Le Tigre, le Louvre et l’échange de connaissances archéologiques visuelles entre la France et la Grande-Bretagne aux alentours de 1850 by Mirjam Brusius

“…In return, the French were in the possession of photographs of fragments from Nineveh that were lost by the British. This essay will re-examine British-Franco relations in the history of archaeology in Mesopotamia against the backdrop of the use and exchange of images, which became the only and major records in a story of rivalry, dependence, loss of objects and control. …”
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“Per si muove—it was a mass of moonstone”: Fluidity, Dynamic Relations, and the Commodification of Storytelling in Harriet Prescott Spofford’s Arctic Writings by Verena Laschinger

“…The essay examines Harriet Prescott Spofford’s short story “The Moonstone Mass” (1868) through the lens of fluidity foregrounded by her Arctic poem “The Story of the Iceberg” (1897). …”
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Reminiscence Tours and Pilgrimage Sites by Katja Uusihakala

“…The notion of pilgrimage seems to capture both the physical as well as the emotional aspects that such movements contain. This essay examines how members of the ex-Rhodesian diaspora community in South Africa ‘travel back’ to the past in the present in two ways: firstly by concrete heritage journeys to Zimbabwe on reminiscence tours and secondly by constructing memory sites and commemorative venues, where the journeys back to the ‘homeland’ take the form of imaginative travel. …”
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« Certains lieux de la peinture », comme expérience ontologique, de révélation chez María Zambrano  by Camille Lacau St Guily

“…Through painting, as she testifies in several of her writings, among others in Algunos lugares de la pintura, through her autobiographical essay, Delirio y destino, or in her text entitled “El idiota” and in all her essays dedicated to Velázquez’s “Niño de Vallecas”, María Zambrano lives personal and “privileged” experiences, with the being. …”
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Social Cohesion in Ola Rotimi’s Kurunmi: A Resonance of History, Culture and Law by Yemi Atanda

“…This is the kernel of historical narrative used by Ola Rotimi, in constructing his play, Kurunmi, to refect rivalry between the Ibadan warriors and those of Ijaye. Tis essay examines the confict to refect and suggest the need for just, peace, and unity for social cohesion among Yoruba people, and by and large, Nigerians. …”
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What Dewey Knew. The Public as Problem, Practice, and Art by Laura Bieger

“…This essay takes the present “post truth” threat to democratic politics as an occasion to revisit John Dewey’s view of the public as a political actor that is both indispensible for the project of modern democracy and vulnerable to self-effacement. …”
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Mexican Pointy Boots and the Tribal Scene: Global Appropriations of Local Cultural Practices in the Virtual Age by Helena Simonett, César Burgos Dávila

“…In this essay, we examine music and its performative power by engaging in issues such as the localization of global cultural practices, the embracing of cultural practices based on a shared sense of marginalization and peripheralization, as well as the appropriation and resignification of “odd” cultural practices for global consumption, resulting in a cultural mutation of such practices and their objects from “low” to “art.” …”
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Money Talks: Language, Work and Authorship from The Music of Chance to Sunset Park by Aliki Varvogli

“…This essay explores the various ways in which Paul Auster has written about money in his novels throughout his career, and argues that there are continuities as well as differences which reflect the author’s increased concern for the lived world and the socio-economic forces that shape it. …”
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Le Musée imaginaire de Jean Dubuffet ? Réflexions sur la documentation photographique dans les archives de la Collection de l’Art Brut by Baptiste Brun

“…In 1947, while Malraux had the first essay in the Psychologie de l’art series, entitled Le musée imaginaire, published by Éditions Albert Skira, Jean Dubuffet and some associates opened the Foyer de l’Art Brut in the basement of the Galerie René Drouin in the place Vendôme in Paris. …”
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A systemic approach and multiscale data management. A ‘refrigerator’ case study by Paolo Marco Tamborrini, Eleonora Fiore

“…Many digital technologies, such as the Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, could radically change the way of conceiving a design process, especially when they are used to retrieve essential information to define a problem, identify the requirements and support design decisions, all of which are typical of the pre-design phase. In this essay, we reflect on the complexity of designing, on the need for a systemic approach based on participatory methods and on the use of prototypes as tools to unlock the potential, albeit still largely untapped, use of data for design purposes. …”
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De l'obéissance à la révolte ? by Diana Martins

“…The aim of the present essay is to circumvent the occasional limitations imposed by the available sources and adopt a broader approach, taking the Prince's perspective as the starting point whilst seeking to understand, through various testimonies, the manner in which the successor was involved in his father's diplomatic efforts. …”
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Le droit à l'autodétermination comme droit moral by Xacobe Bastida Freixedo

“…In the current essay we will try to prove that self-determination is a moral right –a legitimate and justified claim– that, as such, should be integrated as far as possible in a democratic constitution. …”
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Translating Merwin: Navigating Nature, Place, and the Apo Koinou by Helmbrecht Breinig

“…Beginning with Merwin’s own concept of translation, this essay links his work as a poet and translator with early and recent theories of language and translation. …”
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“Writing about War”: Dương Thu Hương’s Representations of the Vietnam-American War by Subarno Chattarji

“…Dương was appalled when the communist party clamped down on all freedoms and she expressed her dissent in public and through her fiction. This essay analyses two of her novels in English translation, Novel Without a Name (1995) and Memories of a Pure Spring (2000), focusing on recurrent thematics that are central to these works, including the paradoxes of remembrance, critiques of war, the idea of fiction as testimony, and indictments of communist orthodoxy and double standards.…”
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Teaching Architecture in Palermo by Andrea Sciascia

“…The essay focuses on today’s education at the Architecture University of Palermo, outlining a general context from two points of view. …”
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‘All is well’: The Construction of Martyrdom in the Diary of Emily Hawley Gillespie (1838-1888) by Claire SORIN

“…Hovering between revelation and secrecy, the diary seeks to immortalize its author as an ideal mother, patient wife and perfect invalid. This essay, which focuses on the last years of the diarist’s life, explores how the writing of pain and suffering seeks to sublimate the present and shape the future. …”
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In the Shadow of the “Indeterminate Speech-Act”: The Populist Politics of Rumor in Fritz Lang’s Early Sound Films by Florian Zappe

“…Based on Gilles Deleuze’s claim that rumor has been a “cinematographically privileged object” in early sound cinema, this essay will provide a political analysis of the representation of rumor in two early sound films in the transnational oeuvre of Fritz Lang. …”
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Os males do Brasil são: a doença como elemento distintivo da condição de ser brasileiro by Ermelinda Maria Araújo Ferreira

“…This essay was born of the intention to compare the data collections on the empirical-traditional medicine in Portugal and Brazil, on the initiative of Michel Giacometti, naturalized Portuguese, whose work, recently discovered , was collected in the volume Artes de Cura e Espanta-Males (2009), and the Brazilian writer Mário de Andrade, author of Namoros com a Medicina (1937). …”
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Dangerous Conversations in The Duchess of Malfi by John Gillies

“…The proposition of this essay is that conversation exists as a theme in its own right in The Duchess of Malfi. …”
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Égalité, complémentarité, concurrence. La violence entre les “sexes” au Sénégal à l’épreuve du “genre” by Giovanna Cavatorta

“…Thanks to the analysis of a trial for conjugal violence, the essay discusses the stakes of power that are brought to light by its genderization. …”
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