TO SEE, WHILE UNABLE TO SEE: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PERSPECTIVES OF AN OPHTHALMOLOGIST ON THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC by C. Gouws

“…The author uses examples from the Second World War, the Soviet Union in the 1950s, the civil war in the Balkans in the 1980s, and 9/11. …”
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Nancy-Thermal : les rêves de grandeur d’une station luxueuse et populaire by Claire Guitton

“…The outbreak of the First World War interrupted the work, depriving the station of the expected fame. …”
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La Collaboration comme mode d’exercice au sein de l’agence d’architecture d’Eugène Beaudouin by Anne-Sophie Cachat-Suchet

“…The first part of the career of the architect and urban planner Eugène Beaudouin was marked by his fruitful collaboration with Marcel Lods, between 1925 and 1940. After the Second World war, Beaudouin took the lead alone as the head of his new architectural agency, yet sources reveal that he continued to work in the same way, collaborating with others. …”
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L’autoreprésentation de femmes en conflit : les récits d’emprisonnement des suffragettes by Christian Auer

“…Between 1905 and the beginning of World War I around a thousand suffragettes were imprisoned because of their political activities. …”
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La migration singulière des adoptés dans l’espace euro-américain depuis 1945 by Yves Denéchère

“…International adoption is a singular type of migration that entails a change of country and often of cultural milieu for the children. Since the end of World War II, the trans-Atlantic space has witnessed adoptive movements involving transnational mobility between Europe, North America and Latin America. …”
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Periodical Press in Alytus in 1920-1940 by Šarūnas Šimkevičius

“…This kind of publications was popular among students after the World War l. Alytus was not an exception. The bulk of periodicals in this town was published by Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party local organisations. …”
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Fondements du discours propagandiste arabe de la Grande-Bretagne au Maghreb pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale (1939-1943) by Fayçal Cherif

“…The Second World War’s ramifications and the landing of the Anglo-Americans in North Africa (Torch) brought out the antagonism between the powers of the Axis and the Allies. …”
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Position statement of the Polish Society of Gastroenterology and the National Gastroenterology Consultant on vaccination against COVID-19 among patients with inflammatory bowel dis... by Piotr Eder, Michał Łodyga, Agnieszka Dobrowolska, Jarosław Reguła, Grażyna Rydzewska

“…It is the greatest civilizational challenge for humanity since World War II. So far, more than 80 million SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2) infections have been reported, and nearly 2 million people have died from this infectious disease (as of 4.01.2021) [1]. …”
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Language Schools of MGIMO-University by G. I. Gladkov

“…Of course, in the midst of World War II, the most important foreign language seemed to be German. …”
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Les « Malgré-Nous » et les « Malgré-Elles » : l’influence d’une catégorisation genrée sur la visibilité des témoignages des incorporé.e.s de force alsacien.ne.s dans la sphère publ... by Marie Janot-Caminade

“…During the Second World War, Alsatian men were enlisted by force in the Wehrmacht while Alsatian women were sent to paramilitary units against their will. …”
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Du « clan divin des femmes amoureuses » à la « race maudite » : élaboration, représentations et discontinuités de l’identité lesbienne dans la trajectoire de Mireille Havet (1898-1... by Emmanuelle Rétaillaud-Bajac

“…This paper aims to analyze the elaboration of and the gaps in the identity of the French lesbian writer Mireille Havet (1898-1932), at a time when a saphic scene took shape in fin-de-siecle Paris and the First World War led to the destabilization of gender. Mireille Havet came of age in the saphic and homosexual cultures of the Belle Époque and later embodied the flamboyant and troubling figure of the 1920’s flapper. …”
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Women’s presence in contemporary Italy’s environmental movements, with a case study on the Mamme No Inceneritore committee by Rachele Ledda

“…With the advent of Fascism, the first environmental issues arose, with women at the forefront of the protests. However, after World War II, Italian women activists focus chiefly on the conquest of civil and political rights. …”
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Le cinéma, outil d’éducation et d’enseignement de la révolution sous le régime du parti unique en Turquie by Özgür Adadağ

“…However, the leaders of the time also reinforced film control mechanisms, particularly at the beginning of the Second World War, in 1939. As a result, the state policy towards cinema, oscillating between a favorable support policy and a firmly restrictive policy led to a limited usage of that art. …”
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From Commons to Capital: The Creative Destruction of Coastal Real Estate, Environments, and Communities in the US South by Andrew W. Kahrl

“…In the decades following World War II, real estate development proliferated along the coastlines and waterways of the US South. …”
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Politiques et pratiques de la psychiatrie en prison 1945-1986 by Hélène Bellanger

“…After the historical break of Second World War, a spirally reform process gradually sealed the historical convergency of prison and asylum, and led to the creation of structures dedicated to psychiatric treatment of prisonners (psychiatric annexes created by Amor reform, followed by the CMPR and SMPR). …”
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From Uncle Tom to Nat Turner: An Overview of Slavery in American Film, 1903-2016 by Melvyn Stokes

“…In the aftermath of World War II, a more critical view of slavery began to emerge on film. …”
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Quand l’État devient banquier by Isabelle Chambost, Béatrice Touchelay

“…It shows that the State as shareholder is rooted in the imperfections of the previous system, that of the "erased State", from the beginning of the 20th century to the outbreak of the Second World War, and then in an asserted political will to install a "partner State" from 1940 to 1945 where the State entered, not without difficulty until the sixties, alongside the banking corporation.…”
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From Cybernetics to Systems Theory in the First Space Age by Christian Girard

“…Both fields appeared to tackle the pilot problem head-on, either to shoot a pilot down (cybernetics in World War II) – or to send some to the moon and back (systems engineering and management in the Apollo programme). …”
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Une promise pour la licorne : quand Denis Johnston crève l’horizon de la scène irlandaise by Virginie Girel-Pietka

“…Examining the way Johnston turned his back on the Aristotelian tradition so as to usher Modernism onto the stage, this paper aims at showing that the play was rather meant to open up new aesthetic prospects for the Irish drama of its time. In the wake of World War I and the worldwide Great Depression, mimesis was out of fashion. …”
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“Uncle Vova, we are with you!” The use of childhood semantics in Russian political propaganda by Wojciech Siegień

“…The analysis proves that the semantics of the Russian propaganda message is based on patterns from previous eras with an invariant element – World War II, which is a kind of myth about the beginning of the Russian world. …”
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