This paper renders the ancient folktale ‘Ama’ (Woman Diver) into English, investigates its origins, and interprets its timeless significance. From a prehistoric oral tradition, it evolved into a temple chronicle and a Noh play. The paper includes a summary in Japanese, and all the references are in Japanese. With a moving story and vivid…[Read more]

Parvin Iʿtisami (1907–1941), the first important twentieth-century woman poet of Iran, was well versed in classical Persian poetry. Her knowledge of English language and education at the American school for girls as well as her father’s translations from foreign literature contributed to her appreciation of modern ideas, including women’s rights…[Read more]

Lectura Dantis – Inferno: note preliminari di forma e organizzazione / erste Hinweise auf Unterrichtsform und Organisation (Italiano / Deutsch). Folien der Videopräsentation.

One of the main arguments used to legitimise Christian military expansion in medieval Iberia was the location of the origin of the Christian Iberian kingdoms in the ancient Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo (507–711), which established a notion of political continuity between these entities. The legitimacy of the Visigothic Kingdom was reflected in t…[Read more]

On the project pirate.care

On the project pirate.care

‘A lot of things need to be repaired and a lot of relationships are in need of a knowledgeable mending. Can we start to talk/write about them?’ This invitation — sent by one of the authors to the others — led us, as feminist women in academia, to join together in an experimental writing about the effects of COVID-19 on daily social practic…[Read more]

Tsao, Hung-ping 曹恆平 (2021). Caring Letters From My Loving Mother 慈暉魚雁昭 . In: “Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)”, Wang, Lawrence K. 王抗曝 and Tsao, Hung-ping 曹恆平 (editors). Volume 3, Number 12, December 2021; 111 pages. Lenox Institute Press, Auburndale, MA, 02466, USA. No. STEAM-VOL3-…[Read more]

Through offering an ethnography of a group of educated, middle-class women who “had been attending weekly Qur’an and classical poetry classes for years” (xii), the volume shows that poetry and prayer are companions in the cultural history of Iran. It attempts to answer the question, “What does this companionship mean for forms of religio…[Read more]

An unknown portrait of Trinidad Grund y Cereno del Campo enriches the short iconography of this woman, a true character from the 19th century in the history of the city of Malaga (Spain). The photographer Pedro Fernández had an ephemeral studio on calle Nueva, but in this case he moved to the garden in which Trinidad posed with a young lady and a…[Read more]

Dans ce court essai, l’auteur examine l’effet d’un bâtiment emblématique sur la conduite de la personne qui y vit. Il prend comme référence la première maison que le célèbre architecte a conçue et projette son irradiation sur des expériences autobiographiques qui couvrent de multiples aspects de la vie quotidienne. Partant de l’interrelatio…[Read more]

The depth and significance of the shifts associated with the post-work society has pro-voked a newfound interest in the role of imagination in political thinking, made explicit by many authors who turned to the literary genre of utopian and sci-fi writing to sketch possible scenarios of the near future. This paper turns to another mode of…[Read more]

Desde que Alan Deyermond, entre los años 70 y 80 del siglo pasado , consiguiera vencer toda reticencia académica para que la obra de Leonor López de Córdoba pasase de ser una delicada rareza literaria a ser introducida con pleno derecho en el canon de la literatura hispánica medieval , la investigación sobre la autora nacida en Calatayud, aunqu…[Read more]

Twenty-five years ago, my colleagues Miyuki Kamachi and Jiro Gyoba and I designed and photographed JAFFE, a set of facial expression images intended for use in a study of face perception. In 2019, without seeking permission or informing us, Kate Crawford and Trevor Paglen exhibited JAFFE in two widely publicized art shows. In addition, they…[Read more]