Sentences with phrase «in cultural landscapes»

Beyond Climate Change: Wildland Fires and Human Security in Cultural Landscapes in Transition — Examples from Temporate - Boreal Eurasia.

The confidence to play with the medium and to surprise audiences indicates the vital role independent film has come to serve in the cultural landscape.»

Adopting the role of a cultural Charles Darwin, Hughes heads off, with his brother in tow, across the Midwest to observe firsthand the natural history of ideas - the patterns of their variation, inheritance, and selection in the cultural landscape.

In the cultural landscape category of the World Heritage List, The rice terraces of the Cordilleras inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1995.

«Video gaming holds a unique position in our cultural landscape,» says Bruno Beusch, head of organizing TNC Network, and host of the GAMEHOTEL series.

Filling a crucial niche in the cultural landscape of New York City, the Armory catalyzes productions best realized in a non-traditional setting.

The closing of Ruby Green four years ago could have easily left a palpable void in the cultural landscape of Nashville.

Produced at a pivotal moment in her practice and in the cultural landscape of Second - wave Feminism, these series depict couples entwined in various coital positions rendered with expressive gesture, exemplifying her keen understanding of color and composition.

As such, Ryden has a keen interest in what becomes kitsch in our cultural landscape.

In a deep exploration of history, politics and memory, his work exposes the shifts in context and perspective embedded in our cultural landscape.

Interested more generally in pop culture and pop culture nostalgia, Arcangel has taken as his subject other new media forms, including YouTube and blogs, using them to create works that explore their role in our cultural landscape.

With a mission to initiate change in the cultural landscape of Miami, Spinello Projects is at the same time a gallery, design house and innovative platform for site - specific artworks and projects.

With a critical eye to the ways in which images are used within mass media and the photographic medium is viewed in the cultural landscape as a whole, the artist employed early methods of appropriation, and in one series, «Stills» shows the way the potential of human life literally hangs in the balance in a collection of press images of people falling from buildings.

Punk occupies a truly strange role in our cultural landscape.

With Performa 17, the Biennial seeks to question how artists, curators, and writers are approaching Dada 101 years after the movement began, and how it continues to reverberate in our cultural landscape.

How important is such an initiative in the cultural landscape in Belgrade?

Panel 2: Crossing into the Future: New Models of Collaboration The second panel discussed new models of public / private partnerships currently being implemented or contemplated, and considered changing conditions in the cultural landscape and the need for museums to find innovative solutions to meet the challenges of a new century.

In the United States, artist - endowed organisations such as the Joan Mitchell Foundation are on the rise and are playing an increasingly important role in the cultural landscape as government funding declines.

Not exact matches

Bubbling up from the cultural landscapes of everyday life, the creativity behind poetry and music places the person in touch with another world, the enchanted one hidden in plain sight.

This is a startling achievement in a society that finds security in featureless and easily comprehensible cultural landscapes, and consequently seeks to smooth anything too complex and particular into a barely distinguishable example of a type: just another sporting event; just another television broadcast; just another weekend distraction.

For many generations, young people have been change agents in society, ushering in cultural and political revolutions that have changed the landscape for everyone.

But others have pointed Out that individualism is not only a feature of the cultural landscape between Boston and Los Angeles; it is reinforced in all advanced industrial societies, even in the Soviet Union, by the state's efforts to supply services and legal guarantees.

The church has great power and influence in society, and our presence is evident by the vast number of church buildings and Christian slogans that dot our cultural landscape, but few Christians have progressed much past a milk diet of basic Christian truths.

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

The landscape in which the Ghassanids operated included several cultural and religious centers that would be critical for both Christianity and early Islam.

If Cézanne attempts to have the landscape think itself within his experience, it can do so only in terms of the cultural forms that are at hand, or that he will invent in response to the complex richness of the landscape.

Given the cultural hand - wringing over decreasing marital rates, divorce and stepparenting, and the rise in non-nuclear families and non-marital births, her proposal to create a legal status seems to make a lot of sense; family law has not kept up with the vast changes in the marital landscape.

In honoring him, the Society noted how throughout his career Weinreb has «applied his landscape architecture skills to protect, enhance, and manage natural and cultural resources for public benefit and enjoyment.»

The only «problem» with Mongolia is that it impossible to encompass all of its spectacular landscapes, outstanding wildlife and fascinating cultural aspects in a single visit.

The new Bolivia is engaging in a process of in - depth institutional reforms, challenging mainstream narratives and political structures and reinventing a model of the state and creating notions of citizenship better suited to highly diverse ethnic and cultural landscapes.

This feeds in to the theatre's new season which looks to respond to the seismic shifts in the political, societal and cultural landscape.

In the three weeks since dozens of women came forward with allegations of sexual assault and misconduct against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, the cultural landscape has been altered, with claims brought against figures across other industries.

Whereas, Martin Luther King, Jr. was a social activist and leader whose ideas impacted a generation and transformed the social, political, and cultural landscape of our nation; his impassioned «I Have A Dream» speech delivered at the historic March on Washington in August of 1963 was heard in homes across the country and is recognized as one of the most powerful and profound orations in American history

He said that the master plan would be unveiled in May in an efforts to transform the cultural and artistic landscape of the state.

In his debut novel, Gibson coined the term «cyberspace» and described the Internet and virtual reality long before they were part of the cultural landscape.

To explore that issue, she is now looking beyond Kansas and across three continents, collecting data in Korea, Ghana and elsewhere in the U.S. Whereas more choice may lead to similar friends for U.S. college students, different social landscapes and broad cultural attitudes may introduce their own unique constraints on how people pick their friends.

«The landscape is sensitive to changes in cultural patterning, and very often the changes that occur are not intended and not even intuitively sought - after,» he says.

Adds co-author Anna Shoemaker, also a PhD at Uppsala University «The 50 questions in this paper make no distinction between the history of people and landscapes, or natural and cultural, the two are fundamentally connected.»

Daniel Ortega, associate professor and program coordinator of UNLV's Bachelor of Landscape Architecture Program, examines cultural connections to landscapes and how technology shapes and affects the places we live in.

Since its inception the MRC Centre for Genomics and Global Health (CGGH) has maintained a strong focus on creating ethical frameworks for undertaking genomics research, often working with international networks including researchers in the developed and developing world who are in turn working with communities in diverse political and cultural landscapes.

South Asian genetic landscape, bearing in mind its geographic, linguistic, socio - cultural and skin color diversity, offers an excellent model system to decipher the genetic underpinnings of human skin color variation and for a better understanding of it's evolutionary history.

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It wouldn't be boasting to say that ladies kurtis are definitely among clothing that has contributed to the reshaping of the cultural landscape in India.

This shift represented a first critical step in the modernization of fashion and revolutionized the socio - cultural landscape.

Whether you live in Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Las Vegas, Hobbs or Deming, the diverse landscape and rich cultural heritage of New Mexico makes dating exciting and pleasurable.

Whether you live in Houston, Austin, San Antonio or El Paso, the diverse landscape and cultural heritage of Texas offers the perfect setting for an exciting and pleasurable dating experience.

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The smooth telling of Russo's story juxtaposed against the present day, when gay marriage is sanctioned in some states and gay characters are all over prime - time television, drives home how different the cultural landscape is from the one Russo knew.

Tom Gjelten covers issues of religion, faith, and belief for NPR News, a beat that encompasses such areas as the changing religious landscape in America, the formation of personal identity, the role of religion in politics, and social and cultural conflict arising from religious differences.