I was suggested to participate in the second session of the International Albanological Conference in the format lectio magistralis. For some days and weeks, I was somewhat undecided whether to hold this presentation, or another one.Decades ago, since my dissertation on the Albanian heroic legendary…

Ismail Kadaré s’est attaché au personnage de Scanderbeg dans trois genres d’écrits, à savoir, sauf oubli de ma part, le roman, avec Kështjella2 (1970) — rebaptisé Rrethimi dans son ultime édition3 — et Kamarja e turpit, la poésie, avec la pièce Portreti i Skënderbeut, incluse dans le recueil Koha (1…

Every anniversary of events or of big national personalities is always a good impetus to further reflect and deepen more in their study, to extract new point-of views in their less illuminated sides.The 550 anniversary of Gjergj Kastrioti's death is such a great motive. Scanderbeg's war against the …

There are, in my view, three aspects to the history of Skenderbeg in the United States that need to be considered in order to put this topic into its proper perspective. These are, first, the propagation of the deeds and exploits of Albania’s national hero into Europe, and more specifically into Eng…

Thanks to the political individual and social system of Albania in the past, as well as the rooted habits of the lonely woman in independent provinces, women's clothing represents a great variation of shapes. There is no doubt that the oldest dress is that of the Highlands of Northern Albania, which…

When the infectious coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 broke out it resulted in a global crisis. In the fight of Covid-19, China’s government relied on its strength to apply new technologies, i.e. for controlling and containment of the virus by tracing and tracking Chinese citizens. Relying on the tra…

This auto-ethnographic description of the experiences in the development of the teaching and learning approach, at the postgraduate level, introduces the impact of the community of practice in the development of the learning processes in South Africa, with an international view. The princi…

There is a commonly held view that African nationalism took shape out of contacts of African intellectuals with twentieth-century Pan-African leaders. Yet, this interpretation lacked concrete evidence, as many of these intellectuals owed their ideological formulation to Nineteenth-century teachings …

This article examines the extent to which participation in sports acts as a conditioning effect to the relationship between economic disadvantage and adolescent violent delinquency. Deriving hypotheses from general strain and social control theories, we use data from the National Longitudinal Study …

If we look back, evaluating the last two centuries, the productive environments of our societies have experienced several industrial revolutions that caused great changes in production and that, in turn, generated important changes in societies at all times. Likewise, the digital transformation tha…

Shtypi shqiptar mbronte të drejtat e popullit të vet të mbetur padrejtësisht jashtë kufijve të Shqipërisë. Ai demaskoi hapur planet antishqiptare të shteteve shoviniste fqinje. Gazetat dhe shoqëritë mbajtën përgjithësisht qëndrim shumë të drejtë ndaj problemeve më shqetësuese të kohës, sikundër isht…

Kullat në Rrafshin e Dukagjinit janë objekte banimi të cilat shquhen jo vetëm për veçantinë e tyre arkitektonike, por, gjithashtu, edhe për shpërfaqjen dhe reprezentimin e një mënyre të caktuar jetese. Në këtë punim do të paraqesim gjetjet nga hulumtimi i jetës shpirtërore në kulla, me ç’rast duke a…