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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Commemorations"”.
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Remembering 1989: Post-Communist Commemorations in Berlin and Warsaw
… Poland. An evaluation of the various forms that commemorations may take demonstrates the pluralities of memory in Germany and Poland, and how political factions have used this malleable state of memory to construct popular narratives. The most common narrative that has been seized upon by …
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Commemorations and Ethnicity: Victory Day Celebrations Among Elderly Russian Jews in Brooklyn
<p>Victory Day on May 9<sup>th</sup> is known by Russians as “the holiday with a tear in one’s eye.” But in south Brooklyn, many miles away from their “motherland,” confers the Russian Jewish immigrants a freedom to express allegiance on their own terms, choosing their own set of songs, emblems, …
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Remembering the revolution: monuments and commemorations of American Revolutionary war sites in New York
<p>Memorials and monuments at military heritage sites track the ways American society constructs and then reconstructs its understandings of important events. They present enticing material culture for study by archaeologists seeking to analyze the layers of meaning and the social and chronological …
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The May 4, 1970 Kent State University shootings: Thirty years of myths, memorials and commemorations
… rhetoric relevant to the myths, memorials and commemorations for the students killed and injured at Kent State University. This exploratory process focused on the events from 1970 until the present. The research was conducted through personal interviews with eyewitnesses, wounded victims, and …
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"To the Memory of Sweet Infants": Eighteenth-Century Commemorations of Child Death in Tidewater, Virginia
… for burial, the funeral, and lasting commemorations—evolved over the course of the eighteenth century, reflecting the new place of the child within the eighteenth-century family and the emotional trauma felt by the family after the death of a child.
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Commemorations and conflicts in the production of South African national pasts : the 1952 Jan van Riebeeck tercentenary festival
This thesis investigates how the icon of Jan van Riebeeck acquired a position of prominence in South African public pasts through the government sponsored festival organised in 1952 to commemorate his landing three hundred years previously. From the seventeenth to the midtwentieth centuries van …
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“They shall be speaking forever” : performing revolution, riot, and the nation in the centenary commemorations of Ireland’s 1916 Rising
… performances of blood sacrifice in the centenary commemorations, identifying Cathleen ni Houlihan’s major influence on imaginative engagements with the Rising in 2016. Chapter four features site-specific reenactments of the Rising in the GPO, Kilmainham Jail, and on the streets of Dublin. These …
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“Their Glory Shall Not Be Blotted Out”: The Acknowledgement of Indigenous First World War Service in Australian and New Zealand National Commemorations, 1918-2019
… World War and their subsequent inclusion in commemorations of conflict, the field remains small. In particular, comparisons between the two countries remain unusual, despite the inherently comparative nature of their First World War commemorations. By adopting a comparative approach, this …
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The role of Evangelicalism in the formation of nineteenth-century Ulter Protestant cultural identity
… on the city of Londonderry and its anniversary commemorations, and on the important intersection between the two. The discourse from the sermons preached at the 12 August and 18 December commemorations, organised by the Apprentice Boys of Londonderry Association, were analysed using Ninian …
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First World War memory and national mythmaking in capital cities - horizontality and verticality in London, Paris, and Budapest
… thesis investigates the influence national WWI commemorations had on the urban landscape in capital cities, London, Paris and Budapest. It analyses how the urban space has changed its physical, symbolic and temporal layers during the hundred years between the end of WWI war and the WWI centenary …
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Avatars of Memory. Rituals and Commemorative Practices in Colombia, 1864-1913
… shows how Antioquia elites re-imagined, through commemorations, their collective past and invented their region, as a symbolic appropriation of the space – the highlands – that they inhabited. The identity that emerged from that process was the basis on which Antioqueño elites negotiated hegemony …
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Doing History in the Adirondacks: Interpreting the Park, the People, and the Landscape
… through exhibits, public programs, tours, and commemorations. Chapters explore great camp preservation, the retention of cultural artifacts on state owned wilderness lands, the connection of the Adirondack rustic style to the land, and the increasing environmental focus of regional museums. …
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Speaking Out of the Dust: Religious Reenactments with the Specific Iconic Identity of Place
… Osiris in Ancient Egypt and the celebrations and commemorations of the early Christian Church are two examples of theatrical reenactments of sacred events in sacred spaces. Although such performances have been uncommon since those of the early Christians, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day …
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'This subject will not go away': Memorialising frontier conflict in South Australia
… around the state. Its case studies address: commemorations of contact between settlers and Aboriginal women on Kangaroo Island prior to formal colonisation in 1836; the erection of a memorial to the Waterloo Bay massacre in Elliston; the Kaurna Naming Project initiated by the Adelaide City …
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Nourishing the political body: Banquets in early Third Republic France, 1878 – 1914
… nineteenth and early twentieth-century France: commemorations of the Paris Commune, royalist, empire, and feminist. At these events, different political groups promoted specific agendas that were always ideological, oftentimes subversive, and even revolutionary. Commemorators of the Paris …
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Cultivat(ing) modernities : the Society for National Heritage, political propaganda and public architecture in twentieth-century Iran
… Since the monuments were ideologically inscribed commemorations of the leading modernists and reformists of the 1920s, their impact permeated the definition and function of high culture in Iran's 20th-century sociopolitical history. The dissertation offers a critical analysis of the political …
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Trauma, Memory and Victimhood: Estonia and the Holocaust, 1998-2012
… a study of political memory found in speeches, commemorations and the museums of Estonia, which demonstrate how contemporary historical narratives are being represented, shaped and constructed. The debate surrounding memory of the Holocaust and coming to terms with both Nazi and Soviet …
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Articulations of memory in Northern Cyprus:between Turkishness, Europeanness and Cypriotness
… mechanisms of memory such as history textbooks, commemorations (national days, museums, monuments), traditions (flags, national anthem and myths) and the media (especially newspapers) the thesis explores the mobilization, articulation and construction of memory/ies in relation to national …
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The making of Polish London through everyday life, 1956-1976
… and guiding, charity, religious and national commemorations – were subordinated to the aim of maintaining Polish national identity in exile, and transmitting it to subsequent generations. This kind of ‘Polishness’ was heroic, martyrological, and Roman Catholic. The organizational and …
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