Research of the Technological Future’s Uncertainty by J. Kovalchuk, I. Stepnov

“…Megatech: Technology and Society: 2050 in the Forecasts of Scientists and Writers. Moscow, Bombora, 2018. 400 p. (in Russian) Leonghard G. …”
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Dissemination of the Russian emigrant literature and the literature of the Book Program in East Europe in 1950-1990 by Alvydas Kazakevičius

“… Many famous Russian writers, artists, scientists, and public figures lived and worked in emigration. …”
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Uncanny Beloveds and the Return of the Repressed by Maya Petrovich

“…Abstract: In the course of Ottoman history, a long-standing alliance with the Giray house allowed for military cooperation; yet, classical Ottomans writers held a paradoxical posture toward Crimean Tatars. …”
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DEVELOPMENT OF AN IMPROVED DATABASE FOR YORUBA HANDWRITTEN CHARACTER by OLUWASHINA O. OYENIRAN, JOSHUA O. OYENIYI, LAWRENCE O. OMOTOSHO, IBRAHIM K. OGUNDOYIN

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Reading the Colours of Victorian Interiors: The Poetic Home Revisited by Charlotte Ribeyrol

“…As a consequence, the ‘evolution’ of the colour-sense received unprecedented attention, not only from the scientists who made colour production and colour perception their new object of study, but also from artists and writers like John Ruskin or William Morris who placed colour at the centre of the creative process. …”
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Langston Hughes chez Pierre Seghers : récit d’un engagement poétique by Annick Ettlin

“…Although the Harlem Renaissance considerably influenced the poets of the “negritude” movement, its editorial and academic reception among French writers and readers has been quite confidential. Yet between the translation of several poems in the 1920s and a growing number of studies produced by French researchers since 2000, the poetry of Langston Hughes in particular has been channeled towards French readers, in the 1950s and 1960s, mainly through the journal Présence Africaine and, more surprisingly, the publishing house of Pierre Seghers. …”
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Feminism and Faith: Exploring Christian Spaces in the Writing of Sara Maitland and Michèle Roberts by Arina LUNGU-CIRSTEA

“…Taking as a starting point the idea that “the identities of place are always unfixed, contested and multiple” (Doreen Massey), this essay focuses on these writers” efforts to assert women’s spiritual identity against the rigid boundaries of the social spaces they are often confined into.…”
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Catholic Church Interiors in Fin-de-Siècle Literature by Claire Masurel-Murray

“…The works of such late-Victorian writers as Lionel Johnson, Ernest Dowson, Theodore Wratislaw, John Oliver Hobbes and Oscar Wilde represent Catholic churches as retreats set apart from the ugliness and mediocrity of Victorian England—religious versions of Des Esseintes’s Fontenay-aux-Roses house in À rebours—filled with incense, organ music, and coloured light filtering through medieval stained-glass windows. …”
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Constructing Identities: Amos Tutuola and the Ibadan Literary Elite in the wake of Nigerian Independence by Mackenzie Finley

“…Furthermore, educational experiences and sociocultural identities informed the ways in which independent Nigeria was envisioned by both Tutuola and the elite writers. While the elites’ discourse on independence reflected their proximity to Nigeria’s political elite, Tutuola positioned himself as a distinctly Yoruba writer in the new Nigeria. …”
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A Critical Review of The Roman Historian Tacitus's Book of Annals by Yaser Malekzadeh, Sorour Khorashadi

“…This reminds the value and/or issues related to the work, along with an emphasis on some neglected points in the Persian translation. The writers of this article have translated some parts of the book, which relates to Parthian history in Iberia and Armenia. …”
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White Magic, Black Humour: Ella D’Arcy’s Narrative Strategies by Heather Marcovitch

“…Of the New Woman writers who wrote humour, Ella D’Arcy is one of the more elusive. …”
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La littérature et la légende comme motifs touristiques en Espagne au xxie siècle by Christelle Schreiber-Di Cesare

“…This study focuses on tourism based on Spain's literary heritage: the organisation of book fairs, the opening of writers' houses and museums, the setting up of literary tours in the footsteps of an author or a work, public authorities and private initiatives are multiplying strategies to both create and respond to the demand from a public that wishes to extend the reading experience with a foray into the settings of the plot. …”
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Going Down Textual Lane: Ibadan in Text and Thoughts: A Review of Under the Brown Rusted Roofs by Abimbola Adunni Adelakun. Published by Kraftgriots, Ibadan, 2008, 252pp.1 by Kole Odutola

“…Let me tell you my story of Ibadan through the eyes of writers and thinkers. My maternal grandmother was a mid-wife at Adeọyọ Hospital. …”
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Call for Papers: Demography Prize for Young Researches 2016/2017 by IF and FRFG

“… The Stuttgart-based Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations (FRFG) and the London-based Intergenerational Foundation (IF) jointly award the biennial Demography Prize, endowed with EUR 10,000 (ten thousand euros) in total prize-money, to essay-writers who address political and demographic issues pertaining to the field of intergenerational justice. …”
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