Mar 6
Catherine Boland Erkkila, "Spaces of Immigration: American Ports, Railways, and Settlements" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2025)
Spaces of Immigration: American Ports, Railways, and Settlements (U Pittsburgh Press, 2025) follows the travel routes of immigrants during a foundational period of American infrastructure—from ports of arrival to train cars and depots to settlements—showing how the built environ ... Show More
39m 47s
Mar 6
Lucy Lavers et al.," Adventurous Vents: A Journey through the Ventilation Shafts of Britain" (Penguin, 2025)
At the heart of the modern world lie ventilation shafts. We may not notice them, but wherever there are tunnels, sewers, mines, car parks and energy stations under our feet, vents will be doing vital work keeping them cool and fume-free. Vents come in a wonderful and inventive va ... Show More
59m 38s
Feb 27
Veronique Boone, "Le Corbusier on Camera: The Unknown Films of Ernest Weissmann" (Birkhaüser, 2024)
Le Corbusier on Camera: The Unknown Films of Ernest Weissmann (Birkhaüser, 2024) is based on amateur films, shot by the architect Ernest Weissmann (1903-1985) with a Pathé Motocamera in the years 1929-1933 at, among other places, the Atelier Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret. The ... Show More
31m 38s
Oct 2023
L'exception culturelle française
En 1993, à l’occasion des négociations sur le GATTE, l’accord général sur les tarifs douaniers et le commerce mondial, s’est posée la question d’inclure les produits culturels dans le champ du libre-échange des biens et services.
Naturellement, cela a soulevé une opposition de l’ ... Show More
31m 50s
Nov 2016
Benjamin Martin, “The Nazi-Fascist New Order for European Culture” (Harvard UP, 2016)
Benjamin Martin’s The Nazi-Fascist New Order for European Culture (Harvard University Press, 2016) examines the attempt by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy to forge a European cultural empire out of their military conquests during World War II. Martin shows that the idea of Europe ... Show More
1 h
Aug 2018
Simone Wesner, “Artists’ Voices in Cultural Policy: Careers, Myths and the Creative Profession after German Unification” (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018)
Why is the artist’s voice missing from cultural policy? In Artists’ Voices in Cultural Policy: Careers, Myths and the Creative Profession after German Unification (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), Dr. Simone Wesner, a lecturer in arts management at Birkbeck, University of London, explo ... Show More
45m 10s
Where people are killed and abused in warfare and violent conflict, artifacts of cultural heritage are often destroyed and mistreated as well. Indeed, in the World War II-era efforts to promote the then-novel idea of genocide, the Polish lawyer and activist Raphael Lemkin sought to codify the notion that genocide was both personal and cultural. What has come ... Show More
<p><strong>경복궁만 훼손된 게 아니다…문화재 여기저기 낙서·생채기</strong></p>
<p>Gyeongbokgung Palace is not the only one that has been damaged… Cultural properties are scribbled and scratched here and there</p>
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<p>[주요 어휘와 표현]</p>
<p>몸살을 앓다</p>
<p>역부족</p>
<p>문화재 관련 어휘: 문화재를 보존하다, 문화재를 훼손하다, ... Show More
В подкасте "Что это было" о девяносто первом дне войны мы говорим, как Россия разрушает объекты культурного наследия в Украине и как украинцы спасают предметы искусства.00:00 Приветствие, ведущий - Олег Антоненко.00:35 В Украине, по данным властей страны, более 300 объектов культ ... Show More
