George Eliot and Islamic Culture by Dallel Chenni

“…This essay is the first of a series which explores George Eliot's perception of Islam at a time when many Victorian thinkers vigorously debated the definition, origins and specificities of Islamic culture. …”
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Koncepcja patriotyzmu krytycznego jako punkt odniesienia polskiej polityki historycznej by Katarzyna Głowacka

“… THE CONCEPT OF „CRITICAL PATRIOTISM” AS A BENCHMARK FOR POLISH POLITICS OF MEMORY: PARLIAMENTARY DISCOURSE ON THE KATYN MASSACRES AND THE GENOCIDE IN VOLHYNIA The article focuses on the idea of “critical patriotism”, expressed mainly in the prominent essay Two fatherlands, two patriotisms published in the early 1980s by Jan Józef Lipski. …”
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La fille en boîte : naissance d’une perversion au Japon by Agnès Giard

“…In 1972, Shibusawa Tatsuhiko (1928-1987), translator of Georges Bataille and Marquis de Sade, publishes an essay – “Introduction to collections of girls” (Shôjo korekushon josetsu) – expanding the idea according to which girls, being objects by definition, arouse in men the desire to make a collection of them, i.e. to own several specimens of girls and preserve them in boxes. « More the individuality of a woman is restricted within the limits of her sole existence, more she is deprived of words, more she becomes nothing but a fragment of object, more man’s libido burns with a pale and burning flame », writes Shibusawa. …”
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İNSAN DOĞASI ÜZERİNE by Halilrahman Açar

“…This essay attempts to bring a new approach into clarifying human nature from a different philosophical point of view. …”
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Oor die teologiese inhoud van die Belydenis van Belhar by D. J. Smit

“… The essay argues that the theological content is indeed the most important contribution of Reformed confessional documents, but that the theological content can only be understood against the specific historical, which most often means socio-political, circumstances in which these confessions were originally adopted. …”
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Cataloging minerals, part 2: Re-imagining the catalog as a first step toward confronting extractionist legacies by Carrie Robbins, Selby Hearth

“…Minerals are uniquely tied to colonialism, labor, and environment; however, those relationships are historically not included in mineral catalogs – an omission that limits curators ability to respond to mineral histories. This essay re-imagines mineral cataloging practices that could provide space for recontextualization efforts: restoring historical, cultural, and environmental context to minerals whose extractions systematically stripped away those relationships. …”
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La revalorización del medievo en la estética masónica: Inglaterra y Escocia (siglos XIX y XX) by David Martín López

“…This essay reflects, from a multidisciplinary and holistic perspective, how the medievalism interacts with the aesthetics of Freemasonry from its origins to 20th century, as a group with a supranational identity, principally in Great Britain – England and Scotland. …”
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Cooked Air by Elizabeth Galvez

“…Through an examination of ASHRAE Standard 62.2, this essay asks why is it that, as ventilation processes become increasingly measurable, there is an equal tendency to reverse awareness in relation to the human sensation, when the standard itself underlines the reality of both phenomenal and intellectual knowledge towards air quality assessment. …”
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Eduquer le désir : Foucault, Freud et les sexualités impériales by Ann Stoler

“…In this essay, I am interested in two problems: the ways in which the language of Freud has entrenched itself in the general field of colonial studies, and the tangled coexistence of Freud and Foucault, more specifically, in analyses of colonial racism. …”
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Simulation-based learning and digital tools. A trial for Pharmacy Services by Fabrizio Bracco, Maria Carola Morozzo della Rocca, Federica Delprino, Silvia Pregaglia

“… This paper focuses, amidst a collective desire to re-appropriate sociality and a focus on the use of digital and ‘phygital’ practices to promote inclusion and diminish the human impact on the planet, on the choice of hybrid, physical or virtual modes of interaction as a function of punctual rather than generalised needs to foster a conscious and sustained digital transition in university education. The essay deals with the simulation method as an established tool in learning medical disciplines, declining it in an unprecedented scenario such as pharmaceuticals and experimenting with its digitisation. …”
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Phonological and Sociolinguistic Challenges of Translating Yorùbá Play, and Game Songs to Singable English for Children by Bolanle O. Sogunro

“…To investigate the translation problems involved and proffer solutions, this essay analyses five randomly selected Yoruba songs and seven of their available English translations from online sources and an unpublished manuscript, using sociolinguistic translation theory and the analytical framework of Franzon’s song translation choices. …”
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Nuove esplorazioni verbovisive. Forme e applicazioni di scrittura visuale negli artefatti contemporanei by Ludovica Polo

“…With the beginning of the 21st century and digitalization, verbo-visuality has indeed found fertile ground in the concepts of multimedia, design hybridism, and in the visual potential of digital typefaces. This essay aims to explore and highlight the contemporary directions of the word-image dualism, developed both through the use of analog tools - as for some forms of asemic writing - and, mostly, through the applications of new technologies - including e-poetry, variable fonts, and machine learning applied to typography.…”
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Cataloging minerals, part 1: The categories of colonialism and extraction by Selby Hearth, Carrie Robbins

“…Yet those connections are not recorded in traditional mineral catalogs, which treat specimens as divorced from context. This essay examines the roots of those omissions, and situates mineral cataloging in the larger body of literature on knowledge organization systems and power. …”
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Rhythm, contagion, "cosmic race” by Lorena Grigoletto

“…The aesthetic notion of rhythm, as well as shifting the discourse on mimesis from the visual to the acoustic-emotional dimension, nevertheless presents the characteristics and risks of what Scheler calls “unipathy” or contagion and acquires a particularly important significance when considered as the theoretical premise of the famous Vasconcelian essay The Cosmic Race (1925). This article reconstructs the link between the notions of rhythm, contagion and “cosmic race” to reflect on the question of otherness, on the mimetic-rhythmic processes of the individual and socio-political body, and on the risk of the “desymbolisation” of thought that such a process perhaps conceals. …”
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A Darker Shade of Pale: Webster’s Winter Whiteness by Annaliese CONNOLLY, Lisa HOPKINS

“…This essay explores the politics of the colour scheme in John Webster’s tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi. …”
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Ecology and digital technologies. Small-scale architecture as a place of connections by Massimo Perriccioli, Roberto Ruggiero, Michael Salka

“…Starting from the relationships between digital technologies and environmental culture, the essay aims to outline the contours of the new ecological dimension of architectural design as a place of multiple and interacting connections in which we can critically resolve the dichotomy between nature and culture. …”
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Sur les ailes du vautour. Genre, violence et « résistance » dans un récit nahua de voyage à Chiknâujtipan, le monde des morts (Mexique) by Dominique Raby

“…On the wings of the vulture : gender, violence, and « resistance » in a Nahua tale of a trip to Chiknâujtipan, the land of the dead (Mexico). This essay analyzes four versions of a contemporary Nahua Orpheus tale (Mexico), inherited from a pre-Hispanic myth and colonial exempla, to underline how the intersection of gender and economic occupation influences the message and morality given to the tale by the storytellers. …”
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İNSAN VE DOĞA İLİŞKİSİ ÜZERİNE by Kubilay Aysevener

“…This essay surveys the present position of relation between human beings and nature with respect to the effect of tecnology uses on human life and nature. …”
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Il Palio di San Michele di Bastia (Umbria): un nuovo modello festivo by Fiorella Giacalone

“…Analyzing some festive models, the essay reflects on new perspectives for the study of the festival, with an emphasis on new categories of festival in relation to the territorial identity. …”
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Life on board ship and cultural intimacy. Notes from the Central Mediterranean by Jasmine Iozzelli

“…In this essay, I offer reflections that emerged from my ethnographic research on board search and rescue ships in the Central Mediterranean between 2019 and 2021. …”
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