White Women in the 1960s Freedom Movement, From Memory to History: The writing of “Shiloh Witness,” a chapter in Deep in Our Hearts (2000) by Joan Browning

“…Focusing on the dialectical tension between memory and history, she discusses several questions ranging from the genesis of the book project to her regrets at censoring herself in anticipation of criticisms. The essay sheds new light on her personal experience of the Southern Civil Rights Movement—especially her participation in the Albany Freedom Ride in 1961, the role of religion in her commitment to the Movement, and her feelings about the movement’s evolution after 1964. …”
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“Back and Forth Between the Sea and the Mountain”: Negative Mobility and Transnationalism in Hualing Nieh’s Mulberry and Peach by Grazia Micheli

“…Through an analysis of Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China (1976/1998) by the Asian American writer Hualing Nieh, this essay focuses on the negative outcomes of coerced mobility and transnationalism. …”
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North, Iran-Contra, and the Doomsday Project: The Original Congressional Cover Up of Continuity-of-Government Planning by Peter Dale Scott

“…(One of the two Committee Chairs was Lee Hamilton, later co-chair of the similarly evasive 9/11 Commission Report).Recently I have written about the extraordinary power of the COG network Doomsday planners, or what CNN in 1991 described as a "shadow government...about which you know nothing." Returning to my 1989 essay, I see the essential but complex overlap between this Doomsday Committee and the Iran-Contra secret "junta" or cabal described by Theodore Draper and Senator Paul Sarbanes within the Reagan-Bush administration. …”
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Czy Muminki mogą zmienić współczesny świat? Na marginesie recenzji książki Hanny Dymel-Trzebiatowskiej Przechadzki po Dolinie Muminków. Perspektywa filozoficzno-literacka (2024)... by Dorota Michułka

“… This essay is an attempt at contextual interpretation of Hanna Dymel-Trzebiatowska’s book Przechadzki po Dolinie Muminków. …”
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Is Modernity Single and Universal?: Olaju and the Multilateral Modernity by Adeshina Afolayan

“… This essay confronts two orthodoxies at the heart of the modernity debate. …”
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A FEMININE OF NO ONE’S OWN IN CHARLOTTE TÁBUA RASA by Eider Madeiros, Letícia Simões Velloso Schuler, Mariana Pinheiro Ramalho, Hermano de França Rodrigues

“… This paper aims to essay an open and constructive dialogue between the very rupture that the trans female body evokes and the recent concept of “feminine of no one”, through an inductive approach that the latter could make it possible to be kept in a state of infiniteness, of openness, of incompleteness, of non-wholeness, the aspect that characterizes the surrounding and expressive territories of each one of the specific bodies that allow themselves to be situated more leaned onto the feminine. …”
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Insurrection and Integration: The Indian “Mutiny” of 1857 and the Theatrical Renegotiation of Ethnic Alterities by Marty Gould

“…For contemporary British observers, the Indian Mutiny of 1857 was not so much about India as it was about Britain. The following essay examines the culturally introspective nature of the “Mutiny plays” and their persistent exploration of British nationalism. …”
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ASIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE'S MIDTERM EXAMINATION MATERNAL INSTINCT DEPICTED IN VERENATAY'S BROKEN by Ruly Indra Darmawan

“… In this essay, I want to analyze how maternal instinct is depicted in one short story which has South East Asia as a setting of place because this maternal instinct has became one of the most debatable issues in feminist study until nowadays. …”
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Rhyme or Reason: Three Patterns of Poetic Interference in the British Crime Novel by Camille Fort-Cantoni

“…This essay shows how poetical elements may be integrated to a prose genre, the crime fiction narrative, and the perturbations they may generate. …”
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Arthur ainda vive? by Isadora Cristine Martins

“…Virginie Greene questions the pertinence of using the term “messianism” in the Middle Ages and argues that it cannot be used in the same sense as used by historians to refer to Modernity4.In this essay we try to withdraw the analysis from the courtly environments in which they were reproduced, through some selected chronicles, from a History from Below perspective, to understand who are the people waiting for Arthur’s return and whether this hope represents more than a speech constructed by the chroniclers.From a crossing between chronicles and archaeological studies, we try to map cults, traditions, and pilgrimages linked to Arthur that circulated through Great-Britain under the Norman rule. …”
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APPLIED ECOLOGY FOR IRRIGATION ENGINEERS by R. E. Regel, A. A. Fedotova, N. P. Goncharov

“…As an introductory article, we offer a brief essay on Regel’s scientific and organizational activities, which describes his role in the establishment of applied botany as a scientific discipline in Russia.It is supplemented by new archival documents.…”
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House Vision by Cathelijne Nuijsink

“…However, the intensification of neoliberal policies after a decade of severe economic crisis in the 1990s drove architects towards social involvement once again, initiating a housing trend based on sharing, renovation and re-use of the existing housing stock. This essay will highlight the work of the House Vision think-tank and full-scale building exhibitions – initiated in 2011 by Japanese designer and art director Kenya Hara – as one response to the socio-economic and political conditions after the neoliberal turn. …”
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Transcalar project of nature-based solutions for the 2030 Agenda. Innovations and interconnections by Roberta Ingaramo, Maicol Negrello, Lousineh Khachatourian Saradehi, Arin Khachatourian Saradehi

“… The essay offers a reinterpretation of nature-based solutions (NbS), viewing them not only as devices for the architectural design of urban space but also as highly efficient and cost-effective solutions capable of competing with other strategies for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals promoted by the 2030 Agenda. …”
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Toyin Falola@65 Conference: African Knowledge and Alternative Futures by Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

“…I shall use these encounters as pivots in exploring the significance of the conference in the body of this essay. …”
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C. McGinn. The concept of a person / trans. from Engl. A. V. Nekhaev by A. V. Nekhaev

“…The essay contains a critique of the metaphysical ways to use of the term ‘person’. …”
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Dylematy nauczania etyki w środowisku szkolnym by Grzegorz Stolarski

“…This essay is an metaethical reflection on the character of teaching ethics in school and academic realities of Poland, the aim is to show the type of ethics which is the best in achieving the syllabus and educational assumptions of the discipline. …”
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THE ROLE OF SMALL INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES IN RURAL WOMEN EMPLOYMENT: FARMIHAN RURAL DISTRICT – TAFRESH SMALL PROVINCE, IRAN by ZAHRA ARZJANI, KHADIJEH HOMAY SALEHI

“…The analytical-descriptive (case-study) methodology is used in this essay and the analysis of questionnaires-based data by the test of independence made by Chi- Square Distribution (X2). …”
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John Ruskin, William Morris and Walter Pater: From Nature to Musical Harmony in the Decorative Arts by Martine Lambert-Charbonnier

“…Pater’s celebration of music in The Renaissance as the ideal towards which all arts aspire, fostered the idea of interior design as a musical composition enhancing pure perception for the aesthetic mind. The essay examines to what extent aesthetic interiors show this ambiguity between the desire to re-discover natural beauty and truth and the retreat into aesthetic dreams.…”
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You Are Not Here: Sartre’s Phenomenological Ontology and the Architecture of Absence by Susan Herrington

“…These forms of consciousness are drawn from his major phenomenological studies regarding the imagination, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology (1943; 1956), The Imaginary (1940; 2004), and Critique of Dialectical Reason (1960; 1976). …”
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Les représentations filmiques de Marie Stuart– Une femme de pouvoir dans l’air du temps by Armel Dubois-Nayt

“…These cinematic representations are considered in the wider scope of Marian myth-making as it developed in the sixteenth century with the aim of showing that until recently cinema has merely harped on the tropes found in her early modern detractors and defenders. This essay then moves on to argue that despite this reproduction of dated opinions, Mary Queen of Scots in these three films is an icon for the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. …”
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