{"title":"Searching for a (New) Self-legitimation? How Three Belgian (State) Universities Celebrated Their Bicentenary in 2017","authors":"P. Dhondt","doi":"10.1515/9783110731378-018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110731378-018","url":null,"abstract":": In 2017, three universities in Belgium that had been established in 1817 by King William I of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands (in Ghent, Liège and Leuven), commemorated their bicentennial. The still existing Ghent University and University of Liège did so in a grandiose way. In Leuven, however, the celebration was limited to a modest workshop and its accompanying publication. By analysing the festivities at Ghent University in 2017 in a detailed way this contribution shows how the traditional elements of a university jubilee celebration gradually received a different interpretation. This introductory case study illustrates the aim of this contribution as a whole, namely to examine and discuss how the staging of university jubilees has changed under the pressure of social changes, how this was reflected in the use of ‘ celebratory mediality ’ , and how these different acts of performing the jubilee interacted with a process of self-le-gitimation. By reviewing the diverse output realised as part of these different celebrations (in Ghent, Liège and to a lesser extent Leuven), the chapter proves how these anniversaries have been used as an opportunity to respond to current challenges that the university is facing as an institution. The two central messages of both celebrating universities – Ghent and Liège – are reflected in most, if not all, of the initiatives that were unfolded on the occasion of the festivities: defending and protecting the university by emphasising its possible social relevance, and creating a larger (university) community by investing into the natural partnership between city and university.","PeriodicalId":443340,"journal":{"name":"Inszenierte Geschichte | Staging History","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130746160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Die Erfindung polytechnischer Jubiläen in der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts als „Verherrlichung einer großen und mächtigen Sache, einer urkräftigen Äußerung des Weltgeistes“","authors":"Anton F. Guhl","doi":"10.1515/9783110731378-005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110731378-005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":443340,"journal":{"name":"Inszenierte Geschichte | Staging History","volume":"130 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121399874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anniversaries of Institutions of Higher Education: The Status and Perspectives of Current Research","authors":"Anton F. Guhl, Gisela Hürlimann","doi":"10.1515/9783110731378-004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110731378-004","url":null,"abstract":"Anniversaries and days of commemoration are omnipresent. By now, hardly a year goes by in which there is no major event to be commemorated by a significant anniversary prompting larger and smaller retrospectives. For example, in the last several years, we have seen “major” anniversaries on the calendar to commemorate 75, 80, or 100 years passing since the beginning or end of the world wars, and 500 years since the publication of Luther’s theses. And this “merry-go-round of anniversaries” is not letting up.1 As we write these lines, Switzerland is celebrating 50 years of women’s suffrage on the federal level (1971), remembering how laborious this goal was to achieve, and 150 years have passed since the Lesser German Empire was founded in 1871; meanwhile, the 60 anniversary of the erection of the Berlin Wall is quickly approaching, and in May 2021, the first acts begin in preparation for the 70 anniversary of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, the head of state in the United Kingdom and 15 other countries.2 In the higher education landscape, too, there is one anniversary after another: In 2021, the universities in Bremen, Kassel and Mainz are celebrating roundnumbered anniversaries of their founding, whereas Aachen celebrated one in 2020, and Rostock and Hamburg had theirs in 2019. These commemorations have generated celebrations, worship services, performances, exhibitions, special commemorative postal stamps, catalogues of professors, and, last but not least, thousands of printed pages of historical materials. The celebrations for “150 Years of RWTH Aachen” largely took place online due to the Corona pandemic.3 Yet digital media had already begun to play a role in historical commemorative culture in the early 2000s, as examples from long-lost websites (or websites mothballed on old data-storage drives) show.4 The regret about canceled","PeriodicalId":443340,"journal":{"name":"Inszenierte Geschichte | Staging History","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126777854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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