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The Pharmakon of Shame

Séan Kennedy and Joseph Valente, editors of Irish Shame, explore the intricate relationship between empathy and shame in this blog.

May 7, 2025
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Photo taken by the author at Bagh-e ketab, the Book Garden, Tehran (December 2017). The image shows a shelf full of Persian language books in a large bookstore.

Iranian Literature after the Islamic Revolution in Five Questions

By Laetitia Nanquette Laetitia Nanquette, author of Iranian Literature after the Islamic Revolution: Production and Circulation in Iran and the World discusses the process of writing her book in this new interview. Could you tell us a bit about your…

Helena Heald
May 18, 2021

The Pharmakon of Shame

Iranian Literature after the Islamic Revolution in Five Questions

The Pharmakon of Shame

Decolonizing the human: Beginning from Edward Said’s humanism

Arriving with Deleuze

Five essential Shakespeare plays on radio

Q&A with the author of Contesting Cosmopolitan Moments in the Long Eighteenth Century