Sentences with phrase «about national identity»

Join Moroccan - French visual artist Bouchra Khalili and American interdisciplinary filmmaker Cauleen Smith (Corbett vs. Dempsey), moderated by Dana Feitler Director of the Smart Museum Alison Gass, for a conversation about national identity and social activism in moving image and media.

EB In the case of my film it's more about national identity, because I'm talking about American politics in my ending.

While not comprehensive, these resources and activities enable students to explore difficult questions about national identity, institutional racism, and the boundaries of US citizenship.

Of course, not all Britons are enthusiastic about national identity or dubious about multiculturalism.

«For some, this referendum has been about national identity; for us all it has been about self - identity and that is about as close to the soul as it gets.

Recent efforts in Europe to ban the face veil (the niqab or burqa) are not so much concerned with women's rights and security as they are with obtaining votes from an electorate that is increasingly xenophobic and anxious about national identity.

Not exact matches

But in countries like the United States, China, Russia, Singapore and Switzerland, government groups have talked about using blockchains for myriad tasks, like issuing national currency or tracking identity records for citizens and visitors.

In one paper from last year, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers identified the area of the brain that processes this information about personal identities, which is called the anterior temporal lobe.

The outstanding fact about the Jewish people is the fact that they have preserved, though scattered among the nations of the earth, their national identity.

GDPR is relevant to all organizations that collect and store personal data on EU individuals such as health data, email addresses, photographs, biometrics, national identity numbers; essentially any information about an individual that is collected and / or stored in such a way that it can be tied back to that...

Anjum Anwar was speaking after the documentary, called «What British Muslims Really Think», surveyed 1000 British Muslims and explored their beliefs about various social issues including national identity, violence, sexuality and gender relations.

But what about contemporary distinctions created by national borders or racial and ethnic identity?

It was even better if the city was mentioned on national TV, and while growing up, that occasion usually referred to a looming hurricane — or it was some creepy story about a murder, or someone taking a false identity after embezzling thousands (never millions) of dollars..

The takeaway is clear: Young people simply care less about someone's faith tradition, or their belief in God, when considering national identity.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

«An awful lot of Welsh national identity is tied into the relationship with England and is about not being England, being different.»

Mrs. Q wound up writing a book about her experiences and late last year she finally revealed her true identity on national television: she is Sarah Wu, a bilingual speech pathologist in Chicago.

It is about an extended imagined family, a tribe, the English and their place in England And once again, I think of the different nuances of the word «imagined», and the historical marginality of any kind of bottom - up English national identity, having spent some time today reading reflections from the red side of Liverpool, including one that addresses the sense of betrayal at the hands of the English establishment, and ends «I'm not English, I'm Scouse.»

On the Left, one hears more and more about the idea of a «good society» supposed to revitalize the «conservative» roots of Labour — a focus on local communities and identities, on a common national identity, family and work, and neighbourhood.

It is about how people define themselves through their national identity.

Despite several years of demonstrated inability to do so, the National Identification Authority (NIA), under the tenure of an NPP administration, the President said, is about to commence the registration and instant issuance of national identity cards to all Ghanaian citizens, both at home and abroad, as by law preNational Identification Authority (NIA), under the tenure of an NPP administration, the President said, is about to commence the registration and instant issuance of national identity cards to all Ghanaian citizens, both at home and abroad, as by law prenational identity cards to all Ghanaian citizens, both at home and abroad, as by law prescribed.

Obviously there is nothing objectionable about celebrating other national identities on Columbus Day or whenever.

Our social institutions, public policy and the way we think about our society and national identity has to catch up with this massive cultural shift.»

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD The state of North Carolina today, March 30, repealed HB2, the law enacted a little over a year ago that aroused heated protests and boycotts, generated several lawsuits, and sparked a national conversation about gender identity and sex - specific public bathrooms and locker rooms.

David Mitchell has said that the prospect of Scottish independence makes him worried about his British national identity.

Mr Marfo, who was the Minister of Finance at the time the loan was approved, suffered severe backlash from some Ghanaians especially members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for failing to conduct due diligence after questions about the company's identity arose and subsequently when the address it provided was traced to a beauty salon in the UK.

«No one's been successful at getting confirmation about this institute's identity,» adds Richard Vari, a fish expert at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, one of the world's largest natural history collections.

The finding is unique, according to Garnett, due to the fact that most states, as well as the National Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey, asks about sexual orientation, but not gender identity.

And Luk» Luk» I, a narrative feature about the 2010 Winter Olympics, exposes the shallowness of Canadian national identity.

The truth about these crimes needs to be provided for the protection of victims of those crimes but also people and society (national and international) in general: the identity formation taking place in schools touches upon individual and collective (national) identities at the same time, the objectives of education under international human rights law demand putting a student, an individual, in the centre of the learning process to fully develop his personality and at the same time take into account the demands of democratic society in state and in the world — the world in which a person needs to manage and which needs good peaceful citizens.

I have spoken often about how Union City schools provided for me a stream of high expectations during a time of transition from adolescent to young man, from a single, national, ethnic, and language identity to one far more complex and inclusive of those who now enlarged my experience in extraordinary and new ways.

This includes learning about the origins and development of Australia's national identity and the forging of its cultural heritage.

Is mutual trust part of Finland's national identity and if that's the case, how does that inform our thinking about the strategies US educators use to foster relational trust in schools back home?

Students look at evidence of the changing demographics of the United States and analyze what it suggests about the complexity of the country's national identity.

The release of this resource coincides with the current national discussion about race, history, and our collective national identity following the white supremacists» rally in Charlottesville, and the desecration of The New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston.

The Aspen Institute Citizenship and American Identity Program (CAI), Facing History and Ourselves, and The Allstate Corporation announce the launch of the Better Arguments Project, a national series of town hall meetings to encourage Americans to engage each other in better, more productive debates about core American ideals.

Under the National Assessment of Educational Progress Authorization Act (Public Law 107 - 279 III, section 303), the Commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is charged with ensuring that NAEP tests do not question test - takers about personal or family beliefs or make information about their personal identity publicly available.

When it was first published, the anonymously - authored Primary Colors — an obvious roman a clef about the Clintons — triggered a national guessing - game about the author's true identity.

Using her deep love of her native land and her knowledge of its fraught history, she asks provocative questions — about history, identity, race, and religion — that reverberate across geographic and national boundaries.

Since 200, Lin + Lam (Lana Lin and H. Lan Thao Lam) have combined their individual strengths toward realizing multidisciplinary, research - based projects about immigration, sites of residual trauma, national identity and historical memory.

Exploring the role of craft and war in the construction of national identity, Smith's works are often sites of interaction, which provide a context for expression and dialogue among audiences about American history.

Many of the 21st century artists — such as iona rozeal brown, Trenton Doyle Hancock, and Robert Pruitt — mix national, international, historical, and pop - culture references with personal stylistic preferences to produce images that provoke more questions about identity than they answer.

The book never engages with the arguments of a whole generation of modern scholars about the meanings of Gothic architecture in the 18th century — its use to advertise social status or national identity, for example, or the importance of Freemasonry to Batty Langley, or the way that the style was deployed by the coterie centred on Walpole as a signifier of heterodox sexuality.

Amidst the roiling national debate about American identity, veteran California Latina artist Linda Vallejo creates a realm in which US popular culture is overlain with a Mexican - American sensibility.

During her guest blog run, Elizabeth Wolfson will explore how we use national identity markers in thinking about artistic production in Turkey as well as more generally.

«Ofili's Union Black asks questions about British identity, the colonial legacy and the meaning of national allegiance which remain as relevant today as they were when the work was created 14 years ago,» said Tate Britain director Alex Farquharson, in a press statement.

This multi-disciplinary exhibition of 150 of some of the Americas most celebrated visual artists, musicians, poets, playwrights, and filmmakers is designed to spark a national conversation about American identity through the arts.

By bringing together Internet imagery with the symbol of the flag, the work makes a statement about the democratization of information in contemporary society and the role of popular imagery in the shaping of national identity.

About two dozen local and national artists tackle issues of motherhood, performance, identity and objectification in photos and paintings... read more

Kippin's photographic artwork has contributed to debates about the nature of post-industrial landscapes, national and regional identity, forgotten spaces, and the power of the state and commerce to reshape the world.