scholarly journals Testing of Priorities in the Research of Cultural Heritage in Slovakia’s Depopulated Regions

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-99
Author(s):  
Ivan Murin
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Key Indicators ◽  
The Impact

AbstractAlong with the dynamics of findings of several scientific disciplines of the recent decades, the mechanisms and processes of culture transmission seem to be much more apparent. The knowledge about cultural heritage and the inheritance of culture produced in this way have led to the creation of several platforms of critical cultural heritage. Anthropological and ethnological findings significantly enrich these multi-disciplinary environments where the criterion of a living cultural heritage is becoming generally accepted. In this light, the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) created a working group in 2019 with the aim to prepare an innovated Strategic Research Agenda (SRIA) for the submission of European projects in the field of cultural heritage (JPI CH). The working group invited Slovak and Czech researchers to reflect on the knowledge from the Central European research area in order to define the research topics for the priority Cultural Heritage and People. The research on the testing of the priority and clarification of the impacts of the depopulation of cultural regions on cultural heritage was conducted at selected locations of the Hont, Novohrad and Malohont regions. The key indicators for justifying the inclusion of the research topicThe impact of the depopulation of EU regions with cultural heritagein SRIA include ethnographic information, historical demographic data and the modelling of the transmission of cultural heritage content to the next generations.

Exile, Diaspora, and Return

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Roniger ◽  
Leonardo Senkman ◽  
Saúl Sosnowski ◽  
Mario Sznajder
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Transnational Connections ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Institutional Impact ◽  
Global Arena ◽  
Education Science ◽  
The Impact

This book explores how Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay have been affected by postexilic relocations, transnational migrant displacements, and diasporas. It provides a systematic analysis of the formation of exile communities and diaspora politics, the politics of return, and the agenda of democratization in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, focusing on the impact of intellectuals, academics, activists, and public figures who had experienced exile on the reconstitution and transformation of their societies following democratization. Readers are offered a kaleidoscope of intellectual itineraries, debates, and contributions held in the public domain by individuals who confronted and fought authoritarian rule. The book covers their contributions to the restructuring and transformation of scientific disciplines and of the humanities and the arts, as well as their collective institutional impact on higher education, science and technology, and public institutions. Bringing together sociopolitical, cultural, and policy analysis with the testimonies of dozens of intellectuals, academics, political activists, and policymakers, the book addresses the impact of exile on people’s lives and on their fractured experiences, the debates and prospects of return, the challenges of dis-exile and postexilic trends, and, finally, the ways in which those who experienced exile impacted democratized institutions, public culture, and discourse. It also follows some crucial shifts in the frontiers of citizenship, moving analysis to transnational connections and permanent diasporas, including the diasporas of knowledge that increasingly changed the very meaning of being national and transnational, while connecting those countries to the global arena.

scholarly journals Symmetry Is Not a Universal Law of Beauty

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helmut Leder ◽  
Pablo P. L. Tinio ◽  
David Brieber ◽  
Tonio Kröner ◽  
Thomas Jacobsen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Aesthetic Appreciation ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
The Two Cultures ◽  
Universal Law ◽  
Specific Education ◽  
And Training ◽  
Art Experts

Scientific disciplines as diverse as biology, physics, and psychological aesthetics regard symmetry as one of the most important principles in nature and one of the most powerful determinants of beauty. However, symmetry has a low standing in the arts and humanities. This difference in the valuation of symmetry is a remarkable illustration of the gap between the two cultures. To close this gap, we conducted an interdisciplinary, empirical study to directly demonstrate the effects of art expertise on symmetry appreciation. Two groups of art experts—artists and art historians—and a group of non-experts provided spontaneous beauty ratings of visual stimuli that varied in symmetry and complexity. In complete contrast to responses typically found in non-art experts, art experts found asymmetrical and simple stimuli as most beautiful. This is evidence of the effects of specific education and training on aesthetic appreciation and a direct challenge to the universality of symmetry.

scholarly journals Activities and projects of the Bibliographical Data Working Group (DARIAH-EU)

Bibliosphere ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 103-107
Author(s):  
J. M. Łubocki ◽  
E. Herden ◽  
D. Siwecka
Keyword(s):  
Working Group ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Research Infrastructure ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Bibliographic Data ◽  
Encyclopaedic Dictionary ◽  
Group Part ◽  
Digital Research

The material aims to introduce the Bibliographical Data Working Group – part of the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH-EU) – and to feature projects fulfilled by this group. This working group since 2019 brings together specialists (as of today: 38 researchers) from a number of different countries and the main goals of the group are to foster the development of cooperation between bibliographies and serve as a platform for knowledge exchange aimed at bringing together creators of bibliographical data, scholars interested in using those resources in data-driven research, and theorists of bibliography and documentation. In the presentation two projects are described in detail: 1. the report “An analysis of the current bibliographic data landscape in the humanities: Bibliodata curation, research, and collaboration; 2. The project “Multilingual encyclopaedic dictionary of types of documents”. The purpose of the article is not only to describe these projects but above all to invite Congress members to collaborate on them. 

Higher Education engagement in citizen enhanced open science: Between Humanities and Natural Sciences

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katerina Zourou ◽  
Mariana Ziku
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Multimethod Research ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
History Of

<p>The importance of HEIs in supporting and promoting open science is highlighted in several EU policies. Among them, the 2017 Report of the Working Group on Education and Skills under Open Science emphasizes the need to shape HE students/next generation researchers as “open science citizens”. More precisely: “The European Research Area (ERA) should work in closer collaboration with the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) (...), enabling the next generations of researchers to evolve as Open Science citizens (...) New generations of scientists and researchers, as the driving force for innovation and economic growth, are of vital importance to Europe's future competitiveness and leadership” (p. 16).</p><p>Our study problematizes on the role of HEIs as incubators of the next generation open science citizens (in terms of HE staff and student skills, curricula and interdisciplinarity), including a niche of cross-disciplinary humanities and natural sciences applied cases, where institutions situated in a broader social context leverage citizens in knowledge creation processes through professional-amateur (pro-am) collaborations, and in decision making in diverse populations as urban, Indigenous or special needs communities (active citizenship, civic engagement, citizen science). </p><p>The study, initiated by the European project CitizenHeritage ("Citizen Science Practices in Cultural Heritage: towards a Sustainable Model in Higher Education", https://www.citizenheritage.eu/ ) presents the analysis resulting from a desktop research and a survey on practices conducted between November 2020 and January 2021. The presentation focuses on a number of registered practices that bridge scientific disciplines in the areas of earth and life sciences, history of science and cultural heritage, producing a substantial, evidence-based review of multimethod research practices of Higher Education engagement in citizen enhanced open science.</p>

scholarly journals Thwarting Plagiarism in the Humanities Classroom: Storyboards, Scaffolding, and a Death Fair

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Hale
Keyword(s):  
Classroom Environment ◽  
High Expectation ◽  
Mind Mapping ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Cultural Boundaries ◽  
Class Environment ◽  
Poster Presentations ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

Best practices research on plagiarism in the University classroom shows that modifying assignments and classroom environment can have a positive effect on lowering a student’s desire to cheat.  James Lang suggests four features of a learning environment that can be fostered to ameliorate a student’s desire to cheat: mastery of the material for its own sake, low-stakes assignments, intrinsic motivations for learning and, a high expectation of success.  Scaffolding has been shown to be a useful pedagogical technique for empowering students (fostering a high expectation of success) My past experience using a variety of visual classroom exercises (cartooning, mind-mapping, advertising campaigns, etc.) gave anecdotal evidence that artistic and visual assignments encouraged a level of engagement and collaboration across language and cultural boundaries not experienced in other types of assignments.  I hypothesized that this level of engagement and collaboration could be used with scaffolding to motivate Lang’s four features and experimented with the use of poster presentations and other visual and spatial assignments in a second year undergraduate Religious Studies course on Death.  Very preliminary qualitative data support the hypothesis that, by addressing Lang’s four features and incorporating scaffolding and visual assignments into the course, students are cheating less and learning more. This research strengthens the extant literature on the impact class environment and expectations have on plagiarism while also adding to the growing body of literature supporting the use of visual assignments, such as poster presentations, mind mapping, and storyboards in the Arts and Humanities.

A perfect couple? Institutional theory and entrepreneurship research

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 616-644
Author(s):  
Qinghua Zhai ◽  
Jing Su
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Theory ◽  
Research Area ◽  
New Venture ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Bibliometric Method ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Full Picture ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities ◽  
The Impact

Purpose This paper aims to evaluate the progress made in understanding the impact of multi-level institutions on entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/approach Based on scientific articles published between 1992 and 2017, the authors take a unique focus on both institutional theory applied and research topics of this area. Bibliometric method and systematic literature review method are used. Findings The results demonstrate that although institutional theory is well prepared for entrepreneurship context operating at different levels, the major knowledge foundation used predominantly focuses on macro and meso level. When it comes to research topics, entrepreneurship is often simplified as the founding of new venture, and the unique venture founding process has rarely been explored. Originality/value This paper is the first to provide a full picture of the multi-level institutions and their consequences on different kinds of entrepreneurial activities. The authors’evaluation of this research area also points out directions for future study.

scholarly journals THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Iwan Gunawan ◽  
Mochamad Aviandy
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Central Java ◽  
The Arts

The world of Visual Arts developed basically from the practice of art creation. From the practice of art creation, the method is increasingly advanced, revealed new concepts and approaches in art creation that are unique. Certainly from the work of the artists and designers, will later arise theories that support the process of new art creations. The studies of Arts appeared after the Art itself created. After there are works, a study of the works or the process of artwork is carried out. There is a need to introduce the arts to the wider community, bridging the gap between the expressions complexities of the artists and people's appreciation. There are also interests of the education field to pass on the knowledge to students or develop new approaches in art education. This understanding of the visual perspectives will also support other sociocultural research. Earlier studies on Visual Arts are generally carried out in the framework of History, and Art Criticism. As the sciences of humanities increasingly developed, the nature and form of art studies became more varied, becoming more interdisciplinary. The study of Visual Arts and Design may involve an analysis of contemporary culture, the media, and society. The cultural activities produce images that are important in understanding the dynamics of society. This special issue, "The Arts and Humanities" covering research topics in the field of Visual Arts and Design, encompasses a diverse range in Visual Art and Design study areas as well as different objectives of the writings. Written by scholars that also practitioners in the field of Visual Arts and Design from a variety of disciplines, the creative and critical research findings problematize critical issues based on art practices, policies, productions, and the aesthetic aspect of the art itself.Most of the topics discussed the fields of "science" which had formally been part of the discourse disciplines in Visual arts schools: Fine Arts, Design, and Crafts, while two of them explored issues in visual culture context that were part of the performing arts and culinary arts. These varied research topics and approaches show the many interests in Visual arts studies, especially in Indonesia.Madia Patra Ismar (2020) with Rayahu Pertiwi (2020) discussed the artistic gaze of two Papuan choreographers; Visual Perspectives Rooted in the Oral Traditions of the Kamoro and Asmat Tribe. Those choreographers based their work on their traditional roots and the choice of visuals and dramatic bodily expressions created by them was based on their deeply ingrained roots as indigenous Papuans. Sonya Indriati Sondakh (2020), realized that when food is served in high-end premises or special places for tourism purpose, the visual aspects become an interesting marker to read. She explores the visual perception in Indonesian food, discusses the negotiation of the visual and gustatory perception.The following three articles select topics around textiles and fashion works, with a gender perspective on the discussion. Lucky Wijayanti (2020) has done research on the resilience of Sasak women. This research concludes that art activities functioned as a 'liberation room' for Sasak women to express themselves. Adlien Fadlia (2020) researched the tradition of making batik in the Rifa’iyah community in the village of Kalipucang Wetan, Batang, Central Java. Batik with a characteristic motif of the Rifa’iyah can be sustainable until now because of the role of women in regenerating batik skills. Mangesti Rahayu (2020) also explored the clothing custom in Indonesia. She found that hijab is also part of the Muslim warriors identites in the era of Indonesia independence struggle. Hijab also had its role in fighting for the dignity of women at that time.

scholarly journals FROM STEM TO STEAM IN ENGINEERING DESIGN

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chantal Rodier ◽  
Mohamed Galaleldin ◽  
Justine Boudreau ◽  
Hanan Anis
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Early Years ◽  
First Year ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Curricular Design ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Design Activities ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

Creativity, communication skills, interdisciplinary sensitivity, and cultural and civic responsibility are vital skills and perspectives to inculcate in contemporary engineering students. A number of studies have demonstrated the benefits of exposing engineering students to arts, as studying arts and humanities can open up their minds to creative ideas from great minds outside of science and engineering. In most cases, engineering students are exposed to the arts by taking a few non-technical courses as electives. Many students view these courses as less important and irrelevant to their field of studies. Integrating the arts into the technical engineering curriculum is challenging but critical to engineering design, particularly in early years, and represents a natural opportunity. This paper discusses the approach taken by the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Ottawa of exposing students to the arts through curricular and extra-curricular design activities. These include offering design challenges, a first-year engineering design course and summer internships. This paper also discusses the challenges that arise in delivering such curriculum and the impact of such exposure on the engineering students involved.

scholarly journals FROM STEM TO STEAM IN ENGINEERING DESIGN

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chantal Rodier ◽  
Mohamed Galaleldin ◽  
Justine Boudreau ◽  
Hanan Anis
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Early Years ◽  
First Year ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Curricular Design ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Design Activities ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

Creativity, communication skills, interdisciplinary sensitivity, and cultural and civic responsibility are vital skills and perspectives to inculcate in contemporary engineering students. A number of studies have demonstrated the benefits of exposing engineering students to arts, as studying arts and humanities can open up their minds to creative ideas from great minds outside of science and engineering. In most cases, engineering students are exposed to the arts by taking a few non-technical courses as electives. Many students view these courses as less important and irrelevant to their field of studies. Integrating the arts into the technical engineering curriculum is challenging but critical to engineering design, particularly in early years, and represents a natural opportunity. This paper discusses the approach taken by the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Ottawa of exposing students to the arts through curricular and extra-curricular design activities. These include offering design challenges, a first-year engineering design course and summer internships. This paper also discusses the challenges that arise in delivering such curriculum and the impact of such exposure on the engineering students involved.

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