Organization Of International Conferences Research Articles

PROBLEMS OF ADAPTATION OF KAZAKH FICTION (ON THE EXAMPLE OF DIRECT AND INDIRECT TRANSLATIONS OF A. NURPEISOV'S NOVEL "SONGY PARYZ")

The need for language mediators dates back to ancient times. It was caused by the lack of society to establish cultural, commercial, political, and other contacts between geographically and linguistically distant communities. Indirect translation served as a bridge between “small or regional” languages through a global language. In the modern world, indirect translation remains a pervasive form of interaction in a wide range of human spheres. Due to the globalization of international contacts, in the organization of international conferences and forums, communication is conducted through international languages. The article aims to consider ways of adaptation of Kazakh fiction through comparative analysis of direct translation into Russian and indirect translation into English of Nurpeisov’s novel “Songy Paryz”. Objectives 1) to generalize and substantiate the approaches of comparative analysis of the source text, the intermediary text, and the target text in modern translation studies; 2) to determine the causes, specificity, and role of indirect translations; 3) to carry out structural-system analysis aimed at identifying translation transformations and techniques as strategies used in two translations, to identify their appropriateness and significance and objective need for representation of the writer’s authorial style. The authors offer their translation of the excerpts under consideration to identify discrepancies between translations and the source text. The study results would be interesting for scholars in linguistics, translation studies, linguocultural studies, and literary criticism.

Tourism potential of Ukraine in the context of geography and current state of German cultural heritage


 
 
 
 The article describes theoretical foundations of the study of tourism potential of the regions of Ukraine in the context of geography and current state of German cultural heritage. The historical preconditions for the formation and development of cultural heritage of German ethnic minority on the territory of the modern Ukraine are studied. Geography of German ethnic minority of the early XX century within the modern territory of Ukraine and geography of ethnic Germans and German cultural heritage in the modern Ukraine are developed. On the basis of a cluster analysis of indicators of the number of preserved objects and the number of former German settlements, groups of regions with high, medium and low potential for the development of ethnic tourism are identified. Odesa, Lviv, Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv and Zhytomyr are the leaders by the number of objects of German cultural heritage among all regions of Ukraine. The group of regions with a medium level of potential for ethnic tourism includes the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Volyn, Kherson, Ivano-Frankivsk, Mykolaiv, Poltava, Chernivtsi, and Khmelnytskyi regions. Seven main types of preserved objects of German cultural heritage in Ukraine are identified. Sacred objects and public buildings and structures are best represented. The objects of German cultural heritage preserved to this day in the context of the regions of Ukraine are described. It was found that the main obstacles to the development of German ethnic tourism in Ukraine are the destruction of many cultural heritage objects, lack of funding for restoration of these objects, insufficient involvement of objects to tourist routes and low level of their promotion. The main ways to overcome these obstacles are identified: allocation of budget funds for the restoration of objects, attracting private investors, international organizations and German community; development of new tourist routes; marking places with information stands, publishing information materials about objects; digitalization of objects; organization of international conferences, round tables, festivals, etc.
 
 
 

Thirty Years’ History of International Scientific Conferences in the National Library of Ukraine named after V. I. Vernadsky

Since the great historical event - the proclamation of the Act of Independence of Ukraine, the country has been expanding international cooperation in librarianship. The main areas of international cooperation, which is a priority in research institutions in the library business, are: conducting joint research; organization of international conferences, symposia, congresses and other events. Scientific conferences are one of the forms of dissemination of new information. In the modern information space, scientific institutions play an essential role in developing science, education and culture. Therefore, when evaluating a scientific institution, the number of international scientific and practical seminars, conferences, other events organized by the scientific institution, and materials (including collections of abstracts) of conferences are considered. Among the research institutions of Ukraine, which study the problems of library science, bibliography, bibliology, source studies, document science, archival science, biography, codicology and discography, history of book culture, computer science, social communications, the leading position is held by the most extensive library of Ukraine – the National Library of Ukraine, named after V. I. Vernadsky. Furthermore, the article analyzes the specifics of the organization of scientific conferences in a scientific institution, studies the directions and thematic content of such events, forms of conduct, their frequency during 1991-2021.

Jewish cultural heritage of the Lviv Oblast as a tourism resource

The article describes the theoretical and methodical foundations of the study of the Jewish cultural heritage as a modern tourism resource. It turned out that in both foreign and domestic literature studies are not enough. The historical background of the formation of the cultural heritage of the Jewish ethnic group in the territory of the modern Lviv Oblast, which for many centuries has been the center of Jewish life, is considered. The dynamics of the ethnical composition of the population of the Lviv Oblast in 19312001 is studied and a significant reduction in the share of the Jewish community is found. The dynamics of the share of the Jewish population in urban settlements of the Lviv Oblast is studied, and it is found that it sharply decreased after the events of the World War II, primarily as a result of the Holocaust. A map of the share of the Jewish population in the urban settlements of the Oblast in 1939 is developed. The existing objects of Jewish cultural heritage (in particular, synagogues and cemeteries) in Lviv and other cities of the Lviv Oblast are characterized, and a map of these objects is developed. The main centers of Jewish cultural heritage of the Lviv Oblast are: Lviv, Brody, Busk, Zhovkva, Rava-Ruska, Uhniv, Velyki Mosty, Sokal, Belz, Stryi, Drohobych, Staryi Sambir, Turka. It found that the main problems of the Jewish cultural heritage of the Lviv Oblast are: neglected state of the objects, insufficient funding for the rehabilitation and restoration of these objects, the absence of tourist routes involving these objects, etc. The tourist route “By places of the Jewish sacred heritage of the Lviv Oblast” is developed and a map of this route is created. Measures for the restoration and popularization of Jewish cultural heritage of the Oblast are identified: allocation of budgetary funds, attraction of private investors, international organizations and Jewish communities; development of new tourist routes; determination of places by information stands; publication of information materials about objects; organization of international conferences, round tables, festivals; training of guides on the topic of Jewish cultural heritage, etc.

KRAJOBRAZ KULTUROWY NA LIŚCIE ŚWIATOWEGO DZIEDZICTWA – POLSKIE DOŚWIADCZENIA

The central organisation around which Polish cooperation with UNESCO on implementing the World Heritage Convention has been concentrated from the beginning is the Polish National Committee ICOMOS.The cooperation has been organised by institutions and people connected in some way with the Committee. Specialised institutions were gradually joining the cooperation. One example of such measures was the appointment of the Board of Historical Gardens and Palaces Conservation, transformed subsequently into the Centre for the Protection of Historic Landscape in Warsaw. A „garden” conservation society has gathered around this institution, composed of art historians, landscape architects, architects and gardeners. They have been carrying out interdisciplinary works concerning historic gardens and cultural landscapes in Poland. Their cooperation with the Polish National Committee ICOMOS andthe International Committee of Historic Gardens and Sites ICOMOS – IFLA was connected with the activities of UNESCO. Major activities of the Centre include: valuation and assessment of cultural landscapes for the World Heritage List; drawing up, in collaboration with the Fürst-Pückler-Park Bad Muskau Foundation, an application for the inscription of Park Muskau in the UNESCO World Heritage List; organisation of international conference: „The Regional Expert Meeting on Cultural Landscapes in Eastern Europe” in Białystok in 1999 at the request of WHC UNESCO; organisation of international conference „Cemetery Art” in 1993 at the request of WHC UNESCO, along with accompanying exhibitions concerning specific issues, organised by the Board of Historical Gardens and Palaces Conservation in Warsaw.

A Perspective on Chemistry Education

One of the most important and strategic activities that IUPAC carries out is to promote the use of best practice and the most effective tools for chemistry education. That education includes public understanding and appreciation of the roles and achievements of chemistry, especially among the young. The Committee on Chemistry Education (CCE) is one of most popular and active bodies within IUPAC. In addition to its titular and associate members, numerous national representatives regularly take part in its meetings, which are among the best attended in every IUPAC General Assembly. The Union, through CCE, promotes best practice in chemistry education through the organization of international conferences and workshops, by providing guidance to countries that ask for assistance with their chemistry curricula, and by promoting an understanding and appreciation of the subject through programs such as the Young Ambassadors for Chemistry and the Flying Chemists.

<em>British Engineers and Africa, 1875–1914</em>, by Casper Andersen

Reviewed by: British Engineers and Africa, 1875–1914 by Casper Andersen Jessica Ratcliff (bio) British Engineers and Africa, 1875–1914, by Casper Andersen; pp. xi + 229. London and Brookfield, VT: Pickering & Chatto, 2011. £60.00, $99.00. In 1910, at the prestigious address of 1 Great George Street, Westminster, the Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE) built a luxurious new headquarters and fitted it out with great columns, extravagant chandeliers, broad mahogany staircases, and stately halls and meeting rooms. The façade was ornamented with floral symbols of Britain and the Empire: “the Tudor rose, thistle and daffodil representing Britain (including Ireland); the maple leaf for Canada; for New Zealand the silver fern; a protea species for South Africa; the golden wattle for Australia; a palm leaf for all the Crown Colonies; and lotus flowers to represent India” (46). Material for the building included timber and other products from various parts of the Empire, symbolizing, as was explained in the pages of the trade journal African Engineering, “the close relationship of those who constitute the Institution of Civil Engineers in all parts of the world” (qtd. in Andersen 46). The international and colonial contingent of ICE membership had indeed grown steadily since its founding in 1871, and by 1912 twenty-two percent of the ICE members resided in the colonies, 376 of them (five percent) in Africa. Through active correspondence and publishing, and the organization of international conferences and committees, the ICE did manage to sustain and grow a professional network throughout the Empire, even while other factors—the grand new headquarters, for one—ensured that the [End Page 293] center of power for the profession remained firmly in London. At the helm of the profession was the so-called Great George Street Clique: the consulting engineers to whom Government would turn when seeking expertise for, say, a rail line into Rhodesia, or a dam across the Nile. To this professional elite in London, Africa represented many things: a rhetorical space to display engineering-as-civilization, a testing ground for young recruits, a stage for the self-styled explorer engineer, and most of all a vast new market for lucrative contracts. Casper Andersen covers these themes and much more in this important study of the ways in which the civil engineering profession in London shaped and was shaped by Britain’s colonial entanglement with Africa. The book’s title, British Engineers and Africa, suggests a broad scope, and some readers might be disappointed to find that in fact Andersen has limited himself, firstly, to the engineering community in London—the subject is not engineers in Africa but engineers and Africa—and secondly to a subset of that category, the domain of the civil engineer. Most of the book relates through different channels back to the ICE, which emerges as the center of gravity of this study. As Andersen ably demonstrates, this aspect of engineering history is worthy of such close study. Andersen’s choice of subject is especially valuable in that it brings into focus the interpersonal and fine-fibered, but still very consequential, relationships between private engineering firms and various imperial offices of government. Given that much of the historiography of technology and imperialism has focused on the military’s engineering branches such as the Royal Engineers, the Royal Artillery, and the Ordnance Survey, Andersen’s story of the civil engineering firms and empire is particularly welcome. Throughout the book, Andersen employs a wide range of analytical approaches, drawing on the work of, among others, Christine MacLeod, Ben Marsden and Crosbie Smith, Felix Driver, John Darwin, Simon J. Potter, and Andrew S. Thompson. It is Thompson whom Andersen follows most closely, by “exploring the ways in which empire ‘struck back’ at the engineering profession, while knowing that it was more likely to do so in complex, unequal ways” (3). Andersen’s methodological approach is almost prosopographical; considerable effort has gone into analyzing the civil engineering community around Great George Street as well as the membership of the ICE, producing several impressive tables breaking down various features of these groups. In terms of sources, the work draws heavily from popular trade journals such as Engineer, Feilden’s Magazine, African Engineering, and...

Analytical sciences in Austria

Analytical chemistry has been an important independent scientific discipline in Austria for many years. This is clearly highlighted by the long existence of dedicated institutes/ departments at Austrian universities (Graz, Linz, Innsbruck and Vienna) providing high-level education as well as engagement in various curricula and research. Furthermore, this is underlined by the existence of an independent Austrian scientific society dedicated to the promotion of analytical sciences, namely the Austrian Society of Analytical Chemistry (ASAC), which was founded in 1948. One of the society’s major aims was to further activities in the area of microchemistry and microanalysis, in which significant progress had been achieved by Fritz Pregl. Pregl was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923 for his work in microanalysis, work that was carried out at the University of Graz. In the decades following the foundation of ASAC, its focus has shifted from microchemistry to analytical chemistry in a very broad sense, which reflects the huge changes that have taken place in analytical sciences over the years. The title of the journal Microchimica Acta still reminds us of the origins of modern analytical chemistry in Austria. Scientific research in analytical sciences is a privilege of universities, but attitudes towards analytical chemistry as an independent scientific discipline differ from country to country. There is (unfortunately) not full agreement that every chemistry department should have a full professor in analytical chemistry. Universities in Austria have always been aware of the importance of analytical sciences and that experts in this area are vital for progress in chemistry and related fields; therefore, analytical chemistry is well established at Austrian universities. The development of analytical chemistry in Austria and also in the European context has been substantially supported by ASAC. ASAC played a leading role in the Working Party for Analytical Chemistry of the Federation of European Chemical Societies in the 1970s and 1980s (now the Division of Analytical Chemistry of EuCheMS) and it has always been a driving force to make analytical chemistry sufficiently visible for the scientific community. Achievements in Austrian analytical chemistry and of ASAC are internationally recognized. Therefore, it is not surprising that ASAC is continually involved in the organization of international conferences, including meetings dedicated to specific topics in the analytical sciences, as well as broad-ranging conferences such as Euroanalysis (held in Austria in 1990 and in 2009). Looking for hot spots of analytical chemistry in Austria, one should consider the activities of not only universities, but also a range of government laboratories involved in food analysis, environmental analysis, health and related areas. These labs do perform professional routine analytical work, but they are also involved in the validation of new analytical methods in cooperation with international partners. Last but not least, Austria is an attractive location for international chemical and instrument companies that run production plants as well as research facilities, where highly qualified analytical chemists are employed. The idea to prepare a special issue on the progress of analytical sciences in Austria was immediately welcomed Published in the special issue Analytical Sciences in Austria with Guest Editors G. Allmaier, W. Buchberger and K. Francesconi.

Astronomy in the former Soviet Union 15 years after the breakup of the USSR

AbstractDuring the immediate post-Soviet period, the main infrastructure of astronomy over the territory of the former Soviet Union (FSU) was saved, in spite of dramatic decreases in financial support. Overall the situation for FSU astronomy is now stable. In Latvia, the 32-m radio-dish is in working order. This allows it to participate in VLBI programmes. In Russia, all three 32-metre radio dishes of the QUASAR VLBI system are operational, as well as the 2-m telescope with a high-resolution spectrograph (up to resolution R≃ 500 000) and the horizontal solar telescope (R= 320 000) of the Russian-Ukrainian Observatory on Peak Terskol (Caucasus, altitude 3100 m). However the situation with the observatory itself is worrying, because of the regional authorities' attempt to privatize its infrastructure.The process of equipping a number of Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) (including Russian) observatories with CCD-cameras is in progress. To solve staff problems, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan have begun to prepare national specialists in astronomy, and the Baltic States, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia, and Ukraine continue to prepare astronomers.Teaching of astronomy at schools is obligatory only in the Ukraine and partially in the Baltic states. To maintain a “common astronomical area”, the Eurasian Astronomical Society (EAAS) continues its programme of reduced-price subscription to Russian-language astronomical journals and magazines in the territory of FSU, the organization of international conferences and Olympiads for school students, and lectures for school teachers and planetarium lecturers, etc.Telescopes in Russia and other CIS territories permit to monitor an object more then 12 hours and can be used in global monitoring programmes. The Central Asian sites have some of the very best astro-climates in the world. They are similar to (or a little better than) the well known Chilean sites (median seeing 0.7′′, very high fraction of clear nights, no light pollution and no high wind). It is imperative that these sites be protected and intensively used by the international astronomical community.

Rimbaud's House in Aden, Yemen: Giving Voice(s) to the Silent Poet

Cultural AnthropologyVolume 13, Issue 4 p. 464-490 Rimbaud's House in Aden, Yemen: Giving Voice(s) to the Silent Poet Lucine Taminian, Lucine Taminian Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan at Ann ArborSearch for more papers by this author Lucine Taminian, Lucine Taminian Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan at Ann ArborSearch for more papers by this author First published: 07 January 2008 https://doi.org/10.1525/can.1998.13.4.464Citations: 2AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Citing Literature Volume13, Issue4November 1998Pages 464-490 RelatedInformation