 | | | | Tree memories of the Second World War: a case study of common beeches from Chycina, Poland During the final stages of the Second World War, a trench was dug in woodland near a small Polish village, probably by prisoners of war. There are no eye witness accounts and very few artefacts survive. The only way the story of these prisoners can be told is through the material memory held by the woodland. This paper aims to broaden the concept of material culture by considering the archaeological record that is retained in the bark of living trees. The focus is on the beech trees of Chycina that may hold the only record of the construction of a small section of the Festungsfront... |
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| Using Real and Practical-Oriented Training Aids in Radar Technology Training (draft) Radar system is one of the most complex systems and the associated courses are difficult to conduct to achieve effective learning outcomes from the students or participants. Radar courses in commercial or military institutions are largely conducted using simulation methods with theoretical analysis. Some practical components have also been used in some institutions. Students, hence, are not exposed as much as the training objectives required, to the practical aspects of the complex radar system. Real systems are used merely in system-specific courses for the training of technicians or... |
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| Teratomancy at Tigunanum: structure, hermeneutics and Weltanschauung of a northern Mesopotamian omen corpus, JCS 69 (2017) 125-150 This article examines the inner structure, building principles, and hermeneutic code of a group of late Middle Bronze age teratomantic tablets from Tigunānum in northern Mesopotamia. While in the final evaluation, the Tigunānum teratomantic corpus is of southern Babylonian inspiration, it represents a very specific local reworking of this tradition. This article posits as its distinctive feature the use of a strongly gendered imagery and language that reflect the worldview of an extremely androcentric and militarized society. It also demonstrates a connection between the cultural... |
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| On Conversion (workshop organized by Francesco Giusti, Manuele Gragnolati, and Daniel Reeve) Conversion – from the Latin 'conversio' – implies a (re)turn and a change of direction. In the Christian tradition, it is normative and teleological, accompanied by repentance and/or longing for rebirth. The convert's soul turns towards goodness and renounces evil in order to enter a new and true life. Conversion can be presented as a return to the self, or rather as the very constitution of self-identity: in these cases, it represents a solution to inner conflict, providing a divided 'I' with a feeling of coherence and integrity. In Western conversion narratives, for which Augustine's... |
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| Renaissance Medicine, Magic, and Alchemy in Benvenuto Cellini's Vita !!! Right at the moment, I am writing a master's thesis which updates and elaborates further the analysis of Cellini's Vita conducted in the article. I will upload it by the end of May. So, if you want to have a more recent version, you are welcome to check it later !!! ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The article aims to rethink the several stereotypes of Romantic tradition, which are still reproduced in regard to Benvenuto Cellini and his Vita. Using the approaches of intellectual history and iconographical... |
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| Skateboarding in Dude Space: The Roles of Space and Sport in Constructing Gender Among Adult Skateboarders This study aims to address how, to what extent, and under what conditions may those who are not cisgen-dered as male do the work of negotiating access to male sporting space. In doing so, it brings together critical geographies of masculinity and the critical literature on skateboarding to address the role of particular kinds of skateboarding spaces in either reproducing or potentially disrupting gender segregated, patriarchal skate-boarding cultures. This project is offered not only to challenge patriarchal practices and values, but also to step beyond theory and actually examine how sport... |
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| Emerging genders: semiotic agency and the performance of gender among genderqueer individuals This article examines how individuals who identify with genders outside a male/female binary make use of the semiotic material available to them in the environment to interactively construct non-binary gender(s). Through micro-interactional analysis of the speech produced by individuals who identify as genderqueer, the article demonstrates how individuals draw on an array of signs to create and perform non-normative genders. The article argues that the implementation of embodied signs can be understood using a model of semiotic agency, which reveals how the signs themselves vary in their... |
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