Food for thought: Family Entrepreneurship in four questions by Kathleen Randerson

“… Family Entrepreneurship is a growing field of study. The purpose of this essay is to relay the momentum to academics, practitioners, and society. …”
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American Schools of Interdisciplinarity: History and Literature Programs and Their Early Twentieth-Century Traditions by Hélène Cottet

“…Interdisciplinary study, because it runs counter to the dominant culture of specialization and professionalization upheld within the modern research university, is often presented as an innovative and experimental renegotiation of an outdated organization of knowledge. This essay qualifies such claims about the forward-looking ambitions of interdisciplinarity by examining the institutional history and traditions which they tend to obscure. …”
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The Role of Artisans in the Circumcision Festival of 1675 During the Reign of Sultan Mehmed IV by M. Fatih Torun, Nalan Turna

“…Drawing from seventeenth- century official and non-official sources concerning the festival, this essay focuses mainly on the role of the artisans. …”
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The Death of American Studies by Simon J. Bronner

“…Dorson’s landmark address “The Birth of American Studies” in Warsaw on the occasion of forty years since the start of the groundbreaking Harvard program in American Studies, this essay questions whether American Studies in the forty years afterwards suffered a fatal malaise. …”
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Corridoi di connessioni. Rinselvatichire l'ambiente, ripristinare relazioni by Lia Zola

“…My essay deals with the attempts acted by beekeepers, who engage in a process of introduction of spontaneous herbs and plants in order to feed their bees, of “rewildening” and “repopulating” landscapes suffering from monocropping and excessive use of pesticides. …”
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Introduction: Touching the Wounds by M. Therese Lysaught

“…The paradigm shift toward the wounds of the world as a privileged _locus theologicus_ reverberates throughout this issue of the _Journal of Moral Theology_. Each essay takes as its starting point for analysis and theological development the particularities of different wounds that are simultaneously social, bodily, and ecclesial. …”
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Ontological Sovereignty: Black Justifications for Violent Resistance to Slavery, 1500-1900 by Dalitso Ruwe

“…This essay focuses on claims to justify self-defense for African liberty.…”
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L’artifice fait rire, a moins qu’il ne fasse pleurer by Jean-Jacques Lecercle

“…The essay starts from the romantic attempt at a poetry of nature devoid of artifice. …”
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The Life Span of Large Historical Databases by Jan Kok

“…Large historical databases, although intended to last for a long time, can become obsolete for a variety of reasons. In this essay these reasons are explored and used for a 'health check' of the Historical Sample of the Netherlands (HSN). …”
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Analisis Metode Cosine Similarity Pada Aplikasi Ujian Online Otomatis (Studi Kasus JTI POLINEMA) by Eka Larasati Amalia, Angelita Justien Jumadi, Irsyad Arif Mashudi, Dimas Wahyu Wibowo

“…However, in this online essay exam, it takes a long time to correct answers if done manually. …”
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Pandemic Fictions: Covid-19 and the Cultures of Dystopia by Sean Mark

“…The essay argues that it is the loss of impulses and discourses that challenge the status quo that marks the truly dystopian aspect of the pandemic. …”
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Slowness and Renewed Perception: Revisiting Douglas Gordon’s 24 Hour Psycho (1993) with Don DeLillo’s Point Omega (2010) by Françoise Sammarcelli

“…After presenting these various works and the intersemiotic reflexion they activate in DeLillo’s novel, the essay examines the deceptive simplicity of this brief text, in terms of syntax and diegetic structure (including the film-related framing device). …”
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'Jami Chadiba Nahin' (We Will Not Leave this Land): Materiality and Imagination in Indigenous Land Ethics by Ananya Mishra

“…This is a reflective essay on materiality and imagination of Indigenous land ethics as expressed in global Indigenous writing.  …”
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Militanza, “impegno” e critica sociale dell’antropologia sulla base di intense etnografie. Le intenzioni trasformative e i giudizi politici dell’antropologo by Antonino Colajanni

“…The essay is devoted to an historical analysis of the progressive engagement of anthropological studies on the contemporary world with its difficult and conflictual situations. …”
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Is Truth to Post-Truth what Modernism Is to Postmodernism? Heidegger, the Humanities, and the Demise of Common-Sense by Klaus Benesch

“…This essay argues that there is no such thing as post-truth. …”
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The Critical Survey of Evolution in Common Persian Slang Lexicography “By Emphasizing on Twelve Common Persian Slang Lexicons” by Ghodsie Rezvanian, Siyavash Haghjoo, Leila Darvish Ali Pour Astaneh

“…The territory of this essay is describing and criticizing twelve main lexicon in Persian slang from 60 lexicons by the usage of practical linguistics science. …”
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A Translation and Literary Analysis of Adebayo Faleti’s Poem: Ojo Ilayefun” by Ayodele Solomon Oyewale

“…The essay employs the hermeneutics model to undertake a literary analysis of the poem, which serves as the primary data for the study. …”
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Poetry in the Age of New Sound Technology: Mallarmé to Tennyson by Francis O’Gorman

“…The essay concludes with Alfred Tennyson's life-long interest in the meanings of sound. …”
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Using literature to improve the moral imagination by Stephen Kekoa Miller

“…The primary aim of this essay will be to look at a few arguments for how to improve Moral Imagination. …”
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The Existentialist Contradiction in David Foster Wallace: How Wallace’s Sociology Illuminates the Contradiction in Wallace’s Ethics by Paolo Pitari

“…This essay argues that Wallace’s non-fiction presents a sociology that constitutes the foundation of Wallace’s literary project. …”
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