This chapter attempts to analyze the historiographical debate around agency/structure, especially focused on two current historians, Mary Fulbrook and Peter Burke. Likewise, the conception and relationship of the State within the historiography of the Cold War, seen from the perspective of structure/agent, is presented as a case study. In sum,…[Read more]

Slideshow for a forthcoming invited presentation. ABSTRACT: Podcasting originated as a new form of audio broadcasting, but by 2006, issues of ease of use, proprietary technology, and finances slowed its momentum. Now podcasting is more popular than ever. This presentation therefore traces the author’s initial and current CALL podcasting p…[Read more]

This paper examines the influence of urban fashion ideas disseminated worldwide from France and how they impacted the Romanian ideas of style and beauty, as well as the nature of the communication between Paris and the so-colled ”Little Paris”. My aim is to decode the interwar Romanian interpretation of the new woman notion and assess what typ…[Read more]

Kathleen Fitzpatrick analyses the sudden isolation graduate students find themselves in during the dissertation process. In the humanities, she observes, graduate students are regularly habituated into an anxiety of intellectual independence whereby sharing ideas, collaboration and publishing work in progress is to be considered suspect and…[Read more]

This short essay suggests that John Durham Peters’ Speaking into the Air (1999) re-capitulates its arguments through form. In its written medium, with its hermeneutic mode, and by its promiscuous prose, the book exemplifies its own moral case for dissemination over (in Peters’ chilling phrase) ‘interpersonal mimesis’. The essay positions the boo…[Read more]

Walt Whitman (1819–1892), the father of American free verse, and Nima Yushij (1897–1960), the father of Persian New Poetry, each played a central role in his respective poetic tradition. Whitman’s free verse and Yushij’s New Poetry are the results of translating the discourse of democracy to a literary discourse. In this way, there are multipl…[Read more]

Walt Whitman (1819–1892), the father of American free verse, and Nima Yushij (1897–1960), the father of Persian New Poetry, each played a central role in his respective poetic tradition. Whitman’s free verse and Yushij’s New Poetry are the results of translating the discourse of democracy to a literary discourse. In this way, there are multipl…[Read more]

The focus of this issue is on environmental aesthetics, with the aim of exploring the various aspects of aesthetic appreciation. Environmental Aesthetics: Socio-Territorial Conflicts throughout Media is part of a session that I organized at the IV International ISA Forum, Porto Alegre, held on February 23–27, 2021, for the Research Committee on S…[Read more]

Plagiarism is malpractice, the fabrication of others’ “ideas or work” published without the proper permission or
citation of the original contributors. Plagiarism is detected through different software, i.e., Turnitin, before publishing
any research data. The present survey study assesses whether academicians, researchers, and scholars aroun…[Read more]

Part of a collaborative commission between the National Humanities Alliance, the Federation of State Humanities Councils and Routledge, Taylor and Francis. Pieces in this collection offer reflections and insights on the state of public humanities ahead of the National Humanities Conference in November 2022 and are referenced in “Exploring What’s…[Read more]

Part of a collaborative commission between the National Humanities Alliance, the Federation of State Humanities Councils and Routledge, Taylor and Francis. Pieces in this collection offer reflections and insights on the state of public humanities ahead of the National Humanities Conference in November 2022 and are referenced in “Exploring What’s…[Read more]

Part of a collaborative commission between the National Humanities Alliance, the Federation of State Humanities Councils and Routledge, Taylor and Francis. Pieces in this collection offer reflections and insights on the state of public humanities ahead of the National Humanities Conference in November 2022 and are referenced in “Exploring What’s…[Read more]

Part of a collaborative commission between the National Humanities Alliance, the Federation of State Humanities Councils and Routledge, Taylor and Francis. Pieces in this collection offer reflections and insights on the state of public humanities ahead of the National Humanities Conference in November 2022 and are referenced in “Exploring What’s…[Read more]

Part of a collaborative commission between the National Humanities Alliance, the Federation of State Humanities Councils and Routledge, Taylor and Francis. Pieces in this collection offer reflections and insights on the state of public humanities ahead of the National Humanities Conference in November 2022 and are referenced in “Exploring What’s…[Read more]

Part of a collaborative commission between the National Humanities Alliance, the Federation of State Humanities Councils and Routledge, Taylor and Francis. Pieces in this collection offer reflections and insights on the state of public humanities ahead of the National Humanities Conference in November 2022 and are referenced in “Exploring What’s…[Read more]