Orgasm. On the flux and flow of a term through times and spaces by Christina Goestl

“…My video essay tells the story of the construction of the term “orgasm” throughout Western history. …”
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Les notions de fūkei, de ba et de fukkō au cœur d’un projet collectif artistique by Catherine Grout

“…This essay shows how a specific understanding of landscape (fūkei) as an agricultural landscape associated with the collective imagination, memory, and the activities related to vegetable farming enabled artist Taho Ritsuko to engage survivors of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, which struck Osaka-Kōbe in 1995, in a movement of reconstruction and renewal (fukkō). …”
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Aestheticism and Decoration: At Home with Michael Field by Ana Parejo Vadillo

“…This expressive, living aestheticism is at the core of this essay.…”
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„I Siegfried cítí zimu a vši…“ aneb Obrazy spojenců a nepřátel v paměti vojáků druhého čs. zahraničního odboje by Pavel Mücke

“…In this essay the author tries to conclude one aspect of his Ph.D. dissertation which is in historical way analysing and interpreting different types of memoirs and interviews of Czechoslovak soldiers from WW II. …”
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Theatrical Tectonics: The Mediating Agent for a Contesting Practice by Gevork Hartoonian

“…In an attempt to log the thematic of a contested practice, this essay will re-map the recent history of contemporary architecture. …”
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Lost to Presence: The Entanglements of Writing, Protestant Christianity, and Empire in the 19th-Century Southern Africa by Sepetla Molapo

“… This essay takes interest in a dialectical relationship between writing as affir-mation and writing as a system of codification. …”
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An ‘extraordinary change’ in the Climate: The Transformative Power of Impressionism in George Moore’s Art Criticism by Fabienne Gaspari

“…Oscar Wilde’s essay ‘The Decay of Lying’ introduces the idea of the transformative power of Impressionist painting, ‘this extraordinary change that has taken place in the climate of London’. …”
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Admirable Alterity on the Frontier: French Women’s Agency in the Hollywood Western (1931-1980) by Lara Cox

“…These broadly positive representations of the Frenchwoman as agent and potential ally to other women would last until 1980 and Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate. This essay suggests that the commercial failure of this film seems likely to have had a hand in ending the presence of Frenchwomen in the Hollywood Western—Frenchness becoming synonymous with the financially unviable.…”
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Values of the Land: Kinships as Climate Solutions in ‘The Honorable Harvest’ and ‘Land as Pedagogy.’ by Abigail Morton-Wilcox

“…This article explores the land-based relationships and kinships within the essays ‘The Honorable Harvest’ by Potawatomi scholar Robin Wall Kimmerer and the essay ‘Land as Pedagogy’ by Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar Leanne Betasamosake Simpson in the context of Whyte’s kinship time theory. …”
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Insolvent Local Government: German Approaches to Prevention by Thomas Duve, Wolfgang Drechsler

“…In order to do so, the current essay sets out to investigate, on an empirical basis, how Germany has so far (i.e., before the crash) dealt with the issue of municipal insolvency. …”
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Community Media 2.0: A Report from the ‘Co-Creative Communities’ Forum by Edmond Maura

“…Drawing on forum transcripts and follow-up research the essay describes some of the key trends shaping how community-interest media organisations and independent producers are working with participatory digital culture, and with what success.…”
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Oscar Wilde and la critique impressionniste by Richard Hibbitt

“…It shows how Wilde’s views of criticism in the essays collected in Intentions are prefigured by Anatole France and Jules Lemaître, and how the dialogic discussion of art in ‘The Critic as Artist’ itself prefigures a real-life debate between France and the conservative critic Ferdinand Brunetière, who rejected the ‘subjective’ approach as ‘impressionist criticism’. …”
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C. McGinn. Why Is It Good to Be Alive? / trans. from Engl. R. L. Kochnev by R. L. Kochnev

“…The essay raises the problem of the value of life. For living organisms like us, it appears to be an unconditionally good. …”
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Gendered Species of Yoruba Plants: An Ecofeminist Perspective by Adeola Adijat Faleye

“…In addition, evidence reveals that within the Yorùbá belief system, some cultural practices are evident in support of the ecofeminist thought spanning various contexts in politics, warfare, or conflict resolutions, as well as Yorùbá Òrìṣà cults. Therefore, this essay seeks to explore the feminine relevance and significance in some contexts of herb or plant growth and their nature. …”
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The Notions of Fūkei, Ba, and Fukkō in a Community Art Project by Catherine Grout

“…This essay shows how a specific understanding of landscape (fūkei) as an agricultural landscape associated with the collective imagination, memory, and the activities related to vegetable farming enabled artist Taho Ritsuko to engage survivors of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, which struck Osaka-Kōbe in 1995, in a movement of reconstruction and renewal (fukkō). …”
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L’esthétique au prisme de la trans‑caribéanité : Perspectives décoloniales sur l’art jamaïcain et martiniquais by Frédéric Lefrançois

“…It is a contention of this essay to answer this question by correlating the evolution of two Caribbean artistic movements with similar aspirations: the Atelier 45, born in Martinique, and the Jamaican Art Movement which appeared in Jamaica.…”
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Presence and Absence in Margaret Atwood’s Dearly by Pilar Sánchez-Calle

“…Drawing on critical studies of elegy in contemporary English-language poetry and on the role of elegy in Atwood’s poetry, this essay analyses the elegiac dimension of Dearly (2020), Atwood’s most recent poetry collection. …”
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The Enduring Conflict in Somalia: Analyzing the Dynamics of Instability and the Path to Sustainable Peace by Zoia Malik

“… Somalia has faced prolonged instability for over three decades, ranking among the least peaceful nations in the Global Peace Index 2024. This essay examines the origins and dynamics of the Somali conflict, analyzing its historical, political, economic, and social dimensions. …”
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Practice to Theory: Making Connections Between Assessment and Evaluation Through a Reflective Practice Assignment in the Bachelor of Education Program by Terri Jackson

“…Through this reflective essay, I share my instructional decisions, how I enacted them, and reflect forward. …”
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Dissemination Models for Communication of Cultural Heritage: ‘di sotto in su’ Perspective Domes in Andrea Pozzo’s Work by Leonardo Baglioni, Marta Salvatore

“…This type of experimentation concerns perspective, in particular, the perspectives of fake hemispherical domes defined ‘di sotto in su’ (from below) painted by Andrea Pozzo between the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries. The present essay explores the relationship between the true form of the dome and its perspective, with particular reference to the case of St. …”
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