Books on the topic 'Memorial volumes (form)'

"Granito e arcobaleno". Forme e modi della scrittura auto/biografica raccoglie saggi che affrontano questioni che attengono alle relazioni, e ai loro fragili equilibri, tra realtà e finzione, esperienza e memoria, privato e pubblico, autonomia e relazionalità, verità referenziale e verità soggettiva, tra il sé e l’Altro. I contributi chiamano in causa, inoltre, concetti quali lo spazio – sociale, culturale, geopolitico, ma anche retorico – nel quale il soggetto auto/biografico è posizionato; la 'materialità' del corpo che percepisce e interiorizza le immagini, le sensazioni e le esperienze del mondo esterno; l’agentività (agency) e i vincoli linguistici, discorsivi, sociali e culturali cui è sottoposta. Dopo un’apertura teorica, il volume approfondisce singoli casi di studio riconducibili a realtà culturali diverse e, talora, distanti tra loro, per approdare a una riflessione d’artista sull’arte e sulla vita.

Our life with Ezio and Memories of War, written by Flora Aghib Levi D’Ancona traces the life of her husband Ezio Levi, a Jewish Italian philologist and hispanist, their experiences of exile in the US where the couple fled after the racial laws. Completed with a historiographical introduction and an appendix of unpublished letters, the volume traces Ezio’s path as a Jewish intellectual in Fascist Italy, his role as a cultural mediator of Spanish contemporary literature to Italy, the trauma of the racial laws, and the challenges of the American exile. Expression of a women’s exile literature, the pages reflect the authors experience as a mother writing for her children left in Italy and of an intellectual Italian Jewish woman dealing with the challenges of exile and memory.

Figures of mobility appear prominently in US-foundational narratives of ‘discovery,’ the ‘Puritan errand,’ and westward expansion; the protagonists of these hegemonic tales of settlement and nation-building are (mostly) European travellers, pioneers, and colonists. By contrast, figures such as pirates, drifters, and fugitives are for the most part absent from canonical narratives of new world beginnings and may be considered as expressing/representing alternative mobilities. Their stories and their representations raise questions of legitimacy and legality – often from a transnational perspective – and imply a critique of the American empire and its concomitant domestic discourses of marginalization. Yet, pirates, drifters, and fugitives also appear as ambiguous figures with regard to US-exceptionalist rhetoric: they may tap their subversive potential, while they are also bound to and complicit with the ideologies they seek to expose. In the context of the so-called New American Studies and the emergent field of Mobility Studies, this volume investigates these figures in a variety of cultural productions (pamphlets, song lyrics, autobiographies, novels, memorials, legal texts, video, television, and film) from the 17th century to the present.

Lucrarea de fata doreste sa traga un semnal de alarma cu privire la diverse pericole ale societatii noastre. Cercetarea noastra abordeaza trei „teze” fundamentale: postul informational, ca o forma distincta si mai noua a postului in lumea contemporana, semnificatia si importanta linistii, si efectele tehnologiei si dispozitivelor digitale in viata omului. Volumul analizeaza virtuti precum postul, infranarea, linistea, rugaciunea, meditatia, adunarea in sine, cunoasterea, trezvia, blandetea, rabdarea, tacerea, citirea etc., alaturi de teorii si descoperiri stiintifice legate de atentie, vointa, autocontrol, perseverenta, gandire, memorie, plasticitate, multitasking, divertisment, dependenta, zgomot, somn si altele. Eficacitatea postului informational se poate evidentia in fata efectelor nocive ale dispozitivelor digitale (televizor, telefon mobil, tableta, laptop, internet, E-mail, YouTube, retele de socializare gen Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, WhatsApp), manifestate prin: transformarea omului, diminuarea procesului gandirii, transformarea gandirii liniare in gandire fragmentata, golirea si externalizarea memoriei, spargerea legaturii dintre memoria de scurta durata, memoria de lunga durata si memoria de lucru, distragerea si imprastierea atentiei, pierderea abilitatii de concentrare, multitasking, dementa etc.

Although the reconciliation of Jewish and Polish memories of the Holocaust is the central issue in contemporary Polish–Jewish relations, this is the first attempt to examine these divisive memories in a comprehensive way. Until 1989, Polish consciousness of the Second World War subsumed the destruction of Polish Jewry within a communist narrative of Polish martyrdom and heroism. Post-war Jewish memory, by contrast, has been concerned mostly with Jewish martyrdom and heroism. Since the 1980s, however, a significant number of Jews and Poles have sought to identify a common ground and have met with partial but increasing success, notwithstanding the new debates that have emerged in recent years concerning Polish behaviour during the Nazi genocide of the Jews that Poles had ignored for half a century. This volume considers these contentious issues from different angles. Among the topics covered are Jewish memorial projects, both in Poland and beyond its borders, the Polish approach to Holocaust memory under communist rule, and post-communist efforts both to retrieve the Jewish dimension to Polish wartime memory and to reckon with the dark side of the Polish national past. An interview with Henryk Grynberg touches on many of these issues, as do the three poems by Grynberg reproduced here. The 'New Views' section features innovative research in other areas of Polish–Jewish studies. A special section is devoted to research concerning the New Synagogue in Poznan, built in 1907, which is still standing only because the Nazis turned it into a swimming pool.

The ancient world is a paradigm for the memory scholar. Without an awareness that collective memories are not only different from individual memories (or even the sum thereof) but also highly constructed, ancient research will be fundamentally flawed. Many networks of memories are beautifully represented in the written and material remains of antiquity, and it is precisely the ways in which they are fashioned, distorted, preserved or erased through which we can learn about the historical process as such. Our evidence is deeply characterized by the fact that ancient ‘identity’ and ‘memory’ appear exceptionally strong. Responsible for this is a continuing desire to link the present to the remote past, which creates many contexts in which memories were constructed. The ancient historian therefore has the right tools with which to work: places and objects from the past, monuments and iconography, and textual narratives with a primary purpose to memorize and commemorate. This is paired with our desire to understand the ancient world through its own self-perception. With the opportunity of tapping into this world by way of oral history, personal testimonies are a desideratum in all respects. Memory of the past, however, is profoundly about ‘self-understanding’. This volume surveys and builds on the many insights we have gained from vibrant research in the field since Maurice Halbwachs’ and Jan Assmann’s seminal studies on the idea and definition of ‘cultural memory’. While focusing on specific themes all chapters address the concepts and expressions of memory, and their historical impact and utilization by groups and individuals at specific times and for specific reasons.

This volume honors Eldridge Moores, one of the most accomplished geologists of his generation. The volume starts with a summary of Moores’ achievements, along with personal dedications and memories from people who knew him. Leading off the volume’s 12 chapters of original scientific contributions is Moores’ last published paper that presents an example of the Historical Contingency concept, which suggested that earlier subduction history may result in supra-subduction zone geochemical signatures for some magmas formed in non-subduction environments. Other chapters highlight the societal significance of geology, the petrogenesis of ophiolites, subduction zone processes, orogenic belt evolution, and other topics, covering the globe and intersecting with Moores’ interests and influences.

A Cultural History of Memory in the Nineteenth Century comprises scholarly inquiry into representations of memory and historical cultures during the ‘long nineteenth century’. In the era that invented photography, revised the history of the earth, and saw innovative communication and transportation technologies transform the experience of time and distance, both personal and collective memories were translated into new forms of expression. Material cultures of memory produced relics and souvenirs within institutions such as museums and archives dedicated to preservation, while commemorative practices expanded within both the private sphere and the growing public sphere, generating monuments and memorials while erasing other stories about the meaning of the past. Innovative writers and thinkers creatively engaged ‘memory’ in ways which continue to shape psychology, history and literature today. In this volume, thematic chapters survey representations of memory in power and politics; remembering and forgetting; time and space; media and technology; knowledge, science and education; high culture and popular culture; philosophy, religion and history; and rituals and faith practices in everyday life.

Il volume è dedicato a ricostruire il profilo biografico e dottrinario del modenese Nicolò Mattarelli, docente di diritto civile a Padova dai primi anni Novanta del secolo XIII al secondo decennio del Trecento. La ricerca si sviluppa lungo tre tappe distinte ma reciprocamente interconnesse: la conoscenza delle esperienze pubbliche e private del giurista basata, in larga misura, sulla lettura dei registri dei Memoriali notarili conservati all’Archivio di Stato di Modena; la ricostruzione della sua produzione didattica e scientifica grazie al recupero di numerosi manoscritti in archivi e biblioteche italiane e straniere, integrata dai folti richiami alle sue opinioni che emergono nella posteriore dottrina civilistica senza tuttavia oltrepassare, nell’utilizzo diretto di sue opere, la soglia del primo Quattrocento; e infine la memoria postuma di Mattarelli messa a fuoco seguendo i variegati percorsi della storia e della bibliografia giuridica e della bibliografia con ambizioni universali. Testimonianze, queste ultime, che si rivelano preziose per osservare le forme e le modalità con cui si è conservato e diffuso, nello spazio e nel tempo, il ricordo del giurista modenese, delle tappe salienti della sua attività di docente e delle labili tracce delle sue opere che ancora sopravvivono in età moderna sino a un recupero più corposo e criticamente sorvegliato che si avvia unicamente dallo scorcio del Settecento.

This volume was prepared in the year of the 150th anniversary of the Patriarch of Ukrainian and Russian Oriental Studies, Academician A. E. Krymsky. This is reflected in a special rubric. The subject of the almanakh concerns in a wide range of problems of ethno-cultural history of Eastern and Central Europe. Studies of the written sources are also presented to the ideas of al-Biruni about the localization of the Khazars, the origin of the ethnonym of the Masakha-Hun in the work of Agafangel, the problems of studying the early medieval Eastern European runic. Archaeological publications are widely presented, which introduce the little-studied issues of Saltovo archeology: the origin and functional purpose of shoe straps from the catacombs of the Verkhnesaltovsky burial ground; pagan burials of the Saltov type from the settlements of the Kerch Peninsula; comparative analysis of the armament of the Don and North Caucasian Alans; the place and functions of large forest-steppe settlements in the history of the Khazar Khaganate. The main archaeological problem of the volume is the research and preservation of the Right-bank Tsimlyansk site. Articles are devoted to this, which raise the issues of protective excavations of the site, the uniqueness of ceramic tiles from the site, the history of drawing up plans for the Right-bank Tsimlyansk site. The volume is completed with the rubrics of «Discussion», «Reviews», In memoriam.

This collection of articles is dedicated to the memory of Oleg Sharov, a well-known archaeologist and specialist in Roman Time antiquities from the south of Eastern Europe. This volume contains memoirs of Oleg Sharov’s friends and family members, his latest and unpublished works, as well as articles written by his colleagues. The articles cover a rather extensive range of topics, fully matching O. Sharov’s research interests, including papers on the Bronze Age, Early Iron Age, Antiquity and the Great Migrations. It will be interesting for archaeologists, historians, university lecturers and students, as well as anyone interested in the early history of the region.

Volume 1 of the Oxford Handbook of Music Performance is designed around four distinct parts: Development and Learning, Proficiencies, Performance Practices, and Psychology. Chapters cover a range of topics dealing with musical development, talent development, and chapters dealing with learning strategies from a self-directed student learning perspective and high-impact teaching mindframes. Essential proficiencies include coverage of effective practice habits, through to the abilities of being able to play by ear, sight-read, improvise, memorize repertoire, and conduct and chapters that detail the highly personalized forms of musical expression that go beyond the printed notation or stylistic convention of the repetoire being performed. Chapters within the Performance Practices part cover some of the most fundamental aspects of performance practices from Baroque through to New Music repertoire and include chapters dealing with how emotions might be generated as a form of historically informed performance practice, and how creativity unfolds in the real-time dynamics of musical performance. The Psychology part concerns characteristics and individual differences in human behavior, cognition, emotion, and wellness. Across chapters in this part, several common threads and themes are evident: our relationships with music itself and what it means to become and to be a musician, the tensions that can arise between the joy of music and the hard work required to develop musical skills, and the intimate connection between music performance and our social and emotional lives.

This book highlights new research on Jewish spiritual and religious life in Poland before modern political ideas began to transform the Jewish world. It covers a range of topics. Three articles deal with rabbinic scholarship in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and a fourth presents accounts of Purim festivities at that time. The eighteenth-century studies focus on Jewish spirituality. Four articles deal with the Frankist movement, the main topics being Frankist propaganda; non-Christian Frankists; Jonathan Eibeschuetz and the Frankists; and the influence of Frankism on Polish culture. There are four articles on hasidism; the childhood of tsadikim in hasidic legends; the fall of the Seer of Lublin; and the hasidism of Gur and one about Nahman Krochmal. The chapters further the study of Jewish religious traditions in Poland, a topic central to an understanding of Jewish society and history in Poland but one which has long been considered marginal by the academic world. Substantial space is given to new research in other areas of Polish–Jewish studies. There is an extensive survey of the papal Holocaust papers, as well as contributions relating to education for girls, to Auschwitz as a site of memories, and to aspects of Jewish literature, politics, society, and economics. The review section includes two separate essays with contrasting opinions on Yaffa Eliach’s monumental study of Eishyshok.

This chapter introduces The Oxford Handbook of John Bunyan. It reflects upon Bunyan’s ‘presence’ as a religious and historical figure and an author of major significance for literature, culture, and politics, both in the past and the present, in Britain and across the world. It contests the oft-alleged myth that Bunyan’s relevance has waned dramatically since the Second World War, being popular now, we are often told, only within academia and among evangelicals. By contrast, this chapter considers the living ‘resonance’ of Bunyan’s writings and of his legacy both in and for art, literature, and popular culture now in the broader terms of human rights and civil liberties, on the one hand, and a ‘memorial dynamics’ and the ‘portability’ of his works on the other. This chapter addresses the rationale behind this volume, explains its structure, summarizes its contents, and reflects too upon some future directions for ‘Bunyan studies’.

The Index of Illustrations is an integral part of the definitive guide “Literary Heritage For 80 Years. A Guide to Volumes 1–103 yrs. 1931–2011”. There are nearly 12,000 illustrations in 103 volumes of “Literary Heritage”. The search for content spanned small and large museums, archives, and libraries in Russia, with many illustrations published for the first time ever. Other materials were sourced from public and private collections within the country and from abroad. The resulting illustrative content in “Literary Heritage” forms a massive, powerful visual projection of Russian authors, aspects of their family and everyday life, the spectrum of cultural and political professions, and portraits of actors in life and as performers on the stages of domestic and foreign theaters. The authors emphasized reproducing autographs including unpublished manuscripts, letters, and dedications on photographs and in books. Of great importance is the replication of printed materials — illustrations from the works of Russian authors as representative examples of typography. Finally, we should highlight many illustrations that give the viewer an idea about the environment of the authors, including memorials and monuments. The Index of Illustrations serves as a key to this iconic collection of materials, cataloging cutlines in order of their appearance in the volumes and respective location within each book. Cutlines are expanded on the illustrations’ theme — the subjects of the portraits, the groups gathered for specific purposes, the authors of the manuscripts, etc. They indicate the artist or photographer of the original illustration and its current location (museum, archive, etc.). In addition, a cross-reference of over 7,000 names accompanies the Index.

Abstract This collaborative volume examines revolts and resistance to the successor states formed after Alexander the Great’s conquest of the Persian Empire, as a transregional phenomenon. The editors have assembled an array of specialists in the study of the various regions and cultures of the Hellenistic world ‒ Judea, Egypt, Babylonia, Central Asia, and Asia Minor ‒ in an effort to trace comparisons and connections between episodes and modes of resistance. The volume seeks to unite the currently dominant social-scientific orientation to ancient resistance and revolt with perspectives, often coming from religious studies, that are more attentive to local cultural, religious, and moral frameworks. In re-assessing these frameworks, contributors move beyond Greek/non-Greek binaries to examine resistance as complex and entangled: acts and articulations of resistance are not purely nativistic or ‘nationalist’, but conditioned by local traditions of government and historical memories of prior periods, as well as emergent trans-regional Hellenistic political and cultural idioms. The book is organized into three parts. The first part investigates the Great Theban Revolt and the Maccabean Revolt, the central cases for large, organized, and prolonged military uprisings against the Hellenistic kingdoms. The second part examines the full gamut of indigenous self-assertion and resistant action, including theologies of monarchic inadequacy, patterns of historical periodization and textual interpretation, and claims to sites of authority. The volume’s final part turns to the more ambiguous assertions of local autonomy and identity that emerge in the frontier regions that slipped in and out of the grasp of the great Hellenistic powers.

Syria has struggled and been divided by a civil war for over a decade. Cultural heritage is part of human identity and needs to be protected and preserved for the sake of the Syrians and the international community alike. Memories of places and artefacts, social connection and peace can be built on heritage that is common and can be shared. This volume is based on the CIPA workshop organised during the 10th ICAANE held in Vienna in April 2016. The contributions collected therein discuss present challenges in the region and provide an overview of strategies and applications to use various techniques and methods to record and document heritage of Syria, also offering possible prospects for the future.

This comprehensive volume examines contemporary life and history in Beijing, covering such topics as culture, politics, economics, crime, security, the environment, and more. While it is not China's most populated city, Beijing serves an important role as the political and cultural capital of the country. This volume examines Beijing's long history, contemporary society, and current challenges the city faces as we move further into the 21st century. Geared toward high school readers, undergraduates, and general readers interested in learning about Beijing, this volume consists of 12 narrative chapters focused on geography, history, and culture. Coverage includes location, people, history, politics, economy, environment and sustainability, local crime and violence, security issues, natural hazards and emergency management, culture and lifestyle, popular culture, and the future. "Life in the City" sidebars feature interviews and memories transcribed by people who are from, lived in, or traveled through Beijing, while other sidebars offer cultural fun facts and travel tips. This volume is the perfect read for anyone looking to get a better idea of what life is like in Beijing and how its culture has arrived at this point.

The murder of six million Jews during the Holocaust is a crime that has had a lasting and massive impact on our time. Despite the immense, ever-increasing body of Holocaust literature and representation, no single interpretation can provide definitive answers. Shaped by different historical experiences, political and national interests, our approximations of the Holocaust remain elusive. Holocaust responses—past, present, and future—reflect our changing understanding of history and the shifting landscapes of memory. This book takes stock of the attempts within and across nations to come to terms with the murders. Volume editors establish the thematic and conceptual framework within which the various Holocaust responses are being analyzed. Specific chapters cover responses in Germany and in Eastern Europe; the Holocaust industry; Jewish ultra-Orthodox reflections; and the Jewish intellectuals' search for a new Jewish identity. Experts comment upon the changes in Christian-Jewish relations since the Holocaust; the issue of restitution; and post-1945 responses to genocide. Other topics include Holocaust education, Holocaust films, and the national memorial landscapes in Germany, Poland, Israel, and the United States.

The topic of autobiographical memory has held a prominent role in memory research for the past 30 years, as it has proven indispensable to the understanding of human memory and cognition. An important focus of autobiographical memory research is uncovering the basic structure, nature, and organization of the autobiographical memory system. This edited volume addresses the organization and structure of autobiographical memory. Based on over 30 years of research, and the latest empirical findings, this volume presents the major theories and problems in the science of autobiographical memory organization. At its core are two influential global views on the organization, structure, and function of autobiographical memory (chapters 2 and 3). In addition, the volume examines the organization of autobiographical memory from a developmental perspective (chapter 4), a chapter examining the neuroscience of autobiographical memory organization (chapter 7), and a chapter examining organization from a functional perspective (chapter 6). Also covered is the role of culture in forming autobiographical memory (chapter 5), the role of the self in organizing autobiographical memory (chapter 8), insights from the reminiscence bump on organization (chapter 9), and a chapter on the organization of episodic autobiographical memories (chapter 10).

Over the past 10 or 15 years in China, there has been unprecedented critical public discussion of key episodes in PRC history, in particular the Great Famine of 1959-1961, the Anti-Rightist movement of 1957, and the Cultural Revolution, with the wave of Red Guard apologies. These discussions are quite different from previous expressions of traumatic or nostalgic memories of the Mao era, respectively in the 1980s and 1990s. They reflect both growing dissatisfaction with the authoritarian control over history exercised by the Chinese state, and the new spaces provided for counter-hegemonic narratives by social media and the growing private economy in the 2000s. Unofficial or independent journals, self-published books, social media groups, independent documentary films, private museums, oral history projects, and archival research by amateur historians have all contributed to embryonic public or semi-public discussion. The present volume provides an overview of these new forms of popular memory, in particular critical memory, of the Mao era. Focusing on the processes of private production, public dissemination, and social sanctioning of narratives of the past in contemporary China, it examines the relation between popular memories and their social construction as historical knowledge. The three parts of the book are devoted to the shifting boundary between private and public in the press and media, the reconfiguration of elite and popular discourses in cultural productions (film, visual art, literature), and the emergence of new discourses of knowledge in popular history.

This book is about the ways in which culture matters to memory. It explores how memory is deeply entwined with social relationships, stories in film and literature, group history, monuments, ritual practices, material artifacts, and a host of other cultural devices. Culture in this account is not a bounded group of people or variable to be manipulated but, rather, the medium through which people live and make meaning of their lives. The focus of analysis becomes one of understanding the mutual constitution of people’s memories and the social–cultural worlds to which they belong. An interdisciplinary team of leading scholars has been brought together in this volume to offer new theoretical models of memory as both a psychological and a social–cultural process. The following themes are explored: the concept of memory and its relation to evolution, neurology, culture, and history; the particular dynamics of different cultural contexts of remembering, such as families, commemorations, giving testimony, and struggling with difficult memories such as in therapy; life course changes in memory from its development in childhood, through its anticipatory function in emerging adulthood, to managing its decline in old age; and the national and transnational organization of collective memory and identity through narratives propagated in political discourse, the classroom, and media. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the complex and interconnected relationship between culture, mind, and memory.

Reúnem-se neste volume peças criadas e levadas à cena pela Casa da Esquina, sob a direção de Ricardo Correia: O meu país é o que o mar não quer, Republicário, Exílio(s) 61-74 e um auto-intitulado Manual de Criação de uma Comissão de Inquérito, uma espécie de manifesto teatral que ajuda a compreender, em grande medida, o modo como as peças foram criadas e produzidas. O género teatral da primeira e da terceira peças é o teatro documental: a primeira sobre a vaga mais recente de emigração deste país e a segunda sobre os exílios entre 61 e 74, sobretudo no contexto da guerra colonial. Trata-se de um teatro baseado na investigação de documentos sobre acontecimentos históricos ou núcleos temáticos dramatúrgicos, na escuta de vozes e testemunhos de quem viveu os acontecimentos, no entretecer de memórias e expetativas de um povo exilado de si próprio no desconcerto do tempo. Na peça Republicário ressoam vozes longínquas como as das utopias de Platão, Thomas More ou de Campanella: os nomes que não são nomes, as origens que se perdem na distância e até o protagonista que simboliza o veículo do saber nas suas vicissitudes históricas, em jeito de evocação memorial da república e da democracia no diagnóstico da sua ausência.

This chapter considers two phenomena, to cap the volume’s explorations of Athens and its story. The first is to gather the evidence for a broad phenomenon, which is contemporary with various shifts in the political culture of late Classical Athens, but overtakes it geographically and chronologically: a ‘great convergence’ of civic practice, institutions, and discourse around a generalized assumption of (acceptable degrees of) autonomy and moderate democracy. The result is a polis which looks, roughly, like Aristotle’s. This great convergence created the conditions out of which the Roman-era polis had to evolve, under its own conditions; the fitful forgetting of the legacy of the Hellenistic polis is the second topic of this paper, exemplified by Plutarch’s Classicism and Pausanias’ Hellenistic memories. ‘Whatever happened to Athens?’ is a question every Classicist should be aware of, since it determines the whole shape of what she is busy with.

Thinking Through Theatre and Performance presents a bold and innovative approach to the study of theatre and performance. Instead of topics, genres, histories or theories, the book starts with the questions that theatre and performance are uniquely capable of asking: How does theatre function as a place for seeing and hearing? How do not only bodies and voices but also objects and media perform? How do memories, emotions and ideas continue to do their work when the performance is over? And how can theatre and performance intervene in social, political and environmental structures and frameworks? Written by leading international scholars, each chapter of this volume is built around a key performance example, and detailed discussions introduce the methodologies and theories that help us understand how these performances are practices of enquiry into the world. Thinking through Theatre and Performance is essential for those involved in making, enjoying, critiquing and studying theatre, and will appeal to anyone who is interested in the questions that theatre and performance ask of themselves and of us.

The terrorist attacks on September 11th were unique and unprecedented in many ways, but the day will stand in our memories particularly because of our ability to watch the spectacle unfold. The blazing towers crumbling into dust, black smoke rising from the Pentagon, the unrecognizable remains of a fourth airplane in a quiet Pennsylvania field—these images, while disturbing and surreal, provide an important vehicle for interdisciplinary dialogue within media studies, showing us how horrific national disasters are depicted in various media. Each contributor to this volume offers a fresh, engaging perspective on how the media transformed the 9/11 crisis into an ideological tour de force, examining why certain readings of these events were preferred, and discussing the significance of those preferred meanings. Yet the contributors do not limit themselves to such standard news mediums such as newspapers and television. This anthology also covers comic books, songs, advertising, Web sites, and other non-traditional media outlets. Using a wide range of interdisciplinary approaches, contributors explore such topics as the amount of time dedicated to coverage, how the attacks were presented in the United States and abroad, how conflicting viewpoints were addressed, and how various artistic outlets dealt with the tragedy. Offering a unique approach to a topic of enduring interest and importance, this volume casts a new light on considerations of that day.

This is a comprehensive study of Holocaust memory in the digital age of social media and an important examination of how social technology affects the way history is made and circulated online. Social media has become a place where memories of the Holocaust take shape through user-driven content shared in elaborately interconnected communication networks. Curated exhibits, documentaries and scholarly research, smartphone photos, short videos and online texts act as windows into the popular consciousness. They document how everyday people make sense of the crime of genocide, presenting unique challenges to historians. Does participatory media create a different understanding of genocide than more traditional forms of writing? How does expertise manifest in the digital public sphere? Do YouTube tourist videos and concentration camp selfies undermine the seriousness of the Holocaust and Holocaust studies by extension? Holocaust Memory in the Digital Mediascape provides valuable answers to these questions and much more. The book comes with a range of helpful images and it also analyzes the way vernacular memory around the Holocaust and postwar reckoning and reconciliation is mobilized as well as contested in the digital sphere. It is an important volume for all scholars and students of the Holocaust, its history and memory.

Painters Robert Duncanson (ca. 1821–1872) and Edward Bannister (1828–1901) and sculptor Mary Edmonia Lewis (ca. 1844–1907) each became accomplished African American artists. But as emerging art makers of color during the antebellum period, they experienced numerous incidents of racism that severely hampered their pursuits of a profession that many in the mainstream considered the highest form of social cultivation. Despite barriers imposed upon them due to their racial inheritance, these artists shared a common cause in demanding acceptance alongside their white contemporaries as capable painters and sculptors on local, regional, and international levels. Author Naurice Frank Woods Jr. provides an in-depth examination of the strategies deployed by Duncanson, Bannister, and Lewis that enabled them not only to overcome prevailing race and gender inequality, but also to achieve a measure of success that eventually placed them in the top rank of nineteenth-century American art. Unfortunately, the racism that hampered these three artists throughout their careers ultimately denied them their rightful place as significant contributors to the development of American art. Dominant art historians and art critics excluded them in their accounts of the period. In this volume, Woods restores their artistic legacies and redeems their memories, introducing these significant artists to rightful, new audiences.

Jazz is a vibrant and a living art, and this volume serves to remind us of that fact through interviews with Art Tatum, Maynard Ferguson, Dizzy Gillespie, and Dave Brubeck, along with almost 20 other jazz greats. Meet the greatest musicians in the history of jazz. From Hoagy Carmichael to David Sanborn, these interviews and their subjects reflect the diverse appeal and deep roots of a truly American art form. Some of the interviews in Jazz Notes: Interviews across the Generations remain intact from their original publication. Others are updated to include conversations with younger artists, influenced by these legends and attempting to carry on their legacies. The interviews range from the 1970s to the present day and are followed by a concluding section that provides perspective from current artists. In the course of the interviews, the history of American art and culture receives interesting augmentation. Some artists, such as Dave Brubeck and Maynard Ferguson, discuss how they broke through to the top of the pop charts. Of course, many African American jazz musicians endured difficult and demeaning conditions while on the road in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, and their memories of these experiences are a bittersweet counterpoint to remembered triumphs.

This book addresses the sounds of the Crimean War, along with the many ways nineteenth-century wartime is aurally constructed. It examines wide-ranging experiences of listeners in Britain, France, Turkey, Russia, Italy, Poland, Latvia, Daghestan, Chechnya, and Crimea, illustrating the close interplay between nineteenth-century geographies of empire and the modes by which wartime sound was archived and heard. This book covers topics including music in and around war zones, the mediation of wartime sound, the relationship between sound and violence, and the historiography of listening. Individual chapters concern sound in Leo Tolstoy’s wartime writings, and his place within cosmopolitan sensibilities; the role of the telegraph in constructing sonic imaginations in London and the Black Sea region; the absence of archives for the sounds of particular ethnic groups, and how songs preserve memories for both Crimean Tatars and Polish nationalists; the ways in which perceptions of voice rearranged the mental geographies of Baltic Russia, and undermined aspirations to national unity in Italy; Italian opera as a means of conditioning elite perceptions of Crimean battlefields; and historical frames through which to understand the diffusion of violent sounds amid everyday life. The volume engages the academic fields of musicology, ethnomusicology, history, literary studies, sound studies, and the history of the senses.

The contributors to this volume assert the importance of queer kinship to queer and trans theory and to kinship theory. In a contemporary moment marked by the rising tides of neoliberalism, fascism, xenophobia, and homo- and cis-nationalism, they approach kinship as both a horizon and a source of violence and possibility. The contributors challenge dominant theories of kinship that ignore the devastating impacts of chattel slavery, settler colonialism, and racialized nationalism on the bonds of Black and Indigenous people and people of color. Among other topics, they examine the “blood tie” as the legal marker of kin relations, the everyday experiences and memories of trans mothers and daughters in Istanbul, the outsourcing of reproductive labor in postcolonial India, kinship as a model of governance beyond the liberal state, and the intergenerational effects of the adoption of Indigenous children as a technology of settler colonialism. Queer Kinship pushes the methodological and theoretical underpinnings of queer theory forward while opening up new paths for studying kinship. Contributors. Aqdas Aftab, Leah Claire Allen, Tyler Bradway, Juliana Demartini Brito, Judith Butler, Dilara Çalışkan, Christopher Chamberlin, Aobo Dong, Brigitte Fielder, Elizabeth Freeman, John S. Garrison, Nat Hurley, Joseph M. Pierce, Mark Rifkin, Poulomi Saha, Kath Weston

How can literature enhance, parallel or reassess the scientific study of the mind? Or is literature instead limited to the ancillary role of representing cognitive processes? Beckett and the Cognitive Method argues that Beckett’s narrative work, rather than just expressing or rendering cognition and mental states, inaugurates an exploratory use of narrative as an introspective modeling technology (defined as “introspection by simulation”). Through a detailed analysis of Beckett’s entire corpus and published volumes of letters, the book argues that Beckett pioneered a new method of writing to construct (in a mode analogous to scientific inquiry) “models” for the exploration of core laws, processes, and dynamics in the human mind. Marco Bernini integrates models, problems, and interpretive frameworks from contemporary narrative theory, cognitive sciences, phenomenology, and philosophy of mind to make a case for Beckett’s modeling practice of a vast array of processes including: the (narrative) illusion of a sense of self, the hallucinatory quality of inner speech, the dialogic interaction with memories and felt presences, the synesthetic nature of inner experience and mental imagery, the developmental cooperation of language and locomotion, the role of moods and emotions as cognitive drives, the layered complexity of the mind, and the emergent quality of consciousness. Beckett and the Cognitive Method also reflects on how Beckett’s “fictional cognitive models” are transformed into reading, auditory, or spectatorial experiences generating through narrative devices insights on which the sciences can only discursively or descriptively report. As such, the study advocates for their relevance to the contemporary scientific debate toward an interdisciplinary co-modeling of cognition.

Dear Participants of the 20th János Szentágothai International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference and Student Competition! It is a great honor and an overwhelming joy to announce the 20th János Szentágothai International Student Conference and Competition in 2022 and welcome all those who have volunteered to engage in the joint endeavor either by presenting their papers, undertaking the blind-reviewing, functioning as session moderators or carrying out academic and organizing tasks. The success of the conference is warranted by the joint efforts from all of you. A dream has come true! The ideas of the founders of the Szentágothai Scholastic Honorary Society to provide a meeting-point for the most open-minded and innovative young researchers from the University of Pécs and later from all around the Carpathian Basin have been realized in the series of conferences since 2004. The first five annual conferences involved students from our home university, gradually shifting emphasis on multidisciplinarity. The first breakthrough conference was the John Calvin Conference in 2009 which opened the doors for international participants and yielded a successful edited volume of the papers presented on the conference. Our Scholastic Honorary Society has boasted with a trend-setting new tradition of organizing its annual international conferences, commencing with the 7th Szentágothai International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference in 2012. In the same year, we managed to organize the 8th János Szentágothai Memorial Conference and Student Competition which provided the standard pattern for our annual conferences of later years. We are celebrating the advent of the 20th János Szentágothai International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference and Student Competition in 2022. We are proud to acknowledge that the driving force behind our activities is a set of specific features of the conferences: openness, multidisciplinarity, uncompromising work ethics, international quality of the student conferences and competitions with preliminary blind-reviews of the papers. We are also keen on providing an amicable, enjoyable and creative atmosphere and a fair competitive context to all participant on our conferences. May I wish all of you successful participation and memorable experience with the Szentágothai Scholastic Honorary Society.

This edited collection profiles the sites and subjects of arts practices in different geographical contexts, including Hong Kong and mainland China, India and Sri Lanka, Finland, Chile, Brazil, Lebanon, Mexico, the USA, Germany, Canada, the UK, and Ireland. Chapters capture how collective hopes, fears, allegiances, frustrations, and memories, are sung, danced, played, etched on walls, or conveyed through puppets and theatre. Contributors to the volume thus draw attention to some of the diverse ways that groups of people collectively make sense of, re-imagine or seek to change the personal, cultural, social, economic, political, or territorial conditions of their lives, while using the arts as their means and spaces of engagement. Across its chapters, the book explores a number of broad themes and questions. How can we conceptualise the relationship between community development and arts/cultural practice? What diverse forms does this relationship take in contemporary contexts? How do communities of people engage with, utilise, make sense of and through particular artforms and media? How can we understand the aesthetic and associated meanings of such engagements? How are the power dynamics related to authorship, resources, public recognition, and expectations of impact negotiated within community-based arts processes? How do economistic and neoliberal rationalities influence arts processes and programmes in community contexts? Together, the chapters also critically interrogate if, and how, dominant rationalities are being resisted and challenged through arts practices.

This work is an important new edition of a classic study—one of the few exhaustive examinations of childhood sexual abuse available—with 40 percent new material. Even though it is as old as human history, child sexual abuse has generally remained a dark and well-hidden secret. Only in the last few decades has it become a topic of open public debate and scientific research, and we still have more questions than answers. How often are accusations of sexual abuse legitimate, and how often are they the result of false memories? Can sexual offenders be cured, or will they ultimately re-offend? These are only a few of the difficult questions this volume seeks to answer. Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Reference Handbook explores the many ways we define child sexual abuse in the United States and in different parts of the world and how those differences are represented in U.S. and international laws. It summarizes what we know about how to intervene, treat, and prevent childhood sexual abuse effectively and tells the stories of individuals who have had a dramatic effect on the handling of childhood sexual abuse. For students, social workers, teachers, policymakers, parents, and concerned citizens, this work offers a one-stop, multifaceted discussion of one of the major issues facing children and their families.

The handbook is a reference work of thirty-two essays jointly written by specialists in the history of military and war and experts in gender and women’s history. The collection, covering four centuries from the Thirty Years’ War to the present Wars of Globalization, investigates how gender contributed to the shaping of warfare and the military and was at the same time transformed by them. The essays explore this question by focusing on themes such as the cultural representations of military and war; war mobilization of and war support by society; war experiences on the home fronts and battlefronts; gendered war violence; military service and citizenship; war demobilization, postwar societies, and memories; and attempts to regulate and tame warfare and prevent new wars. The volume covers chronologically the major periods in the development of warfare since the seventeenth century. Its content reflects the state of research on the history of gender and war. Therefore, the main geographical focus of the handbook in several chapters is on the best explored regions of eastern and western Europe, the Americas and Australia. But it also systematically covers the long-term processes of colonization and empire-building originating in early modern Europe and their aftermath in the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Australia, which are more recent fields of research. Thus, the handbook allows for both temporal comparisons that explore continuities and changes in a long-term perspective and regional comparisons, as well as an assessment of transnational influences on the entangled relationships between and among gender, warfare, and military culture. All essays are thematic, comparative or transnational.

A new take on our bio-cultural evolution explores how the “inner theatre” of the brain and its “animal-human stages” are reflected in and shaped by the mirror of cinema. Vampire, werewolf, and ape-planet films are perennial favorites-perhaps because they speak to something primal in human nature. This intriguing volume examines such films in light of the latest developments in neuroscience, revealing ways in which animal-human monster movies reflect and affect what we naturally imagine in our minds. Examining specific films as well as early cave images, the book discusses how certain creatures on rock walls and movie screens express animal-to-human evolution and the structures of our brains. The book presents a new model of the human brain with its theatrical, cinematic, and animal elements. It also develops a theory of “rasa-catharsis” as the clarifying of emotions within and between spectators of the stage or screen, drawing on Eastern and Western aesthetics as well as current neuroscience. It focuses on the “inner movie theater” of memories, dreams, and reality representations, involving developmental stages, as well as the “hall of mirrors,” ape-egos, and body-swapping identifications between human beings. Finally, the book shows how ironic twists onscreen-especially of contradictory emotions-might evoke a reappraisal of feelings, helping spectators to be more attentive to their own impulses. Through this interdisciplinary study, scholars, artists, and general readers will find a fresh way to understand the potential for interactive mindfulness and yet cathartic backfire between human brains-in cinema, in theater, and in daily life.

Genocide Perspectives VI grapples with two core themes: the personal toll of genocide, and processes that facilitate the crime. From political choices governments and leaders make, through to denialism and impunity, the crime of genocide recurs again and again, across the globe. At what cost to individuals and communities? What might the legacy of this criminality be? This collection of essays examines the personal sacrifice genocide takes from those who live through the trauma, and the generations that follow. Contributors speak to the way visual art and literature attempt to represent genocide, hoping to make sense of problematic histories while also offering a means of reflection after years of “slow violence” or silenced memories. Some authors generously allow us into their own histories, or contemplate how they may have experienced genocide had they been born in another time or place. What facets contribute to the processes that lead to, or enable the crime of genocide? This collection explores those processes through a variety of case studies and lenses. How do nurses, whose role is inherently linked to care and compassion, become mass killers? How do restrictions on religious freedom play a role in advancing genocidal policies, and why do perpetrators of genocide often target religious leaders? Why is it so important for Australia and other nations with histories of colonial genocide to acknowledge their past? Among the essays published in this volume, we have the privilege and the sorrow of publishing the very last essay Professor Colin Tatz wrote before his passing in 2019. His contribution reveals, yet again, the enormous influence of both his research and his original ideas on genocide. He reflects on continuing legacies for Indigenous Australian communities, with whom he worked for many decades, and adds nuance to contemporary understanding of the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust, two other cases to which he was deeply committed.

Very few people are aware that women were active in baseball in the United States as early as 1866. In this volume, Gai Berlage reports the histories of the umpires, players, owners, and sportswriters as well as the teams. Professional and amateur teams are covered as well as hard and softball. In 1974, when the Supreme Court forced Little League to change its charter and permit girls to play baseball on boys' teams, feminists cheered, heralding the decision as a significant victory. How short their memories were! Had investigators only looked to baseball history, they would have learned, much to their surprise, that women had been avidly playing baseball for over a hundred years--as far back as 1866. In 1928, one female Indiana player helped lead her team to the state championship and on to the national tournament in American League Junior Baseball. And during World War II, Wrigley started the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. In fact, not until 1952 was there a rule barring women from being professional players. Women in Baseballoffers the details of this compelling, largely overlooked aspect of baseball history, introducing the reader to a whole new cast of little-known stars on men's teams: Lizzie Arlington, a pitcher in 1898; Alta Weiss, a pitcher for 15 years in the early 20th century; Lizzie Murphy, who played first base for the American All-Stars against the Boston Red Sox; Jackie Mitchell, who became a media sensation in 1931 when she struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. The author also reveals the stories of women's professional and amateur teams--Josie Caruso and her Eight Men, the Chicago Bloomer Girls, and the all-black Dolly Vardens of Philadelphia--and introduces women who distinguished themselves as players, umpires, and team owners. Women in Baseball explores the history of women in baseball from a socio-cultural perspective, analyzing how it was forgotten in the light of residual Victorian values that governed women's lives for so many decades.

Como será o lugar quando ninguém passa por ele? – pergunta o poeta. Será que “Existem coisas sem ser vistas?” E o mundo, mundo grande, como escreveu, pode existir “apenas pelo olhar que cria e lhe confere espacialidade?” O poeta parece querer nos dizer que “Aquilo que vemos vale – vive – apenas por aquilo que nos olha”, 1 que ver é experimentar ser visto, que ser visto é existir, e ainda que haja uma “cisão que separa dentro de nós o que vemos daquilo que nos olha”, 2 as coisas, os acontecimentos só têm existência na medida mesma de nossa presença, de nossa potência visual, de nosso corpo que toma e encorpa o espaço, o tempo e gera existência e resistência, presença e ausência, o antes e o depois, a perda e a insistência. Duas dimensões importantes de parte significativa da poética de Carlos Drummond de Andrade são a memória e a questão da finitude, que se manifestam em resíduos de memórias e de espaços familiares. A dimensão da finitude, em especial, faz com que o poeta some inúmeras questões em forma de perguntas à sua poética, como lemos na passagem do poema supracitado. Esse dado é importante porque denota a provisoriedade e a fragilidade das respostas possíveis elaboradas no corpo dos próprios poemas. O poeta não tem respostas para todas as perguntas que faz. Os historiadores também não têm respostas para todas as questões que levantam em suas pesquisas, em suas aulas, cursos, intervenções. Por isso, com relação a Drummond, parte de sua poesia é metapoesia. Nesse sentido, somos levados a nos perguntar se a escrita do Historiador não seria meta-história, ou seja, o “estudo referente à história enquanto historiografia; por exemplo, o estudo da linguagem, ou linguagens, da historiografia”? 3 Assim, dessa forma, elaboramos histórias que ajudam na construção de outras histórias? Cada um dos autores desta coletânea conhece o lugar por onde passam, porque sua prática é constituída por um demorar-se em suas temáticas, pela identificação e reflexão sobre problemas e questões, portanto, o desejo é que nada permaneça fora do alcance de sua vista, o que garante para cada um a criação e configuração de certa espacialidade e temporalidade fundamentais com relação às pesquisas abordadas. Evidentemente que demorar-se e conhecer-se, nas temáticas levantadas, não isenta todos, todas e cada um de certa estranheza e inquietação marcadas exatamente pelas respostas impossíveis de serem encontradas, assim é que a familiaridade com a temática não garante, e jamais garantirá, a tranquilidade de um “sentir-se em casa”, o que até certo ponto é bom, na medida em que nos coloca sempre em estado de alerta para o que até então não foi visto, alcançado, sentido como presença em variados tempos e espaços, e que esperam de nós inteligibilidade na busca, a um só tempo, pelo todo e as partes, como assevera Antoine Proust. Portanto, nada é suposto na existência, isso porque, como escreve o poeta, “Ou tudo vige planturosamente, à revelia/ de nossa judicial inquirição / e esta apenas existe consentida/ pelos elementos inquiridos?”, posto que o que vigora na existência, mesmo à revelia de nossa mais cuidadosa inquirição, o que garante as nossas questões, são as próprias questões, e não o que está fora, o que não faz parte das problemáticas levantadas, e é exatamente nessa “espantosa batalha/ entre o ser inventado/e o mundo inventor” que nos colocamos e nos demoramos. Somos “ficção rebelada/ contra a mente universa”, levantando a alvenaria de nosso lugar, de nosso estranho lugar, de nossa morada, lugar de uma certa permanência que nos ampara e nos sacode ao mesmo tempo. Assim, abrimos nossas trilhas em seu sétimo volume. Trilhas são caminhos ou estradas, existentes ou estabelecidos, com dimensões e formas, comprimento e largura diferentes, aptos a aproximar, juntar, estabelecer espaços de interação, indicar, duvidar, marcar, apontar direções, ligar, sinalizar, abrir passagens. Entre as inúmeras trilhas abertas sertões afora e cidades adentro, nós abrimos as nossas, dispomos nossos passos, medimos as dificuldades do terreno e nos lançamos nessa caminhada que já dura tantos anos, deixando fincados nas terras por onde passamos, marcos e marcas, impressões e signos, sinais e símbolos, partes de cada de um nós, como um olhar lançado, que confere e configura tempos e espacialidades. O presente volume divide-se em duas partes, respectivamente: “História, memória, autoritarismo e militância política no século XX” e “Experiências citadinas e sertanejas, oralidade e tradição nos sertões do Ceará nos séculos XIX e XX”. Na primeira parte do livro, abrimos nossos trabalhos com o capítulo de Jucelio Regis da Costa, “Da construção a celebração do golpe de 1964 no Ceará: usos políticos de elementos neomedievalizantes”, que faz uma análise de acontecimentos nacionais da década de 1960, com profundas repercussões no Ceará, como as Cruzadas do Rosário em Família, a Missa congratulatória às Forças Armadas e as Marchas da Vitória, com ampla mobilização política de grupos conservadores do estado, com a finalidade de combater o comunismo, servindo assim “na pavimentação do caminho ao golpe civil-militar de 1964”. O autor elege como objeto central de sua análise elementos neomedievalizantes, quando sentidos positivos foram atribuídos à Idade Média e os acontecimentos em questão foram medievalizados. Edvanir Maia da Silveira, em “Os partidos políticos e a experiência democrática na Zona Norte Cearense (1945-64)”, discute como as décadas de 1945 a 1964 consagraram-se na historiografia como tempo da experiência democrática, em que vigorava uma Constituição, partidos, eleições e participações sociais no debate político, sem, no entanto, descurar do fato de que muitas práticas autoritárias estavam presentes e ativas no cenário político, de modo que essas experiências e conflitos foram vivenciados e ressignificados pelas lideranças da Zona Norte do Ceará. O capítulo assinado por Viviane Prado Bezerra, “‘Quando a mulher sai do mundo da cozinha dela e começa a participar das coisas, então ela começa a ver o mundo diferente’: trabalho pastoral e atuação política das camponesas no Movimento do Dia do Senhor (1970-1990)”, aborda a militância religiosa e política de mulheres camponesas no Movimento do Dia do Senhor, uma iniciativa católica que tinha relação com as Comunidades Eclesiais de Base – CEBs e que teve intensa atuação entre as décadas de 1960 e 1990 alimentada pela dimensão da “fé e vida”, modificando “a visão de mundo e atuação dessas mulheres em suas comunidades”, tornando-as “protagonistas na luta pela libertação, posse da terra e pela igualdade de gênero”. No último capítulo da primeira parte, “Cem anos de comunismo no Brasil: onde Camocim entra nessa história?”, de Carlos Augusto Pereira dos Santos, o autor discute, dentro das comemorações dos cem anos do Partido Comunista do Brasil (PCdoB), agora em 2022, a participação da cidade de Camocim nessa longa história, utilizando como documento uma entrevista realizada com o “Sr. Nilo Cordeiro de Oliveira, comunista histórico em Camocim, filho de Pedro Teixeira de Oliveira (Pedro Rufino), um dos fundadores do Partido Comunista Brasileiro (PCB) em Camocim em 25 de março de 1928”. Voltando à trilha poética aberta por Carlos Drummond de Andrade, tomando o caminho dA suposta existência, pensamos se “A guerra sem mercê, indefinida, prossegue, feita de negação, armas de dúvida […]teima interrogante de saber/ se existe o inimigo, se existimos/ ou somos todos uma hipótese/ de luta/ ao sol do dia curto em que lutamos”, e se a nossa luta se faz e se refaz em cada página escrita, em cada aula debatida, em cada projeto realizado, uma vez que, se a pressa existe, é porque sabemos que um dia é muito curto para quem luta. Por isso a soma de todos nós, a multiplicação de nossas pesquisas, a publicização tão importante de nossas inquietações. Na segunda parte do livro, Francisco Dênis Melo, a partir do capítulo “Sobral e os seus altares: imaginária urbana e heróis civilizadores”, tem como objetivo “pensar a cidade de Sobral-CE a partir de alguns de seus habitantes de pedras, ou melhor, de sua imaginária urbana, no caso bustos, estátuas e monumentos destacados em variados espaços, notadamente em suas praças”, que funcionaram e ainda funcionam como anteparo para os campos políticos e religiosos na cidade, constituindo assim um poderoso mecanismo simbólico de construção do poder em Sobral. Thiago Braga Teles da Rocha, em “‘Sobral como cidade progressista’: entre planos, projetos e representações”, discute o processo de eletrificação em Sobral, estabelecendo uma relação com o conceito de progresso. O texto nos mostra que foi organizada uma “campanha em prol da eletrificação da cidade, realizada por setores da elite política da cidade, com destaque para a Igreja Católica a partir do jornal Correio da Semana”. Para isso, foi utilizado o “Projeto das Redes Primárias e Secundárias de Distribuição de Energia Elétrica da Cidade de Sobral”, documento resguardado no Núcleo de Documentação Histórica (NEDHIS), ligado ao curso de História da Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú. O capítulo assinado por Antônio Vitorino Farias Filho, “Imagens no espelho: mulher depravada e mulher ideal em Ipu-CE no início do século XX”, discute a questão da prostituição e sua relação tensa com a chamada Modernidade e com os valores do progresso, de modo que a prostituta no espaço público representou “uma imagem invertida da mulher ideal, buscada pelos grupos dominantes”. Chama atenção o autor para o importante fato de que “É somente no início do século XX, mais ainda na década de 1920, na cidade de Ipu, que a prostituta e a prostituição aparecem explicitamente nas fontes”. No capítulo “‘Isso é atestado de seu progresso. Sí Sobral, Camocim e outras cidades sertanejas têm o seu jornal, porque não poderíamos ter?’ a elite escritora e o ideário de controle e modernidade em Ipu-CE (1900-1920)”, Antonio Iramar Miranda Barros e Alexandre Almeida Barbalho discutem a questão da Modernização sob a ótica das lides jornalísticas, a partir das experiências e do “pensamento de três sujeitos, a partir dos grupos aos quais pertenciam: Abílio Martins, Herculano Rodrigues e Leonardo Mota”, entendendo que os jornais eram encarados como sinais claros de progresso, desenvolvimento e inovação. Raimundo Alves de Araújo e Emmanuel Teófilo Furtado Filho assinam o capítulo “O campo de concentração do Ipu no contexto da Revolução de 1930”. Os autores analisam a constituição do campo de concentração na cidade do Ipu no ano de 1932, no contexto de criação de outros campos, em cidades como Quixeramobim, Crato, Cariús, Senador Pompeu e Fortaleza. Os autores refletem que tal acontecimento não tem o reconhecimento e importância para os poderes locais, lamentando “que não haja um marco histórico identificando o local exato do campo de concentração do Ipu, nem um memorial preservando a memória e a história de tão trágico e lamentável acontecimento!” O campo de concentração da cidade do Ipu fazia parte de um projeto maior, que, entre outros objetivos, pretendia “fazer dele uma ‘parede de contenção’ para poupar a cidade de Sobral do assédio dos retirantes”. Nesse sentido, afirmam os autores que “Ignorar este passado horrível é o mesmo que ‘assassinar novamente’ aquelas vítimas”. Na sequência, Cid Morais Silveira, em “‘Os teus filhos, cidade encantada, escondidos no seu coração’: a vida e a morte do Centro Social Morrinhense (1952 – 1963)”, analisa a criação e o fim de uma instituição chamada Centro Social Morrinhense, em 1952, na cidade de Fortaleza, num contexto em que seus fundadores acreditavam que Morrinhos, “uma pequena vila encravada entre o litoral e o sertão, no interior cearense, composta de oito ruas, dois grandes quadriláteros que os moradores chamavam de ‘praça’ e com aproximadamente 1.097 habitantes”, estava “desamparada e abandonada pelo poder público”, objetivando “1º) proporcionar as melhores ocasiões de progresso àquela vila; 2º) levantar o nível social de seus habitantes; 3º) auxiliar os estudantes pobres do distrito; 4º) promover campanha sobre assuntos dos mais variados: educação, cultura, escolas, alfabetização de adultos, agricultura e outros problemas locais”. Joaquim dos Santos, no capítulo “‘Nas porteiras’ de outros mundos: a Pedra Branca na tradição oral”, encontrou uma pedra em seu caminho. Por isso reflete “sobre o lugar da Pedra Branca na tradição oral sobre os mortos na região do Cariri, dando destaque às memórias sobre a grande rocha e os significados que lhe são atribuídos pelos moradores das áreas próximas ao rochedo”. Aponta o autor que “a Pedra Branca está localizada no sítio Jatobá, na encosta da Chapada do Araripe, zona rural do município de Porteiras”. Ele enfatiza ainda que na “relação entre as pedras e as almas nos interiores do Brasil, é notório como seus laços são estreitos e porosos, tanto no que diz respeito às pedrinhas, quanto aos grandes rochedos”. Fechando a segunda parte e a obra, temos o capítulo de Reginaldo Alves de Araújo, “Vamos falar sobre um sertão? Do sertão dos párias incultos ao culto à pátria”, no qual o autor analisa “algumas variações de sentido da palavra sertão em diferentes momentos históricos”, atentando para o fato de que vai deixar “de lado a ideia de sertão como sinônimo de seca e de fome […] para nos concentrarmos em outras duas imagens: a de um espaço não civilizado no contexto colonial, ao sertão enquanto reservatório das raízes culturais da nacionalidade brasileira”. Entende o autor o sertão como um espaço plural e simbólico, material e sensível, sendo entendido também como um espaço de resistência renhida ao colonialismo. Voltando à trilha aberta por Carlos Drummond, no poema A suposta existência, nos diz o poeta: “[…] e tento construir-me de novo a cada instante, a cada cólica, na faina de traçar meu início […]”. O ser do poeta é parte remontada, refeita, ressignificada com a matéria da vida, com o espanto de todo dia. Ser reconstrução é sonhar ser outro a cada instante, apesar da cólica, do gemido. O que há, de fato, para se construir novo a cada instante, é uma multiplicidade de caminhos, de trilhas, de sendas abertas. O poeta nos mostra novos caminhos, assim como historiadores e historiadoras também apontam em seus trabalhos para o múltiplo das coisas, da vida, dos acontecimentos. E se uma das características da obra poética de Drummond é o “princípio-corrosão”, nas palavras de Luiz Costa Lima, nas obras dos historiadores temos, certamente, o “princípio-reflexão”, quem sabe, de forma mais ousada, o “princípio-coração”… Boa caminhada! Boa leitura! Francisco Dênis Melo

El año 1985 es la fecha de lanzamiento de Locura, el disco de Virus que contiene el tema que da título al presente volumen. 34 años después de esa edición, 137 años desde la fundación de la ciudad de La Plata en 1882, 44 años de la creación, en 1975, del Instituto de Historia del Arte Argentino y Americano (IHAAA) perteneciente a la Facultad de Artes (Universidad Nacional de La Plata), continúa resonando en un grupo de investigadores y docentes del IHAAA, la preocupación por sentar las bases para la construcción de una historia del arte platense. Una historia que abarque todas las disciplinas, una historia que rompa el destino circular para dejar escapar las primeras ideas que han quedado dispersas y olvidadas en el camino de la ciudad. Destino Circular son trazos abiertos y expresivos, que intentan dar cuenta del florecimiento del arte platense durante la primavera alfonsinista. Desde diferentes disciplinas y perspectivas teóricas, cada capítulo aborda un conjunto de experiencias que conformaron el entramado artístico de la ciudad de La Plata, durante los últimos decenios del siglo XX. El punto de partida lo constituye el año 1983, donde comienza la etapa de transición democrática. Tras el quiebre operado durante la dictadura en el campo político, social y cultural platense, sobreviene la búsqueda identitaria de rescatar y reubicar los fragmentos de un espacio urbano despedazado, sustraído, sumergido en el silencio y el terror. Un cuadrado roto lentamente reconstruido a través de la memoria y la resiliencia, en el cual las imágenes del tiempo saqueado se encuentran para reconocerse en una territorialidad común. El fin del siglo XX encontrará otro país, otra ciudad de La Plata, otra crisis a la que habrá que contar y resistir a través del arte. Otro territorio arrasado que reconstruir desde los escombros. Otro cuadrado roto, cuyo destino toma la forma del círculo. Por otra parte, y ya entrados en el siglo XXI, pensar el arte en el contexto de la descolonización alienta las miradas sobre la movilidad artística y sus posibilidades teóricas vinculadas a la transdisciplina, permitiendo la valorización de los espacios, tanto geográficos como simbólicos, actualizando el valor de la noción de territorio como posibilidad de pensar más bien un arte con una propuesta comunicativa y crítica, con afirmación política y emancipado de la hegemonía del territorio porteño. Es por eso, que nos preguntamos: ¿Qué quedó de las utopías de la antigua Ciudad Milagro, de la capital provincial proyectada por la Generación del 80, cien años atrás? ¿Qué imágenes e imaginarios quedaron de la ciudad de La Plata en los años ochenta del siglo XX, inmediatos al horror de las desapariciones, de La Noche de los Lápices, de la censura, del exilio, del cierre de la Facultad de Bellas Artes? ¿Qué huellas de ese pasado, qué horizontes de futuro atravesaron el arte platense, con vistas al nuevo siglo? ¿Qué rupturas o continuidades generaron con otros espacios urbanos? ¿Es posible hablar de un mapa cultural propio, de un territorio artístico platense de fin de siglo? El objetivo de este libro procura ahondar en dichas preguntas, más que ofrecer respuestas conclusivas. Busca seguir pensando y preguntándose por ese ¿destino circular? del arte platense.