New perspectives in language industry

Philosophy & Social Criticism, 49/2: Special Issue: Feminist Takes on Post-Truth, pp. 151-163., 2023

In this paper, I show that a phenomenological concept of normality can be helpful to understand the experiential side of post-truth phenomena. How is one's longing for, or sense of, normality related to what we deem as real, true, or objective? And to what extent is the sense for "what (really) is" related to our beliefs of what should be? To investigate this, I combine a phenomenological approach to lived normality with a genealogical account of represented normality that sheds light on the social and historical contingency of definitions of normality and their intertwinement with structures of power. It is my contention that such an approach to normality is well-suited to investigate how is and ought are interrelated within subjective experience and practice. This might in turn help overcoming one-sided debates on post-truth, which rely on the strict opposition of objectivity versus subjectivity, universal truth versus subjective experience, facticity versus meaning, or reason versus stupidity. It also sheds light on the ambivalent or contested status of experience within debates of post-truth and feminist theory. I will conclude that post-truth is related to what Hannah Arendt has termed the lack of a common world (i.e., normality), arguing that a plurality of experiences is needed to let the "real world" stand its ground again.

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HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2020

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International Sikh Research Conference, 2023

Sixth International Sikh Research Conference, 2023 *****NEW DATE ******* In 2023 we are announcing our call for papers for the 6th International Sikh Research Conference (postponed from 2020). This will be held at the prestigious University of Warwick on the 17th September 2023. We have successfully undertaken five conferences in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017, 2018 by bringing together academics, scholars and researchers and to encourage a spirit of collaboration within international Sikh studies academia. We are now making the call for papers. Please visit our website and instructions to submit a paper for another exciting ISRC: http://www.sikhconference.co.uk/c4p/ Registrations will open shortly.

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Türk İstiklal Harbi'nin 100. Yılında 1922 Yılı Gelişmeleri, 2022

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2017

The main objective of this research is to evaluate land suitability for surface irrigation method based upon a parametric evaluation system in an area of 33,383.09 ha in the Kobo Valley, Eastern Amhara. Key factors that significantly affect irrigation suitability evaluated in this study include physical land features (land use, soil, and slope). These factors were analyzed and evaluated based on rating table values, then reclassified and overlaid to identify suitability maps for surface irrigation methods using Geographic Information System (GIS). Groundwater and climate (rainfall and evapotranspiration) data were used to estimate the groundwater potential, which indicates the corresponding irrigation potential for major crop. The obtained results showed that 77.7 % (25,934.08 ha) of study area was highly suitable (S1), 15.5 % (5,176.84 ha) of the study area was moderately suitable (S2), 6.1 % (2,033.75 ha) of the study area was marginally suitable (S3), 0.4 % (124.32 ha) of the stu...

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Department of the Middle East Newsletter, 2016

Short article illustrating personal research interest and the first preliminary results of collaborative work with colleagues in Slemani museum.

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