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Yearly Archives: 2022

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  • 15 Sep 2022
    Sarah M. Guérin

    What have fish to do with Gothic ivories?

    Around 1248, the merchants of Flanders submitted a complaint to the French king Louis IX about the malfeasance of customs agents at the Franco-Flemish border at Bapaumes. Among the specific complaints regarding their overreaching exercise of power is the anecdote of a young man from Bruges who was travelling with 28 headless and tailless herrings, […]

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  • 14 Sep 2022
    Eren Duzgun

    What’s Turkey doing (yet again)? : Between Kurds and Greeks

    Perhaps no question concerning the Middle East and Europe today has been more loudly asked than the question “What’s Turkey doing (yet again)?”. Rightfully so, for, Turkey, once hailed by the international community as a role model in its region, has become an increasingly ‘unpredictable’ and ‘unintelligible’ actor in the last 10 years of the […]

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  • 14 Sep 2022
    Greg Clingham

    “Like cool, clear ice”: Samuel Johnson During Lockdown

    As Covid-19 spread across Europe in early 2020, my wife and I were in Seville, Spain, where we were spending three months reading, writing, walking, and enjoying the Andalusian cuisine, language, people, and climate. As the infection spread, the WHO declared a pandemic, and lockdown began to look imminent in the USA, we realized that […]

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  • 13 Sep 2022
    Walter J. Stone, James McCann

    Power and Polarization in a Republic at Risk

    Representation in the United States has always been a risky proposition. In principle, congressional lawmakers have strong incentives to collaborate on the creation of policies that constituents demand, even as they check and balance each other and the president. Ultimately the public interest is served through the fair and timely channeling of group pressures through […]

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  • 13 Sep 2022
    Keith Frayn

    Understanding Human Metabolism: Fats, the butter on the bread of life

    Fat. What a terrible word. It’s what we don’t want. Actually we need a fast way to get rid of it.

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  • 13 Sep 2022
    Sassan Gholiagha

    The Humanisation of Global Politics

    Who matters in global politics? For a long time, the answer the majority of International Relations (IR) scholarship gave was simple: states. Then, gradually new actors appeared on the stage of global politics, or those who always had been there received more attention: Civil society actors, multinational corporations, international organisations, international courts and tribunals, and […]

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  • 8 Sep 2022
    Patricia Blessing

    Why Ottoman Architecture? A Research Journey

    Architecture and Material Politics in the Fifteenth-century Ottoman Empire stems from my research on Ottoman architecture, which I began in summer 2014, shortly before the publication of my first book, Rebuilding Anatolia after the Mongol Conquest. That book addresses buildings located in Turkey, which were built for Muslim patrons in the second half of the […]

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  • 2 Sep 2022
    Scott F. Madey, Dean D. VonDras

    The Uncertainty of Our Being and the Four Purposes of Music

    Music is a universal phenomenon. In all cultures we find music, where the penetrating message of the lyrical melody and the rich harmonies of the instrumental ensemble communicate the apprehensions of the individual, family, and society. Viewed from a psychological perspective, these apprehensions reflect the uncertainty of our being, and are recognized to motivate and […]

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