TanzArchiv Leipzig – Disappearing Content and Traces of Past Events

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-198
Author(s):  
Erica Charalambous
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
East European ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Archival Collection ◽  
Art And Culture ◽  
Image Artefacts ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Leipzig

The TanzArchiv Leipzig (TAL) presents itself as a precarious archive of dance that blossomed in dubious political times. It was founded when East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country during 1949–1990, in which art and culture were valued as national currency ( Bourdieu 1986 ; Lohman 1994 ). Although the archive had lost its domicile as an Institution of the GDR (1989) as part of a larger Institution of the Academy of Arts (Akademie der Kunst), then it continued to act as a research centre in the Institute of the House of Literature (Haus des Buches), then renting its own premises as a foundation thereafter (ca. 1993–2010) and finally, is currently stored since 2011 as the TAL collection in the Special Collections department in the Albertina Library, at the University of Leipzig ( Reinsberg 2002 ; Ruiz [2002] ; 2018). The archival collection embraces a large collection of ‘traces’ of dance content such as manuscripts, dance scores, film, sound and image artefacts as well as objects, publications and a variety of ephemera. However, its fate as an archive of a country that no longer exists, and the question of the preservation and circulation of its content make it an ambiguous and challenging dance archive to examine in full. In this article I will focus on the description and structure of the archive, the dissemination strategies Documenta Choreologica 1 and Kurt Petermann's passion for dance transmission, through his letter correspondence within and without East European countries during the Cold War ( Boehme 1948 ; Dafova 1996 ; Guilbert 2007 ).

scholarly journals John Connelly's Long March through East European History

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Gary B. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
East Central ◽  
East European ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The University

John Connelly, a member of the history faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, for the last quarter century, has produced what will surely stand as a landmark among grand syntheses on the modern history of Eastern Europe. The book title uses the geographical designation favored during the Cold War, but the subject is more precisely East Central Europe, a term that Connelly uses interchangeably with Eastern Europe to designate the lands lying between Germany and Austria in the west and the former components of the Soviet Union to the east.

EXPLORING THE CONTENTS OF THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD ANNUAL REPORTS: 1827–1856

2000 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary John Previts ◽  
William D. Samson
Keyword(s):  
Annual Report ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Corporate Disclosure ◽  
University Of Alabama ◽  
Complete Collection ◽  
Archival Collection ◽  
Annual Reporting ◽  
The University ◽  
Disclosure Practice ◽  
Corporate Practice

In 1995, a nearly complete collection of the annual reports of the earliest interstate and common carrier railroad in the U. S., the Baltimore and Ohio (B&O), was rediscovered in the archival collection at the Bruno Library of the University of Alabama. Dating from the company's inception in 1827 to its acquisition by the Chessie System in 1962, the reports present a unique opportunity for the exploration, study, and analysis of early U.S. corporate disclosure practice. This paper represents a study of the annual report information made publicly available by one of America's first railroads, and one of the first modern U.S. corporations. In this paper, early annual reports of the B&O which detail its formation, construction, and operation are catalogued as to content and evaluated. Mandated in the corporate charter, the annual “statement of affairs” presented by the management and directors to stockholders is studied as a process and as a product that instigated the institutional corporate practice recognized today as “annual reporting.” Using a single company methodology for assessment of reporting follows a pattern developed by Claire [1945] in his analysis of U.S. Steel and utilized by other researchers. This study demonstrates the use of archival information to improve understanding about the origins and contents of early annual reports and, therein, related disclosure forms.

With Plenty of Elbow Room: Planning New and Upgraded Spaces for Library and Archives Conservation and Audiovisual Preservation

Collections ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 155019062098784
Author(s):  
Whitney Baker
Keyword(s):  
Planning Process ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
University Of Kansas ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Student Employees ◽  
The University ◽  
Film And Video

In 2018, the University of Kansas (KU) Libraries upgraded from a tired, twenty-year-old basement space to a new, purpose-built conservation lab for library and archives collections. The new conservation lab, which is housed in the special collections and archives library, quadrupled available lab space for its conservators and fleet of student employees. The move afforded Conservation space in the same library as the most vulnerable collection materials. In addition, rooms in the special collections and archives library were repurposed for audiovisual (AV) preservation, creating two new spaces for film and video workflows and upgrading an existing small audio room. This paper will discuss the conservation and preservation lab construction literature and will serve as a practical exemplar of the challenges and successes of the planning process, including lessons learned and unexpected benefits.

scholarly journals Interview with Stuart Walker

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (43) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Marilia Riul ◽  
Ingrid Moura Wanderley ◽  
Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Mass Production ◽  
Social System ◽  
Design Research ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Human Values ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Design For Sustainability ◽  
The University

Stuart Walker is Professor of Design for Sustainability and Co-Director of the Imagination Lancaster design research Centre at Lancaster University. Focused on design for sustainability; product aesthetics and meaning; practice-based design research and product design that explores and expresses both human values and notions of spirituality. He was interviewed in his second visit to Brazil to attend the Conference and Workshop "Design and the national policy of solid waste: dialogues on sustainability," held in the Sustainability Laboratory (Lassu) at the University of São Paulo (USP) in 2013, an activity of the research project sponsored by CNPq: Product design, sustainability and national policy on solid waste, coordinated by Professor Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos. Through the suggested questions, Professor Stuart Walker built a severe critique of our social system of mass production and reminded us that values really matter to our journey.

THE ELEMENTAL STATUS OF ANCIENT HUMAN BONES FROM EDESHEIM/RHEINLAND–PFALZ DETERMINED BY PIXE

1999 ◽  
Vol 09 (03n04) ◽  
pp. 509-514
Author(s):  
STEFFEN JÁNKUHN ◽  
JÜRGEN VOGT ◽  
TILMAN BUTZ
Keyword(s):  
Ion Beam ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Burial Site ◽  
High Fracture ◽  
Preliminary Information ◽  
Human Bones ◽  
Diagenetic Processes ◽  
Elemental Status ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Leipzig

We report on ion beam investigations of 40 bone samples from the archaeological site Edesheim/Rheinland–Pfalz, Germany, a burial site of a Merowingian population (6–8th century AD). The samples were prepared as pellets from the so–called WARD'S triangle. This region is an inner part of the femoral neck and one of the areas of high fracture risk in the case of osteoporosis. The experiments were carried out with an 1.5 MeV H + beam at the 2 MV VAN DE GRAAFF accelerator of the University of Leipzig. Simultaneously to the PIXE measurements, PBS and PIGE spectra were recorded. We will present a correlation matrix for 11 selected elements detected by PIXE, which exhibits trends and dependences from which preliminary information on various diagenetic processes can be derived.

Library Impact Practice Brief: Freshman Fellows: Implementing and Assessing a First-Year Primary-Source Research Program

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Burri ◽  
Joshua Everett ◽  
Heidi Herr ◽  
Jessica Keyes
Keyword(s):  
Primary Source ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
First Year ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
College Career ◽  
Library Impact ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The University ◽  
Impact Framework

This practice brief describes the assessment project undertaken by the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University as part of the library’s participation in ARL’s Research Library Impact Framework initiative to address the question “(How) do the library’s special collections specifically support and promote teaching, learning, and research?” The research team investigated how the Freshman Fellows experience impacted the fellows’ studies and co-curricular activities at the university. Freshmen Fellows, established in 2016, is a signature opportunity to expose students to primary-source collections early in their college career by pairing four fellows with four curators on individual research projects. The program graduated its first cohort of fellows in spring 2020. The brief includes a semi-structured interview guide, program guidelines, and a primary research rubric.

ADHD, Self-Harm, and the Importance of Early Childhood Intervention - In Conversation with Dr. Melissa Mulraney

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Child Mental Health ◽  
Associate Editor ◽  
Mental Health Research ◽  
Social Neuroscience ◽  
Early Childhood Intervention ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Senior Lecturer ◽  
Childhood Intervention ◽  
Self Harm ◽  
The University

In this podcast, we talk to Dr. Melissa Mulraney, Senior Lecturer and co-leader of the Child Mental Health Research Centre at the Institute for Social Neuroscience in Melbourne, Australia, Honorary Research Fellow at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne, and Associate Editor of CAMH.

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