Reflections on Culture in the Age of Confinement
This short film, The Balcony and Our Dreams, offers a selection of dreams that have been experienced during the corona virus outbreak. Increasingly vivid…
Author:
Dr Aylin Kuryel
Position:
Lecturer in Literary and Cultural Analysis
University:
University of Amsterdam
My experience of translating Raul Brandão’s The Unknown Islands was bookended by two events that had a profound effect on this country. The translation…
Author:
Professor David Brookshaw
Position:
Emeritus Professor of Luso-Brazilian Studies
University:
University of Bristol
ప్రసారమాధ్యమాలు ఇరవైనాలుగు గంటలూ ఒకటే రొద ‘లాక్ డౌన్’ (Lock down) సమయంలో ఈ క్రింది జాగ్రత్తలు తీసుకోమని:కేవలం ఇంటికే పరిమితమవండి…ముక్కుకీ మూతికీ ముసుగు ధరించండి… సామాజిక దూరాన్ని పాటించండి…క్రిమిసంహారిణితో చేతులు పరిశుభ్రం…
Author:
Suryanarayana Murty Naudari
Position:
Poet and Translator
University:
Andhra University
El día 17 de marzo me monté en un avión con destino Madrid desde Ginebra, donde en algún tiempo pasado, que ahora se me…
Author:
Irène Praga Guerro
Position:
PhD Candidate
University:
Université de Génève
We now live in a Covid-19 world. Swiftly, a consensus seems to have emerged around the benefits of ‘social distancing’ for regulating disease for…
Author:
Charu Gupta / Subramanian Shankar / Kusana Satyanarayana
Position:
Professor of History / Professor of English / Professor of Cultural Studies
University:
Delhi University / University of Hawai'i at Manoa / EFLU -Hyderabad
April 23, 2020 I was born with two eyes to see the world as far as my legs could take me. But now my…
Author:
Tamar Barbakadze
Position:
PhD Candidate
University:
Université de Lausanne
The predominant sense of “culture” once meant something that was grown in a petri-dish. In our current period of coronavirus pandemic, it is once…
Author:
Dr Seán Williams
Position:
Senior Lecturer in German and European Cultural History
University:
University of Sheffield
For some time, scholars across the humanities and social sciences have been building a stronger and stronger case that culture and society should be…
Author:
Professor Hosam Aboul-Ela
Position:
Professor of English
University:
University of Houston
Week 3. Day 2. 7 April 2020. 5:20 PM It’s another beautiful spring day. The sun is shining. But we are to stay home,…
Author:
Professor Wen-chin Ouyang
Position:
Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature
University:
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
When my university, SOAS, University of London, closed its buildings on Wednesday 18 March, a few days ahead of the UK government lockdown and…
Author:
Professor Francesca Orsini
Position:
Professor of Hindi and South Asian Literature
University:
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
The coronavirus outbreak in Greece should have been a disaster. As a popular tourist destination, Greece receives over 30 million visitors per year, representing…
Author:
Nikoleta Zampaki
Position:
PhD Candidate in Modern Greek Philology
University:
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Earlier this year I had read Bengali author Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay’s last major work of fiction (a novella actually) titled Asani Sanket [Distant Thunder] (1943-45) for an…
