scholarly journals Chinghiz Aitmatov’s Humanistic Principles in On-Screen Interpretations: A Dialogue of Cultures

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 556-565
Author(s):  
Natalya B. Kirillova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
World Community ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
Historical Comparative ◽  
Social Upheaval ◽  
Literary Classics ◽  
Artistic Image ◽  
Thaw Period

The purpose of this article is to actua­lize the humanistic principles of Chinghiz Aitmatov (1928—2008), one of the brightest writers and humanists of the 20th century, whose 90th birth anniversary is being celebrated by the world community. The article considers the problems of on-screen interpretations of Chinghiz Aitmatov’s works in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods. The author considers interpreting of literary classics not only as a “translation” of a work from the language of one art into the language of another, but also as a “dialogue of cultures” (according to M. Bakhtin) — in this case, the book one (culture of the word) and the screen one (audiovisual culture). The article uses the historical-comparative and interdisciplinary methods: the artistic and cultural approaches are combined with the method of lite­rary analysis of texts. The chosen research topic is relevant due to both the revival of interest in Ch. Aitmatov’s works, which raised the problems of “cultural me­mory” and “cultural identity” to the rank of universal, and the increase of scientific interest in the issues of on-screen interpretations. The article analyzes the films by A. Konchalovsky, G. Bazarov, L. Shepitko, I. Poplavskaya, S. Urusevsky, T. Okeev, B. Shamshiev, K. Gevorkyan, B. Karagulov, and other directors who filmed Aitmatov’s prose. The author concludes that on-screen interpretations are able to “actualize” and “moder­nize” the classics in the era of globalization; and the task of the interpreter is extremely complex and responsible.The article has three main sections. The first one, “In Line with the ‘Sixties’”, considers the proximity of young Aitmatov’s works to the search and discovery of the artists of the “Thaw” period. The second one, “How a Man Can Be a Man...”, reveals the features of the worldview of the writer who rethinks the Soviet reality, which changes the atmosphere of the films based on his works. In the third section “From Drama to Philosophical Parable”, the author focu­ses on the strengthening of moral and philosophical problematics in Aitmatov’s works, which complicates the artistic image of on-screen adaptations and makes them a kind of mirror of the era of social upheaval.

Māori Research(er) in Three Poems

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Jacquie Kidd
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Bell Hooks ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Third ◽  
Ruth Behar ◽  
Seeking Help

These three poems re-present the findings from a research project that took place in 2013 (Kidd et al. 2018, Kidd et al. 2014). The research explored what health literacy meant for Māori patients and whānau when they accessed palliative care. Through face-to-face interviews and focus groups we engaged with 81 people including patients, whānau, bereaved loved ones, support workers and health professionals. The poems are composite, written to bring some of our themes to life. The first poem is titled Aue. This is a Māori lament that aligns to English words such as ‘oh no’, or ‘arrgh’, or ‘awww’. Each stanza of the poem re-presents some of the stories we heard throughout the research. The second poem is called Tikanga. This is a Māori concept that encompasses customs, traditions and protocols. There are tikanga rituals and processes that guide all aspects of life, death, and relationships. This poem was inspired by an elderly man who explained that he would avoid seeking help from a hospice because ‘they leave tikanga at the door at those places’. His choice was to bear his pain bravely, with pride, within his cultural identity. The third poem is called ‘People Like Me’. This is an autoethnographical reflection of what I experienced as a researcher which draws on the work of scholars such as bell hooks (1984), Laurel Richardson (1997) and Ruth Behar (1996). These and many other authors encourage researchers to use frustration and anger to inform our writing; to use our tears to fuel our need to publish our research.

Transformations of the world order in the run-up to the third decade of the XXI century

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-24
Author(s):  
I. V. Bocharnikov ◽  
O. A. Ovsyannikova
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
World Order ◽  
The United States ◽  
Modern World ◽  
New World Order ◽  
World Community ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Run Up

Тhe article reveals the main directions of transformation of the modern world order caused by the decline of the American-centric system, as well as the crisis of European integration. The main factors that determine the development of these processes, problems and prospects for the formation of a new world order at the beginning of the third decade of the XXI century are determined. The most significant aspects of the transformation of the policy of the United States and its European allies in relation to Russia are considered, and historical analogies are drawn with the processes of transformation of the world community in the XIX and XX centuries.

The Cradle of Exotica

2020 ◽  
pp. 4-25
Author(s):  
Karen Polinger Foster
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Natural World ◽  
The Third ◽  
Political Status ◽  
Third Millennium ◽  
Commercial Enterprise ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
And Control ◽  
Clay Tablet

This chapter discusses the role of exotica in the Mesopotamian mind. By 1875, The Epic of Gilgamesh had begun to emerge from the thousands of clay tablet fragments freshly unearthed in the remains of the great royal library of Assurbanipal at Nineveh. Gilgamesh’s drive to possess the exotic is rooted in long-standing Mesopotamian tradition. From the third millennium on, when he supposedly reigned, scholar-scribes organized and classified nearly all aspects of the natural world. Thematic lists of flora and fauna, heavenly bodies, precious and semiprecious materials, and topographical features provided the educated elite with a means of conceptualizing patterns and interrelationships. For Gilgamesh, as for many Mesopotamian rulers, the acquisition and display of exotica were key aspects of kingship. Once secured within the walled, urban cores of Mesopotamian cultural identity, exotica offered tangible signs of wide-ranging military might, commercial enterprise, and political status and control.

Exploring register variation on Reddit

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aatu Liimatta
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
English Language ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
Dimensional Approach ◽  
Register Variation ◽  
The Third ◽  
Instructional Focus ◽  
Research Material ◽  
The Social ◽  
On Line

Abstract While the language of the internet has been an increasingly popular research topic, there remain many understudied areas and topics which deserve more attention. This study explores register variation within the social media website Reddit using the multi-dimensional approach developed by Douglas Biber. Reddit, the third most popular English-language social media website after the giants Facebook and Twitter, is made up of thousands of user-created ‘subreddits’, subcommunities centered around different topics, where users make posts and comment on them. Many different communities and topic areas under one roof makes Reddit a particularly fruitful source of research material. In this paper, three register dimensions are extracted from data collected over one month from a group of thirty-seven subreddits: ‘On-line Subjective Production’, ‘Informational Style’ and ‘Instructional Focus’. These dimensions describe register variation within Reddit in meaningful ways. They are also in line with suggested register universals (Biber 2014).

scholarly journals Archetypal Use of Artificial Intelligence for Bridge Structural Monitoring

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (20) ◽  
pp. 7157
Author(s):  
Bernardino Chiaia ◽  
Valerio De Biagi
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
Damage Detection ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
Structural Monitoring ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
Relevant Role ◽  
Measurement Devices

Structural monitoring is a research topic that is receiving more and more attention, especially in light of the fact that a large part our infrastructural heritage was built in the Sixties and is aging and approaching the end of its design working life. The detection of damage is usually performed through artificial intelligence techniques. In contrast, tools for the localization and the estimation of the extent of the damage are limited, mainly due to the complete datasets of damages needed for training the system. The proposed approach consists in numerically generating datasets of damaged structures on the basis of random variables representing the actions and the possible damages. Neural networks were trained to perform the main structural monitoring tasks: damage detection, localization, and estimation. The artificial intelligence tool interpreted the measurements on a real structure. To simulate real measurements more accurately, noise was added to the synthetic dataset. The results indicate that the accuracy of the measurement devices plays a relevant role in the quality of the monitoring.

Recalibrating the Spatiality of the State: The Normality of Abnormal Transgressions in the Third World

Global Jurist ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Parvathi Menon
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
International Order ◽  
The State ◽  
Nation State ◽  
World Community ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World

AbstractThe paper argues that the opposing ideas of order/disorder, peace/war and normality/abnormality exist within each other, making a discernible boundary between them a fallacy created by the language of law. Therefore, even when a resistance to the order is carried out, it is with the aspiration of assimilation into this phantom world community. I analyze how the concept of nation-state is reinforced through territorial identities, best portrayed through liberation struggles, thus demonstrating how these transgressions, though projected by the international order to exist separate from the order (normality) as an ‘abnormality’, is in fact facilitated through (the normality of) law.

Contemporary Politics and Empathetic Emotions: Company B's Antigone

2010 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 351-360
Author(s):  
Peta Tait
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Racial Diversity ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
Ethnic And Racial Diversity ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Social Upheaval

Sydney-based Company B's 2008 season included The Burial at Thebes: Sophocles's Antigone in Irish poet Seamus Heaney's translation. This article shows how the production conveyed notions of war, social upheaval, displacement, and exile that are relevant to contemporary Australian spectators. With its ethnic and racial diversity, and one overt reference to the plight of indigenous people under colonial rule and its legacy, the production confirmed that the emotional resonances in this staging of Antigone reflect and yet transcend the contemporary Australian situation; and Peta Tait here argues that the production contributed to spectators' understanding of the emotions underlying contemporary political debates. Peta Tait is Professor of Theatre and Drama at La Trobe University. Her recent publications include Circus Bodies: Cultural Identity in Aerial Performance (Routledge, 2005) and Performing Emotions: Gender, Bodies, Spaces (Ashgate, 2002). She has published widely on theatre, drama, circus performance, and gender identity, and is co-editor (with Liz Schafer) of the anthology Australian Women's Drama: Texts and Feminisms (Currency Press, 1997).

scholarly journals Introduction: The Politics of Diversity in Music Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Alexis Anja Kallio ◽  
Kathryn Marsh ◽  
Heidi Westerlund ◽  
Sidsel Karlsen ◽  
Eva Sæther
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Music Education ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Music Teachers ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The Third ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Policy Agendas

AbstractThe Politics of Diversity in Music Educationattends to the political structures and processes that frame and produce understandings of diversity in and through music education. Recent surges in nationalist, fundamentalist, protectionist, and separatist tendencies highlight the imperative for music education to extend beyond nominal policy agendas to critically consider the ways in which understandings about society are upheld or unsettled and the ways in which knowledge about diversity is produced. This chapter provides an overview of the scholarly foundations that this book builds upon before introducing the four sections of the book and contributing chapters. The first section of the book focuses on the politics of inquiry in music education research. The second section attends to the paradoxes and challenges that arise as music teachers negotiate cultural identity and tradition within the political frames and ideals of the nation state. The third section considers diversities that are often overlooked or silenced, and the final section turns to matters of leadership in higher music education as an inherently political and ethical undertaking. Together, chapters work towards a more critical, complex, and nuanced understanding of the ways in which the politics of diversity shape our ideals of what music education is, and what it is for.

scholarly journals HOMO ACADEMICUS. Part I. Scientific and Public organizations of the Russian Empire: between State Responsibility and Private Initiative

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
Private Initiative ◽  
Scientific Organizations ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
Xix Century ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

Abstract: Homo academicus was the title of a book by Pierre Bourdieu, published in Russia in 2017. Research of the person, his chances in the period of formation of scientific organizations – a research topic. The monograph is devoted to the development of scientific organizations of the Slavic peoples. The philosophical and anthropological grounds for the preservation of cultural heritage and creation in the Russian Empire in the XVIII and first half of the XIX century are considered. It was possible to trace how the scientific and practical activities of Russian statesmen and scientists formed programs and institutions for the preservation of cultural heritage. Keywords: Homo academicus, Pierre Bourdieu, scientific organizations, cultural identity, nation, cultural heritage, Imperial Russian Academy of Sciences

scholarly journals “IDEOLOGICAL IDEALISM” IN THE XXI CENTURY: “PARADISE” AS A PROBLEM OF “FAITH” AND “KNOWLEDGE”

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-10
Author(s):  
B.P. Borisov ◽  
I.I. Reznichenko
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Formation ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Artistic Image ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Modern Form

A problem of the relationship between "faith" and "knowledge" is a historically traditional subject of a worldview discourse. Three main approaches have been formed in its discussion: "faith helps to know", "knowledge enlightens faith", "faith in the ideologically formed image of the world substitutes knowledge". In spiritual conditions of the postmodern era, the third approach to discussing the relationship between 'faith' and 'knowledge' is dominant. This article shows that the transformation of "faith" into a special foundation of "simulations of metaphysics of the postmodern", for the modern stage of the spiritual formation of mankind is not accidental, but responds to the need of man to "Salvation" in its modern form, acquiring in the conditions of artistic and ideological worldview creativity a kind of "search for an artistic image" of ideologically manifested "true being". Does this mean, for mankind, the final "post-mythological victory of faith over knowledge"? The question, alas, remains open for now.

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