Month: July 2017
In Search of Justice Narratives in Music Performances
Since the Indonesian independence era, the topic of justice has become the concerns of gamelan composers believing that music posseses …
Documentary As Autoethnography: A Case Study Based on the Changing Surnames of Women
In the autoethnographic research method, researchers analyse their own subjectivity and life experiences, and treat the self as ‘other’ while …
Manufacturing Politicians: Angela Merkel’s Image in the Spanish Press During the German Federal Elections
Spanish public opinion shows, according to sociological surveys, a disaffection towards the Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel. From the influence …
The Hero and the Shadow Deconstructing Ideology and Identity in Anglo-Boer War Film and Drama Series Narratives
How does the predominant myth of a society influence the narratives told by its popular culture? That is the key …
Different Histories, Different Narratives: ICT Uses as “Habitus”?
History forms narratives, narratives form media uses? My presentation will address this question drawing on a research conducted on social …
Writing of the History: Ernesto Rogers Between Estrangement and Familiarity of Architectural History
Ernesto Rogers was the key figure of the post-war Italian architecture. Architect, educator, writer, editor, he was a man of …
Journalism Ideology in Practice at a South African Public Radio Station
The core functions of journalism form part of a certain belief system or 'ideology' concerning journalism. Most journalists and journalism …
Self-Reflection on Buddhist Dhamma Teachings Through Acrylic Paintings and Video Art: Experiential Approach of Understanding
This research aims to study the experiential method of learning and understanding of buddhist teachings on Truth or Dhamma through …
A Research of Self-Disclosure on Fanpage Creators of Illustration/Text in Taiwan
As technology evolves, gradually more virtual network platforms with innovative functions are being developed. Nowadays, the phenomenon of nearly every …
De-Westernising Travel Journalism: Consumerism Meets Postcolonialism
Scholars have long viewed travel writing and travel journalism from a postcolonial perspective, based on the history of ‘the West …
Life and Death in Verses – A Case Study: The Writings of Lili Kasticher, The Only Woman That Wrote in Auschwitz
This paper focuses on the unique works of a young woman named Lili Kasticher, written at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp …
Hybridity and Context in Sita Sings the Blues: Appropriate or Appropriative
Abandoned by her husband who was working in India, the cartoonist Nina Paley found Sita’s rejection by Rama to be …
Silesia and Oikology: What Knowledge of Home Does Silesia Offer?
The author addresses the problem of the philosophy of the Silesian home. Silesia is a borderland in Central Europe now …
La Mise Hors Scène Screen Memory
Regarding mise-en-scène, in Antonin Artaud’s letter to theater critic, Benjamin Crémieux, Artaud candidly expressed that “mise-en-scène itself” could act as …
Justice Delayed? The Nkanu Igbo and the Nigerian Army Occupation: 1967-1970
The Nigerian-Biafran Civil War was savagely contested by both sides of the divide. The seceding Biafra had borne the brunt …
Centering Literature: Literature and the History of Environmentalism in Malaysia
Environmentalism in Malaysia, which has its roots in the British colonial administration, has evolved as a social and political force. …
Arthur Hugh Clough’s Amours De Voyage: A Poetic Account of the 1849 Siege of Rome
It is a cliché to say that we live in a time of political and historical uncertainty. Many commentators have …
Perception and Construction of Children’s Perspectives on Japanese Superheroes: A Comparative Study on the Ways Children in Singapore and Malaysia Appropriate Media Cultures
Japan has emerged as one of the global players in media content, and many of Japanese media artifacts enjoy immense …
Can Design Underpin a Strong Wellbeing?
It is understood that involvement in creative activities can boost wellbeing, theories behind Art and Design can also be useful …
Women as Reflected in Egyptian TV Commercials
In the Arab countries, many studies have tackled the image of women in different media platforms, like in drama, movies, …
Theo Angelopoulos: “A Voyage in History, Time and Space”
This paper aims to analyse the historical and dialectical approach of Angelopoulos’s mise-en-scene as well as its connection to historical …
Treasure and Travesty: Refractions of Victorian Imperialism Through Selected Contemporary Literature
Racism is pervasive. Modernity shows that race broaches constant invocation, nearly becoming the standard for relations, internal and international. Moored …
Bypassing the Camera: The Image Production Possibilities of Taiwanese Experimental Images
In the article, Experiment - My Film History by Taiwanese artist, Kao Chung-Li, Li stated that “animation” served as cameraless, …
Teaching History or Retelling Ancient Stories with Pictures: William Blake and the School Version of Virgil
History is not only told by words but also images and objects. This paper looks into the book illustrations of …
The Medical Intelligentsia: Life in Post-Revolutionary Russia (Doctors Letters Material to N.A.Semashko)
In the State Archive of the Russian Federation there are many documents, containing doctors’ letters arrested by Cheka in 1919-1922 …
Theorizing Narrative Space, Memory, and Everyday Present in Tarashankar Bandopadhyay’s the Tale of Hansuli Turn
Village life and community,their rituals and superstitions, the sense of belonging to the ‘place’ they live in, the events of …
Tapoi Katha: A Reconstruction of History Through an Odia Folk Travel Narrative
Considering the question of non-European travels and to rediscover a history on the least explored problematic of Intra-Asian travel by …
Art From Tibetan Buddhist Perspective
Art, divided into art works of fine art; and art objects of religion, where religion is largely defined, which includes …
The Representation of History in “The Chronicles of Yerevan Days”
The film “The Chronicle of Yerevan Days” is unique in the way it uses city ambience as a narrative technique. …
Cinematic Representations of Girls Who Participate in African Political Conflicts
Fictional films which mainly focus on the experiences of girls who participate in African political conflicts are often caught up …
From Greatcoats to Gym Tunics: Reading History through Images of Women Playing Netball
Visual representations of women playing sport have always struggled to gain a consistent foothold in the visual history of sport. …
Representation of History in the Indian Graphic Novel: An Analytical Study of History Through the Frame of Graphic Narratives
This research paper attempt to explore how, through the amalgamation of images and words, India’s historical events have been represented …
Postmodern Simultaneity Versus European History in Contemporary Travel-Writing
The XXIst-century metropolis is dominated by signs, an oppressive quantity of merchandised goods, quick changes and a distortion of traditional …
Business Name Signboards in the Area of Bang Lamphu: Analysis of a Linguistic Landscape
Business name signboards can shape the linguistic landscape of a business area and can create its identity. This study aims …
The Uses of Instagram for Self-Presentation and Self-Promotion of Thai Celebrities
When browsing celebrities' photos on their Instagram accounts, their life stories and lifestyles are reflected. Presentation of self is a …
Queer Approach to Homosexuality in Indian Culture
Today homosexuality and queer identity is acceptable in more Indian youths than before, but still when it comes to families, …
The Dependence on International Film Festivals of Thai Independent Cinema
The essay explores and critically looks at the process of independent filmmaking in Thailand, examines various factors affecting the subject …
Re-Thinking Politics in Film: Thai Independent Cinema After the Coups D’état 2014
During the period of political instability that led to the coups d’état of 2006 and 2014, the independent cinema flourished …
Television Comes to Town – The Role of Television in National Identity Formation in One Post-Colonial Caribbean Nation.
The decolonisation movement that swept the British Caribbean and which saw all but five of the islands begin their move …
Reading RPF as Digital Fiction: New Perspectives for Interpretation
Real person fiction is a type of fanfiction utilizing real (living) people as characters. It tends to flourish within subcultural …
Lesbians (On Screen) Were Never Meant to Survive
My paper will focus on the evolution of the image of the lesbian on screen. We all know what can …
Looking for the Heart: From the History of Heart Transplant in the USSR
Despite the outstanding achievements of heart transplant in the experiment, the history of heart transplantation to patient in the USSR …
Contesting History: Revisiting Native American Identity Through the Narratives of Momaday and Erdrich
This paper will study the works of prominent Native American writers like N.Scott Momaday and Louise Erdrich to illustrate how …
The Possession of Narratives: Telling and Transmitting Caste in Indian Folktales
This paper postulates that caste in India is not just a sociological category, or an existential reality, but has been …
Race and the Quest for Identity in Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah
Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used …
Untouched Voices: Dalit Women’s Autobiographies in Dalit History
This paper will engage with the idea of the self as a narrated, social identity, as this is explored and …
The Migrant Protagonists in Ignacio Del Moral’s La Mirada Del Hombre Oscuro and José Moreno Arenas’ La Playa
The constant movement of populations in the search of better living conditions has been observed since the early days of …
The Construction of ‘Singapore’ In Singapore Cinema
“The fact that we have this multiracial mix is problematic for our cinema…” (David Lee, Vice Chairman, Singapore Film Society). …
Transracial Adoption: Love and Pain
In various social and political discourses, we hear that orphaned children need homes and love, and that children of the …
Matauranga Maori and Therapeutic Landscapes
The indigenous Maori of New Zealand contend that the relationship they have with the land, shapes the ways in which …
Cross-Temporal Icons: Amazonian Globality
Recent studies of the female warrior figure, have shown that it is a character that needs rethinking and contributes to …
A Study of Cultural Transmission through Thai Television Drama
This research entitled “A Study of Cultural Transmission Through Thai Television Drama” were 1) to study a policy of drama …
Turning the Industrial City into the City of Humanities Using Historical Heritages
The city has a close relationship with our daily life. The spaces that we routinely use, such as streets, apartments …
London and the Cockney in British Cinema
London has long been one of the great world cities—the beating heart of the British Empire in the past and …
Tourism Communication of Bangkok Governor
The purpose of this research is 1) To study the communication of Bangkok Governor and Tourism policy and 2) To …
Relations Between Gentrification, Hospitality and Tourism: Illustrating Change in Amsterdam
Working class areas close to city centres can transform into middle and higher class areas, referring gentrification. Wealthier residents move …
SkypeLab: The City As Urbaness
The City as Urbaness presents the concept of ‘urbaness’, that is the understanding of oneself as an urban citizen, as …
City of a Nation and a Nation of Cities: Jawaharlal Nehru and the Civic Consciousness of Anti-Colonial Nationalism in India
Most historical writings on India have often put the village as the backdrop of the study of Indian society. This …
Communication Building City Identities: Communication as a Key Enabler for Dynamic Urbanism in Smart City Environments
Why are some cities so appealing, despite their weak quality of life indicators? Dynamic cities like Rio de Janeiro, Barcelona, …
Re-Thinking the Cultural Politics of Otherness: Theories and Practices
Chair: Jinwoo Choi, Hanynag University, South Korea Symposium Abstract This panel is concerned with the complex political process of otherness, …
Stories About Hope’: Exploration of Survival, Refugee Identity and Possibilities for Belonging Through Art
In the settings of the World refugee crisis, we get to hear only one story - a story of trauma, …
A Postmodern Exploration of the Screened Dialogue Between Past and Present in “Barcelona (Un Mapa)” And Barcelona As a Dystopia
This proposal highlights the postmodern elements in Barcelona (un mapa). In focus is the screened representation of a sophisticated Barcelona …
Sense of Place in an Inner City: Insights from the End of the World
Understanding cities is like understanding metaphors: one needs to engage in a search for the common ground below the surface. …
The Trading of Individual Investors without Knowledge of Law Related to the Stock Market
The purposes of this research was to study the individual investors who almost never study the news securities and exchange …
Legal Measure to Waive Abortion in ASEAN Regional Countries
The purpose of this research is to study exception of abortion in South East Asian region compared with globally legal …
How Do Cities Promote Online Their Investment Potential? Comparative Analysis of Investment Promotion Websites of Barcelona, Manchester, Wrocław, and Lublin
Investment potential is one of the key assets of the city that are used to develop the local economy. Hence, …
The Representation of a Protest against Jakarta’s Governor in the News: A Transitivity Analysis
News as discourse has an essential role in shaping people’s opinions or views on a particular event or a social …
‘A Dirt Field’: Nature and Power in Local Planning
Research in urban political ecology (notably Neil Smith’s notion of the production of nature) provides needed legibility for people and …
A Study of Multi-Agent Simulation in the Urban Transformation of Tamsui, Taiwan
Cities embed the parameters and drive components, which has intention behind the physical embodiment. Based on the research of Cedric …
Transformation of the Open-Air Cinemas of Istanbul Under Urban Gentrification
This study aims to look at the history open air cinemas in Istanbul and how they formed democratic spaces for …
Registration of UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage and Contestation of Belongings in North EastAsia
UNESCO has played a leading role in the protection of cultural heritage. While 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the …
Silk Road As Political Metaphor: Quest for an Ideal World in Ancient Korea
This paper explores the Silk Roads as a political metaphor in the context of Korea’s ancient kingdoms. Typically, many consider …
Ecofeminist Ethics for Sustainable Urban Public Space
Throughout history, the public urban space has been the reflection of a city’s social, economic, cultural and environmental well-being. In …
The Platonic Doctrine of Untruth: Heidegger’s Interpretation of Plato’s Theaetetus and the Natural Possibility of Opinion
This article examines Heidegger’s interpretation of Plato’s Theaetetus, focusing on the problematic nature of opinion (doxa). Some commentators maintain that …
Exploration of Justice in the Redd+ Projects Implementation in Indonesia
Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation “Plus” (REDD+) was first proposed at The 13th Conference of Parties of the United …
Re-Contextualizing Cultural Exchange Policy in Culture-led Urban Regeneration
This study attempts to explore the core concepts and implications of the activity of international cultural activity applied in the …
Affective Politics of Citizenship in Reality TV Programs Featuring North Korean Refugees
This paper is concerned with emerging affective politics of citizenship in contemporary South Korean society. Focusing on the recent reality …
Ordinary Interaction and Severance: Relationships Between South Koreans and North Korean Refugees
This article investigates relationships between South Koreans and North Korean Refugees where many North Korean Refugees co-reside with native South …
Theoretical Implications of Cosmopolitanism and Korean Textbooks Analysis
In an era of diversity and conflicts, we need to consider cosmopolitanism which has important lessons for all mankind beyond …
How a Neighborhood Changes From Summer Resort to Conservative Quarter: The Case of Florya, Istanbul
Florya one of the oldest summer resort in İstanbul competing with its neighbors in growing. With the changes in its …
Depth Perception and Visual Manipulation of Japanese Gardens
The primary interest of this research is to introduce the principle of visual perception of depth and how the principles …