Neo-Latin Studies in Catalonia (ca. 1830–ca. 1960) by Alejandro Coroleu

“…This interest has an important precedent in the period from 1830 to 1960, when several studies on Catalan Neo-Latin were produced and a considerable numer of Catalan versions of local, Italian and northern European Neo-Latin poets and prose writers were published. In this essay the author attempts to demonstrate that interest in Neo-Latin literature during those one hundred and thirty years had a broader significance and that attention to the Catalan Neo-Latin corpus as well as translations of, and studies on, Petrarch, Poggio Bracciolini, Johannes Secundus, Erasmus, Thomas More and Juan Luis Vives issued at the time should be regarded as a further contribution, however modest, to the construction of cultural identity in modern Catalonia. …”
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Literatura y “contra-historia”: los discursos del origen en Yo el Supremo y Moi, Toussaint Louverture by Javier Uriarte

“…By making explicit these similarities between two narrative projects that seek to re-read (and re-write) the foundational processes in their respective countries, I intend to establish a dialogue between two process of Independence that, although having been undoubtedly key to the understanding of the history of independent Latin America, have been drastically silenced. In this sense, this essay seeks to make a strong argument for the consideration of Haiti as a part of Latin America.…”
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Saillance et cécité : parcours haptique sur le Mont Gins 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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‘Savages’ and Spiritual Engines: Feeling the Machine in H. G. Wells’s Time Machine and ‘Lord of the Dynamos’ by Tamara Ketabgian

“…This essay explores the vestigial influence of natural theology, and its discourse of divine design, on H. …”
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Simple Sources for Complex Problems. Where Did Californians Come From in 1940? by Myron P. Gutmann

“…Kees Mandemakers has been a leader in the study of linked population data, but not every society has the sources or resources to create linked data. This essay is about one approach that derives from a source that does not offer all that is possible with linked longitudinal data, but that nonetheless has significant value. …”
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Des architectes urbanistes au cœur d’une lutte entre des écologies concurrentes. « Quartier libre des Lentillères » contre « écocité Jardin des maraîchers » à Dijon... by Pierre Bouilhol

“…These new forms of activism and civic engagement, both local and global, have become increasingly divisive, often pitting environmentalists against one another. This essay proposes to examine the history, the narrative regimes and the unfolding consequences of a specific case of socio-environmental mobilization, the “quartier libre des Lentillères” on the outskirts of the French city of Dijon. …”
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The Development of Wheeled Transportation in Osun Division of Southwestern Nigeria, 1900-1960 by AbiodunAjayi

“…However, with the advent of the wheeled transportation technology, economic horizon became broader as people were provided with more profitable endeavors to engage themselves with. This essay attempts to analyze the development of wheeled transportation as a factor that was fundamental to the new developments in colonial Osun Division of Southwestern Nigeria. …”
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Staging identity: When poets read themselves and their translations by Larisa Cercel

“…The translation-performance nexus in the translator’s act of reading will be explored in the essay in terms of the parameters of (a), the voice, (b), the public persona and (c), the effect of the performance. …”
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Rubric Design: A Designer’s Perspective by William Furman

“…But in the end, they can also provide real value to the student and instructor. This reflective essay takes on the design and development of the rubric, challenging the notion there are different types of rubrics or inherent evaluation methodologies, offers an alternative layout, and reviews rubrics through the designer’s lens, approaching them through concept development and design thinking. …”
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Field of the Administrative Geography of the Sasanian Empire on the Auspicious Occasion of the Publication of La Géographie Administrative de l’Émpire Sassanide. Les Témoignages É... by Hossein Habibi

“…Therefore, the main focuses of this essay are concerned with the review of the latter book and the progress it achieved in the field, along with the academic background of the author. …”
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Investigating AI systems: examining data and algorithmic bias through hermeneutic reverse engineering by Nishanshi Shukla

“…Considering Artificial Intelligence systems as boundary objects, which are interdisciplinary objects sustained differently by diverse fields while providing shared discourses between them, this essay summarizes the approaches of examining bias in AI systems. …”
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Dubai transient city. Anatomy of a post-urban phenomenon by Tiziano Aglieri Rinella

“…Shall Dubai demonstrate skills of resilience and urban regeneration, facing the nowadays fast and unpredictable transformations of the economic and geopolitical scenarios of the Gulf region? The essay aims to investigate the dynamics that led to the current dystopian scenario of the nowadays urban landscape of Dubai, proposing possible solutions to relieve the impact of the existing contradictions.…”
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Arte e tecnologia in Corea del Sud: tre mostre per una prospettiva occidentale by Francesco Spampinato

“…This essay offers a comparison between contemporary art from South Korea and art from Western countries, through the solo exhibitions of three South Korean artists of different generations who address media and technological issues in their work: Nam June Paik, Lee Bul and Anicka Yi. …”
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The legal, political and military scans: from Volume 10. Law, Politics, Militaria, Technology by Saveria Rito

“…The legal sections have been analysed in the essay that opens the volume, while with this short contribution we would like to focus on some subsections focusing on the education of children and women, praise and criticism of women, and paremiographic literature.…”
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Ippolit Bogdanovich and Voltaire’s 'Épître à l’impératrice de Russie': Adapting Praise by Andrew Kahn

“…He was also one of the most adept at the graceful packaging of didactic themes or conveying a policy suggestion. This essay considers how his translation of Voltaire’s Épître à l’impératrice de Russie (1771) reworks a famous poem of praise. …”
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Espaço vivido e espaço mental: Dalton Trevisan e a dicotomia social do urbanismo curitibano by Nelson H. Vieira

“…This essay deals with the short stories of Dalton Trevisan and the city of Curitiba within the context of urbanism as “lived space”, using André Lefebvre’s terminology, with the aim of understanding the social dichotomy between a rural mentality and an urban modernity. …”
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Voices in the Urban Wilderness: Reimagining the Terms of Order in “Renaissance” Boston by Jeffrey Helgeson

“…They also built on what has been called a “neoliberal rationality” that, in part, sought to create profit centers and market-oriented ways of living in everything from public schools, public universities, and public infrastructure to residential housing and artistic culture. This essay focuses on the work of two Bostonians in particular—writer and activist Fanny Howe and Black Power artist and activist Dana C. …”
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Trento Social Commons. Community Engagement as Tools for New Physical and Cultural Relationships Between Rural and Peripheral Spaces by Alessandro Gretter, Chiara Rizzi, Sara Favargiotti, Alessandro Betta, Giovanna Ulrici

“…Moreover, urbanization expansion process in the Alps is strongly related with temporary dynamics depending from touristic fluxes, implementation of new spaces of mobility, economic development and living.In a context of extreme land scarcity like in the Alps, urban sprawl and dwellers' search for nature proximity to homes and residential areas put territorial governance instruments under pressure and opens up complex questions.Beside other experiences between urban and peripheral spaces, the essay aims at speculating that typical rural communitarian governance models are able to strengthen collective interests over individual ones and can be translated into urban governance models by public authorities. …”
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Institutions and Incentives in Antitrust Enforcement by Spencer Weber Waller

“…The Supreme Court followed this basic approach in Leegin, applying the rule of reason to resale price maintenance agreements (vertical price fixing), and in Actavis, applying the rule of reason to pay-for-delay agreements involving branded and generic pharmaceutical manufacturers. This essay explores where this strategy has been successful (Actavis) and where it has not (Leegin). …”
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A Critical Review of the Book ʾĀyāt al-ʾAḥkām by Seyed Taha Merghati Khoei

“…In the interpretation of verses, the author has not confined himself only to interpret verses known as ʾĀyāt al-ʾAḥkām, rather in some cases, he has deducted some rules from verses that were not common in his predecessors’ works. In this essay, some examples are mentioned. However, in ʾĀyāt al-ʾAḥkām Tatbīqī (comparative ʾĀyāt al-ʾAḥkām), the author has followed the traditional method of ʾĀyāt al-ʾAḥkām books and addressed all of the fiqh chapters, including ʿIbādāt and Muʿāmilāt (in the general sense), and compared opinions of Shīʿi and Sunnī jurists. …”
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