherness.” This is because the Other remains a symbol of all that undergoes change. Thus, the attitude towards the Other becomes a challenge that requires a confrontation with our own self and, at the same time, it is an “empathy exercise” which rejects mutual dependencies of empathy and stereotypisation, typical for modern literature.

We propose a hypothesis on the influence that literature has on the mind of the reader. The case of Shakespeare’s texts and the relationships they create during the performance demonstrate that the power of books always lies in the mind of the reader.