Christian gacaca and Official gacaca in Post-genocide Rwanda. by Philippe Denis

“…Lesser known is the Christian gacaca, a conflict resolution mechanism, also inspired by the traditional gacaca, which was established during the same period by the Catholic Church of Rwanda as part of the synodal process leading to the celebration of the 2000 Year Jubilee. This essay describes, on the basis of archival documents and oral testimonies, the genesis of the Christian gacaca and examines how it related to the official gacaca. …”
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The Rise of the “We” Narrator in Modern American Fiction by Ruth Maxey

“…And in light of the formal challenges it poses to reader as well as writer, why have contemporary works of fiction that are told collectively often been critically and commercially successful? In this essay, I will attempt to answer such questions, examining how US writers from William Faulkner to Jeffrey Eugenides, and Kate Walbert to Julie Otsuka have used the collective narrator in short stories and longer fiction and finally reflecting upon the use of “we” in recent American political discourse.…”
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Inscrire les fantômes dans les villes by Adolfo Vera

“…Pour ce faire, il nous faudra essayer d’établir les rapports entre trace, archive, inscription, images techniques et innervations des corps. …”
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Innovation as moral victory: Henry Blackwell and sugar by Hélène Quanquin

“…L’objectif affiché était d’essayer de concurrencer le sucre de cane issu du travail esclavagiste et de miner ainsi les fondements économiques de l’esclavage. …”
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Religious Freedom and the Law: A Reality or Pipe Dream for Prisoners in South Africa? by H. Puleng Motlalekgosi

“…Through an analytic design of change over time, this essay seeks to conduct an analysis of prisoners' freedom of religion in South Africa. …”
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Ìgbélárugẹ Èdè: Akinwumi Isola’s Model for Promoting African Languages by Akinloye Ojo

“…We set out to achieve two goals in this essay; first contributing to the ongoing discussions on African mother tongues, their vital roles in African literatures while characterizing pointers on proficiency and performance. …”
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Inside Digital Dinah Craik: Feminist Pedagogy, Cognitive Apprenticeship, and the TEI by Kailey Fukushima, Karen Bourrier

“…In this essay, we describe our collaborative work as students and teachers on a TEI edition of Dinah Mulock Craik’s correspondence. …”
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“Rise like two angels in the night:” Sexualized Violence against Queers in American Film by Ralph J. Poole

“…This essay discusses ways both mainstream Hollywood films and independent cinema have addressed sexualized violence against queers. …”
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Escenas de sororidad: teatro, performance y redes de mujeres en la prensa brasileña by María Alejandra Aguilar  Dornelles

“…This essay explores the presence of Cancros sociais (1865), by Maria Angélica Ribeiro (1829-1880) in Rio de Janeiro’s press, focusing particularly on the indications of the existence of a network of women linked to theatre and literature. …”
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Louis H. Sullivan: that Object He Became by Dan Snyder

“…Through a close reading of his writings with particular attention paid to his often-encrypted references to Walt Whitman, together with a close reading of selected sources from his library, this essay interrogates his understanding. Sensitive to the question of ‘queering’, it focuses on his conception of fused identities and its effects on gender and sexuality. …”
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Finding and keeping a mentor: a year of reflection by Sarah Cottrell-Cumber

“…I had the privilege to learn from Dr Sharon Henry, the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) vice president, over the past year as the AAST Associate Membership Mentoring Scholarship recipient. This essay serves as a reflection on my year and was presented at the 2024 AAST Annual Meeting. …”
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On Wale Ogunyemi’s Translation of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart into Yoruba, Ìgbésí Ayé Okonkwo: A ‘within-to-within’ Approach of its Challenges by Gabriel Ayoola

“… This essay examines the proverbs, and other wise-sayings as used in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart vis-à-vis the Ogunyemi’s Yoruba translations of the novel, Ìgbésí Ayé Okonkwo. …”
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Transcendentalist Women in Conversation: Margaret Fuller, Sophia Ripley, and “Woman” by Alice de Galzain

“…This essay focuses on Sophia Ripley’s 1841 article “Woman,” which was published in the Dial two years before Margaret Fuller’s “The Great Lawsuit. …”
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‘Dolls in Agony’: Vernon Lee in Southern Spain by Leire Barrera-Medrano

“…Lee’s open repulsion to the Catholic country and especially to the Spanish representations of the Virgin Mary would prompt her to write ‘The Virgin of the Seven Daggers’, the most consciously Decadent of all her works: a sacrilegious tale in which Catholic and Moorish Spain are intertwined to explore notions of spiritual and moral perversity. This essay thus examines the relatively unnoticed visit that Lee made to Southern Spain and suggests that, besides its disturbing character, the grotesque Spanish Catholicism that Lee found in 1889 resulted in fruitful productivity: it contributed to shape Lee’s pacifist aesthetic conscience and awakened her imagination.…”
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Le Flaubert de Charles Du Bos by Jacques Neefs

“…The connection between his essay “Sur le milieu intérieur chez Flaubert”, written in 1921, and extracts from his Journal, from 1923 to 1937, the comparisons with Gogol, Thomas Hardy, Tolstoy, Baudelaire, and Henry James that run through the writings of Du Bos, allow us to follow what he terms “the spiritual experience” of a materiality encompassed in the conquest of the triple demand of the Beautiful, the Living, the Truth. …”
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De digitale brieveneditie als basis voor de studie van het tijdschrift Van Nu en Straks by Bert Van Raemdonck

“…The time has come to create a digital corpus of letters in which researchers can find all sources they need to study Van Nu en Straks. In this essay I discuss some advantages and disadvantages to digital scholarly editions alongside some essential conditions which should be fulfilled to carry out such a digital project properly.…”
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Fear of an Islamic Planet? Intermedial Exchange and the Rhetoric of Islamophobia by Stefan L. Brandt

“…Orientalist stereotypes have informed Hollywood blockbusters and television series as well as acclaimed novels such as Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner (2003), John Updike’s Terrorist (2006), and Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), not to mention Donald Trump’s speeches and writings on “radical Islamic terrorism.” My essay argues that contemporary public discourse in the U.S. addresses an array of viral images, portraying Muslims as essentially “alien” to mainstream American values. …”
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Resilient Design. A synoptic framework by Claudio Germak

“…It has learned to plan for what can place the system in crisis, developing collaborative actions to adapt to the internal causes such as exceeding the limits of development, migration, ageing, as well as mitigation regarding those external causes, such as natural disasters, even if these often depend on the first causes. This essay is intended to provide a wide panorama, almost a synoptic framework, of the contribution that Design can offer society in terms of ‘resistance’ and ‘resilience’, also considering critical events as an opportunity to evolve its orientations and practices.…”
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TO EMPTY THE SEA WITH A THIMBLE: READERLY EXPLOITS, DISCOVERIES AND LOSSES by Piotr Nowak

“…On the one hand, there will be the minority of those who read ceaselessly, even obsessively; on the other - those who never touch books unless planning to make a purchase. This essay examines the consequences of non-reading for culture. …”
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Entre humour noir et réflexivité : écouter la voix de Moss dans No Country for Old Men by Françoise Sammarcelli

“…This essay examines the voice of Llewelyn Moss, a man of action and hunter who becomes a prey. …”
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