scholarly journals Troubling Pasts: Teaching Public History in Northern Ireland

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olwen Purdue
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Public History ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Arena ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Forward Looking

Abstract This article explores the challenges and opportunities presented for the teaching and practice of public history in a post-conflict society that remains deeply divided over its past. It examines some of the negative ways in which history is used in the public arena, but also the potential of public history initiatives for building a more cohesive and forward-looking society. It examines how students can use the rich cultural landscape of Northern Ireland and engage with a wide range of experienced practitioners to learn more about the ways in which history divides; how we can negotiate these divisions over interpretations; how different communities understand, represent, and engage with their past; and why this matters.

Biblical Literacy and the English King James Liberal Bible

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-211
Author(s):  
James Crossley
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Biblical Literacy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Arena ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Liberal Capitalism ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Popular Nationalism ◽  
King James Bible

Using the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible as a test case, this article illustrates some of the important ways in which the Bible is understood and consumed and how it has continued to survive in an age of neoliberalism and postmodernity. It is clear that instant recognition of the Bible-as-artefact, multiple repackaging and pithy biblical phrases, combined with a popular nationalism, provide distinctive strands of this understanding and survival. It is also clear that the KJV is seen as a key part of a proud English cultural heritage and tied in with traditions of democracy and tolerance, despite having next to nothing to do with either. Anything potentially problematic for Western liberal discourse (e.g. calling outsiders “dogs,” smashing babies heads against rocks, Hades-fire for the rich, killing heretics, using the Bible to convert and colonize, etc.) is effectively removed, or even encouraged to be removed, from such discussions of the KJV and the Bible in the public arena. In other words, this is a decaffeinated Bible that has been colonized by, and has adapted to, Western liberal capitalism.

scholarly journals Fixel-based Analysis of Diffusion MRI: Methods, Applications, Challenges and Opportunities

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thijs Dhollander ◽  
Adam Clemente ◽  
Mervyn Singh ◽  
Frederique Boonstra ◽  
Oren Civier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Diffusion Mri ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Analysis Framework ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
P Diffusion ◽  
Modelling Techniques ◽  
The Rich

Diffusion MRI has provided the neuroimaging community with a powerful tool to acquire in-vivo data sensitive to microstructural features of white matter, up to 3 orders of magnitude smaller than typical voxel sizes. The key to extracting such valuable information lies in complex modelling techniques, which form the link between the rich diffusion MRI data and various metrics related to the microstructural organisation. Over time, increasingly advanced techniques have been developed, up to the point where some diffusion MRI models can now provide access to properties specific to individual fibre populations in each voxel in the presence of multiple "crossing" fibre pathways. While highly valuable, such fibre-specific information poses unique challenges for typical image processing pipelines and statistical analysis. In this work, we review the "fixel-based analysis" (FBA) framework that implements bespoke solutions to this end, and has recently seen a stark increase in adoption for studies of both typical (healthy) populations as well as a wide range of clinical populations. We describe the main concepts related to fixel-based analyses, as well as the methods and specific steps involved in a state-of-the-art FBA pipeline, with a focus on providing researchers with practical advice on how to interpret results. We also include an overview of the scope of current fixel-based analysis studies (until August 2020), categorised across a broad range of neuroscientific domains, listing key design choices and summarising their main results and conclusions. Finally, we critically discuss several aspects and challenges involved with the fixel-based analysis framework, and outline some directions and future opportunities.

The Oxford Handbook of Public History

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Public History ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
The Public ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Thoughtful Reflection ◽  
Primary Means ◽  
The Subject

Public history is a large and complex field, with boundaries, methods, and subjects that are hotly debated. This handbook reflects the complexities of the subject, while at the same time helping to shape it. It introduces the major debates within public history; the methods and sources that comprise a public historian’s toolkit; and exemplary examples of practice. The book views public history as a dynamic process combining the hands-on skills of historical research and a wide range of work with and for the public, informed by a conceptual context. It defines public history work as analytical and active—practical work informed by thoughtful reflection—and locates public history as a professional practice within an intellectual framework that is increasingly democratic, technological, and transnational. While the nation state remains the primary means of identification for many, increased mobility and the digital revolution have occasioned a much broader outlook and awareness of the world beyond the local, shaping not only our lives today but also our understanding of the past. This volume will provide the information and inspiration needed by a practitioner to succeed in the wide range of workplaces that characterize public history today, for university teachers of public history to assist their students, and for working public historians to keep up to date with recent research.

“A Farewell to Peace?”

2021 ◽  
pp. 269-318
Author(s):  
James Waller
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Structural Integrity ◽  
Violent Conflict ◽  
Irish Society ◽  
Northern Irish ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Triggering Factors ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Stability

The risk factors discussed in the previous three chapters are a creeping, erosive rot that continue to undermine the structural integrity and stability of Northern Irish society. If left unaddressed, they can drag this deeply divided “post-conflict” society back into the abyss of violent conflict. There are a range of internal and external accelerants, some of which could metastasize into triggers, that further threaten the stability of peace in contemporary Northern Ireland and increase the risk of violent conflict. Among these are (1) acute economic deterioration, (2) outbreaks of limited paramilitary violence, and (3) a vote on a united Ireland. These three accelerants are cross-cutting and intersecting. In the context of these accelerants further undermining the structural integrity and stability of Northern Irish society, there are a soberingly wide range of triggering factors that can make the return of violent conflict in contemporary Northern Ireland likely or imminent.

scholarly journals Representing COVID-19 information in collaborative knowledge graphs: The case of Wikidata

Semantic Web ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Houcemeddine Turki ◽  
Mohamed Ali Hadj Taieb ◽  
Thomas Shafee ◽  
Tiago Lubiana ◽  
Dariusz Jemielniak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Query Language ◽  
Open Data ◽  
General Information ◽  
The Public ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Description Framework ◽  
Automated Tools ◽  
Collaborative Knowledge

Information related to the COVID-19 pandemic ranges from biological to bibliographic, from geographical to genetic and beyond. The structure of the raw data is highly complex, so converting it to meaningful insight requires data curation, integration, extraction and visualization, the global crowdsourcing of which provides both additional challenges and opportunities. Wikidata is an interdisciplinary, multilingual, open collaborative knowledge base of more than 90 million entities connected by well over a billion relationships. It acts as a web-scale platform for broader computer-supported cooperative work and linked open data, since it can be written to and queried in multiple ways in near real time by specialists, automated tools and the public. The main query language, SPARQL, is a semantic language used to retrieve and process information from databases saved in Resource Description Framework (RDF) format. Here, we introduce four aspects of Wikidata that enable it to serve as a knowledge base for general information on the COVID-19 pandemic: its flexible data model, its multilingual features, its alignment to multiple external databases, and its multidisciplinary organization. The rich knowledge graph created for COVID-19 in Wikidata can be visualized, explored, and analyzed for purposes like decision support as well as educational and scholarly research.

Post-Forgetting

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guy Beiner
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Final Word ◽  
Provincial Level ◽  
Good Friday ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Good Friday Agreement ◽  
United Irishmen

Popular commemoration of previously forbidden memories seems to signal the end of social forgetting. Though this is not necessarily the final word. The bicentenary of 1798 coincided with the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, which promised to bring to Northern Ireland a new ‘parity of esteem’, accommodating traditions that had hitherto been forbidden. The wide range of commemorative activities through which the legacy of the United Irishmen has been publicly celebrated at a local and provincial level since 1998 gives the impression that all inhibitions about speaking of ‘Ninety-Eight’ have been overcome. Yet, on the background of continuing sectarian tensions in post-conflict Northern Ireland, there are indications that social forgetting has not been entirely eradicated.

scholarly journals Naked in the Gymnasium: Women as Agents of Social Change

2004 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maja Mikula
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Social Injustice ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Arena ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Negative Images

Women have throughout history participated in and sometimes initiated rebellions to defend the welfare of their family, community, class and race or ethnic group. It appears that generations of women in a wide range of political and social movements, individual women resisting social injustice and at least three waves of conscious feminism(s) have not yet succeeded in defeating the popular stigma surrounding female activism. Women moving in the public arena still evoke the same negative images they have conjured for centuries, reflected in such derogatory appellations as ‘viragos,’ ‘witches,’ ‘femmes-hommes,’ or ‘hyenas in petty-coats’. This paper looks at social change from the perspective of its arguably most cogent, but nevertheless controversial, agents. It examines a range of recent theories concerning gender and social change, to affirm women’s revolutionary potential beyond the boundaries of political revolution.

scholarly journals Rozmowa z Nadą Prlją

2014 ◽  
pp. 452-471
Author(s):  
Zofia Waślicka ◽  
Nada Prlja
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Tourist Attraction ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Rich

An interview with Nada Prlja Nada Prlja is an artist who works in the public space and tackles the issues of social inequalities and exclusion. During the 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, she built a Peace Wall across Friedrichstrasse and thus she blocked the passage between the northern part of the street, which is a tourist attraction, and where expensive shops and restaurants are located; and its southern part, which is inhabited mainly by immigrants, who live in council flats. Nada Prjla tried to visualise the symbolic divide between the rich and the poor part of the street by putting the wall up, whose name alludes to the peace walls that split Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland. Rozmowa z Nadą PrljąNada Prlja to artystka działająca w przestrzeni publicznej, podejmująca kwestie nierówności społecznych i wykluczenia. W ramach 7. Berlińskiego Biennale Sztuki Współczesnej w 2012 roku Prlja zbudowała Peace Wall (‘Mur Pokoju’) w poprzek jezdni na Friedrichstrasse w Berlinie. Zablokowała w ten sposób ruch między turystyczną, północną częścią tej ulicy z eleganckimi restauracjami i sklepami a jej południową częścią, gdzie znajduje się zamieszkane głównie przez imigrantów osiedle budynków socjalnych. Nada Prlja postanowiła uwidocznić tę symboliczną granicę między bogatą a biedną częścią ulicy i ustawiła tam mur. Jego nazwa nawiązuje do „murów pokoju” (peace walls) oddzielających od siebie protestantów i katolików w Irlandii Północnej.

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