Reflections on Culture in the Age of Confinement
The wound is the place where the Light enters you—Jalaluddin Rumi. Before Covid came we were talking about healing the universe, without feeling the…
Author:
Professor Sami Rafiq
Position:
Professor of English
University:
Aligarh Muslim University
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…
