Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear, three of the most frequently adapted tragedies, have inspired incredible work in the Sinophone theatres of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China for over two centuries as political theatre, comedic parody, Chinese opera, and avant-garde theatre. Gender roles in the plays take on new meanings when they are e…[Read more]

Purpose: This study aims at justifying the affiliation of the massive transformative purpose as an important item in the aggregate of the proclaimed corporate culture elements. For this reason the bundle of shades in the meaning for the massive transformative purpose will be explored, bearing in mind the main researcher’s interest in outlining t…[Read more]

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Shakespeare adaptations share an intimate relation with global studies, because Shakespeare – as a cultural institution – registers a broad spectrum of practices that generate productive dialogues with world cultures.

Global studies enables us to examine deceivingly harmonious images of Shakespeare’s works. This…[Read more]

Even though Shakespeare’s plays were initially performed by all-male casts, they were designed to appeal to diverse audiences. Many modern adaptations reimagine those plays as expressions of gender nonconformity. Over the past decades, prominent films and theater works have fostered new public conversations about the politics of appropriating g…[Read more]

This article concentrates on the affective impacts of the relationship between the bodies of the father and his daughter in Sirach. It relies on gender studies as well as affect theory to explore how intensities pass from body to body in the biblical text, and also to the bodies of those who read it. The father’s body is marked by gynophobic a…[Read more]

This chapter analyzes activist narratives that foreground agroecological systems such as milpa farming. Here, corn has been most visibly used as a unifying metaphor for Mexican identity, while quelites (‘tender edible weeds’), which grow spontaneously at the feet of corn plants, have historically commanded much less attention. Recently, how…[Read more]

This is about the social construction of nonhuman animals and our oppressive relationship with them. It is about texts and animals, as well as such things as feminism, history, racism, mass violence, animal farming, animal experimentation……well a whole lot of things! It seeks to understand our normalization of violence against nonhuman animals…[Read more]

Johannesburg is a landlocked city, famously the largest human concentration in the southern hemisphere not located on a river. What opportunities does it afford for hydrocolonial analysis, given Isabel Hofmeyr’s anchoring of that term in oceanic studies? How might a hydrocolonial orientation defamiliarize the relations between surface and depths…[Read more]

CFP – AIWAC 2nd edition Rome 2022

CFP – AIWAC 2nd edition Rome 2022

Research about Sino-foreign cultural interactions during the last decades of the Qing Empire pays much attention to the extremely dense and complex relations between Japan and China. Against this backdrop, historians have tended to neglect that the Chinese “constitutional preparation” of the years 1905-06 was concomitant to the promulgation of con…[Read more]

This article reconstructs two modes of parliamentary representation of (post-)imperial diversity in early twentieth-century China. One model foresaw a differentiated representation of the borderlands in the nascent parliamentary institutions, using upper house seats to garner loyalty from the nobility at the same time as it denied electoral…[Read more]

The current article explores and assesses the coming into being of new business culture characteristics due to the extreme conditions of Covid-19 pandemic. Based on conducted focus group with students in Organizational culture module and performed subsequent literature review of scientific and professional literature, and blogs/ sites of opinion…[Read more]

This article analyzes the reception and reactions in the Chilean political
debate to the so-called “Prague Spring”, especially in the National Congress, in
August 1968. Methodologically, the historical study consults primary sources,
documents from the Historical Archive of the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
and press of the time, new…[Read more]

Chapter on Emanuele Coccia’s meditations on plants, from the perspective of feminist extinction inspired by Claire Colebrook.

Reflections on Post-Globalscape, an exhibition curated by Gerardo Mosquera for Intermingling Flux: 2021 Guangzhou Image Triennial, Guangdong Lingnan Fine Arts Publishing House, Editor in Chief Wang Shaoqiang.

Reflections on Post-Globalscape, an exhibition curated by Gerardo Mosquera for Intermingling Flux: 2021 Guangzhou Image Triennial, Guangdong Lingnan Fine Arts Publishing House, Editor in Chief Wang Shaoqiang.

Shakespeare’s plays and motifs have been appropriated in fragmentary forms on screen since motion pictures were invented in 1893. Allusions to Shakespeare haunt our contemporary culture in a myriad of ways, whether through brief references or sustained intertextual engagements. ::::: This collection of essays extends beyond a US-UK axis to bring t…[Read more]

1970 wurde die Schwarzenbach-Initiative nur knapp verworfen. Sie war der Auftakt zu einer bis heute anhaltenden Reihe von «Überfremdungsinitiativen», die Generationen von Menschen mit Migrationsgeschichte traumatisiert haben. In diesem Buch sprechen Zeitzeug:innen der Schwarzenbach-Initiative über ihr Leben im Provisorium. Sie erzählen von prek…[Read more]