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Prison Epistolarity and the Crisis of Politically Motivated Incarceration in the Letters of Abd al-Azim Anis
No full textOn 1 January 1959, Egypt witnessed a nationwide mass arrest of the political opposition. University Professor Abd al-Azim Anis (1923–2009) was among the hundreds of Egyptian activists detained in what came to be known as the 1959 Detention Campaign. This paper reads the published prison letters Anis wrote during his politically motivated incarceration between January 1959 and April 1964. The first section of the paper traces the epistolary practices Anis adopted and/or abandoned to subvert the repressive prison conditions and the violation of his right to correspondence. The paper contends that a key point of departure into prison epistolarity is recognising how the material conditions of the crisis situation command the performance of the epistolary act and the production of the prison letter as a testimonial object. The second section of the paper discusses the public afterlife of Anis’s prison letters as crisis narratives and counter public records on the 1959 Detention Campaign. The paper investigates Anis’s prison letters as primary sources of historical memory and knowledge on the gradual construction of the punitive logic regulating the citizen-state relationship in Egypt. The paper argues that it is particularly the epistolary mode of mediating the crisis that allows Anis’s first-hand account to date and dissect the accumulation of politically motivated punishment
The Fence
No full text‘The Fence’ weaves a critical reading of the author’s unusual first day in the UK in 1987 with a reflection on borders and discrimination applied to both humans and birds. The contingency and instability of borders create a relative and precarious status when it comes to human and nonhuman animals; this shifting position is subject to socio-economics, history, legislation and the politics of representation that contribute to the production of othering. Alongside societal contingencies, this work emphasises the role of individual agency which can affect and override the outcomes predicated by these structural limitations
“Two Silver Herrings for My Granddaughter”: Central Europe, Poland, and Transnational Affinities. Deborah Levy in Conversation
No full textThe piece addresses Deborah Levy’s long-standing dialogue with Central European history and cultural production and the impact that the latter exerted onto her works, including her “living autobiography”. It also showcases various modes of cultural exchange and transnational affinities between the global West and East in the Cold War period
Lebensganzes und Lebensphasen (zu: Mooren, Nadine: Leben im Alter)
No full textRezension als Beitrag zum Buchsymposium zu: Mooren, Nadine: Leben im Alter. Eine philosophische Untersuchung zur Frage nach dem guten Leben. Frankfurt a. M.: Klostermann, 2023.
Clare Chambers: Intact. A Defence of the Unmodified Body
No full textRezension von: Chambers, Clare: Intact. A Defence of the Unmodified Body. London: Penguin 2023. 413 Seiten [978-0-141-99250-1
Semi-Automatic Spontaneous Language Analysis (SASTA): Towards an efficient method for determining the language profile of children with DLD
No full textGrammaticale analyses van spontane taal kunnen een belangrijke rol vervullen in de handelingsgerichte diagnostiek van taalontwikkelingsstoornissen. Logopedisten zijn doorgaans bekend met analysemethoden zoals TARSP en STAP en onderkennen hun belang. Het gebruik ervan is echter beperkt, omdat er veel tijd mee gemoeid is en specifieke kennis en kunde noodzakelijk zijn. In dit artikel beschrijven we een computerapplicatie, SASTA, die grammaticale analyses van kindertaaluitingen semi-automatisch uitvoert. Daarmee kan het uitvoeren van een spontane-taalanalyse sneller en makkelijker worden. We schetsen hoe SASTA werkt, met een accent op de verwerking van afwijkende grammaticale structuren en incomplete of incorrecte realisaties van woorden, die in kindertaal frequent voorkomen. Uit tests waarin de analyses die SASTA genereert vergeleken worden met die van geoefende menselijke analisten blijkt dat SASTA een accuratesse heeft van 80% of meer. De verwachting is dat de prestaties door het lopende onderzoek- en ontwikkelwerk verder zullen verbeteren en we concluderen dat SASTA de potentie heeft om een waardevol instrument te worden in de diagnostiek van taalontwikkelingsstoornissen.Grammatical analyses of spontaneous speech samples can play a key role in the action-oriented diagnosis of developmental language disorders. Speech therapists are generally familiar with analysis methods such as TARSP and STAP and recognize their importance. However, their use is limited because they are time-consuming and require specific knowledge and skills. In this article, we describe a computer application, SASTA, that semi-automatically performs grammatical analyses of children’s utterances. This can make language sample analysis faster and easier. We outline how SASTA works, focusing on the processing of deviant grammatical structures and incomplete or incorrect word realizations, which frequently occur in child language. Tests comparing the analyses generated by SASTA with those of trained human analysts show that SASTA has an accuracy of 80% or better. We expect that performance will continue to improve through ongoing research and development, and we conclude that SASTA has the potential to become a valuable tool in the diagnosis of language development disorders
Boekbesprekingen en boekaankondigingen
No full textBijbelwetenschappen: Rolf A. Jacobson/Michael J. Chan - Introducing the Old Testament: A Historical, Literary, and Theological Survey; Mart-Jan Paul, m.m.v. Kees de Vreugd - Mattheüs: Bijbelverklaring met Joodse en archeologische achtergronden; Michael Bird/Ruben A. Bühner/Jörg Frey/Brian Rosner (red.) - Paul within Judaism; Huib Wilschut - Met twee woorden spreken: Over Israël in de brief aan de Romeinen.
Kerk- en theologiegeschiedenis: Anselmus van Canterbury - Het mysterie van God: Waarom werd God mens? Cur Deus Homo? en Ondenkbaar dat Hij niet bestaat; Andreas Stegmann - Der Text des Augsburgischen Bekenntnisses: Zu Text- und Rezeptionsgeschichte; Jennifer Powell McNutt/Herman J. Selderhuis (red.) - The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and the Reformation; H.T. Wendt - Marten Micron (1522/23-1559); Rienk Klooster - Het Modernisme in Friesland 1840-1940: Een studie over dominees, hun ideeën, gemeenten, praktische inzet en organisaties; Karl-Heinz Fix (red.) - Die Protokolle der Sitzungen des Bruderrats der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland 1945–1949; Marco Hofheinz/Christian Neddens/Gerard den Hertog - ‘Von der Schuld der Väter wie von unserer eigenen’: Das Darmstädter Wort von 1947 und die Herausforderungen für Kirche und Gesellschaft heute.
Missiologie en oecumenica: G.A. Mak - Huishouden in Nieuw-Guinea; Brian A. DeVries - You Will Be my Witnesses; J. van ’t Spijker (red.) - Gods missie – onze agenda?.
Dogmatiek: James M. Arcadi - Holiness: Divine and Human; Alister E. McGrath - The Nature of Christian Doctrine. Its Origins, Development, and Function; Bertrand Rickenbacher - Towards a Realist Conception of Theology; Andreas Staemmler - Die Verheissung des ewigen Lebens: Die neue Wirklichkeit der Auferstehung in Karl Barths ‘Kirchlicher Dogmatik’.
Ethiek: Daniël de Waele - Betoverd door begeerte: Liefde en lust in de wereld van Bijbel en oudheid.
Praktische theologie: Kees Boele - Adagio; Jan A.B. Jongeneel - U aanbidden: christelijke gebedsleer; Sake Stoppels/Jan Marten Praamsma/Jan Martijn Abrahamse (red.), Zoeken naar de dingen die boven zijn: Heil in een seculiere tijd.
Kerkrecht: Auke Dijkstra - Eerlijk en met orde?
Cultuur: Charles Taylor - Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment.
Boekaankondigingen:
Wim Berkelaar - Wetenschap, gastheerschap en bitterballen;
John van Eck - \u27Uw ziener wil ik zijn\u27;
Gert Mink - Als pelgrim onderweg naar het nieuwe Jeruzalem;
Victor Schmidt - Waarom moest de Zoon van de mens lijden, sterven, opstaan en ten hemel varen?;
Herman J. Selderhuis - Burchten van geleerdheid.
Exile and Diasporic Memory Activism in Colombian Women’s Writing
No full textThis article explores how, in the context of the country’s most recent peace process, Colombian women memory activists have challenged the erasure of Colombian exile from both narratives of Colombian political violence and the wider scholarship on Latin American exile. Focusing on creative forms of memory activism deployed by the writer, Fabiola Calvo Ocampo, and the collective Mujer Diáspora, the article analyses how their individual and collective literary-testimonies contest the negation of their victimhood in Colombia and intervene in disputes over the meaning of exile in the Colombian context. Yet, while making visible the trauma of exile, the article shows how these creative texts also seek to move beyond dominant theoretical representations of the woman exile as being liberated from the nation, or nostalgically yearning for it, to instead configure her as an activist subject
How Does Creation Speak? Interwoven Preaching Between Mindfulness and Resistance
No full textBy drawing on personal experiences with animals and the practice of mindful movement, this article explores how preaching might be understood as an interwoven practice of mindfulness and resistance. It asks how preaching might emerge not merely as speech about creation, but in resonance with it. Following the rhythm of mindful walking, the article itself becomes a meditative, theological journey through five steps: arriving, sensing estrangement, walking as resistance, preaching in relation, and returning. In doing so, this article reframes homiletical reflection as a shared, embodied, and more-than-human practice that listens and speaks with, rather than speaks about, creation
