What Do We Leave in People?
Organizations measure almost everything: revenues, costs, productivity, customer satisfaction and employee engagement. Hospitals measure clinical outcomes; universities measure academic performance; public institutions …
- Cultural Anthropology: The study of the customs, myths and rites of different human societies.
- Literature & Visual Arts: Human experience told through books, film, theatre and the plastic arts.
- Pluralism & Interculturality: Cultural hybridization, multiculturalism and identity conflicts.
- Memory & History: Preserving cultural heritage, collective memory and historiography.
Deep Lament as a Remedy to Superficial Complaints
We live in a culture that has made optimism a duty. Think positive. Count your blessings. Others have it worse. Pain is to be managed, distracted, scrolled away: a thousand short videos, another evening out, one more …
The Last Carnival Dance
What is happiness? For much of the West, happiness is living in a society that’s like a massive amusement park—a noisy, colorful world where one can get by by hopping from one digital game to another, always young, …
The family yesterday and today
Being a person is not something added on; it is not a quality or characteristic of the human being: it is the very way in which a human being exists, the very essence of their being. Dignity is not tied to moral, …
With fond memories of Delors
In 1996, UNESCO released the Delors Report “Learning: The Treasure Within” prepared by a commission of experts from various countries (educators, sociologists, political scientists, among others) led by Jacques Delors, …
Ghosting
The term “Ghosting,” derived from the English word “ghost,” was added to the Treccani dictionary’s list of neologisms in 2024. The definition reads as follows: “Suddenly and without explanation, cutting off all contact …
Memory and Conflict
One of the most stubborn memories is conflict. Conflicts disrupt stability and leave deep physical, psychological, spiritual, and cultural scars on both the individual and the communities they belong to. In communities, …