Cultural mediation

La nouvelle interprétation des peintures médiévales de Cruet conservées dans les collections du Musée Savoisien de Chambéry a donné l’impulsion à un projet de médiation culturelle. Le public, par le biais de vêtements pédagogiques à revêtir, est invité à entrer de plain-pied dans le Moyen Âge et le roman illustré par les peintures. Cet article est le retour d’expérience d’une collaboration entre un musée, plusieurs chercheurs et artisans, afin de développer l’histoire du fait vestimentaire à cette époque, de mettre en place une méthodologie de travail pour la reconstitution, notamment le patronage des habits et la teinture des étoffes, et de réaliser les différentes pièces de vêtements. L’évocation des difficultés liées, au coût financier, à la recherche des matières premières adéquates, au temps long de la teinture et aux choix qu’il a fallu faire devant plusieurs hypothèses scientifiques en un temps donné, permet de mieux comprendre et d’apprécier l’ensemble du projet.

Résumé en anglais :
The new interpretation of the medieval paintings from Cruet, held in the collections of the Musée Savoisien in Chambéry (France) initiated a cultural mediation project. The public is invited to step into the Middle Ages and the medieval novel illustrated by the paintings by donning educational garments. We present a retrospective on the collaboration between the museum and several researchers and craftspersons in order to set up a work methodology for the reconstitution of the garments, especially the design of the different patterns, the dying of the cloth and the manufacturing of the garments. We also provide feedback on the challenges encountered, related to the financial costs, the hunt for suitable raw material, the long delays induced by the dyeing and the choices between several scientific hypothesis which had to be made, so that the reader will be able to understand and assess the project as a whole.

Mots-clés en français : Moyen Âge, vêtement, reconstitution, teinture, médiation culturelle

Mots-clés en anglais : Middle Ages, clothing, reconstitution, dye, cultural mediation

travaux présentés au Colloque international et pluridisciplinaire Carcassonne, 19-20-21 juin 2019: Vivre et faire vivre le Moyen Age

In this research, the goodwill mission of the UN’s Secretary-General on Cyprus and various resolutions concerned have been analyzed. From this point of view, the purpose is to examine the goodwill mission of the UN Secretary-General, changes in its application and various decisions concerned by analyzing them.
The attempts to achieve a peaceful, just and permanent solution in Cyprus within the UN framework provided a wide area of maneuver for both sides. Above all, the parties that directly participated in the issue after 1974 obtained the opportunity to act with more ease. This ease has further increased the area and intensity of the conflict. This dangerous situation has not only affected the Cypriot Turkish and Greek communities on the island, but has also caused Turkey and Greece to get involved in the conflict.
In particular, the UN’s failure to reach a ‘peaceful solution’ from a ‘peaceful lack of solution’ draws attention in this aspect, because rather than using the UN platform to obtain a permanent solution, the parties have utilized it for the purpose of defeating the opposite side. As long as these conditions continue, it is obvious that ambitious Secretary-Generals like Ghali and Annan will not be able to resolve this issue easily.
Based on this, it is necessary to observe the identified authorities of the Secretary-General from two sides. The first one is whether the authorities assumed by the Secretary-General from the Security Council can be used on a basis directed towards recognizing the presence of the two separate sovereign communities in Cyprus, while the other is whether ‘goodwill’ mission of the Secretary-General transforms into ‘mediation’ and later on into ‘arbitration’ and if it has transformed or not, in the case of transformation’ to determine how this could or could not be performed.

Islam is a way of life that guides the Muslims from all perspectives, and as portion of Islam, it also promotes peace
and conciliation in resolving disputes. The Al-Quran provides
guidelines in dispute resolution through a third party called Sulh. Sulh refers to the process of mediation, arbitration and
reconciliation that takes place when the parties involved agree on a process of resolving a dispute with a third party mediator, who eventually will ensure that both disputed parties will be satisfied by the outcomes. This work is focused on community mediation, which involved with the disputes between the community members. In Malaysia, Sulh were actually practiced by the Malays prior to the time of the Portuguese, the Dutch and the British. The session will be conducted by a third party who normally a respected and elder person in the society, whom also held the position as the headman (Penghulu or Ketua Kampung) or Imam (a religious leader). Nowadays, given the plural society of Malaysia, and the era of Internet, it is crucial for Sulh to be available online. With the use of ICT tools, Sulh can be promoted to society, and if it is a part of e-government efforts, then it will encourage the society to be involved with the government’s mission. The online Sulh will not merely act as an interface for those parties involved. The challenges of making the online system secured, the correct ways of ensuring the data accuracy, understanding on methods that will be used for data propagation (among others), are existed in the domain of Computer Science
(CS). There are many possible CS approaches, but the work will
focus on Computational Intelligence (CI) techniques, with special interest in connectionist models.

Conflict, Memory Transfers and the Reshaping of Europe discusses processes of memory construction associated with the realities of war and genocide, totalitarianism, colonialism as well as trans-border dialogues in the overcoming of conflict memories. It is based on the premise that there are no available clear-cut or definite positions to approach the problematic issues of conflict, memory and history. Consequently, it examines and articulates across several different media discourses, problems, contexts and considerations of value. Its scope is thus deliberately interdisciplinary, drawing on the cross-fertilization of diverse research methods. The book addresses a number of issues and raises questions that have been crucial to our modern thought, and problematic or even inexplicable to any cultural theory that approaches history with an ethical approach. It works through and evaluates ongoing representative processes, strategies and practices, next to longstanding constraints, dilemmas and taboos regarding discussions of contentious matters. The different perspectives from which the issues of conflict, identity and memory are examined, in authoritarian, new European and (post-) colonial contexts, provide examples of power and conflict memory intervening in discourse and areas of cultural practice, destabilizing fixed or encoded meaning. It examines how the “making sense” of our memories—so vital for the qualification of culture and social practices—is about concepts and ideas, as well as emotions and attachments, i.e. meaning resulting from effective social exchange framed by specific contexts of interpretation. As such, the book is also a contribution to a memory culture that is pushing forward the clarification of conflicts, crystallizations of tension and all sorts of threads that bind us, very often invisibly, to the past.