A WORD ABOUT THE ASCETIC

Review of the collective monograph: Scientist. Poet. Publicist: to the 85 anniversary of the birth and the sixtieth anniversary of the creative activity of V. M. Vanyushev: collective monograph / UdmFITSURO RAN; comp. and ed. by R. V. Kirillova. - Izhevsk, 2021. - 292 p. ISBN 978-5-6044266-8-5.

Commemorative and Anniversary Philosophical Medals as a Visual Aid and Philosophical Source

The paper demonstrates the significance of commemorative and anniversary philosophical medals that are seen as a special visual aid for problematic issues in the history of philosophy specification. The author puts forward the thesis that such medals can clarify the perception of philosophical doctrine and the context of philosophical doctrine consideration at a particular time. So, they greatly assist as an additional historical and philosophical source, but they can hardly be helpful with the interpretation of either various aspects of a philosophical doctrine or a particular statement of a particular philosopher. The rationale for the thesis presents the analysis of four philosophical medals: the medal commemorating the foundation of the alethophile society (1740), A. Abramsonʼs medal in honor of I. Kantʼs sixtieth anniversary (1784), A. Abramsonʼs medal for the death of I. Kant (1804), A.L. Heldʼs medals in honor of the sixtieth anniversary of G.W.F. Hegel (1830). If the first three medals contribute to a better understanding of the philosophical traits of the German Enlightenment, the reasons for appealing to Horace's words “sapere aude”, Kant's peculiarity as an Enlightenmentist, philosophical meaning of the Kantian Copernican Revolution and the transformation of the perception of the “Critique of Pure Reason” in the late 18th century, expectations regarding the fourth medal has proved misplaced. It cannot clarify the Hegelian phrase about reason as a rose on the cross of modernity and reconciliation with reality. In addition, in the course of clarifying the meaning of the four aforementioned medals, the author also turns to the commemorative medal of Chr. Wolff by J. Dassier (c. 1733), the medal for the return of Chr. Wolff to Halle by J.Chr. Koch (1740) and the medal for Kantʼs death by F.W. Loos (1804).

“Racist-Blind, Not Color-Blind” by Design: Confronting Systemic Racism in Our Educational Past, Present, and Future

This History of Education Society Presidential Address comes at the society's sixtieth anniversary and provides a new conceptual framework that foregrounds recognizing a “racist-blind,” and not a color-blind, ideology in the intentional and unequal design our educational past and present. It highlights systemic racism brought on by the dual pandemic moments of COVID-19 and global racial unrest, with a call to action for educational historians to lead in promoting systemic, institutional changes.

LIFE DEDICATED TO STUDY THE TRADITIONAL UDMURT CULTURE: ON THE SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ETHNOLOGIST TATIANA GILNIYAKHMETOVNA MINNIYAKHMETOVA

The article is devoted to the anniversary of Tatyana Gilnyakhmetovna Minniyakhmetova, the prominent ethnologist and Candidate of Historical Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy, Excellence in Public Education of the RSFSR (Moscow, 1987). The author focuses on her formation stages as a researcher, her scientific, popularizing and organizational activities and her contribution to the study of Udmurt traditional culture. During the period of the scientific research T. Minniyakhmetova published eight single author and multi-author monographs and more than two hundred articles in Udmurt traditional culture. Her research works are in demand by the professional academic community and universities, and researchers of the Higher School, and by everyone who is interested in the culture and history of the Udmurt people. She has organized and conducted more than seventy folkloristic-ethnographic and folkloristic-dialectological expeditions, the geography of which in addition to the Trans-Kama region and Udmurt Republic which covers the neighbouring territories of the Volga and Ural area, as well as some regions of Siberia. T. Minniyakhmetova has collected the solid bank of information on ethnography, culture and life of the Udmurts as well as other ethnic groups of the Volga-Ural region. There is the large fund of photographic materials, video and audio recordings in her collection. The name of the Udmurt ethnologist is known not only in Russia, but also outside of the country. The Udmurt origin and her experiences of tendencies of European ethnology allow T. Minniyakhmetova to act both as a researcher who knows ethnic culture from the inside and in the context of the development of modern ethnic processes. Through her scientific and teaching activities, she contributes to the wide popularization of Udmurt ethnography and folklore in the European and global scientific community. According to the traditional concepts of the Udmurts, Tatiana Minniyakhmetova developed anthropological theories on ethnic self-consciousness, concepts of ritual and doubled ritual time, peculiarities of the orientation in space (spacial intimacy and spacial contradiction), real and symbolic boundaries, the concept of clean/pure and unclean/impure, the birth of life and the creation of souls, interactive methods of communication between the living and the dead, methodology of field researches.

Making Music, Building Roads

This chapter explores how the analyses of audible infrastructures presented in this volume connect to the established and growing body of literature on civic infrastructures from scholars in the humanities and social sciences. There are clearly convergent interests between those who work on roads, water, and energy systems, on the one hand, and those who study the production, circulation, and reproduction of sound, on the other. To analyze the materialities of music making, as with civic infrastructures, is to investigate the relational capacities of the materials from which things are made, the diverse types of labor through which these materials become integral to their emergent forms, and the uneven distribution of access to the wider structures that underpin the circulation and reproduction of such forms. In particular, the chapter focuses on how the relationship between the hardware of engineered systems and the software of sociality creates new possibilities for thinking about the politics of infrastructure. The chapter explores these resonances between audible and civic infrastructures by considering the M1 Symphony, a work commissioned by the British Broadcasting Corporation to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the opening of Britain’s first long-distance motorway. The example provokes reflection on the relationship between media and infrastructure, between composition and improvisation, and between ontological experiment and artful design.

Sixtieth anniversary of the International Geophysical Year (1957–2017) – contribution of the Soviet Union

The International Geophysical Year (IGY) was the most significant international scientific event in geophysical sciences in the history of mankind. This was the largest international experiment that brought together about 300 000 scientists from 67 countries. Well-planned activity of national and international committees was organized for the first time. The history of the IGY organization and complex international experiments in planetary geophysics conducted within its program are discussed in this article. Special attention is given to the estimation of the significance of this project for developing worldwide geophysical research.

How Alfred Hitchcock Distanced Robert Bloch. Psycho once again (on the sixtieth anniversary of the famous film adaptation of the novel)

In Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock appears to have explored the entire potential of Robert Bloch’s novel, employing a variety of solutions allowed by the polysemiotic audiovisual medium. Hitchcock made signifi cant compositional changes in comparison with the original (including the „false end” effect) and introduced new motifs, thus thoroughly modifying the symbolic implications of the story (e.g. the ornithological motifs). Another issue addressed in the article is the depiction of death, framed through references to the work of Gérard Lenne, who argues that in artistic exposures of the body, death undermines the illusion of the spectacle. The famous shower scene in Psycho solves this problem through stylistic solutions (e.g. the use of visual metaphors).