The section containing reviews of exhibitions informs us about five shows in 2006 and 2007. At the turn of 2006/2007 the Institute of Ethnography of the Moravian Museum in Brno prepared an exhibition titled The World Under the Glass; it was the first time the museum was able to show off its rich collection. It showed the transformations of wax from processing to the wide range of finished products and their different uses. Special attention was paid to little wax statues and objects under glass cover. The exhibition About the Work of Human Hands was compiled by the Wallachian Open-Air Museum in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm. It was devoted to handicrafts in the Wallachia and Těšín region. It connected presentation of historic handicrafts in the area at the turn of the 19th and the 20th centuries with introduction of contemporary craftsmen awarded the prestigious title Bearer of the Folk Craft tradition., The exhibition in Luhačovice, I’ve Lost My Little Apron, dealt with the traditional costume in Luhačovické Zálesí region. Collections assembled by the Václavík brothers in the first half of the 20th century were used - many of them had not been shown before. The exhibition Photo Koukal Uherský Ostroh was created through co-operation between the city of Uherský Ostroh and the Institute of Ethnography of the Moravian Museum in Brno. It tracked the thirty-year history of a local photographic studio. It is possible to identify changes in people’s clothing in the town as well as in the village thanks to the well-preserved studio and portrait production. The long period of time even allows us to see changes within one family or of one person. The exhibition For Czech Daughters in the Institute of Ethnography of the Moravian Museum in Brno introduced the history of the Ladies’ Educational Association Vesna. the exhibition shows different aspects of the association’s work, individual spheres of interest, personalities and other external collaborators involved in the association’s activities., and Abstrakt je společný pro 5 zpráv o výstavních akcích uvedených v oddílu Výstavy
An exhibition by the Museum of Moravian Slovakia in Uherské Hradiště Aj to sú maléři od boha samého. Lidoví malíři rodu Hánů z Blatnice pod Svatým Antonínkem (Oh, What Painters, Sent by God Himself: Folk Painters of Hána Family from Blatnice pod Svatým Antonínkem), documenting the production of folk painters, father and son, František and Josef Hána, was acknowledged in the year 2008 by Ethnographical society members as the exhibition of the
year. The exhibition, which was also exposed in Brno in 2008, was supplemented with a colour publication of the same title. Alena
Křížová reviewed the exhibition as well as the catalogue. As part of her contribution, Anna Oláhová introduced an exhibition entitled
Národopisnou kresbou (Ethnographical Drawing) which took place in 2007 at the Slovak National Museum, Martin. The exhibition took place on the occasion of PhDr. Štefan Mruškovič, CSc. anniversary.
It had opened an interesting perspective on the possibility of using documentary drawing in the field of ethnographical documentation. Further accounts include the review of Od kolébky po rakev aneb rodinné obyčeje a obřady v běhu lidského života (From the Cradle to the Coffin - Family Customs and Rituals in the Flow of Human Life)
by Vanda Vrlová, an exhibition displayed in Valašské Meziříčí in the division of the Museum of region of Wallachia; and Biedermeier - umění a kutura v českých zemích 1814-1848 (Biedermeier -art and culture in Czech Lands 1814-1848). and Tento abstrakt je společný pro všechny 4 zprávy o výstavách uvedené v oddílu Výstavy
The first exhibition review highlights the exhibition On St. Nicolas Day (Na svatého Mikuláše) opened by the Museum of South Eastern Moravia in Zlín in winter 2009-2010. The visitors were introduced to the St. Nicolas tradition in quite remote localities of Eastern Moravia - the South Wallachian Horní Lideč, Žlutava, eastern Haná, Karolín and contemporary Zlín. Very old traditional masks and characters have been preserved in the selected localities. From December 2009 until February 2010, the Jewish Museum in Prague organized an exhibition May God Let Him Grow: A Child’s Birth in the Culture and Customs of Bohemian and Moravian Jews (Nechť mu Bůh dá vyrůst. Narození dítěte v kultuře a zvycích českých a moravských Židů.). The author of the exhibition Dana Veselská presented via three-dimensional objects various aspects of preparation for the child’s birth, the actual birth and the first days of a new human being’s existence. Particular attention was paid to the collection of circumcision diapers. Processing of this collection has brought an interesting observation that floral motifs from the Slovacko area embroidery were an inspiration for embroided designs of these Jewish cloths., On the marking of 150th birth and 80th death anniversary of František Kretz (1859-1929), the Museum of Moravian Slovakia in Uherské Hradiště organized an ethnographical exhibition entitled Veteš nebo poklad? František Kretz a Slovácké museum (Junk or Treasure? František Kretz and the Museum of Moravian Slovakia) between 14 May and 20 September 2009. Its success above all rested in the presentation of original exhibits from the collection of F. Kretz, which are now deposited in the collection of the Museum of Moravian Slovakia. An exhibition Josef Šíma - painter and photographer (1859-1929) (Josef Šíma - kreslíř a fotograf (1859-1929)) in the Moravian Museum open since December 2009 until May 2010 presented an interesting person that dealt with documentation of traditional Moravian culture - a painter and photographer Josef Šíma. In the period of his life, he was able to make use of technology and apart from his painting work he also captured landscape realia with a photographic camera. Exhibition curator Helena Beránková conceived Šíma’s personality in a more complex way (as a photographer, painter and collector, thanks to personal correspondence it was also possible to introduce Šíma as a human being)., and Tento abstrakt je společný pro všechny 4 články uvedené v oddílu Výstavy
By providing the genuinely new „networked“ understanding of exile, this study aims to rewrite significantly the story of Czechoslovak political emigration and re-assess its functioning mostly by means of a tool so far ignored in this field: The Social Network Analysis. According to the dominant historiographical narrative, the Czechoslovak exile followed mostly political goals and was structured as an hierarchy with the Council of Free Czechoslovakia being the supreme body initially respected by most (though not by all) fractions within the exile movement across the globe. That is why the historical research, rather one-sidedly, focused upon the institutional history, biographies of political leaders and ideological debate within political parties in exile. The study argues that the traditional approach needs a substantial revision. Though initially designed as a state-like hierarchy with pyramidal decision-making procedures (with coordinating power vested in the Council of Free Czechoslovakia) the exile soon transformed itself into a horizontal and rather informal network of loosely interconnected and mutually collaborating units and individuals across the globe. The „network thesis“ is demonstrated upon the model analysis of František Váňa’s and Přemysl Pitter’s communication webs being part of the long-term research of Czechoslovak exile networks, 1948–1989.
Článek je věnován roli intersubjektivity ve filosofii Karla Jasperse. Autor se zaměřuje především na 3. kapitolu z Philosophie II, kde Jaspers podává nejpodrobnější výklad různých podob komunikace. Detailní rozbor základních způsobů komunikace, jež odpovídají různým úrovním lidského Já, zároveň umožňuje objasnit původ nedostatečnosti a selhávání, k nimž dochází v komunikaci, pokud se nepozvedla na úroveň existenciální komunikace. Zvláštní pozornost je věnována právě existenciální komunikaci a jejímu významu v procesu stávání se sebou. Autor zastává tezi, že zejména v pasážích osvětlujících závažné metafyzické důsledky, jež plynou ze selhávání v komunikaci, Jaspers rozvíjí implicitní polemiku s Martinem Heideggerem, v jehož analýzách autentického pobytu intersubjektivita nehraje žádnou roli. V závěru pak autor poukazuje na souvislosti mezi existenciální komunikací a mezní situací boje., The article focuses on the role of intersubjectivity in the philosophy of Karl Jaspers, concentrating above all on the third chapter of Philosophy, Vol. II in which Jaspers gives his most detailed exposition of the various forms of communication. At the same time, a detailed analysis of the basic modes of communication – which correspond to the different levels of the human self – facilitates our understanding the origin of the inadequacies and failures that occur in communication when it has not risen to the level of existential communication. Special attention is given to existential communication and its importance in the process of becoming oneself. The author argues that, especially in those passages that highlight the serious metaphysical consequences that follow from failures in communication, Jaspers is developing an implicit polemic with Martin Heidegger (in whose analyzes of authentic Dasein intersubjectivity played no role). In the conclusion, the author points out the connection between existential communication and the boundary situation of struggle., and Der vorliegende Artikel ist der Rolle der Intersubjektivität in der Philosophie Karl Jaspers’ gewidmet. Der Autor befasst sich insbesondere mit dem 3. Kapitel der Philosophie II, in dem Jaspers eine detaillierte Auslegung zu verschiedenen Formen der Kommunikation bietet. Die eingehende Analyse der grundlegenden Kommunikationsformen, die den unterschiedlichen Ebenen des menschlichen Ich entsprechen, ermöglicht gleichfalls die Klärung des Ursprungs von Unzulänglichkeit und Versagen, die in der Kommunikation auftreten, wenn diese nicht die Ebene der existenziellen Kommunikation erreicht. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit wird hier gerade der existenziellen Kommunikation und deren Bedeutung im Prozess der Selbstwerdung gewidmet. Der Autor argumentiert, dass Jaspers insbesondere in den Passagen, in denen die aus dem Versagen von Kommunikation sich ergebenden schwerwiegenden metaphysischen Folgen erläutert werden, eine implizite Polemik mit Martin Heidegger entwickelt, in dessen Analysen des authentischen Daseins die Intersubjektivität keine Rolle spielt. Abschließend verweist der Autor auf den Zusammenhang zwischen existenzieller Kommunikation und der Grenzsituation des Kampfes.
We consider the damped semilinear viscoelastic wave equation
\[ u^{\prime \prime } - \Delta u + \int ^t_0 h (t-\tau ) \div \lbrace a \nabla u(\tau ) \rbrace \mathrm{d}\tau + g(u^{\prime }) = 0 \quad \text{in}\hspace{5.0pt}\Omega \times (0,\infty ) \] with nonlocal boundary dissipation. The existence of global solutions is proved by means of the Faedo-Galerkin method and the uniform decay rate of the energy is obtained by following the perturbed energy method provided that the kernel of the memory decays exponentially.
In the paper, we obtain the existence of symmetric or monotone positive solutions and establish a corresponding iterative scheme for the equation $(\phi _p(u^{\prime }))^{\prime }+q(t)f(u)=0$, $0<t<1$, where $\phi _p(s):=|s|^{p-2}s$, $p>1$, subject to nonlinear boundary condition. The main tool is the monotone iterative technique. Here, the coefficient $q(t)$ may be singular at $t=0,1$.
We use the genus theory to prove the existence and multiplicity of solutions for the fractional p-Kirchhoff problem − [ M ( ∫ Q |u(x) − u(y)| p |x − y|N+ps dx dy) ]p−1 (−∆)s pu = λh(x, u) in Ω, u = 0 on ℝ N \ Ω, where Ω is an open bounded smooth domain of ℝ N , p > 1, N > ps with s ∈ (0, 1) fixed, Q = ℝ 2N \ (CΩ × CΩ), λ > 0 is a numerical parameter, M and h are continuous functions.
We use Brouwer degree to prove existence and multiplicity results for the solutions of some nonlinear second order difference equations with Dirichlet boundary conditions. We obtain in particular upper and lower solutions theorems, Ambrosetti-Prodi type results, and sharp existence conditions for nonlinearities which are bounded from below or from above.
We consider the boundary value problem involving the one dimensional pLaplacian, and establish the precise intervals of the parameter for the existence and nonexistence of solutions with prescribed numbers of zeros. Our argument is based on the shooting method together with the qualitative theory for half-linear differential equations.