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Amsterdam Museum: Tracking Studies Results
No full textThis dataset contains the results of tracking studies conducted in four exhibitions of the Amsterdam Museum in 2019. The dataset is further discussed in a project report made available online by the author under the title 'Visiting the Amsterdam Museum: Studying Visitors' Responses to Decolonial Practices' (2021)
Amsterdam Museum: Tracking Studies Results
No full textThis dataset contains the results of tracking studies conducted in four exhibitions of the Amsterdam Museum in 2019. The dataset is further discussed in a project report made available online by the author under the title 'Visiting the Amsterdam Museum: Studying Visitors' Responses to Decolonial Practices' (2021)
Visiting the Amsterdam Museum: Studying Visitors' Responses to Decolonial Practices
No full textThis report was developed within the Horizon2020 project ECHOES: European Colonial Heritage Modalities in Entangled Cities as part of its work package 3 on ‘City Museums and Multiple Colonial Pasts.’ This work package conducts in-depth, qualitative, comparative analyses of three city museums, each representing distinct positions within colonial history. The Amsterdam Museum forms one of these three case studies. The aim of this third report on the Amsterdam Museum is to assess visitors’ responses to a selection of the museum’s decolonial practices. In part, practicing decoloniality is dealing with direct colonial heritages and objects. However, decoloniality as a whole is “a process and a mode of through that goes deeper into untangling the current-day colonial hooks from the museum” (Ariese & Wróblewska Forthcoming: 1). Thus, as the core of this report will show, there are many ways in which the Amsterdam Museum can practice decoloniality, not always necessarily directly related to ‘colonial’ objects
Letter from C.E. Hostetler, Chief, Vocational Rehabilitation and Education Division, to George Hideo Nakamura
No full textCorrespondence from C.E. Hostetler to George Hideo Nakamura regarding Nakamura's request for educational benefits.The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications
Memo from C.E. Duncan, Colonel, Air Corps Chief of Staff, to all personnel, Headquarters, Second Air Force, November 2, 1945
No full textMemorandum of understanding from C.E. Duncan to All Personnel, Headquarters, Second Air Force regarding the award of the American Theater Ribbon.The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications
Amsterdam Museum: Tracking Studies Results
No full textThis dataset contains the results of tracking studies conducted in four exhibitions of the Amsterdam Museum in 2019. The dataset is further discussed in a project report made available online by the author under the title 'Visiting the Amsterdam Museum: Studying Visitors' Responses to Decolonial Practices' (2021)
Letter from C.E. Zimmer, Chief, Agriculture, War Relocation Authority, to whom it may concern, April 30, 1943
No full textCorrespondence from C.E. Zimmer to Whom it May Concern regarding George Hideo Nakamura's loyalty to the United States and recommendation for a job.The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications
Databases of the people aboard the VOC ships Batavia (1629) & Zeewijk (1727) – An analysis of the potential for finding the Dutch castaways’ human remains in Australia.
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General Introduction
The reefs surrounding the Houtman Abrolhos in Western Australia were a notorious hazard to shipping in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (fig. 1). The Dutch East India Company (VOC) made sure to mark this island group on its maps and skippers had strict instructions to avoid coming into contact with these reefs. Even so, the VOC is known to have lost two ships here, Batavia and Zeewijk. Some of the castaways from both of these shipwrecks, although faced by many difficult challenges, managed to reach Batavia, the headquarters of the VOC in the Indies. Their journals and stories have survived in archives. Those who died or were murdered in the Houtman Abrolhos may have left their mark in other ways. Western Australia now possibly possesses a large number of Dutch human remains from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This paper is presented in two sections; the first concerns Batavia and the second focuses on Zeewijk. Each of these sections can be read independently.
When Batavia wrecked on Morning Reef on 4 June 1629, its castaways soon spread out over the islands of the Wallabi Group. Depending on how many of the 200 deceased were buried, the islands may have preserved a significant number of human remains from the Batavia castaways. So far, only ten of these have been discovered and tentatively identified. This paper provides an estimate of how many graves may be found, where they could be and who they might belong to. Furthermore, it also lists those people who survived and whose human remains definitely will not be found. Finally, all of this information has been compiled into three databases - of all the murdered individuals (Appendix I), of all who died in Australian territory (Appendix II) and of all named individuals involved in the Batavia tragedy (Appendix III) - excerpts of which are included as appendixes. The information provided for each individual may be useful in identifying the human remains.
In 1727, Zeewijk was wrecked on Half-Moon Reef in the Pelsaert Group. A large number of survivors would eventually build a seagoing vessel and successfully reach Batavia, but many died before the rescue. These castaways have also left their marks in the Houtman Abrolhos with camp sites and burial sites. This part of the project began with the construction of a database of all men who were (meant to be) on board Zeewijk and their fates (Appendix IV). As a result it has been possible to fill a number of gaps and put names to a number of deaths that until now had been anonymous. The paper focuses specifically on assessing how many of the Zeewijk's castaways may have been buried in the Houtman Abrolhos on Gun Island and on identifying these victims. In addition, it provides accurate crew lists for each section of the voyage and establishes a framework for further research into the individuals who lived aboard Zeewijk.
Significant work has already been undertaken into researching both Batavia and Zeewijk: their wreck sites, land sites and the human remains of the castaways. Henrietta Drake-Brockman's Voyage to Disaster provided the first English translation of the journal of the Batavia's journey and her analysis of this journal led to the discovery of the wreck site. The journals have been researched and translated again by Marit van Huystee. Analyses of the victims, including forensic investigations, have been made by Bernadine Hunneybun, Juliette Pasveer, Daniel Franklin, Alistair Paterson, Len Freedman and others. Finally, the staff of the Western Australian Museum has compiled a large number of reports based on their investigations of Batavia and the associated sites over the years. Zeewijk has also been the focus of in depth research by the Western Australian Museum, most notably by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg. Translations of (segments of) the Zeewijk journals and documents have been made by Willem Timmers, Louis Zuiderbaan and Cornelis de Heer.
Some of these projects have focused on the castaways and victims, creating lists or databases. However, all of these databases and lists were made using translations or transcripts as their sources. As such, errors (often based on the difficulty of reading the original handwriting or because of the lack of a uniform spelling) have crept in which have been taken over from list to list. Additionally, information that was - accidentally - omitted from these translations and transcripts is equally absent from these lists. To avoid falling into the same pitfalls, this work and the databases (which can be found in the appendixes) are based on the original documents. Studying the documents on microfilm or in high resolution photographs, the author was able to find new information, sort out mistakes and fill in a number of gaps.Archaeological Heritage Managemen
A Series of Firsts: Australian & Dutch Representations of the Dutch East India Company (VOC)
No full textMuseums are often seen as objective providers of the truth. In this thesis, that notion is contested and, instead, the idea is explored that museums actively construct representations. These representations are steered by politics and discourses. Nonetheless, most visitors to historical museums are unaware that they are being confronted with representations of the past, that they are shown only specific histories and that these representations are displayed towards certain ends.
The thesis focuses on the history of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and its representations in the Netherlands and in Australia. In both countries, this history is seen with a certain amount of pride. Literature and museum exhibitions have been investigated to see how these countries represent the VOC and analyzed to understand why these representations are used. Discourses and political movements such as nationalism, colonialism and post-colonial theory are revealed behind some of these representations of the VOC. The representations in each country are very different, due to the different reigning discourses which have influenced museums and literature. In the Netherlands, these representations have altered over time along with changes in the dominant discourses. In Australia, the discourses have changed but the representations have not yet followed suit. Therefore, a suggestion is made for the use of reflexive representation, through which museums, in their exhibitions, uncover representations and the political powers behind them. Visitors will then be confronted with the subjective and interpretative work of museums and will no longer accept a museum’s representation of history as an objective fact. History is revealed for what it is: merely one version of the past
Model-theoretic properties of the m-c.e. degrees
No full textIn this article, we investigate model-theoretic properties of various Turing degree structures in the hierarchy of Δ 0 2-sets which is well known in the literature as Ershov Hierarchy. In particular, questions of definability of m-c.e. degrees in the structure of n-c.e. degrees, where m<n, elementary equivalences, extendability of partial order extensions are considered. © 2010 The Author. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved
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