Hypatia de alejandria biography of michael jackson

1In February 2020,1 Bong Joon-ho’s film Parasite made history winning four Academy Awards, including best foreign picture and best picture, awarded for the first time to a non-Anglophone film. After Parasite’s game-changing success, the question of Orientalism in Hollywood has become more layered; perhaps, as Mubarak Altwaiji suggests, working toward the exclusion of countries from the map of the Orient and their inclusion in the imaginary perimeter of Western progress (see 313).2 Yet, as South Korean cinema makes its grand entrance into the persistently white halls of the Academy, Muslim countries remain underrepresented and Muslim characters continue to be heavily stereotyped. Altwaiji goes as far as suggesting that neo-Orientalism of the post 9/11 kind has triggered a re-evaluation of the classic Orient with the “Arab world” and its stereotyping as its center (314). Although film audiences and professionals are more vigilant than in the past—consider, for ex

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Hypatia of Alexandria: Her Context and Legacy 3161549694, 9783161549694

Table of contents :
Dedication
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Timeliness of Hypatia • Dawn LaValle Norman and Alex Petkas
Hypatia and Synesius
1. Hypatia and the Desert: A Late Antique Defense of Classicism • Alex Petkas
2. Desire and Despair: Synesius, Hypatia, and No Consolation of Philosophy • Helmut Seng
3. Synesius’ Letters to Hypatia: On the “End” of a Philosopher-Friendship and its Timelessness • Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer
Hypatia in Context
4. Bloody Iuvenalia: Hypatia, Pulcheria Augusta, and the Beginnings of Cyril of Alexandria’s Episcopate • Walter F. Beers
5. The Shattered Icon: An Alternative Reading of Hypatia’s Killing (Socrates, Hist. eccl. 7.15.5 – 7, John of Nikiu, Chron. 84.100 – 103, and Rufinus, Hist. eccl. 11.23) • Mareile Haase
6. The Private Devotions of Intellectual Hellenes • David Frankfurter
7. ‘A Mere Geometer’? Hypatia in the Context of Alexandrian Neoplatonism •

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Maria Dzielska

Polish classical philologist, historian, translator and political activist (1942-2018)

Prof. Maria Celina Dzielska
Born	Maria Celina Dąbrowska (1942-09-18)18 September 1942 Kraków, Poland
Died	30 July 2018(2018-07-30) (aged 75) Kraków, Poland
Occupations	Philologist historian translator political activist
Spouse	Mirosław Dzielski
Children	Witold Dzielski
Awards	Order of the White Eagle
Alma mater	University of Łódź
Thesis	(1972)
Institutions

Maria Celina Dzielska (née Dąbrowska, 18 September 1942 – 30 July 2018) was a Polish classical philologist, historian, translator, biographer of Hypatia and political activist. She was a Professor of Ancient Roman History at Jagiellonian University.^[1]

Education and career

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Dzielska was born in Kraków on 18 September 1942. She earned degrees in history from the Jagiellonian University and in classical philology from the University