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Steven Jacobs and Raf Wollaert Steven Jacobs and Raf Wollaert | Marcel Broodthaers and Film

13th January, 2025 in Author’s corner

In ‘Marcel Broodthaers and Film’ editors Steven Jacobs and Raf Wollaert discuss his films as inseparable from his entire oeuvre while situating them in the larger history of experimental film.

Angeliki Sioli, Nishat Awan, and Kristopher Palagi | Architectures of Resistance Angeliki Sioli, Nishat Awan, and Kristopher Palagi | Architectures of Resistance

20th December, 2024 in Author’s corner

The volume ‘Architectures of Resistance’ addresses spatial boundaries as places where social and political conditions are intensified and where new spatial practices of architectural resistance arise.

portrait of Nidesh Lawtoo and Marina Garcia-Granero Nidesh Lawtoo and Marina Garcia-Granero | Homo Mimeticus II

25th September, 2024 in Author’s corner

In this second installment of the Homo Mimeticus series, international scholars working in philosophy, literary theory, classics, cultural studies, sociology, political theory, and the neurosciences engage creatively with Nidesh Lawtoo’s ‘Homo Mimeti…

Rudy Jos Beerens Rudy Jos Beerens | Painters and Communities in Seventeenth-Century Brussels

16th September, 2024 in Author’s corner

Author Rudy Jos Beerens explores the intricate relationship between the social structures and artistic production of the 353 painters who became masters in the Brussels Guild of Painters, Goldbeaters, and Stained-Glass Makers between 1599 and 1706.

Anne Douglas and Chris Fremantle Anne Douglas and Chris Fremantle | Thinking with the Harrisons

9th September, 2024 in Author’s corner

Authors Anne Douglas and Chris Fremantle ‘think with’ the Harrisons, critically tracing their poetics as a reimaging and reconfiguring of the arts in response to the unfolding planetary crisis.

Pamela Karimi Pamela Karimi | Women, Art, Freedom

6th September, 2024 in Author’s corner

Engaging with primarily Iran-based artists, Pamela Karimi uncovers their role in shaping guerrilla interventions and street occupations and in articulating distinct forms of peaceful civil disobedience.

Vanessa Montesi Vanessa Montesi | Dance as Intermedial Translation

28th August, 2024 in Author’s corner

‘Dance as Intermedial Translation’ is situated in the breach opened up by recent debates on inherited notions of text, language, and translation that followed the emergence of new technologies.

Elias Van Dyck Elias Van Dyck | Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly

28th August, 2024 in Author’s corner

In dit nieuwe boekje in de Operatheek-reeks geeft Elias Van Dyck een beknopte introductie tot Puccini’s oriëntalistische meesterwerk.

Mario Trinidad Mario Trinidad | Missionaries and Resistance in Guatemala

14th August, 2024 in Author’s corner

‘Missionaries and Resistance in Guatemala’ chronicles the involvement of certain Catholic missionaries in popular and revolutionary movements.

Maj Hartmann Maj Hartmann | Politics in Publishing

13th August, 2024 in Author’s corner

Maj Hartmann focuses on Japan’s involvement in shaping international copyright law over a seventy-year period following the country’s 1899 accession to the Berne Convention, the first multilateral copyright treaty.

Raphael Chijioke Njoku Raphael Chijioke Njoku | Queen Elizabeth II and the Africans

7th August, 2024 in Author’s corner

Raphael Chijioke Njoku examines Queen Elizabeth II’s role in the African decolonization trajectories and the postcolonial state’s quest for genuine political and economic liberation since 1947.

Luca Burzelli | Pietro Pomponazzi and the Renaissance Theory of the Elements

1st July, 2024 in Author’s corner

Luca Burzelli discusses one of the main intellectual figures of the Italian Renaissance: Pietro Pomponazzi (d. 1525).