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European identity has often been regarded as a potential source of common identification for the peoples of Europe. As such, it has been compared with other supranational identities and deemed to fail. This article proposes a different perception of European identity, as a cultural convergence and individual identification rather than the nineteenth-century conception of national identity. It scrutinises two failed attempts to create supranational identities and explores the potential for a European approximation. The article concludes that student exchange programmes and labour mobility contribute to a broader understanding of the shared elements of European cultures and that multilin-gualism could be an effective surrogate for a common language.

Structural Analysis and Safety Assessment of a Historic Hydraulic Structure in Egypt -- Stabilization and Strengthening Proposals for the Ancient Serapeum at Saqqara Using Advanced Composite Materials -- Trends of Contemporary Arts in Innovative Interior Architecture Design of Cultural Spaces -- Why does Revenge challenge conservators more than Avaton? -- Quest for Latent Habitats -- Travel Literature Illustrations and Topography and Their Role in Documenting the Islamic Arabic identification and the geopolitical alterations of Jerusalem city -- The Deep Ground: A Fourth Layer in Creative Cities that Represents Silent Identities -- Historic Urban Landscapes and Archaeological Sites: Perspectives and Directions -- Redeveloping the Historic Urban Ensemble: The Case of the King Abdulaziz Historic Centre, ArRiyadh Saudi Arabia -- The Influence of Public Art in Developing Chinese Urban Public Space: Current Trends and Future Directions -- Reviving the Historical Hajj Route in Old Jeddah.

Intro -- Series Editor Preface -- Scientific Committee -- Preface -- Contents -- Preserving Historical Architecture -- 1 Structural Analysis and Safety Assessment of a Historic Hydraulic Structure in Egypt -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Structure Description -- 3 Field Investigation and Material Testing -- 4 Structural Analysis -- 4.1 Approaches for Numerical Modeling and Nonlinear Analysis -- 4.2 Finite Element Mesh -- 4.3 Material Properties -- 4.4 Loads and Load Cases -- 4.5 Nonlinear Analysis Parameters -- 5 Numerical Results -- 6 Conclusions -- References -- 2 Stabilization of the Ancient Serapeum at Saqqara-Strengthening Proposals Using Advanced Composite Materials -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Historical Background and Description -- 3 The Restoration Project -- 4 Problem Statement -- 5 Structural Strengthening Solutions for the Serapeum Using FRP Systems -- 5.1 First Alternative: Using CFRP Strips -- 5.2 Second Alternative: Using FRP Sheets -- 5.3 Third Alternative: Using GFRP Grids -- 5.4 Fourth Alternative: Using FRP Structural Sections -- 6 Structural Analysis -- 7 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 3 Trends of Contemporary Art in Innovative Interior Architecture Design of Cultural Spaces -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Themes and New Ideas -- 2.1 Activity Graphics -- 2.2 Photographic Images -- 3 Elements of Art -- 4 Contemporary Art and Trends (Contemporary Trends in Art | the Canadian Encyclopedia, n.d.) -- 4.1 Trends of Contemporary Art -- 4.1.1 Trend of Conceptual Art (Modern Movements and Styles, Conceptual Art, n.d.) -- 4.1.2 Trend of Environmental Art (Cultural Center Jean Marie Tjibaou-Data, Photographs and Plans-WikiArquitectura, 1998) -- 4.1.3 Trend of Minimalism Art (Stewart, 2018) -- 4.1.4 Trend of Performance Art (Appleton, 1996) -- 4.1.5 Trend of Technology Art -- 4.1.6 Trend of Installation Art.

The topic has an ambition to uncover the primordial motives of human creativity. Through a deep introspection into one's own inner self, it explores the ability of materia - it's visual expression, demonstrates it's "status quo".

Geographies of Identity: Narrative Forms, Feminist Futures explores identity and American culture through hybrid, prose work by women, and expands the strategies of cultural poetics practices into the study of innovative narrative writing. Informed by Judith Butler, Homi Bhabha, Harryette Mullen, Julia Kristeva, and others, this project further considers feminist identity politics, race, and ethnicity as cultural content in and through poetic and non/narrative forms. The texts reflected on here explore literal and figurative landscapes, linguistic and cultural geographies, sexual borders, and spatial topographies. Ultimately, they offer non-prescriptive models that go beyond expectations for narrative forms, and create textual webs that reflect the diverse realities of multi-ethnic, multi-oriented, multi-linguistic cultural experiences.

Readings of Gertrude Stein's A Geographical History of America, Renee Gladman's Juice, Pamela Lu's Pamela: A Novel, Claudia Rankine's Don't Let Me Be Lonely, Juliana Spahr's The Transformation, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée, Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera, and Layli Long Soldier's WHEREAS show how alternatively narrative modes of writing can expand access to representation, means of identification, and subjective agency, and point to horizons of possibility for new futures. These texts critique essentializing practices in which subjects are defined by specific identity categories, and offer complicated, contextualized, and historical understandings of identity formation through the textual weaving of form and content.

Front Matter -- Front Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table Of Contents -- Contents -- Introduction -- Jewish Responses to Modernity -- Being Jewish and .... -- Jewish Religious, Ethnic,and National Identities: Convergences and Conflicts -- Arthur Ruppin Revisited: The Jews of Today, 1904-1994 -- A Tradition of Invention: Family and Educational Institutions among Contemporary Traditionalizing Jews -- National Contexts, Eastern EuropeanImmigrants, and Jewish Identity: A Comparative Analysis -- European and North American Variations -- British Jews or Britons of the Jewish Persuasion? The Religious Constraints of Civic Freedom -- Reluctant Cosmopolitans: The Impact of Continentalism, Multi culturalism, and Globalization on Jewish Identity in Canada -- From Commandment to Persuasion: Probing the "Hard" Secularism of American Jewry -- Family Economy/Family Relations: The Development of American Jewish Ethnicity in the Early Twentieth Century -- Regional Variations in the United States -- Inventing Jewish Identity in California: Shlomo Bardin, Zionism, and the Brandeis Camp Institute -- Jewishness in New York: Exception or the Rule? -- The Israel Difference -- From Individuality to Identity: Directionsin the Thought of J. B. Soloveitchik and Eliezer Schweid -- Patterns of Jewish Identity Among Israeli Youth and Implications for Teaching Jewish Texts -- A Social Constructivist Approach to Jewish Identity -- Jewish and Other National and Ethnic Identities of Israeli Jews -- Back Matter -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.

Eugenia Kim's The Calligrapher's Daughter (2009) is a well-received East Asian novel about a Korean Christian, Najin's encounter with western culture. As an aristocratic woman, she is expected to uphold Korean tradition. However, as Najin realises that she is culturally marginalised by her father and the Korean traditional society mainly due to her gender, she picks up a foreign culture introduced to her, western culture. This move is extremely significant because after Najin driven by cultural marginalisation to embrace western culture, her cultural practices are no longer the same with traditional Korean women. This important turn of the novel has not been explored by scholars extensively. Thus, this study aims to depart from the cultural marginalisation faced by Najin. Furthermore, due to the fact that cultural identity formation is highly influenced by culture, there is a need to look into the changes of Najin's cultural identity as she incorporates western culture into her Korean traditional culture. By investigating the changes of Najin's cultural identity throughout the novel, this study finds that Najin has transformed from a nameless girl without an identity into an independent woman with the help of western education.