2006-03-18
From the Media - Part 38
posted by mh 19 years ago
The renowned think-tank ESI (European Stability Initiative) now seems to have discovered cultural heritage as a new field of research. Together with a recently formed local NGO they are now preparing a case study of Pristina, where the situation, according to their findings, is "worrying. A pattern of neglect and destruction of cultural heritage, that began with communism in the 1940s and continued under Milosevic, remains in place. The public institutions charged with protecting cultural monuments are weak. The applicable law has not been enforced at all since 1999. Most international advice has been ignored." The fairly interesting project report "Future of Pristina" is accessible here.
Events - Part 19
posted by mh 19 years ago
A document with the abstracts for the Harvard Symposium Historiography and Ideology: Architectural Heritage of the "Lands of Rum" is now available online (pdf). Speeches will include: "Contextualizing the Byzantine and Ottoman Architectural Legacy: Istanbul in the 1920s and 1950s", "Ottoman Art/Architecture in Early Republican Nationalist Texts", "Architecture and the Search for Ottoman Origins in the Late Tanzimat Period", "Westernization, Decadence, and the Ottoman Baroque: Modern Constructions of the Eighteenth Century", "Preservation/Projection: Museums and National Identity in the Republic of Turkey", "The Creation of a National Genius: Sinan and the Historiography of 'Classical' Ottoman Architecture", etc.
Books - Part 9
posted by mh 19 years ago
Chişinău, Sofia, Pristina, Sarajevo, Zagreb, Warsaw, and Ljubljana are the cities featured in a new book, "Leap into the City: Cultural Positions, Political Conditions. Seven Scenes from Europe", which emerged from the relations-project and an "intensive exchange with cultural actors in the countries of eastern Europe for the last three years. Every-day life and visions, social realities, and aesthetic practices are at the center of this discourse [...]. The starting point was always the specific local situation".
Balkancities
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