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.

ICV 27 - Speaker 35: Carlos Alberto Morales-Ramirez

 

The title of his paper was Zoogeography Vexillology of North America: Exploring Endemic in Sub-National Flags.

Using flags to tech about animals and endangered species was an original paper.  Flags can be used in many ways, certainly education is a valuable aspect often overlooked by vexillologists.

ICV 27 - Speaker 34: Roman Klimes

 

The title of his paper was Symbols of the Bohemian Olympic Committee in 1912.

Klimes explored how Bohemia (a region in the former Czechoslovakia) created national symbols and used them in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. 

(additional contribution from Ted Kaye)

IVC 27 - Speaker 33: Alan Raullet

The title of his paper was The Third Way of Raising Flags in Brittany.

Raullet examined how in Britainy some flags are designed to hang downward from a horizontal pole, carried in a parade over the shoulder, as a third way to fly a flag.

(additional contribution from Ted Kaye)

ICV 27 - Speaker 32: Tony Burton

The title of Tony's paper was Budgie Smuggling and Flag Mayhem in Malaysia.

Burton gave an entertaining talk about an incident in Malaysia where nine over-exuberant Australian sports fans celebrated by stripping down to Speedos depicting the Malaysian national flag and created an international incident resulting in their arrest.

Although Malaysia is next door to Australia and Thailand, it is a predominantly Muslim nation with strict dress codes.  For instance women visiting this country are obliged to wear a head scarf, Muslim or not.  Thus you can imagine the consequences of a nearly nude Speedo flag of Malaysia display might incur.  

(additional contribution from Ted Kaye)

ICV 27 - Speaker 31: Zeljko Heimer

Zeljko's paper was entitled Historical Origins of Contemporary Croatian Municipal flags, originally given on August 11, 2017. 

Heimer showed how current Croatian Municipalsities are regulated by strict codes.  However if a municipality can show a connection to a historical flag, an exception can be made, allowing certain histoical flags to bend the strict code.

(Additional contribution by Ted Kaye)