scholarly journals Egypt's cultural heritage in conflict situations: examination of past and present impact

2019 ◽  
pp. 521-550
Author(s):  
Nevine Nizar Zakaria
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Heritage Protection ◽  
Illegal Activities

In recent decades, the remarkable cultural heritage of Egypt has been threatened by loss or damage due to many conflict situations. These have led to looting, smuggling, vandalism, encroachment, illegal activities, and many more threats which put the fate of Egypt’s heritage in jeopardy of disappearance and demolition. The loss of Egyptian heritage is not only a loss of history, but of cultural identity, memory and existence. These types of threats are by no means a recent phenomenon, but have been going on for centuries. This paper presents a research into the history of Egyptian heritage in times of conflict especially in the 19th and 20th centuries. Furthermore, it also examines the severe crisis that endangered Egyptian heritage in the 21st century, notably the aftermath of the 2011 Revolution and the subsequent, widespread pillaging of archeological sites and museums. These recent conflicts highlighted concerns about the future of Egyptian antiquities and their protection, and raised serious concerns about how to protect Egyptian patrimony and preserve the collective cultural memory of Egypt. A comprehensive, comparative analysis of Egyptian and international legislation pertraining to cultural heritage protection has been conducted in order to examine its efficiency in protecting Egypt’s cultural heritage.

scholarly journals Typological Convergence and “Strange Contingence” in the Novels of V. Kaverin “Two Captains” and B. Schlink “Olga”

2021 ◽  
pp. 178-192
Author(s):  
Т. A. Sharypina
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
World History ◽  
Private Person ◽  
The North ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nuclear Events

The results of a comparative analysis of the poetic dominants in the novels “Two Captains” by V. Kaverin and “Olga” by B. Schlink are presented. The novelty of the research is seen in the identification of diachronic typological parallels that can be traced at all levels of the poetological structure, including the features of the narrative, plot-compositional construction, and the system of images. It is noted that in both novels the problem of historical and cultural memory arises, since it is one of the defining components of the national mentality. It has been proved that letters form not only the “nuclear events” of the novels under study, but also are semantic centers that accumulate the components of mythological models that determined the life and fate of the heroes of the studied works. The “strange contingence” is commented on in terms of problems, since in both works the main characters are inspired by the idea of developing the North. The article reveals “strange contingence” at the moral and ethical level, connected with the fate of a private person of the 20th century, whose life is not only inscribed in world history, but composes and creates it. It is shown that the history of V. Kaverin and B. Schlink is interesting as a field, the study of which helps to clarify the present and warn against mistakes in the future.

On the Fraught Internationalism of Intellectuals

2020 ◽  
pp. 167-190
Author(s):  
Johannes Feichtinger
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
International Committee ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
International Governance ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Relational History

This chapter investigates the idea and practice of intellectual cooperation as a tool of international governance: an innovation of the League’s International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (ICIC). It shows how Austria’s involvement decisively shaped both the ICIC’s agenda and the future European intellectual order. From the mid-1920s onwards, cooperation included the newly emerging area of cultural heritage and its institutions, such as libraries, archives, and museums, all of which had a rich imperial tradition in Vienna. The chapter also elaborates how interwar intellectual cooperation subsequently informed the strategy that UNESCO, ICIC’s successor organization, would adopt after 1945. This chapter provides a relational history of the development of international intellectual cooperation between Austria and the League of Nations, and aims to illuminate the opportunities, expectations, and realities of international intellectual cooperation from a regional, actor- and institution-oriented perspective. It reconstructs the ‘international’ of intellectual cooperation in the making.

scholarly journals Drama in Ho Chi Minh City literature and art life

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 47-60
Author(s):  
Thuy Trung Luu
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Performance Art ◽  
Early Time ◽  
High Time ◽  
Ho Chi Minh City ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of

In the history of Vietnamese drama, Saigon was one of the places absorbing Western drama from the early time. Although drama in Saigon-Ho Chi Minh City didn’t develop in a smooth and straight way, it was a continuous and unbroken process. This process brought in strong development of drama in Ho Chi Minh city in two decades of the late 20th century and the early 21st century. However, in recent years, drama in Ho Chi Minh City seems to proceed slowly, which reflects some irrational aspects from drama script, performance art to performance operation. Therefore, it’s high time to review the whole history of drama in Saigon-Ho Chi Minh City to collect experiences for the steady development of drama in this City in the future.

scholarly journals Protection of monuments as an element of cultural security (on the example of the Liw Castle)

2019 ◽  
Vol 192 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-226
Author(s):  
Michał Godlewski
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Cultural Community ◽  
Cultural Activities ◽  
Total Destruction ◽  
Historical Literature ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Impact

The article presents various ways of defining cultural security, which is one of the human primary needs represented in the literature on the subject. It focuses on explaining the meaning of the term “monument”, which is defined and understood in many ways. The history of the Land of Liw and the Liw Castle is presented through the analysis of historical literature. Furthermore, the article discusses Otto Warpechowski’s contribution to the protection of the Liw Castle, which is the cultural heritage of the Mazovia region and the entire Poland, against total destruction planned by the Nazi authorities. The article reveals the impact that the Castle in Liw has on the feeling of cultural security of the local community, and describes cultural activities undertaken at the Liw Castle aimed at promoting the sense of safety, cultural identity and belonging to the Polish cultural community and a local community.

scholarly journals Religio-cultural heritage of libation, memory and Obang cultural history, Northwest Cameroon

2020 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix K. Esoh ◽  
Chammah J. Kaunda
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Cultural Resilience ◽  
Traditional Societies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Northwest Region

This article argues that libation, often associated with the ancestors, artefacts, images and pre-Christian religious devotions, constitutes sources for articulating authentic African cultural history of Obang community in the Northwest Region of Cameroon. It highlights that among traditional memory carriers, the ritual of libation remains trust worthy and pervasive, even among communities challenged by globalisation and colonising effects of Christianity. The article demonstrates the immense potentials of libation as an epitome and stabiliser of cultural memory, and a maxim in cultural resilience in contemporary Africa. Thus, the article calls for revisiting this ancient ritual to expose its potentials as a veritable memory repertoire in cultural–historical studies, especially at a time when social change and modernism continue to challenge the memories of traditional societies.

scholarly journals Freedom of Culture in and after Yugoslavia. An Interview with Branka Prpa

Südosteuropa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-128
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Nießer
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Historical Archives ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cultural Freedom ◽  
State Socialist ◽  
Opening Up

Abstract The historian Branka Prpa was the director of the Historical Archives of Belgrade after Slobodan Milošević’s regime ended in 2000. Jacqueline Nießer spoke to Prpa about how she set about reforming Belgrade’s Historical Archives during Serbia’s democratic opening-up under Zoran Djindjić. Prpa has fostered preservation of the cultural history of socialist Yugoslavia, so the focus of the interview was cultural freedom in and after Yugoslavia. The historian elaborates on how culture both then and now has been in conflict with politics, her remarks leading on to a discussion about how a future may be imagined in the 21st century. The interview was conducted during the COURAGE project, which between 2016 and 2019 has researched the cultural heritage of dissent in the former state socialist countries of Eastern Europe.

scholarly journals Heart of Darkness – Heart of Redness: Heartache and Pain in two Commonwealth Novels

Linguaculture ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana-Maria Ştefan
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Culture Shock ◽  
Postcolonial Literature ◽  
The Body ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Heart Of Darkness ◽  
Anthropology Of The Body ◽  
Postmodern Novel

Abstract Our study is conceived as a comparative analysis of Zakes Mda’s postcolonial and postmodern novel The Heart of Redness and Joseph Conrad’s canonical and colonial novella Heart of Darkness, from the viewpoint of a literarily encoded anthropology of the body. In both texts, body marks and body pain are prominent and recurrent motives, carrying along important cultural meanings, related to several classic themes of colonial and postcolonial literature: the birth and becoming of cultural identity and awareness, culture shock, cultural contacts, enculturation versus deculturation, and cultural memory, as a vehicle and repository of myths, history and (body) image stereotypes.

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