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Romulus and Ritual in the Beverly Swamp: A Freemason Dreams of Theatre in Pre-confederation Ontario 1
Authors: Johnson Stephen
Published: December 2020

During the 1820s and 1830s, Henry Lamb, a pioneer settler of Upper Canada (now Southern Ontario), mapped out a city called Romulus, which he intended to build in Beverly Township, a region best known for its dangerous swampland. In an advertisement calling for immigrant settlers, he promised a range of buildings, including “a first-class theatre.” This essay assesses the related documents: accounts of settlers identifying the location for un-built cathedrals; a description of an exaggerated town plan, laid out on a stump; and the newspaper advertisement. It places Lamb’s plans within the broader history of Ontario settlement, illustrated by comparison with fellow founder John Galt. The inclusion of a theatrical venue in a town plan was unusual for the time and region; there is a strong possibility that the plans for Romulus were informed by Lamb’s devotion to the secretive, and theatre-friendly, Freemasonic movement. The Freemasons were bastions of both enlightenment radicalism, and then of British imperialism; as such, they encouraged Lamb to build a prosperous life as a self-made man in a hostile environment, to dream of building a city in the wilderness—and to misjudge his intended community. Settlers at this time were more at ease with and in need of a popular performance culture, of outdoor rituals and kitchen parties, tavern songs and mechanics institute meetings, and not (or not yet) a theatre. This essay considers the plight of a man intent on the orderly, architectural administration of society in a world of improvised spaces.
FORUM: LINK & PIN Performance Art Series
Authors: Disman Adriana
Published: December 2020

LINK & PIN started in my grandmother’s house. During spring-summer 2011, I invited artists to perform in the main floor of her home in the heart of downtown Toronto. What began as space-making for performers whose work I wanted to see, a way for peers to share their process and build community, quickly outgrew my grandmother’s living room.
“I Haven’t Got Time for the Pain”: The State and Stakes of Performance Art 2.0
Authors: Schotzko T. Nikki Cesare
Published: December 2020

When Carrie Lambert-Beatty says she “want[s] to believe” in her 2010 Artforum review “Against Performance Art,” she is saying that she wants to believe that art might offer an efficacious alternative to political rhetoric, that “what the world of politics won’t give us, the art world will.” She wants to believe that Marina Abramovic’s durational performance The Artist is Present, concurrent with the simultaneously (re)performed and embodied (and samenamed) exhibition of the archive of her four-plus-decade long career, might make clear that performance art can be both cognizant of itself as a “spectacle and personality cult” and (still) afford an authentic and intersubjective exchange between performance and audience; and that, though Abramovic is the only “Artist” invoked in the performance-retrospective’s title, the role itself will not be inhibited by such iconic singularity. Lambert-Beatty, though, has some doubts (208).
Introduction : repousser les limites
Authors: Schweitzer Marlis
Published: December 2020

Quand j’évalue un article soumis à Recherches théâtrales au Canada, je me pose toujours une série de questions, dont celles-ci : la contribution repousse-t-elle les limites des études théâtrales et des études de performance de façon nouvelle, intéressante ou provocante? Nous permet-elle de voir sous un jour nouveau des matériaux que nous connaissons déjà? Fait-elle la lumière sur un sujet que nous avons négligé? Nous présente-t-elle de nouvelles sources primaires? Propose-t-elle une méthodologie innovatrice, une nouvelle approche théorique? Bref, le texte offre-t-il à notre champ de recherche quelque chose de différent et cette différence est-elle pertinente? Je me réjouis de pouvoir dire que les six articles rassemblés dans ce numéro de RTAC repoussent les limites des recherches en théâtre et en performance, chacun à sa façon. Ce même travail se poursuit dans l’excellent Forum préparé sous la direction d’Adriana Disman, lequel explore quatre prestations qu’elle a retenues pour la série LINK & PIN en 2013-14.
Carmen Aguirre’s The Refugee Hotel
Authors: Rabillard Sheila
Published: December 2020

Rabillard considers Carmen Aguirre’s The Refugee Hotel in the light of Jacques Derrida’s “On Cosmopolitanism” and his Of Hospitality, focusing on Aguirre’s use of fictional place and presentational space. As Derrida teases out contradictions in the concept and practice of hospitality and the limitations of attempts to respond to the limitless demands of cosmopolitanism, understood as the right of anyone to dwell anywhere in the world, so Aguirre stages the limitations of the refuge Chileans find when they flee to Canada in the wake of Pinochet’s takeover. Much of the play’s power lies in its evocation of trauma and its presentation of the refugees’ stories of suffering, stories based upon the experiences of Aguirre, her family, and opponents of the Pinochet regime with whom she worked. But an important aspect of the play’s political significance emerges via comparison with Derrida. For The Refugee Hotel challenges the spectator to recognize both the difficulty and the necessity of welcoming refuge seekers without imposing boundaries and definitions or requiring them to assimilate. The limitations of the refuge offered are figured in the play’s single set: a shabby hotel in Vancouver; evoked via representation of linguistic barriers; and dramatized in the parochialism of the welcoming social worker, and in the pressure to assimilate experienced by the refugee children. The play intervenes in Canadian political discourse, dispelling myths of national generosity, and represents hospitality based upon the mutual responsiveness of guest and host. Rabillard argues in conclusion that the political challenge of The Refugee Hotel, its requirement that we apprehend the full demand of true borderless hospitality, extends to the cultural space of Canadian theatre, where immigrant authors such as Aguirre must find a place.
Witnessing the Growth of a Collective Animal
Authors: Samur Sebastian
Published: December 2020

I write the account below as a future member of CUPE 3902. Though the University of Toronto strike did not affect me directly, its indirect effects for me were real and omnipresent. My classes were moved off campus in support of the strike and the growing rallies in which I occasionally participated sent a message that was loud and clear. It was fascinating to watch the growth of the strike movement in spring 2015, and though its conclusion left one with mixed feelings, it also left many reasons for optimism in the future.
Around the Backside: Productive Disbelief in Burning Vision
Authors: Fletcher Alana
Published: December 2020

The work of Vancouver-based Métis playwright Marie Clements has often been commended for its emphasis on the connections that inhere among people and places, times and spaces. The time-space conversations of Burning Vision, one of the most spatially and temporally diverse of Clements’s works, have thus far been explained in terms of their ecological and indigenizing effects. While revelations of connectivity and windows opened onto alternate conceptions of spatio-temporality are significant results of the intercultural moments where Clements brings discrete times and places into conversation, it is also useful to acknowledge another, more immediate result of such dialogues: audience confusion, alienation, and disbelief. Such confusion points to a significant but as-yet unaddressed aspect of the Burning Vision: the way the play’s materiality works against its fiction, impeding audience immersion in the story unfolded. This article draws out this conflict through a phenomenological approach that illuminates how the refusal of the work’s material reality to disappear behind its fiction—to slip around the backside of the frontside illusion—prompts a productive kind of disbelief that structurally underlines the work’s arguments for interconnectedness.
The Speed Of Queer: La La La Human Steps and Queer Perceptions of the Body
Authors: Low Stephen
Published: December 2020

In this article, Stephen Low argues that Edouard Lock’s choreography for La La La Human Steps embodies temporalities that expose how the normative experience of time determines and limits our visual and theoretical perceptions of the gendered body. Focusing on movement executed at hyperfast virtuosic speeds seen in La La La Human Steps’ recent work Untitled, Lock’s choreography demonstrates possibilities of corporeal transformations through the way the body is perceived in time through movement. The analysis of Lock’s choreography expands the theories of queer time elucidated by Judith Halberstam in her book In A Queer Time and Place beyond temporalities defined by nonnormative life schedules to include non-normative temporalities determined by how subjects move in and through time. Furthermore, the examination of the effects of hyper-fast movement exposes how Judith Butler’s theory of gender performativity remains contingent on normative temporalities that allow the body to be seen as gendered in a stable and coherent manner. The aesthetic of speed embodied by Lock’s choreography is acknowledged to be both simultaneously destructive, in that it undoes the stability and coherency of gender as ascertainable by the act of seeing the body, and generative, in that it offers modes of challenging gender norms that do not require medical technologies. In other words, through an aesthetic that employs virtuosic speed, Lock offers a concept of queer temporality that allows a subject to embody the trans in “transgender.”
Introduction: Performance and Disability
Authors: Johnston Kirsty
Published: December 2020

On April 30, 2016, Cripping the Stage: A Disability Arts Cabaret presented “cutting-edge disabled artists from Canada and the United Kingdom.” The event, co-hosted by Alex Bulmer and Mat Fraser, aimed to put “disabled performers centre stage to celebrate Cripping the Arts Symposium presented by Tangled Art + Disability, a three-day event seeking to advance Deaf and Disability Arts in Canada, and enliven the vibrancy of Canadian culture” (“Cripping”). As demonstrated in the present issue, this exciting international event was one of many important disability theatre initiatives offered during the 2015 and 2016 seasons, a period that also saw disability theatre artists working with the National Arts Centre, Stratford Festival, Banff Fine Arts Centre, Playwrights Theatre Centre, Playwright’s Workshop Montreal, and Luminato Festival. This issue, then, appears in a remarkably generative period of disability theatre activity in Canada. In the past five years, national institutions and granting councils have sought to respond to, catch up with, and foster new conversations among disability theatre and performance practitioners. In 2012, for example, the Canada Council for the Arts released an access and equality strategy targeting Deaf and disability arts. While on one level this signaled a desire to “expand the arts” according to the council’s equity strategy, it also built from a recognition “that Deaf and disability arts are important evolving sectors and art practices in the Canadian arts ecology, to be supported, promoted and advanced” (Canada Council, “Executive”).
“Please Look at Yourself”: Insecurity and the Failure of Ethical Encounter in Autobiographical Performance
Authors: Stephenson Jenn
Published: December 2020

Encounter between “I” and “You” is a central feature of autobiographical performance as the performer attempts to communicate an intimate sense of what it means to be a particular self to a second-person assemblage of curious witnesses. Ostensibly, the intention is that through this performative encounter, knowledge is imparted and the stranger becomes less strange. RARE, created by playwright Judith Thompson and an ensemble of disabled performers with Down Syndrome, stages just such an encounter between the audience and the autobiographical real. Using the lens of disability performance theory, this analysis of RARE considers how all autobiographical performance is entangled in questions about how the encounter with the real is shaped and to what end. The ethical instability of the situation combined with the risks of failed transmission invite the question: Why do we watch? Drawing on Sara Ahmed’s description of the source of fear in intercultural encounter with the stranger as founded in hybridity, this article traces several points of hybridity in RARE. First, RARE presents a thematic thread that reifies popular perception of Down Syndrome as itself characterized by an uncomfortable hybridity between child and adult, between dependence and independence. Second, the production’s staging choices present the performers’ bodies as hybrid, challenging mimesis with irrepressible presence. Finally, it will be shown that the autobiographical form in performance itself expresses a hybridity that unsettles theatricality. Ultimately, autobiographical encounter does not authentically illuminate what it means to be another, but instead confronts the means of encounter, generating productive self-reflexive disruption of ingrained biases about both autobiography and strangers.
Staging the International Embrace: George Leslie Mackay Narratives on Taiwanese Stages
Authors: Stenberg Josh
Published: December 2020

Josh Stenberg considers three Taiwanese productions of the last ten years (puppetry, Western opera, xiqu), which have dramatized the life of nineteenth-century Presbyterian missionary George Leslie Mackay. The article connects the way in which a Canadian white foreigner is represented on stage with Taiwan’s anxiety surrounding its lack of international recognition, arguing that Mackay has been enlisted in Taiwanese nationbuilding theatre as a wish-fulfilling stand-in for desirable foreigner behaviour. Since the legitimacy and characteristics of an autonomous Taiwanese consciousness (like Canadian identity) are disputed and evolving, this case serves to examine theatre as a medium during an embryonic stage in the production of nationhood: the Mackay productions are theatre for a nation that—depending substantially on foreign attitudes—may or may not yet be produced. Furthermore, attention to this Canadian character abroad broadens the discussion of Canadian intercultural theatre by drawing attention to how, since identities are dialogic, Canadians are not the only ones who get to decide who we are or what we mean.
Transformational Kinstellatory Relations and the Talking Stick Festival
Authors: Lachance Lindsay , Couture Selena
Published: December 2020

This article charts the development of, and connections created through, the Vancouver-based Talking Stick Festival to inform how performance- making and gathering over shared interests can maintain artistic relationships and nurture respectful intercultural relations. We demonstrate this through genealogically connecting the Talking Stick Festival to the 1997 Festival of the Dreaming in Sydney Australia linking this theoretically to Indigenous ideas of transformational love, “grounded normativity” and kin relations that cross earthly boundaries. We examine the strategic ways that the annual festival builds networks of communication, including movement around territories, and the valuing of flexibility to honour accountability. And, of immense value to the rebuilding of broken kinship networks is the love and support for emergent artists as well as staff and volunteers who are mentored in the ever-expanding and continuous building of relations. We write explicitly from our own positions and discuss how we, the co-authors of this piece, have ourselves been transformed through interactions with the festival as a way to show how this kind of relationship building can create a shared future. We conclude that the organizers of the Talking Stick Festival create spaces that centre Indigenous resurgence through personal experiences of transformation and kinstellatory relations of co-resistance.
Majdi Bou-Matar's Impact: An Examination of the IMPACT Festival and its Survival in the Waterloo Region
Authors: Houston Andrew
Published: December 2020

The IMPACT Festival is an event dedicated to theatre that centralizes marginalized voices to address social issues, and in the process, works to constitute a vibrant intercultural community. At once a festival, a conference, and an opportunity for artists, scholars, and other cultural commentators—from international to local—to meet and engage with one another, IMPACT has happened biannually in Kitchener, Ontario since 2009. Yet despite its award-winning status among scholars and artists, the IMPACT Festival has struggled to be embraced by either the City of Kitchener or the citizens of the Region of Waterloo. Beginning with interviews with local theatre creators, and drawing on the intercultural analysis of Ric Knowles and Bruno Latour, among others, this article is an attempt to understand why the IMPACT Festival has encountered obstacles to sustainable success in its home town.
Présentation : Pleins feux sur les festivals
Authors: Knowles Ric
Published: December 2020

Au Canada comme ailleurs, la commodification de la culture en événements festivaliers (Bennett et al.) va bon train. En effet, les festivals de musique, de cinéma et de culture s’y multiplient comme des champignons; certains festivals, comme le Fungus Among Us de Whistler, en Colombie-Britannique, se consacrent même à ce modeste organisme. Du Sound Symposium de Saint-Jean (Terre-Neuve) au festival Fringe de Victoria, en passant par le festival Island Unplugged de l’île Pelée (le point le plus au sud du Canada) et le festival des arts Alianait d’Iqaluit, au Nunavut, les festivals parsèment le paysage théâtral de ce territoire que l’on appelle aujourd’hui le Canada. Partout au pays, ils font de petites localités rurales des destinations touristiques et transforment des centres urbains en « villes festivalières » (voir Johannson, Thomasson). En travaillant au Cambridge Companion to International Theatre Festivals, j’ai compilé une liste de plus de quarante festivals internationaux de théâtre, de performance et d’arts multidisciplinaires au Canada, à laquelle il faudrait ajouter les festivals de musique ou de son, de cirque et d’arts visuels. S’y ajoutent encore divers rassemblements shakespeariens : le festival Shakespeare by the Sea sur la côte Est, Bard on the Beach en Colombie-Britannique, la programmation des théâtres de répertoire à Stratford et à Niagaraon-the-Lake, ou encore les nombreux festivals sans composante internationale comme le festival sans lieu fixe qu’est le Magnetic North. Il ne faudrait pas oublier non plus les vingtet-un membres de l’association canadienne de festivals Fringe (auxquels s’ajoutent neuf membres basés aux États-Unis), ni les autres festivals « rebelles » de cet ordre.
Berlin, Ontario, in the Age of the ABC
Authors: Lucas Jack
Published: December 2020

Between 1890 and 1910, the town of Berlin, Ontario, adopted special-purpose bodies, such as water commissions and park boards, with enthusiasm. Why did Berlin’s civic leaders respond to these institutions so enthusiastically? This paper suggests that internal diffusion, fuelled by an argument about municipal capacity, was at work in Berlin at the time. The paper also critically examines two alternative explanations for the town’s enthusiasm, one grounded in Wilsonian reform, and the other in elite self-insulation.
Mapping Work in Early Twentieth-Century Montreal: A Rabbi, a Neighbourhood, and a Community
Authors: Poutanen Mary Anne , Gilliland Jason
Published: December 2020

Rabbi Simon Glazer’s 1909 daily journal provides a window onto his role as an orthodox rabbi of a largely Yiddish-speaking immigrant community, his interactions with Jewish newcomers, the range of tasks he performed to augment the inadequate stipends he received from a consortium of five city synagogues where he was chief rabbi, and the ways in which Jewish newcomers sought to become economically independent. Using a multidisciplinary methodology, including Historical Geographic Information Systems (HGIS), Glazer’s journal offers a new lens through which to view and map the social geography of this community. Our study contributes to a growing body of literature on immigrant settlement, which has shown that such clustering encouraged economic independence and social mobility. Characterized by a high degree of diversity in ethnicity and commerce, the St. Lawrence Boulevard corridor was an ideal location for Jewish newcomers to set down roots. We argue that the community served as a springboard for social mobility and that Simon Glazer played an important role at a critical moment in its early development. It was on its way to becoming one of Canada’s most significant Jewish communities. Over the eleven years that he worked in Montreal (1907–18), Glazer carved out a vital place for himself in the city’s Jewish immigrant community and honed skills that would serve him well when he returned to the United States.
Politicking for Postwar Modernism: The Architectural Research Group of Ottawa and Montreal
Authors: Valen Dustin
Published: December 2020

The diffusion of modernist principles in Canadian building and planning occurred through many channels, but among these the Architectural Research Group of Ottawa and Montreal played a crucial role. Formed in 1938 to conduct research into postwar reconstruction, the group produced articles, radio addresses, and exhibitions in an effort to nurture modernist sentiment across the country. For these young architects, the federal government’s commitment to replanning and rebuilding postwar Canadian cities presented them with an opportunity to intervene in the future of Canadian practice. They decried the “backwardness” of conservative practitioners while promoting the ideas of a European avant-garde and orchestrating numerous transatlantic exchanges. This article discusses the group’s role in politicking for architectural and urban modernism, as well as the contributions of some of its key members. It shows that Canadian professionals were not simply passive receptors of international modernism but played an active part in shaping these ideas during the immediate postwar period, and that Canada’s federal government played a unique role in accelerating this process by allowing modernist architects and planners to operate within and through a number of government-sponsored agencies.
De siège du gouvernement à capitale éphémère : Kingston, Montréal et le passage à l’État libéral moderne (1838–1849)
Authors: Roy Alain
Published: December 2020

Au cours des premières années de la province du Canada, Kingston et Montréal furent tour à tour siège du gouvernement, puis capitale, et divers projets d’aménagement ont été proposés. Or, faire l’histoire de ces villes comme capitales ne peut se faire qu’au carrefour de l’histoire politique et de l’histoire urbaine. Il importe donc d’abord de revenir sur ce que sont les capitales, leur aménagement et leur relation avec l’État libéral moderne. Par la suite, nous examinerons les trois projets de siège de gouvernement puis de capitale de 1838 à 1849, soit à Montréal (1838–1840), à Kingston (1840–1843) puis à nouveau à Montréal (1844–1849). Ces projets, qui ont été plus ou moins menés à bien, seront examinés selon deux axes. D’une part, sur le plan politique, les choix successifs témoignent d’une autonomisation croissante face au pouvoir régalien et d’une affirmation «moderne» plus sentie de la capitale comme centre politique. D’autre part, les aménagements proposés et partiellement mis en œuvre témoignent d’une volonté de valoriser matériellement et symboliquement dans l’espace urbain le pouvoir émergent. Dans cette perspective, le projet d’établir à Montréal ce qu’on appellerait une «cité parlementaire» est le plus achevé, mais le gouvernement de la province, limité dans ses ressources, doit cependant adopter une approche plus ciblée. Au final, les projets de capitale témoignent des vicissitudes et difficultés d’un nouvel État en émergence, dont les marques dans le paysage urbain et la mémoire de Kingston et de Montréal restent méconnues.
Taming the Jungle in the City: Uprooting Trees, Bushes, and Disorder from Mount Royal Park
Authors: Caron Matthieu
Published: December 2020

From the late 1940s to the early 1960s, Montreal’s obsession with regulating immoral behaviour led to several urban renewal schemes. This article looks at the municipal government’s decision to clear an overgrown section of Mount Royal Park nicknamed the “Jungle” and ultimately to reconstruct it as a heterosexual space. This area of the park was highly patrolled by police officers who viewed it as a gathering place for undesirable persons; newspapers highlighted how drunkards, criminals, sex maniacs, perverts, and, most importantly, homosexuals defiled the park’s character. To rid Mount Royal Park of its Jungle and those who had appropriated it, the city came up with a radical plan to simplify the police department’s techniques of surveillance: the ecological clearance of the Jungle. The clearcutting of the Jungle, a process known as the Morality Cuts, eroded the environmental and ecological character of Mount Royal, with the immediate repercussion of “balding” the park. However, in the aftermath, the mobilization of other civic actors, including civil servants and the Montreal Parks and Playgrounds Association, enabled a restorative strategy for the park’s ecology.
“Undesirables Entering the Town to Look for Good Times”: Banff Confronts Its Counterculture Youth Scene, 1965–1971
Authors: Bradley Ben
Published: December 2020

Small urban centres remain largely overlooked in historical studies of the counterculture in Canada. This article examines the rise and fall of the scene in Banff, Alberta—a single-industry town with an economy based on accommodating travelling pleasure-seekers, that lacked an elected municipal government. Beginning in 1965, a fast-growing number of counterculture and transient youths trekked to Banff each summer. Some used its public spaces for behaviour Banffites deemed inappropriate and also bothersome to tourists, which pushed officials, business owners, and other permanent residents to debate the nature and limits of tolerance in their community. A few facilities and services welcomed counterculture youth, but most residents remained apprehensive about how Banff’s image might be affected during the high tourist season. After years of mounting frustration and resentment, tensions reached a crescendo in 1971, following which Banff’s status as a counterculture destination abruptly collapsed.
Comparison of adolescents with different annual quota of Physical Education classes in anthropometric parameters, physical fitness tests, and grades achievements
Authors: Džakula Vedran , Miljković Zvonko , Pavičić Leo , Banjac Brigita
Published: December 2020

This study compared different groups yearly based on the different annual quota of Physical Education (PE) classes in anthropometric parameters, physical fitness tests, and grades achievements. The study included adolescents from 14 to 18 years of age, at the Croatian Industrial School in Slavonski Brod. They were 225 participants in the 2015-2016 academic year, 213 in 2016-2017, 200 in 2017-2018, and 318 in 2017-2018. Groups were determined yearly by the different annual quota of PE classes (1 or 2 per week) in the teaching program. Anthropometric measures (body height, body weight, BMI), physical fitness tests (standing long jump, sit-ups, run for 1000 m), grade in the PE class, and the general achievement grade at the end of the school year were conducted. Data collected from the 2015-2016 until the 2018-2019 academic year. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to assess the differences between groups for each school year separately. Results for sit-ups and run for 1000 m test in 2015-2016, BMI in 2018-2019, and the grade of PE class in 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 academic year indicated significant differences between groups (p<0.05). The groups with 2 PE classes per week were made better results compared to the groups with 1 PE class. Therefore, increasing the number of PE classes per week should be necessary for achieving the positive, beneficial, physical, and mental outcomes of Physical Education.
Psychometric properties of a Serbian version of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory X-2
Authors: Jakšić Damjan , Trbojević Jocić Jovana , Maričić Stefan , Miçooğulları • Bülent Okan
Published: December 2020

Given that anxiety is a significant individual disposition that affects sports performance, this study aimed to verify the latent variables obtained by the State – Trait Anxiety Inventory X-2, and to compare the obtained factor solutions with the proposed model of latent variables. The second aim refers to the presentation of the results of the questionnaire State – Trait Anxiety Inventory X-2 answered by Serbian male and female handball players. The research was conducted on a sample of 170 respondents, 99 male and 71 female handball players, aged 14 to 39 years (average age = 21.9) with an average handball playing career of 9.39 years. Towards the end of 2019, the respondents filled in the above-mentioned questionnaire used to assess anxiety as a personality trait. Exploratory factor analysis with certain modifications of the algorithm was applied to determine accurately latent space. The overall analysis was performed using the R statistical package. Four factors were selected based on the conducted factor analysis of the latent space of the questionnaire. Ten, five, three and two items are projected on the first, second, third and fourth factor respectively. Since internal reliability of the fourth factor was 0.394 it was excluded from further consideration and interpretation. The achieved scores on four separate factors show that Serbian male and female handball players achieve average results on the first (Presence of Trait anxiety) and the third factor (Absence of proactivity), while they achieve scores above the average on the second factor (Positive affect). In order to examine the sex differences between the examined variables, a one-way analysis of variance was performed. The findings show that there is no statistically significant difference on all three factors between the scores achieved by male and female handball players. A statistically significant difference between handball players of different competitive ranks appeared only on the Positive affect factor between the top athletes and the athletes in the second league (p = .04).
The process of dialogue in education: origins and possibilities
Authors: Slobodianiuk Olha
Published: December 2020

The article addresses the definition of the essential features of the process of dialogue of education. The analysis of the educational process has shown the need not only for the improvement of teaching technology, the introduction of interactive methods, etc. The article emphasizes that modern education needs a rethinking of the dialogue. It is noted that the process of formation of the personality of a future specialist in the process of education involves a holistic transformation of the educational process: not only the change of the content and structure of the educational material but also the creation of situations of professional and personal self-determination. The essence of the concept of «dialogue», «dialogue in education», is outlined through the prism of philosophical concepts that extend the understanding of its application. It is substantiated as a method of dialogue in education directed, first of all, to the creation of a specific educational dialogical environment. The dialogic form of learning involves the transformation of action from a monologue closed at the level of professional reliance on goals and external in relation to the student's learning activities in conjunction with the student's cognitive activity. Analyzed the concept of «educational dialogue», which is very common in the literature and noted that use partially reveals the very essence of dialogue. It is substantiated why the educational dialogue makes it impossible to translate knowledge through personal experience and meanings, restricting the resources of personality development. The educational dialogue in modern education is the content and form of knowledge. And the formation of a single educational space, which today is a recognized obvious, is realized through an educational dialogue. The educational dialogue is defined as the innovative space of the subject-subject interaction, space where knowledge of the saturation of personal meanings, is integrated through personal experience. It is believed that the educational dialogue is the integrator of culture and values, the existence of education in general.
Becoming of the gender identity of senior teens in the value dimension of personality
Authors: Chip Ruslana
Published: December 2020

In the article we deals with the theoretical analysis of the problem of the formation of gender identity of senior teenagers in the value dimension of the personality. We defined the concept of the «gender identity of older teenagers» as an integrative personal entity, which includes the system of cognitive representations, value attitudes and interactions of the articles and reflects their subjective position in the adoption, assimilation and reproduction of models of the sexual behavior in the field of the traditional and egalitarian cultures. In the article we theoretically substantiated and empirically studied the psychological peculiarities of the relationship between the feminine and masculine construct of the gender identity and values as the motivational core of the personality at the levels of normative ideals and individual priorities. We proved that the value structures of girls and boys of the senior adolescence at the levels of normative ideals and individual priorities are characterized by consistency and incompatible existence, which testifies to the existence of a value conflict. We established that the feminine-masculine construct of gender identity is reflected in the ambivalent content of values at both levels, which testifies about the traditional and egalitarian orientations of the investigators and confirms the presence of senior teenagers at the stage of search, value self-determination, the choice that is crucial for the formation of gender identity in the period mature personality.
Making The Men and the Boys
Authors: Connell Raewyn
Published: December 2020

This essay discusses the intellectual and political context in which The Men and the Boys was written, the author’s research trajectory leading to the book, its concern with practical issues of change in masculinities and gender relations, the new directions in its intellectual offerings, and the way it dealt with boyhood as a field of studies.
Becoming a Super-Masculine “Cool Guy”
Authors: Messerschmidt James W.
Published: December 2020

In this article the author builds on the arguments articulated by Raewyn Connell in her seminal work The Men and the Boys (2000) by summarizing and analyzing a case study of an adolescent boy who was identified at school as a “wimp” and who eventually engaged in sexual violence. Such subordinated boys rarely are—if at all—discussed in childhood education, sociology, and feminist literatures on violence. The synopsis reveals the interrelationship among in-school bullying, reflexivity, embodiment, and the social construction of dominant and hegemonic masculinities through the commission of adolescent sexual violence. The analysis demonstrates the continued relevance of Connell’s work, and the author builds on and expands on Connell’s formulation through, in particular, an examination of reflexivity, dominant masculinities, different types of hegemonic masculinities, and intersectionality.
The Peer Group’s Agency in a Brazilian School
Authors: Toledo Cinthia Torres , Carvalho Marília Pinto de
Published: December 2020

Black working-class boys are the group with the most significant difficulties in their schooling process. In dialogue with Raewyn Connell, we seek to analyze how the collective conceptions of peer groups have influenced the school engagement of Brazilian boys. We conducted an ethnographic research with students around the age of 14 at an urban state school in the periphery of the city of São Paulo. We analyzed the hierarchization process between two groups of boys, demonstrating the existence of a collective notion of masculinity that works against engagement with the school. Well-known to the Anglophone academic literature, this association is rather uncommon in the Brazilian literature. We have therefore attempted to describe and analyze here the challenges faced by Black working-class Brazilian boys to establish more positive educational trajectories.
Macro-anatomical investigations of the Dalmatian pelicans (Pelecanus crispus) liver
Authors: İLGÜN Ramazan , ÖZÜDOĞRU Zekeriya
Published: December 2020

In this study, it was aimed to examine the macro-anatomical structure of the Dalmatian pelicans liver, which is one of the water birds. The macro-anatomical structure of the liver of three adult (3 female) Dalmatian pelicans found dead in ponds and reeds by villagers between 2015 and 2019 and brought to the Veterinary Faculty Application and Research Center was observed. By dissecting the cavum abdominis of the Dalmatian pelicans, the macro-anatomical structure of the liver and its lobes were revealed. Inspected parts were photographed. The liver of the Dalmatian pelican was topographically located on the dorsal of the cavum abdominis, with 3/4 protruding to the right and 1/4 to the left. It was determined that the liver consists of two lobes as lobus hepatis dexter and lobus hepatis sinister. There were impressions on the visceral face. A prominent incisura interlobaris was found between the lobes of the liver. Vesica biliaris were detected. In conclusions, important findings about the anatomical features of the liver structure were obtained in the study. It has been observed that the Dalmatian pelican has significant differences in liver structure. Macro-anatomically, it was determined that they have close similarities with other bird species.
Generative augmentation to improve lung nodules detection in resource-limited settings
Authors: Gusarova Nataliya , Lobantsev Artem , Vatian Aleksandra , Klochrov Anton , Kabyshev Maxim , Shalyto Anatoly , Tatarinova Anna , Treshkur Tatiana , Li Min
Published: December 2020

Introduction: Lung cancer is one of the most formidable cancers. The use of neural networks technologies in its diagnostics is promising, but the datasets collected from real clinical practice cannot cover a variety of lung cancer manifestations.  Purpose: Assessment of the possibility of improving the classification of pulmonary nodules by means of generative augmentation of available datasets under resource constraints. Methods: We used part of LIDC-IDRI dataset,  the StyleGAN architecture for generating artificial lung nodules and the VGG11 model as a classifier. We generated pulmonary nodules using the proposed pipeline and invited four  experts to visually evaluate them. We formed four experimental datasets with different types of augmentation, including use of synthesized data, and we compared the effectiveness of the classification performed by the VGG11 network when training for each dataset. Results: 10 generated nodules in each group of characteristics were presented for assessment. In all cases, positive expert assessments were obtained with a Fleiss's kappa coefficient k = 0.6–0.9. We got the best values of ROCAUC=0.9604 and PRAUC=0.9625 with the proposed approach of a generative augmentation. Discussion: The obtained efficience metrics are superior to the baseline  results obtained using comparably small training datasets, and slightly less than the best results achieved using much more powerful computational resources. So, we have shown that one can effectively use for augmenting an unbalanced dataset a combination of StyleGAN and VGG11, which does not require large computing resources as well as a large initial dataset for training.
Concerning the Dating of A. Fet’s Portrait Photo by M. B. Tulinov
Authors:   Library of the Academy of Sciences, Kuz’mina I. A.
Published: December 2020

The article explores the copies of Fet’s photograph made by M. B. Tulinov and kept in the archives of the Institute of Russian Literature, specifying their dating through the references to the letters of the poet’s relatives and other sources
«About His Poems… as about Something Extraneous»: Fet’s Poetry in His Memoirs "The Early Years of My Life"
Authors:   Institute of Russian Literature (the Pushkin House), Russian Academy of Sciences, Grodetskaya A. G.
Published: December 2020

The article introduces the complete text of A. А. Fet’s 1891 response to the circular letter from the Petersburg editor and publisher M. M. Lederle, who was collecting data for his book "Russian People on the Best Books for Reading" (1895). Through the analysis of the letter and of the general social situation of the time, the author suggests that Fet was opposed to Lederle’s project, while the poet’s letter should be regarded as one of his latest public statements.
Archpriest Avvakum as a Preacher (Honoring his 400th Anniversary)
Authors:   Institute of Russian Literature (the Pushkin House), Russian Academy of Sciences, Ponyrko N. V.
Published: December 2020

The article discusses the part of the literary heritage of Archpriest Avvakum that relates to the preaching genre. The content of Avvakum’s Teachings, included in the Book of Conversations and the Book of Interpretations is subjected to research analysis. As a prerequisite for the writer’s preaching work, Avvakum’s oral teaching activities of the pre-Pustozersk period of his life are outlined. It is shown that the style of Avvakum’s preaching writings was influenced by four types of verbal elements, him being equally immersed in all of them until the end of his days: the style of the Holy Scriptures, the style of the liturgical texts and liturgical hymnography, the style of the Old Russian bookish language and the style of the Russian spoken language with its characteristic «vernacular» flow. The bold combination of these four elements, manifested primarily in the genre of free sermon, turns Avvakum into a highly innovative writer.
Towards improving the quality of teaching and learning of STEM subjects in rural post-colonial Zimbabwe
Authors: Kadziya Lizias , Ndebele Clever
Published: December 2020

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ARCHITECTURAL COPIES AND IMITATIONS OF HISTORICAL CULTURAL STYLES IN TOURISM INDUSTRY
Authors:   Altai State Pedagogical University, Ananeva Yulia , Zharkova Anastasia ,   Polzunov Altai State Technical University
Published: December 2020

The paper considers factors of increased popularity of making replications of architectural objects found world-known monuments of historical and cultural heritage that attract constant tourists' interest. In witness of their views, the authors point out on many cases in Russian and foreign practices when copies of erected constructions gained international fame in varying degrees of accuracy embody bright features of architectural traditions of one or another culture, its compositional methods, artistic styles and motifs. Also, the paper briefly describes major tendencies of copying architectural examples of traditional cultures within the frames of infrastructural development of Russian touristic sites, discloses key arguments of supporters and opponents of this trend line in the touristic sector.
ON SKILLS SET OF AN APPLICATION ARTIST IN ENVIRONMENT OF A NEW SOCIAL DEMAND
Authors:   Altai State Institute of Culture, Shokorova Larisa
Published: December 2020

The paper outlines the author’s view on problems in teaching of application artists in the modern Russian higher education caused by today’s social, cultural and economic conditions and challenges. Reasons for unpreparedness of graduates of institutions of higher education to independent creative labor are called. A circle of knowledge and skills that are fundamental for a professional application artist-to-be are named in the article. It is shown that widened knowledge of visual skillfulness, technical aesthetics, methods and technologies of materials handling as well as developed artistic thinking and imagination help to create new images of the reality. Also, the paper reveals ways of building students’ professionally significant skills that are consists in wake-up task-oriented cognitive activities through life drawing, copying examples of folk art.
SONG TRADITIONS OF REBRIKHINSKII DISTRICT, ALTAI KRAI (RUSSIA) AND ITS PRESERVATION IN EDUCATIONAL TRAINING OF PEOPLE'S CHOIR CONDUCTORS
Authors:   Altai State Institute of Culture, Yagovets Natalia
Published: December 2020

The paper briefly describes some local peculiarities of song folklore of Russians from Rebrikha and Voronikha villages of Rebrikhinskii district (Altai Krai, Siberian federal district, Russia). Musical, stylistic, performing specifics of Russian people's songs collected by the author in ethnographic fieldworks done in 1994 and 1997 are analyzed. The author's experience in studying and preservation of Russian singing traditions and examples of Russian song folklore in the conditions of educational process run in Altai State Institute of Culture (Barnaul, Altai Krai, Russia) within the frames of program “Folk Singing Art” is described. On the author's opinion, acquaintance of students with ethnographic fieldwork materials under learning special subjects will help to develop their cultural erudition which is considered as an important condition for supplying high quality of people's choir conductors' educational training.
FEATURES OF CONTENT AND EXPLOITATION OF GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM “MUSEUM NETWORK OF ALTAI KRAI” (ALTAI KRAI, RUSSIA)
Authors:   Altai State Institute of Culture, Rygalova Maria
Published: December 2020

The article outlines key results of a two-year (2018–2020) project supported by Russian Fund of Basic Research (Moscow, Russia), aimed at creation of open geographical information system (web-GIS) that reflects key characteristics of institutions included in the museum network of Altai Krai (Russia). The author of the article (head of the project) express her own view on synthesis of the newest GIS-technologies, multimedia system, and technologies of Internet-mapping that will open a brand new stage in practice of visualizing data converted into subject maps and web-GIS free for simple Internet users. Widening the Internet audience who can get an access to detailed data on museum network of Altai Krai within the frame of the project will stimulate the growth of research activities in museology, will give a boost to touristic interest to reach collections of Altai Museums, will join a number of sources that meet the professional information needs of museum Russian community.
“Collective Consciousness” as a Factor of Maintaining the Social Order in Russian Village Community
Authors:   Altai State Agrarian University, Artamonova Tatiana
Published: December 2020

The article considers concept “village community” (in Russian pronunciation it sounds like “mir”) which uses by Russian scholarly literature for naming traditional for a historical Russia's selfgovernmental rural community that has its own specific cultural, day-to-day, and economic mode of life. Wide sense field of the concept includes semantic set that reflects a Russian peasant's key ideas of perfect moral ideal, the author describes it as “collective consciousness”. Russian village community kept the discipline and social order within itself independently through influencing on its members' individual moral attitudes. On the author's opinion, moral principles of village community can be considered as example of collective ethics, where industriousness is recognized as the the core value.