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  • The Acousmatic Work Ethic and the Spirit of Sound Studies

    Patrick Valiquet asks why contemporary sound studies forgets the troubling moral and political aspects of Pierre Schaeffer’s experimental music research.

    March 25, 2026
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Screening Youth: Contemporary French and Francophone Cinema

A youthful bande à part.
  • Film and TV

The initial impulse for our book, Screening Youth, originated from the observation that, while the topic of youth has informed…

  • ByEmma at EUP
  • OnMay 30, 2019

Film Stardom and Film-Philosophy

  • Cultural Studies / Film and TV / Film Philosophy

By Lucy Bolton This special issue of Film-Philosophy on film stardom is designed to do two things: to demonstrate the…

  • ByRebecca Wojturska
  • OnMay 24, 2019

Why do we call Middle Eastern dance “belly dance”?

  • Cultural Studies / Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies / Theatre and Dance

English speakers use the term “belly dance” to describe solo, improvised dances from the Middle East and North Africa that…

  • ByTeri Williams
  • OnMay 23, 2019
  • 2 Comments

Creative Involution – A Conversation

  • Language and Literature / Modernism

Professor S. E. Gontarski discusses his book Creative Involution and the series it is published in, Other Becketts, with Jacek Gutorow.

  • ByCarla Hepburn
  • OnMay 15, 2019

The Past as Prologue on Presidential Privilege

Photograph of President Johnson at an NSC meeting in 1966. He sits in the middle with two men either side. He looks bored.
  • History / Law / Politics

As the Mueller investigation comes to a close, Kevin M. Baron looks to the history of the Freedom of Information Act and finds that the battle between Congress and the White House is nothing new.

  • ByNaomi Farmer
  • OnMay 13, 2019

22 Things You Didn’t Know About Elizabeth Bishop

  • Atlantic Literature / Language and Literature

Celebrating the publication of The Edinburgh Companion to Elizabeth Bishop, editor Jonathan Ellis lists 22 things you didn't know about Bishop.

  • ByCarla Hepburn
  • OnMay 2, 2019
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The Art of Kharita Dispatching in the Late 19th Century Afghanistan

  • Cultural History / Cultural Studies / History / Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies / World History

Kharita dispatching On 2 Ramadan 1316 AH/ 15 January 1899, Amir Abdul Rahman Khan of Afghanistan (r. 1880–1901), sent an…

  • ByRebecca Wojturska
  • OnMay 1, 2019

Stick ‘em Up: How a South African Horror Film Prophesied Apartheid’s Road to Nowhere

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By Calum Waddell Last year’s superior possession shocker Hereditary (from director Ari Aster) and the recent release of Jordan Peele’s…

  • ByEmma at EUP
  • OnApril 29, 2019

Five Reasons why the Middle East Matters for World Christianity

Protestants, Gender and the Arab Renaissance in Late Ottoman Syria
  • Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies / Religion / Religious History / World History

Events such as the Arab Spring and the civil war in Syria have brought Middle Eastern Christians into the public…

  • ByEmma at EUP
  • OnApril 26, 2019
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