Selbstbeschreibungen der Kunstpädagogik greifen oft auf binäre Logiken zurück – sei es, um eindeutige Ein- und Ausgrenzungen vornehmen zu können oder um spannungsvolle Zweierverhältnisse zum Ausgangspunkt kunstpädagogischer Überlegungen zu machen. Kunstpädagogische Komplexität ist ein Angebot, das sich neben solche Logiken stellt, wirbt dafür, Kun…[Read more]

The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship shares its Call for Papers for the Special Collection: Translation, Remediation, Spread: The Global Circulation of Comics in Digital Distribution. This Special Collection of The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship will focus on the global circulation of comics in digital forms, from webcomics…[Read more]

This book challenges an assumption at the heart of contemporary theoretical debates: that it is impossible to reason through history. Steele believes that two influential schools of contemporary thought “hide from history”: liberal philosophies of public reason as espoused by such figures as Jürgen Habermas, John Rawls and Martha Nussbaum and stru…[Read more]

Michel Foucault’nun çalışmalarının merkezi noktalarından birisini, Batı kültüründe insanların, özneye dönüştürülmesinin tarihini ortaya çıkarmak oluşturmaktadır. Diğerini ise, özneye dönüştürme tekniklerine karşı verilen mücadeleler, çeşitli iktidar tekniklerinin dayattığı bireysellik ve kimlikten kurtulmanın, özgürleşmenin imkânı oluşturmaktadır.…[Read more]

Modern politika tanımlarında hâkim kavramlardan söz etmek olasıdır. Bu kavramlar arasında; iktidar, şiddet, hiyerarşi, güvenlik, kaynak dağıtımı öne çıkanlardır. Politika, birçoklarına göre, iktidarın ve gücün nasıl dağıtıldığı ve kullanıldığıyla ilgilidir. Politika, salt iktidarla ilişkili bir biçimde tanımlandığında, şiddet, politikanın…[Read more]

In this paper I will examine Proclus’ Commentary on the First Alcibiades of Plato in order to shed light on his doctrine of the partial soul’s nous. Proclus’ epistemology is in many ways the heart of his system. The human soul is a microcosm, and because each of its faculties corresponds to one or other order of the macrocosm, the soul’s knowled…[Read more]

In the 7th essay of his Commentary on the Republic of Plato, Proclus supplies the elements of a fairly robust Neoplatonic political philosophy. In general he agrees with Plato’s account of the tripartite soul and the four cardinal virtues, while introducing important nuances into the theory. The idea of the dominance of one part of the soul over a…[Read more]

This article is a review of Graphic Novels for Children and Young Adults: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Michelle Ann Abate and Gwen Athene Tarbox (University Press of Mississippi, 2017). Filling a significant gap in current scholarly research in comic studies, the collection will appeal to a wide range of scholars and educators. The…[Read more]

This article reviews With Great Power Comes Great Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning, and Comic Books, edited by Susan E. Kirtley, Antero Garcia, and Peter E. Carlson (University Press of Mississippi, 2020). The book covers a wide range of approaches, pedagogical techniques, and uses of comics and graphic novels, as well as making comics, in the…[Read more]

Catalog essay for “Brotherville,” photographic exhibition by Farah Al Qasimi

I Know How This Ends is the second volume in a series that started with Parables of Care: Creative Responses to Dementia Care (2017). The project explores the potential of comics to enhance the impact of dementia care research. This comic book presents, in synthesised form, stories crafted from narrative data collected via interviews with…[Read more]

Deux controverses ont marqué (et continuent de le faire) la discipline des relations internationales.
La première est une controverse philosophique qui porte sur la nature du milieu international (entre «paix précaire» et « état de guerre») et continue, aujourd’hui encore, de diviser les auteurs.
La seconde est une controverse sur la nature de…[Read more]

2020 New England Graphic Medicine Conference
Call for Papers
MARCH 26-28, 2020
[Deadline: January 10, 2020]

Graphic Medicine is a genre, a field, a tool, a community, and a cause. It is large enough to accommodate all health and medical experiences, from that of the doctor to that of the patient – from that of a microbe to that of a p…[Read more]

Les fondements politiques modernes d’une économie sans règle ni contraintes pour ses principaux agents sont à chercher aux Etats-Unis, dans une opposition, largement partagée, parmi ses supporters, aux réformes « libérales » (de gauche dans ce pays ») » contenues dans le New Deal (1933-1938). Engagées par un président démocrate Franklin D. Ro…[Read more]

C’est dans un contexte historique bien particulier, la seconde guerre mondiale, puis la guerre froide, et dans un pays (les Etats-Unis) qui se pose en leader du combat contre le communisme mondial et la socialisation de l’Economie, que des chercheurs en sciences économiques vont élaborer les cadres conceptuels et théoriques qui deviendront autant…[Read more]

Il est un « conte de fées » – issu de médias ne pratiquant pas la distanciation critique déontologiquement requise par rapport à leurs principaux actionnaires – selon lequel les organisations représentatives de la société civile et du monde des affaires exerceraient, dans les mêmes conditions, des pressions sur la décision politique pour assur…[Read more]

Plusieurs grandes idées président au développement des mythes et habitudes collectives caractérisant les Américains en société, à tout moment de leur histoire.

C’est dans ce registre, dont les thèmes traversent l’histoire des Etats-Unis et les partis politiques, que les « intellectuels organiques » (au sens Gramscien du terme) ou les manipul…[Read more]

Dini çoğulculuk, dini dışlayıcılık ve kapsayıcılıktan farklı olarak, her dinsel inanış taraftarlarının kendi dinleri içinde kalarak ilahi selamete erişeceğini söyler. Temelde, teolojik ve felsefi boyutları olan dini çoğulculuk tartışmasının siyasete bakan bir yönü de vardır. İslam tarihinde Meşşâî felsefenin kurucusu ve mutluluk filozofu ola…[Read more]

The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship seeks scholarly submissions on the technical, theoretical, cultural, and historical aspects of comics studies that gives vitality to the form and challenges readers’ assumptions about it. This document is the full call for papers published on 30th October 2019 on the journal web site.