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…

This year in Albania and abroad marks the celebration of the 600- birth anniversary of Gjergj Kastrioti-Scanderbeg. His place and role in the Albanian and European history are of an extraordinary importance. He organized and led for circa a quarter a century the Albanian people war against the Ottom…

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 …

An adequate correlation between the historic and archaeological sources would help us to obtain new data about Scanderbeg epopee.This thing requires archaeological research in castles, fortresses or other structures, that chronologically refer to the period taken into examination. As it is only a 25…

This paper investigates the appropriation of the legendary figure of George Castriota Scanderbeg by Enver Hoxha since the earliest days of Albania’s communist regime. To this end, I am analyzing from an iconological perspective the juxtaposition of Enver Hoxha and George Castriota Scanderbeg’s image…

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…

The article asserts the need for organizations to adopt intentional and transformative Global Inclusion, Diversity, Belonging, Equity, and Access (GIDBEA) practices, to ensure their future readiness. The research developed reaffirms the benefits of GIDBEA strategies in identifying gap areas and navi…

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 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…

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…

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 …