Pink, Purple, Green. Women's, Religious, Environmental, and Gay/Lesbian Movements in Central Europe Today

2003 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 527
Author(s):  
Brian James Baer ◽  
Helena Flam
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Europe Today

scholarly journals Embodying, Imagining, and Performing Displacement and Trauma in Central Europe Today

2008 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillip B. Zarrilli
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Performance Practice ◽  
Martial Arts ◽  
Collaborative Performance ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Europe Today ◽  
The University ◽  
Asian Martial Arts

This article provides an illustrated description and analysis of Speaking Stones – a collaborative performance commissioned by Theatre Asou of Graz, Austria, with UK playwright Kaite O'Reilly and director Phillip Zarrilli as a response to the increasingly xenophobic and reactionary realities of the politics of central Europe. The account interrogates the question, the dramaturgical possibilities, and the performative premise which guided the creation of Speaking Stones. Phillip Zarrilli is internationally known for training actors through Asian martial arts and yoga, and as a director. In 2008 he is directing the premiere of Kaite O'Reilly's The Almond and the Seahorse for Sherman-Cymru Theatre and the Korean premiere of Sarah Kane's 4:48 Psychosis. He is also Professor of Performance Practice at the University of Exeter.

scholarly journals « La vie est ailleurs. » Sur les mythes littéraires de l’Europe centrale

2021 ◽  
pp. 51-61
Author(s):  
Anikó Radvánszky
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Spiritual Reality ◽  
Europe Today ◽  
National Borders

The experience of “transfrontality”, in the concrete and figurative sense of the word, is always strongly dominant in a region where ethnic and national borders have always been separated, in an area where, throughout its history, but especially in the 20th century, in re- and re-emerging units, individual, community, or national identities had to be conceived according to new and new points of reference. The meaning of the concept of Central Europe is very variable, its use is diverse; there are several interpretations of the region based on geographical, political and cultural aspects. It is an indisputable fact that Central Europe today is a literary concept rather than an economic, political and spiritual reality, a concept that is kept alive by writers such as Milosz from Poland, Kundera from the Czech Republic, Miklós Mészöly from Hungary. In my study I compare two literary works, Danubio (Danube) by Claudio Magris and Hahn-Hahn grófnö pillantása (The Glance of Countess Hahn-Hahn) by Péter Esterházy that create and approach the imaginary construction called Central Europe in their own way. Both travel novels capture the trip on the Danube and the experience of transfrontality

The Rhetoric of War and the Reshaping of Civil Society in North Macedonia

Slavic Review ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 357-364
Author(s):  
Vasiliki Neofotistos
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Direct Connection ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Republic Of Macedonia ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Europe Today

In this article, I explore recent efforts to “de-Sorosize” the Republic of Macedonia, arguing that they reveal an obsession in Macedonia—and more broadly in east central Europe—with defending ethnonational interests against assumed interlopers. New, self-proclaimed patriotic associations have mobilized ideas of combined external and internal threats to national existence as though there were a war frontier. This imagined war frontier marks the dividing line between belligerent nationalists, who claim that Macedonian sovereignty and national identity are under threat of extinction, and the Macedonian center-left and liberal (moderate and left-leaning) NGOs, which tend to promote greater inclusiveness in society, are assumed to side with “the Albanians,” and to have a direct connection to George Soros. The case study of Macedonia highlights the outright public rejection of liberal ideals and the key role that populist, militant sensibilities play in the formation of civil society groups in Europe today.

scholarly journals HIV/AIDS in Europe: trends and EU-wide priorities

2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (47) ◽  
Author(s):  
F F Hamers ◽  
I Devaux ◽  
J Alix ◽  
A Nardone
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Europe Today ◽  
Living With Hiv ◽  
Hiv Aids

There are an estimated 740 000 people living with HIV or AIDS in western and central Europe today, and 1.7 million in the neighbouring countries of eastern Europe and Central Asia

scholarly journals From Native Plants in Central Europe to Cultivated Crops Worldwide: The Emergence of Didymella bryoniae as a Cucurbit Pathogen

HortScience ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 532-535 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony P. Keinath
Keyword(s):  
Central Europe ◽  
Native Plants ◽  
Pathogenic Fungus ◽  
Black Rot ◽  
Native Plant ◽  
Didymella Bryoniae ◽  
Gummy Stem Blight ◽  
Seedborne Pathogen ◽  
Europe Today ◽  
Phoma Cucurbitacearum

Didymella bryoniae (Auersw.) Rehm [anamorph Phoma cucurbitacearum (Fr.) Sacc.], the plant pathogenic fungus that causes gummy stem blight and black rot on cucurbits, was first described in 1869 from Bryonia (bryony or wild hops) in central Europe. Today, this pathogen is found on six continents on at least 12 genera and 23 species of cucurbits. How did D. bryoniae progress from a pathogen of a native plant in central Europe to a worldwide threat to cucurbits cultivated in humid environments? Clues from the early discoveries of this fungus, its characteristics as a seedborne pathogen, and its broad adaptation to cucurbit hosts will provide some answers to this question.

scholarly journals A Rare Glimpse into the Past of the Anthrax Pathogen Bacillus anthracis

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 298
Author(s):  
Peter Braun ◽  
Mandy Knüpfer ◽  
Markus Antwerpen ◽  
Dagmar Triebel ◽  
Gregor Grass
Keyword(s):  
Bacillus Anthracis ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Causative Agent ◽  
Genomic Sequencing ◽  
Genetic Lineage ◽  
Isolation Method ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The Past ◽  
Bacterium Bacillus ◽  
Europe Today

The bacterium Bacillus anthracis is the causative agent of the zoonotic disease anthrax. While genomics of extant B. anthracis isolates established in-depth phylogenomic relationships, there is scarce information on the historic genomics of the pathogen. Here, we characterized the oldest documented B. anthracis specimen. The inactive 142-year-old material originated from a bovine diseased in Chemnitz (Germany) in 1878 and is contemporary with the seminal studies of Robert Koch on B. anthracis. A specifically developed isolation method yielded high-quality DNA from this specimen for genomic sequencing. The bacterial chromosome featuring 242 unique base-characters placed it into a major phylogenetic clade of B. anthracis (B.Branch CNEVA), which is typical for central Europe today. Our results support the notion that the CNEVA-clade represents part of the indigenous genetic lineage of B. anthracis in this part of Europe. This work emphasizes the value of historic specimens as precious resources for reconstructing the past phylogeny of the anthrax pathogen.

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