For generations, Lebanon has remained in a state of turmoil. Political corruption, transnational influences, and sporadic ruptures dominate the country. Daily life has become a public ritual of disoriented memorialization that somehow remains masked and burrowed within each city…
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The concept of the author has changed over time, along with the forms of media that have been used to circulate texts. In my dissertation, I examine assumptions about writers with roots on the African continent by looking at representations of their status and function as author…
The last thirty years have been a time of considerable change in both Canadian religious life and in Canadian women's lives, as well as in the interrelationships between the two. While Canadian society has undergone a process of increasing secularization, Canadian women have bee…
This thesis is a survey of contemporary artists and influences on art production in the province of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. It explores the reasons artists have been drawn to produce their art and how they perceive the role of their art today. Since the existing literature on the…
Due to the rapid growth and development which occurred during the last century the United Arab Emirates witnessed dramatic changes after oil discovery and the economic boom. This affected the building and construction sector that formed the urban fabric of the country. The four …
While a vast range of works have been written on European identity from historical, cultural, political, sociological, and economic points of view, I am attempting to turn the discourse around and investigate the complex notion of European identity that forms the basis of person…
Since the mid-1980s, Francophone authors from both the Eastern and Western worlds have displayed a renewed interest in Scheherazade, the legendary storyteller of Les Mille et Une Nuits. This rediscovery of Scheherazade, particularly in the postcolonial context, serves as a vehic…
This study discusses status of women in contemporary Islamic societies. The approach adopted to develop the discussion is an analytical one. Because of the wide controversy over status of women in Muslim societies, particular and deliberate emphasis is given to the Islamic rules…
Contemporary Religious Music is a growing subsection of the music industry in the United States. Talented artists representing a vast array of religious groups in America express their religion through popular music styles. Christian Rock, Jewish Reggae and Muslim Hip-Hop are no…
The contemporary Iranian art market has been garnering great interest and gaining momentum since the 1990s, and by the time auction houses started to hold major contemporary Middle Eastern art sales in the mid-2000s, Iranian artwork had begun to blossom into a viable and dynamic…
As a director and theatre artist, I want my creative work as a storyteller to illuminate myth. The beauty of myth transcends all cultural boundaries by revealing, through the art of storytelling, the universal within the particular, thus illuminating the foundation of our common…
The 'self' is an unavoidable component of any actor's work - though it is often shunned: we find that our line of work demands we professionally conceal and avoid that 'self'. However, continuing to crusade in support of my belief that every traditional 'limitation' of the theat…
This document is intended to be a practical tool for anyone interested in performing or developing a deeper appreciation for the opera The Gambler’s Son by Tyler Goodrich White. Premiered and produced by UNL Opera in October, 2019, The Gambler's Son is based on Mari Sandoz’s Son…
This thesis pulls from the legacy of the Latin American avant-garde and the interpretive system of ideological conceptualism, as described by Mari Carmen Ramírez, to conceive of new ways of understanding and valuing art made by Latin American and Latinx women artists in the late…
Many contemporary artists have turned to the past in order to negotiate and make sense of their relationship with the present. Similarly, museums have begun to look back in order to push forward and through a revisionist lens they scrutinize their collections and reveal ignored …
It is people who throughout the ages developed and achieved, those people, I celebrate in my art. Their lives throughout the ages, living, loving and warring, and by doing so populating the lands. I am from the West European Low Lands, and the focus of my art is first on those o…
When faced with the death of a loved one, bodies serve as both the site of mourning and the vehicle through which individuals can embody grief. Using a Performance Studies lens this thesis examines the performance of bodies during a contemporary American funeral. This includes t…
This document examines the development of the piano etude as a genre in the twenty-first century and how individual contemporary etudes engage with the genre’s historical traditions. The study proceeds from thick descriptions of the stylistic characteristics as well as physical …
"Techno-Fiction: Science-Fictional Imaginaries and the Technik of Writing in Contemporary Korea" examines the history of Korean popular literature from the perspective of media archaeology. The study explores what German media theorists call the technik of writing—both the techn…