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Introduction: Gender and (Auto)pathography from a Transnational Perspective
No full text‘Medical Humanities’ (MH), the critical enclave of this cluster, is an interdisciplinary area of knowledge which examines human health and illness using the tools and insights of creative arts and humanities. MH endeavors to comprehend the diverse spectrum of physical and mental ailments by drawing from literature and various forms of artistic expression. The boom of MH both in the United States and Europe is manifested by the increase of this field of studies in undergraduate and graduate programs, professional training opportunities, career paths, conferences, and articles in prestigious academic journals, such as Medical Humanities, Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, Journal of Medical Humanities, Literature and Medicine, or Arts and Health, among others. By consulting Scopus (http://www.scopus.com), the preeminent abstract and citation database for peer-reviewed research literature and conducting a search for \u27Medical Humanities\u27 spanning from 1970 to 2023, the findings in the \u27Documents by Year\u27 section (totaling 21,461 entries) reveal a consistent and steady upward trajectory. Commencing with a solitary document in 1971, the inaugural year recorded, the count surged to 54 in 1980, escalated to 498 in 2010, and surged to 1,581 in 2020, culminating in 2,417 entries by 2023. Furthermore, upon delving into the \u27Documents by Subject Area\u27, the analysis indicates that a significant majority of scholarly articles concerning MH originate from authors entrenched in the Health Sciences field (including Medicine, Nursing, Psychology, Neuroscience, Health professionals, Genetics), while only 15.9 percent stem from scholars within the Arts and Humanities domain. Hence, the authors of these articles, all affiliated with a research group located in Spain, envisioned the importance of enriching this field through their humanistic perspective, stemming from their roles as university professors and literature researchers
Queer Tango
No full textIn ‘Queer Tango’, Dylan Jonas Stone reflects on learning the art of tango and its dancing movements, alternating between steps into the past and into the present, in ways reflecting the memory work of diary writing, reading and re-reading. For Dylan, the intimacy of tango expresses - and sometimes confounds - expectations around sexualities
Ionel, Lucian: Sinn und Begriff: Negativität bei Hegel und Heidegger.
No full textRezension von: Ionel, Lucian: Sinn und Begriff: Negativität bei Hegel und Heidegger. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2020. 333 Seiten
Hartmann, Dirk: Erkenntnistheorie. Neues System der philosophischen Wissenschaften im Grundriss, Band I
No full textRezension von: Hartmann, Dirk: Erkenntnistheorie. Neues System der philosophischen Wissenschaften im Grundriss, Band I. Paderborn: Brill/Mentis 2020
Surveyen in de as: een unieke veldverkenning op Timpone delle Fave (Zuid-Italië)
No full textSurveying through the ashes: a unique fieldwalking survey at Timpone delle Fave (Southern Italy) Since the year 2000, the proto-historic site of Timpone delle Fave (Calabria) has been investigated within the framework of the Groningen Raganello Archaeological Project. Even though it is normally covered with dense vegetation, until recently the site had only been investigated through fieldwalking surveys. During the fieldwork campaign of 2021, a unique opportunity presented itself when a natural fire cleared the entire hilltop of vegetation. In the following days, a large part of the hilltop was systematically surveyed. This yielded remarkable new results; occupation appeared to be spread over a much larger area than originally thought, and several new phases were recognized. These new insights add to our knowledge of the site, but also point to biases caused by visibility and landuse. In this paper, we present the preliminary results of the survey and briefly consider the implications of how these unique circumstances caused different results compared to earlier surveys
‘Met den swaerde geexecuteert ende van levene ten dode gebracht’. Twee onthoofden in het Droevendal te Leeuwarden
No full text‘Met den swaerde geexecuteert ende van levene ten dode gebracht’. Two beheadings in the street Droevendal, Leeuwarden During excavations in the street Droevendal in Leeuwarden (province of Friesland, the Netherlands), a number of graves were found. These graves lie within the area of the cemetery of the Franciscan monastery known as Galilea, dating from the 16th century AD. Not only monks were buried there but also civilians, as is evident from a number of buried women and (small) children and babies. Two of the graves contained individuals who had been beheaded. It is known that after the closing down of the monastery in 1580, part of the graveyard continued to be used to bury executed convicts. In this article, we propose a couple of historical identifications for the decapitated individuals in these two graves
Wat is er gebeurd? Een interpretatie van de scheepsramp van de 18e-eeuwse koopvaarder Queen Anne
No full textWhat happened? An interpretation of the shipping disaster of the 18th-century merchantman Queen Anne This paper focuses on the depositional phase of the Queen Anne, a large, three-masted freighter that sank on the Zuiderzee (a shallow bay of the North Sea, in the north-western Netherlands) sometime between AD 1715 and 1720. This depositional phase entails the moments of a shipping disaster and should be taken into consideration in order to fully understand a wreck site. However, as information on most shipping disasters is solely recorded in historical sources and oral traditions, it can be hard to connect the disaster itself to specific a shipwreck, and vice versa. In the case of the Queen Anne, no information has been found in historical records on the ship’s sinking, and oral accounts have disappeared over time. Fortunately, the excavation of the shipwreck revealed several clues that may help to reconstruct the final moments of this vessel
From Criticizing Progress to Psychoanalyzing Critical Theory. An Interview with Amy Allen
No full textThe importance of psychoanalysis for Critical Theory is unabated, but controversial. Regressive reactions to the crises of capitalism are currently reviving the debate about its relevance for the Frankfurt School. The interview with Amy Allen follows the focus of her book Critique on the Couch (2020) through questions about the significance of psychoanalysis for Critical Theory as well as the implications of her arguments for a theory of the subject and a critique of eurocentric concepts of progress
Shifting the Geography of Reason, with Respects to Spinoza
No full textAbstract: This essay is based on a portion of the author’s Spinoza Lecture, which was presented in Amsterdam on 24 May 2022. Although Spinoza is not the main subject of the lecture, his anxieties and fears about his Sephardic Jewishness and its links to Africa and by extension racialized blackness offer an opportunity to outline Euromodern hegemonic geography of reason as a misrepresentation from which a shift in point of view can offer a set of important challenges to the portrait of philosophy it promotes. These challenges are elaborated through the author’s summary of Africana and Black philosophy and the questions that philosophy, understood in intellectual, historical, and political terms, generates. Among these are the meanings of humanity, freedom, justification, redemption, reality, political transformation, and love
