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Connecting Cultures6th February 2012
Introduction: Professor Simon SwainChair: Dr Loredana Polezzi (Italian)Panel: Professor Jacqueline Labbe (English)Professor Francesco Cappuccio (WMS)Dr Anton Popov (Sociology)
Global Priorities Programme - Overview
Showcasing research excellence in key areas
Demonstrating the impacts of research and engaging with key stakeholders
Supporting and enhancing multidisciplinary and cross-departmental research
Generating research income through interdisciplinary research that addresses major global issues
Connecting Cultures GPPAims to:
Contribute at both a theoretical and an applied level to debates around what connects and what divides cultures
Identified 3 strands:•Health & Culture•Memory & Culture•Culture of Translation
Health & Culture
Professor Francesco Cappuccio
Warwick Medical SchoolDivision of Metabolic & Vascular Health
Health & Culture
Innovation (Forward looking – but valuing the past)
Generalizability (Should apply to all – but how about differences?)
Individual vs Collectivity(behaviour, beliefs) v (social, economic, political)
Efficacy vs Effectiveness(it works) vs (it works in my setting)
Social domainHistoryGender
EconomicsPolitics
Artistic domainLiteratureTheatrePainting
Music
Cultural domainBeliefs
BehaviourReligion
ILL-HEALTH (DISEASE)
WELL-BEING (HEALTH)
High salt intake and ill-health
$6-12 saved for every dollar spent$6-12 saved for every dollar spent
Body size, weight, beauty, [fertility] and health?
Venus of Willendorf
Paleolithic (ca. 20,000 BC) AustriaVenus of Willendorf
Paleolithic (ca. 20,000 BC) AustriaVenus of Urbino (Tiziano Vecellio c.1488-1576)Venus of Urbino (Tiziano Vecellio c.1488-1576)
Venus (Fernando Botero 1932 - )Venus (Fernando Botero 1932 - )Catwalk model (2011)Catwalk model (2011)
The perceptions of the benefits of a Mediterranean diet
Food denotes social status !Gennarino and Geraldina: Due uova sbattute and ‘caffè e latte’Catiello: ‘nu piattiello di pasta e fagioli di ieri’Antonio Barracano: ‘pane e latte è la più migliore colazione’
From Eduardo De Filippo. The Local AuthorityA. De Martino-Cappuccio (2010)
Sleep that knits up the ravel’s sleeve of care,
The death of each day’s life, sore labour’s bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course,
Chief nourisher in life’s feast.
W Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 2 Scene 2
Sleep that knits up the ravel’s sleeve of care,
The death of each day’s life, sore labour’s bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course,
Chief nourisher in life’s feast.
W Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 2 Scene 2
Thánatos (Death) and Hypnos (Sleep) as twin brothers, the sons of Nyx (Night)and Erebos (Darkness). Hesiod, Theogony (c.800 BC)
Thánatos (Death) and Hypnos (Sleep) as twin brothers, the sons of Nyx (Night)and Erebos (Darkness). Hesiod, Theogony (c.800 BC)
Sleep represents the idea of death, making
the struggle to remain conscious and the
struggle to remain alive the same.
Homer, Odyssey (c.700BC)
Sleep represents the idea of death, making
the struggle to remain conscious and the
struggle to remain alive the same.
Homer, Odyssey (c.700BC)
Sleep (Somnus) as a kinsman to death Aeneid, Virgil (70-19BC)
Sleep (Somnus) as a kinsman to death Aeneid, Virgil (70-19BC)
Lack of sleep and ill-health
Sleep duration and self-rated health problems
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10
20
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ealth
Japan
Taiwan
Korea
Thailand
Explore differences and similarities between cultures and historical periods, including those with strict attitudes towards the regulation of night-time and sleep and those that reveal a higher degree of tolerance.
Three ways in which societies organise sleep:
monophasic sleep culture (one period of 8h)
biphasic sleep (siesta cultures)
polyphasic sleep pattern (napping cultures)
Reflections
• Cultural dimensions of health and health policies
• To create a bridge between science and cultures
• Reciprocal enrichment• Opportunity for cross-disciplinary research
– How does cultural diversity influence health and well-being?– Are there historical and cultural domains that impact on human health
and medicine?
Memory and Culture
Dr Anton Popov
Department of Sociology
Memory and Culture
‘Social memory’: the process of socialisation into mnemonic communityPolitics of memory: social construction of the past‘Memory boom’ in society and popular culture: the voice of ‘ordinary people’Modernist frame vs. memory frame
‘Memory boom’? In popular culture, media and art
Politics of memory: Alternative memories and revision of history
‘The Bronze Soldier’ before its removal in 2007, Tallinn, Estonia
Revivalist movements and identity claimsThe ‘War of Monuments’ after socialism
Neo-Cossacks marching in the city centre, 2007, Krasnodar, Russia
Political legacy and memory: Russian ‘Winter Revolution’, 2011-12
History and Memory: Remembering Holocaust in the West and Eastern Europe
The Holocaust Museum, Washington DC, USAThe Monument to victims of the Nazi terror,
Krasnodar, Russia
Remembering and Forgetting Silence vs. amnesia Forgetting as part of remembering Embodied and emplaced memories
‘Memories do not have to be consciously held in order for them to be socially alive. Rather, they can furnish a structure of feelings, while remaining elusive, even to those who inhabit them’ (Beck 2007)
Memory as sensorial experience… It is like a key, certain keys are needed, the same is with physical training, [you need it] to feel your internal self, to reach a certain state. In other words, if you give a sword to someone who has Cossack roots, not everyone could even hold it in his hands. Well, I don’t know this opens up in the course of your life activities, genetic memory resurfaces. There is such concept ‘genetic memory’… (Daniil, born 1984)
Questions to consider:
In what ways our collective memory of the past is culturally and historically conditioned?
What implication this has for our understanding the present social and political processes and our expectations of the future? How does what society remembers depend on what it forgets?
What are relationships between history and social memory?
Do the past need to be narrated in order to be remembered?
Cultures of TranslationTranslation and the Mobility of People
Dr Loredana PolezziDepartment of Italian and Connecting Cultures GPP Lead
Professor Jackie LabbeDepartment of English and Comparative Literary Studies
How Europe changed
Changing borders: do they equate to changing national identities?
Movement of peoples and movement of ideas
What, instead of who, carries ideas?
Literary Migrations: the effect of translation and adaptation
Charlotte Smith, The Banished Man (1796) becomes Le Proscrit
Rome, Via dei Fori Imperiali, Maps tracing the expansion of the Roman Empire
Portolano: Map of the Mediterranean (XVII century)Venice, Museo storico navale
Vauro, April 2009
Travel, Mobility, Migration & Translation
Translation in a Monolingual/Polylingual World
Translating, Self-translating, Silencing
Where does translation take place?
Who requires it, authorizes it, sanctions it, controls it?
Who translates and for whom?
Who can self-translate and who cannot?
How do individuals and communities use translation?
How can we conceptualize translation needs and rights?
Breakout Sessions Memory and CultureDr Anton Popov & Professor Hilary Pilkington
Cultures of TranslationDr Loredana Polezzi & Professor Jackie Labbe
Health and CultureProfessor Franco Cappuccio & Professor Rebecca Earle
Next Ideas Cafe
Monday 12 March 5.30pm
Chancellor’s Suite, Rootes Social Building
Science and Technology for Health