The Art Requisitions by the French under Napoléon and the Detachment of Frescoes in Rome, with an Emphasis on Raphael by Cathleen Hoeniger

“…The restoration of Italian paintings at the Louvre, after their confiscation by Napoleon’s deputies, has received considerable attention; however, the concurrent preoccupation of the French in Rome with the detachment of frescoes has been little studied, even though the desire for Raphael’s art led some to plan the extraction of his Stanze frescoes. In this essay, the parallel practices of the transfer method on Raphael’s altarpieces in Paris and the detachment of frescoes by close followers of Raphael and Michelangelo in Rome will be explored in light of the innovations of the age in science and technology. …”
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Physical, digital, virtual, intangible. Research experiences in Museums by Massimiliano Lo Turco, Elisabetta Caterina Giovannini, Andrea Tomalini

“…Using consolidated taxonomies and redefining the digital tools to be innovatively applied to Cultural Assets, the essay describes some research experiences carried out over the last years. …”
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Occupy Waikīkī: pushing the borders of land, sea and story-telling in Kristiana Kahakauwila’s This is Paradise (2013) by Sylvie Largeaud-Ortega

“…This essay explores Kahakauwila’s short story This is Paradise from the angle of post- and decolonial studies and environmental humanities, and presents it as an ecofeminist and counterhegemonic Oceanian identitarian narrative. …”
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Design is Everywhere, But Nowhere in Patent Analytics by Taek-Kyun Shin, Jieun Kim

“…Through the prism of a patent professional, data analyst and designer, this photo essay demystifies the complexity of design patent data and sheds light on the underlying value of design as it features among a range of diverse innovation activities. …”
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“I knew a dog once—”: Laura Richards’s Literary Animals and the Poetics of Animacy by Verena Laschinger

“…A first scholarly engagement with Richards’s modernist experimenting, the essay reads “Eletelephony” as an imagetext in tandem with Marguerite Davis’s original illustration, linking the nonsense poem to the animated cartoon.…”
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Bolívar par l’image ou les travestissements de l’histoire by Frédérique Langue

“…The image of the hero appears to be an ideological reconstruction in the long term, from the Revolution of Independence to the present day, where Chávez appears to be the “Bolivar of the 20th/ 21st century”. So, this essay will attempt to decipher the instrumentalization of history through both an official and a visual mode, especially via the cinema, along with the backlash this has caused in a country deeply divided and scarred by the dictatorship.…”
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The Structural Changing Phases of Ifẹ̀ Festivals and Tradition Towards Economic Boost and Cultural Tourism by Adéọlá Adijat Fálẹ́yẹ

“…However, our research informs that a number of the official festival activities with the tones of its referred sacredness in Ilé-Ifè, which ̣ is the domain of data collection and subject of our analysis, are being restructured in outlook and content to boost the economic survival of the people; and for cultural tourism. Tis essay seeks to interrogate these structural reforms, with the mind of identifying improved areas of the age-long tradition, the philosophy of the festival, and the economic value added. …”
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Diaspora and Syncretism: Marriage Rites in Yorùbá Homeland and Abroad by Olanike Lawore

“…As Yorùbá people are found all over the globe, the marital rites are transferred from the original soil to the diaspora, the result of which is the syncretic practices that are associated with marital practices abroad. This essay therefore engages in a comparative exercise, identifying marital rites in the diaspora that have maintained close ties with homeland and those that have diverged from them. …”
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Yorùbá Films in Time Perspective: Past, Present, and Future by Ifeoluwa Theophilus Akinsola

“… This essay (re)views the development of Yoruba films according to the Yoruba traditional worldview about time: a term used synonymously with life, season or period, for it is not linear but cyclical, just as life, it is not straight. …”
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Abicht and Śniadecki: about a Turbulent Philosophical Dispute at the Imperial University of Vilnius in 19th century by Tomasz Kupś

“…In this paper I argue that it was Abicht and his Vilnius-based scholarly and teaching activities that were the direct cause of Śniadecki’s publication of the essay On Metaphysics in 1814, and indirectly also the trigger for all of Śniadecki’s later philosophical writings. …”
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The Needle and the Brush: A Victorian Drama by Pamela GERRISH NUNN

“…When the mid-Victorian women’s movement launched the Society of Female Artists in 1857, a figure of reference for many responding publicly to this move was needlework – a reference deployed rather to scoff at this innovation than to praise it. This essay explores the comparison thus made between needlework and fine artwork, analysing the tropes attached to both these fields in mid-Victorian discourse and their significance in the issues that made up the “woman question” of the period. …”
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Post-producing the modern – Guidelines for an energy development as an architectural transition by Giuseppe Marsala, Giulia Renda

“…From this perspective, the essay retraces contemporary architectural experiments in an energetic key performed on the structure of modern architecture, starting from the re-interpretation of its theoretical principles.   …”
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Beyond Crisis: Discernment in Decision-making for Sustainable Church Health by Hardiyan Triasmoroadi

“…By examining social discernment, Ignatian discernment, and contemplative artistic practice, the researcher proposes practical steps for implementation. Ultimately, this essay advocates for a comprehensive approach to discernment that not only addresses immediate crisis but also lays the groundwork for sustainable institutional health, trust, and peace within church communities. …”
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On reversibility and architectural temporarity in marginal contexts by Domenico Chizzoniti, Letizia Cattani, Monica Moscatelli

“…The essay puts forward experimental research carried out in emergency contexts and in developing countries with the study of temporary architecture of a health, cultural and social nature as a field of investigation. …”
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The Elephant in the Room: NAMUDNO, Shelby County, and Racially Polarized Voting by Richard L. Engstrom

“…It further found that protected minorities were vulnerable to dilutive elective schemes because of the pervasive presence of racially polarized voting (RPV) in those jurisdictions. This essay examines the extensive evidence of RPV relied upon by Congress but ignored by the Court majority and also the legal import of this evidence as identified in numerous briefs before the Court, also ignored by the majority.…”
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Antonio Gramsci e le avanguardie di inizio Novecento. Intersezioni con il pragmatismo italiano e europeo by Chiara Meta

“…This essay reconstructs a number of the historical-philosophical sources, extraneous to the tradition of Marxist thought, that came together to form the biography of the young Gramsci. …”
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The challenges of being an in-house AI ethicist and how to overcome them by Dafna Burema

“…Reflecting on my own experience working as an in-house AI ethicist at an academic institution, this essay discusses three challenges of the profession: ambiguous objectives, conflict of interest, and epistemological differences. …”
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Victim Recovery and Offender Desistance in Hate Crimes: Could Restorative Justice be of Help? by Chiara Perini

“…The essay intends to contribute to demonstrate how the use of restorative justice practices can help to achieve the objective of preventing and combating hate crimes, which is expressly mentioned in the EU Strategy on Victims’ Rights (2020-2025). …”
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Dark Aesthete: Gothic Elements in the Fiction of Walter Pater by Geoffrey Johnston Sadock

“…It should now be acknowledged that he is also a master of the Gothic, whose synthesis of the beautiful and the horrific invests his fiction with a delayed but unforgettable urgency.After reviewing Pater's status in recent scholarship and defining ‘Gothic,’ ‘Dark Aesthete’ considers the kinds and instances of Gothic writing in his short stories, Marius the Epicurean, and unfinished novel Gaston de Latour (1889, revised text 1995). The essay elucidates the absent, ghost-like father-surrogate whose ‘half-hostile’ attitude leads to the tragic death or suffering of a blameless son, thereby providing the intersection of autobiography and Gothic literary tradition in these texts.…”
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Le végétarisme dans l’Allemagne contemporaine et l’héritage de la Lebensreform by Anne-Marie Pailhès

“…It expresses itself through an enthusiasm for books like Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating animals or Karen Duve’s Anständig essen, which will be analyzed in this essay. Newspapers as well as the political party Die Grünen widely reflect this trend. …”
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