Presentism, Empire, and Nineteenth-Century Music by Brian C. Thompson

“…As scholars and music historians, will the influence of presentism cause us to avoid topics that do not relate in positive ways to the dominant political concerns of the moment, or, at least deter us from asking questions that might lead to difficult conclusions? In this essay, I explore some of these questions with reference to an ongoing project which focuses on the De Angelis family, Sicilian musicians and educators who found their way to North America in the mid-nineteenth century by way of the British Army.…”
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Barrès contre Ruskin by Jessica Desclaux

“…To respond to Ruskin, he didn’t write a theoretical essay on art, but he inserted in novel or travel writing short polemical meditations. …”
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Reading and (not) seeing? by Sandra Saayman

“…Breyten Breytenbach, who is a poet, novelist, essay-writer and painter, very rarely evokes his own pictorial oeuvre in his texts. …”
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The moral problem is a Hume problem by Green Karen

“…It argues that the seeds of a more adequate, naturalistic account of the metaphysics and epistemology of morals than that developed by either Locke or Hume can already be found in aspects of Locke's Essay and in the defence of his views published by Catharine Trotter Cockburn. …”
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An Appraisal of the Chronology Problem in the “Rise of the West” Question by Gürsu Galip Gürsakal, Sezgin Kaya

“…In the former part of our essay we try to acquaint the reader with the aforementioned literature. …”
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Intentional Manipulations? A Further Analysis of Selected English-Yoruba Humorous Translations by Ibukunolu Isaac Olodude

“…However, there are cases when the translation of a text is either intentionally or unintentionally manipulated to achieve certain intended or unintended purposes. This essay examines cases of manipulated translations of texts within a language and from one language to the other. …”
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La Société Royale Économique des Amis du Pays de Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle devant l'éclosion de la société de masse by Margarita Barral Martínez

“…We will first tackle the origins and development of the institution throughout the 19th century, after which we will present the evolution of this entity over the 20th century so as to show that its role as an educational and training centre, which had remained valid from the start, became outdated in the face of new social demands in the educational field.This brief essay has been based on the consultation of the documents kept in the Archive of the Royal Economic Society of Friends of the Country of Santiago (hereinafter ARSEAPS), as well as bibliographic sources.…”
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« C’est eux contre nous » ou « Qui a peur de qui ? » : la rhétorique post-11 septembre de l’administration américaine vue par la caricature de presse by Dominique CADINOT

“…However, despite the context, on December 15th, three months after the attacks, Atlanta’s major daily newspaper, TheAtlanta Journal-Constitution, ran an editorial cartoon drawn by Mike Luckovich questioning John Ashcroft’s management of the USA PATRIOT Act.The apparent purpose of the caricature is to satirize the way the Arab or Muslim communities are stigmatized as “enemies within” and to critique the artificial dichotomy used by the administration: “Us versus them”.However, the decision to depict John Ashcroft, leader of the domestic war-on-terror apparatus and prominent evangelist, indicates that what is at stake here is the thorny issue of the relations between state power and religion.Since cartoons may provide scholars with a glimpse of the political debate or public opinion surrounding past events, this essay will seek to highlight and reflect on the feelings of millions of Americans who, a few months after the implementation of the national security strategy, initiated a response to those confounding patriotism and bigotry.…”
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The Mahdi's Legal Methodology as a Mechanism for Adapting the Sharî'a in the Sudan to Political and Social Purposes by Aharon Layish

“…The Mahdi's version of ijtihâd is not compatible with classical theory.The application of his legal methodology enabled the Mahdi to introduce innovations, some of which were far-reaching deviations from orthodox sharî'a. This essay analyses some of these innovations in various domains of Islamic law arranged according to goals promoted by the Mahdi. …”
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Framing the Golgotha in Renaissance Painting by Péter Bokody

“…They either separate the various incompatible space-segments within the work, or by the virtue of their own fictiveness, they introduce the heterogenous element itself. In this essay, I explore some works that complicate further this dynamic link between frame and space. …”
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Home, Physical Disability and Sense of Belonging in Nina Raine’s Tribes by Nurten Çelik

“…Additionally, Billy experiences alienation and isolation in a family that wallows in miscommunication, disagreement, misunderstanding, and lovelessness. Therefore, this essay explores how the social norms concerning the disabled body operate to determine and govern the perception and validation of hearing impairment in a home setting by focusing on the emotional aspects of an embodied life. …”
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Systematic Literature Review di Bidang Sistem Informasi dan Ilmu Komputer by Diah Priharsari

“…Although SLR method is quite familiar in Indonesia, a complete essay that explains about SLR in Indonesia is hard to find. …”
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Salience and Blindness: A Haptic Hike on Gins Mountain by Marie-Dominique Garnier

“…This paper attempts to follow an improbable ridge line between architecture, geography and linguistics, between the optic and haptic ends of the concept of salience, through a reading of Helen Keller Or Arakawa, Madeline Gins’s 1994 essay-cum-joint-biography partly devoted to “salience” approached through the blind figure of Helen Keller (1880-1968). …”
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Ibadan In Ibadan: The University and The City by Toyin Falola

“…The dynamics of the above are quite important to discuss, critique, and, most importantly, enjoy, and appreciate the terranean beauty of this setting.  Therefore, in this essay, I intend to consider only the things that matter on how, first, the university has contributed immensely to the growth of the city, and second, how the University can affect the City and vice versa.  …”
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Gina Pane and Krzysztof Jung: Queer Love in European Performance Art of the 1970s by Paweł LESZKOWICZ

“…This essay examines how performance art and counterculture in the 1970s opened up the possibility for two queer action/body artists to express an alternative vision of love in its plurality. …”
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Cosmopolitanism, Mobility and Hybridity in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra by Gül Kurtuluş

“…Italy and Egypt, therefore, serve to make the audience alien to the physical sphere of the discussion and blur the most direct of these allegories. This essay aims to discuss ways in which Rome and the West are portrayed as opposed to Egypt and the East and to explore how the West and the East consider each other on a mutual basis and how they interact with one another in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra. …”
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Acting queerly: Jonah as the implicated subject and vulnerability by G.F. Snyman

“…With these in mind, the question about queerness in the Book of Jonah is discussed. The essay concludes that the spectacle of the conversion of the Ninevites constitutes a drag performance whilst Jonah’s watching of this drag performance queers himself in as much as he suffers the heat and wind while remaining silent. …”
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Indigenous Knowledge Systems Discourse and Inclusionality: An Afro-centric Quest for Recognition in a Globalised World by Munyaradzi Felix Murove

“… The main goal of this essay is to argue that in a multicultural and globalised world, the indigenisation of knowledge production has to be pursued in a way that demonstrates an element of inclusivity. …”
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The shadow side of occupational therapy: Necropower, state racism and colonialism by Pier-Luc Turcotte, Dave Holmes

“…To prevent the recurrence of these injustices, history must be unveiled and occupational therapists urged to come to terms with their own involvement and responsibility.Objective and Method Utilising Achille Mbembe’s concept of necropolitics, this academic essay blends select historical and philosophical perspectives to explore occupational therapy’s concealed role in manifestations of institutionalised violence.Results By examining its roles in World War II and France’s colonisation of Algeria, we make visible the development of occupational therapy’s distinct ‘shadow side’. …”
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Didacticism and Philosophical Tenets in Ọbasa’s Poetry by Arinpe Adejumo

“…However, little attention has been paid to the correlation between didacticism and philosophy in his poetry. Tis essay, therefore, identifies the basic tenets of philosophy in the form of ethical, metaphysical, and epistemological aspects of Yoruba philosophy in Obasa’a poetry with a view to establishing the way Yoruba philosophy is used to teach morals in the poems. …”
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