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...Andor Skotnes MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2010 Remembrance Cecil Skotnes, 1926 – 2009 Andor Skotnes Cecil Skotnes, perhaps the most influential post – World War II artist in South Africa, a steadfast opponent of apart- heid and a cultural worker who...

... a series of biographies of great imperial figures of British history: the Duke of Welling- ton, Robert Cecil (third marquis of Salisbury), Edward Wood (third viscount of Hal- ifax) and, in an obligatory Bloomsbury gesture, a collective portrait he called Emi- nent...

... launched the #RhodesMustFall campaign to remove the statue of Cecil Rhodes from their campus, giving birth to a “radical decolonial movement” that the student activists named “fallism,” to signify the particular political impulse at the heart of this new form of twenty-first-century iconoclasm, whereby...

... military identity. We conclude this issue with a memorial to Cecil Skotnes, whose work is fea- tured on the cover. Skotnes, who recently passed away, was one of the most influen- tial post–World War II artists in South Africa, and a steadfast opponent of apartheid throughout his life.  — Lisa...

... of history of the Americas at The Sage Colleges in Troy and Albany, New York. His forthcoming book is titled Race and Class Struggles in Baltimore, 1930 – 1945. He was involved in the antiapartheid movement, and he occasionally writes and presents on South Africa, the land of his birth. Cecil Skotnes...

... on the collection at the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library at Cecil Sharp House in London; in the United States, to date my research has focused on the Country Dance and Song Society collection (CDSS) and related holdings in the Dance Library of the New York Public Library...

... such as Josephine McGill, Loraine Wyman, hd Cecil Sharp sampled the mountaineers’ musical veins for the “Elizabethan” qualities of surviving British balladry, disdaining the raucous new hillbilly music that was expressive of the pulhigs and riftings at work in a changing region. The intervenors’ fostering...

...,” the prominent peer Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, together with a young active journalist, Tom Foley, and his wife, Avis, founded the Pedestri- ans’ Association. It was and has remained the only organization in Britain with the avowed purpose “to ensure the safety of the public generally on the highways...

... the statues of Christopher Columbus, Edward Colston, Jefferson Davis, Cecil Rhodes, or General Barranchea, this monument is at the center of a dispute about who should be memorialized in urban and public spaces. The conflict takes on a symbolic significance that extends beyond the physical structure itself...

... 2006 when I was in Cape Town visiting family—my uncle and aunt Cecil and Thelma Skotnes and my cousins Pippa Skotnes, David Brown, and John Skotnes. 10 All were well-known artists or members of the intellectual and artistic circles that had been profoundly shaped by the resistance to apartheid...

... . Eby Cecil D. Comrades and Commissars: The Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War . University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2007 . Eco Umberto . “ Ur-fascism .” New York Review of Books , June 22 , 1995 . Eley Geoff . “ Is Trump a Fascist...

... Arts Scholarly Intersections Award and contributions from Provost David Dowell and Vice-­Provost Cecile Lindsay. The main conference ended with Chilean peña masterfully orchestrated by musician Ericka Verba, a co-organizer. It featured an exhibit by Chilean artist Francisco Letelier...

... of Kasoma’s historical plays, Lobengula, took its title from the nineteenthcentury Ndebele king at the time of white conquest. It was withdrawn under pressure in 1978, since its depiction of Lobengula as the dupe of Cecil Rhodes was con- sidered offensive to the Zambia-based Zimbabwe African...

... with the rise of academic folklore studies in Britain. Scholarship on the British Folk Revivals has focused overwhelm- ingly on the work of Cecil Sharp in collecting English folk songs and dances, and on the complexities of Sharp’s relationship to socialist philanthropy...

... to “slavery and its ugliness.” 21 Cécile Fromont notes that the “interrelated, global realms of luxury exchange and human trafficking” among Africans and early modern Europeans led to a shared “culture of collecting and networks of taste and design.” 22 As part of this common system of material...

..., of the imperialist Cecil Rhodes. 5 The iconic image of US soldiers abetting Iraqis in pulling down the Saddam Hussein monument in Baghdad in 2003 (the US military’s institutional action in this instance might complicate notions of popular activism and agency) suggests the enduring trope of what some South African...

... is Serge Guilbaut, How New York Stole the ldea of Modern Art: Abstract Expressionism, Freedom, and the Cold War (Chicago, 1984). See also his "Greenberg, Pollock, or from Trotskyism to the New Liberalism of the 'Vital Center October (Winter, 1980), pp. 51-78; and David and Cecile Shapiro, "Abstract...

..., ambush, fever, and the invisible guerrilla enemy took their toll. Back in the United States, an antiwar move- ment grew. Cecil B. DeMille sought (and failed to get) permission to make a film about Sandino, fast becoming a romantic hero. The Depression started, generating widespread...

... Salcedo Lizette . 2010 . De los bueyes al vapor: Caminos de la tecnologia en Puerto Rico y el Caribe (From Oxen to Steam: Technological Changes in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean) . San Juan : Editorial Universidad de Puerto Rico . Callon Michel Méadel Cécile Rabeharisoa Vololona...

... they already know about the contrast between rich and poor. But what is so stun- ning in Germinal is the close proximity of the two. La Maheude inter- rupts the bourgeois’ breakfast; Cecile wanders in on Bonnemort with fatal consequences. The trick is to lead viewers to think about this element...