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Das ritual der unterwerfung Stefan Nemanjas unter Maunel I. Komnenos (1172)
2013
This article investigates the ceremonial of the subjection of the Serbian zupan Stefan Nemanja to the Byzantine emperor Manuel I Komnenos (1172) and compares it with similar events of the period in question. It argues for a strong influence of western forms of conflict resolution (?deditio?) in the ceremonial.
Managing the paradox of unwanted efficiency : The symbolic legitimation of the hypermarket format in Finland, 1960–1975
2018
Occasionally, organisations are forced to adopt new practices that are inconsistent with the expectations of their stakeholders. An immediate adoption of the practices would risk the organisation’s legitimacy, but as previous research has noted, the perceptions of organisational stakeholders can be managed through symbolic actions. In this article, I examine how actors from four retail organisations symbolically legitimated the adoption of the hypermarket format within their individual contexts by means of internal professional magazines. The analysis suggests that the organisations buttressed their legitimacy by reversing Meyer and Rowan’s idea of loose coupling – adopting the new practice…
Physics meets Bohemia Einstein in Bohemia Michael D. Gordin Princeton University Press, 2020. 360 pp.
2020
In Einstein in Bohemia, Michael Gordin seeks to illuminate the elusive significance of Einstein9s brief tenure in Prague, both for the biography of the famous physicist and for the cultural history of Bohemia. An expert in the history of modern physical sciences and of Russian, European, and American history, Gordin pulls together a wealth of information about the wider context of Einstein9s stay in Prague and of the cultural, scientific, and political history of Bohemia.
Emmy Noether: a Portrait
2020
“I always went my own way in teaching and research,” Emmy Noether once wrote toward the end of her life.
« L’Ecriture d’Art Brut : les innovations du mot et de l’image »
2009
International audience
Ces objets venus d'ailleurs... Images des échanges dans les tombes champenoises de La Tène ancienne au Bas-Empire
2014
International audience; The recurring presence of original objects in graves from all periods is a fact and evidence that some have been imported can be determined by archaeologists from the decoration on these objects, and by how and from what they were made. In funerary contexts, these objects can distinguish certain burial rites from others as they are markers of exchanges between different communities often established and controlled by the elite. In this paper, we will present some examples illustrating this link between power and the exchange of these objects.
Cultural Politics of Love and Provision among Poor Youth in Urban Tanzania
2015
This article examines how urban youth in the poorest neighbourhoods of Dar es Salaam negotiate the terms of transactional intimacy, that is, heterosexual relations in which men are expected to provide for women materially. Using the concept of ‘affect’, I argue that this negotiation involves different levels of male providership, as well as moral values attached to notions of ‘true love’ and the Swahili concept of tamaa. Poor men and women view their agency differently within transactional intimacy, with women describing themselves as exploited by men who do not fulfil their end of the transactional bargain, and poor men portraying themselves as deeply disempowered in comparison to wealthie…
Three Halves of a Whole : Redefining East and West in UNESCO’s East-West Major Project 1957-1966
2017

 
 
 In 1946 Julian Huxley, UNESCO’s rst Director-General, suggested that two opposing philosophies of life were confronting each other from the East and the West, setting the focus on the cultural aspect of this polarisation and de ning the possibility of an East- West conflict as the main threat to world peace. A decade later, in 1957, UNESCO launched The Major Project on the Mutual Appreciation of Eastern and Western Cultural Values to promote its ideas of intercultural understanding as a means to maintaining peace. The core concepts of the Project, East and West, were not strictly defined. Here East and West, as concepts, fit Reinhart Koselleck’s definition of Grundbegri…
How do rural areas profile in the futures dreams by the Finnish youth?
2016
Abstract Demographic trends do not give much hope for rural regions in developed economies. Many studies prescribe rural futures as manifestations of consumption of the countryside by an urban majority. However, many of these macro-images and typologies lack explicit micro-agency. This article illustrates what are the expectations from personal futures in rural areas, where specifically and by whom. The respondents of a national survey represented the Finnish youth, who described their dream future in 2030 in terms of livelihood, accommodation and lifestyle recipe. Analysis of the dreams resulted in distinct regional profiles. Urban-adjacent rural areas are profiled as places for a cosy lif…
Maallistuneet Madonnat ja 1800-luvun lopun käsityksiä materiaalisuudesta
2017
Edvard Munch (1864-1944) ja Axel Gallén (Akseli Gallen-Kallela) (1865-1931) tutustuivat toisiinsa Berliinissä vuonna 1895, jolloin he pitivät yhteisnäyttelyn Ugo Barroccio -taidegalleriassa. Yhteisnäyttelyssä taiteilijat esittelivät muun muassa omat versionsa madonna-aiheesta. Gallénin materiaalikuvauksessaan yksityiskohtainen ja vertauskuvallisuudessaan renessanssihenkiseksikin luonnehdittu, äitiyden onnea henkivä Madonna-teos sisältää runsaasti visuaalisia viitteitä Vienan Karjalaan, suomalaisen kansallismytologian alkulähteille. Taiteilija oli tehnyt häämatkansa Vienan Karjalaan pari vuotta ennen teoksensa valmistumista ja kuvasi teoksessaan vaimonsa Maryn ja tyttärensä Impi Marjatan. Mu…