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National Plan for Research, Development and Innovation 2007-2013, PNII. Evaluation for project proposals for the 2011 funding call of The Romanian National Council for Scientific Research.1."ROMANIAN LITERARY ONOMASTICS: NAMING, IDENTITY AND INTERCULTURALITY" 2.“The Saint of Montparnasse” between Document and Myth: a Century of Brancusian Exegesis.
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The project Romanian Literary Onomastics: Naming, Identity and Culturality is motivated by the fact that literary onomastics has recently gained a growing scholarly recognition. In Romania, this topic has been less studied than non-literary proper nouns. The project proposes a monographic study on literary onomastics and focusses on inventorizing and analizing the onomastic fund circulating in the Romanian cultural space, as reflected in the 19th and 20th centuries Romanian fictional prose. The social-cultural context of creating different types of literary names will be investigated, as well as the manner in which proper names can reflect a fashion in a certain historic epoch, traces of cultural heritage, allogeneic influences, or the way the author relates to a particular movement or to his/her characters. The research will also consider the relationship between proper names, which constitute themselves as identitary marks at social, national or European level, and literary names borrowed by means of permanent/temporary globalization phenomena. The aim of the project is to elaborate a monographic study, based on a research activity consisting of selecting, inventorying and classifying a corpus of representative Romanian prose texts. Another objective of the project is to form a team of researchers whose scientific field of interest is connected with the proposed topic,thus promoting a model of an interdisciplinary study.
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The starting point of my project is the Barbu Brezianu archive, bequeathed to the Institute for Art History, containing mostly documents (books, periodicals, correspondence, drafts, press clippings, photographs) related to Brancusi’s (called “the Saint of Montparnasse” by his friend writer Peter Neagoe, author of the book with the same title) work, which needs to be studied and organized in order to become easy of access to a larger public. The analysis of the documents themselves will be corroborated by the team of researchers with the larger problematic of the reception of Brancusi’s work and its shifting interpretations, taking into account the changing historical context during a century. As such my topic refers to the history of art history and aspires to a better understanding of the conventions mediating between viewer and art work. In the forefront of my proposal stays the cleavage between Western and Romanian Brancusi’s critical posterity during communist period. Contrasts and meeting points will be emphasized, taking into account also the rich correspondence exchanged by Barbu Brezianu with well known art historians and artists. Brancusian exegesis is seen as a dynamic object, but at the same time as an ever-developing enrichment of the meanings of the work itself. Not the least objective is to distinguish rigorously between serious and innovative critical analysis and the plethora of shallow ones
Yaarah Bar-On, "The Cemetery in the Kibbutz: Locus, Ritual and Memory of Death". Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. Tel Aviv University.
No full text1) Originality & innovation
The project sounds original and very attractive both from the perspective of the sociological cultural processes and from the point of view of the anthropology of material and visual culture, particularly regarding the relationship between the world of the dead and that of the living. What is originally shaped and focused on is the creation of a unique form of subculture and a particular aspect of “Israeliness”. The author combines personal memoirs and socio-historical, political analysis, shaping his particular model of bricolage.
2) Project importance & implications
The project is significant because of its implications in architectural and design studies and in the mourning rites ones at the same time. It considers important values like liberty, equality, collectivism and self-subsistence, that reflect the very origin of the Israeli state. As an institution, the Kibbutz cemetery suggests a balance between intimacy and collectivism, secular values and public religious rituals. It represents the liberty of expression of personal sentiments, in spite of all traditional restrictions.
3) Adequacy of methods
The project adopts as qualitative as quantitative methods, a perfect guarantee of scientific correctness and of in depth research. The mapping efforts are particularly relevant.
4) Suitability of investigators’ scientific background to the project
The investigators clearly indicate to master both qualitative-cultural methods and statistical ones. In addition to insightful documentation and analysis, and to a wide collection of data, they concentrate their attention to thick description and, at the same time, to model building and thin description, to produce an analytical preinvestigative empirical purview with available data apt for postgraduate students too.
5) Summary (strengths / weaknesses of the proposal)
Strengths: the skillfullness in addressing and focusing the Kibbutz cemetery as a very specific kind of cultural pattern and institution. The possibility to construct new archives of data regarding this topic. The collection of data related to the diverse habitus.
Weaknesses: the possibility to empirically evaluate the advantages produced from this kind of model in comparison with the traditional way. The non exportability of this model
The Garden and the Scene of Power
No full textHere, the author is dealing with the dual valence of social and aesthetic representations of a symbolic place, the garden, and of its links with collective memory. She will approach the argument from a variety of perspectives that can be summarized as follows: (a) the social and aesthetic representation of the sacred (paradise) in the hortus conclusus —the “geometrization” of space begins with the stability of the Italic pagus; (b) the labyrinth, the social and aesthetic representation of the garden as exorcism, which opposes the hybris of power; (c) the social and aesthetic representation of power in royal gardens (profane); (d) the social and aesthetic representation of collective memory in cemeteries—these are a specific model of hortus conclusus, entrusted with collective memories; and (e) the new stimulus to collective memory by the restoration of former industrial areas (creation of garden-paradises). Today, these areas are the new horti conclusi of collective memory
Corpo sano e corpo salvo. Figure sociali e paradossi dell'arte.
No full textIn una società di simboli anche il corpo diviene oggetto di consumo, simbolo di potenzialità iscritta nello status sociale, proiezione di un'idea (trasferita anzitutto nella rappresentazione del proprio corpo) di presenza e di prestigio sociale. Un prestigio al quale si giunge con il perseguimento di quello che viene considerato benessere individuale, in un processo a volte affannoso, tale da creare tensioni e malessere. Così il numero di quanti frequentano le palestre per esercitare il proprio corpo non indica solo la consapevolezza della conquista del ben-essere: il governo del proprio corpo non è solo acquisizione personale, esso è premessa per mostrarlo, e in un'ostentazione nella quale si racchiudono anche le contraddizioni delle modernità e delle sue espressioni.
È anche necessario riflettere su un altro elemento: l'individuo non è educato, certo non da bambino, all'idea della sconfitta delle forze esistenziali, dunque al poter maturare, non solo nell'esaurimento del corpo per vecchiaia, della malattia e della morte.
Questo numero di Salute e Società si propone di analizzare almeno in parte lo studio sugli intrecci tra genere, salute, cinematografia, arte, attitudine allo sport, disturbi del comportamento alimentare, questioni bioetiche e sociologiche delle nuove modalità di rappresentare il proprio e altrui corpo. L'idea è quella di dare una prima lettura dei dibattiti relativi a questi temi nelle scienze sociali e di esaminare e discutere alcuni dei principali approcci teorico-concettuali interdisciplinari sul tema del corpo.
Questo per meglio comprendere come nel tempo alcune forme di relazione si siano venute modificando, per poi giungere a esperienze di ricerca sul campo, che pongono in evidenza differenze ancora sostanziali nelle modalità di rappresentarsi, attraverso, il proprio corpo, tra uomo e donna. Prorompe così l'ideale che nella moderna società occidentale si ripropongono prospettive nelle trasformazioni delle relazioni e nella rilevanza acquisita dal processo di personalizzazione dei vissuti del proprio corpo, e lungo questi sembra che il corpo non riguardi più un uso particolaristico, ma esploda socialmente quasi contrapponendosi alle ristrettezze di molte delle condizioni cui è costretto l'individuo
"Designing a future city"
No full textIn my paper I will examine some fundamental issues concerning the possibility of building cities in Italy. I will refer to the ability of Italian cities to stay afloat in Europe due to variables such as development plans, research, technology transfer (innovation in enterprises, universities, hospitals), business and family services, environmental quality, link with the global economy. But I will also refer to the ability to protect the physical landscape from the attacks of urbanization as much as the moral landscape from the attack of organized crime under so many flags. The creation of identity of the city remains a problem, as the vocation to territorial, cultural or economic planning. There is no relationship between sprawl, which only create a provisional form of sociability, and historical centers. Their own governance remains a problem (Bonomi), while no one knows how to integrate these new forms of urbanity with the old countries and cities. Lacks a particular quality of the places, people and government: political qualities before they are geographical or anthropological. Lacks ecological footprint because it lacks a fundamental attention and perception of the problems and rights of citizenship which it is part of. Despite the huge intellectual capital (skills, monuments, philosophies of doing and thinking, masterpieces) accumulated in distant epochs, there is no desire to protect and make it available to all citizens. To draw its own future, the city must be able to get out of idiotism characterizing closed communities and open to the idea of public space to serve all the social realities that inhabit it
"New arts for a new citizenship"
No full textEuropean new cultural diversity has resulted both in inclusion and integration and, quite the reverse, in diverse forms of conflict. The role that art can play within such a scenario takes on a twofold valence: on the one hand facilitating meeting and exchange practices; on the other, safeguarding and strengthening the exclusiveness of cultural and ethnic identities.
Following the red thread of creativity and art, the hypothesis is to seek a fundamental pathway of progress and emancipation to conquer new spaces of citizenship, by exploring the possibilities of building unexpected processes for overcoming social exclusion and foster public creativity at the same time
Settimo Forum Nazionale Analisi Qualitativa (FNAQ)
No full textLa proposta di un Forum Nazionale
“Analisi Qualitativa” riguarda per un verso la necessità
di sviluppare approcci e metodologie di
tipo qualitativo che siano in grado di raccogliere
un adeguato consenso scientifico e per un altro
verso la possibilità di sperimentare nuove soluzioni,
ivi comprese forme di triangolazione che mettano
in campo tools sia quantitativi che qualitativi,
ad esempio l’analisi del contenuto insieme con
quella del discorso, la disamina della conversazione
insieme con l’esame delle corrispondenze lessicali,
la teoria “fondata” o Grounded Theory di Glaser
e Strauss ed altri strumenti analitici.
Ma tali proposte vanno accompagnate da
alcune messe a punto riguardanti taluni concetti
fondamentali, a partire da quello che ha a che vedere
con la stessa definizione di analisi qualitativa,
la quale ha seguito lo sviluppo della sociologia sin
dalle sue origini. Quando la metodologia sociologica
cominciò a ricorrere alla fissità dei dati numerici
(al fine di reggere il confronto con le scienze
cosiddette esatte dell’economia e della statistica)
ebbe inizio una lunga parabola discendente per la
ricerca a carattere qualitativo, nonostante il riconoscimento
della sua validità ed affidabilità - come
dimostra il riferimento divenuto classico ed ancora
ricorrente ai cinque volumi di Thomas e Znaniecki
su Il contadino polacco in Europa e in America
(1918-1920).
Ora si propende a definire non standard
l’indagine qualitativa, dando dunque per scontato
che lo standard, il regolare, il normale, sia solo ciò
che si fonda su frequenze, percentuali ed elaborazioni
statistiche. In realtà sia la prospettiva qualitativista
che quella quantitativista hanno piena cittadinanza
nel campo delle scienze sociali, nella misura
in cui seguono entrambe dei criteri metodologici
rigorosi
"The role of Arts and Culture for local development"
No full textI am focusing on how art and architecture, that were interpreted in the past as forms ofcultural foundation, can develop principles of democratic integration rather than economic integration. Architecture and art will be able to be interpreter of new values, meanings and expectations joining knowledge with computer knowledge, technomagic (De Kerckhove 2008), marketing and communication knowledge, in view of a new and desirable eco-compatibility and local tradition assets valorization.
strategy of sustainable development and citizenship promotion (Jermin 2004
"Bodies of evidence: from Jesus Christ to the stars"
No full textThe symbolic body can make the individual body eternal by means of art and religion. I will start from the bloody image of Corpus Mysticum Christi, as the metaphoric organizational structure of consensus to power and religion from the Low Middle Ages to the early Modern Age, to get to the body of the twentieth-century stars
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