Archive for 2011

The growing population of the world, now estimated to be over 7 billion, marks a global milestone and presents obvious challenges for the planet.  There are extremely densely populated cities and sparsely populated countries.  China is the most populous country with India following closely behind. This post brings together some disparate illustrations of our world as it grows, including scenes from Mong Kok district in Hong Kong, which has the highest population density in the world, with 130,000 per one square kilometer. In Mongolia, the world’s least densely populated country,  2.7 million people are spread across an area three times the size of France.  Then there’s Out Skerries, a tiny outcropping of rocks off the east coast of Scotland where the population is just 65.  And doing what he can to contribute to that 7 billion global milestone is Ziona, the head of a religious sect called “Chana.”  He has 39 wives, 94 children, and 33 grandchildren. The world is an interesting place.

Motorists pack a junction during rush hour in Taipei in 2009.

The facade of an apartment building in Shanghai, one of China's fastest-growing urban areas.

See more images at The Big Picture

United Colors of Benetton has just unveiled its new ‘unhate’ advertising campaign in a handful of cities, featuring manipulated images that show unlikely pairings of international religious and political leaders kissing one another.

The ad campaign supports the company’s “Unhate Foundation” think tank and arts research center, designed to organize events and promote acts of intervention towards a more tolerant world.
As its first series of actions, Benetton organized the hoisting of large posters and projection of digital images of the controversial advertisements in public spaces in New York, Milan, Rome, Tel Aviv, and Paris.

For more details about the campaign visit UnhateBenetton

Fue publicado en El Mundo,  sección Campus (16/11/2011)

IE School of Arts & Humanities in conjunction with the University of California at Berkeley offers a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship in the Humanities. This fellowship offers the opportunity for young academics to further their development through designing and implementing their own curricular ideas in the international classroom setting of IE’s cross-disciplinary approach to humanities.

Dr. Julia McAnallen is a teaching fellow in the humanities at IE University in the 2011-12 academic year. She teaches classes and contributes to the development of IE’s innovative humanities curriculum for the University and the Business School as well as receiving research support from IE and spending one year in Spain on both the School’s campuses in Segovia and Madrid.

Professor McAnallen´s research is in linguistics and Slavic languages, with a focus on historical and contact linguistics at the peripheries of Slavic-speaking Europe where speakers of Slavic languages have long been in contact with speakers of non-Slavic languages. She received her PhD and M.A. in Slavic Linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley where she taught courses in linguistics, geography, and the Russian language. Her research has taken her to Central and Eastern Europe on several occasions, including extended trips to Russia and the Czech Republic. While Dr. McAnallen’s training is primarily in Slavic, her teaching and research interests encompass language contact and spread scenarios across the globe.

For more details about the fellowship please click here

Valérie Chapoulaud-Floquet

VUITTON’S ARTS INITIATIVE: “For us, ability it is not merely one direction, it is really broad, it is 360 degrees,” stated Valérie Chapoulaud-Floquet, president and chief executive officer of Louis Vuitton NA. “We consistently hold on it and we embrace it really naturally. it is in simple fact a element of our daily life.”

Chapoulaud-Floquet’s comments arrived at a reception the brand name hosted Tuesday evening using the President’s Committee concerning the Arts & Humanities in the U.S. Institute for Peace that honored uses which have fostered the inventive and intellectual progress of children throughout the united states through training and hands-on knowledge within your arts and humanities. within a brand name new relationship using the PCAH and since the principal company sponsor from the 2011 country wide Arts & Humanities Youth Program, Vuitton is delving even more into bringing the arts to underserved communities.

“Louis Vuitton is enclosed in ability and heritage within numerous ways. among the methods is education,” stated Chapoulaud-Floquet. “First, it could be to market ability training within your United States and we hold into account that people found our way with PCAH to create a variance thinking about which they market ability within numerous ways. The believed can be to companion collectively so which you can give it additional recognition and visibility within your U.S.”

To engage arts, educational and civic leaders, Louis Vuitton NA has also committed to web hosting a sequence of conversations on arts training in conjunction using the PCAH within numerous U.S. cities, commencing subsequent spring with gatherings in ny and San Francisco.

As published in eluxuryinstyle.com