Largest Annual Event Research Articles

일본 마쓰리의 현장과 전승집단의 주도적 역할-오키나와 다케토미지마(竹富島) 다나두이(種子取祭)의 사례-

This paper is a folklore study of a festival called “Danadui” that is handed down to Taketomi Island in Okinawa. The most important thing in the study of the festival will be the “site” to perform the festival and the “transit group” in charge of the festival. There are indeed a variety of people at the festival site. The people participating in the Tanadui site were analyzed by dividing them into the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd leading groups.BR Although Tanadui has undergone many changes, it is still Taketomijima’s largest annual event and has been handed down by local residents. I would like to summarize the ‘transmission power’ that Tanadui could continue without being cut off. The first is the human-God communication. The awe of the “god” that took root in the lives of local residents served as a great driving force. Second is the relationship between man and man. Tanadui has a well-established organization that supports festivals such as Hyangwoohei Association, Entertainment Preservation Association, and the National Taketomijima Cultural Association.

KoreAnesthesia 2018 Meeting

The 95th KoreAnesthesia Meeting was held successfully over 3 days from November 8 to 10, 2018 at Seoul Dragon-City Hotelplex, featuring 62 overseas speakers and 2960 attendees from 26 countries. KoreAnesthesia is the largest annual event hosted by the Korean Society of Anesthesiologists (KSA). The KSA hopes that many members of the Japanese Society of Anesthesiologists and readers of the Journal of Anesthesia will join us at the forthcoming KoreAnesthesia 2019 from October 31 to November 2, 2019 at Paradise City Hotel, Incheon, South Korea.

PR and Politics at Hollywood’s Biggest Night: The Academy Awards and Unionization (1929-1939)

The Academy Awards were directly connected to a decades worth of worker relations conflict during the 1930s. 1933 saw an attempt by studio head to implement the major wage cuts and contract reforms in the height of the great depression, a new movement towards unionization arose in Hollywood. As the Screen Actors, Writers and Directors’ Guilds struggled to gain collective bargaining rights from studio heads, the Awards, created as a wider PR effort for the industry as a whole, instead became the primary means of publicity for Hollywood unions as they fought producers for labor rights into the end of the decade. Through publicized ceremony boycotts and well-placed attack articles, together used the awards as a pawn within these unionization battles. The award’s promotional eminence helped facilitate the guilds’ recognition and cemented the Academy Awards as Hollywood’s largest annual event.

Celebrating Her First Half-Century

Queensland's Jubilee Carnival of 1909 was, according to Australia's Governor-General, Lord Dudley, ‘the principal and most prominent feature in the series of festivities by which the people of Queensland are seeking to celebrate the jubilee of their existence’. Indeed, with the exception of the Carnival, the ‘series of festivities’ was rather lack-lustre, offering relatively little of substance to excite the attention of contemporaries or of later commentators. Offering a distraction from the political instability of the era – between 1907 and 1909, voters had gone to the state polls three times – the Jubilee Carnival reaffirmed and reinvigorated a story that had been told and retold each year at Brisbane's showgrounds for more than three decades. The particular power of the Carnival did not, therefore, derive from its status as a unique event that commemorated a defining moment in Queensland's development: the separation from New South Wales and the beginning of self-government in 1859. Instead, the significance of the Jubilee Carnival as the centrepiece of the 1909 celebrations depended on its effective alignment with Queensland's largest annual event, the Brisbane Exhibition, and on the resulting connections between the Carnival, the Exhibition and a narrative of successful colonisation that had been celebrated each year since the inaugural Brisbane Exhibition of 1876. For many non-Indigenous Queenslanders, it was a compelling story that resolutely ignored the unsavoury aspects of the state's past and present in favour of an uplifting account of a society in which perseverance, applied to nature's bounty in the interests of the British Empire, was rewarded. It was, above all, a story of progress – that most powerful of talismans for settler societies. The Jubilee Carnival thus reiterated a familiar story; in so doing, it confirmed the iconic status of the capital city's annual agricultural show and positioned the show's host, the National Agricultural and Industrial Association of Queensland (NAIAQ), as one of the state's most important organisations.

A celebration of disability culture: Autonomia Expo 2009

Autonomia EXPO is the largest annual event for people with disabilities in Greece. It is held at the Peace and Friendship Stadium in Athens and is organized by Disability NOW, a nonprofit organization managed chiefly by people with severe disabilities. The event constitutes the largest exhibition of products and services for disability, health, rehabilitation, special education, technology and independent living in Greece. It brings people together from throughout Greece and Southern Europe to share information to improve the lives of people with disabilities and to assist the caregivers and the healthcare professionals working with them. Nikos Voulgaropoulos, the man behind Disability NOW, described the EXPO in a talk given at this year's event:

“ENTER2008”: Report on the 15th International Conference on Information Technology and Travel and Tourism, 23–25 January 2008, Innsbruck, Austria

As the world's largest annual event on information and communication technologies (ICTs) and travel and tourism, ENTER2008 was held in Innsbruck, a small medieval town in Austria. Like previous ENTER conferences, delegates were able to participate personally in the discussion of the latest research findings and industrial innovations in the context of ICTs in travel and tourism. Delegates could also enjoy the hospitality and unique experiences offered by the conference host and organizer. Different from other ENTER conference proceedings, which always had front pages in silver, ENTER2008 proceedings used an attractive and bright cover page in a good mixture of yellow and red.

Mechanical contrivances and fancy needlework: the Brisbane Exhibition and education in colonial Queensland

Since its inception in 1876, Queensland’s premier agricultural and pastoral show and largest annual event, the Brisbane Exhibition, has provided a forum in which to observe and reflect on the achievements, values, development and scope of Queensland’s education system. The inaugural constitution of the Exhibition’s host body, the National Agricultural and Industrial Association of Queensland, drafted by the first headmaster of Brisbane Grammar School, Thomas Harlin, listed among its objects: ‘To award prizes for the attainment of proficiency by the youth of the colony in specified subjects’. In its first twenty‐five years of annual shows, the Association met this objective at a modest level through its schoolwork category, with the notable exception of 1883, when it sponsored a highly successful Juvenile Industrial Exhibition. Examination of both the regular schoolwork category and the Juvenile Exhibition reveals the elements of the local curriculum that the Association deemed appropriate for inclusion in its annual shows, while comments from newspapers, educators and other individuals on the quality and nature of the schoolwork displays offer insights into the context of and aspirations for the colony’s education system.