scholarly journals The UCLA Sephardic Archive Initiative: Finding the Keys to an Untold History

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max Modiano Daniel
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Family Networks ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
The Past ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Transnational Ties ◽  
The University

This essay introduces the scope and aim of the Sephardic Archive Initiative at the University of California, Los Angeles. In conjunction with the Library, Special Collections, and the Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, this project seeks to locate, collect, archive, and share documents and ephemera relating to Sephardic history. With a focus on their journeys to Los Angeles and Southern California, the initiative aims to tell the stories of Jews from North Africa, the Middle East, the Mediterranean, the Balkans, and the lands of the former Ottoman Empire. The transnational ties of Sephardic commercial, intellectual, religious, social, and family networks have produced a richly tangled web of history, which for the past century has found a thriving base in Los Angeles. The project seeks to create a hub of scholarly and communal investment, interest, and exploration of materials related to the Sephardic past.

scholarly journals Introduction

1988 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 391-394
Author(s):  
Jean Bazin
Keyword(s):  
Russian Revolution ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Dominant Culture ◽  
Popular Discourse ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cultural Intermediaries ◽  
History Department ◽  
The University ◽  
Universite Laval

This collection brings together six papers of the some seventy that were presented at the international symposium held at Université Laval in October, 1987 entitled “Mémoires, Histoires, Identités”. Organized jointly by the History Department of Université Laval, the Ecole des Hautes études en sciences sociales de Paris and the Laboratoire 363 “Tiers-Monde-Afrique” CNRS/Université Paris VII, the symposium aimed to stimulate reflection and research on the links between the construction of identities and the production of history as a discourse on the past, and thus on the links maintained by two modes of production of History-the academic and the popular. Achieving this objective required a broadening of the empirical field to avoid unduly singularizing African experiences.The papers here concentrate on the process of the production of history by historical actors or by cultural intermediaries who, educated or not, are not of the university milieu which imposes the western conception of historical discourse. The relationships between academic and popular discourse and between the norms of the dominant culture and the practices of dominated cultures are at the center of the analyses.Isaiah Berlin recently summarized the past century as follows:The other, without doubt, consists in the great ideological storms that have altered the lives of virtually all mankind: the Russian Revolution and its aftermath – totalitarian tyrannies of both right and left and the explosions of nationalism, racism, and, in places, of religious bigotry, which, interestingly enough, not one among the most perceptive social thinkers of the nineteenth century had ever predicted.

scholarly journals Victor Herbert Veley, 1856 - 1933

1934 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 228-235
Keyword(s):  
Nitric Acid ◽  
Chemical Society ◽  
Past Century ◽  
University Staff ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
The Past ◽  
Scientific Meetings ◽  
The University

On August 20, 1933, there passed away at the age of 77 one of the older Fellows of the Chemical Society, and yet another of the Oxford University staff of the Odling regime, in the person of Dr. Victor Herbert Veley, F.R.S. Those who worked in the University laboratories in the last decades of the past century and the first few years of the present will recollect with a sigh of affection the well-known spare figure with the humorous twinkle of the eye, and the clothes well stained with nitric acid ; and those Fellows in the habit of attending scientific meetings in London in the first decade of the present century will perhaps associate his presence with a certain unwonted liveliness .

The Ponies of the Giara highland

1998 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 31-39
Author(s):  
M. Dattilo
Keyword(s):  
North Africa ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Agricultural Work ◽  
Small Stature ◽  
Large Source ◽  
The Past ◽  
In The Wild ◽  
Equestrian Sport ◽  
The University

SummaryThe Giara pony is a less known, equine breed of small stature, typical of the island of Sardinia. It draws its denomination from the highland of the Giara, where it lives in the wild.The ponies appeared in Sardinia approximately in the VII century B. C. Recent research, carried out on haemoglobin polymorphism, underlined some analogies with the Arabic horses of North-Africa.These ponies, have a dolyichomorphic-type constitution with long, naked and resistant legs. In the past they were used for agricultural work, however later, with the increase of mechanisation, they returned to the Giara highland where they became feral.The Giara ponies, in the light of recent scientific research, possess not only an inestimable genetic patrimony but they also represent a large source of interest for the equestrian sport, and, above all, for children's riding therapy.The author underlines, finally, that the principal material of this article has been outlined in a symposium held at the University of Sassari 18/11/1997, entitled: “Phenomenology of the environment: psycho-social and zoo-anthropological perspectives”.

Halil İnalcık 1916? - 2016

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-165
Author(s):  
Linda T. Darling
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
North Africa ◽  
World History ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Crucial Part

Halil İnalcık was born in Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, into a refugee family, probably in 1916 (he did not know his birthday; in Turkey he adopted 29 May, in the US 4 July). He died at age 100 in Ankara on 25 July 2016, as the premier Ottoman historian in the world. To quote one of his students, “Professor İnalcık transformed the field of Ottoman studies from an obscure and exotic subfield into one of the leading historical disciplines that covers the history of the greater Middle East and North Africa as well as the Balkans from the late medieval to the modern period. He set the tone of debate and critical inquiry from the early modern to the modern period.” Born an Ottoman, he made Ottoman studies a crucial part of world history.

Newman's Aesthetic Vision

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-57
Author(s):  
Robert C. Christie ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Mind ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
University Education ◽  
Past Century ◽  
John Henry Newman ◽  
The Past ◽  
Education Today ◽  
Unity Of Knowledge ◽  
The University

The evolution of scientism, relativism, and the resultant fragmentation of knowledge over the past century have led to a crisis in contemporary university education. John Henry Newman, a nineteenth-century philosopher of education, a major figure in educational theory and applied research, and author of the classic work on education, The Idea of a Univershy, faced similar problems in his time, and his work is valuable in addressing contemporary dilemmas. Newman's philosophy of mind and his vision of the unity of knowledge, which reflects an aesthetic dimension, and the resultant essential role of theology in education, are key elements for reimagining the university. An analysis of Newman's spirited Eighth Discourse anchors this retrospective and commends his work to higher education today by recalling an eariier ideal of the integration of all disciplines.

scholarly journals Between deosmanization and balkanization: refugee’s steps of bosniak history

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-74
Author(s):  
Safet Bandžović ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Considerable Part ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
The Past ◽  
Balkan Wars ◽  
Eastern Question ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Units ◽  
Xix Century ◽  
Linguistic Backgrounds

The past and the present are inseparable, one interprets the other. Many "long-lasting" processes go beyond local frameworks and regional borders. This also applies to the complex "Eastern question", as well as the problem of the deosmanization of the Balkans, whose political geography in the 19th and 20th centuries was exposed to radical overlaps. Wars and persecutions are important factors in the history of Balkan Muslims. In the seventies of the XIX century, they constituted half of the population in the Ottoman part of the Balkans. With war devastation, a considerable part was killed or expelled to Anadolia between 1870 and 1890. The emergent "Turkish islands" in the Balkans after 1878 were increasingly narrowed, or disappeared due to the displacement of Muslims. Multiethnic and religious color of the Balkans disturbed accounts with simple categorizations. The term "balkanization" signified, after the Balkan wars of 1912-1913, "not only the fragmentation of large and powerful political units, but became synonymous with returning tribal, backward, primitive, and barbaric." The Balkanization of "Ottoman Europe" and the violent changes in its ethnic-religious structure led to discontinuity, the erosion of history, as well as fragmentation of the minds of the remaining Muslims and their afflicted communities, the lack of knowledge of the interconnectedness of their fates. The emigration of Bosniaks and other Muslims of different ethnic and linguistic backgrounds from the Balkans to various parts of the Ottoman Empire, and then to Turkey, during the XIX and XX centuries, had a number of consequences.

scholarly journals İtalya'nın Milli Birlik Sonrasında Osmanlı Devleti ve Balkan Siyaseti / Italy's Politics in the Balkans and the Ottoman Empire after National Unity

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Suat Zeyrek ◽  
Metin İlhan
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
North Africa ◽  
European Politics ◽  
National Unity ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Political Unity ◽  
Global Power ◽  
Short Time ◽  
Independent Country ◽  
New Strategies

<p><strong>Italy's Politics in the Balkans and the Ottoman Empire after National Unity</strong></p><p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>Italy frequently had obliged to change its policy against Ottoman Empire after setting up the national unity until the Balkan War. The setting up of Italy's political unity in a very late date like 1870 caused to be late in colonialism. But United Italy was emerging as a new global power. Even if this power was not sufficient, it accelerated the developments changing the balances. In a short time, Italy had become a considered country in the seeking of colonialism after Germany. Italy with Germany forced other western states to follow new strategies and began the first colonial enterprise with Ethiopia, but this independent country has not been able to become colonize. Italy undertook to gain a place in European politics with the Treaty of Triple Alliance in 1882. It began looking for the spreading ways in North Africa and the Balkans. In this article, I focus on that how Italy easily acquired the support of European states through its politics of territory of Ottoman Empire and process of attaining its objective.</p><p><strong>İtalya'nın Milli Birlik Sonrasında Osmanlı Devleti ve Balkan Siyaseti</strong></p><p><strong>Öz</strong></p><p>İtalya, milli birliğini kurduktan sonra Balkan Savaşı’na kadar Osmanlı Devleti’ne karşı takip ettiği politikalarında sık sık değişiklikler yapmak zorunda kalmıştı. İtalya’nın siyasi birliğini 1870 gibi çok geç tarihlerde kurması sömürgecilikte geç kalmasına neden olmuştu. Fakat birleşik İtalya yeni bir küresel güç olarak ortaya çıkıyordu. Bu güç yeterli olmasa da dengeleri değiştirecek gelişmeleri hızlandırdı. İtalya kısa bir süre içinde sömürgecilik arayışında Almanya’dan sonra dikkate alınır bir ülke oldu. Özellikle Almanya ile birlikte diğer batılı devletleri yeni stratejiler izlemeye zorladılar. İtalya ilk sömürge girişimine Habeşistan’la başlamış ancak bu bağımsız devletin koloni haline getirilmesi mümkün olmadı. İtalya 1882’de Üçlü İttifak Antlaşması ile Avrupa siyasetinde bir yer edinme arayışına girdi. Kuzey Afrika ve Balkanlar’da genişleme yollarını aramaya başladı. Bu makalede İtalya’nın Osmanlı topraklarına yönelik takip ettiği politikalarda Avrupalı devletlerin desteğini nasıl kolaylıkla sağladığı ve hedeflerine ulaşması süreci üzerinde durulacaktır. İtalya hem Trablusgarp hem de On iki Ada hem de Balkanlar üzerinde takip ettiği politikalarda Batılı devletlerin desteğini almada hiç zorlanmış değildi. </p>

scholarly journals The study of religion and theology at the University of Pretoria – A century of endeavour in conditionalistic perspective

2016 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
J.S. Krüger
Keyword(s):  
Peripheral Vision ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Religious Expression ◽  
Religion And Theology ◽  
The Past ◽  
University Of Pretoria ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

This article suggests a theoretical and methodological perspective primarily hinging on the categories of Horizon, Totality and conditionalism, with an outspoken mystical orientation, radically relativising yet simultaneously treasuring diverse religious expression. This model was developed with a view to interpreting the history of religions, in this case applied to the history of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Pretoria from 1917 to 2017.Utilising this perspective, the history of the faculty is analysed in terms of three qualitatively distinct yet continuous epochs, overlapping with the three epochs of South African history during the twentieth century: 1902–1948, 1948–1994 and 1994 to present. In particular the article focuses on two dimensions of theological existence at the University of Pretoria: firstly, its interaction with the state over this century, that is, its political existence during the decades prefiguring apartheid, during apartheid and during the aftermath of apartheid; secondly, its relationship with the wider world of religious pluralism over the past century, implying its notion of religious truth. Differences of emphasis and conflicts during the century, involving both sets of problems, are explained and understood conditionalistically and with reference to Totality and Horizon. Racial exclusion and religious exclusion are understood as mutually determining and are both informed by and dependent on a certain view of religious truth.In the context of its own ambit this article has a reconciliatory intention, not evaluating the mistakes of the past in terms of the categories of sin and guilt, but rather in terms of tragic misjudgements of situations: shortcomings in historical hindsight, sufficiently wide peripheral vision, realistic foresight and sufficient insight into the epochal conditions of the times and the essence of religion. Greed and hatred, seemingly ingrained in human nature, are taken to feed on such lack of insight. 

scholarly journals Historical Trends in Alpine Ski Design: How Skis Have Evolved Over the Past Century

Proceedings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
Jonas Truong ◽  
Marius Bulota ◽  
Alexis Lussier Desbiens
Keyword(s):  
Past Century ◽  
Performance Parameters ◽  
New Materials ◽  
Historical Trends ◽  
The Past ◽  
Geometric Stiffness ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The University ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Do So

Alpine skis have changed dramatically in the last century. Long and straight wood skis have evolved into shorter lengths and now contain a plethora of modern materials. Shaped skis have become the norm. Today’s skis also offer a variety of waist widths and shapes to cater to specific uses. By studying how skis have evolved, it is possible to gain insight into how the design of alpine skis has progressed. To do so, the mechanical properties of 1016 skis, from the 1920s to 2019, were measured with a machine developed at the University of Sherbrooke. The resulting data are used to calculate various geometric, stiffness and performance parameters. The evolution of these parameters over the years is analyzed. This analysis provides a better understanding of the evolution of ski design and shows when the introduction of new materials and shaping concepts has changed the way skis are designed.

scholarly journals ‘The idea of the University’ and the ‘Pretoria Model’ Apologia pro statu Facultatis Theologicae Universitatis Pretoriensis ad secundum saeculum

2016 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Buitendag
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
The Past ◽  
Intellectual Inquiry ◽  
University Of Pretoria ◽  
The University ◽  
Idea Of The University

The article is authored by the Dean of Faculty of Theology at the University of Pretoria, celebrating the Faculty’s centenary in 2017. The exposition of the argument is unfolded on the basis of Ricoeur’s threefold mimesis of prefiguration, configuration and reconfiguration. The earliest decisive statement with regard to the nature of the Faculty, and which is eagerly pursued, was made by the Rev. M.J. Goddefroy in 1888, epitomising theological training as of academic deference, that is as a Faculty at a university and not a seminary. This has been the fibre of Theology at the University of Pretoria and intellectual inquiry is an uncompromised value. The article is a critical reflection on the past century and an orientation towards the next hundred years, identifying the essence of what a real Pretoria Model could and should be and looking ahead to the next century. ‘History is not a destination, but an orientation’, sounds like a refrain in the article. The enterprise is contextual with regard to time and space. The assessment is subsequently done in terms of this continent and this century, that is Africa and the 21st century. The conclusion of the article is that the Pretoria Model fills a unique niche in theological inquiry at public universities competing for a position among the top 500 on the ranking of world universities.

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