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A Serious Shortfall in Clinical Research in Doctoral Schools: A Detailed Analysis of Ten Doctoral Schools of Medicine European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Judit Hegyi, Rita Nagy, Tamás Kói, Péter Hegyi
The amount and quality of clinical research are constantly increasing; however, the translation of results into daily practice is not keeping pace. University curricula provide minimal methodological background for understanding the latest scientific findings. In this project, we aimed to investigate the quality and amount of clinical research compared with basic research by analysing ten doctoral
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Research Trends in University Rankings: A Scoping Review of the Top 100 Most Cited Articles in Academic Journals from 2017 to 2021 European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 İrfan Ayhan
The objective of this research is to perform a comprehensive evaluation of the top 100 articles concerning university rankings, with the highest number of citations, which were published in academic journals during a period of five years, specifically from 2017 to 2021. This article adheres to the guidelines established by the PRISMA extension for scoping reviews. The selection of the 100 most frequently
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Players or Pawns? University Response to the Introduction of Plan S European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Åse Gornitzka, Bjørn Stensaker
The European Plan S initiative intending to transform the field of academic publishing towards open access has been received with both enthusiasm and criticism. This article reflects on this case as an example of how policymaking in ‘the Europe of Knowledge’ – characterized by increasing complexity caused by problems of multi-level coordination, combined with multi-actor divergence of norms, ideas
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The European Capital of Culture and Transnational Networks European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Yi-De Liu
In Europe, building transnational networks has become a crucial means for realizing bottom-up Europeanization and implementing the European Union (EU) policy at the grassroots. The value of transnational networks lies in clarifying political exchanges, decision making and policy transfer below the EU level. As a core element of the EU’s cultural action, the European Capital of Culture (ECOC) is an
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Is Living Easier With Eyes Closed? European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Charlotte Wien
Blind peer review has become the gold standard of many scholarly disciplines. However, this seems like a paradox since openness is deeply embedded in the DNA of research. Over the last 30 years changes in the managerial paradigms of academia have also induced so many changes in the ecosystem of scholarly communication that many scholars describe the present situation as a crisis. Therefore, in light
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Transformed Publication Strategies European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Christine Musselin
This article looks at publication strategies from two perspectives. First, the author describes her own publication strategy. She shows how it evolved over time and explains why she adopted a balanced strategy mixing books and papers, English and French, collective and individual authorship. She then builds on her experience as co-editor of two journals, one French and one international, analyses the
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Economic Resilience in the Centre Development Region, Romania. A Methodological Approach to the 2009–2011 Economic Crisis and Post-crisis European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Paul-Răzvan Şerban, Bianca Mitrică
Economic resilience consists of the decisions taken by firms in order to face decreasing demand (during an economic crisis) while maintaining a functional economic structure so that they may then return to business as usual after the crisis has passed. In addition, it refers to how the population acts in order to stay in the labour market and maintain their standard of living. The educational structure
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Digital Transformations of Public Administration in Countries with Transition Economies European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Oleksandr Karpenko, Tetiana Zaporozhets, Mariia Tsedik, Nataliia Vasiuk, Anton Osmak
Digital transformation has become a prevalent feature of the twenty-first century, extending from business to all aspects of social life. Public administration has also been affected by this trend. However, no country undergoing a transition economy has been capable of matching the level of digitalization reached by developed nations. The study aims to evaluate the digital transformations of public
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Limitations of Fundamental Rights in EU Law: Are Human Rights Absolute? European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Verica Trstenjak
The importance of fundamental rights has been seen especially during the Covid-19 crisis. Although fundamental rights are usually perceived as abstract by individuals, they concretely and directly influence our everyday lives. With this article I want to confirm the thesis that, despite the fact that rights are generally not absolute, their limitation is possible only in exceptional cases. This article
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Photography, Film and Storytelling of Posthuman Crises in Blade Runner European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Kanjing He
Blade Runner (1982), directed by Ridley Scott and adapted from Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), incorporates the media of film and photography and utilizes various filmmaking techniques, including cinematography, sound effects, and dialogues, to reflect on the complex relationship between humans, technology and power. Through cinematographic techniques such as light and
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Flee: Sounds of Fright and Flight European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Signe Kjaer Jensen
Animation and live-action are two closely related media, which are foremost distinguished by the ideas and conventions surrounding them. The diverging discourses around animation and live action have tended to focus on animation as something constructed to represent characters and settings and on live action as something capturing actors and sets representing characters and settings. This difference
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Intermedial Performativity and the Human Mind in Samuel Beckett’s Teleplays European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Chang Chen
Samuel Beckett’s corpus centres on the characterization, examination and imaginative exploration of the human mind, encompassing the realms of consciousness, cognition and perception. In his teleplays, this focus is distinctively achieved through the performances of different media, which this article refers to as ‘intermedial performativity’. This term not only designates the semiotic contents of
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Interpreting David Smith’s Photography Through a Medium-centred Model of Communication European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Weiyi Wu
American sculptor David Smith moved fluidly between media to elicit the kind of aesthetic reaction that he believed was unique to and inherent in modern art. As remediation of his sculpture, Smith’s photography attains its own performative power by establishing a new aesthetic relationship with its spectators. This article applies Lars Elleström’s medium-centred model of communication to the analysis
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Media between Media: ‘Making-of’s and the Hidden Faces of Film Adaptation European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Nafiseh Mousavi
Comparing source and target media products is the main intermedial method for studying adaptations. The inventory of similarities and differences produced by such an endeavour provides evidence for the processes of transfer and transformation that have happened between the two media. But the finished media products are not the only traces of the process of adaptation. In practices of adaptation that
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Towards an Intermedial Theory of Medial Agency: Environing Media European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Jørgen Bruhn
Based on a rough conceptual divide of (parts of) media studies, including intermedial studies, this article presents two positions based on interests in media as transmission and representation, or media as ecological frame, or media agency. Following that, the article discusses how a new concept in environmental studies, ‘environing media’ or ‘environing technologies’ – where representation and media
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Transmediation, Transgression and Popularization: A Study of the Cantonese Opera Film White Snake European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Wei Feng
The preservation of declining xiqu heritage through remediation and transmediation has often been ineffective in attracting a wider audience. The Cantonese opera film White Snake (2021), with its unusual utilization of computer-generated technology and transgressive combination of various media, offers a fresh approach to popularizing xiqu among younger audiences. To overcome aesthetic differences
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The Universalism of Mathematics and its Detractors: Relativism and Radical Equalitarianism Threaten STEM Disciplines in the US European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Sergiu Klainerman
This is a modest personal attempt to understand the ideology behind the current antiscientific trends in STEM, and more specifically in mathematics. In simplified terms, these trends can be traced back to a growing imbalance between the old ideal of fairness based on individual merit and the increasingly predominant, unrealistic expectations of equality of outcomes in all areas of human activities
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Science, Race, and Scientific Truth, Past and Present European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Ute Deichmann
This article examines the violation of longstanding scientific norms, in particular universalism, objectivity, and truth orientation by new identity policies such as the principle of ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ (DEI). The imposition of this principle by public opinion, administration, and mass media, particularly in the United States but also in other countries, contradicts the principle of
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On Academic Activism: A French Perspective European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Nathalie Heinich
In this article, I will try to offer both a French perspective on academic activism and a perspective based on my field of competence, that is, the social sciences and humanities. The social sciences and humanities differ from the natural sciences in many respects, but they also share some common properties, among which the most important is their common institutional belonging to the academic field
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Germany’s Cancel Culture and Limitations of Debate European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Ahmad Mansour
In this article, I describe Germany’s Cancel Culture and Limitations of Debate by referring to my own biography and current social-political events.
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The Notion of Truth in Sciences and Medicine, Why it Matters and Why We Must Defend It European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Andreas Bikfalvi
Philosophers have described several approaches for scientific research, including causal inference and induction, the hypothetico-deductive method, inference of the best explanation, Bayesianism or causal network analysis. Prescriptive truth is dependent upon the values that one brings into scientific inquiry. One may oppose the writings of Bertrand Russell and Helen Longino. The former argues that
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Biases and Feedbacks in the Knowledge System: from Academia to the Public and Back European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Yonatan Dubi
In the philosophy of science, there are multiple concepts trying to answer the question of how scientists ‘know’ things, all circling around the notion of observation, thesis, falsification and corroboration – namely, the usual concepts of scientific practice. However, a whole different question is ‘how does the public know things?’. Understanding the answer to this question is crucial, since (at least
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Critical Social Justice Subverts Scientific Publishing European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Anna I. Krylov, Jay Tanzman
The politicization of science – the infusion of ideology into the scientific enterprise – threatens the ability of science to serve humanity. Today, the greatest such threat comes from a set of ideological viewpoints collectively referred to as Critical Social Justice (CSJ). This contribution describes how CSJ has detrimentally affected scientific publishing by means of social engineering, censorship
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Resistance to Critiques in the Academic Literature: An Example from Physics Education Research European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Charles Reichhardt, Alex Small, Cristiano Nisoli, Cynthia Reichhardt
Research framed around issues of diversity and representation in STEM is often controversial. The question of what constitutes a valid critique of such research, or the appropriate manner of airing such a critique, thus has a heavy ideological and political subtext. Here, we outline an attempt to comment on a paper recently published in the research journal Physical Review – Physics Education Research
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The Creative Destruction Approach to Growth Economics European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Philippe Aghion, Peter Howitt
In this article we introduce the Schumpeterian growth paradigm, where growth results from innovations that render previous innovations obsolete. We show how this paradigm can be used to elucidate enigmas in recent growth history, such as the growth take-off, secular stagnation, and the middle-income trap. We then illustrate how the Schumpeterian paradigm can be tested using rich micro data, focusing
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Cultural Unconscious: A Theory of Cultural Criticism European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Ming Dong Gu
‘Cultural unconscious’ is a vague term in literary and cultural studies. It has not yet been systematically examined from the conceptual standpoint. As a concept, it is not a simple idea that combines ‘culture’ and ‘unconscious’, but refers to the mechanism of cultural psychology and epistemology structured on the interaction of history, psychology, discourse, ideology and other factors. By investigating
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The EU and the Common Central Asian Higher Education Area: The Kazakh Dimension European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Aigerim M. Zhakyanova, Kulipa Ch. Baisultanova
This study topic is highly relevant as it explores the geopolitical dynamics of Kazakhstan, which serves as a hub where the interests of major world powers intersect with regional significance. The purpose of this article is to examine and analyse the state of Kazakhstan within the Central Asian region, considering its characteristics, such as high levels of socio-political and economic development
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The Chicago Trifecta European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Dorian S. Abbot
The purpose of this article is to discuss practical solutions to the threat to free inquiry at universities coming from the illiberal left. Based on my experiences at the University of Chicago, I propose that all universities should adopt and enforce rules requiring that: (1) the university, and any unit of it, cannot take collective positions on social and political issues; (2) faculty hiring and
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LECTURE HELD AT THE ACADEMIA EUROPAEA BUILDING BRIDGES CONFERENCE 2022: An Introduction to Responsible AI European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Artificial intelligence (AI) has finally reached most people on our planet thanks to generative AI tools for text and other media. This has started a controversy about the possible benefits and risks, where responsible AI is key. Hence, we introduce the concept of responsible AI, its relation to AI ethics, and why the terms ethical or trustworthy AI should not be used. We then cover the three main
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Between the Media: Media Relations in Literature and Art European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Svend Erik Larsen
Most discussions on mediality and intermediality take their point of departure as contemporary digital media, social media included. Hence, earlier periods in cultural history are often regarded as simple forerunners for the highly complex situation in today’s globalized media culture based on digital technologies. It is true that electronic media technology and its social effects now have reached
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The Effect of the 2004 EU Enlargement on the Development and Similarity of the Insurance Sectors in the EU European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Anna Denkowska, Stanisław Wanat, João Paulo Vieito
The enlargement of the European Union to new countries in 2004 introduced mechanisms to support the development of various social and economic areas, while also aiming to level the differences between the member states. The primary purpose of this study is to analyse the development and similarities of the insurance markets in the old and new member states of the EU after the enlargement in 2004. We
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GOLD MEDAL LECTURE GIVEN AT THE ACADEMIA EUROPAEA BUILDING BRIDGES CONFERENCE 2022: Bottom-up Probing Earth System: A Journey in Deep Time and Space European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Sierd Cloetingh
The quantitative understanding of processes operating in the earth system has advanced significantly over the last few decades. This has led to the realization that a close interaction between deep earth and surface processes is a key element in earth dynamics and its impact on geo-environment, geo-energy, geo-resources and geo-hazards in general. The European continent and its ocean-continent margins
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The Cycle of Medieval Cathedrals – Explaining the Construction of Iberian Cathedrals through Economic Development European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Paulo Reis Mourao
Iberian cathedrals are some of the most impressive religious buildings in Europe. Mostly erected between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, they are also the outcome of regional phases of growth and development. This article discusses this period favourable to the building of religious structures in the Iberian Peninsula, considering local dynamism, the religiosity of adherents and stimuli from the
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Education and Economic Growth: Evidence from the EUROMED Countries European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Ebru Topcu
The Mediterranean Strategy on Education for Sustainable Development (MSESD) Report reveals that the Mediterranean is an exceptional eco-region not only due to its geographical characteristics, but also its heterogeneous economic structure, in which education is regarded as a key driver of sustainable development. Given this importance, this study attempts to investigate the impact of education as a
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Religious Diversity and Cultural Transmission in Pre-modern Europe European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 John Tolan
Over the past several decades, historians of Medieval Europe have worked to show the complexity and diversity of Europe’s religious, linguistic and cultural landscape. Medieval Europe was neither a multicultural paradise nor an ethnically pure enclave. Archaeology, ethnolinguistics, literary studies and textual studies all show the constant movement of populations into and across Europe, from earliest
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Objectivity and Intellectual Humility in Scientific Research: They’re Harder Than You Think European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Nancy Cartwright, Faron Ray
We begin from the assumption that where scientific research will predictably be used to affect things of moral significance in the world, you have a special duty, a duty of care, to ‘get it right’. This, we argue, requires a special kind of objectivity, ‘objectivity to be found’. What is it that’s to be found? In any kind of scientific endeavour, you should make all reasonable efforts to find the right
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Open Science in Italy: Lessons Learned En Route to Opening Scholarship European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Rosaria Ciriminna, Mario Pagliaro
Following the analysis of the slow uptake of open science in Italy, we identify four main lessons learned that may be useful to scholars and research policy makers engaged in promoting the uptake of open science culture and practices in their own countries.
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The Environmental Sustainability of the European Union Countries: Collective Identity as a Stratum for Decarbonization European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Mehmet Direkli, Glory Chiyoru Dike
To stay within a ‘well below 2°C’ climate change track, the Paris Agreement and goal 13 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) call for climate action – a global decrease in Green House Gas (GHG) emissions. Arguments in this study are derived from the hypothesis that a collective identity among the EU states would foster collective actions toward reducing global warming. Thus, the objective of
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Early-career Academic Clinicians at the Intersection of Medicine, Research and Policy – Lessons Learned from the COVID Pandemic European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Gergely Toldi
The COVID pandemic enforced unprecedented pressure upon the academic clinician workforce globally. While in some aspects this has been a time of opportunity for academic clinicians, it has also exposed the vulnerabilities of this career path and the challenges early-career academic clinicians face. These challenges include the lack of dedicated training programmes, obstacles to international recognition
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Towards an Inclusive and Representative Academic Landscape European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Linn Leppert, Katalin Solymosi, Yvonne Galligan
This article is a summary of a panel discussion entitled ‘Towards an inclusive and representative academic landscape’, held at the Building Bridges Meeting of Academia Europaea and the Young Academy of Europe on 26 October 2022. The panellists were Professor Yvonne Galligan, director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and Professor of Comparative Politics at the Technological University Dublin, Dr
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Education During the Covid-19 Pandemic. The Case of Romania’s Political-Administrative Decisions on Education and Health European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Radu Săgeată, Nicolae Geantă, Nicoleta Damian, Mihaela Persu
This article highlights the problems faced by teachers, students, parents and authorities in Romania during the Coronavirus pandemic, as well as their management in the general context of the health crisis unfolding in this country. The documentation regarding Romania was compiled mainly on the basis of official reports and information taken from the media, due to the novelty of the subject for the
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Legal Socialization in the Context of Global Transformations European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Olena Paruta, Taras Harasymiv, Iryna Lychenko, Oleksandr Kotukha, Viktoriia Chornopyska
This article is devoted to the problem of legal socialization in the context of changes in the global social reality, and the analysis of a set of measures of citizenship legal education as a priority factor of proper legal socialization in modern conditions. The authors’ methodological basis of the research consists of a set of key approaches (synergetic, interdisciplinary, humanistic, cosmopolitan-sociological)
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From British Menageries and Hippodromes to the Olympic Circus in the Grand Duchy of Posen: The Origins of the Use of Ostriches in European Sport and Entertainment European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Mateusz Rozmiarek, Arkadiusz Włodarczyk
Throughout history, animals have been involved in human life in various ways. People have attributed a special role to birds of prey or exotic birds, including ostriches, whose involvement in entertainment and sports began in the first half of the nineteenth century. This article discusses the origins, development and reception of the ostrich entertainment industry in two areas of nineteenth-century
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Bargaining the Euro: Making an EU Fiscal Union Politically Acceptable European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Filipa Figueira, Raphael Espinoza
An EU Fiscal Union is being discussed as a way to avoid future euro-crises and guarantee the stability of the euro. So far, however, it has proved politically impossible, as EU countries are unwilling to give up their sovereignty on fiscal policy. This article develops a bargaining model that sheds light on how fiscal pooling could become politically acceptable. The model differentiates between the
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Being European Becomes a Sin: Zinnie Harris’ How to Hold Your Breath as a Modern Morality Play European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Azime Pekşen Yakar
Zinnie Harris’ play, How to Hold Your Breath, predominantly involves Dana’s journey to Alexandria for a job interview. During her journey, Europe goes into financial collapse, and Dana and her sister Jasmine’s pride and sense of security, only because they are Europeans, are recurrently tested and gradually shatter due to a series of nightmarish experiences and encounters. The play deals, in particular
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(Anti)Barbarous Empires: J.M. Coetzee’s Iconoclasm in Waiting for the Barbarians European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-01-17 Vladimir Biti
Empires usually operate on the premise that only imperial centres are carriers of the historical progress of humanity, whereas imperial peripheries are far removed from this progress’s blessing. According to John Maxwell Coetzee, the Dutch Empire considered South Africa as its own land, which deprived that country’s indigenous people of their citizen rights. Like the residents of European imperial
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Attempts on the Image in Literature European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Sergey Zenkin
Nineteenth-century European narrative literature repeatedly refers to the deliberate destruction (or intentions, attempts to destroy) of artificial images. The old artist in Honoré de Balzac’s novella The Unknown Masterpiece burns his collection of art; the hero of Alexander Pushkin’s poem The Bronze Horseman threatens the monument to the Emperor Peter the Great in St Petersburg; the inhabitants of
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Science in Washington, DC An Introduction to Memorials (A Pictorial Essay) European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Istvan Hargittai, Magdolna Hargittai
There are profound expressions of remembrance of science and scientists, innovators and educators in Washington, DC. In this article, we survey the outdoor memorials and also include a few indoor memorials, if they are accessible to the public. There appears to be some predominance of physics and physicists, especially related to electricity among the memorials, but other areas of science are also
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Wine and France: A Brief History European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Stefan K. Estreicher
The earliest archaeological evidence of wine making in Southern France is dated 425 bce. Viticulture was present along the Mediterranean coast of France when the Romans arrived (second century bce) and flourished everywhere by the time they left (fifth century ce). For several centuries, long-distance trade virtually disappeared and the infrastructure fell apart. Profitable viticulture remained mostly
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Creative Life Orientations in Socially Diverse Groups: Research Review European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Agata Cudowska
This article presents the results of many years of research on creative life orientations carried out in socially diverse groups – among secondary school students, university students, and teachers – as regards their socio-demographic characteristics. It describes the theoretical assumptions of analyses, being part of the author’s original concept of creative life orientations. It discusses the understanding
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Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas as another Iconoclastic Way European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Xavier Narbón
There are other forms of iconoclasm besides the destruction of idols. For example, an iconoclast can be considered one who, instead of eliminating a deified image, reveals the trick of a magician. The manipulator distracts attention with the gesture of one hand while the other acts. This action affects everyone when it is driven by political-economic power. Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas aims to eliminate
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The Carolingian Answer to the Iconoclastic War and the Birth of Western Art European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Francesco Stella
After a long quarrel scattered with persecutions, uprisings, dismissals and replacements of religious authorities, deaths, military expeditions, confiscations and attempts of assassinations in Greece, Italy and other European areas, the Council of Nicaea, in 787, imposed the victory of the iconodules in the Byzantine Empire. The West, especially the Kingdom of the Franks and the Lombards ruled by Charles
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Demolishing Modernism: GDR and Neo-Prussian Architecture in Berlin European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Xavier Costa
This article examines the significance of some recent architecture and urban demolitions in Berlin. As an example of present-day iconoclasm in the heart of Europe, the relevance of these cases lies not only in the destruction of politically-charged artefacts, but also in their replacement with replicas of eighteenth-century architecture, thus materializing a Prussian revival and a nostalgia for the
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Iconoclasm – A Road to Modernization? European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Sverre Håkon Bagge
My point of departure is a conflict over images in the churches in Bergen, Norway in the 1560s, around 30 years after the Reformation. This introduced a brief period of iconoclasm in Denmark–Norway, inspired by Reformed theology. Soon, however, mainstream Lutheranism took over and statues and pictures were reintroduced. The different views on images in the two Protestant confessions – Lutheranism and
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Destruction of a Sacrosanct Past: Iconoclasm and Norse Revival in Post-war Norway European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2022-11-09 Tonje Haugland Sørensen
Central to this reflection upon the interconnectedness between the destruction of a monument in Norway after the Second World War and iconoclasm will be work by Swiss art historian Dario Gamboni who, in The Destruction of Art (1997), argues that any understanding of modern and contemporary iconoclasm must be contextualized via the redefinition of art and its actual autonomy. In so doing, this article
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Iconoclasm versus Apologetics. How the Salazar Regime Dealt with Portuguese Overseas Expansion European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2022-11-09 Amélia Polónia
Historical interpretation of Portuguese Overseas Expansion has changed considerably from the late nineteenth century to the present. Ideological appropriations of historical events are commonplace. The propaganda of the regime of Portuguese dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar extensively used the topic of Portuguese Overseas Expansion as a founding myth for justifying its own colonialism, even in
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Statues in the French Caribbean and the Iconoclastic Assault European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2022-11-09 Kathleen Gyssels
This article contributes to debates concerning slavery and slave museums, taking as inspiration historical novels and archives from the Schwarz-Bart Library in Goyave (Guadeloupe). I question, in particular, the passing over of black or mulatto female heroines, in sharp contrast with béké figures who, even if they have been temporarily(!) beheaded, remain the more famous icons in the collective mind
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Stunde Null: Naming and Re-naming European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2022-11-09 Svend Erik Larsen
Stunde Null – this expression is used to indicate the end of the German Nazi regime in 1945 and the beginning of a new Germany. This historical turning point was marked by the re-naming of the former Germany in both East and West, and Nazi symbols, institutions, values and paraphernalia were taken to the tip. Naming and re-naming were part of this iconoclastic attempt to undo a recent past by turning
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The Palaikastro Kouros and Iconoclasm in the Wider Mediterranean Area European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Helene Whittaker
This article discusses the chryselephantine statue known as the Palaikastro Kouros, which was recovered in the excavations at Palaikastro in eastern Crete in the 1980s. The statue and the sanctuary building in which it had stood had been deliberately destroyed c. 1450 bc. It is probable that the motivation for the destruction was iconoclastic. This situates the fate of the Palaikastro Kouros within
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Iconoclasm – A Geographical Viewpoint European Review (IF 0.521) Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Gideon Biger
Iconoclasm mainly concerns the destruction of icons, based on the Commandment of the Bible ‘Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image…’ (Exodus 20:4). Iconoclasm can be presented in two different ways. One is that of an ‘inside aspect’, taking place within a given religious system. The other is an ‘outside aspect’, through which a religious system destroys the religious symbols of another religion