Celebrating and learning: our release from humiliation.
Clark McCauley blogs at Oxford University Press.
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For several years now, the Asch Center has presented an online art gallery as part of its Conflict and Visual Culture Initiative (VCI). This initiative was begun in recognition of the central role that visual expressions and enactments can play in long-term conflicts. Our rotating gallery of artists and topics features the work of documentarians, photographers, fine artists, filmmakers and others whose work is relevant to conflict. The images we exhibit range from direct representations of war zones to the ancillary effects of war and conflict such as displaced peoples and human trafficking, to a fine artist’s deeply personal responses to conflict. Visual culture is a significant aspect of ethnic conflicts and their management because images often provide a powerful language through which group identity and values are articulated. The VCI has exhibited different types of artwork, ranging from fine art and photography made in the United States and Denmark, to public murals in Iran, to documentary photography in Thailand and Myanmar. The simultaneous posting of the three current exhibits marks the first time the VCI has offered an exhibition intended to link topics concerned with conflict in a way that fosters a discussion about human expression and the way artists work and respond to events around them — from the overtly social and interactive, to the deeply personal and solitary. Continue reading Artists Respond to Conflict: At War, in the Street and in the Studio A four-year post-doctoral fellowship and two f0ur-year pre-doctoral fellowships are offered within the Project “Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty,” sponsored by the European Research Council (ERC) and conducted at the University of Amsterdam under the supervision of Dr. Maria Koinova. Contact m.v.koinova@uva.nl Language and Identity in the Israel-Palestine Conflict: The Politics of Self-perception in the Middle EastBy Camelia Suleiman, Visiting Assistant Professor and Arabic Program Coordinator, Bryn Mawr CollegeThe conflict between Israel and Palestine remains one of the most widely- and passionately-debated issues in the Middle East and in the field of international politics. An important part of this conflict is the dimension of self-perception of both Israelis and Palestinians caught up in its midst. Here, Camelia Suleiman, using her background in linguistic analysis, examines the interplay of language and identity, feminism and nationalism, and how the concepts of spatial and temporal boundaries affect self-perception. Continue reading NEW BOOK by Camelia Suleiman Lots going on for Associate Director for Conflict and Visual Culture Initiatives Jonathan Hyman. His pictures of American reactions to 9/11 are on exhibit at Sylvia Wald + Po Kim Art Gallery in NYC. http://www.waldkimgallery.blogspot.com/ His pictures are also the focus of a show at Duke University: “Flesh & Metal, Bodies & Buildings: Works from Jonathan Hyman’s Archive of Vernacular Memorials.” http://exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/hyman And another honor: “Twin Towers Go Global is pleased to announce Jonathan Hyman as the first confirmed jury member for our ongoing open call, a competition where people imagine the Twin Towers rebuilt around the world.” http://www.twintowersgoglobal.org/wtc/2011/08/photographer-jonathan-hyman-joins-jury-of-twin-towers-go-global-open-call/ Clark McCauley and Sophia Moskalenko Friction: How Radicalization Happens to Them and Us (click for Oxford University Press web site) The book identifies twelve mechanisms of radicalization nested in three levels–
4. Sumanasiri Liyanage. (sumane_l@yahoo.com) Post-War Challenges and Opportunities: How could diaspora community get involved? Work-in-progress paper. An earlier version presented 26 September 2010 at the School of Oriental and African studies, University of London. Diasporas in Home Country PoliticsNotice the new section of the Asch web site! “Diasporas in Home Country Politics” is the new tab at the top of the Asch home page. Diasporas have been studied for their effects on the economics, politics, and culture of their host countries, usually Western countries. Much less attention has been given to the effects of diasporas on their countries of origin, and especially little attention has been given to diaspora effects on the politics of their countries of origin. This new section of the Asch web site has been initiated to bring together research on precisely this topic: the power of diasporas in home country politics. Everyone is invited to submit work of this kind–your own or others’–to Clark McCauley (cmccaule@brynmawr.edu). Titles, abstracts, and author emails should be submitted for posting in the new section. The goal is to develop an interdisciplinary subculture that will forward understanding of the power of diasporas, for good and for ill, in home country politics. The impetus for this new initiative is recent work by Maria Koinova; her three papers already posted provide a fast start for the new section! An interview with Boris Berezovsky explores the political uses of ethnopolitical conflict in Russia. The dynamics referred to in the interview are interesting whatever you think about its accuracy. The interview was translated from Russian by Sophia Moskalenko; translator’s notes appear in brackets. Freedom Radio is a private non-profit news media financed by the U.S. Congress. It transmits to over twenty countries of Eastern and Southeastern Europe, the Caucus, and Central Asia. |
  
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