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Diversity characterises today’s societies, in which concepts such as miscegenation and hybridisation are defining features of the contemporary. Madrid, the only European capital of Arab foundation (Mayrit) responds to this pattern and people of very diverse origins coexist and dialogue in it. This round table will deal with the ways in which Arabs are represented and the way in which this representation is expressed in communication and in the field of creation. A round table in which the particularities of Spanish society with a common secular history with the Arab-Islamic world are analysed. Topics addressed in a conversation between Nuria Medina, Casa Árabe’s culture coordinator, Yolanda Álvarez, a journalist with long experience in the Middle East and author of the book “Naúfragos sin Tierra”, Said Messari, a visual artist born in Tetuán (Morocco) and Muhsin Al Ramli, a writer born in Sedira (Iraq).
The archaeology of the Spanish Civil War is one more expression of the field of contemporary archaeology, which studies the societies of the present and recent past on the basis of material culture. In the case of the Civil War, archaeology can provide valuable information on aspects that have been left untreated in historiography and that have to do with everyday life, the cultural history of objects, forgotten episodes of war and the political violence that was hidden by the dictatorship.
Rather than offering a chronological overview of the conflict, this conference will look at the Civil War through ten objects recovered in archaeological excavations and exhumations over the last decade that tell a different story.
Discovering the site of the battle and the traces that the troops left on the ground, learning more about the combats and armed confrontations that have become milestones in the course of history are some of the objectives of the so-called archaeology of battlefields, a new thematic aspect within the discipline, which is arousing more and more interest every day.
Under the title Archaeology of the Great Battles, the Museum is organising this round table discussion in which, by means of three well-known military confrontations, the new approaches and contributions of these studies in recent years will be discussed. On this occasion, the chronological framework takes us to the archaeology of more recent times, from the contemporary era to the medieval period.
Medal commemorating the Battle of San Quintín, reverse, MAN
Eduardo Juárez Valero will talk about the Battle of La Granja (1937), which took place during the Spanish Civil War, and the proposal to catalogue the site as a site of cultural interest. For his part, José Antonio Rebullida Porto, author of the recently published book Felipe II y el éxito de San Quintín (1557), will talk about this well-known battle, a good example where archaeology is complemented by historical research to fill in the documentary gaps and interpret a transcendental war event of the 16th century. Finally, Mario Ramírez Galán will focus on the Battle of Alarcos (1195), from an archaeological and museographic perspective. Finally, conclusions will be drawn on the archaeology of battlefields in Spain and the interest of the musealisation of this type of site.
In opera, human feelings are sung. Until Rossini, operatic plots described emotions in an abstract way: love, hatred, jealousy, envy, pride, considered as categories. With the emergence of romanticism, the focus turns to the situation of a specific character, who reacts to other characters who are also individualised. Romanticism exchanges the AFFAIRS of classicism for true PASSION.
This portrayal of feeling as the main cause of the character’s behaviour is done at the cost of blurring the environment. Nature is a mere backdrop and the historical setting is of interest not for its authenticity, but as a trigger for the psychological shudders of the protagonists. In the opera, the Middle Ages are made of papier-mâché.
‘The Description de l’Égipte’, published between 1809 and 1829, Champollion’s decipherment of the hieroglyphic writing in 1822, expeditions such as the Prussian expedition led by Richard Lepsius between 1842 and 1845, and the continuous discovery of tombs, temples and treasures in Egypt, laid the foundations for an Egyptomania present in the nascent Egyptological collections of the great European museums, in paintings such as those of David Roberts, and in the descriptions that travellers and explorers made of their experiences in Egypt.
This atmosphere of colossal scenery and riches was captured in the opera Aida. Premiered at the Cairo Opera House on 24 December 1871, two years after the opening of the Suez Canal, where Johann Strauss II’s Egyptian March Op. 335 was performed. Auguste Mariette, founder of the Egyptian Antiquities Conservation Service, worked on the plot, costumes and characterisation of the characters.
Following the celebration of the International Day of Girls and Women in Science on 11 February, a group of archaeologists, historians and art historians have decided to launch an open and collaborative blog to host content about women scientists in these disciplines, artists and prominent women in history.Given the scarcity of female scientific references to inspire the women scientists of the future, this non-profit blog aims to be a way of disseminating knowledge about women who research in archaeology, history and art history, a way of making their work visible, as well as a place to share research on women throughout history.
It is a blog open to participation, so anyone can send their contribution on the proposed topics, so that all those women who also do science and made history have their space on the network.
From the permanent exhibition rooms, the curators will introduce us to the historical figures of some of the women represented in the Museum: Berenice II, María de Padilla and Isabel II.
Presentation of the project “El ciclo productivo del mármol en la península Ibérica desde la Antigüedad: extracción, elaboración, comercialización, usos, reutilización, reelaboración y amortización” integrated in the homonymous Research Network (RED2018-102722-T), financed by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and coordinated from the UNED.
Throughout 3 documentaries we intend to make known to the general public the results of the research that a group of about 50 researchers integrated in the aforementioned RED have been developing for years in the study of the production cycle of ornamental stones in the Iberian Peninsula from Roman times to the present day.
Through the documentary we will present all the activities that allow us to reconstruct the production cycle of marble. From the perspective of the archaeology of production and economic history, we will deal with the extraction and preparation of the raw material in the quarry, the preparation and management of these extraction areas, the transport – by land, river and sea – of the stone material, and the workshops specialising in the production of different consumer goods (for architecture, decoration, furniture, etc.). Once this primary cycle of production and consumption of marble products has been completed, we will also address other issues that affect the life cycle of these objects, such as their repair, reworking, reuse and, finally, their amortisation.
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