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The history of the café-concert is associated with the industrial development of music, but the very specific relationships between artists and spectators have been studied less often. The model in place in these establishments allows for a great deal of freedom for both performers and the audience, whose pleasure derives, in large part, from the continuous interaction. More than a performance, it is a lived and shared experience, with no real boundary between stage and public.
Keywords: café-concert, réception, proxémique, relation spectaculaire, café-concert, reception, proxemics, performing relationship
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Parliamentary libraries are faced with periodic changes in their political clientele because of the electoral cycle. The arrival of a new legislature is therefore a crucial event for these institutions, and it is essential to promote their services to show their usefulness to new parliamentarians. What's more, parliamentarians are often unaware of the extent of the services offered by parliamentary libraries, which differ from common documentary environments. This article presents an overview of the initiatives undertaken by Canadian parliamentary libraries when welcoming a new legislature, as well as the promotional activities used to make their services known to the new MPs and political staff.
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Examining participatory practises and inclusion projects requires reflecting on the museum as a political space and questioning the power relationships it nourishes. A review of the literature on the idea of the sense of belonging in a wide variety of disciplinary fields led to an awareness of the different dimensions of that feeling and its integration in the political discourse. More specifically, in terms of this article, the feeling of belonging is problematic in the context of art museums, where the concept is often translated to the institution's benevolent attitude towards racialized groups that have historically been discriminated against and are not in the habit of visiting museums. When these people are invited to collaborate with the museal institution, the co-creation process generally proceeds according to codes established by the institution. This tendency to adopt a charitable position towards the Other, avoiding any sort of tension, is what we call “a irenic museum” (from the Greek εἰρήνη [eirnê] meaning “peace”). By focusing on what unifies rather than on what divides, the irenical approach avoids conflict in order to foster coexistence with one another.
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This text focuses on the duplication, effected through digital technologies, of Veronese's The Wedding at Cana and the copy's subsequent hanging in the work's intended Palladian setting of San Giorgio in Venice. Through this example, the authors investigate the possibility of a detachment of the aura from the original artwork. As a result of emerging technologies of facsimilization, the aura might come to attach itself to one or the other reproduction, depending on both the quality of what comes to be considered as different versions of a single work, as well as on the success of its inscription within a given location. Following this logic, which parallels that of the performing arts, the original artwork becomes no more than a matrix which is constantly updated through the lineage of reproductions it gives rise to. Due to a growing necessity for originals to be reproduced in order to “survive,” it now becomes highly necessary to differentiate between good and bad reproductions.
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The collective security System of the League of Nations was tested in 11 conflicts. The crux of the dispute in each of those conflicts, the balance of power among the parties, and the international community's response are analyzed. Most of the conflicts were territorial disputes. Typically the League of Nations was not called upon to intervene in direct confrontations between two Great Powers but rather to deal with conflicts between two small powers or, most frequently, with cases of aggression by a Great Power against a small power. Conflicts of the first type were generally handled impartially, in the sense that they ended in a fair compromise. In conflicts of the second type, the League tilted towards the more powerful political actor. The League's preference for mediation/conciliation is discussed, and it is shown that the rare cases in which coercion was used did not yield positive results. Overall, the League's efforts failed in eight cases and were successful in three. The three successes (the Aland Islands, Demir Kapu and Leticia) ought not be minimized : they were exemplary applications of the security System established by the Covenant of the League of Nations.