नावेल कोरोना वायरस के अनुपातहीन भय के खिलाफ आवाज़ उठाने वालों में इतालवी दार्शनिक जार्जो आगम्बेन सबसे प्रतिष्ठित आवाज हैं। उनकी बातों का विश्व के प्रमुख अकादमिशयनों ने संज्ञान लिया है, जिसके परिणामस्वरूप कथित ऑनलाइन-डिजिटल शिक्षा के के विरोध की सुगबुगाहट वैश्विक स्तर पर आरंभ हुई है।

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Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) nasce ad Asheville, North Carolina. Mentre studia drammaturgia ad Harvard scrive per il teatro, ma il successo arriva con il romanzo autobiografico ‘Look Homeward, Angel’ (1929), seguito da ‘Of Time and the River’ (1935) e dai postumi ‘The Web and the Rock’ (1939) e ‘You Can’t Go Home Again’ (1940). ‘Passage to England: A…[Read more]

Spanish abstract: Un tema importante en ‘Mantícora’, la novela de Robertson Davies, es el de la búsqueda de la relación con el padre, por parte de protagonista, David Staunton, abogado alcohólico y solitario, agobiado por su familia rica y por verse desheredado. Pero padres puede haber más de uno, en la realidad o en la imaginación. Y, hay que p…[Read more]

A hugely prolific and popular writer, Jodi Picoult boasts nearly 30 novels in print worldwide. She has been translated into 34 languages and, in 2018, she was ranked in the “top ten” of Princeton’s most influential living alumni. Yet her name rarely features in the short lists for prestigious literary awards and she is consistently ignored by ac…[Read more]

Das spekulative Handbuch bietet vielfältige Techniken für ein radikales Lernen und Vermitteln. Es umfasst konkrete Anleitungen, Erfahrungen und theoretische Überlegungen. Die Texte beteiligen sich an der Konzeption einer Vermittlung, die das gemeinsame Experimentieren (wieder) einführt.
Im Seminarraum, in Workshops, auf Festivals, in Fluren, Par…[Read more]

La promoción de cultura, formación de valores y el crecimiento integral es una premisa de la política de educación superior cubana. La universidad además de ser un centro de formación profesional, es un centro cultural para formar actitudes críticas en materia de artes y literatura. Se plantean como objetivos: diseñar la identidad visual del Cin…[Read more]

El objeto social de las televisiones locales cubanas es promover el desarrollo de programaciones que integren la cultura y las tradiciones locales. Las temáticas de la programación se concretan fundamentalmente en el cumplimiento de
aquellas producciones priorizadas u otros intereses de la televisión cubana en su instancia nacional. De este mo…[Read more]

Latinx/o/a writing has existed long before 20th century state policies and publishing markets created the category we recognize today as “Latino/a literature.” This course will focus on the literary and cultural production of writers from the era of initial colonization through Latin American independence and the 19th century actions fueled by the…[Read more]

It is essential to find out how Jawaharlal Nehru University created in 1966 by a special Act of Parliament, became a leftist bastion. The answer lies in its unique reservation system. In this university, from the very outset, aspirants from backward districts, women and other weaker sections were given preference in enrolment. Kashmiri migrants…[Read more]

A response to the decision of Wiley Global to “disappear” 1,300+ of their ebooks in the ProQuest catalog at the beginning of the Fall 2022 term without any communication to university libraries at all, thus taking libraries by surprise and indicating Wiley’s move away from libraries as repositories and lenders of their ebooks, passing on costs to…[Read more]

This article examines the political role of illness in Émile Zola’s ‘La Faute de l’abbé Mouret’ (‘The Sin of Father Mouret’, 1875) in articulating the difference between a religious and a secular body. Published in the early French Third Republic (1870–1940), this novel shows the Zolian body as the nexus upon which religious and republi…[Read more]

In ‘Degeneration’ (1892), Max Nordau included Émile Zola in his theory that fin-de-siècle artists were a danger to society. According to Nordau, the ‘false science’ in Zola’s Naturalist novels would erode social progress in their alleged preoccupation with disease, sexual deviancy and amorality. This article proposes that degeneration is, how…[Read more]

Haussmann’s re-building of Paris in the 1850s and ’60s had created an ordered city. However, the bourgeoisie used the new urban configurations as a weapon against the lower classes. This article describes the spaces of the underground and the overground: the underground is the metaphorical and literal rubbish heap for those in the lower parts of…[Read more]

In this paper, presented at the 2022 H-Net Teaching Conference, I describe how I teach undergraduate students about disability in music through what I call disclosure-oriented pedagogy. This practice involves demonstrating cross-historical comparisons between my lived experiences of disability and the representations of disability in 19th-century…[Read more]

Spanish abstract: Comentario sobre algunas cuestiones éticas y metaficcionales en la película ‘Eva’ (dir. Kike Maíllo, 2011).

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English abstract: A comment on some ethical and metafictional issues in the science-fiction film ‘Eva’ (dir. Kike Maíllo, 2011).