What modes of scientific knowledge can images of architecture embody? An etching that Strasbourg artist Wendel Dietterlin the Elder released in the second, 1594 instalment of his serially published Architectura...
The animation running below shows a new kind of algorithm solving a nonogram puzzle. The task is to arrange purple squares in a grid according to some constraints listed on the sides. For example,...
When we think about lyric poetry and song traditions in the Roman Empire, the association is hardly new. Horace’s refined lyric experiments are well known, and Nero’s dramatic (and infamous) performance...
For over two millennia, readers of the Iliad and the Odyssey have imagined a single, blind poet called Homer singing the deeds of the great heroes of the Trojan War. Captivating as this image may be,...
Writing the life of a thinker is a long and difficult process. As an author, one often needs sources to which one can return and which never fail to refresh one’s original interests and revive the spirits,...
Exposure to the current media culture in almost any sphere – news, entertainment, business, politics, or technology – involves near constant contact with reporting on, and often barely concealed promotion...
At the time of writing, I am lucky enough to be working as a visiting fellow at the Arts and Humanities Institute of Maynooth University in Kildare. The university houses the archives of Teresa Deevy,...
‘The boundaries of the city of Rome are the same as those of the world’ (Fast. 2.684): Ovid’s striking claim about Rome’s global reach evokes the image of Rome as Cosmopolis—a centre of power...
In today’s rapidly globalizing world, multilingual education is no longer a niche interest—it is an essential approach to preparing learners for the linguistic realities they will face locally and...
The international economic order is in a state of flux. Major political and economic developments are reconfiguring globalization as we know it: The World Trade Organization (WTO) is on life-support,...
Fair trade has become a household name for many shoppers who encounter certified products on supermarket shelves. But behind those labels lies a complex global movement with a rich history. Based on my...
What do international institutional lawyers see when they peek out from a window? If, as David Kennedy argues, public international lawyers see a “world of nation-states and war” while trade lawyers...