Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Anniversaries'

Celebrations are pervasive. At a personal level they include birthdays, funerals, weddings, get-togethers, award ceremonies, and parties organised for any number of reasons. At a community level they include faith-based services, public holidays, commemorations and community festivals. These are just a selection. I argue that there is a need to better understand what role celebrations can play to improve health and wellbeing and not just for individuals but for communities. In this thesis I examine the experiences, context, processes and politics of celebrations and how they contribute to both personal and collective health and wellbeing. Of course, some celebrations make a more meaningful contribution than others. And it is the nature of that difference I seek to understand. The two leading research questions I address are: • How do celebrations contribute to personal and collective health and wellbeing? • What is ‘healthy’ celebration practice? There are three sections in this thesis. In the first I describe and discuss the Australian context of celebration activities. I also explore definitions of celebrations. I consider celebrations to be an active process made up of both play and ritual. Celebrations seek to focus people’s attention, and intention, in a positive way. The resulting celebratory act(s) are a cultural expression of what a particular individual or community values. There are a diversity of celebration forms and practices - open, spontaneous, planned and formal. Each celebration is influenced by, and influences, the context in which it occurs. I will be focusing on celebrations occurring within a community context. A community may be a family, an organization, local community, shared interest group or a whole of society grouping. In the second section of the thesis I analyse the relationship of celebrations to various dimensions of health and wellbeing. These dimensions include: social connectedness, identity, transitions and lifespan development, and community capacity. A major part of my fieldwork was undertaken in Victoria where I studied 20 community celebrations. The community celebrations I examined in varying degrees, did positively contribute to personal and collective wellbeing. They did so because they included positive and personally meaningful activities. They explored identity. Celebrations played a role in supporting transitions leading to ongoing healthy development. They provided opportunities for learning; not just knowledge but allowed values to be explored and skills and resources to be gained. They brought people together to interact and fostered a sense of belonging. Celebrations that were health enhancing valued diversity but also explored what unites people. My research confirmed that celebrations can foster our connections; to ourselves, others, the earth, time and the spiritual. They can build relationships between individuals, groups and organizations. They can be spaces that allow for personal and collective healing. But the degree to which these positive dimensions can be achieved depends on the nature or quality of the celebration practice. And it is the practice of planning and facilitating celebrations that is the focus of the third section of the thesis. Some celebration practices are health enhancing while others are not. Celebrations can be an opportunity to explore not just ourselves but our communities and how they oppress particular individuals and groups. Many contemporary celebrations do not feel authentic or resonate with people. They often remain at the surface and focus on passive forms of entertainment and the consumption of goods. Deeper engagement can be facilitated through more participatory and creative activities such as dance, playing music, story -making and -telling and ritual; particularly when engaged in with conscious intention. Celebrations at the individual level can be a positive, affirming experience that is personally meaningful and enables people to move towards their potential. At a collective level they build relationships between the individual, groups and places. They highlight the interconnectedness between all things. And as such they are an integral part of community life. I conclude by presenting an analytical framework to help understand the nature of celebration practice that is less or more likely to facilitate health and wellbeing. I try to adopt the viewpoint of a practitioner interested in the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities. I anticipate this knowledge will stimulate discussion particularly within the health and community sector about how celebration practice can be integrated into the work of health professionals and community workers.

This thesis examines Protestant unionist commemorations of the Battle of the Somme in Northern Ireland during a phase in which they exhibited marked popularity and politicization. Filling a gap in the scholarship and building upon it, this thesis pays closer attention to the historical context and development of these commemorations and takes into account a broader swath of forms and locations of commemoration. It argues that, in the face of the perceived threat of Irish unification posed by the Anglo-Irish Agreement in 1985, unionists employed the memory of the Somme as a political tool on two different but overlapping fronts. On one front, they used it against their collective opponents, who supported or supposedly supported Irish unification. On a second front, conflicting groups within the unionist community, namely unionist politicians, Orangemen, Protestant youths, and loyalist paramilitaries, interpreted the Somme differently to satisfy their partisan agendas. Analyzing Somme commemoration at the Belfast cenotaph, in parades, and in murals, this thesis provides explanations for why the Somme was remembered differently in various mediums and locales of commemoration, with particular attention to the differing degrees and manners in which Protestant commemorators recognized the Catholic contribution in the Somme campaign.
Department of History

This study examines the changing perceptions of Anzac Day in New Zealand, Australia and Turkey in the twentieth century. Changing interpretations of Anzac Day reflect social and political changes in the nations over that time. Anzac Day is an annual commemoration which has profound significance in the Australian and New Zealand social landscape. It has undergone significant changes of meaning since it began, and may be regarded as being an example of the changeable script of memory. The thesis argues that memory and landscape intersect to influence the way commemorative gestures are interpreted. Personal and community memories are fluid, influenced by the current historical landscape. This means that each successive Anzac Day can have different connotations. The public perception of these connotations is traced for each of New Zealand, Australia and Turkey. Anzac Day reflects the forces at work in the current historical landscape. Within that landscape it has different meanings and also functions as an arena for individual and community agency. On Anzac Day there are parades and services which constitute a public theatre where communities validate military service. Individual and communal feats are held high and an ethic or myth is placed as a model within the social fabric. Anzac Day is contested and reflects tides of opinion about war and society and the role of women. It is also the locale of quiet, personal contemplation, where central family attachments to the loved and lost and the debt owed by civilian communities to the military are expressed. Generational change has redefined its meanings and functions. Anzac Day was shaped in a contemporary historical landscape. It reflected multi-national perspectives within British Empire and Commonwealth countries and Turkey. For Turkey the day represented a developing friendship with former foes and was couched within Onsekiz Mart Zaferi, a celebration of the Çanakkale Savaşlari 1915 victory in the Dardanelles campaign. As Anzac Day evolved, Turkey, the host country for New Zealand and Australian pilgrims, became the focus of world attention on the day. Gallipoli is now universally recognised as the international shrine for Anzac Day.

Міжвоєнна українська політична еміграція в Європі сформувалася внаслідок поразки Української революції 1917-1921 рр., коли через політичні обставини, репресії нової влади й економічні проблеми Україну залишило декілька сотень тисяч наших співвітчизників, які розпорошилися по багатьох країнах континенту. Політичні центри еміграції існували в Австрії, Німеччині, Польщі, Франції та Чехословаччині, де перебували лідери еміграції, колишні члени уряду і парламенту, представники творчої і науково-технічної інтелігенції, функціонували українські політичні партії, діяли громадсько-політичні та культурно-освітні організації. В інших країнах Європи сформувалися провінційні осередки української еміграції.

El patrimoni literari representa una part molt petita del patrimoni cultural, però per això no deixa de ser menys important. Abordar un treball sobre els anys literaris implica endinsar-se en un terreny poc estudiat i amb escassa literatura teòrica. Però per contra amb abundant informació pràctica i documental sobre estudis d’esdeveniments similars. Aquesta tesi es compon de cinc apartats ben diferenciats, però a la vegada interrelacionats. El primer, es destina a definir què és el patrimoni literari i com s’emmarca dins el patrimoni cultural i quina és la tipologia organitzativa dels anys literaris. El segon, ens presenta les polítiques culturals internacionals en relació amb el patrimoni literari i també en una selecció de països europeus: Alemanya, França, Itàlia, Regne Unit i Espanya, amb un apartat destinat a Catalunya. El tercer, està dedicat a l’estudi de les commemoracions literàries des de la perspectiva històrica en aquests mateixos països. La selecció de les commemoracions ve determinada per la singularitat dels autors i per la incidència que la seva obra ha tingut en el seu país d’origen i també a nivell internacional: Goethe, Victor Hugo, Dante Alighieri, Shakespeare, Dickens, Calderón, Góngora, i Cervantes. I en el cas de Catalunya: Aribau, Verdaguer i Fabra. Els apartats anteriors han estat d’utilitat per tenir una panoràmica de com s’han dut a terme les commemoracions literàries en el període 1881-2012. El quart apartat està dedicat als estudis de cas, la definició d’un model de fitxa per realitzar l’anàlisi i avaluació dels resultats dels quatre anys literaris: Any Pla (1997), Any Verdaguer (2002), Any Rodoreda (2008) i Any Maragall (2010-2011). Finalment, en el cinquè apartat es porta a terme un estudi comparatiu entre els quatre anys literaris. La tesi permet afirmar d’una manera contrastada amb els resultats quantitatius i qualitatius que les commemoracions dels escriptors han demostrat ser molt útils per mantenir viva la memòria, difondre la figura i l’obra dels escriptors, posar-los en valor i acostar la literatura a la societat civil.
Literary Heritage represents a small part but not less important of the cultural heritage. Initiate a literary work about the Literary Centuries implies going through an understudied field and with rare theoretical literature, but with plenty of practical information about studies of similar events. This thesis consists of five distinct sections that are interrelated. The first intends to define what is the Literary Heritage and how is integrated as a part of the Cultural Heritage and what is the typology of the Literary Centuries,. The second section introduces the International Cultural Policies in relation to the Literary Heritage and also in relation with a selection of European countries as Germany, France, Italy, UK and Spain, and with a section about the region of Catalonia. The third is dedicated to the study of Literary Commemorations, from the historical perspective, in these same countries. The selection of Literary Commemorations is determined by the meaningfulness and the importance that the author work has on his country and internationally: Goethe, Victor Hugo, Dante Alighieri, Shakespeare, Dickens, Calderon, Gongora and Cervantes. In Catalonia’s case: Aribau, Verdaguer and Fabra. The previous sections are an overview of how Literary Commemorations had been held between 1881 and 2012. The fourth section is devoted to the definition of a model sheet to perform the analysis and evaluation of the results of Literary Centuries and also to the case studies: Year Pla (1997), Year Verdaguer (2002), Year Rodoreda (2008) and Year Maragall (2010-2011). Finally, the fifth section is a comparative study of the results extracted from four cases of Literary Centuries, mentioned before. The thesis allows declaring, in a highly contrasted way, regarding the quantitative and qualitative results that these writers Century Commemorations have proved to be useful on keeping the authors memory alive, spread the writers figure and their work, and also to put them again in value and approach literature to civil society.

This thesis is a musical reconstruction of the primary services held on 13 August 1837, for the fiftieth anniversary of the dedication of the Moravian church at Lititz, Pennsylvania. The work includes general background on the Moravians and interprets information from contemporary sources to place the music in its accurate historical context. The edition of music comprises more than one half of the paper, and is taken from the original manuscript scores used. Included in the edition are five concerted anthems for choir and orchestra, and eighteen hymns from eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Moravian tunebooks. The special texts come from an original set of orders of service.

A 150 anni dalla fondazione del nostro Ateneo, la tesi ha lo scopo di ripercorrere le modalità secondo le quali, negli anni che intercorrono tra l'istituzione dell'Università ed i giorni nostri, la didattica della lingua francese è stata praticata. La tesi sarà composta principalmente da due parti. La prima, teorica, descriverà i mutamenti della didattica delle lingue avvenuti nel corso degli anni, analizzando quindi i metodi e gli approcci sviluppatisi nel corso del tempo, coloro che li hanno creati e le motivazioni che sono state all'origine delle loro idee. La seconda, invece, sarà focalizzata sulla didattica della lingua francese praticata nell'Università Ca' Foscari. Più precisamente, trattando singolarmente i primi 150 anni di vita dell'Ateneo (1868-2018), saranno elencate le identità dei professori ai quali spettava l'insegnamento (considerando i diversi ruoli esistenti), le loro pubblicazioni (quando presenti) e gli anni durante i quali hanno esercitato il loro ruolo; il titolo, il programma e la durata del corso; i testi di studio utilizzati per l'insegnamento e le modalità d'esame adottate per testare le competenze degli studenti, ed inoltre alcuni dati statistici, relativi maggiormente al numero di studenti iscritti ai corsi, alla loro provenienza, alle percentuali di promossi e bocciati e al profitto da essi raggiunto. (Questa attività di ricerca sarà condotta soprattutto tramite la consultazione di documenti presenti nell'archivio del Fondo Storico di Ateneo).

Defence date: 14 April 2003
Examining board: Cathérine Brice, IEP, Paris ; Giovanni Federico, EUI ; Ilaria Porciani, Università di Bologna ; Raffaele Romanelli, EUI (supervisore)
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碩士
國立體育大學
體育推廣學系
106
This study focuses on our winning structure in the latest three Universiade Competitions from 27th till 29th. Furthermore, it compares the differences amog our country, Japan and South Korea, and finally analyzes our future winning possibilities. This study is written in literature analysis method (a) We participated in 24 kinds of sports, and won a total of 11 kinds of gold medals; there are 16 kinds of medals, and the number of categories has increased progressively.(b) Skills-oriented group is the most award-winning group, confrontation character network item group optimal, order is performance difficult us sexual item group, and performance accuracy item group, and, confrontation fighting sexual item group and confrontational with field item social late.(c) “Generally economical” has the highest proportion of award-winning. However, "the most economical" and "not economical" award-winning is the lowest.(d) The fast power of physical-dominant class is better than that of Japan and South Korea in winning gold medals and winning medals, and the counterattack of skill-oriented class is better than Japan and South Korea in the medal winning section.(e) We are superior to Japan only in the category of " Generally economical", and the other three economic categories are the lowest.(f) The most advanced types of sports for the future sustainable development and winning of the Universiade are badminton, table tennis, tennis and taekwondo.

Defence date: 3 June 2016
Examining Board: Professor Pavel Kolár, European University Institute (EUI Supervisor); Professor Lucy Riall, European University Institute; Professor Peter Haslinger, Herder Institute; Professor Nancy M. Wingfield, Northern Illinois University.
This thesis examines national days in Hungary and Czechoslovakia from their establishment as independent nation-states in 1918 to the collapse of Communism in 1989. The focus is on the capital cities of Budapest and Prague, as the locations of the official commemorations. In these eighty years both countries underwent major political, social and cultural changes that were reflected in national day commemorations. In the interwar period these countries were free to establish their own commemorative calendars and construct their own national historical narratives. Whilst in Hungary this was a rather straightforward process, in Czechoslovakia establishing the calendar was fought along a number of different battle lines. During the Second World War Czechoslovakia was occupied by Nazi Germany and dismantled, whilst Hungary became Hitler's reluctant satellite. National day calendars, rather than simply being completely cancelled, continued in some form from the previous period, as this allowed the Nazis to maintain a semblance of normality. The most significant overhaul of the national day calendar came with the Communist takeovers. The Communist parties imposed a new socialist culture that included a new set of Sovietthemed national days. However, they could not completely break away from the national days of the independent interwar states. Eventually, especially from the late 1960s, the Communists in both countries found that it was expedient to restore some of the interwar national days, some of which still continue today, thus questioning how radical a break 1989 was. Studying national days over the longue durée enables historians to uncover how the dynamics of political power operated in Central and Eastern Europe over the 20th century. This thesis concludes that national days are an example of both the invention of tradition as well as the resilience of tradition, demonstrating how political regimes are always bound by the broader cultural context.

This thesis examines how urban space in Istanbul has been used in the practice of political organisation and debate. By focusing on a range of spaces in two contrasting urban neighbourhoods, Kadıköy and Bağcılar, it explores the interaction between the national and the local, the secular and the religious. Studying the local is fundamental, as the rise of Islamist politics in Turkey since the 1990s spread from the municipal level to the national election victories of the current Islamist ruling party in 2002. In relation to that, from the 1990s, there has been increased numbers of staged urban events and performances. This has entailed the remaking of, and the increasing use of urban spaces, with significant discursive and performative acts of the secular and the religious. The anniversary of Republic Day and the commemoration of Atatürk are two major national events that have now been taking place in various urban spaces with a tint of demonstration to show commitment to the Republic. The celebration of the conquest of Istanbul and the growing public celebration of Ramadan have provided a realm for the Islamist politics by, especially, evoking the Ottoman past in the spatial restructuring of the city. Importantly, this process has also been associated with the transformation of women’s engagement with the public space, their uses of space and mobility in the city through both mundane activities and spectacular events. The research was conducted in two neighbourhoods of Istanbul, a city of contingent and contested spaces as a site of symbolic power and political struggle both in the past and the present. It is based on fieldwork conducted between 2014 and 2015 in the Istanbul districts of Kadıköy, a waterfront district stretching into inland on the Asian side, and Bağcılar, located inland on the European side of the city. Kadıköy, governed by secular oriented political parties since 1984, and Bağcılar, the first district to be governed by Islamist oriented political parties since 1992, provide contrasting examples of different modes of political expression in a spatially related context. The study draws on qualitative methodology and ethnographic observation, including a mix of semi-structured interviews, participant observation, archival research and photo documentation. The interviews were conducted with municipal officers, and women from the Kadıköy Municipality Volunteers and the Bağcılar Municipality Women’s Council as well as the Bağcılar Municipality’s reading group, the Wise Women Platform. The method of participant observation was employed through attending women’s events and performances as well as the celebrations of key events. Through utilising these methods, this thesis tracks numerous spaces from home to city that manifest the spatial dynamics of urban politics informed by the secular and the religious aspects of nationalist discourses and practices. Through analysis of this data, the thesis outlines the relationship between political identity and urban space through the spatial politics of publicness, the aestheticization of urban politics through spectacular performances, the materiality of staging as a technique of power, and relational spatial dynamics of the secular and the religious. The links between the home and the city mediate women’s publicness while the home shapes urban space as an extension of the domestic sphere and a metaphor of nation. Women’s uses of space and the ways in which they engage with the city indicate the spatial variation of gender narratives, that is based on the performative articulation of political identity. The staging of events either in the form of celebrations or demonstrations by volunteers, non-governmental organisations, political parties and state officials at different scales from national to local reveal the symbolic, historical and political contestations between the secular and the religious. In turn, staging not only regulates, controls and produces space and the social, but also mobilises women to performatively engage with urban space. The Islamist political movement gained support through the mundane practices of women moving from home to home, discussing politics since the early 1990s, and it also spatialised its power dramatically through setting up stages for political urban events and performances. The secular organisations, however, operated in a reactionary or defensive mode in the public realm, where secular-oriented Turkish nationalism has been mapped onto the fabric of the city through the staging of national demonstrations, marches, parades and celebrations. The thesis concludes by arguing that understanding these contrasting uses of urban space is important in explaining political identity in contemporary Turkey.

碩士
輔仁大學
博物館學研究所碩士班
106
As the number of exhibition increases, the ones with the same theme would occur more often as well. In 2015, tocommemorate the 120th anniversary of the Cession of Taiwan Incident of 1895, many similar-themed exhibitions were held. But what are their differences? This study selected “From First Sino-Japanese War to Cession of Taiwan: A Special Exhibition of Taiwan Literature” from National Museum of Taiwan Literature, and “Inverting 1895−The Exhibition on the 120th Anniversaries of Japanese Receiving Taiwan Incident” from Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica, as research targets. While both cases are structured chronologically and featured print files, this study sorts out three main factors in the curation process that would enable the following comparative study: exhibition concept, exhibition storyboards, and exhibition design. Content analysis and interviews are the methodologies adopted to summarize the exhibition concept, the exhibition storyboards, and the exhibition design of the two exhibitions. Furthermore, the study applies comparative analysis to show how thetwo evolve into distinct exhibitions from the same theme.The results of this study are as follows: In terms of the exhibition concept, both of them arechronologically structured, and provides multiple interpretations for the viewers.As for the differences, as their title show, one focuses on literature, while the other attempts to invert the existing ideas. The exhibition storyboards then could be seen as application and extension of their exhibition concept. Finally, based on their respective emphasis on literature and inversion, they both use light colors to present a relaxing environment and design their related displays. From the research results, it is clear that both exhibitions start with distinct exhibition concepts that lead to different interpretations of the same subject. Secondly, they both apply various exhibition designs to arrange their exhibits. Lastly, both exhibitions have made many attempts for the design of archival exhibitions.

碩士
臺北巿立體育學院
運動科學研究所
94
Athletic Meet Change in Celebrating School Anniversaries： A Case Study of “Ping-Jing” Elementary School Graduate Student：Chou, Chin-Mei Advisor：Kao, Li-Chuan Abstract Times changes as it goes by; however, the culture trace is easily to be seen. Fifty years ago there were more than 1,200 students in Ping-Jing elementary school, and now there are only 35 students. The changes of population, society, education and economics cause the transition of athletic meets. This research used the methodology of case study to investigate the transition of the athletic meet of Ping-Jing elementary school for the past 50 years. The research bases on the athletic meet anniversary celebration, and I visited male and female 13 alumni and one of the previous principals and had them participate in this research. I organized the participants’ memories, views and expectations on the athletic meet anniversaries, and had their ideas written down. The case study explores the following issues: (1) the meaning of athletic meet anniversary celebration (2) the function of athletic meets (3) the value transition of the prize for athletic meets (4) the changes of the artifacts and participants in athletic meets Since 1970, the coal production in Ping-Jing district decreased year by year. In 1988 the coalmine was removed and this made the economic change and people’s moving out of the district for making a living. Fifty years passed by and times changes. This research finds the following: (1) To different people, the meaning of the athletic meet varies. The meanings were found different to various roles in the case, such as students, teachers, alumni, students’ parents and the administration staff members. (2) For the athletic meet, it carries the different cultural meanings in different times. (3) From the view of the transition of the prize value, the country was poor fifty years ago. Now, it is prosperous and people become rich. The students no more value the prize so much as the students did twenty or thirty years ago. (4) The participants in the athletic meets decrease in a large scale. Instead of some competitive ones, the events in the current athletic meets focuses on today’s recreational activities combined with the inhabitants’ life experiences. Retrospecting to the past through the case study, I submit suggestions for the case’s athletic meets and the future’s studies. Key words: education, culture, value, case study, transition, Ping-Xi xiang

This thesis will study three specific subjects in order to document changing viewpoints in American culture in relation to nationalism, patriotism, and memories from older generations. It will be studying a space- Bunker Hill, a place- Independence Hall and a person- Marquis Lafayette at approximately fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Each subject will explore the ways the memory of the soldiers involved in the American Revolution have been preserved and remembered. It is the intent of this thesis to establish the importance of the passage of time especially when it comes to preserving historic artifacts and buildings and the way the changing associations have on how we preserve these artifacts.
The triumphal tour of Marquis Lafayette -- Independence Hall -- Bunker Hill Monument.
Department of Architecture