Stepeni tuge: ekonomska devastacija i društveni zaborav

Author(s): Ildiko Erdei / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 2/2014

In the spring of 2008, after Heineken bought the major stake in “Pančevačka pivara” (Pančevo brewery) from Efes, and thus became its owner, the corporation shut down production in the Pančevo factory, fired all remaining workers save for a few managers, and soon after halted production of the only remaining brand of “Pančevačka pivara” which was named after the brewery’s mid-nineteenth century founder – Weifert. Thus, after more than 150 years of beer production in Weifert’s brewery, and more than 280 years after beer first started to be produced in Pančevo, the town is left without a significant industrial capacity and one of its key cultural and identity symbols. What should be cause for concern for researchers is the huge discrepancy between the decades-long endeavor to traditionalize the brewery and the culture of beer consumption and utilize them in the representation of the town as an industry center as well as a multicultural environment with an urban sensibility and significant Habsburg heritage, and the complete silence which followed the closing of the brewery and is still there, four years after the factory shut down. The paper examines how the deep, uncomfortable silence which has enveloped these events, the absence of any kind of public debate on the issue as well as the lack of any kind of articulated unofficial discourse about this loss can be interpreted. Starting from the assumption that any way of speaking is simultaneously a way of not speaking, I will examine the social dynamics of the reverse process in a specific social, economic, political and cultural context. In other words, what is the role of social non-remembrance and what can be gleaned from this non-speaking, repressing, intentional oblivion?

“Europe can never be lost as long as there are men like you” – Huizinga and Europe

Author(s): Anton van der Lem / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

As a professor in Groningen (1908/09, 1912/13) and Leiden (1916/17, 1922/23, 1931/32, 1939/1940) Huizinga chose to lecture on the “Grondslagen van Europa” (the Foundations of Europe). In these lectures he focused on the ancient and early medieval history of Europe. In 1941 he considered writing a book entitled Een gezicht op Europa (A view on Europe), of which the title page and the first page were printed. This book was supposed to start with the Roman Empire. But after 1933, with the rise of the totalitarian systems of communism and fascism, Huizinga became worried about the future of our civilization in general. He dealt most explicitly with the history of Europe in his Patriotisme en nationalisme in de Europeesche geschiedenis tot het einde der 19de eeuw (Haarlem, 1940; translated a. o. into English and German). In 1943 he preferred to write a short survey about the possibilities of a recovery of our civilization: Geschonden wereld (Haarlem, 1946; translated into German three times, 1945: Wenn die Waffen schweigen; 1948: Geschändete Welt; 2014: Verratene Welt). The article combines an analysis of Huizinga’s published works concerning Europe with unpublished sources from his archives.

CSÉ über E. – Vorlesungen von László Cs. Szabó über Erasmus 1946/47

Author(s): Tamás Balogh / Language(s): German Issue: 1/2017

In 1946–1947, the Hungarian essayist and poet László Cs. Szabó held lectures on Erasmus at the Department of Cultural History of the Hungarian College of Fine Arts. “Reactionary” even in name, the department had been newly established (we could say it was established specifically for him). Not only is his experience of the world war clearly present in each line of his lectures, written with a great deal of erudition and psychological insight, but it seems as though he had had presentiments of the times that were to come: his texts were imbued with admonition (taking advice from friends, two years later he did not return to Hungary from a scholarship in Italy, and he subsequently emigrated to the UK, where he took a job at the BBC). Of all of Erasmus’s biographers, Cs. Szabó mentions Huizinga alone; his influence on him is clear. He paused several times to read out quotations from Huizinga’s book. The Dutch thinker’s influence also shows in the structure and the emphasis on certain subjects. The part on history of effect as well as the one on Erasmus’s iconography were probably inspired by Huizinga’s book. Nevertheless, Huizinga’s effect is not in the details. If Huizinga distinguished The Small Erasmus and The Great Erasmus, then it is even more true of Cs. Szabó.

Johan Huizinga in der Slowakei

Author(s): Adam Bžoch / Language(s): German Issue: 1/2017

In a series of sequences, the contribution traces the reception of Johan Huizinga in Slovak culture and humanities after 1945. After the Second World War, Huizinga was discovered for the first time by a conservative circle of Slovak Catholic intellectuals who appreciated both his cultural criticism (especially his work Geschonden wereld) and his vision of the Late Middle Ages as a colourful and rich period in European culture. Since the early 1950s, Huizinga’s name has appeared in the works of Jozef Felix, the founder of modern Romance studies in Slovakia, who used some of Huizinga’s historical arguments in a contemporary discussion on literary realism, defending the presence of artistic realism in the Middle Ages. In the early 1970s, the Czech translation of Homo Ludens strongly influenced the alternative culture in Slovakia, but in dissident circles it also opened a new perspective on alternative thinking on science. After 1989, the Slovak translation of The Waning of the Middle Ages and Homo Ludens formed the background of the discussion about pluralism in Slovak historiography

ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AND CREATIVITY’S PERSPECTIVES

Author(s): CORINA MATEI / Language(s): English Issue: 03/2016

My paper is focusing on the analysis and predictions that some famous experts offer concerning the dramatic changes in the future organizational culture, given the complex transformations in our economies, societies, and in our civilization in general. Two areas – education and leadership – seem to play an important role in improving or even in maintaining organizations on a normal scale of functioning. Both could be reinvented by creativity. But creativity, as it is treated in present educational institutions, seems to be each person’s interior “promised land”, which is buried deep inside. The revolution of creativity that Sir Ken Robinson suggests, starting from education and imprinting business sectors as well as other cultural sectors, seems a possible solution. In this spirit, I will evoke other authors with similar visionary suggestions.

Małgorzata Szumowska – a Few Scenes from a Filmmaker’s Life (2000-2008)

Author(s): Piotr Pławuszewski / Language(s): English Issue: 20/2012

Małgorzata Szumowska – her strong position during the last decade in the history of Polish cinema seems unquestionable. Speaking with her own, original voice, she has successfully refused to be pigeonholed. The only thing one can be sure of in reference to Małgorzata Szumowska is that she will keep moving forward artistically. The main goal of the article is to examine this interesting journey, following selected threads, in particular, the need for love and facing death or a serious illness, in Szumowska’s filmography over the last decade.

O BOŠNJACIMA (MUSLIMANIMA) U CRNOJ GORI

Author(s): Šemsudin Hadrović / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 65-66/2015

Svi „tranzicijski vozovi“ već odavno uveliko gaze prema ujedinjenoj Evropi i razvijenom svijetu, samo je vagon Avdul Kurpejovića, srećom, „zabarikidiran“ na sporednom kolosjeku i nemoćno pokušava vući natrag. Nešto slično smo imali priliku vidjeti devedesetih godina kada je ideja i svjesnost o Bosanskom jeziku počela prodirati ka Sandžaku a time i Crnoj Gori.Tada su Muslimani, uglavnom oni sa sjevera Crne Gore pronosili ideju o Bosni kao matici svih Bošnjaka-Muslimana, a bosanski jezik kao maternji jezik. Ponekada bi provejavalo i pitanje: - a zašto ne i jezik Bošnjački? No, to je pitanje ostajalo tada bez odgovora.

Eesti üldlaulupeo tähenduslikkusest

Author(s): Rein Veidemann / Language(s): Estonian Issue: 12/2015

The article focuses on the analysis of the meaning and the significance of the Estonian Song Festival, utilizing the concepts of Tartu–Moscow School of cultural semiotics (mainly Juri Lotman). The analysis is conducted within the context of the song festival’s history. The following segments of analysis are distinguished: the development of primary significations in the field of differing influences; repertoire as a text; song festival as a ritual; the dichotomy of the inner and external form of the song festivals. It is asserted that the Estonian Song Festivals are a challenge posed by the periphery to the centre: the tradition of choral songs (Liedertafel) operative in Western Germany spread to the Baltic provinces in the 19th century. Under the leadership of J. V. Jannsen, the format of Baltic song festivals was transmitted onto the first Estonian Song Festival in 1869. The interrelatedness of cultural periphery and centre is also evident in the Moravian Church movement which spread into Estonian territory in the latter half of the 18th century – their ideological pattern becomes both the signifier of the national awakening and of the song festival („the singing congregation”). During the first years of the song festival, its authenticity in relation to Estonian culture constantly posed problems. Although the song festival is a cultural transfer, it is given significance as „our very own”, on the one hand, by Estonian culture’s fundamental transitivity (Estonian culture as a border culture), and on the other hand, by the religious function of the Song Festival. To put it figuratively: Estonians have, at least up to this point, been a people of the Song Festival Religion.

Semiootika ekspansioon

Author(s): Julia Kristeva / Language(s): Estonian Issue: 12/2015

Japanese Approaches to the Challenges of Ageing-Lessons for Romania

Author(s): Diana Tihan / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2016

However geographically and culturally distant from Romania, Japan can offer valuable lessons on how to prevent the potential negative impact and maximize the benefits of the accelerating population ageing process, considering that it has been experiencing, studying and experimenting with this phenomenon for longer than Romania and other EU countries. In addition, present day Japan may be seen as a show-case model, a possible picture of what other countries, now at the beginning of the ageing process, such as Romania, could look like in the near future. Japan may thus provide Romania a good opportunity to gather data about the dynamics of the process and the impact of the measures designed to tackle it. Certainly, no two social environments are the same, and the Japanese experience cannot be reproduced anywhere else as such. But finding inspiration and adapting the Japanese good-practices to the unique particularities and challenges of the Romanian demographic process are feasible endeavors that may prove beneficial. This paper aims to identify possible solutions to the problem of ageing in Romania based on a comparative approach with Japan on this issue.

Mapping the Intellectual Landscape: Bookstores and the Book towns in the Late Era

Author(s): Andrew T. Kamei-Dyche: / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2016

As modernization transformed nineteenth-century Japan in dramatic ways, the socio-economic changes that were engendered opened up anew world for intellectuals. The acquisition of books was a key part of this world, not only for gaining knowledge but also as part of the social activity associated with intellectuals. Consequently, the sites of physical and social space dedicated to books – bookstores and book towns – took on great importance.This article attempts to briefly discuss the role of these two locales of print culture in the intellectual world of late Meiji Japan, drawing out some of the connections among places, people and books that shaped the lives of contemporary intellectuals. It introduces some of the era’s noted bookstores and the town of Kanda Jinbochō, which today remains Japan’s premier book town.

O JAVNOJ ULOZI PISACA I INTELEKTUALACA

Author(s): Edward W. Said / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 19-20/2002

Edward W. Said je profesor na katedri za Uporednu Književnost, na Kolumbija Univerzitetu u Njujorku. Jedan je od najuticajnijih i najpoštovanijih savremenih svjetskih intelektualaca. Autor je dvanaest naučnih monografija, koje se bave temama iz oblasti literature, književne kritike, i kulturnih studija, kao što su: Dzozef Konrad i Proza Autobiografije (Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography), Početci: Namjera i Metod (Beginnings: Intention and Method); Književnost i Drustvo (Literature And Society); Svijet, Tekst i Kriticar (The World, the Text, and the Critic), Pitanje Palestine (The Question of Palestine), uključujući i remek djela kakva su Orijentalizam (Orientalism), i Kultura i Imperijalizam (Culture and Imperialism).

POVRATAK U BUDUĆNOST - TEZE O MNEMOISTORIJI, POPULARNOJ KULTURI I TRAŽENJU NOVIH ANALITIČKIH OKVIRA ZA RAZUMIJEVANJE CRNOGORSKE STVARNOSTI

Author(s): Srđa Pavlović / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 19-20/2002

Kratka analiza koja slijedi predstavlja samo predloge za moguće (potrebne) metodološke iskorake u polju istorije, i teze o mogućnostima kvalitativnog otklona izvan okvira standardne metodologije izučavanja i prezentiranja prošlosti. Iako sam svjestan potrebe da se teme koje slijede šire razmatraju, ovaj tekst nema takvih aspiracija. Želim samo da ukažem na neke od novijih teorijsko-metodoloških modela koji su na raspolaganju savremenim istraživanjima naše prošlosti i sadašnjosti, i da apostrofiram njihove prednosti.

SLAVENIZIRANI CIGANI U CRNOJ GORI

Author(s): Valtazar Bogičić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 19-20/2002

Kada prije izvjesnog vremena pažnja naših čitalaca bijaše skrenuta na učena istraživanja carskog ruskog državnog savjetnika prof. dr Valtazara Bogičića o pravnom životu Slovena složena (Ausland 1873, br. 52), mi smo tada tome dodali saopštenje da se on po nalogu Knjaza od Crne Gore i uz saglasnost ruske vlade uputio na Cetinje da bi tamo izradio zakonik za Crnu Goru. Mi nijesmo propustili da uputimo molbu našem prijatelju-istraživanju da nas obraduje vijestima iz Crne Gore i dobismo prije nekoliko nedjelja donje pismo koje mi u vjernom prevodu u toliko radije ovdje objavljujemo što državni savjetnik Bogičić obrađuje u njemu, uprkos tome što o Ciganima postoji i trajno se uvećava književnost - prema našem saznanju još potpuno nepoznatu granu ovog čudnovatog naroda sa iscrpnošću hvale vrijednom.

UMJETNIČKI DOMETI USMENE EPIKE BOŠNJAKA IZ CRNE GORE I SRBIJE

Author(s): Husein Bašić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 39-40/2008

Vrijeme i trajanje epskih pjesama u usmenoj narodnoj predaji Bošnjaka Crne Gore i Srbije se uglavnom poklapa sa periodom tursko-osmanske vladavine balkanskim zemljama i narodima. Zato one cjelokupnim svojim bićem potvrđuju da su ne samo duhovni izraz toga vremena, već se širinom zahvata epskih događanja i izborom epskih junaka, uklapaju u širi kontekst bošnjačke epike na južnoslovenskim prostorima. Zato se za pojedine varijante zabilježenih bošnjačkih epskih pjesama ne može posigurno tvrditi da su prvobitno nastale u Bosni ili Hercegovini, ne samo što je za osmanskog vladanja mnogo šire područje bilo isti duhovni i administrativni prostor, već i što bi se time anulirao stvaralački doprinos u svijetu čuvenih narodnih pjesnika-pjevača rodom iz Sandžaka, kakvi su: Ćor-Huso Husović, Avdo Međedović, Salih Ugljanin, Murat Kurtagić, Kasum Rebronja, Sulejman Fortić, Alija Fjuljanin, Ašir Ćorović i drugi, čijim su se umijećem stvaranja epskih pjesama od poznatih sižea američki naučnici Milman Parry i Albert Bates Lord poslužili da obrazlože genezu antičkih epova – Ilijade i Odiseje.

ISLAMSKI VJERSKI OBJEKTI U REPUBLICI MAKEDONIJI ZAŠTIĆENI ZAKONOM ZA KULTURU

Author(s): Katerina Todoroska,Nevena Petkovska / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 61-62/2014

Cilj našeg rada je analiza stanja islamske kulturne baštine u Republici Makedoniji sa osvrtom na sakralni dio kulturnih spomenika u Skoplju. Studija obuhata historijske podatke o najstarijim skopskim džamijama, kao neizostavnom dijelu osmanlijske kulturne baštine. Sama historijska vrijednost ovih objekata je evidentna. Riječ je o baštini koja je na prostoru Skoplja i šire počela da niče još na početku XV vijeka. Velelepnost i arhitektonski izgled ovih objekata je osnovni razlog da budu podvrgnuti restauraciji i, posebnim republičkim Zakonom, stavljeni pod zaštitu države.

Popularna glazba u ogledalu različitih teorija

Author(s): Marija Pehar,Lidija Vladić Mandarić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 22/2016

Considering that popular music is a dominant form in the music culture of most people, there is a need of research today in order to determine the opinion of examinees as to how music influences the quality of life and what importance they attach to music in their life. Some 99 examinees of various profiles and ages participated in the research. The aim of the research was to find out how much the media of today influence the taste of individuals and whether they are aware of that influence. The results of the research will show what the perception of people is regarding popular music, and how good they are at identifying its different genres. The first part of this paper familiarizes us with (ethno) musicology and explains the term the world music. After Tin Pan Alley phase, there follow the theories related to the popular music of theoreticians Adorno, Middleton and Frith. The chapter about jazz investigates the question whether this genre belongs to popular or artistic music. This is followed by a short review of different phases of rock & roll, electronic music, popular music in Croatia and the question of commercialization of traditional music. The last chapter is reserved for an online research that has given us an sight into the way the individuals relate to popular music at present time.

La poésie maghrébine sur le martyr : une phénoménologie sacro-poétique

Author(s): Cláudia Felicia Falluh Balduino / Language(s): French Issue: 4/2012

How does the modern Arab-Muslim poet, especially Tahar Ben Jelloun inherit from the religious tradition of the past and transform it into a poetic agent? This article attempts to answer this question by analyzing the elegies of La remontée des cendres and Non identifiés, poems by Tahar Ben Jelloun about the Palestinian conflict and the Gulf War, making use of phenomenology, arts and aspects of the sacred in Islam.

Rreth termave “primitiv” dhe “arkaik” në etnologji

Author(s): Bashkim Lajçi / Language(s): Albanian Issue: 46/2016

In this paper there is assumed to be provided data relating to the use of the terms "primitive" and "archaic", as terms that were widely used in the field of ethnology. Although the terms in question were the product of evolutionary school, they were also a topic of discussion and treatment of other schools, which contributed to a better understanding and to a better use of them. Over time, both of these terms, and in particular the term “primitive", has obtained a certain meaning of quality towards our culture: something that is primitive, which is worse and lower than historical civilizations.

KULTURA ; NJEZINE BITNE ODREDBENICE, PROIZVODNJA KULTURE

Author(s): Zdravko Kordić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 85-86/2016

Important determinants of the notion of humanism speak about man’s worldview which is based on the good, and what the highest good is for the human being – and man is both biological and physical, but also a human and social being. Culture as a crucial human characteristic and the only true human action – is what makes human as God’s image and likeness ascend from the animalistic, above all other actions – it is by culture that human inherits what was intended for him or created during the history.