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Al-Ṣafadī, his Critics, and the Drag of Philological Time (2019)
Journal Article
Talib, A. (2019). Al-Ṣafadī, his Critics, and the Drag of Philological Time. Philological Encounters, 4(1-2), 109-134. https://doi.org/10.1163/24519197-12340062

Philology was more than a scholarly tool in the system of classical Arabo-Islamic writing; it was a cognitive model. This cognitive model was embodied by scholars and repeatedly performed by them in oral and written expression. It can be understood a... Read More about Al-Ṣafadī, his Critics, and the Drag of Philological Time.

TESTT Space: groundwork and experiment in a complex arts organisation (2019)
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Hudson, M., & Donkin, H. (2019). TESTT Space: groundwork and experiment in a complex arts organisation. Arts and the Market, 9(2), 188-201. https://doi.org/10.1108/aam-05-2019-0016

This paper documents and describes an omni-disciplinary ethnography of a complex arts and cultural regeneration organisation in Durham (TESTT Space). The organisation and its art spaces is a hybrid combination tool explicitly designed to test and exp... Read More about TESTT Space: groundwork and experiment in a complex arts organisation.

Fasting, Feasting: The Resistant Strategies of (Not) Eating in Ananda Devi's Le Voile de Draupadi and Manger l'autre (2019)
Journal Article
Damlé, A. (2019). Fasting, Feasting: The Resistant Strategies of (Not) Eating in Ananda Devi's Le Voile de Draupadi and Manger l'autre. International Journal of Francophone Studies, 22(3-4), 179-211. https://doi.org/10.1386/ijfs_00001_1

This article explores representations of fasting and feasting in Le Voile de Draupadi (1993) and Manger l’autre (2018) by contemporary Francophone Mauritian author, Ananda Devi, teasing out the resistant strategies of (not) eating to the power dynami... Read More about Fasting, Feasting: The Resistant Strategies of (Not) Eating in Ananda Devi's Le Voile de Draupadi and Manger l'autre.

Staging Silence: Arab Women's Cancer Experience (2019)
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Hamdar, A. (2021). Staging Silence: Arab Women's Cancer Experience. Studies in Theatre and Performance, 41(2), 197-211. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682761.2019.1683348

This paper offers a critical reflection on the play I Am Waiting for You [Wasafuli Al-Sabr] which was written by the author and directed by Lina Abyad. Based on extensive interviews with real-life female cancer patients from the Arab world, the play... Read More about Staging Silence: Arab Women's Cancer Experience.

Catherine II: Uniform Dresses and Regional Uniforms (2019)
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Ivleva, V. (2019). Catherine II: Uniform Dresses and Regional Uniforms. Costume, 53(2), 207-230. https://doi.org/10.3366/cost.2019.0121

Soon after the coup d’état of 1762, which brought Catherine II, also known as Catherine the Great, to power, Vigilius Erichsen painted the equestrian portrait of the Empress in the Life Guards’ uniform. Catherine wore this uniform during the coup tha... Read More about Catherine II: Uniform Dresses and Regional Uniforms.

"The Loosest Sketch in Nature...": Balzac, Sterne, et l'esquisse littéraire (2019)
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Dickson, P. (2019). "The Loosest Sketch in Nature...": Balzac, Sterne, et l'esquisse littéraire. L'Année Balzacienne, 20(1), 195-209

Whilst English visual art plays a minor role in La Comédie humaine, the novelist Laurence Sterne, whose influence on Balzac is widely recognized, is the mediator of some of Balzac’s most visual narrative flourishes and reflections. Drawing from criti... Read More about "The Loosest Sketch in Nature...": Balzac, Sterne, et l'esquisse littéraire.

Aesthetic Appreciation and Spanish Art: Insights from Eye-Tracking (2019)
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Bailey-Ross, C., Beresford, A., Smith, D., & Warwick, C. (2019). Aesthetic Appreciation and Spanish Art: Insights from Eye-Tracking. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, 34(Supplement 1), i17-i35. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqz027

Eye-tracking—the process of capturing and measuring human eye movement—is becoming an increasingly prevalent tool in the cultural heritage sector to understand visual processing and audience behaviours. Yet, most applications to date have focused on... Read More about Aesthetic Appreciation and Spanish Art: Insights from Eye-Tracking.

Prosecuting Procurement in the Russian Empire (2019)
Journal Article
Hearne, S. (2020). Prosecuting Procurement in the Russian Empire. Journal of Social History, 54(1), 185-209. https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shz040

Concern about the issue of forced prostitution reached its height in the Russian empire (as elsewhere in Europe and the Americas) at the turn of the twentieth century, as part of the wider international “white slave” panic. In 1909, new antiprocureme... Read More about Prosecuting Procurement in the Russian Empire.

“You can change your noses, but you can’t change your Moses”: Olfactory Aesthetics and the Jewish “Race” (2019)
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Roth, Z. (2019). “You can change your noses, but you can’t change your Moses”: Olfactory Aesthetics and the Jewish “Race”. Esprit Créateur, 59(2), 72-87. https://doi.org/10.1353/esp.2019.0017

This article shifts the analysis of the ‘Jewish’ nose away from its visual significance to its olfactory capacity. It develops the notion of an olfactory aesthetics as a way of becoming attuned to the role smell plays in the interpretation of racial... Read More about “You can change your noses, but you can’t change your Moses”: Olfactory Aesthetics and the Jewish “Race”.

'Voice of Resistance': Rim Banna, Cancer, and Palestine's Body Politic (2019)
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Hamdar, A. (2020). 'Voice of Resistance': Rim Banna, Cancer, and Palestine's Body Politic. Medical Humanities, 46(3), 234-242. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2019-011649

This essay offers a cultural anatomy of Palestinian artist Rim Banna’s post-illness body, from her cancer diagnosis, through her death and into the commemorations that ensued. The essay draws on Banna’s music, her interviews, as well as the public ob... Read More about 'Voice of Resistance': Rim Banna, Cancer, and Palestine's Body Politic.