For the occasion of the symposium, we added a third time span, represented by the papers of several of our invited lecturers: the encounter with prehistory. Within the project, case studies were focused, on the one hand, on the discovery of the new continent named America, and on the other hand, on the contemporary period of great displacements of populations. These formulations are based on the Lund school model of cultural semiotics, which, to a greater or lesser extent, forms the backdrop of the papers written by the original project members and also by most of the others authors. In this project such perspectives were problematized in terms of cultural semiotics, which means that the notion of the “other” or the “foreign” in cultural encounters was studied with regard to an “Ego-culture” (the Homeworld), which, while building a model of its own culture, often itself starts out making a distinction within the field of foreign elements (the Alienworld) between an “Alter-culture” of relative high value and/or good communicational standing, and an “Alius-culture” with less (or no) value and/or outside the range of what can be mutually communicated. Yet there has been very little systematic research so far into such pictorially transmitted cultural encounters. This is still true today, when the meeting of cultures has become an iterative occurrence of everyday life. From a European point of view, knowledge of other cultures expanded considerably in the sixteenth century, being as much conveyed by pictorial narratives as by verbal ones. Human encounters constitute a central issue of the human sciences. It was also the title given to a symposium organized by that same project on December 7 The aim of the MaTUs project, as well as of the associated symposium, was to study the encounter between different cultures, as conveyed by different semiotic means, privileging pictures, which have customarily been neglected. P.S.“The Making of Them and Us” (MaTUs) was the name of a research project at Lund University which took place between the years 20, involving scholars from the Departments of Cognitive Semiotics and the History of Ideas, as well as the School of Architecture. In writing my post, I’m recalling the joy he was sharing in how well received the postmark was embraced when presenting it. I’m hoping by sharing this idea it will be of help for you doing something similar, at least adding to your toolkit of creative ideas.Īlso, I would be remiss if I did not thank an AnchoredScraps email subscriber for emailing me months ago about doing something similar for celebrating a big milestone date in their family. I’m sending off for the Lincoln Highway Association Pictorial Postmark with a Congratulations card celebrating the arrival of a dear PEO girlfriend’s news of the arrival today of their first grandson earlier this morning! On the outside of the envelope, I’ll be putting a cachet with the baby’s name and date too. Lincoln Highway Association Conference StationĪs we wrap up, here’s the rest of the story. It winds its way over 3,000 miles between New York City and San Francisco.“ “The lincoln highway was the first transcontinental road for automobiles in the United States, dedicated in 1913. Their conference is underway June 18-21, 2019 in Rock Springs, WY.įurthermore, I’m including this Lincoln Highway Association link, “Celebrating America’s first cross-country roadway”. Next, in today’s USPS Postal Bulletin 22522, it includes listing the Lincoln Highway Association Pictorial Postmark. Thirdly, the creativity of celebrating milestone dates using Pictorial Postmarks affords us the ability to send a card off for the postmark date with the celebratory card! Lincoln Highway Association Pictorial Postmark Lincoln Highway Association image, this is a clickable image to their site. Second, in my case, I’m fortunately finding a Pictorial Postmark for today – hooray! I’ll have more on the motivation for wanting to do so at the end of my post. We are Celebrating Milestone Dates, specifically today’s date of June 20, 2019, with the Lincoln Highway Association Pictorial Postmark.įirst, I’m sharing a creative approach in case you are wanting to ‘go back’ and celebrate a milestone date.
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