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Re‐assessing regional chronologies for island southeast Asian voyaging to Aboriginal Australia
Archaeology in Oceania, Volume 58, Issue 3, Page 245-274, October 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT According to written histories, trepang fishers from Island Southeast Asia (“Makassans”) frequented coastal northern Australia from c.1750 to 1907 CE. Yolŋu oral traditions and old Austronesian borrow words in coastal Aboriginal languages suggest a long and complex history of foreign voyaging to northern Australia.
Chris Urwin +4 more
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Myths of Modernism: Austrian Art after 1918
Art History, Volume 46, Issue 2, Page 256-281, April 2023., 2023 The development of art in Austria after 1918 remains little explored; the main focus of research continues to be fin‐de‐siècle Vienna. Where interwar Austrian modernism is studied at all, interest is mostly limited to the municipal housing sponsored by the Social Democratic council.
Matthew Rampley
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Blue days: A mid‐20th century war memorial swimscape and the persistence of memory
New Zealand Geographer, Volume 78, Issue 3, Page 186-199, December 2022., 2022 Abstract War memorials were intended to console the living, honour the dead and remind future generations of duty and sacrifice. In living memorials, the combination of remembrance with celebrating life introduces a tension between the sacred and the profane, affecting the memory work of the memorial. Here, the persistence of memory in living memorials
Gretel Boswijk
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Krupp in the Occupied Eastern Territories: Frustration, Failures, and the Question of Freedom
Australian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 376-393, September 2022., 2022 This article speaks to a broader debate about the agency and freedom of German business during the Third Reich, on a spectrum from control and coercion to freedom of action. It argues that at least in the occupied eastern territories, Krupp and German business were not unwilling and coerced participants but neither entirely free to act as they wished ...
Troy Gillan
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Pamiętnik Teatralny, 2016 Banned in 1949–1955, Witkacy was reclaimed for Polish culture in the process of political change in 1956. His work has the extraordinary capacity to renew meanings and to resonate with what is happening at a given moment, in changing political, social ...
Janusz Degler
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Stefan Themerson’s Opera (St. Francis & The Wolf of Gubbio or Brother Francis’ Lamb Chops) [PDF]
, 2016 The paper focuses on the experimental work of Stefan Themerson (St. Francis and The Wolf of Gubbio or Brother Francis’ Lamb Chops, an Opera in 2 Acts, text and music by Stefan Themerson, drawings by Franciszka Themerson, De Harmonie – Gaberbocchus Press,
Hejmej, Andrzej
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Janka Hescheles’ 'Locomotive' (to Bełżec) [PDF]
, 2016 This article concerns the influence of the most famous Polish poem for children: Lokomotywa by Julian Tuwim, particularly in three “Holocaust” paraphrases of this work, written by children in the ghetto and the concentration camps – the poems Lokomotywa ...
Morawiec, Arkadiusz
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Errata to the Stanisław Czernik’s Biography: 1949 [PDF]
, 2016 The subject of this paper is the writing activity of Stanisław Czernik in 1949. Czernik was an esteemed writer but concurrently he worked as censor in The Ministry of Culture and Art.
Gardocki, Wiktor
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'It is Germany where he truly lives': Nazi claims on Shakespearean drama [PDF]
, 2012 The fact that the Nazis tried to claim Shakespeare as a Germanic playwright has been well documented but recently theatre historians have claimed that their “success” was rather limited.
Heinrich, A.
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Sci-fEAST: Science fiction genre in Polish and Czechoslovakian cinema [PDF]
, 2015 This article is based on research done as part of Sci-fEAST: the Science Fiction Genre in Central and Eastern Europe project initiated by the students of Charles University in Prague and continued also by the academic staff of the University of Łódź ...
Góralik, Mikołaj
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