scholarly journals Noi istorii ale muzicilor românești [New histories of Romanian types of music] – The most important editorial publication in the Romanian musicology of recent years

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 329-343
Author(s):  
Laura-Otilia Vasiliu
Keyword(s):  
Historical Research ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Communist Ideology ◽  
University Professor ◽  
Musical Genres ◽  
Modern Perspective

Abstract The vast work Noi istorii ale muzicilor românești [New histories of Romanian types of music]1 (816 pages), published by Editura Muzicală in 2020 was a project of the Romanian Composers and Musicologists’ Union, represented by composer and university professor Adrian Iorgulescu, a project meant to mark the celebration of a century of activity of the organisation. The two volumes of the New histories, coordinated by Valentina Sandu-Dediu and Nicolae Gheorghiță, reflect the fulfilment of a long research project, begun in the 1990s, with a view to reassessing the musical past of Romania, expressing ideas verified in time through repeated analyses. The coordinators’ vision is edified through the following directions: 1. the joining of all musical genres – Byzantine, folkloric, military, academic, jazz, entertainment – and creating a modern perspective on the types of Romanian music; 2. using the tools of modern musicology – interdisciplinary relating, archival and recent bibliography, an objective, critical, accessible style, efficient and orderly elaboration; 3. removing all influences of the communist ideology reflected by the writings about music in the second half of the 20th century by assimilating the ideas formulated by historians after 1990; 4. capitalising on foreign authors’ writings about Romania and about Romanian music, but also on last-minute research on international music for the synchronisation with the contemporary manner of historical research.

A Sudanese Merchant's Career Based on His Papers: A Research Project

1990 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 31-40
Author(s):  
Anders Bjørkelo ◽  
Mustafa A. Ali
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Project Leader ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
The North ◽  
Cooperative Project ◽  
The University

The number of Arabic documents and manuscripts of historical significance found in the Sudan is constantly growing. The national repository for such material is the National Records Office (NRO) in Khartoum, but a substantial collection of photographed, photocopied, and microfilmed documents has also been built up at the Department of History, University of Bergen, Norway. Most of this material has been brought together as a result of fieldwork in various parts of the Sudan in connection with historical research. However, at the end of the 1970s the NRO launched a campaign to collect private documents in the rural areas, with good results. Another step in the same direction was taken in 1986, when a four years' cooperative project between the Department of History, University of Bergen, Norway, and the NRO in Khartoum, was started. Organized joint field expeditions were planned and carried out from 1987 onwards for the purpose of locating and photographing private documents. This project is financed by the Norwegian Aid Agency (NORAD) and the University of Bergen, and is part of a larger program of cooperation with the University of Khartoum. Bjørkelo is the project leader on the Bergen side and Dr. Ali S. Karrar is the local coordinator in the NRO. The 1987 expedition went to al-Matamma, al-Dāmar, Berber, Ghubush, and Kadabās in the north and photographed 196 documents. The following year various religious centres of the Gezira were visited and another 96 documents were photographed. Research on these acquisitions is planned or in progress.

scholarly journals Beyond the ‘Sham’ Critique and the Narrative of Humanitarianism: A Rejoinder to Jochen von Bernstorff

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 721-726
Author(s):  
Eyal Benvenisti ◽  
Doreen Lustig
Keyword(s):  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
International Humanitarian Law ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Historical Approach

Abstract We are very grateful to Professor von Bernstorff for taking the trouble to read and comment on our article,1 which is a segment of a larger research project. His feedback will be invaluable in taking this project successfully to its next stage. While we could not address each and every aspect of his critique, the following response addresses four elements: the assertion that we argued that international humanitarian law (IHL) is merely a sham; his description of our historical approach as focused on the domestic; the ramifications of our historical analysis for future interpretation of IHL; and the challenge of one’s Vorverständnis to historical research.

scholarly journals Ukryci [The hidden]

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Łukasz Konopa
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
World War ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Interview Method ◽  
Nazi Occupation ◽  
Ethnographic Interview

The hidden (2010)Łukasz Konopa’s film is devoted to the Righteous, their fate after World War II and the problem of memory about Jews. Shot as a part of an anthropological and historical research project concerning memory about Jews in provincial Poland. Using the ethnographic interview method, the author attempts to record accounts of events which transpired during the Nazi occupation of Poland and of postwar realities of people who had helped Jews in a village in Podlasie.Łukasz Konopa talks with two men living near Białystok. Some sixty years after the war, the Wasilewski brothers recount before the camera the dramatic events in which they took part. Their parents provided shelter to three Jews from the nearby town of Trzcianne, which brought upon them persecution from their Polish neighbors.The film’s heroes, answering sincerely and with pain the researcher’s question, demonstrating exceptional bravery and opposing the hostility of their own community. Ukryci (2010)Film Łukasza Konopy poświęcony jest Sprawiedliwym, ich losom po drugiej wojnie światowej oraz problematyce pamięci o Żydach. Film powstał w ramach badań antropologicznych i historycznych nad pamięcią o Żydach na polskiej prowincji. Korzystając z metody wywiadu etnograficznego, autor podejmuje próbę zapisu relacji z wydarzeń czasu okupacji nazistowskiej i późniejszych, powojennych realiów życia osób, które pomagały Żydom w jednej z podlaskich wsi.Łukasz Konopa rozmawia z dwoma mieszkańcami okolic Białegostoku. Sześćdziesiąt kilka lat po wojnie bracia Wasilewscy opowiadają przed kamerą o dramatycznych wydarzeniach, których byli uczestnikami. Ich rodzice udzielili schronienia trójce Żydów z pobliskiego miasteczka Trzcianne, za co całą rodzinę dotknęły prześladowania ze strony polskich sąsiadów.Bohaterowie filmu, odpowiadając szczerze i z bólem na pytania badacza, dają jednocześnie dowód niezwykłej odwagi, przeciwstawiając się wrogości ze strony własnej wspólnoty.

scholarly journals The significance of the categories of Spinoza’s ethics for cultural historical research La importancia de las categorías de la ética de Spinoza para la investigación histórico-cultura

10.20435/938 ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 4-13
Author(s):  
Bernd Fichtner
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Specific Form ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Cultural Comparison ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
German Research ◽  
Cultural Praxis ◽  
Romantic Science

The starng-point for this presentaon is a joint Brazilian-German research project on “Reading and Wring as a Cultural Praxis of Youth”. This was an empirical qualitative study on the basis of open“dialogical interviews” (Bakhtin) which focused on this praxis of youths. In addition to Bakhtin as amethodological perspective, Lurija’s concept of a “romantic science” became fundamental to ourproject1. The goals of our research were as follows: 1. To understand reading and writing intheirinterrelationship as a specific form of cultural praxis; 2. To contribute by means of research on thisspecific praxis to the theoretical dimensions of the concept of “cultural praxis” as a symbolicallymediated praxis; 3.To better understand – precisely by means of this praxis on the part of childrenand youths – current changes in reading and writing. To this end, we proceeded from the assumption that children and youths have a particular sensitivity for symbolizing their experiences with regard tonew developments in a society2. 4. We intended to concretize these goals in a “cultural comparison”of this praxis on the part of Brazilian and German youths. With the following remarks, we will not be presenting the project in its entirety, its results, or the discussion thereof. Rather, we would liketo discuss one particular aspect in more detail: the problem of cultural diff erences, the explosivenature of which only became evident in the course of the research process.

Collaborative application of the Adaptive Mentorship© model

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorraine Godden ◽  
Leigha Tregunna ◽  
Benjamin Kutsyuruba
Keyword(s):  
Professional Growth ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Direct Result ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Skill Sets ◽  
Contact Points ◽  
University Professor ◽  
Collaborative Mentoring

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe a qualitative action research study into the collective experiences of establishing a mentoring culture within a research triad consisting of a university professor together with a doctoral student and a master's level student who served as research assistants (RAs). This paper documents a process of ongoing reflection, which was used to gain insight about the personal selves, the professional selves, the role of being a RA, and concepts, ideas, and frameworks that might be useful in fulfilling the work inside and outside of the collaborative research project. Design/methodology/approach – A Faculty of Education within a Canadian university provided the context for the study. A large-scale, pan-Canadian document analysis research project served as the context for mentorship activities. The Adaptive Mentorship© model (Ralph and Walker, 2010) was the tool used to document and analyze experiences of working on the research project. Completion of individual mentoring session reflections, as recommended by the Adaptive Mentorship© model, provided a means for documenting the process and experiences within the triad. Findings – Findings indicated that the enhancement of working environment and the professional growth of all three members of the research triad were primarily achieved as a result of the commitment to collaborative mentoring for the duration of this project rather than as a direct result of application of the model. Nonetheless, the application of the Adaptive Mentorship© model within the research project triad proved to be a valuable tool for supporting the social competence-based and experiential needs. Originality/value – In the context of this study, collaborative mentoring led to professional growth and an enhancement of the working environment due to multiple contact-points and exposures to specific tasks or skill-sets. The establishment of the mentoring culture and continued identification of individual needs within the triad allowed for adaptive support, appropriate skills development, and an increase in confidence necessary for both students to be successful in their RA positions and in turn, successfully support the university professor to complete the project. The experience suggests that the Adaptive Mentorship© model, if further refined, could be applied to graduate RAships with multiple participants, increasing the potential to enhance research experiences through its focus on one or several specific tasks or skill-sets around which the work is organized.

scholarly journals Looking Inward to 21st Century Pedagogy

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 1197-1203
Author(s):  
Rose Doerksen
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Social Imagination ◽  
Personal Learning ◽  
Pre Service Teacher Education ◽  
Pre Service Teacher

Through the lens of a student, this Note from the Field responds to a historical research project which engages pre-service teachers in critical citizenship and social imagination. Looking inward facilitates a personal learning experience of identity that is applied to learning in the 21st century. When 21st century pre-service teacher education looks inward rather than forward and outward, we learn to live in the 21st century rather than envision it.

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