Lexical compositionality has received some attention in historical linguistics, linguistic typology, and cognitive linguistics, but so far studies have mostly concentrated on the morphological complexity of individual words and languages, while the fact that words form families which interact during language change and language use has been…[Read more]

Topic: The memory landscape of the Cowpastures in memorials, monuments, and murals.
Lecture by Dr Ian Willis OAM.
Abstract
All around the community in the Macarthur region are cultural artefacts that are representations of the settlercolonial narrative of the Cowpastures, which was variously a colonial frontier, a government reserve, and a…[Read more]

تهدف التربية بمفهومها الشامل إلى إكساب المتعلم المعرفة والخبرة والمهارة، وتهدف أيضا إلى تنمية ذاته وقدراته الشخصية وإعداده، لمواجهة مطالب الحياة في ظل التغيرات الاجتماعية والاقتصادية والفكرية الجديدة، كما تهدف إلى مساعدة المتعلم على تحقيق التوافق الشخصي والاجتماعي والصحة النفسية.
وإذا كانت المدرسة هي البيئة التي يتم فيها ومن خلالها تحقي…[Read more]

تعتبر هذه المقالة بمثابة مدخل نظري لموضوع التربية على المواطنة من خلال الإصلاح التربوي الجديد، الذي دشنه الميثاق الوطني للتربية والتكوين﴿2000﴾. وقد ركزت المقالة على تثمين وتعزيز إدماج ثقافة المواطنة في الحقل التعليمي، وترسيخ تلك الثقافة عبر التربية الشاملة، مع تأطير ذلك كله داخل فضاء ثقافي مجتمعي عقلاني. لكن هذا الهدف لن يتحقق إلا باعتماد فلسفة…[Read more]

هدفت هذه المقالة إلى إدماج ثقافة المواطنة وحقوق الإنسان كبيداغوجيا في الحقل التعليمي، وترسيخ تلك الثقافة عبر التربية الشاملة، مع تأطير ذلك كله داخل فضاء ثقافي مجتمعي عقلاني. لكن هذا الهدف لن يتحقق إلا باعتماد فلسفة تربوية تقوم على برامج ومناهج حية تستهدف ترسيخ قيم المواطنة والسلوك المدني وقيم حقوق الإنسان، يكون لها آثار إيجابية على الفرد والمجتمع…[Read more]

The Camden Historical Society has published a new anthology of the Camden History Journal. There are many stories of events and local personalities from the Camden area.

In 1964, the Campbelltown-Ingleburn News ran a banner headline on its front page, Symbol of Progress, over a story about opening a new council administration building as part of a proposed civic centre precinct in the town centre.
The newspaper headline expressed confidence in Campbelltown’s planned declaration as a satellite city by the state…[Read more]

This newspaper article examines the history of the teamsters that operated on the Yerranderie Road between the Yerranderie silver mines in the Burragorang Valley and the railhead at Camden NSW. The carriers’ teams of horses supported an ecology of farmers growing hay and corn for stock feed, blacksmiths at The Oaks and Camden, horse breeders, w…[Read more]

This blog post discusses the mid-century houses of the Camden NSW area that were built as part of the economic growth and development created by the Burragorang coalfields. These houses were built between the Second World War and the early 1970s, have a variety of residential architectural styles and are located south of the town centre, in…[Read more]

In the history of old Romanian painting, the icon of Saint John the Baptist with scenes from his life from Budești‑Josani occupies a very important place due to its exceptional artistic quality, as well as the Slavonic inscription with the master’s signature and date. The inscription, in a very poor state of preservation, has already been part…[Read more]

This study identified the icon of Virgin Moscovita and the icon of the Holy Mandylion, described in Konstantinos Dapontes’ writings, with the icon of the Virgin and the icon of the Holy Mandylion preserved in his family monastery Evangelistria in Skopelos island. We can now retrace the “biography”of these two artefacts, the history of their creat…[Read more]

La découverte d’une inscription slavonne dans le narthex de l’église du monastère de Râmeț (comté d’Alba) en 1966, sa relecture avec des moyens techniques spéciaux en 1978 et sa publication officielle en 1985 ont porté à l’attention des historiens le nom du peintre (Mihul du Criș-Blanc), le nom de l’évêque fondateur (archevêque Gélase),…[Read more]

In der wissenschaftlichen Übung wollen wir uns dem Thema der Visualisierung in der geisteswissenschaftlichen Forschung annähern. Dabei wollen wir uns genauer anschauen,
welche grundlegenden Techniken es in der Visualisierung von fünf verschiedenen Bereichen (Text, Raum, Sequenzen, Netzwerke und Quantitäten) gibt, und diese in jeweils zwe…[Read more]

This blog post tells the story behind the Camden Teamsters Memorial in John Street, Camden, NSW.
The memorial is a tribute to the teamsters, bullockies and carriage drivers who travelled the Yerranderie Road between the mining town of Yerranderie and Camden through the Burragorang Valley.
The memorial has a rear wheel from a flat-top wagon, a…[Read more]

This blog post gives an overview of the Camden Material and Colour Guide. The guide provides property owners of heritage buildings in the Camden Heritage Conservation Area with tips and hints on restoration and conservation of their houses. The guide provides colour schemes on building exteriors and interiors by housing styles between 1840 and…[Read more]

This blog post is about a spring festival in Camden, NSW, called Celebrate Camden.
The brainchild of Vicki Sutherland from the Camden Chamber of Commerce, it aimed to promote Camden as a viable tourist and shopping destination.
The festival had mixed success and was held in 1994 and 1995, to be replaced by the Cowpastures Bicentennial.

All around the community in the Macarthur region are cultural artefacts that are representations of the settler-colonial narrative of the Cowpastures, which was variously a colonial frontier, a government reserve, and a formal region.
Today, the material culture of the Cowpastures is hidden in plain sight and appears to have been ‘forgotten’ by…[Read more]

This is a preprint of the Conclusion to a book called A History of Camden Chinese Market Gardeners 1899-1993 edited by Ian Willis and others

Comprised of soft glacial cliffs and sandy beaches, the southeastern coastline of Ireland is dominated by unconsolidated Quaternary-aged sediments with fewer rock exposures than Ireland’s other coasts. Facing Britain across a rough sea, County Wexford has been prone to incursions from both political and environmental forces throughout history. T…[Read more]

In Camden, NSW, every November, the streets are ablaze with shades of purple. Walking around the town’s streets, you will see the current flush of purples, mauves, lilac and lavender along Argyle Street, Broughton Street, John Street and Macarthur Park. People are entranced by the magic of the town’s ‘sea of lavender’ as Peter Butler from…[Read more]