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Humanities Research responds to the need for the humanities to play a prominent role in public and academic discourse, which has never been more evident or necessary. The journal promotes research, analysis and debates about the lessons of the past and engagement with the issues that confront humanities scholars and thinkers, citizens of the world at individual and population levels, and members of national and local communities, now and into the future. It publishes major international, regional, theoretical, methodological and topical case studies, themes and debates. It encourages comparison of theories, practices and developments in different global settings. The journal particularly encourages submissions that engage with matters of public culture, the value of critical thinking, collaborative and multidisciplinary research in universities as well as political and social contexts, and ethical leadership in all fields of humanity.

Humanities Research interprets the ‘humanities’ generously, recognising and encouraging the continued practice of new methods of theoretical and empirical enquiry to break down traditional distinctions between the humanities and the social sciences, creative arts and ‘non-traditional’ research practices, natural and technological sciences.

The journal welcomes contributions from social researchers, artists, curators, writers, theorists and policymakers working across fields including but not limited to anthropology, archaeology, literature, history, art, design, film, philosophy and intellectual history, music, languages, linguistics, environmental and medical humanities, political science and international relations, Indigenous studies, art, culture, museums, digital culture and heritage. It publishes original research, creative work and debates and critical discourse on traditional, contemporary and popular issues in arts and issues in the field of humanities and cognate studies. Contributions can be in the form of conceptual, methodological or theoretical approaches, case studies or essays, artists’ writings, critical essays, historical documentation, interviews, performance texts and book reviews. It particularly encourages discussion of public humanities projects that allow a diverse public to look critically at issues through cultural organisations, public art, heritage, oral history and material culture.

The journal is co-published by the Humanities Research Centre, The Australian National University, Canberra.

Humanities Research has a team of two editors who are responsible for the day-to-day editorial work, and an Editorial Board that provides advice and ratification of decisions made by the co-editors. The editors provide a report on the journal’s management to the Humanities Research Centre’s Advisory Board annual meeting.

The term of tenure for editors is three years, and is renewable. One editor will be the Head of the Humanities Research Centre, or their delegate.

Co-published publications are also subject to the ANU Press Publishing Ethics and Publishing Malpractice statement .

ANU Press publishes a free electronic version and a print-on-demand hard copy of the journal.

Publishing schedule

Humanities Research is published once a year. Special issues may also be published either within or outside the normal publication schedule of the journal.

Fully open-access scholarly publication is made freely available immediately upon publication. Authors are required to agree with this open-access policy, which enables unrestricted access and reuse of all published papers, with appropriate acknowledgement and citation.

Users are allowed to copy and redistribute the material in printed or electronic format and build upon the material, without further permission or fees being required, provided that appropriate credit is given. The copyright page of the journal will have further information on the specific copyright conditions of particular publications.

Copyright and licensing

The Humanities Research Centre retains copyright over all published journals and the Humanities Research logo.

ANU Press retains copyright over all journal layouts and cover designs that have been created by ANU Press. Where ANU Press has not created this content, this is indicated on the copyright page of the publication. ANU Press also retains copyright of all ANU Press logos and the ANU Press webpages.

Authors retain copyright over their papers, unless otherwise agreed or stated.

Creators of visual and other materials retain copyright over these materials, including photographs, maps, artworks, graphics, video, audio or any other material that might be included in an online publication.

Permission must be obtained to reuse any content that is not published under a Creative Commons licence or where the use of content is not covered by this licence.

Author fees

There are no fees charged to authors for publishing work in Humanities Research .

Peer review process

Humanities Research manuscripts are peer-reviewed by experts and academics in the fields or disciplines relevant to the subject matter of the manuscript being reviewed. A rigorous double-blind peer-review process is used for all articles.

The peer-review process is fair, objective and transparent. Where there is a potential conflict of interest, peer reviewers are expected to remove themselves from the commission. (See Peer reviewer responsibilities and Conflicts of interest below.)

Plagiarism and academic misconduct

Humanities Research takes any allegations of academic misconduct concerning any submitted manuscripts or published papers seriously.

Reviewers or Board members are expected to report any suspected case of misconduct or plagiarism in a submitted manuscript to the publication Editor or Editorial Board with sufficient information and evidence in order for an investigation to be initiated. Where plagiarism or misconduct is identified, Humanities Research will act immediately to suspend publication of the manuscript under question and investigate any allegations until a clarification and successful decision or conclusion is reached.

If a member of the public suspects any case of plagiarism or academic misconduct in any of the articles, book reviews or other content in Humanities Research , we encourage them to notify the Editors of Humanities Research immediately.

Any allegations will be reviewed by the Humanities Research Editorial Board. Our investigation will include contacting the author/editor of the suspected manuscript or paper to obtain clarification, setting out the respective complaint or claims made.

Author responsibilities

To publish in Humanities Research , authors must ensure their submitted manuscript meets specific requirements for quality scholarly publications.

The author must warrant that:

• The submitted manuscript is original, has not been published previously and is not being considered for publication elsewhere in either print or electronic form.
• The source of any copyright materials in any submitted manuscripts has been acknowledged, cited or quoted and appropriate permissions to use such copyright material have been obtained.
• The work does not contain any libellous material.
• Any interests, funding or affiliations that may impact on research findings and the impartiality of the submitted manuscripts are disclosed.
• They understand the licence conditions applied to their published papers.
• The submitted manuscripts are in respect of work conducted in an ethical and responsible manner and in compliance with all relevant legislation.
• The submitted manuscripts will report only accurate and reliable data.

Authors must ensure that all persons who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the submitted manuscript will be listed as co-authors.

If others have participated in certain substantive aspects of the submitted manuscript, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the submitted manuscripts and have agreed to its submission for publication.

All authors must also disclose in the submitted manuscript all sources of financial support for the project that the submitted manuscript is written about in order to inform the Readers about who has funded research and on the role of the funders in the research.

Peer reviewer responsibilities

Peer reviewers are an essential part of the journal’s scholarly publishing process. They assist the publisher in determining which publications add value to the scholarly debate and ensure the integrity of the scholarly record. Due to the important role played by peer reviewers, it is essential that reviewers conduct reviews in an ethical and accountable manner.

It is the responsibility of the reviewer to:

• Ensure they can return a review in a timely manner.
• Declare any conflict of interest before accepting a manuscript for review.
• Ensure that competing interests are declared to the Editorial Board before accepting a manuscript for review.
• Read the full manuscript and provide feedback on all articles.
• Respect the confidentiality of the peer-review process and not use information obtained during the process for their own or another’s advantage, or to disadvantage or discredit others.
• Not involve anyone else in the review process without first obtaining permission from the Editorial Board.
• Remain unbiased by considerations relating to the nationality, religious or political beliefs, gender or other characteristics of the authors, origins of a manuscript or by commercial considerations.
• Inform the Editorial Board if they find they do not have the necessary expertise to assess the relevant aspects of the manuscript.
• Notify the Editorial Board if they suspect any breach of research or publication ethics immediately.
• Prepare a report for the journal Editor identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the manuscript; providing any advice on revisions, edits, additions or omissions they think are required to improve the manuscript; advise the Editorial Board to accept, revise or reject the manuscript.

Humanities Research employs a rigorous double-blind peer-review model. This model ensures that the authors do not know their reviewers, nor the reviewers the author(s).

Conflicts of interest

Humanities Research undertakes to remove potential conflicts of interests whether identified before or after publications and expects our Editors, authors, Editorial Board members and reviewers to also be alert to such issues.

Such conflicts may arise from employment, consultancies, stock ownership, affiliations, honoraria, paid expert testimonies, funding arrangements or financial holdings, or grants, patent application/registrations that may raise concerns about potential bias in research findings or editorial decisions.

Potential conflicts of interest should be disclosed at the earliest stage possible. If a potential conflict of interest is identified, the relevant party must declare the interest to the Journal Editors or the Editorial Board and remove themselves from the process while the conflict is investigated.

Journal Editors

Journal Editors will:

• Declare if they have any conflict of interest when receiving a manuscript for consideration.
• Ensure authors and reviewers report potential conflicts of interest that may influence, or be perceived to have influenced, their research findings and conclusions.
• Have in place processes for dealing with submissions from themselves and other members of the Editorial Board.
• Ensure no commercial, advertising or sponsorship arrangements exercise any influence over editorial decisions.

Members of Editorial teams/boards

Members of the Editorial Board will declare any conflict of interest before accepting a position on the Board, at the time of submission, declare their interest if they are seeking to publish their own work through Humanities Research .

Authors will declare any potential conflicts of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their submitted manuscript to the Journal Editor when they submit a manuscript.

Reviewers will declare any potential conflicts of interest to the Editors prior to undertaking any book, exhibition, or other review.

Retractions and corrections

In the event an error or a case of academic misconduct is not detected until after publication, a retraction or correction will be issued as soon as practicable.

Authors and other interested parties must promptly report errors or inaccuracies in the officially published version of the journal. The Editors or the Editorial Board will be responsible for adding an erratum to the article or book review. The placement of the erratum will be at the discretion of ANU Press and will be made prominent.

Retractions will be issued in cases of academic misconduct, or in the case of major errors that mean a publication’s findings are not reliable. In this case, the publication metadata will remain on the website with a retraction notice stating the reason for the retraction and its date.

The authors will cooperate with the journal Editors or Editorial Board to retract or correct the published version of the article.

Humanities Research is made available to readers in multiple online formats and as print-on-demand hard copies in perpetuity. ANU Press has also partnered with CLOCKSS to digitally preserve its ebooks and ejournals and future-proof access to these publications.

Confidentiality

Editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers and Humanities Research Editorial Board. Editors will ensure that material submitted remains confidential while under review.

Complaints policy

We take seriously complaints or concerns about Humanities Research , our Editorial Board, our Editors, or the activities or information related to Humanities Research .

All concerns related to errors or suspicion of academic misconduct should be reported in the first instance to the Humanities Research Editorial Board which will follow the procedures outlined in this statement.

Authors who have concerns about the editorial or peer-review process are encouraged to discuss these issues with the Humanities Research Editorial Board.

Concerns about the legal status of Humanities Research publications, such as copyright, privacy or defamation should be submitted to the Editorial Board. Contact: [email protected]

Editorial team

• Co-editors: Kylie Message, The Australian National University, Australia and Robert Wellington, The Australian National University, Australia
• Copyeditor: tba.
• Contact: [email protected]
• Frank Bongiorno, The Australian National University (Chair)
• Robert Aldrich, University of Sydney
• Tony Bennett, Western Sydney University
• Kate Bowan, The Australian National University
• Njabulo Chipangura, Manchester Museum
• Sarah Collins, University of Western Australia
• Rob Cover, RMIT University
• Nikki Hessell, Victoria University of Wellington
• Paul Magee, University of Canberra
• Conal McCarthy, Victoria University of Wellington
• Iain McCalman, Australian Catholic University
• Kader Konuk, University of Duisburg-Essen
• Claire Roberts, University of Melbourne
• Gretchen Stolte, University of Western Australia
• Malini Sur, Western Sydney University
• Christopher Whitehead, Newcastle University

Please send article submissions to [email protected]

Articles of about 7,000 words in length (including footnotes and references) are preferred, but submissions up to 9,000 words will be considered. Please submit an electronic version of the paper (text only without embedded images or scans) in Microsoft Word or RTF format, along with a short abstract and author biography as a separate document.

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One common thread: the musical world of lament.

Humanities Research: Volume XIX No. 2. 2013 »

The world and world-making in art.

Humanities Research: Volume XIX No. 1. 2013 »

Nationalism and biography: european perspectives.

Humanities Research: Volume XVIII. No. 1. 2012 »

Perspectives on ethnographic film.

Humanities Research: Volume XVII. No. 2. 2011 »

Cruising country: automobilities in non-urban australia.

Humanities Research: Volume XVII. No. 1. 2011 »

Latin america: building and rebuilding the nation.

Humanities Research: Volume XVI. No. 3. 2010 »

The solidarity decade 1980-1989: an australian perspective.

Humanities Research: Volume XVI. No. 2. 2010 »

Key thinkers and their contemporary legacy.

Humanities Research: Volume XVI. No. 1. 2010 »

Passing, imitations, crossings.

Humanities Research: Volume XV. No. 3. 2009 »

Decolonising testimony: on the possibilities and limits of witnessing.

Humanities Research: Volume XV. No. 2. 2009 »

Compelling cultures: representing cultural diversity and cohesion in multicultural australia.

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Humanities Research: No. 3. 1998 »

Humanities Research: No. 2. 1998 »

Humanities Research: No. 1. 1998 »

Humanities Research: Winter 1997 »

Humanities Research: Volume XV. No. 1. 2009 »

Diversity, integration and citizenship.

Humanities Research Journal Series: Volume IX. No. 1. 2002 »

Humanities Research Journal Series: Volume VIII. No. 1. 2001 »

Humanities Research: Volume XI. No. 1. 2004 »

Humanities Research: Volume X. No. 1. 2003 »

Humanities Research: Volume X. No. 2. 2003 »

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Aims and Scope

Public Humanities is an open-access forum for research from around the world and across the disciplines, engaging with a wide range of issues, authors, and readers and demonstrating the breadth, depth, and value of the humanities in its varied contributions to public life. 

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Subject areas: digital humanities, art, cultural studies, literature, history, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, theology, Quaker studies, Quakerism, Nonconformity, Nonconformist, Friends, peace studies, research methodology, women's studies.

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Studies in the Maternal provides an international forum for contemporary critical debates on the maternal, understood as lived experience, social location, political and scientific practice, economic and ethical challenge, a theoretical question, and a structural dimension in human relations, politics and ethics.

Subject areas: maternal studies, mothering, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, philosophy, critical theory, disability studies, medical humanities, popular culture, art, activism. 

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The Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal ( TRAJ ) publishes innovative and interdisciplinary research in the field of Roman Archaeology. The journal promotes the use of theoretical approaches to the Roman past and facilitates fresh interpretations of datasets, rather than solely the presentation of archaeological data. The geographical scope of the journal is the whole of the Roman world at its greatest extent, including areas beyond the frontiers where Roman influence was evident. The journal’s temporal scope is from the Bronze Age to the Late Antique period; however, the subject of most contributions will usually range from the third century BC to the fifth century AD.

Subject areas: Roman archaeology, antiquarianism, sensory archaeology, pedagogy, experimental approaches to the past, Roman material culture, disability studies, ancient Rome, sculpture, art, environmental research, cultural appropriation, Roman imperialism.

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Die Zeitschrift für Fantastikforschung ( ZFF ) ist das deutschsprachige Forum für Fantastikforschung. Konsequent interdisziplinär angelegt, erscheint jährlich eine Ausgabe. Mit dem zentralen Ziel, die wissenschaftlichen Debatten rund um die Fantastik als kultureller Formation zugleich abzubilden und aktiv mitzugestalten, startet die ZFF 2018 innerhalb der OLH mit neuen Ideen und technischen Mitteln in eine neue, bunte und spannende Zukunft.

Subject areas: science fiction studies, fantasy, speculative fiction, science and technology studies, cyberpunk, fandom studies, franchises, genre theory, reception studies, German literature, German history, contemporary literary studies. 

Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science

Published since 1966, Zygon is dedicated to the manifold interactions between the sciences and human religious and moral convictions. The journal explores the whole range of the sciences, including cosmology and physics, biology and the neurosciences, sociology, psychology, and anthropology. Zygon is open to religious and non-religious perspectives, publishing articles that consider science in relation to the great traditions of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, as well as naturalism, secular humanism, and atheism.

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Ethnologia europaea.

Ethnologia Europaea is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal, founded in 1967, focusing on European cultures and societies. In 2015 it was adopted by the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) as its flagship journal. Ethnologia Europaea is a membership journal supported by the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore and funded by the Nordic Board for Periodicals in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOP-HS). Ethnologia Europaea was published by the Open Library of Humanities from 2019-2023 and is archived here.

Francosphères

Francosphères is a multilingual journal based at the Centre for Postcolonial Studies (CPS) in Paris and London. It seeks to define and question the presence of French language and culture across frontiers and borders, as defined by the Franco postcolonial presence, contact with French culture, and the ‘France of the mind’. To this extent, it is a journal of transcultural and intercultural French Studies - about liminal spaces rather than operating within the hierarchy of ‘French’ or ‘Francophone’ culture. Francosphères was co-published by the Open Library of Humanities and Liverpool University Press from 2018-2023 and is archived here.

International Journal of Welsh Writing in English

First published in 1995 as Welsh Writing in English: A Yearbook of Critical Essays , the International Journal of Welsh Writing in English is the premier journal for current research on Welsh literature in the English language, Welsh drama and performance in English, translation, cultural studies, and related areas. The journal was co-published by the Open Library of Humanities and University of Wales Press from 2018-2023 and is archived here.

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Pynchon Notes was a journal devoted to studying the works of Thomas Pynchon. Running from 1979 to 2009, the journal is preserved by the Open Library of Humanities, but does not accept any new submissions. For new articles on the works of Thomas Pynchon, related authors and adjacent fields in 20th- and 21st-century literature, please see the OLH journal Orbit: A Journal of American Literature.

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RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS The Ecology of Body Memory in Heisnam Kanhailal’s Theatre Anannya Nath DOI : https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v16n1.15 | First published : 21 March, 2024 Abstract Full-Text PDF

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RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS Preserving the Feitao Ritual in an Era of Globalization: The Heritage Ecology of Maonan Ethnic Minority in Modern China Liu Yixing & Chow Ow Wei DOI : https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v16n1.13 | First published : 24 February, 2024 Abstract Full-Text PDF

RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS The Capitalocene Versus Indigenous Eco-justice in Helon Habila’s Oil on Water Trina Bose DOI : https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v16n1.12 | First published : 24 February, 2024 Abstract Full-Text PDF

RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS Locating Empire and Capitalism in Amitav Ghosh’s The Living Mountain: A Fable for Our Times Amit Kumar & Vikas Sharma DOI : https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v16n1.11 | First published : 24 February, 2024 Abstract Full-Text PDF

RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS Biodiversity, Ecomusicology and Fostered Nominal Ecology Damilare Ogunmekan, Margaret Akpevweoghene Efurhievwe & Igue Philo Okpeki DOI : https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v16n1.10 | First published : 24 February, 2024 Abstract Full-Text PDF

RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS Nature’s Notes: Analyzing the Environmental Advocacy in the Deuda Songs of Nepal Saroj GC & Bhupesh Joshi DOI : https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v16n1.09 | First published : 19 February, 2024 Abstract Full-Text PDF

RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS Orality and Indigenous Environmentalism in Sarah Joseph’s Gift in Green Darpana Gogoi DOI : https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v16n1.08 | First published : 13 February, 2024 Abstract Full-Text PDF

RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS Indigenous Festivals as a Tool for Forest Preservation and Cultural Revival in Nigeria Blessing Adjeketa, Alphonsus Shireku & Oliogu Tunde Obado DOI : https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v16n1.07 | First published : 10 February, 2024 Abstract Full-Text PDF

RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS Indigenous Environmentalism through Dance: The Ohaji-Egbema Experiment in South-Eastern Nigeria Princewill Chukwuma Abakporo & Stanley Timeyin Ohenhen DOI : https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v16n1.06 | First published : 10 February, 2024 Abstract Full-Text PDF

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RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS Palliating War Trauma: Exploring the Therapeutic Role of Nature in Silko’s Ceremony Sini Jacob & Benoy Kurian Mylamparambil DOI : https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v16n1.04 | First published : 08 February, 2024 Abstract Full-Text PDF

RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS Indigenous Festivals and Climate Sustainability in India: A Case Study of Cultural Practices and Performances Ayan Mondal & Maya Shanker Pandey DOI : https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v16n1.03 | First published : 05 February, 2024 Abstract Full-Text PDF

RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS Resisting Eco-colonialism Through Indigenous Epistemologies and Performances in Nigeria Stanley Timeyin Ohenhen & Princewill Chukwuma Abakporo DOI : https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v16n1.02 | First published : 03 February, 2024 Abstract Full-Text PDF

RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS Indigenous Ecologies in Mahasweta Devi’s Chotti Munda and His Arrow Antara Saha DOI : https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v16n1.01 | First published : 31 January, 2024 Abstract Full-Text PDF

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RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS A Mixed-Method Study on the Impact of Movie-Based Learning on Chinese Undergraduates’ Cultural Identity Jing Tao, Aidah Abdul Karim & Mohd Khalid Mohamad Nasir DOI : https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v16n1.08g | First published : 30 March, 2024 Abstract Full-Text PDF

RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS Rewriting Femborgian Narratives: Transgression and Subversion of the Female Cyborg in Her and Ex Machina Nilima Chaudhary DOI : https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v16n1.07g | First published : 30 March, 2024 Abstract Full-Text PDF

RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS Kajari Folk Songs: Mechanism for Emotional Regulation Milan Chauhan & Swasti Mishra DOI : https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v16n1.06g | First published : 06 March, 2024 Abstract Full-Text PDF

RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS Savage Desires: Afghanistan as a Site for Othering in Dharmatma and Khuda Gawah Marjuque Ul Haque DOI : https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v16n1.05g | First published : 06 March, 2024 Abstract Full-Text PDF

RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS The Unconscious as Cinematographic Form: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Inception Deniz Çelik & Tugba Elmaci DOI : https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v16n1.04g | First published : 06 March, 2024 Abstract Full-Text PDF

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RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS Unravelling the Linguistic Tapestry: A Discursive Study of Gender Portrayal in Select Indian Electronic Advertisement Shubham Pathak, Ipsita Mondal & Swasti Mishra DOI : https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v16n1.02g | First published : 25 January, 2024 Abstract Full-Text PDF

RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS Digital Literacy as a Meta-Cognitive Component of Younger Students’ Intellectual and Creative Potential in Foreign Language Lessons Aliya E. Balgabayeva, Tatiana O. Karataeva, Irina S. Karabulatova, Roza M. Aitzhanova, Aigul A. Zhumadullayeva & Dina M. Zharylgapova DOI : https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v16n1.01g | First published : 12 January, 2024 Abstract Full-Text PDF

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Raw Materials. Half Creatures and Complete Nature in Shelley’s Frankenstein and Homunculus in Goethe’s Faust II

Siv Frøydis Berg Associate professor, Ph.D., National Library of Norway. Email: [email protected] Rupkatha Journal, Vol. 14, Issue 3, September-October 2022, Pages 1–8.

The Idea of the Border in the Digital Age

Debra A. Castillo1 & Parthasarathi Bhaumik2 1Professor, Cornell University. Email id: [email protected]. 2Associate Professor, Jadavpur University, India. Email: [email protected] Rupkatha Journal, Vol. 14, Issue

The Resonance of Music Across Cultures

Rolf J. Goebel, Ph.D. Distinguished Prof. of German, Emeritus, University of Alabama in Huntsville. Email: [email protected]  Volume 13, Number 3, 2021 I Full Text PDF

Haptic Perception Meets Interface Aesthetics: Cultural Representations of Touchscreen Technology in the Aftermath of the iPhone 2007

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“Walls of Freedom”: Street Art and Structural Violence in the Global City

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Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe

Gender Queer: A Memoir. Author: Maia Kobabe. Publication Date: 2019. Pages: 240. Publisher: Lion Forge. ISBN: 978-1-5493-0400-2. Reviewed by Anjitha Tom   Christ

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Somdev Chatterjee’s Why Stories Work: The Evolutionary and Cognitive Roots of the Power of Narrative : A Review

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Peer review  is a process for evaluating research studies before they are published by an academic journal. These studies typically communicate  original research  or analysis for other researchers. 

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The problem with making all academic research free

T here has been an earthquake in my corner of academia that will affect who teaches in prestigious universities and what ideas circulate among educated people around the world.

And it all happened because a concept rooted in good intentions — that academic research should be “open access,” free for everyone to read — has started to go too far.

The premise of open-access publishing is simple and attractive. It can cost libraries thousands of dollars a year to subscribe to academic journals, which sometimes means only academics affiliated with wealthy colleges and universities may access that research. But under open-access publishing, nearly anyone with an internet connection can find and read those articles for free. Authors win, because they find more readers. Academics around the world benefit, because they can access the latest scholarship. And the world wins, because scientific and intellectual progress is facilitated by the free exchange of ideas.

By now this model has taken hold in the natural sciences, especially in biology and biomedicine; during the pandemic many publishers removed paywalls from articles about vaccines and treatments. The Biden administration requires federally funded scholarly publications to be made freely available without any delay.

However, there is no such thing as a free academic article. Even with digital distribution, the expenses of running a journal are considerable. These costs include hosting the websites where people submit, peer-review, and edit articles; copyediting; advertising; preserving journal archives; and maintaining continuity as editors come and go.

As a result, unless journals have a source of revenue other than subscription fees, any move toward open access raises the question of who will cover the costs of publication.

One answer is that the money will come from authors themselves or their academic institutions or other backers. This works well enough in the natural sciences, because those researchers are often funded by grants, and some of that money can be set aside to cover a journal’s fees for publishing scientific articles. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation demands that all research funded by the foundation, including the underlying data, be published open access.

According to an MIT study , however, only a small fraction of scholars in the humanities publish their articles on an open-access basis. Unlike biologists and biomedical engineers, humanities scholars such as philosophers and historians do not get grants that can cover the publishing costs.

This means that if open access is to take hold in those fields as well — as many publishers and academics are advocating — the costs will have to be covered by some foundation or other sponsor, by the scholars’ institutions, or even by the scholars themselves. And all these models have serious downsides.

I’m a political philosopher. The earthquake in my field that I mentioned earlier shook one of our most prominent journals: the Journal of Political Philosophy.

Publishing an article in this journal has long made the difference between whether a candidate gets hired, tenured, or promoted at an elite institution of higher education. The high quality has stemmed in large part from the rigorous approach of the founding editor, Robert Goodin.

At the end of 2023, the publisher, Wiley, terminated its contract with Goodin. The reasons were not immediately clear, and over 1,000 academics, including me, signed a petition stating that we would not serve on the editorial board or write or review for the journal until Wiley reinstates Goodin. I recently attended a panel at an American Philosophical Association conference where philosophers voiced their anger and puzzlement about the situation.

One source of the problem appears to be that Wiley now charges the authors of an article or their institutions $3,840 to get published open access in the journal.

The Journal of Political Philosophy is actually hybrid open access, which means it waives the article processing charges for authors who permit their work to appear behind a subscription-only paywall. Nonetheless, Goodin and Anna Stilz , a Princeton professor and Journal of Political Philosophy editorial board member, point out that publishers like Wiley now have a strong incentive to favor open-access articles.

In the old model, in which university libraries subscribed to journals, editors were mainly incentivized to publish first-rate material that would increase subscriptions. In the open-access model, however, now that authors or their universities must cover the costs of processing articles, publishers of humanities journals seem to be incentivized to boost revenue by accepting as many articles as possible. According to Goodin , open access has “been the death knell of quality academic publishing.” The reason that Goodin lost his job, Goodin and Stilz imply, is that Wiley pressured Goodin to accept more articles to increase Wiley’s profits, and he said no. (Wiley representatives say that lines of communication had collapsed with Goodin.)

Early this year, Goodin cofounded a new journal titled simply Political Philosophy . The journal will be published by the Open Library of Humanities, which is subsidized by libraries and institutions around the world. But this version of open-access publishing does not have the financial stability of the old subscription model. Scholars affiliated with the Open Library of Humanities have pointed out that the project has substantial overhead costs, and it relied on a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that has already ended. The Open Library of Humanities is an experiment, and I hope that it works, but as of now it publishes only 30 journals , compared with the 1,600 journals that Wiley publishes.

The fact remains that no one has satisfactorily explained how open access could work in the humanities and social sciences.

In his 2023 book “ Athena Unbound : Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should Be Free for All,” UCLA history professor Peter Baldwin attempts an answer. He points to Latin America, where some national governments cover all expenses of academic publishing. But this proposal ignores the fact that the governments of the United States and other nations probably do not want to pay for humanities and social sciences journals.

Baldwin also floats the idea of preprint depositories where academics could share documents on the cloud before they have undergone the (somewhat expensive) process of peer review. But this means that academics would lose the benefits that come from getting double-blind feedback from one’s peers. This idea would reduce the costs of publishing a journal article, but it would turn much academic writing into fancy blogging.

Ultimately, Baldwin’s solution is that authors might “have to participate directly, giving them skin in the game and helping contain costs.” This means academics might ask their employers to pay the article processing charges, ask a journal for the processing fees to be waived, or dig into their own pockets to pay to publish.

And it might mean less gets published overall. The journal Government and Opposition, published by Cambridge University Press, is entirely open access and charges $3,450 for an article to be published. I’d have to apply for a discount or a waiver to publish there. Or I could do what political philosophers in Japan and Bosnia and Herzegovina have told me they do: avoid submitting to open-access journals. Their universities will not cover their article processing charges except maybe in the top journals, and even the reduced fees can run into hundreds of dollars that these professors do not have.

In “Athena Unbound,” Baldwin notes that Harvard subscribes to 10 times as many periodicals as India’s Institute of Science. One can bemoan this fact, but one may also appreciate that Harvard’s largesse spread enough subscription revenue around to reputable journals to enable academics to avoid paying to publish in them, no matter whether they teach at regional state schools, non-elite private schools, or institutions of higher education in poor countries. For all its flaws, the old model meant that when rich alumni donated to their alma maters, it increased library budgets and thereby made it possible for scholars of poetry and state politics to run and publish in academic journals.

Until we have more evidence that open-access journals in the humanities and social sciences can thrive in the long run, academics need to appreciate the advantages of the subscription model.

Nicholas Tampio is a professor of political science at Fordham University in New York City.

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Student report on “ritual, anti-ritual, and the efficacy of reform” lecture by dr peter van der veer..

During the informal discussion, Dr. van der Veer started by sharing his own journey and experience in the field. He reminisced that he had been interested in linguistics and had spent time after high school travelling in India, Iran and Afghanistan. It was these experiences that led him to learn Pali, Hindi and Sanskrit. Although his academic career had been shaped by his interests, Dr. van der Veer also reminded the audience that context and circumstances were also vital. He shared that he never predicted that he would be a scholar of nationalism, but circumstances would have it that there would be the rise of the nationalist party BJP in his research area, India. Later in his career, he would apply his expertise on India with comparisons in China.

The audience was excited to have Dr. van der Veer share his experiences and many questions were asked. Questions on graduate school, academia and general advice for interested students was a common theme. In particular, some students were concerned with the prospects of majoring in anthropology or the social sciences. Dr. van der Veer was quick to point out that the skills and sensibilities learnt in this field would not just be contained within academia but was vital and could be applied to any other profession.

  Dr. van der Veer also gave a talk on “Ritual, Anti-Ritual, and the Efficacy of Reform” during the second half of the event. In this lecture, he highlighted 2 common fallacies in the field. The first fallacy was that academics tended to focus on action and doing rather than meaning. Dr. van der Veer challenged this conception because it does not fully capture the intricacies of ritual behavior. He provides an example of rituals and the disciplining of the body. In India, there exists a distinction between rituals carried out by the Brahminical tradition and those carried out by the ascetical tradition. At first glance, it seems that the actions of both groups were in opposition, with the former focusing on rituals maintaining the caste system while the latter renouncing the caste system and worldly actions. However, Dr. van der Veer argues that these two traditions are not in opposition but just different variants of rituals. There is an internalization of rituals through the disciplining of the body in the ascetical tradition. If one were to solely focus on the actions alone, one would overlook rituals such as the creating of social relations and techniques of the body that are transmitted across generations.  

The second fallacy that Dr. van der Veer sought to address was the opposition of sincerity versus rituals. He highlighted how this line of thought had roots in anti-Catholic polemics that culminated in the Protestant movement. As such, previous understandings of Chinese religion still carried this framework. For example, some scholars viewed a distinction between the ritualistic and the sincere in Mohism. In addressing this fallacy, Dr. van der Veer drew an example of a Chinese festival held in Indonesia. This festival had a rich soundscape where the distinction between the sacred and profane was blurred. Dr. van der Veer also took questions from the audience. One audience member asked for Dr. van der Veer ’s thoughts of the recent increase of religious tourism in China, where throngs of buses, sometimes sponsored by the state, would appear at temples. Dr. van der Veer acknowledged that this was an interesting phenomenon and highlighted that this ‘revival’ would need to be looked at as a total experience, where the question of the sincerity of the tourists would also need to be scrutinized.

This event is co-sponsored by the Division of Social Science, Anthropology@DKU, Humanities Research Center and the CSCC “Meanings, Identities and Communities” Cluster.

Exploring the “Superdeep”: The third DKU Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference

This year’s theme, “Superdeep,” was inspired by an ecosystem of activities at DKU designed by Professor Nathan Hauthaler, which aimed to stimulate philosophical thinking in its most expansive sense.

Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Scott MacEachern addressed the conference, highlighting that this annual gathering has evolved into a significant event that strengthens the bonds within the humanities community.

The conference schedule included four keynote lectures and twelve parallel sessions featuring contributions from students not only from DKU but also from universities across China. The discussions covered a broad spectrum of topics, ranging from literature and art to gender and power, and extending to beliefs, philosophy, and globalization.

DKU was more than delighted to welcome four keynote lecturers. (Chenshan Tian) discussed the Confucian philosophy of family feeling (qinqing), exploring Confucian philosophy as a potential resource for a new geopolitical order. Associate Professor Ru Ye from Wuhan University delivered a thought-provoking lecture titled “Can Rational Beliefs Be Arbitrary?” This sparked deep contemplation among the audience about the possibility of multiple rational responses to the same body of evidence. Hao Tang, Professor of Philosophy from Tsinghua University, led a discussion on attention and practical knowledge, enriching the concept of practical knowledge as a form of self-knowledge or self-consciousness. Seth Jaffe, Associate Professor of the History of Political Thought at LUISS, provided a unique interpretation of Thucydides’ account of the causes of war, delving into debates surrounding the “inevitability” of conflict between America and China. The central premise of this conference is that while not everyone may be a professional philosopher, we can all benefit from engaging more deeply with the intellectual tools that philosophers are developing.

Jackson Li, a sophomore at DKU, found inspiration in the diverse topics presented, particularly resonating with Jaffe’s perspective. He commented, “Applying ancient Greek stories to modern international relations offers a compelling way to consider the complexity of relations between great powers. It suggests that cooperation between China and the United States is a crucial prerequisite for a mutually beneficial situation.”

In addition to the keynote speakers, student presentations in the parallel sessions also brought fresh insights to the conference. Xi Xiong, a junior majoring in philosophy from Wuhan University, expressed her pleasure in exploring topics that have previously been overlooked or unnoticed, with the aim of eliminating hidden evaluative bias within the field of philosophy.

Renyuan Zhang, another DKU sophomore, reflected on his journey from being a participant last year to a presenter this year, stating, “My role in the HRC may have changed, but the spark of enlightenment remains.”  

The conference was not solely about academic discussions; it also incorporated social events such as a gala dinner, a music and dance night, and student film festival, creating a relaxed atmosphere after a day of intellectual engagement.

Professor Miller expressed pride in what the HRC has achieved, not only fostering intense academic discussions in humanities but also providing “a warm and rich social atmosphere with food and wine to help build a shared community of learning.” He noted that over the years, DKU students have formed friendships with their peers at other universities through these conferences, which he described as “beautiful to see.”

Echoing Miller’s sentiments, DKU sophomore Yuequ Dou said, “It’s amazing to hear all the interesting thoughts that people brought up and to make connections with friends all over China.”

The conference indeed served to reinforce Duke Kunshan University’s (DKU) brand identity as China’s premier global liberal arts university. The mission of the Humanities Research Center is to advance interdisciplinary research in the arts, humanities, and interpretive social sciences, contributing to DKU’s goal of becoming one of the world’s leading cross-cultural, research-intensive liberal arts universities.

This year’s event was particularly notable for the launch of the Nexus Journal, a humanities and social science journal created by and for undergraduates at DKU and Duke. This initiative not only strengthens DKU’s brand identity but also fosters a platform for intellectual discourse and exchange in the arts, humanities, and interpretive social sciences. It’s a testament to DKU’s commitment to advancing interdisciplinary research and contributing to its mission of being a leading global liberal arts university.

Miller expressed his appreciation for everyone’s enthusiasm, adding, “Hosting the conference with my co-director from Duke, Carlos Rojas, was a bittersweet experience for me, as this is my last semester as co-director. I wish the center every success in the future.”

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Introducing two journal special issues and a conference

Written by Alberto Giubilini

Two special issues of the journals Bioethics and Monash Bioethics Review will be devoted to, respectively, “New (Bio)technology and Human Identity” and “Medical Humanities in the 21st Century” (academic readers, please consider submitting an article). Here I would like to briefly explain why those topics matter beyond strictly academic discussion.

The first issue is, broadly, about our relationship with new technologies, particularly within healthcare, medicine, and the biosciences. A lot has been written and said about genome editing, artificial intelligence in medicine and, in a more futuristic fashion, human-computer interfaces (Saha et al 2021), human-animal chimeras for autologous organ transplantation (Lu et al 2019), or human brain organoids (Kim and Chang 2023). While some such technologies have broader areas of potential applications, they are typically developed in view of improving medicine and healthcare. In fact, it is hard to read anything about any of these technologies that does not refer to their potential for ‘revolutionizing’ healthcare and medicine.

New (bio)technologies often come with the promise of revolutions, partly because promising revolutions attracts attention and funding and partly because, every now and then, such revolutions actually happen. Even when they don’t happen, the mere prospect of adopting such technologies can have important implications. Not revolutions, but opportunities for reflection. Many of these technologies prompt us to ask questions about some of our fundamentally human dimensions, such as trust, responsibility, autonomy, and so on. As I have also suggested in a previous blogpost , when we ask certain questions about (bio)technologies we are really asking fundamental questions about ourselves.

For instance, a lot of the discussion around AI and medicine concerns whether AI is trustworthy (see e.g. Kerasidou et al 2022) or whether AI generates responsibility gaps in healthcare (see e.g. Danaher 2022, Di Nucci 2021, Lang et al 2023). For example, who is responsible for a misdiagnosis by an autonomous artificial agent? Algorithms’ workings are often ‘opaque’, that is, we cannot explain why a certain output is produced by the machine (the so-called black box problem). As a consequence, we have no way of foreseeing, identifying, and preventing the error. Can we, humans, be held responsible for the misdiagnosis? How can we trust the machine in any given situation? I don’t know the answers, but these questions raise more fundamental, and philosophically interesting, questions. Whether artificial agents are autonomous depends on what autonomy is, whether they are trustworthy depends on what trust and trustworthiness are, whether there is a responsibility gap depends on what kind of responsibility we attribute to human doctors, and so on. We need to understand what these concepts mean in the first place before asking questions about how they do or don’t apply to discourse around (bio)technologies. And in the first place, these are concepts that describe human dimensions.

More broadly, whether advances like germline genome editing, human-animal chimeras, brain-computer interfaces entail substantial modification of our eminently human nature depends on what it is that makes us human in the first place. Whether they will actually be able to bring about revolutions is, in a way, a less interesting question from a philosophical point of view: that might or might not happen and it is an empirical matter. But the philosophical questions they raise, they raise regardless of what is going to happen.

The special issue of Bioethics aims at addressing these types of problems, especially within medicine and healthcare. The inspiration for it comes from a conference that TORCH Medical Humanities, the Oxford Uehiro Centre, and the Stanford Boundaries of Humanities Project are organizing for October this year (everyone welcome).

This is part of a broader series of events and other activities within the Medical Humanities program at Oxford that aim at placing science, medicine, and healthcare in their context of human values, histories, cultures. The second aforementioned special issue in the Monash Bioethics Review on the meaning and value of Medical Humanities is, thus, in an important sense thematically connected to the first one.

It is difficult to define what exactly the Medical Humanities are as an academic discipline (see e.g. Cole et al 2015), but perhaps easier to understand what they are as a general approach to science and medicine.

As an academic discipline, “Medical Humanities” is a relatively recent area of inquiry. It originated in the 1960s in the US, mostly thanks to the Society for Health and Human Values and the work of scholars like medical doctor and philosopher Edmund Pellegrino. It aimed to reform medical education by giving proper recognition to human values and cultures in a field until then dominated by a mechanistic approach to medicine (Fox 1985). While the original focus was mostly on theology, it soon expanded to include a wide range of approaches within the Humanities. Questions around our relationship with medicine and healthcare that require a Humanities-focused perspective have since then become increasingly more salient in academic and in societal discussion.

Why different individuals and communities trust some health institutions or some medical interventions but not others, how different people or communities conceptualize health, healthcare, and their place in the broader system of values are examples of questions that a Medical Humanities approach can help answer. They are questions about the values, histories, and practices around health and medicine that escape the scientific approach. In fact, science and medicine themselves are embedded in such values, histories, and practices. Their proper place and function in society can only be grasped from a perspective that places the complexity of the human being at the centre.

In an article published in the Lancet in 1995, geneticist and neuropsychologist Chris McManus cast some doubts on the actual utility of Medical Humanities in medical school curricula. As he wrote, “any serious evaluation of the humanities in medicine must […] bite the bullet of definition and measurement”, and he called for an “empirical evaluation” of the contribution of the Medical Humanities to improving health care (McManus 1985). This sounds a lot like a call for the application of the scientific method to an evaluation of medical humanities’ contribution to healthcare. One question here is whether there is some scope for approaching the whole issue from a different perspective. For instance, one where the scientific and medical approach are assessed through the methodologies and lenses of Medical Humanities.

Or perhaps, more interestingly and more challengingly, whether some third approach is possible that turns the antagonism implicit in the preceding two into mutually beneficial dialogue. Easier said than done, of course.

( please check out the (soon to be renewed) website of TORCH Medical Humanities at Oxford and follow the new X account for updates on events and how to get involved, including by attending the aforementioned conference or submitting to either (or both) of the aforementioned special issues )

References :

Cole, T. R., Carlin, N. S., & Carson, R. A. (2015).  Medical Humanities: an Introduction . Cambridge University Press

Danaher, J. (2022). Tragic choices and the virtue of techno-responsibility gaps.  Philosophy & Technology ,  35 (2), 26.

Fox, D.M.(1985)  Who we are: The political origins of the medical humanities.  Theoretical Medicine and Bioethic s  6, 327–341 (1985)

Kim, S. H., & Chang, M. Y. (2023). Application of Human Brain Organoids-Opportunities and Challenges in Modeling Human Brain Development and Neurodevelopmental Diseases.  International journal of molecular sciences ,  24 (15), 12528. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms241512528

Kerasidou, C. X., Kerasidou, A., Buscher, M., & Wilkinson, S. (2022). Before and beyond trust: reliance in medical AI.  Journal of Medical Ethics ,  48 (11), 852-856

Lang, B.H., Nyholm, S. & Blumenthal-Barby, J. (2023), Responsibility Gaps and Black Box Healthcare AI: Shared Responsibilization as a Solution.  DISO   2 , 52

Lu, Y., Zhou, Y., Ju, R., & Chen, J. (2019). Human-animal chimeras for autologous organ transplantation: technological advances and future perspectives.  Annals of translational medicine ,  7 (20), 576. https://doi.org/10.21037/atm.2019.10.13

McManus, C. (1995). Humanity and the medical humanities.  Lancet ,  346 , 1143-45.

Saha S, Mamun KA, Ahmed K, Mostafa R, Naik GR, Darvishi S, Khandoker AH and Baumert M (2021) Progress in Brain Computer Interface: Challenges and Opportunities.  Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience.  15:578

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