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Connecting Cultures

Connecting Cultures. 6 th February 2012 Introduction: Professor Simon Swain Chair: Dr Loredana Polezzi (Italian) Panel: Professor Jacqueline Labbe (English) Professor Francesco Cappuccio (WMS) Dr Anton Popov (Sociology). Global Priorities Programme - Overview.

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Connecting Cultures

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  1. Connecting Cultures 6th February 2012 Introduction: Professor Simon SwainChair: Dr Loredana Polezzi (Italian)Panel: Professor Jacqueline Labbe (English)Professor Francesco Cappuccio (WMS)Dr Anton Popov (Sociology)

  2. 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

  3. Connecting Cultures GPP • Aims 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

  4. Health & Culture Professor Francesco Cappuccio Warwick Medical School Division of Metabolic & Vascular Health

  5. 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)

  6. Social domain History Gender Economics Politics Artistic domain Literature Theatre Painting Music Cultural domain Beliefs Behaviour Religion WELL-BEING (HEALTH) ILL-HEALTH (DISEASE)

  7. High salt intake and ill-health $6-12 saved for every dollar spent

  8. Body size, weight, beauty, [fertility] and health? Venus of Willendorf Paleolithic (ca. 20,000 BC) Austria Venus of Urbino (Tiziano Vecellio c.1488-1576) Venus (Fernando Botero 1932 - ) Catwalk model (2011)

  9. 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 Authority A. De Martino-Cappuccio (2010)

  10. Lack of sleep and ill-health 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 (Somnus) as a kinsman to death Aeneid, Virgil (70-19BC) 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

  11. Sleep duration and self-rated health problems 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) Japan Korea Thailand Taiwan

  12. 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?

  13. Memory and Culture Dr Anton Popov Department of Sociology

  14. Memory and Culture • ‘Social memory’: the process of socialisation into mnemonic community • Politics of memory: social construction of the past • ‘Memory boom’ in society and popular culture: the voice of ‘ordinary people’ • Modernist frame vs. memory frame

  15. ‘Memory boom’? In popular culture, media and art

  16. Politics of memory: Alternative memories and revision of history Revivalist movements and identity claims The ‘War of Monuments’ after socialism ‘The Bronze Soldier’ before its removal in 2007, Tallinn, Estonia Neo-Cossacks marching in the city centre, 2007, Krasnodar, Russia

  17. Political legacy and memory: Russian ‘Winter Revolution’, 2011-12

  18. History and Memory: Remembering Holocaust in the West and Eastern Europe The Monument to victims of the Nazi terror, Krasnodar, Russia The Holocaust Museum, Washington DC, USA

  19. 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)

  20. 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)

  21. 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?

  22. Cultures of Translation Translation and the Mobility of People Dr Loredana Polezzi Department of Italian and Connecting Cultures GPP Lead Professor Jackie Labbe Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies

  23. How Europe changed

  24. 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

  25. Rome, Via dei Fori Imperiali, Maps tracing the expansion of the Roman Empire

  26. Portolano: Map of the Mediterranean (XVII century)Venice, Museo storico navale

  27. Vauro, April 2009

  28. Travel, Mobility, Migration & Translation Translation in a Monolingual/Polylingual World Translating, Self-translating, Silencing

  29. 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?

  30. Breakout Sessions • Memory and Culture Dr Anton Popov & Professor Hilary Pilkington • Cultures of Translation Dr Loredana Polezzi & Professor Jackie Labbe • Health and Culture Professor Franco Cappuccio & Professor Rebecca Earle

  31. Next Ideas Cafe Monday 12 March 5.30pm Chancellor’s Suite, Rootes Social Building Science and Technology for Health

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