Inauguration Ceremony Research Articles

Creating Places of Public Memory through the Naming of School Buildings. A Case Study of Urban School Spaces in Bologna in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Esta contribución pretende analizar los nombres oficiales de las escuelas italianas en los siglos XIX y XX, teniendo en cuenta estas escuelas como lugares de memoria civil, política y escolar. Estudiando la legislación nacional y en base a la investigación histórica de escuelas específicas en Italia, el trabajo se centra en la denominación de los edificios escolares que se encuentran hoy en la ciudad de Bolonia (Italia), durante el período comprendido entre la Unificación y la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Examinando fuentes de archivo aún inexploradas, el artículo analiza las motivaciones subyacentes a los nombres de las escuelas, los contextos en los que se debatieron y decidieron, las ceremonias de inauguración y los discursos oficiales relativos dados por las autoridades, las piedras colocadas o bustos expuestos dentro o fuera las escuelas y la compleja escenografía establecida para la población local que ofrecen un discurso «pedagógica» y, sin embargo político, como un auténtico patrimonio educativo de la «memoria pública» y la pedagogía política para las generaciones presents y futuras. Este estudio también muestra algunas sorpresas interesantes en relación con las figuras y personajes, famosos y menos conocidos, señalados en la memoria local de la escuela, pero legibles en muchos niveles de interpretación histórica y educativa. Este trabajo ha confirmado que oficialmente el nombre de los edificios escolares italianos son auténticos lugares de la memoria asignadas desde su nacimiento para desempeñar una función civil y pública de la educación nacional y la memoria cultural, así como para la alfabetización de las nuevas generaciones.

Opening Ceremonies of International Sports Events: The Other Face of Chinese Soft Power

This paper analyzes the relationship between the opening ceremonies of international sports events and the building of a positive image of China. To do so, we draw on the concept of soft power, which establishes that one way in which states seek to achieve their goals in the international arena is through attraction rather than coercion. From this perspective, the construction of promedia images is one of the privileged means to deploy soft power. Thus, this paper examines the favourable projection of China’s image at inaugural ceremonies of international sports events. These images show China as a country heir to a millenary past and brilliant civilization, which aims to assist in the construction of a better future. The paper concludes by highlighting the importance of these events in the construction of a collective imaginary about what government elites establish regarding what China is and should be on the international stage.

Critical Discourse Analysis of the Political Speech of the Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, at the New Suez Canal Inauguration Ceremony

Critical Discourse Analysis of the Political Speech of the Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, at the New Suez Canal Inauguration Ceremony

Turning the Country into an “Immense and Clamorous Stadium”: Perón, the New Argentina, and the 1951 Pan-American Games

During the Peronist regime (1946–1955), the Argentine government encouraged and financed a wide variety of sports activities. This investment bore fruit internationally and Juan Perón tried to make political capital out of the achievements of Argentine individual athletes or national teams in international competitions. Such achievements were presented as a collective victory of Argentine society, transcending the divisions of social class, ethnic origins, place of residence, or political affiliation. Argentine participation in the London Olympics in 1948, the hosting of the world basketball championship in Buenos Aires in 1950, and above all the organization of the first Pan-American games in the Argentine in March 1951, all, served to promote patriotism and national unity at home and improve the country’s image in the international scene. This paper focuses on an analysis of a 250-page book published by the sports magazine Mundo Deportivo, sponsored by the Peronist government, on the eve of the games. Both the text and the images attest to its populist character, its quest for modernity, emphasis on social mobility, and an authoritarian way of imposing national unity. The initiative to hold such games in Argentina dated back to 1940 but it had to be postponed twice: first to 1948 because of the Second World War, and then to 1951 because of the London Olympic Games. Perón’s government wanted these games to serve as a proof of the regime’s success. To that end, the president urged the organizers to ‘spur no effort’, promising them any financial assistance they might need. A year and a half before the inaugural ceremony, held at the Racing stadium (officially named the President Perón Stadium), the organizational effort moved into high gear, and Perón supervized it personally. Argentina was indeed the big winner in this event, its athletes capturing a total of 153 medals.

Projecting Dynastic Majesty: State Ceremony in the Reign of Robert Bruce

Following the murder of his rival John Comyn on 10 February at Greyfriars in Dumfries, and the crisis this act incited, Robert the Bruce’s inaugural ceremony took place at Scone in late March 1306. Much about this ceremony is speculative; however, subsequent retrospective legitimisation of the Bruce claims to the royal succession would suggest that all possible means by which Robert’s inauguration could emulate his Canmore predecessors and outline his right to rule on a level playing field with his contemporaries were amplified, particularly where they served the common purpose of legitimising Robert’s highly questioned hold on power. Fourteenth-century Scottish history is inextricably entwined in the Wars of Independence, civil strife and an accelerated struggle for autonomous rule and independence. The historiography of this period is unsurprisingly heavily dominated by such themes and, while this has been offset by works exploring subjects such as the tomb of Bruce and the piety of the Bruce dynasty, the ceremonial history of this era remains firmly in the shadows. This paper will address three key ceremonies through which a king would, traditionally, make powerful statements of royal authority: the inauguration or coronation of Bruce; the marriage of his infant son to the English princess Joan of the Tower in 1328, and his extravagant funeral ceremony in 1329. By focusing thus this paper hopes to shed new light on the ‘dark and drublie days’ of fourteenth-century Scotland and reveal that glory, dynastic majesty and pleasure were as central to the Scottish monarchy in this era as war and political turbulence.

CSI cardiac prevent 2015

The CSI Cardiac Prevent 2015 was held at Hotel Taj Palace, New Delhi, on September 25-27, 2015. The major challenge was to create interest among cardiologists and physicians on preventive cardiology, a neglected area. The theme of the conference was Innovations in Heart Disease Prevention.'' This conference included CSI at WHF Roadmap Workshop, Inauguration Ceremony, scientific program, plenary sessions, Nursing/Dietician track, Industry Exhibition, Social Events, Great India blood pressure Survey, and CSI Smart Heart App. A total of 848 delegates/faculties attended this conference against a total of 1140 people registered for the meeting.

Identifying Level of Faith in Vastu Principles by the Home Dwellers

Many vastu experts and eminent scholars have written books on the various concepts of vastu Shastra as well as so many conferences, seminars and workshops have also been conducted in India and Abroad for bringing awareness about vastu principles. In order to ascertain how many people have faith in vastu principles, a research study was carried out in Udaipur city of Rajasthan state. In this research study 200 home dwellers from newly constructed localities were randomly selected and interviewed by the researcher to find the faith level of Vastu Shastra principles in house construction with the help of an interview schedule. On the basis of results analyzed the study revealed that majority number of the respondents i.e. male/female (91.50%) who were in the age group of 60 years were having familiarity with the term “Vastu Shastra”. 65.00% respondents belonged to nuclear families while 35.00% were from joint families. The majority of the respondents (81.50%) to whom the questionnaire was put up were highly qualified while least number (16.00%) and (2.50%) were below graduate level and illiterate respectively. Most of the respondents (67.50%) were employed followed by 23.50% in business while 9.50% were house wives. The extent of faith level in vastu Shastra principles measured at 5-point scale showed amazing results. 80.00% of the respondents showed (full, partial and average faith) in the use of vastu principles in house construction and interior designing while least number i.e. 20.00% were having their faith at low and very low level. Level of faith was measured and analyzed of various principles of vastu and it showed amazing results. Large number of home dwellers showed faith by applying all important vastu principles from purchase of plot to Home inaugural ceremony. It was found that the knowledge and application about few concepts such as selection of plot, beginning of construction, main direction of entrance of house; slopes, drains and boring in house; shape of ideal plot; location of pooja room, kitchen and, master bed room in houses were much high. The faith level was tested by the Pearson's Coefficient Correlation and it showed highly significantly correlation exists between knowledge and extent of application, between knowledge and faith and between application and faith. Hence it is concluded that knowledge, application and faith about vastu go hand-in-hand and these are correlated with each other.

Having the Last Word, but Losing the Culture Wars: Mainstream Press Coverage of a Canceled Evangelical Benediction

This study examines how mainstream news media reported the withdrawal of a popular pastor from the 2013 Obama inaugural ceremony. Louie Giglio was originally chosen for a role in the event but relinquished his position when focus was placed on a sermon he once delivered about homosexuality. Analysis of framing and sourcing of the stories raises serious questions about the role media played in reporting about this skirmish, which is clearly part of the larger culture wars.

Organization Report: Private School of Nursing at Karachi, Pakistan

Nursing as a profession today still faces several challenges. There seems a dire need to produce such professional nurses that up bring the dignity of this distinct profession. The heavy responsibility of producing such professional nurses lies in the hands of nursing institutions and primarily the schools and colleges of nursing. The standard of the education offered by these institutions plays an important role in this regard. While addressing at the inaugural ceremony of the Aga Khan University School of nursing and midwifery, His Highness the Aga Khan, chancellor of the Aga Khan University spelt out the vision for the nursing profession in the following words “today, this is the beginning, the birth of a new medical institution in Pakistan, the Aga Khan University…and I hope, this day will also be the dawn of a new dimension for the profession of nursing in Pakistan”. Thus it is important that nursing institutions undergo continuous quality assurance process to maintain the high standards of nursing education to develop nurses that can claim their position in this challenging era.

De constructione – de consecratione ecclesiae Hoyensis (1066)

All the history books on the Middle Ages mention the famous « Charter of Huy from 1066 », the oldest surviving example of a freedoms charter north of the Alps. In granting this freedoms charter to the citizens of Huy, Theoduin, the Bishop of Liege, (1048- 1075) obtained in exchange the financial resources to achieve his objectives: the rebuilding of Huy-sur-Meuse and its collegiate church, which had been destroyed and ruined in 1053 by the count of Flanders. At the same time, the prelate was readying his own tomb. On August 1066, the grandiose inauguration ceremonies were held in the new church. The eulogy of this monument of Huy De constructione - de consecratione ecclesiae Hoyensis is perhaps missing, but the interdisciplinary approach makes it possible today to reconsider the matter: history, hagiography, architecture, art, liturgy and the sacred spatialization.

Enthronement Rituals of the Princes of Rus’ (twelfth-thirteenth centuries)

This article examines the translation, transformation, and innovation of ceremonies of inauguration from the principality of Kiev to the principality of Vladimir-Suzdal’ and the city of Novgorod in the early Russian period (twelfth-thirteenth centuries). The ritual embellishment of inauguration ceremonies suggests a renewed contact between early Rus’ and Byzantium.

Adat Segulaha dalam Tradisi Masyarakat Kesultanan Ternate

Segulaha custom was a process of establishment and implementation of Ternate <br />sultanate custom which was always obeyed and implemented by all the people<br />of Ternate sultanate from the past time. The establishment of a custom was<br />a joint agreement which becomes a guidance in managing socialization in all<br />aspects for the interest of human prosperity. In implementing a custom, Ternate<br />sultanate used bobato dunia system and bobato akhirat system as the organizer<br />and director of custom convention/regulation and religious custom law. The major<br />foundation of implementing segulaha custom began from se atorang custom, se<br />kabasarang rules, galib se lukudi, ngare se cara sere se doniru and cing se cingari.<br />Segulaha custom was implemented especially for joko kaha ceremony (injak<br />tanah), crownprince coronation ceremony, sultanate inauguration ceremony <br />(jou khalifah, jou kolano), and sultanate death ceremony. Segulaha custom <br />was a form of combining of Islamic religious values and Ternate sultanate<br />cultural values. Both values were integrated into one system of value which<br />was sublimized by all people of Ternate sultanate North Maluku. Until this<br />day, segulaha custom still implemented by the people of Ternate sultanate from<br />generation to generation in cultural events.

Hasidism and Cemetery Inauguration Ceremonies: Authority, Magic, and Performance of Charismatic Leadership

Allocation of new grounds for a cemetery is part of a rich fabric of rituals performed in cemeteries in Judaism, as well as in other cultures. Such an activity would seem to be a routine event, no cause for concern, as natural population growth demands occasional expansion. However, in times of plague, when the death rate increased quickly, the need to expand a cemetery grew pressing, and the allocation of new grounds was associated with communal distress. This paper discusses a ceremony of inaugurating a new cemetery or an expansion of an old cemetery, which was performed in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Eastern European Jewish communities. This ritual was perceived to be hasidic in origin, and in some areas was performed only by hasidic leaders. The paper begins by presenting the precepts of the ritual, some of its possible contexts, sources and functions, and continues with a discussion of some of its channels of reception and dissemination and a case-study of its performance. The discussion then turns to the significance of the performance of this ritual by hasidic tsaddiks. The role of this performance within the social fabric of Jewish communities in Eastern Europe will be presented, followed by a discussion of some public and performative aspects of this ritual. By investigating an unexplored particular ritual, this paper also seeks to learn about nineteenth-century Hasidism in general.

Around the World

In science news around the world this week, the world's biggest telescope held its inauguration ceremony, the National Science Foundation is investigating nearly 100 cases of suspected plagiarism, a bid to restrict polar bear trade failed, and more.

American Studies Center: An Introduction

Anniversary of the founding of the American Studies Center,which had its official debut in May,1984,coinciding with the establishment of the US Consulate General in Chengdu.U.S.Vice President George Bush was present at the Inauguration Ceremony of the American Studies Center,and afterwards gave an important talk to the university faculty and students.The past 28years have witnessed the steady development of this Center.In June,2012,the

Indonesia. Songs from the thrice-blooded land: Ritual music of the Toraja (Sulawesi, Indonesia). Volume one: Ethnographic narrative; Volume two: Florilegium Toraja: A selection of Toraja songs; Volume three (DVD): Multimedia argument/multimedia musical anthology. By Dana Rappoport. Paris: Editions Epistèmes / Editions de la Maison des Sciences de L'Homme, 2012. Pp. 213 (vol. I), 181 (vol. 2). Photographs, Musical recordings, Video,

Songs from the thrice-blooded land: Ritual music of the Toraja (Sulawesi, Indonesia). Volume one: Ethnographic narrative; Volume two: Florilegium Toraja: A selection of Toraja songs; Volume three (DVD): Multimedia argument/multimedia musical anthology By DANA RAPPOPORT Paris: Editions Epistemes / Editions de la Maison des Sciences de L'Homme, 2012. Pp. 213 (vol. I), 181 (vol. 2). Photographs, Musical recordings, Video, Animation, Maps, Figures, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. This work is the product of over a decade of patient and intensive labour, and of close and sustained collaborations across several cultures. With its boldly innovative integration of multimedia with written text, it represents a breakthrough in the presentation of research in ethnomusicology. Indeed it deserves attention from ethnographers generally, demonstrating as it does the potential for more multidimensional and comprehensive ways of presenting and preserving our research. What Dana Rappoport has achieved is remarkable for a number of other reasons too. This is the first study to provide a close contextual analysis of the music that is central to Toraja ritual performance, and it may well be the last. The Toraja traditional religion, known as Aluk To Dolo (Way of the Ancestors), comprised a great corpus of ritual, famed for its complexity, and divided into two spheres, associated on the one hand with the West (mortuary rites) and on the other with the East (rites for the enhancement of fertility and prosperity). During the colonial period, the gifted Dutch linguist H. van der Veen recorded some of the long poems which were part of these rites, and published them in translation, but these texts, valuable as they are, lack the ethnographic context which could bring them to life for the reader. The religion itself is now on the verge of extinction, since a great majority of the people have converted to Christianity. The riches of Toraja oral poetry are at the same time being extinguished, since none of the traditional priests or to minaa who are the carriers of this remarkable oral literature have any successors in training. Rappoport, who commenced her fieldwork in 1993, was thus only just in time to benefit from the knowledge of two notable to minaa, Ne' Ambaa and Ne' Lumbaa, both from the region of Rindingallo. Although she met and worked with many other officiants, it was with these two men that she developed particularly close relationships. Ne' Ambaa died in 1994, shortly after she completed her first fieldwork. Although one or two kinds of Toraja ritual (notably funerals and house inauguration ceremonies) are still being vigorously executed in Christianised form, converts do not generally allow traditional priests to officiate at their ceremonies, and thus their poetry no longer has an audience. As well as their own long solo recitations, they also provided the verses for the song masters who lead collective performances, thus there is a rupture of transmission when they are excluded from modified rituals. More specifically, while funeral laments are still regularly performed, the great rites of the East which were the occasion for group performances of other types of sung verse are now very rarely carried out, so that one half of the tradition is much more vulnerable to loss than the other. Songs from the thrice-blooded land comes in a boxed set of three components, and is available in French, Indonesian or English versions. To produce the latter, the author has worked closely with both a Toraja and an English scholar (Stanislaus Sandarupa, who has a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago, and Elizabeth Coville, of Hamline University). Volume One is an ethnographic analysis of the vital role of music and song in Toraja ritual life. Volume Two provides a more detailed presentation and discussion of the entire Toraja texts of several different kinds of songs, together with their translations. …

Beihang University () Research Center for Nuclear Science and Technology (RCNST) ()

On November 1, 2011, the inauguration ceremony was held for “Research Center for Nuclear Science and Technology (RCNST)” in Beihang University (Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, also written as BUAA) (Figure 1). The Chinese name is pronounced as “Beijing hang kong hang tian da xue.” The university is located north west of Beijing city near Olympic Park and Peking University. Please refer to http://www.buaa.edu.cn/ for university information, where some English pages are also prepared.

Forty Years Since John Fryer: That Was Then, This Is Now

The John E. Fryer, MD Award, an annual award given by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and sponsored by the Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists (AGLP), honors an individual whose work has contributed to the mental health of sexual minorities. Dr. Fryer was the psychiatrist who appeared in a Nixon mask and fright wig as “Dr. H. Anonymous” at a 1972 APA presentation (Scasta, 2003; Barber, 2008) to talk about how the listing of homosexuality as a mental illness affected him and other gay psychiatrists. The talk was one factor in moving the organization to take homosexuality out of psychiatry's diagnostic manual the following year (Bayer, 1981). The Fryer Award was endowed through a generous grant from the Gill Foundation, a bequest from the estate of psychiatrist Frank Rundle and longtime AGLP member, and contributions from AGLP members. The first award in 2006 was given to Barbara Gittings and Franklin Kameny in New York City; other recipients include Past APA President Lawrence Hartman, psychiatrist and researcher Richard Pillard, and Freedom to Marry's Evan Wolfson. In 2011, the Right Reverend V. Gene Robinson was the recipient of the award and gave the following lecture in Honolulu. The Right Reverend V. G. Robinson was elected Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire on June 7, 2003, after having served as Assistant to the Bishop for nearly 18 years. Bishop Robinson, who married his partner in 2008, is the first openly gay, noncelibate priest to be ordained a Bishop in a major Christian denomination. In reaction to his election and its ratification, some conservative parishes aligned themselves with Bishops outside the Episcopal Church in the United States. Bishop Robinson had to wear a bulletproof vest at his consecration and has been under intense public scrutiny as a lightning rod for the church's and the public's conflicting views on homosexuality. Bishop Robinson is a graduate of the University of the South, Sewanee Tennessee, and the General Theological Seminary in New York. He has been a tireless advocate for full civil rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. His story is featured in the documentary For the Bible Tells Me So (Karslake, 2007), and he is the author of In the Eye of the Storm: Swept to the Center by God (Robinson, 2008). Bishop Robinson has been honored by many LGBT organizations for his work, including the Human Rights Campaign, the National Gay & Lesbian Taskforce, and the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. He was invited by President Barack Obama to give the invocation at the opening inaugural ceremonies at the Lincoln Memorial on January 18, 2009.

Samuel Goldflam (1852–1932)

Samuel Goldflam (1852–1932)

Robert Frost, Live: Authenticity and Performance in the Audio Archive

But all fun's in how you say thing. --Robert Frost, Mountain. The most famous poetry reading in American history occurred on Friday January 20, 1961. On that bright chilly morning, Robert Frost stood before vast crowd assembled at Capitol in Washington, D.C., to recite Gift Outright as part of John F. Kennedy's inauguration ceremony. Frost had planned to say two poems that morning. The first, Dedication (subsequently titled For John F. Kennedy His Inauguration), Frost couldn't complete because sharp sun blinded his failing eyes, despite his having had poem typed on an oversized-character typewriter once used by President Eisenhower. After fumbling through first few lines of Dedication Frost abandoned altogether, telling crowd, to their roaring approval, that was merely a preface to poem I can say to you without seeing it (qtd. in Thompson, Later Years 281). He then intoned Gift Outright in voice that biographer Lawrance Thompson calls firm unfaltering reporter for Washington Post termed natural (qtd. in Thompson 282), though he dramatically revised poem's final line, Such as she was, as she become. Thompson describes scene as Frost reached end of his poem: Here he paused, in slow, accentuated tones, gave his altered version of last line: Such as she was, as she become, has become, I--and for this occasion let me change that to--what she will become. Without pausing, he continued to speak ... : and this poem--what I was leading up to--was dedication of poem to President-elect Mr. John Finley. In fact, this was prosy improvisation on previously agreed-upon revision to just one word in final line. At Kennedy's request, Frost had allowed substitution (if only for day, Kennedy had said) of would to will--the final words read such as she will become--which President thought more positive-sounding (278). And apparently, no one caught embarrassing blunder. John Huston Finley Jr., was Harvard professor of Classics; appears Frost simply confused their names. In any case, great poet left rostrum to applause Kennedy was administered his oath of office. This uncharacteristically brief live poetry reading reveals that, for Frost, poem is not steady thing. It can be revised for an occasion. (It can also be site of unadulterated error, something different from revision.) One implication of this is that poems can be understood in dramatically different ways according to their spoken contexts. As Marit MacArthur points out, following Kennedy reading Gift Outright has been interpreted as endorsing triumphant nationalism a celebration of colonialism (63). It's true that this reading corresponds to own gloss of poem around this time as being about Revolutionary War, as he put in November 29, 1960 talk at Dartmouth College (Speaking on Campus 137). Pushing this reading even further, he says poem depicts conflict of good good not good bad. ... The British colonial system was good thing, but we got going ourselves. Some have followed self-analysis. Reading poem as an apology for colonialism, Tyler Hoffman wonders at blindness to the abuses systematic oppression of native peoples quotes Irish writer Tom Paulin, who critiques poem's claim to Manifest Destiny what Hoffman refers to as Frost's dismissal of American Indian culture (207). Yet without framing device of presidential inauguration to guide an interpretation (indeed, Hoffman situates poem in just that context), MacArthur shows through close reading of notebooks, letters, poem's ambiguous final lines that Gift Outright was originally response to New Deal policies (it was written in 1935 though not published until 1942), which Frost notoriously despised, careless attitude of American people toward American landscape (67), native populations. …