Comparative

At a time when Western values and Italianness are increasingly challenged by the forces of globalization, it is necessary to reconsider former epistemologies of space and ontologies of identity that now seem to be obsolete. In this context, the Mediterranean paradigm is (re)-emerging as a crucial framework through which Italy can re-examine its cultural traditions, while charting future paths based on the transnational exchanges with other cultures from the Mediterranean basin. Italian ...

This special issue of Comparative Drama, “The Audience as Player: Interactive Theater Over the Years,” seeks essays that explore plays and productions in which members of the audience are not just voyeurs in the house but participants, players in the onstage drama. This enhanced “role” for the audience has, surely, philosophical and aesthetic implications, not to mention practical consequence during an actual production.

The essays might range from the ...

Gender is one of the most salient features of religious movements and religious institutions. Women are the majority of participants in religious life and they are increasingly significant actors in religious movements and politics. In many religious traditions, cultural and religious continuity hinges on gendered practices and sexual regimes. Many regions of the world are experiencing important transformations with respect to religion. For instance, China has seen an enormous upsurge in ...

Arthur Miller once said, “Without alienation there can be no politics.” What he did not say is that being withdrawn or isolated exacts a severe price that cannot be measured in hard currency, considering that alienation is defined as emotional isolation or dissociation from others. We solicit chapters that approach alienation by examining why people are marginalized and why others are so eager to erect barriers rather than tear them down. The contribution could deal with, but is ...

Othello's Island 2014: The 2nd International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Cyprus

4 to 7 April 2014

Following its successful first year in 2013 the new annual conference and study trip to explore the Medieval and Renaissance history of Cyprus, Othello's Island, returns in 2014.

In Cyprus the Medieval and Renaissance period was marked by almost 400 years of rule by French Lusignan monarchs and the Republic of ...

Studia austriaca
An international journal devoted to the study of Austrian culture and literature
Published annually in the spring
ISSN 1593-2508

Call for Papers / Submissions
(http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/StudiaAustriaca/article/view/2071/2304)
Suggestions and proposals for publication are welcome!
We consider scholarly essays written in German, English, Italian, French or Spanish.
Scholars ...

Studia theodisca
An international journal devoted to the study of German culture and literature
Published annually in the autumn
ISSN 1593-2478

Call for Papers / Submissions
(http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/StudiaTheodisca/article/view/2553/2786)
Suggestions and proposals for publication are welcome!
We consider scholarly essays written in German, English, Italian, French or Spanish.
Scholars ...

The troubled 20th century has been labeled in many ways – one of which is “the century of migrations”. Temporary or permanent displacement, therefore, which is largely understood as an existential and epistemological condition embedded in its own material and metaphorical contexts, became one of the most fascinating subjects of (post)modern literature. The experience of travel in the largest sense reshapes personal identities and constructs new symbolic geographies that ...

Graduate students from any university are invited to submit abstracts of papers for our 2nd Annual Graduate Student Conference, held on April 17th 2013. This year’s theme is Violence, Conflict, and Development and the committee will review any academic paper which, broadly understood, addresses the drivers and sources of conflict, the dynamics of violence, or development in post-conflict situations. The selection committee strongly encourages interdisciplinary scholars to submit ...

The 12th International Postgraduate Conference on Central and Eastern Europe: Landscape and Environment in Central and Eastern Europe - Interdisciplinary Approaches.

The conference invites postgraduate students and early-career researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences to take part in an interdisciplinary debate about the nature, meaning, uses and representation of the Central and East European landscape and environment. The geographical ...