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Keywords: Roma barocca, teatro seicentesco, zingaresche, Ebrei romani

This article deals with the shift from the building up of cultural heritage to the building up of tourism. The example of olives and olive oil has been selected because of the contemporary worldwide craze for olive tree products ( Olea europaea l.). Festive events enhancing olive by-products for new urban audiences and tourists are described first. Then the article focuses on the processes that accompany the shift from cultural heritage to tourism. It shows how the products' status varies according to the spatial, social, symbolical, and sensorial level.

The interaction between Saul and the woman of Endor is a minor episode, not only within the first book of Samuel, but in the Tanakh as a whole. The woman, whose actions drive the narrative, is not named nor is very much known about her. All that the text reveals are her gender, domicile location, familiarity with the law (Saul’s ban on ovot and yid’onim), and culinary possessions (flour and a calf). Through linguistic connotation her age range is surmisable: she is neither maiden nor elderly. Of her specific abilities, little is actually known as it is totally unclear what she did exactly that caused connection between the living Saul and deceased Samuel. Yet this woman, and the language used that describes her in a few verses without substantive information, have singularly driven wildly polarizing visual representations of the female thaumaturge for centuries. The artistically rendered visage of the Endoran ranges from the crone of gothic nightmares to hypersexual femme fatale, to gregarious earth mother, to occult adept perfecting her craft. Despite her shifting guise, one aspect remains consistent throughout the majority of images: the visual translation (or mistranslation) of ovot.

Keywords: Endor, ovot, magic, Samuel, vesica piscis, circle

This essay examines Galileo’s peculiar comparison of small lunar craters in 1610 in his first treatise of telescopic observations, the Sidereus Nuncius, to the eyes in a peacock’s feathers and to a particular sort of glassware, and it argues that these allusions reveal more about a certain kind of sound than about the visual appearance of the moon. Galileo’s odd analogies find subsequent development in a thought experiment relating sight, sound, and sensation in his Two New Sciences of 1638.

Keywords: Galileo, "Sidereus Nuncius", Moon, Sound, Printmaking

This article focuses on the Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO), the primary hub of alternative education internationally, and its relationship to policy movements within the USA. Started by Jerry Mintz in 1989, AERO was a nexus for educational alternatives across the world including democratic, Montessori, Waldorf, Reggio Emilia, free, holistic, and virtual approaches used in public, private, and homeschools. This transnational advocacy network brought together innovative educators from Canada, the USA, Ukraine, Russia, Palestine, Israel, Guatemala, India, England, Australia, Japan, and North American Indigenous communities. AERO was invited to consult for the governments of Japan, Israel, Russia, and Ukraine in educational reforms, as well as NGOs like Dayanand Anglo Vedic in India. Moreover, the organization played a key role in sustaining and organizing the International Democratic Education Conference (IDEC).This work investigates novel primary sources drawn from AERO’s online archive of the AERO-GRAMME Newsletter and its successor, The Education Revolution magazine, the network’s main publications from 1989-2011. This study examines how, on one side, AERO's members opposed neoliberal policies that were key in increasing federal power over education within the USA such as the case of standardized testing. On the other side, AERO supported some neoliberal policies, like school choice reforms, which weakened the power of local public schools and inadvertently paved the way for the centralization of education at the federal level. At the core of my argument is the contention that AERO was a reaction against the consolidation of the education state, as can be seen by AERO’s entanglements within the USA. I analyze extensive archival material and document AERO’s connections within the United States of America to understand the paradoxes and intentionalities displayed by AERO.

Keywords: educación alternativa, éducation alternative, alternative education, AERO, AERO, AERO, politiques néolibérales, neoliberal policies, políticas neoliberales, educational reforms, reformas educativas, réformes éducatives