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Emancipating Microtones: 19th-Century Experiments with 53-Tone Equal Temperament. (Special Panel, 'Comparing Notes: Just Intonation, Japan, and Musical Discipline', co-organised with Benjamin Steege, Julia Kursell, and Jonathan Service) (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Walden, D. K. (2016). Emancipating Microtones: 19th-Century Experiments with 53-Tone Equal Temperament. (Special Panel, 'Comparing Notes: Just Intonation, Japan, and Musical Discipline', co-organised with Benjamin Steege, Julia Kursell, and Jonathan Service).

Decoding Tristan Perich’s Dual Synthesis (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Walden, D. K. (2016, December). Decoding Tristan Perich’s Dual Synthesis. Paper presented at Keyboard Networks, Cornell University

Self-referring Deformities: Humour in Early Modern Sermon Literature (2016)
Journal Article
Derrin, D. (2018). Self-referring Deformities: Humour in Early Modern Sermon Literature. Literature and Theology, 32(3), 255-269. https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frw039

Few studies have addressed comprehensively the place of jesting in early modern pulpit rhetoric. This article documents some of the humour—jests and witty speech—in the period’s extant sermon literature. Specifically it identifies the analytical pote... Read More about Self-referring Deformities: Humour in Early Modern Sermon Literature.

‘Looting marks’ in space-borne SAR imagery: Measuring rates of archaeological looting in Apamea (Syria) with TerraSAR-X Staring Spotlight (2016)
Journal Article
Tapete, D., Cigna, F., & Donoghue, D. (2016). ‘Looting marks’ in space-borne SAR imagery: Measuring rates of archaeological looting in Apamea (Syria) with TerraSAR-X Staring Spotlight. Remote Sensing of Environment, 178, 42-58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2016.02.055

In archaeological remote sensing, space-borne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has not been used so far to monitor ‘looting’ (i.e. illegal excavations in heritage sites) mainly because of the spatial resolution of SAR images, typically not comparable t... Read More about ‘Looting marks’ in space-borne SAR imagery: Measuring rates of archaeological looting in Apamea (Syria) with TerraSAR-X Staring Spotlight.

Rethinking Iago’s Jests in Othello II.i: Honestas, Imports and Laughable Deformity (2016)
Journal Article
Derrin, D. (2016). Rethinking Iago’s Jests in Othello II.i: Honestas, Imports and Laughable Deformity. Renaissance Studies, https://doi.org/10.1111/rest.12219

An early scene in Act Two of Shakespeare's Othello is often cut or shortened. It is the one in which Iago jests with Desdemona while she waits and hopes for Othello to arrive safely in Cyprus (II.i.100–166). Critics and directors have found the scene... Read More about Rethinking Iago’s Jests in Othello II.i: Honestas, Imports and Laughable Deformity.

Shakespearean Comedy (2014)
Book Chapter
Derrin, D. (2014). Shakespearean Comedy. In S. Attardo (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Humor Studies (684-688). SAGE Publications

Contextualizing Early Urbanization: Settlement Cores, Early States and Agro-Pastoral Strategies in the Fertile Crescent during the Fourth and Third Millennia BC (2014)
Journal Article
Wilkinson, T., Philip, G., Bradbury, J., Dunford, R., Donoghue, D., Galiatsatos, N., …Smith, S. (2014). Contextualizing Early Urbanization: Settlement Cores, Early States and Agro-Pastoral Strategies in the Fertile Crescent during the Fourth and Third Millennia BC. Journal of World Prehistory, 27(1), 43-109. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-014-9072-2

This paper employs data from selected sample survey areas in the northern Fertile Crescent to demonstrate how initial urbanization developed along several pathways. The first, during the Late Chalcolithic period, was within a dense pattern of rural s... Read More about Contextualizing Early Urbanization: Settlement Cores, Early States and Agro-Pastoral Strategies in the Fertile Crescent during the Fourth and Third Millennia BC.