ASIA SPINE: The Past, Present, and Future

The sharing of international academic accomplishment and friendship is important; furthermore, to better understand and anticipate the future, we should look back and remember where we started. Regarding ASIA SPINE, the authors aimed to record how the pioneers of Asian spinal surgery started this spine meeting series more than 20 years ago and that later developed into the present state of the conference. The authors will also explore the possible future of this conference. In June 1996, when Professor Hiroshi Nakagawa organized the 11th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Spinal Surgery, spinal neurosurgeons from Korea and Japan including Professor Young Soo Kim, Professor Jung Keun Suh, and Professor Nakagawa discussed the establishment of a multinational conference on spinal surgery via a partnership between the 2 countries. Finally, from September 18 to 20, 1997, the First Biennial Meeting of the Japan-Korea Conference on Spinal Surgery was held in Nagoya, Japan, with Professor Hiroshi Nakagawa as the first organizing President. From then, a biennial meeting was held every other year in Korea or Japan until 2009. In September 2010, the next generation of spinal neurosurgeons decided to organize the first meeting of ASIA SPINE in Incheon, Korea, in order to represent all Asian spine specialists. This meeting has been since held annually around the region including in Taiwan. Remembering the pioneers in the field of spinal surgery is invaluable and extremely important. The authors hope that interest in ASIA SPINE will further expand to other nations in Asia who have advanced philosophies and refined technologies. We wish ASIA SPINE continued success and the ability to promote prolonged international friendship among the Asian countries .ope

Japanese Modernism at a "Branch Point": On the Museum of Modern Art, Hayama’s "1937" Exhibition

This article frames the Museum of Modern Art, Hayama’s 2017 exhibition on Japanese modernism during the simultaneously vibrant and tumultuous 1930s through the lens of Japan’s uneven capitalist development and wartime mobilization. The author suggests that the exhibition’s unique international scope, rich selection of figurative and abstract modernist works, and emphasis on the year 1937 as a nexus through which the decade’s competing tendencies can be reevaluated readily disclose the constitutive, dialectical relationships between historical difference, total war, and modernist form in imperial Japan and its colonies. The exhibition’s featured works and curator Asaki Yuka’s direction together emphasized the inseparability of Japanese modernism from the encroaching conditions of world war during the late 1930s, thereby contributing to a growing body of scholarship and series of exhibitions challenging the received oppositions between autonomous modernism, proletarian realism, and wartime propaganda. After introductory remarks on the reassessment of 1930s-era Japanese avant-garde aesthetics, the article provides a series of close readings of significant paintings included in the exhibition, including Murai Masanari’s 1937 Urban, Matsumoto Shunsuke’s 1935 Building, and Uchida Iwao’s 1937 Port. These formal readings explore how the year 1937 marked a pivotal “branch point” for Japanese society, not only in terms of the confluence of various artistic trends but also in terms of the fierce opposition between socialism and fascism that bifurcated potentialities for Japan’s future. Keywords: modernism, imperial Japan, total war, fascism, uneven development, avant-garde, proletarian arts, 1930s, museum exhibition

Museological Cinema: An Ideal Approach to a Modern Art Form

Abstract: This paper is dedicated to finding a way to better incorporate cinema into museums. The answer as to how came through a number of ways that some museums currently operate that could be adopted by others, a few new ideas, as well as an expansion in the number of museum theatres. A key theme of this is to expand the limited selection of films typically found in museums and galleries to include more popular fare, which would better attract visitors with frequency. I also endorse the idea of constructing new theatres for museums that do not already possess one, so that they can enjoy the profound benefits cinema rings. Research supporting these notions was pulled from official studies from the government and independent organizations, the press, museum websites, as well as some commercial sources. The final conclusion made here is that there are some risk factors in adopting the optimal path of building new theatres, stemming from complications of funding and the shrinking small theatre industry, but that wherever applicable, this would serve as a source of institutional and financial strength to museums large or small. Here I recommend the construction of modest theatres only in economic environments that pass a feasibility study, which should be used to play a variety of cinema regularly for the public

HISTORY URBANISM RESILIENCE VOLUME 05:

The 17th conference (2016, Delft) of the International Planning History Society (IPHS) and its proceedings place presentations from different continents and on varied topics side by side, providing insight into state-of-the art research in the field of planning history and offering a glimpse of new approaches, themes, papers and books to come. VOLUME 05: Historical Perspective

The Grain of a Vocal Genre: A Comparative Approach to the Singing Pedagogies of EVDC Integrative Performance Practice, Korean Pansori, and the Centre for Theatre Practices 'Gardzienice'

This thesis is a cross-cultural examination of the relationship between the trained physiology of the voice and culture. Building on Barthes's notion of the grain of the voice,' I argue that each training system moulds the body in a way that decisively affects aesthetic phonation. Therefore I analyse voice training as a bodily inscription, in its Foucauldian sense, and I focus on the pedagogical ethics crystallised in the 'grain of the genre.' This I define as the collective 'grain' to which pedagogies of codified genres aspire, beyond and apart from the individual singing performer's 'grain' ; in other words, the 'grain of the genre' is the means by which culture is reaffirmed in/through the trainee's voice. The introductory chapter looks at the anatomical and physiological properties of the voice, traces the history of theorisations of the voice in order to situate my project, and explains my methodologies as a practitioner/researcher. Drawing on extended practical fieldwork, each of the subsequent three chapters explores the ' grain' of three pedagogies in the light of my personal training and the historical, musicological and broader cultural research I conducted in relation to each method. The three training approaches are a recent development in the area of bel canto (Integrative Performance Practice by 'Experience Vocal Dance Company,' USA and UK), an Asian traditional genre (Korean pansori), and a training pertaining to the Western avant-garde tradition (Centre for Theatre Practices 'Gardzienice,' Poland). Chapter 2 argues that the transdisciplinary grain of IPP on one hand adheres to a scientific approach to voicing, while attempting to bypass the deadends of the predominant training of the 'natural' voice. Chapter 3 acknowledges the grain of pansori as developed and promoted through the explicit aesthetic agenda of Korean han. Chapter 4 studies the grain of Gardzienice as one of 'laughing openness,' a grain mainly preoccupied with the inter-corporeal and the relational. The final chapter revisits the category of the 'grain of the genre' through my embodied perspective as a cross-cultural researcher. I reexamine the Foucauldian aspects of the 'grain' and its disciplinary character through the lens of the axis docility-resistance. I conclude the thesis with the suggestion of a dynamic relation between culture and vocal practice, the resistant aspects of which are, I argue, foregrounded when voice is addressed and taught as phonic and foreign.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo

The Bayer Collection: a preliminary catalogue of the manuscripts and books of Professor Theophilus Siegfried Bayer, acquired and augmented by the Reverend Dr Heinrich Walther Gerdes, now preserved in the Hunterian Library of the University of Glasgow

This is the first attempt to provide the scholarly world with a complete, detailed catalogue of all the material, preserved in the Hunterian Library of the University of Glasgow, which formerly belonged to Professor Theophilus Siegfried Bayer and, subsequently, Dr Heinrich Walther Gerdes. As such it provides not only greatly enhanced descriptions of items already known from the work of Young and Aitken,1 and Henri Cordier,2 but also many more items discovered, and progressively described from the 1980s until now

An Annotated Bibliography of Bibliographies on Studies of Ethnic Minorities in China

This bibliography was a part of draft for a book titled二十世纪中国少数民族文献分布及学术研究成果——国际性书目之书目 = An Annotated International Bibliography of Bibliographies on Studies of China’s Ethnic Minorities in the 20th Century (Beijing: Shangwu Yinshuguan, 2006). They consist of catalogues and bibliographies of studies on the ethnic minorities of China, complied and published before 2000 in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, and other European countries

The Fuchs factor: Espionage, the Soviet atomic bomb and Anglo-American relations

oai:repository.canterbury.ac.uk:96z70Klaus Fuchs, born in 1911, was a communist and theoretical physicist. The Manhattan Project was infiltrated by a quiet, treacherous man who appeared loyal to his country. Fuchs also headed the British atomic bomb project at Harwell from 1946 until his arrest in 1949. The impact of Fuchs in theoretical physics, the atomic bombs of America, the Soviet Union and Britain is unprecedented. The impact of the Bomb did not just inject fear into Western allies and civilians of both the Soviet Union and America; it also resonated through popular culture, architecture, and the technological race which endeavoured space travel. This thesis examines Fuchs’s role in the Soviet atomic bomb project that conceived of Joe-1. Although Fuchs’s treason is at the epicentre of its analysis, the thesis peripherally considers the successes of the FBI and MI5, and whether their security apparatuses were efficient in catching Fuchs. It also scrutinises Fuchs’s impact on Anglo-American relations and post-war foreign policy. Other spy cases in the early Cold War are addressed, and their overall impact on Anglo-American atomic relations considered. The thesis concludes with a consideration of Fuchs’s impact on intelligence relations between the American and British establishments

Combat-related trauma : an historical analysis through a biopsychosocial lens

The purpose of this study was to historically examine the biopsychosocial effects of combat-related trauma in veterans with the purpose of guiding treatment. The evolution of the combat-related trauma diagnosis from WWI to present conditions in Iraq and Afghanistan was examined, inclusive of etiology, symptomatology, pathology, and treatment interventions as understood through a biological, psychological and social perspective. Clinical social workers are well aware that new ideas with regards to treatment methodology do not occur in a vacuum. To be considered and accepted they must be compatible with existing ideas created through other sciences, technological advancement, economic conditions, political climate, and social milieu. This thesis examined these influences and their effect on the historical diagnosis and treatment of combat-related trauma. As the Smith College School for Social Work was founded with the purpose of treating soldiers returning from World War I who suffered from combat-neuroses, this thesis also explored the schools historical contribution to the field of clinical social work as it pertained to combat-related trauma through curriculum, theoretical perspectives, and endorsement of treatment paradigms. Finally, content reflected the diversity of soldiers who have continuously served in our armed forces and the sacrifices made by all as evidenced by the personal narratives woven throughout. Within this research several gaps and discrepancies were discovered while many insights were gained; allowing for specific treatment recommendations and relative conclusions