The authors comprehensively analyze all the available information regarding the ritual practices of Slavic pre-Christian religion that can be found in written medieval texts. After investigating every kind of reference to such practices, they offer a reconstruction of Slavic pre-Christian religion on the basis of these medieval testimonies. In doing so, they overcome the challenges presented by…
The well-known challenges of international migration have triggered new departures in academic approaches, with 'diaspora studies' evolving as an interdisciplinary and even transdisciplinary field of study. Its emerging methodology shares concerns with another interdisciplinary field, the study of the relations between law and literature, which focuses on the ways in which the two cultural prac…
This chapter sets out the aims of this book and explains themethods and approaches applied in its production. It alsoaspires to be a guide, offering readers instructions as to howbest to use the book. We therefore strongly encourage allreaders to read this chapter carefully, so as to gain a clearerunderstanding of all the different aspects analysed in thisbook. This chapter also provides essent…
Building on five years of national organizing by Arts in a Changing America, an artist-led initiative that challenges structural racism in the art world, FUTURE/PRESENT includes a range of poetry, essays and criticism, visual and performance art, artist manifestos, interviews, and reflections on community practice.
Between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, contemporary culture and philosophy in particular encouraged an energetic reappraisal of the sensible life as an integral part of corporeity and intermediation between humans and ‘their’ world. ‘Sensibility’ evokes an interface relationship with the world, while the ‘sensorium,’ a distinct term/concept that is related to the former, ex…
The seeds of this publication were sown during a series of conversations held while organising a conference supported by the UCL Rome Fund and the University of L’Aquila in the 10th anniversary year of the 2009 L’Aquila earthquake. At the suggestion of the host university’s Provost Paola Inverardi, historian Lucia met urbanist Paola and we found ourselves discussing th…
Covid-19 has reinforced vulnerabilities worldwide. It has threatened people’s health and well-being, shattered health systems, exacerbated poverty and inequality, limited children’s access to education, and negatively impacted economies.1 Blindfolded by their lack of knowledge about this disease, governments’ efforts to contain Covid-19 once and for all have been limited at best. Between …