A panel of brief (6-8 minutes), provocative statements that offer insight into where the study of hymns might go next.
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AISNA Early Career researchers
A panel of brief (6-8 minutes), provocative statements that offer insight into where the study of hymns might go next.
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Dante and Shakespeare: Cosmology, Politics and Poetics, University of Poitiers, France, 4-6 April 2019. Deadline for proposals: 30 June 2018
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The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for exchanging ideas and
sharing the findings of research related to the city—as a place and space—which is the scene of everyday life, the silent witness of alienation and tragedy, the goal of many physical and spiritual journeys, and the object of fantastic speculation.
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1968 is a momentous year in the global socio-political memory: it has come to be seen as the culmination and epitome of a series of processes involving protest, and the affirmation of previously silent or subaltern causes. Such processes and causes were predicated on challenges to established powers and mindsets, and hence on demands for change, that have had rich consequences in literature and the arts.
The enfranchisement process throughout the English-speaking world has all but been a simultaneous one. In addition to the repeal of religious bans in the early 19th c., no less than six electoral reforms (Representation of the People Acts) were passed by the British Parliament between the mid-19th c. and the late 1960s, first enlarging the electorate on a property basis − but still within the confines of an exclusively male electorate −, then extending the right to vote to women
Very few television shows have been as intimately connected to the fears and anxieties of the global age as Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror (Channel 4, 2011-14, Netflix, 2014-) A variety of directors and writers have taken aim at what Brooker described as ‘the side effects’ of contemporary culture in the course of the nineteen episodes across four seasons.
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Prima che il ricordo sbiadisca è bene fissare alcuni punti salienti della Conferenza AISNA 2017, organizzata all’Università di Milano dal 28 al 30 settembre.
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