In the diaspora, not dead: Africa’s heritages in French museums

2021 ◽  
pp. 095715582110024
Author(s):  
Herman Lebovics
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Foreseeable Future ◽  
French Society ◽  
The Moment

There have always been pressures from within French society and from Africa for the restitution of items of African cultural patrimoine. Newly elected President Macron announced that it was time to return items of African cultural heritage. He appointed a commission to report what, how, and when. The article traces these recommendations, resistance to them, and outcomes. As of this writing, almost nothing has been returned. And the pandemic has halted official action for the moment and possibly for the foreseeable future. However, concerned individuals and groups are beginning to take the matter into their hands. The story is not finished.

scholarly journals Cinema memories in 3D modelling and virtual reality storytelling

2021 ◽  
pp. 113-130
Author(s):  
Eleonora Roaro
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
3D Modelling ◽  
Historical Reconstruction ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Oculus Rift ◽  
Final Output ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Artistic Heritage

This paper focuses on the project VR and AR in the valorisation of cultural and artistic heritage within the New Cinema History framework, aims to combine microhistory related to local cinema theatres and Cinema Heritage, and to investigate the possibilities that digital media – in this case Augmented and Virtual Reality – have in the valorisation and preservation of cultural heritage. The final output of the project is the Virtual Reality reconstruction of the Odeon cinema’s architecture and habits of cinemagoing that, thanks to an immersive experience via the Oculus Rift headset, could evoke and simulate historical spectatorship that dealt both with the moment of watching a movie and its peripheral practice. the development of the project, at least four different perspectives on the Odeon cinema converged to form the basis of the VR reconstruction: the literature on the topic, the consultation of public and private archives, the oral sources, and photographs taken on site. This paper focuses mostly on the documents and sources used in the VR project and it aims to investigate how various and heterogeneous documents can be woven together into a philologically reliable historical reconstruction, and how they can be used in 3D modelling and VR storytelling related to Cinema Heritage.

scholarly journals The French society and the referendum of the «constitution of Europe» in 2005

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-234
Author(s):  
Kristina V. Kargashina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
French Society ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Negative Outcome

This article is focused on studying the preparation and conduct of the referendum of «the Constitution for Europe» in France. Particular attention is paid to analysis of the evolution of the attitude of the French electorate toward the idea of a “referendum” and a “Constitution for Europe” from the moment the president’s announcement about his intention to hold a referendum, and its results that led to the rejection of «the Constitution». Besides, the internal factors that contributed to the negative outcome of the referendum are discussed.

scholarly journals Selokan Mataram in Yogyakarta as a cultural landscape: Heritage values and pressures

2021 ◽  
Vol 879 (1) ◽  
pp. 012012
Author(s):  
D H Rahmi ◽  
B Setiawan
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Irrigation Canal ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Landscape Heritage

Abstract Selokan Mataram, a 31.2 km irrigation canal linking Opak and Progo Rivers in the Province of Yogyakarta, initiated and built by Sultan HB IX during the Japanese Occupation, has essential historical values and cultural heritage. It was built to provide water for agricultural activities in the area. At the moment, however, the Selokan Mataram is under the pressure of urbanization and rapid development. Such pressures are threatening its heritage values. This paper aims to examine Selokan Mataram from a cultural landscape perspective, examine the values of its cultural heritage, and document the pressures, threats, and efforts that the government has undertaken to preserve it. This research uses a case study approach, where data and information are obtained through secondary data, field observation, and interviews with multiple sources. The research argues that Selokan Mataram is a ‘cultural landscape’ that is important to Yogyakarta. It has and fulfills important values to be registered as a cultural heritage. At the same time, as one crucial cultural landscape, Selokan Mataram and the surrounding area is threatened by the rapid development of the city where the local government is not fully able to manage and control it. This research recommends that Selokan Mataram should be declared as a cultural heritage area, so that efforts can be further supported and strengthened to preserve it.

scholarly journals Folklore Festivals - A Modern Method of Safeguarding the Living Cultural Heritage

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-51
Author(s):  
Kaloyan Nikolov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Modern Method ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Preparatory Phase ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Way

Contemporary festivity outlines the views of modern society on the way celebrations and celebrations of events of different magnitude and significance. Contemporary folk festivals are part of this celebration, combining traditional elements and modern components. Relying on the thesis that the existence of the song, dance, tradition is positioned at the moment of performance and practice, the elements put into the conditions of presentation - the intangible cultural heritage go through a preparatory phase of transmission, which has a significant impact on its preservation. Keywords: folklore festival, culinary festival, preservation of intangible cultural heritage, living heritage

THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF LAW AND RELIGION IN EUROPE: SECULARISM AND CULTURAL HERITAGE

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Hill
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
The State ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
The Moment ◽  
State Of The Field

This is a self-indulgent, and perforce idiosyncratic, excursus into some (but by no means all) of the vast body of literature that has been published in recent years touching on secularism and cultural heritage in Europe, surveyed from the vantage point of law and religion scholarship. It was commissioned by the Journal of Law and Religion as part of its ambitious project for sharply focused and widely angled snapshots of the state of the field at the present moment.1 And, for this English writer, with this particular topic, the moment could not be more propitious.

scholarly journals Border handling as the most correct dynamic principle of the beginning of the register of immovable cultural heritage development

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Chabaniuk ◽  
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O. Dyshlyk ◽  
K. Polyvach ◽  
V. Pioro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Registration System ◽  
Data Infrastructure ◽  
Spatial Characterization ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Heritage Development ◽  
Correct Dynamic ◽  
Hierarchy Of Systems

The correct start of work on developing a spatial data infrastructure of the domain of immovable cultural heritage (CH) of Ukraine is to model the entities boundaries of the CH in the most accessible way at the moment. Created models are used together with the necessary transformations, both in separate systems from the set of CH domain systems, and in several appropriately ordered systems from this set. Many of the required systems are organized into a hierarchy of systems called Atlas Geographic Information System: from public models of CH entities on the Internet to the State System for permanent registration or registration of CH objects under the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy (MCIP) of Ukraine. Border management includes support for the entire life cycle of the spatial characteristics of CH entity models – from random statement about the CH object to the transformation into an object of the registration system or even an object of the national register. It is shown that when defining boundaries, you need to be able to work with different spatial characterizations of the CH object. It is proved that this characterization can be started from available cartographic material, and not from the implementation of land management projects, as it is done in the case of spatial characterization of land parcels. The elements of the methodology are described, which allows to carry out the necessary spatial characterization of the CH objects in practice.

Cultural Heritage and Political Ecology: A Modest Proposal from Istanbul via Detroit

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Alden Russell
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Material World ◽  
Shopping Centre ◽  
The Past ◽  
Modest Proposal ◽  
White Middle Class ◽  
Coffee Grounds ◽  
The Moment

I am a white, middle-class, man born in Richmond, Virginia, educated in Dublin, Ireland, and who has worked in Istanbul. In Turkey, I was a yabancı—a foreigner. It was with an outsider’s perspective that I worked to develop the curatorial sensibilities and sensitivities around the project presented here. I do not speak for those in Turkey, nor do I speak for those living in Detroit. I only hoped to speak with those in Turkey and offer an honest reflection on my experiences in Detroit. In as far as I am able, I hope to lend my voice and my care to sharing experiences and issues which I can only make limited claims to understand but which I feel are profoundly urgent. A ritual that happens every day at countless café tables throughout Istanbul. This is the moment of anticipation—the moment before the amateur tasseographer turns over the cup and reads your fortune in the coffee grounds. In my walks around the streets of Istanbul, I’ve paused to witness friends peer into each other’s futures, and I’ve wondered if one question many are asking is: ‘İstanbul’un kısmetinde ne var? What’s in Istanbul’s fortune?’ There is a vital connection (and tension) between the past and the future. They are both entangled in our encounters with material things. What is this thing’s story, how did it get here, and what should we do with it? How do we negotiate these tensions—to save or discard, to record or omit, or simply to consume? More broadly, how do we establish consensus on how we should handle, order, and pass on our material world? These are moral and political questions. They are questions about heritage and inheritance. What do we determine to be heritage, who are determined to be the stewards, and who are the inheritors? During the summer of 2013, different visions for the futures of Istanbul came into conflict. The events that began on 28 May 2013 in Gezi Park started with the defence of trees that were being removed in a planned demolition of the park for the development of a pseudo-historical Ottoman-era barracks and a shopping centre.

Conclusion

2004 ◽  
pp. 225-232
Author(s):  
Gordon Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Yield Ratio ◽  
Foreseeable Future ◽  
Marine Animals ◽  
Baleen Whales ◽  
Right Whale ◽  
Appreciable Increase ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Cost

British involvement in whaling lasted for three and a half centuries. It began with the expansion of Europe, when the whale was located in Arctic waters, and ended only when the virtual extinction of the whale made the trade unprofitable. Those in the last stages of the trade argued, when conscience pricked, that the extermination of the whale was impossible because the cost/yield ratio would prevent the catching of "too many" of the last specimens. It proved, in the event, to be a false argument based, perhaps, on too optimistic a view of human nature, or perhaps on a misunderstanding of the economics of whaling. When Europeans could no longer make whaling pay there were still those - the Russians and Japanese - who worked on different principles, and between them the various whaling nations have brought stocks so low that there are serious doubts if they can ever revive. With such mobile migratory marine animals there has to be a fairly large number before effective breeding can take place and nobody at the moment knows if the surviving specimens can provide for the future. Certainly the Right whale which has been protected throughout the modern phase of whaling has shown no appreciable increase in numbers. The abundance of food may encourage a revival of the blue and fin whales, but it has not yet done so, and scientists are pessimistic. One thing is absolutely clear: whatever happens to the survival of the whales, there can be no whaling in the foreseeable future among the baleen whales. Any attempt to revive the free-for-all slaughter would simply return the species involved to the threshold of extinction....

Drawing, Information, and Design

2017 ◽  
pp. 355-386
Author(s):  
Donatella Fiorani ◽  
Marta Acierno
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Heritage Conservation ◽  
Communications Technology ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Process Information ◽  
Cultural Heritage Conservation ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Future Object

Although widely employed within the Architectural Heritage conservation process, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) techniques still present many serious issues for the discipline. Current research highlights a possible methodological approach to devise an ICT instrument that could support activities for Cultural Heritage conservation, while maintaining full respect for the specifics of the discipline. Reviewing current ICT and Architecture Engineering and Construction (AEC) applications, it is possible to note that the proposed approach is at the moment reversed: modelling does not arise as the projection of a future object, but rather from the knowledge needed to represent an existing site as accurately as possible. The proposed goal, reflecting the operative methodology of the conservation process, seems to offer a greater range of representativeness and to resolve, at least, some of the critical topics that have arisen from the application of ICT to Cultural Heritage to date.

scholarly journals Degradation of archeological sites - case study Caricin Grad

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Momcilovic-Petronijevic ◽  
Predrag Petronijevic ◽  
Mihailo Mitkovic
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Special Care ◽  
Structural Problems ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Complex Parts ◽  
Archeological Site ◽  
Early Byzantine

Archeological sites, as highly complex parts of the cultural heritage, require special care in all parts of planning, research, conservation and presentation. An archeological site, from the moment of excavation and further on, is permanently exposed to external, potentially harmful conditions: starting from structural problems during excavations, and exposure to atmospherics (rain, frost...). Influence of vegetation on site degradation cannot be neglected, as well as influence of people. All the mentioned factors that influence degradation of archeological sites are classified in this paper and presented through an example of the Caricin Grad early Byzantine site located near Leskovac in Serbia.

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