Translating “My Japanese Fan” and “Eletelephony” by Laura E. Richards into Hebrew: Challenges and Considerations by Barak Avirbach 

“…Translating this ambiguity into Hebrew is particularly challenging due to the marked gender distinctions in Hebrew grammar. The present essay explains how I maintained the poem’s inherent ambiguity by using a contextual approach, and how I managed to find an appropriate word for the blend “Eletelephony” in the Hebrew translation of the poem.…”
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Translators’ Personality in the Translations of D.O. Fagunwa’s Igbó Olódùmarè by Clement Odoje

“… The concept “Translation” has been examined by many scholars from different perspectives, but little attention has been devoted to the personalities of the translators in their translation works. The concern of this essay is to consider the personalities of the translators of D.O. …”
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Les biens communs vécus, une finalité non utilitaire by François Flahault

“…In this essay, the author discusses the notion of « lived common goods. » Lived common goods must answer three criteria : non-rivalry, non-exclusion, and third, being several persons is the condition for these goods to be produced and experienced. …”
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Mentoring While Black: A Testimony by Alford A. Young, Jr.

“…After briefly exploring my experiences with being mentored, this short essay highlights how I strive to manage the politics of graduate student mentoring. …”
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Science-fiction et fin du monde : l’apocalypse et les usages partiels du genre (compte-rendu multiple) by Irène Langlet

“…This review-essay first makes a report of Jean-Paul Engelibert’s Apocalypses sans royaume (2013) and Fabuler la fin du monde (2019), and Yannick Rumpala’s Hors des décombres du monde (2018). …”
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விவேக சிந்தாமணி கூறும் மானுட விழுமியங்கள் / Human Values in Viveka Cintamani by முனைவர் சு. சுசா / Dr. S. Susa

“…From trees, bushes, and vines, they learned the virtue of selflessness in supporting other creatures. This essay explores how humanity has derived many admirable qualities and enduring principles from the natural world. …”
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Medical students’ perceptions of improving physician satisfaction and patient care: a text network analysis approach by Young Gyu Kwon, Myeong Namgung, Song Hee Park, Mi Kyung Kim, Hyo Hyun Yoo, Chan Woong Kim

“…Methods The participants were 87 medical students who provided descriptive essay responses to two open-ended questions: (1) “What do you think could improve physicians’ job satisfaction?” …”
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'Sanctifying Sex': Exploring 'Indecent' Sexual Imagery in Pentecostal Liturgical Practices by Sarojini Nadar, Johnathan Jodamus

“…Drawing on Foucault's challenge to the repressive hypothesis, where he suggests that so-called repressed sexuality finds 'appropriate' outlets in spaces such as psychiatry and prostitution, this essay suggests a third outlet, namely Pentecostalism. …”
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On the trail of John Calvin's philosophy of language: a few notes on his commentary on Genesis 10 and 11 by N. T. van der Merwe

“… This essay attempts to discover John Calvin’s view on the nature and use of human language. …”
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Pas de provenance sans contexte by Peter Mark

“…If one of the aims of art history is to understand better the original meaning of the works studied, then an historical methodology is absolutely essential to the identification and interpretation of precolonial objects. This essay focuses on 16th- and 17th-century ivory carvings identified as ‘Luso-African’. …”
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Relíquias da casa velha: literatura e ditadura militar, 50 anos depois by Tânia Pellegrini

“…This essay tries to relate specific actions of the military regime in the field of culture to the effective consolidation of a cultural industry in Brazil. …”
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World Religions in the World by David Chidester

“…Yet, the notion of ‘world religions’ has been enthusiastically embraced by advocates of inclusive citizenship in democratic societies and by advocates of indigenous empowerment in postcolonial societies. This brief essay reviews the terms of engagement for critically reflecting on the various deployments of ‘world religions’ as a prelude to thinking about religion in the world. …”
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Race, Gender, and Empire: The Strange Career of Women’s Voting Rights in Wyoming by Virginia Scharff

“…Historians have long puzzled over the fact that the earliest victories for women’s voting rights in the United States were won in the American West, far from the most prominent centers of women’s political activism. This essay argues that women won the vote in Wyoming Territory in 1869 due to a convergence of the post-Civil War politics of Reconstruction and the dynamics of white supremacist settler colonialism. …”
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Que reste-t-il sur terre quand la sensibilité s’absente ? by Stéphane Collet 

“…Instead of suffering from the contempory landscape orientation, that is mainly seekink for efficency, this essay is an atttempt to depict the various ways that affect the making off for the landscape, in a way that increase more and more its objet dimension instead of a sensitive approach. …”
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In a historic environment, design with order an ostensible disorder by Emanuele Walter Angelico

“…The essay examines the relationship between the built and its regeneration. …”
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L’exposition comme médium. Quelques observations sur la cybernétisation de l’institution et de l’exposition by Yuk Hui, Adeena Mey

“…By going back to the critical moment of the cybernetisation of the museum and of the exhibition, this essay aims to put forward a thesis considering exhibition as medium. …”
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O deslocamento inaugural de Laços de família by Carlos Magno Gomes

“…This essay presents a reading of women’s place in the tales “Amor” and “Os laços de família”, from the collection Laços de família (1960), by Clarice Lispector. …”
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The Black Ecstatic by Desirée de Jesús

“…Critically lauded as one of 2020’s best films, Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock is an intimate look at black joy during a fraught period of high unemployment and the state-sanctioned criminalization of racialized communities in early 1980s Britain. My video essay ‘The Black Ecstatic’ concentrates on a sequence in this musical and explores how attending to sound enables us to think across generations of Black diasporic dreaming, striving, believing, and resisting bodies.…”
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Self-destruction of three-dimensional modern paintings caused by untypical materials – finding conservation solutions by Katarzyna Mikstal

“…The aim of this article is to indicate the relation between matter and an idea within a work of art – three-dimensional painting which involves untypical and undurable techniques. The essay introduces the problem of retaining the idea throughout the proper preserving of the substance while taking considerable care of its authenticity and complying with the rules of restoration ethical code. …”
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What Ever Happened to Modernism? de Gabriel Josipovici by Stephen Mitchelmore

“…In addition to tracing the book’s themes through Josipovici’s earlier critical works, this essay contrasts its reception with a précis and critical commentary of the book’s argument with emphasis on summarising its key themes: the disenchantment of the world, the inward debate of authority, the elimination of choice, and the imitation of an action.…”
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