The responsible scholarly impulse is to historicize: those words were never intended for you, they signified something completely different in 600 B.C.E.
"Collecting Biennials" is just one part of an effort to historicize the Biennial on the occasion of its 75th anniversary.
Zionism is the dominant Israeli national narrative, and it's the job of academics to historicize any narrative.
Such examination is the work for the humanities, to historicize, to read cultural policy, to interrogate it.
Its goal was not to aestheticize history but to historicize art, and thereby subject its interpretation to moral scrutiny.
One student examined Bowles Hall to historicize masculinity, linking rearrangements of the men's dormitory to changing ideals of manhood.
His previous book, "Bloodlands," was an effort to historicize the Holocaust — to remove it from the stock black-and-white imagery, accompanied by minor-key cello music, in which it had come to reside, at least within the popular imagination.
You, and they, are, of course, rightly impatient with the attempts to historicize or argue away the horror, impatient with what you call "angelisme," the unreal readiness to seek out any explanation for evil save the obvious.
His previous book, "Bloodlands," was an effort to historicize the Holocaust to remove it from the stock black-and-white imagery, accompanied by minor-key cello music, in which it had come to reside, at least within the popular imagination.
The talks vanishing point is the Green Belt conservation project that materialized on the heels of the GDRs (East Germanys) collapse which this talk seeks to historicize.
It looked silly, he knew, but the hats helped him keep separate his two conflicting roles — first as a son still grieving for his father, second as a scholar trying to understand, to historicize, and, yes, to critique, as dispassionately as possible, his father's ideas.
