Memory walk in Yerevan dedicated to the history of Armenian women

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 378-379
Author(s):  
Gayane Ayvazyan
Keyword(s):  
Places Of Memory ◽  
House Museum ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ancient Manuscripts ◽  
Women Researchers ◽  
Armenian Women

A memory walk dedicated to the history of Armenian women was organized in Yerevan by a group of women researchers from the Matenadaran Institute of Ancient Manuscripts. The first Femlibrary in Armenia, the house - museum of the writer Silva Kaputikyan as well as other places of memory were visited.

Ireland: Realm of the Four Masters

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Rowley-Conwy
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
Irish History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ancient Manuscripts ◽  
To Come ◽  
Historical Accounts ◽  
Or History

On 9 January 1843, Richard Griffith addressed the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) about some antiquities found in the River Shannon. The river was being dredged to render it navigable, and the artefacts were discovered during the deepening of the old ford at Keelogue. Griffith was the chairman of the Commissioners carrying out the work, and his expertise was in engineering rather than ancient history. He stated that the finds came from a layer of gravel; in its upper part were many bronze swords and spears, while a foot lower were numerous stone axes. Due to the rapidity of the river’s flow there was very little aggradation, so despite the small gap the bronze objects were substantially later than the stone ones. The river formed the border between the ancient kingdoms of Connaught and Leinster. The objects had apparently been lost in two battles for the ford that had taken place at widely differing dates; stressing that he was no expert himself, Mr Griffith wondered whether ancient Irish history might contain records of battles at this spot (Griffith 1844). This was probably the earliest non-funerary stratigraphic support for the Three Age System ever published, but it did not signal the acceptance of the Three Age System. Just as telling as Griffith’s stratigraphic observation was his immediate recourse to ancient history for an explanation; for, as we shall see, ancient history provided the dominant framework for the ancient Irish past until the end of the nineteenth century. The Irish had far more early manuscript sources than the Scots or the English, although wars and invasions had reduced them; the Welsh scholar Edward Lhwyd wrote from Sligo on 12 March 1700 to his colleague Henry Rowlands that ‘the Irish have many more ancient manuscripts than we in Wales; but since the late revolutions they are much lessened. I now and then pick up some very old parchment manuscripts; but they are hard to come by, and they that do anything understand them, value them as their lives’ (in Rowlands 1766: 315). In the seventeenth century various Irish scholars brought together the historical accounts available to them. Geoffrey Keating (Seathrú n Céitinn, in Irish) wrote the influential Foras Feasa ar Éirinn or ‘History of Ireland’ in c.1634, and an English translation was printed in 1723 (Waddell 2005).

scholarly journals The Places of Memory of Ukrainian Diplomacy project as an encyclopedic work

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 9-20
Author(s):  
Iryna Matiash
Keyword(s):  
100Th Anniversary ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Diplomatic Relations ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Places Of Memory ◽  
Science And Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Encyclopedic Dictionary ◽  
Increasing Knowledge

The article is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Ukraine and foreign countries. On this occasion, cultural and scientific events took place during 2017-2021. Contacts between figures of science and culture of Ukraine and others were promoted with these events. And another profit from them is the study of various issues increasing knowledge about the history of Ukrainian diplomacy. One of the elements of this process was the symbolic marking with memorial plaques in other countries, which make Ukraine’s historical diplomatic ties with them. Team work aimed to study the symbolic marks of Ukrainian diplomacy has contributed to the accumulation of a lot of important information. That’s why the idea appeared to build the encyclopedic work – Places of Memory of Ukrainian Diplomacy (currently being compiled). This article describes the significance of this encyclopedic dictionary in the context of covering the history of Ukrainian diplomacy, in particular showing the formation of close diplomatic relations with other states, which took place during the turbulent period of 1917-1921.

scholarly journals From the Epistolary Heritage of the Poet Ivan A. Kostin: Correspondence with V. I. Malyshev and I. N. Zavoloko

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 132-168
Author(s):  
Alexander V. Pigin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Literature ◽  
National Archive ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Old Believers ◽  
Valuable Addition ◽  
Greeting Cards ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ancient Manuscripts ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The article presents a study and publication of the correspondence of the poet Ivan Alekseevich Kostin (1931–2015) from Petrozavodsk with the archaeographer Vladimir Ivanovich Malyshev (1910–1976), who held a Doctor of Sciences degree in Philology, and the Old Believer writer and educator Ivan Nikiforovich Zavoloko (1897–1984). The correspondence includes letters and greeting cards (30 in total) from the 1970s to the early 1980s. They are currently stored in the Manuscript Division of the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskij Dom) of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, the Archive of the Grebenshchikov Old Believer Congregation in Riga, the National Museum of the Republic of Karelia in Petrozavodsk, and the National Archive of the Republic of Karelia, also in Petrozavodsk. Kostin’s letters to Malyshev reveal how the Petrozavodsk poet aided Malyshev in collecting manuscripts for the Ancient Manuscripts Repository (Drevlekhranilishe) in the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskij Dom). The correspondence between Kostin and Zavoloko concerns the history and culture of the Old Believers, the Vygoleksinsky monastery, and the Zaonezhye, and issues pertaining to literary activity and academic studies. The letters make a valuable addition to Kostin’s memoirs about Malyshev and Zavoloko. The article also covers the history of Kostin’s poem dedicated to Archpriest Avvakum. The letters, published in the appendix to the article, are accompanied by comments.

scholarly journals Patroni ulic i placów w miasteczku akademickim Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Kortowie

1970 ◽  
pp. 181-199
Author(s):  
Joanna Maria Garbula Joanna Maria Garbula
Keyword(s):  
Animal Husbandry ◽  
The Past ◽  
Places Of Memory ◽  
History Of ◽  
Dairy Science ◽  
The Rich ◽  
A Site ◽  
The University ◽  
Rich History

This article revolves around the memory of a site, i.e. the past captured in sources, reported memories of witnesses of events and symbols. The examples of such places of memory examined here are the streets and squares on the UWM Kortowo campus. They consist of references to the past which has significance for contemporary times. The article consists of an introduction and two chapters. The introduction presents the rich history of Kortowo, spanning several centuries from the Old Prussian settlements to the establishment of the University of Warmia and Masuria in Olsztyn. Chapter 1 is dedicated to the history of the streets and squares on the Kortowo campus from the time when, to make the academic community’s life easier, the university authorities gave names to the streets on the campus, following the specific faculties’ suggestions. The streets were named after M. Oczapowski (an agronomist, theorist of agriculture, pioneer of agricultural experimentation), R. Prawocheński (an expert in animal husbandry), J. Licznerski (a pioneer of modern dairy science), K. Obitz (Doctor of veterinary medicine, a journalist, a social activist in Masuria), J. Hevelius (an astronomer from Gdansk), B. Dybowski (a biologist and traveller), C. Kanafojski (Professor of automation in agriculture). Chapter 2 presents short biographies of three of the seven street patrons: B. Dybowski, K. Obitz and R. Prawocheński, who are the most characteristic and multi-dimensional figures. The names of the streets reflect the memory of the scientific, social and personal achievements of these individuals, at the same time justifying their selection as patrons.

scholarly journals The Places of Memory in a Square of Monuments: Conceptions of Past, Freedom and History at Szabadság Tér

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 94-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Thorstensen
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The Other ◽  
Memory Culture ◽  
Places Of Memory ◽  
History Of

In this paper I try to approach contemporary Hungarian political culture through an analysis of the history of changing monuments at Szabadság Tér in Budapest. The paper has as its point of origin a protest/irredentist monument facing the present Soviet liberation monument. In order to understand this irredentist monument, I look into the meaning of the earlier irredentist monuments under Horthy and try to see what monuments were torn down under Communism and which ones remained. I further argue that changes in the other monuments also affect the meaning of the others. From this background I enter into a brief interpretation of changes in memory culture in relation to changes in political culture. The conclusions point toward the fact that Hungary is actively pursuing a cleansing of its past in public spaces, and that this process is reflected in an increased acceptance of political authoritarianism.

History of Ghafur Ghulam House Museum

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 17-22
Author(s):  
Feruza Kholdorjon qizi Mirhakimova
Keyword(s):  
House Museum ◽  
History Of

Non-places of Memory: Space, Materiality and False Cemeteries

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-44
Author(s):  
Łukasz Posłuszny
Keyword(s):  
World War ◽  
Memory Space ◽  
Material Basis ◽  
Mary Douglas ◽  
Places Of Memory ◽  
History Of

"The article deals with the concept of non-place of memory (NPM). Author defines NPM broadly as entity which once created by people lost its perceptive properties as man-made, but at the same time kept it material basis. In the narrower sense of the definition NPM are places of murder and bodies deposition sites which are either unrecognized as such or haven’t been yet changed into places of memory. Analysis are based mostly on cases of Roma massacres in Poland which took place during II World War, and compared with history of burials and concept of cemetery. Transitions of NMP is then explained by using the Mary Douglas’ concept of anomaly. Keywords: Non-place of memory, place of memory, genocide, materiality, space"

Back and Forward: Neolithic Standing Stones and Iron Age Stelae in French Brittany

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luc Laporte ◽  
Gwenolé Kerdivel
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Comic Books ◽  
Clear Distinction ◽  
Popular Imagination ◽  
Places Of Memory ◽  
Measured Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
Lived Time ◽  
The Way

The history of each place is always unique, and this also applies to each monument. Even the title of this book fits in with a pattern of thought developed by R. Bradley (2010). This approach treats the way in which certain prehistoric monuments continue to focus our attention, and how new significances come to be attributed well after their initial construction. In some cases these monuments are the result of a considerable collective investment. They often represent places of memory, sometimes providing vectors of identity that continue up to the present day. A certain number of these monuments continuously changed their function and configuration through the course of time. They were successively the setting of events that their builders could not have imagined. However, owing to the scale as well as the lasting nature of their achievements, the builders assigned additional unique features to these monuments that others later adapted or simply exploited. Many megalithic monuments of western Europe underwent such a process. Consequently, this chapter also contains the seeds of a more general discussion about the definitions of megalithism (Laporte forthcoming). It is a question of timescales and rhythms, involving lived time just as well as measured time, seen at different geographical scales. This is because the biography of each monument cannot be explained as simply being the sum of events that are unique in each case and specific to each site. Our contribution to this volume takes as an example the standing stones of Brittany. The region considered here includes the depart- ments of Finistère, Morbihan, Côtes d’Armor, Ille-et-Vilaine and Loire-Atlantique; that is to say an area of approximately 34,300 square kilometres. In the popular imagination, the Iron Age stelae of this region are often associated with the standing stones of the Neolithic, as portrayed in one of the world’s best-selling comic books featuring Astérix the Gaul and Obélix the menhir deliveryman. How- ever, for more than a century, archaeologists have always striven to make a clear distinction between material realities that, ultimately, are rather different.

MYTH, CULT, AND PERFORMANCE: SIR JOHN SOANE'S CAWDOR VASE

2014 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-123
Author(s):  
TYLER JO SMITH
Keyword(s):  
Olympic Games ◽  
The Other ◽  
Exact Location ◽  
History Of Collecting ◽  
Artistic Representations ◽  
House Museum ◽  
History Of ◽  
Funerary Ritual ◽  
Dining Room ◽  
And Performance

Abstract The Cawdor Vase was purchased by Sir John Soane in 1800, launching the London architect's career as a collector of antiquities. The Apulian red-figure volute-krater (4th c. BC) is displayed in the dining room of Soane's house-museum at no. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, in the exact location it occupied when Soane died in 1837. The krater appears in artistic representations and section drawings of the house, as well as in descriptions of the museum and its holdings. Prominent modern scholars (Vermeule and Trendall) studied the object, securing its place in the corpus of South Italian wares. As intriguing as its role in the history of collecting and reception is the Cawdor Vase's unique iconography. On one side is an enigmatic version of the preparations for the chariot race of Oinomaos and Pelops, and on the other a familiar type of naiskos scene. The decoration on the vase, taken as a whole, reveals the different stages of the famous myth and can be connected with textual accounts, the cult of Pelops, Apulian funerary ritual, and the foundation of the Olympic Games.

Dwelling in Possibility

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilary Iris Lowe
Keyword(s):  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Multiple Points ◽  
School Partnerships ◽  
House Museums ◽  
Community Stakeholders ◽  
House Museum ◽  
Historic House ◽  
History Of ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
History Of Race

Challenges to historic house museums are often mired in the rhetoric of crisis. Toward countering that rhetoric, this essay attempts to draw attention to it and to the complicated history of narrative (and storytelling) in interpretation and the academy. It argues that literary house museums are sites of innovation within the house museum sector with lessons for us all. These lessons include a willingness to leverage “the old, bad history” toward reflective practice and continuity for multigenerational audiences; creating inventive university and school partnerships toward insuring strong community stakeholders; embracing the history of race, gender, and sexuality; and perhaps most importantly, making the most of fiction toward embracing multiple points of view about the past.

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