http://hdl.handle.net/2451/75630 Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:34:41 GMT 2026-06-15T08:34:41Z http://hdl.handle.net/2451/75743 Title: Reconsidering Public Space: The Case of Turkish Associations in France Authors: Kiran, Alia Abstract: This article examines how immigrant culture in modern-day France is communicated through Turkish associations as a medium of the public space. Through interviews with members of various types of cultural associations, I explore how public and private space dictate how culture and identity are understood within the French context. To better explain their goals and how they fit into larger French “cultural” discussion, I develop a simple typology of these cultural associations as “localizing” or “orientalizing” immigrant culture. Pointing to the space between these categories, I show the need for the immigrant experience to be recognized as part of French history in these public spaces in order to directly confront the issue of “neo-racism.” Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2451/75743 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2451/75741 Title: Love for the Colonizer: Literary and Psychoanalytic Investigations of Brazil's Foundational Trauma Authors: Attié, Francisco Abstract: The Brazilian cultural and political project began in 1822 with the end of colonization. At its outset, colonization stood fictitious in its enormous power to shape reality. In Latin America there was a confluence between the politicians and writers of the 19th century that guaranteed wholly pervasive foundational mythologies—the people building the legal-political state were also setting the mythological ideology of the nation in stone. As such, foundational myths served to unify the people under a common national banner. However, in their attempts to overcome the ghost of colonization, they ended up guaranteeing a wholly pervasive structure wherein the repressed trauma could fester. In Brazil, foundational works, like José de Alencar’s Iracema, instead of rejecting the trauma of colonization, engendered myths that repressed it, romanticizing a narrative for the people to fall in love with their colonizer. This love, I argue, led to a specific cultural complex that induces a repetition compulsion of the original traumatic event up to this day, guaranteeing unconscious entrapment and a constant return and submission to the figure of the colonizer. Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2451/75741 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2451/75745 Title: La Rivoluzione Macchiata: The Stained Revolution Authors: Souillard, Sasha Abstract: Although graffiti gained popularity through the expansion of American pop culture, its origins are greatly embedded in Italian culture and history. Not only does the word graffiti come from the Italian word “graffiato” or “scratched “off”, but some of the world’s first graffiti was found in Pompeii’s ruins. Over the last few years, Italy has been governed by right-wing coalitions that have implemented fascist practices once used by Mussolini. Given that there is little space for leftist ideas to emerge in the public space, Italians have used graffiti as a form of political activism and protest. Conversations surrounding fascism, racism, women’s rights, immigration and the LGTBQ community have arisen within graffiti, allowing outsiders to better understand Italians’ takes on these issues. This study investigates Italy’s sociopolitical climate through graffiti as a form of art, and also sheds light on how graffiti provokes its audience. The graffiti found in Florence, Bologna, and Naples proves to be linguistically complex, and provokes observers both through heightened language and visuals. This study suggests that the majority of Italian sociopolitical graffiti belongs to students who are unable to take part in democracy based on their age or legal status. While often deemed a vandalistic act, graffiti has allowed Italian individuals to protest what is unjust, and make themselves heard in a society where their voices are being suffocated by right-wing political parties and their media. Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2451/75745 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2451/75744 Title: Art Music as Universal Language: Youth Orchestras' Reactions to Social Conflict Authors: Kunitomo, Mariko Abstract: This article identifies the role art music plays in orchestra projects that deal with social conflicts of youth populations. I argue that art music serves well in this context because it is a universal language that allows for an alternative method of communication and expression between the young musicians themselves and with others. I apply metaphysical explanations, studies from cognitive neuroscience, and philosophy of language in three specific youth orchestra contexts: the Retiro Youth Orchestra, El Sistema, and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. These different lenses help uncover why and how art music positively impacts the development, both socially and personally, of young musicians in a healthier or alternative manner. Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2451/75744 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z