Cultural & Area Studies

New Approaches to the “Golden Age” of British Television Comedy

Daniel Reast, from the University of Portsmouth, UK, looks back at the development of British television comedy after the Second World War. He reflects on the way that the best comedy responds to the social, political, and cultural situations occurring around the programme.
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Education, Language Learning

The Three Barriers on the Way to International Communication

Professor Svetlana Ter-Minasova offers insight into English language learning in Russia. She explores which of the three barriers on the way to international communication is the most difficult to break down and explains how this can be done.
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Politics, International Relations & Law

Interpreting Trump, Brexit and Putnam’s Games

Kenneth Houston and Jason Briggs offer insight into their analysis of the domestic pressures of populist electoral politics in the United Kingdom and the United States, and the relationships of both states with the international community.
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Cultural & Area Studies, Media, Film & Journalism

The Power That Lies Within: Ideologies in Daniel Craig’s Bond Films

Sarah Kelley of the University of Bristol, UK, maps some of the ideas and themes conveyed in Craig’s Bond films to possible influences from their socio-political contexts, with a particular focus on Skyfall and Spectre.
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Education, History

Oxbridge Adjusts: Renewing an Elite

Oliver Hadingham of Waseda University, Japan, examines the reforms the medieval universities of Oxford and Cambridge underwent during the nineteenth century and questions whether the two institutions can shake off their elitist reputation.
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Dr Paul Lowe Instructional Approaches in Photography Courses
Education, Media, Film & Journalism

Paul Lowe: Learning Strategies in Practice-Based Courses

Dr Paul Lowe, Founding Judge of the IAFOR Documentary Photography Award, on the various instructional approaches he takes with students in his postgraduate photography courses.
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Cultural & Area Studies, History, The Arts & Literature

The Power of an Image: The Black Madonna of Częstochowa

Dr Anna Hamling of the University of New Brunswick, Canada, examines the historical and cultural significance of religious icon the Black Madonna of Częstochowa to the people of Poland.
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Kevin Burkett Irish Immigrants Boys From Vepery Ian Michael
Cultural & Area Studies, History, Media, Film & Journalism

Boys from Vepery: John Footman’s Journey from the Ravages of “Gorta Mór”

Ireland’s Great Famine, “Gorta Mór”, had far-reaching effects for the Irish population in the mid-nineteenth century, leading millions to migrate in search of a better future. As part of a documentary film project, Dr Ian Michael, Fokiya Akhtar and Dr Michael R. Ogden explore the journey made by Dr Michael’s own ancestor, John Footman, from rural Cork to Madras, India.
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Long Elegiac Shadows Oliver Hadingham
History, Politics, International Relations & Law

Long, Elegiac Shadows: The Legacy of the 1914-1918 War

One hundred years on, how are we commemorating the First World War? An examination of the political, economical and social implications of the 1914-1918 conflict.
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Cultural & Area Studies, History, Politics, International Relations & Law, The Arts & Literature

Surrealism: A Global Cultural Movement with Local Political Agency

Lauren Walden of Coventry University explores the impact of the surrealist movement on the local politics of Haiti, Martinique and Mexico through the diplomatic role played by André Breton, the founder of surrealism.
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The Divided Self and Big Brother Geoff Beattie
Psychology & the Behavioral Sciences

Geoff Beattie: The Divided Self and Big Brother

Distinguished psychologist Professor Geoff Beattie of Edge Hill University, UK, on his work on the concept of the divided self and his time as resident on-screen psychologist for Big Brother.
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A Gentleman's Education – Then As Now Oliver Hadingham
Education, History

A Gentleman’s Education – Then as Now

Oliver Hadingham of Waseda University, Japan, discusses the reform and growth of the English public school system in the nineteenth century and the forces that drove its change during this period.
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History, The Arts & Literature

Henry VIII’s Verse and Katherine of Aragon: The Chivalric Court

Dr Rebecca Moore of the University of Arkansas, United States of America, examines the ways in which Henry VIII used poetics and performances to establish the iconography of his court and the relevance, within this context, of Henry’s specific choice of the older Katherine of Aragon as queen.
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Financial Slack and Firm Performance During an Economic Downturn Andreas Gruener Ingeborg Raastad
Business & Economics

Financial Slack and Firm Performance During an Economic Downturn

Using the most recent economic downturn in Germany as an example, Andreas Gruener and Ingeborg Raastad examine whether financial slack has an impact on performance in the particularly hostile environment of an economic downturn.
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Politics, International Relations & Law

Counterbalancing the European Court of Justice’s Dominion on Fundamental Rights

Maria Maddalena Giungi examines whether the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, established in 2007, could trigger a new wave of policies focused on fundamental rights to counterbalance the growing power of the ECJ.
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Cultural & Area Studies, Media, Film & Journalism

The Serendipitous City: Reportage Drawing, Visual Language and Discovery

Artist and illustrator Louis Netter of the University of Portsmouth, UK, explores links between reportage and caricature and describes his selection and “stalking” of the subject, to accompany his series of reportage drawings from the streets of Barcelona.
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Education, Politics, International Relations & Law

Education and Social Justice: Democratising Education

In his Conference Chair Address at The European Conference on Education 2016, held in Brighton, UK June 29 to July 3, 2016, Professor Brian Hudson reflects on the conference theme of “Education and Social Justice: Democratising Education”.
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The Arts & Literature

Aurora: A Spanish Gallery of Image and Text

Aurora, by A. Robert Lee, is a collection of 100 images by recent Spanish artists, accompanied by 100 poems, all translated into Spanish. Read the full publication…
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Cultural & Area Studies, Ethics, Religion & Philosophy, The Arts & Literature

Psychogeographic Impact on Malcolm Lowry’s Consciousness: From the Zapotec and Aztec Civilizations to Taoism

Nigel H. Foxcroft analyses the influence of cultures and civilizations upon literature and national identity by investigating the evolution of the cosmic consciousness of the English Modernist novelist and poet, Malcolm Lowry (1909-57) after his experience of the Mexican Day of the Dead Hispanic festival.
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The Arts & Literature

Why Vincent’s Cafe Terrace at Night is a Symbolist Last Supper: Part 2 of 2

In the second and final part of Jared Baxter’s essay, he concludes analyses that Vincent van Gogh had the Last Supper in mind when he painted his Café Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles, at Night.
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The Arts & Literature

Why Vincent’s Cafe Terrace at Night is a Symbolist Last Supper: Part 1 of 2

Jared Baxter gets to the bottom of why one of Vincent van Gogh’s most famous paintings, the C​afé​ Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles, at Night, ​can be identified as a Symbolist Last Supper
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The Arts & Literature

Was Van Gogh’s Starry Night Inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy?

Jared Baxter looks at Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night, advancing that the painting was inspired by Dante’s vision of the Empyrean Heaven.
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The Arts & Literature

Vincent van Gogh’s Portrait of Dr. Gachet: A study in sorrows

Jared Baxter looks at the ways Vincent van Gogh held Dürer’s “Christ as the Man of Sorrows” in mind when he crafted his “Portrait of Dr. Gachet”.

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Media, Film & Journalism

Charlie Hebdo: The Power and Price of Satire

Just over a year on from the attack on the Charlie Hebdo offices, Dr. Joseph Haldane, President & CEO of IAFOR, looks back at the satirical newspaper’s fight for freedom of expression.
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The Arts & Literature

Vincent van Gogh’s Symbolist Interpretation of Rembrandt’s “Slaughtered Ox”

Jared Baxter examines how Vincent van Gogh interpreted Rembrandt’s Slaughtered Ox as an allegorical self-portrait and mirroring of the artist’s plight and destiny.

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The Arts & Literature

Consumerism in Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark and Good Morning, Midnight

Qiang Fu looks at the depiction of consumerism in Jean Rhys’s novels. Does it indicate an evolving capitalist culture or does it challenge us to determine the status of resistance and complicity within capitalist and imperialist regimes?
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