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Representing, Re‐presenting, or Producing the Past? Memory Work amongst Museum Employees
Journal of Management Studies, Volume 63, Issue 4, Page 1739-1770, June 2026.Abstract Though it is widely understood that the past can be an important resource for organizations, less is known about the micro‐level skills and choices that help to materialize different representations of the past. We understand these micro‐level skills and choices as a practice: ‘memory work’ – a banner term gathering various activities that ...
Jeremy Aroles +3 more
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Policy Spandrels: How Design Decisions Can Open Up Spaces for Unintended Policy Change
European Policy Analysis, Volume 12, Issue 2, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT This article introduces the concept of policy spandrels to make sense of public policies producing second‐order effects that are unintentional from the perspective of policy design and yet are fraught with consequences. By analogy with architectural spandrels—leftover spaces that can be used for unforeseen purposes—policy change can be enabled
Martino Maggetti
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Thucydides: origins of realism?
, 2018 It is a well-established idea in mainstream International Relations theory that the ancient Greek historian Thucydides was a Realist, and the originator of some key Realist ideas.
NDG Morley (21861653)
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Atene e l’‘epimachia’ con Corcira (433 a.C.)
Erga-Logoi, 2016 This paper offers a new analysis of sources as well as a new reconstruction of the events of Greek History in July and August 433 B.C. The author especially focuses (1) on the historical motives behind the change of view which led the Athenian Assembly ...
Giovanni Parmeggiani
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Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 316-332, February 2026.ABSTRACT The Mediterranean is particularly sensitive to rapid climate changes (RCCs) during the Holocene. An increasing number of natural climate archives revealed that socio‐economic developments were influenced by such RCCs since the Palaeolithic. However, multi‐millennial and high‐resolution archives are still rare and often located in mountainous ...
Esra Reichert +7 more
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What Was Homer Honing in the Odyssey?
Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists, Volume 6, Issue 1, December 2025.Abstract We summarize the data provided in Homer's the Odyssey concerning Odysseus' journey and suggest a completely new view of what was Homer trying to convey to us. We suggest that Homer was honing the idea of synergy between rules (determinism) and chance (randomness), an idea deeply rooted in natural processes as well in mathematics.
Anastasios A. Tsonis +2 more
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Thucydides and his intellectual milieu [PDF]
, 2017 The chapter examines Thucydides’ intellectual milieu, concentrating on medical theories of the time, rhetoric, and especially the rhetorical use of theories of justice and self-interest.
Rosalind Thomas, Thomas, Rosalind
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TOWARD A CONJECTURAL HISTORY OF CONJECTURAL HISTORIES
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 56-74, December 2025.ABSTRACT Most intellectual historians use the term “conjectural history” to designate a new form of speculative history created in eighteenth‐century Scotland by Adam Smith and a few others. These writers traced the development of human society and culture through conjectural reasoning based on philosophers’ views about human nature and travelers ...
ANTHONY GRAFTON
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Le choix de la forme du dialogue : le dialogue des Athéniens et des Méliens (Thucydide. V,85-113)
Dialogues d'Histoire Ancienne, 2007 Agathe Roman, Choosing the dialogue form: the Melian dialogue (Thuc. V.85-113), DHA 33/1, 2007, 9-22. Abstract: The speeches in Thucydides are usually studied in a historical point of view.
Agathe Roman
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El diálogo de Melos. Desde la interpretación de Nietzsche hacia la visión trágica de Tucídides
Síntesis. Revista de FilosofíaThis work analyses the famous and “terrible” dialogue that Thucydides presents in his History of the Peloponnesian War between the Athenians and the Melians and seeks to highlight elements that would show a tragic vision of history and human affairs on ...
Diego Colomés
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