Cultural & Area Studies, Humanities & Social Sciences

Cultural Heritage as a Unifying Force: The Example of Notre-Dame

A product of its local culture and history, cultural heritage that has endured across generations not only reflects local identity and values that produced it but also holds something sacred that resonates with people globally.
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Cultural & Area Studies

Cooperating in Difficult Times: Making Interdisciplinarity Work

The IAFOR Online Forum moved beyond a simplistic definition of collaboration and interdisciplinarity to deeply explore its practical implementation, inherent challenges, and benefits. The key takeaways from the discussion are starting small, knowing your goals, building on mutual respect, self-awareness, focus and confidence building.
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Psychology & the Behavioral Sciences

Ferris Wheel: What does the N-word mean to you?

Dr C. Northington Purdie asks “What does the N-word mean to you?” This article was inspired by an incident between Black and white teenagers at an amusement park, where the N-word was deployed by the white teens. The knee-jerk reaction of one Generation X adult could only be described as 20th-century posturing. In contrast, the Black teens’ response demonstrated the evolution of confrontational communication about race.
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Education

Embracing Joy: A Light Through the Tunnel of Teacher Burnout

Educators Dr Derek Porter and Dr Stephanie McGuire discuss teacher burnout and explain how by embracing joy in classroom, it not only enhances the learning experience for students but also helps teachers stay committed to their purpose.
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Education

Supporting International Students to Adjust to Academic Culture in the UK

“British academic expectations are too often presented as a fixed and implicitly global worldwide norm, which in fact they are not.” This article looks at academic expectations in different countries as “cultural phenomena” and discusses supporting students, especially international students, effectively.
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Education

Technological Innovations in Educational Tools: What Doctoral Learners Need

Remilyn Mueller & Jeff Cranmore from Grand Canyon University discuss the skills doctoral learners need to acquire and the potential EdTech tools that can aid them in their learning experiences.
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Psychology & the Behavioral Sciences

Coronavirus: The Opportunity of Crisis

Dr Matthew J. Monnot, a researcher in the field of organizational behavior and development, describes how the current crisis offers an opportunity for scientists, leaders, and policy makers to understand what promotes psychological well-being both at home and at work. Yet It demands urgency for adaptation or change. In this particular crisis it demands adaptation on a global scale.
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Humanities & Social Sciences, Politics, International Relations & Law

Re-Establishing Civil Political Discourse Through Dignity, Empathy, and Genuine Engagement

Angus McGregor, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, considers a multi-tooled approach to defuse the explosive nature of the current political environment in the United States.
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Education

How Teacher Training in the UK Can Better Prepare Teachers for their Teaching Profession?

Following a Department of Education report advocating changes to teacher education, James Underwood and Elly Tai point out that given the broad topic, there are many voices to be heard when designing ‘appropriate’ training that will best suit teachers across a range of contexts and levels.
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Media, Film & Journalism, Sustainability, Energy & the Environment

Representing Environmental Crisis in Digital Spaces: An overview of Climate Change Discussions in Webcomics

Climate Change is a reality: Ambika Raja, former journalist and aspiring researcher offers an overview of how Webcomics with their voices, formats, and discussions, are powerful weapons using uncomplicated language, short sentence structure, and striking visuals to get the message across quickly.
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Education, Media, Film & Journalism

A Critical Reflection on Collaborative Film Production

Grounded in a social, fluid, and multiple nature of literacy, Chang Liu’s article critically reflects on a collaborative filmmaking experience and discusses the benefits of incorporating elements of media education into formal schooling, arguing for a curricular and pedagogical change, from one preoccupied with competition, testing, and outcomes to one that honours collaboration, reflection, and multimodality.
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History, Media, Film & Journalism, Politics, International Relations & Law

Political Conspiracy and Propaganda in The Uncounted Enemy and Last Days in Vietnam

The US code of honor is broken by US Intelligence’s dishonesty in The Uncounted Enemy and by US soldiers’ disobedience in Last Days in Vietnam. Wajiha R Rizvi explores the differing motivations and objectives involved, and the implications of the decisions that were made.
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Cultural & Area Studies

The Need for both Proactive and Responsive Facilitation in Addressing the Rural / Urban Divide in the United States

Angus McGregor, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, considers Thomas Jefferson’s thinking about rural economies in the United States. He concludes the need for a revolution of progressive rural development addressing income and political gaps between rural and urban communities, thus moving the United States closer to Jefferson’s hope; a nation committed to a democratization of prosperity.
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Psychology & the Behavioral Sciences

COVID-19 and the Social Isolation Pandemic

Dr Matthew J. Monnot, University of San Francisco, writes about social isolation and its increase with recent social lockdowns brought about by COVID-19. Social isolation and loneliness have similar mental health consequences: depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and suicidal ideation. Policy makers need to create social psychological protective measures in tandem with physically protective actions.
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History, The Arts & Literature

Quay with Sand Barges, Vincent van Gogh’s Symbolist Homage to Eugène Delacroix

Eugène Delacroix, leader of the nineteenth century Romantic movement, is widely regarded as the most influential painter of his time. His unparalleled mastery of color inspired generations of artists; creating a bridge from the antiquated, high-brow art of the Salon, to the progenitors of Modern art from Symbolists and Pointillists, to those whom would revolutionize how we look at art today, the Impressionists.
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Education, The Arts & Literature

The Imponderable Bloom: E.M. Forster’s ‘The Machine Stops’ on Isolation, Social Distancing, and Online Lecturing

Francesca Pierini is an Adjunct Lecturer at University of Basel. In this short article, she proposes a reading of The Machine Stops (1909), a sci-fi short story E.M. Forster wrote in 1909, in order to reflect on several specific aspects of the narrative that closely resonate with our most recent experiences in a time of COVID-19 pandemic, from social isolation to distance lecturing.

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Technology

Will AI technology Worsen Inequality in the World of Work?

Hong Yu Liu introduces the debate related to the impact of artificial intelligence on the labour market, and highlights the importance of understanding the labour process and the socio-technical context in studying the technological impacts of work.
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History, Politics, International Relations & Law

The Return of the Nation

In this article Dr Alfonso J. García-Osuna of Hofstra University describes the unexpected resurgence of nationalism, a revival that is irreconcilable with the prognoses of well-known intellectuals.
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History

Hannah Snell: Cross-Dressing Ideology in 18th-Century Naval Culture

Professor Yoriko Ishida from Japan’s Oshima College shares the remarkable story of Hannah Snell, a woman who managed to successfully pass herself off as a man while serving as a marine on a Royal Navy vessels for four years.
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A Linguistic Look at the World’s Most Prolific Liar

Dr Andy Curtis, former President of the TESOL International Association, unpicks the linguistic quirks of what he describes as  “the most famous liar in the world today, the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump.
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Ethics, Religion & Philosophy

Change the world, not yourself, or how Arendt called out Thoreau

Dr Katie Fitzpatrick, writer, editor, and university lecturer based in Vancouver, Canada, discusses Thoreau’s rare moral vision in his essay ‘On the Duty of Civil Disobedience’. Yet according to Fitzpatrick, it is Arendt’s account of the practice of civil disobedience that is ultimately more promising.
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Testimonies of Light: Photography, Witnessing and History

In his Keynote Presentation at ECAH2017, Dr Paul Lowe from the University of the Arts London discusses how the photographic image has engaged with the historical moment, from its inception in the mid nineteenth century to the present day.
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History, Media, Film & Journalism

The American Invasion: How US television comedy is conquering Britain

Daniel Reast, a postgraduate researcher from the University of Portsmouth, discusses how the United Kingdom nurtures its past success and influence in comedy, meanwhile, the American market is growing to be a greater competitor for the next generation of comedians.
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Education, History

To Hanoi University and Beyond

Sara Legrandjacques, PhD candidate at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, explains how student mobility in Vietnam is not a new phenomenon. Large-scale higher education, and the “mobile origins” of tertiary studies is at least a century old in the country.

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