The Rolt Memorial Lecture 2007 Technological Change as a 'Colonial' Discourse: The Society of Friends in 19th-Century Ireland

2008 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Rynne
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
Colonial Discourse ◽  
Society Of Friends

scholarly journals Nagrobek Stanisława Staszica a polityka wizerunkowa Towarzystwa Warszawskiego Przyjaciół Nauk

2021 ◽  
pp. 31-49
Author(s):  
Mikołaj Getka-Kenig
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Historical Records ◽  
Society Of Friends ◽  
Early 19Th Century ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Image Building ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Building Policy

Stanisław Staszic’s Tombstone and the Image-Building Policy of the Warsaw Society of Friends of Sciences The article is devoted to the artistic setting of Stanisław Staszic’s (1755–1826) burial place, for which his main heir, the Warsaw Royal Society of the Friends of Sciences (TKWPN), was responsible. The inspiration to raise this topic was the discovery of two previously unknown Jakub Tatarkiewicz’s designs of Staszic’s unrealized neoclassical tombstone in the collections of the Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw (AGAD). However, the projects were never commissioned by TKWPN but were the sculptor’s proposal. By analysing the relationship between these artistic projects and the initiatives concerning Staszic’s tomb which stemmed directly from the Society (a big raw stone as memorial), the article highlights the problem of TKWPN’s participation in creating the posthumous cult of its long-time president and most important benefactor. The TKWPN’s seemingly paradoxical reluctance to glorify Staszic by means of traditional (artistic) forms of commemoration can be interpreted as a logical action calculated to benefit the Society’s image. Therefore, focusing on this single aspect of the posthumous cult of Staszic, directly related to the TKWPN, this article refers to the image-building policy of this institution, and thus to the ways of building its social status. At the same time, it tackles the issue of the prestige of science and scientific patronage as a new (from the early 19th-century perspective) form of public merit.

Regions, Localities, and Industrialisation: Evidence from the East Midlands Circa 1780 – 1840

2001 ◽  
Vol 33 (7) ◽  
pp. 1305-1325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Stobart
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Regional Economies ◽  
The Third ◽  
East Midlands ◽  
Temporal Continuity ◽  
Fundamental Categories ◽  
Spatial Entities ◽  
The 19Th Century

Regions form one of the fundamental categories of geographical thought and analysis and yet are far from being fixed spatial entities. Analysis of the East Midlands in the 19th century highlights three important aspects of regional development. The first aspect is that causality was not unilinear. Industrialisation reinforced strong local specialisms and allegiances rather than generating the wider integrated regional economies and identities seen in other industrialising areas. The second aspect is the importance of scale. There was no preordained size for a region: coherent economic and cultural units in the East Midlands operated at a more localised level. The third aspect is the significance of temporal continuity, seen in the persistent centring of economy, social cohesion, and identity onto established urban centres, despite the coalescing forces unleashed by industrial and technological change.

scholarly journals Kreyol Intertextuality and Decolonizing Narrative in Veillées noires

2020 ◽  
pp. 19-28
Author(s):  
Kevin Meehan
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Colonial Discourse ◽  
Entire Collection

This essay identifies three levels of intertextuality in the short story, “Echec et mat” by Léon-Gontran Damas. Incorporating folkloric tales, lyrics from popular music, and 19th Century satiric writing in Kreyol, “Echec et mat” offers a microcosm of the intertextual techniques employed throughout the entire collection, Veillées noires. In particular, I analyze Damas’s embedding of a satire written and published in Kreyol by Guadeloupean author Paul Baudot. While this Kreyol satire—written by a white béké author from the mid-19th Century—is ambiguous politically, and must be determined by musical and folkloric references, Damas nevertheless signals the importance of earlier Caribbean writing in Kreyol. Such writing co-exists with other forms of cultural production and is part of the reservoir from which Damas draws to assemble his complex anti-colonial discourse. These intertextual traces reveal a cultural identity that is plural as well as anti-colonial.

ADOMO KRESCENCIJAUS GABRIELIAUS LOPACINSKIO GENEALOGIJŲ DIRBTUVĖ (XIX A. SEPTINTASIS–DEVINTASIS DEŠ.) / THE GENEALOGY WORKSHOP OF ADOMAS RESCENCIJUS GABRIELIUS LOPACINSKIS (1860S–1880S)

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019/2 ◽  
pp. 113-136
Author(s):  
TAMARA BAIRAŠAUSKAITĖ
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Society Of Friends ◽  
Historical Archives ◽  
The 19Th Century

ANNOTATION. The article dwells on the hitherto unnoticed manuscript legacy of the 19th century genealogy lover, landlord of Dysna county Adomas Krescencijus Gabrielius Lopacinskis (Adam Krescenty Gabriel Łopaciński, 1826 – after 1893), stored in the Society of Friends of Science Fund at the Lithuanian State Historical Archives. The manuscript legacy includes personal and family documents as well as several letters. Its most valuable part is the impressive amount of materials dedicated to the genealogy of the GDL noble families. A. Lopacinskis’ written legacy makes it possible to speak about a workshop on historical memory and genealogy which was in operation in the nobleman’s house and nurtured the culture of writing down the family’s history.The article also offers a reconstruction of A. Lopacinskis’ biography with a view to explaining how the genealogy workshop looked like, what it consisted of, who and how used the materials contained therein, and how the nobleman of the second half of the 19th century perceived the memorization of the highest class of the society. KEYWORDS: Adomas Krescencijus Gabrielius Lopacinskis, manuscript, monograph, genealogy, genealogy workshop, memory

scholarly journals WIELKOPOLSKA (GREATER POLAND) MILITARY MUSEUM: HISTORY OF AN UNUSUAL MUSEUM

Muzealnictwo ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 62 ◽  
pp. 258-266
Author(s):  
Jarosław Łuczak
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Air Force ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Society Of Friends ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
Ww Ii ◽  
History Of ◽  
Grand Duchy ◽  
Major General ◽  
Modern Building

The beginning of historical-military museology in Poznan dates back to the mid-19th century when the Poznan Society of Friends of Learning assumed the responsibility to save historic monuments, and began to establish the Museum of Polish and Slavic Antiquities in the Grand Duchy of Posen (Poznan). The task was to collect archival, library, and museum materials, including militaria. As a result of these efforts, in 1882, the Mielżynski Museum was established which boasted an exquisite painting gallery, containing historical painting, a rich archaeological and military collection, and a sizeable collection of so-called historical mementoes: weapons, orders, decorations, etc. In the aftermath of the Greater Poland Uprising 1918 –1919, the Hindenburg Museum founded in 1916–1918 was transformed into a Military Museum. The ceremonial opening was held on 27 October 1919 by Józef Piłsudski, Poland’s Chief of State. The quickly growing collection was moved from Marcinkowskiego Avenue to the barracks in Bukowska Street, and subsequently to a new seat at 1 Artyleryjska Street in Poznan. The solemn opening of the Wielkopolska Military Museum was held on 22 April 1923 by the Commander of the 7th Corps District Major-General Kazimierz Raszewski. In 1939, anticipating the threat of war, the most precious objects were evacuated eastwards, and looted there. The items which stayed behind ended up in German museums. The mementoes connected with the history of the Polish military were destroyed, and the Museum was wound up. The first attempts at reactivating the Museum following WW II failed. It was only with the 1956 revolt that civil and military authorities changed their approach, The National Museum in Poznan undertook the first efforts. The Museum did not go back to its pre-WW II seat, but found home in a modern building in the Old Market Square in Poznan, to be ceremoniously launched on 22 February 1963 by the Commander of the Operational Air Force in Poznan Brigadier General Pilot Jan Raczkowski. Having recreated its collection, the Wielkopolska Military Museum, already as a Branch of the National Museum in Poznan, has held many exhibitions and shows. Moreover, it has released many publications, and run a broad range of educational activities. Among other projects, it has also made reference to the pre-WW II Museum. On 27 December 2019, a new jubilee exhibition ‘Wielkopolska Military Museum 1919–2019’ recording the 100-years’ history of the oldest historical-military museum in Poland was inaugurated.

I’ve Created a Monster! (And So Can You)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cory Doctorow
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Technology Changes ◽  
Mass Surveillance ◽  
The Way

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein resonated in 19th century England, and still speaks to us today, because it captures people’s anxieties about the effects of runaway technological change. But technological change is not a force of nature. The way technology changes – and the way it changes us – is the result of choices that we make as makers and users of tools, individually and collectively. Today digital technologies are making mass surveillance a part of everyday life, demonstrating how technologies can be marshalled by people in power to control others. The theory of the “adjacent possible,” which helps explain why certain imaginative technological visions emerge into reality at specific moments, in specific contexts, helps us understand how to understand technological change, prepare for its transformative effects, and decide to build and use technologies in ways that enrich human life, rather than exploit it.

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