ICV 27 - Speaker 42: Theun Okkerse

  The 42nd speaker was Theun Okkerse with the paper entitled The obverse/reverse paradox: reading flags differs from reading text.

Okkerse gave a brilliant paper about a new way to view and describe directionality on flags.  Why do we think the "obverse" is attached to the pole on the left?  How does this differ across cultures?  Such issues were dis cussed with delight.

(additional contribution from Ted Kaye)

ICV 27 - Speaker 41: Aleksandr Hribovsek

Hribovsek's paper was entitled The New Association Flag and the Flags of the Officers (Herald Society of Slovenia).


Hribovsek and his colleagues described the new flags of the SlovenIan society and it's offices, in the wake of their selection as hosts for the IVC of 2021.

ICV 27 - Speaker 40: Rob Raeside

Raeside's paper was entitled Sub-National Flags of Canada.



Raeside gave a super talk on the provincial/territorial flags of Canada.  Great detail on their evolution in and around the Maple Leaf Flag was demonstrated.


(additional contribution from Ted Kaye)

ICV 27 - Speaker 39: Attila Istvan Szekeres

His paper was entitled The Evolution of the Szekeler Flag in the Last Four Centuries.

Szekeres gave a history of the flags of Szekeler Land, an ethnic-Hungarian enclave in Romania.



(additional contribution from Ted Kaye)

ICV 27 - Speaker 38: Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg

Muijzenberg's paper was entitled Five Rings to Bring them All: a Presentation of the Olympic Flag.


Peter presented his detective work about the Olympic presentation flag and it's use over time.  He also noted that it has disappeared.


(additional contribution from Ted Kaye)

ICV 27 - Speaker 37: Xinfeng Zhao

The title of his paper was The Flags of Gengis Khan.  

Zhao gave a great talk about the flags used by Gengis Khan, which is considered a part of China's cultural heritage.

(additional contribution from Ted Kaye)

ICV 27- Speaker 36: Nicolas Hugot

 

Hugot gave us an overview of the vexillological considerations found in the constitutions of the world.  His paper was entitled A Journey Through Constitutional Vexillology.

Interestingly many constitutions make no mention of the national flag.  Often it is that older nations already have a prescribed flag, and it is over looked.  However, younger nations often have clear descriptions of the flag, and a few even provide a graphic illustration.

Hugot pointed out that in the US, only in the first, now abandoned, constitution—The Articles of Confederation— mentions the US flag.