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Showing 1 to 20 of 141 for “"commemoration"”.
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Death and Commemoration in Late Medieval Wales
This study examines the attitudes to and commemoration of death in Wales in the period between the end of the thirteenth century and the middle of the sixteenth century by analysis of the poetical work produced during this period. In so doing, this is placed in the wider context of death and …
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Early Darwinian Commemoration in Britain, 1882-1914
This dissertation recounts the commemoration of Charles Darwin in Britain from his death in 1882 to his birth centenary in 1909. As a broadly chronological and episodic history, individual memorials are considered in themselves, in relation to others, and in their national and local contexts. In …
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Auschwitz: Art, Commemoration and Memorialisation: From 1940 To The Present
STEFAN LUDWIK ALOSZKO AUSCHWITZ: ART, COMMEMORATION AND MEMORIALISATION: FROM 1940 TO THE PRESENT ABSTRACT This thesis explores chronologically the art, commemoration and memorialisation of the Nazi concentration and extermination camps at Auschwitz, from their establishment in 1940 to the present …
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Performative monuments : public art, commemoration, and history in postwar Europe
… by historically aware individuals in acts of commemoration. This dissertation argues that public performance art starting in the 1960s provided a crucial impulse for new forms of commemoration in 1980s Europe and beyond. I claim that performance, a supposed antipode to the monument in its …
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The afterlife of Michael Collins: commemoration, biography and historiography, 1922-1973
… this thesis will focus on the themes of commemoration and political representation, biography, and historiography.<br/><i><br/>Thesis embargoed until 31 December 2027</i>.<br/>
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The Heritagization of Africville: Tourism, Racism, and the Politics of Commemoration
This dissertation critically examines the heritagization of Africville, a historic Black community in Halifax, Nova Scotia, through the theoretical framework of Critical Race Theory (CRT). Utilizing qualitative methodologies - including critical race methodology (CRM) and netnography, and methods …
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Dance and Identity Politics in Caribbean Literature: Culture, Community, and Commemoration
Dance appears often in Anglophone Caribbean literature, usually when a character chooses to celebrate and emphasize her/his freedom from the physical, emotional, and societal constraints that normally keep the body in check. This study examines how a character's political consciousness often …
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Progressive Commemoration: Public Statues of Historical Women in Urban American Cities
… notable accomplishments are underrepresented in commemoration. Some American cities have brought women to the forefront of becoming visible through commemoration in statues. This thesis compares the commemoration of historical women in four different American cities. Stakeholders hold the key to …
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The global war on terror memorial and the rhetoric of commemoration.
… has not ended has in terms of how practices of commemoration are understood in the post 9/11 era.
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The Heritage of Repression: Memory, Commemoration, and Politics in Post-Soviet Russia
This dissertation focuses on portrayals of victims and perpetrators at sites related to Soviet repression in contemporary Moscow and Yekaterinburg, Russia. Its aim is to explore the different ways in which site stakeholders choose to interpret victims and perpetrators: specifically, how they handle …
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Roadside Memorial Practices: An Examination of Landscapes of Commemoration in Warren County, Kentucky
Roadside memorials commemorating the death of automobile crash victims are scattered throughout the Kentucky landscape. This persistent cultural practice contains symbolic elements oftentimes indicative of religious connotations. Because there is a constitutional separation of church and government …
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Beyond commemoration : the 2-28 incident, the aesthetics of trauma and sexual difference
… that was based on the historicisation and commemoration of the 2-28 Incident that had begun during the mid-1980s and continued into the 1990s. This commemoration of the 2-28 Incident has, I shall argue, contributed to the discursive formation of contemporary Taiwanese national and cultural …
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Reciprocity of Sight: The Rhetorics of Contestation and Commemoration on the National Mall
… in Washington, D.C. as a vital site of public commemoration. The dissertation approaches the National Mall landscape as a series of rhetorical problems that embody broader tensions between contestation and commemoration. The dissertation takes up three moments in the history of the National …
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German Deeds, Polish Soil, Jewish Shoah: Auschwitz Memory and the Politics of Commemoration
Auschwitz memory has been constructed, maintained, and modified within a resilient, but not immobile political and cultural framework, resulting in the emergence of three dominant modes of collective memory at the memorial site. First, Auschwitz was presented and groomed as a site of Polish …
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Hidden from Memory: Remembrance and Commemoration of the Sherwood Foresters’ Involvement in Easter, 1916
<p>The purpose of this thesis is to examine the level at which the Sherwood Foresters are commemorated for their service during the Easter Rising of 1916. The Sherwood Foresters, known officially as the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment, were created in 1881 in England after combining the …
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