Instead of preventing protest, deportations on political grounds could – under certain
circumstances – help to spread dissent. Accordingly, the spaces deportees were sent
became fertile ground for new coalitions. Analysing such spaces furthers our understanding
of how resistance may be contained, dispersed and re-constituted. The main
part of…[Read more]

Instead of preventing protest, deportations on political grounds could – under certain
circumstances – help to spread dissent. Accordingly, the spaces deportees were sent
became fertile ground for new coalitions. Analysing such spaces furthers our understanding
of how resistance may be contained, dispersed and re-constituted. The main
part of…[Read more]

Veit Harlan zählte zu den wichtigsten Regisseuren des Nationalsozialismus, insbesondere mit seinem antisemitischen Propagandafilm „Jud Süss“. Nach dem Krieg musste sich Harlan wegen Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit vor Gericht verantworten, wurde jedoch aus Mangel an Beweisen 1950 freigesprochen und konnte seine Regietätigkeit fortse…[Read more]

Veit Harlan zählte zu den wichtigsten Regisseuren des Nationalsozialismus, insbesondere mit seinem antisemitischen Propagandafilm „Jud Süss“. Nach dem Krieg musste sich Harlan wegen Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit vor Gericht verantworten, wurde jedoch aus Mangel an Beweisen 1950 freigesprochen und konnte seine Regietätigkeit fortse…[Read more]

The plague doctors’ masks on the frontispiece of the “Leviathan”, John Locke’s empty land, the photographs by Carleton Watkins, a military policeman’s protective mask, the colonial history of the deportation camps, the plague policies and the Sans-Papiers – these are the seemingly disparate pieces that Francesca Falk assembles into a mosaic to…[Read more]

The plague doctors’ masks on the frontispiece of the “Leviathan”, John Locke’s empty land, the photographs by Carleton Watkins, a military policeman’s protective mask, the colonial history of the deportation camps, the plague policies and the Sans-Papiers – these are the seemingly disparate pieces that Francesca Falk assembles into a mosaic to…[Read more]

Purpose: – The aim of this dissertation is to investigate the impact of public library activities on the health and wellbeing of library users. Concentrating on five library activities; knit and knit, rhyme time, learn my way, reading group and adult craft and calming colouring. It seeks to examine the implementation of the joint action path…[Read more]

This essay argues that the changes that occurred in the form, function, material and internal decorative schemes of the Great House before 1660 was less of a transformation and more of a slow evolution. The popularity of plasterwork in the Great House from the Tudors to the Restoration, demonstrates its importance in the evolution of such…[Read more]

This dissertation ‘Inns and Innkeeping in North Hertfordshire: 1660-1815’ addresses the lack of a localised study on this building type and supplements the wider body of work that has been undertaken, on inn form, function and innkeeping lifestyles in other regions of England during the long eighteenth century.

This thesis is the result of an investigative work on the formulations and defense ofreligious tolerance in the Catholic Enlightenment of Portugal, to a greater extent, butalso touching on some transits with Brazil. It is assumed that the secularization processthrough which the Iberian kingdom passed, during the eighteenth century, was…[Read more]

This graduate reading seminar examines some of the historical literature on migration in a global perspective, focusing on the nineteenth century through the present. It focuses on theoretical approaches to the study of migration as well as on case studies, moving between longue-durée and comparative issues on the one hand and local effects of…[Read more]

This graduate reading seminar examines some of the historical literature on migration in a global perspective, focusing on the nineteenth century through the present. It focuses on theoretical approaches to the study of migration as well as on case studies, moving between longue-durée and comparative issues on the one hand and local effects of…[Read more]

This chapter examines the process by which Puerto Rican nationalists engaged with the Olympic Movement in their struggle for decolonization. Sotomayor shows not only shifting meanings of colonial Olympic sport for nationalists, but, more generally, that the Olympic Movement has been used and serves as a platform to negotiate nationalism and…[Read more]

Program of the Sensory Histories of Place workshop, organized by me and Elvan Baştürk Cobb, at ANAMED in 2015.

In 2016-2017, a 10-person team worked for 3 months with the goal of creating a multi-use, balanced corpus, similar to the Brown Corpus (BROWN Corpus search online). The speech section of the completed Nanhai Corpus—named for its sponsors, the Nanhai Nunnery of Taiwan—is a 289,497 word corpus of collected, transcribed, and word-split natural spe…[Read more]

بخشی از مطالعات ادبی بینارشته‌ای شامل بررسی ارتباط میان ادبیات و تصویر می‌شود. در این زمینه ارتباط میان ادبیات و سینما شناخته‌شده‌ترین حوزۀ پژوهشی است که تعداد چشمگیری اثر پژوهشی، اعم از رساله و مقاله، در این حوزه نگاشته شده‌ است. در همین زمینه می‌توان به ارتباط میان ادبیات و نقاشی اشاره کرد که در سال‌های اخیر شاهد تعداد انگشت‌شماری اثر تحقیق…[Read more]