“Up to the Sun and Down to the Centre:” The Utopian Moment in Anticolonial Nationalism

The ideology and practice of James Fintan Lalor is examined as a geographical imagination in the service of anticolonial nationalism. The utopian and forward-looking aspects of nationalism have not received as much attention as the retrospective emphasis upon the restoration of past glories. Yet in anticolonial nationalism, the question of what an independent state could achieve incites a utopian moment and links nationalism to a more universalist discourse concerning justice

Social analysis Iraj Mirza’s poems and Malek O-Sho'ara Bahar’s poems

Iraj Mirza and Bahar were born out around the Iranian Constitutional Revolution in their literary life. This revolution has had a profound impact on poetry and social thinking. As the poets mentioned in the past glories of the past and paid this tendency is usually seen in the society is in crisis and disaster and the crisis and disaster was nothing but colonization of foreign countries. Freedom and liberal center of the Revolution and thus poets and writers sought to people, the more liberal the lead. Due to this, the aim of this paper is to study the social implications of Iraj Mirza’s poems and Malek o-Sho'ara Bahar’s poems and compare them.Keywords: Iraj Mirza, Malek o-Sho'ara Bahar, the social themes of freedom, patriotis

What to Conserve? Heritage, Memory, and Management of Meanings

This Paper explores and criticizes different theories and perceptions concerning ‘cultural heritage’ to explore the definitions of ‘heritage’ throughout history, and questions how the conflicts in considering and identifying ‘heritage’ might have affected the approaches to its conservation. In such process, the paper investigates the relation between ‘place’ and ‘memory’ and how place has been always the medium through which history was written, resulting in two inseparable faces, tangible and the intangible, forming the two-faced coin of ‘cultural heritage’. This research assists understanding the complex construct of heritage places; stressing the growing awareness of intangible heritage’s importance, which represents a remarkable turn in heritage conservation realm in the twenty-first century, and emphasizing the notion of heritage as a coefficient of society, which is understood through experience, learnt through performance, and represented through ‘activities’ formed in the present maintaining and developing the identity of place and preserving its spirit, rather than a past oriented vision that tends to ‘pickle’ images from the past in a picturesque manner that is only tourism-oriented

Flora and Fauna in East Asian Art

Flora and Fauna in East Asian Art is the fourth annual exhibition curated by students enrolled in the Art History Methods course. This exhibition highlights the academic achievements of six student curators: Samantha Frisoli ’18, Daniella Snyder ’18, Gabriella Bucci ’19, Melissa Casale ’19, Keira Koch ’19, and Paige Deschapelles ’20. The selection of artworks in this exhibition considers how East Asian artists portrayed similar subjects of flora and fauna in different media including painting, prints, embroidery, jade, and porcelain. This exhibition intends to reveal the hidden meanings behind various representations of flora and fauna in East Asian art by examining the iconography, cultural context, aesthetic and function of each object.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/artcatalogs/1025/thumbnail.jp

Mythos : A Play in Two Acts About the Ability to Choose

This paper presents a two-act play in the fantasy genre about the ability to choose, titled “Mythos.” The goal of the play is to persuade audience members to consider that regardless of their past, they still have the ability to choose their future. Although this play is written from a Christian perspective, it does not deal directly with Christianity. “Mythos” centers on Margaret, a young woman who is afraid of making the choices necessary to progress her life. Instead, Margaret is waiting on her “call to adventure,” which, according to Joseph Campbell, was the beginning of most heroes’ adventures in Greek mythology. Research comes from a variety of texts on the fantasy genre, myths, and storytelling, as well as Jeffrey Hatcher’s guide The Art & Craft of Playwriting and the English Standard Version of the Bible