Author’s corner

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

14th August, 2024 in Author’s corner

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

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.

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.

1st July, 2024 in Author’s corner

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

12th June, 2024 in Author’s corner

What does it mean to live under occupation? How does it shape the culture and identities of European nations? How does it affect the way we write and read literature?

3rd June, 2024 in Author’s corner

In his book, ‘Plutarch and Rhetoric’, Theofanis Tsiampokalos offers new insights into Plutarch’s seemingly moderate attitude towards rhetoric.

15th April, 2024 in Author’s corner

In ‘Truth and Suffering’ Paulo Beer explores different conceptions of truth and their profound influence on our understanding and approach to suffering.