Some Creative Writing for a Change
I know it isn't the usual blog post, but I thought I would attempt to post some creative writing that I did a little while ago. I used to...
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davide.pafumi
- Feb 13
- 4 min
Critique of the Critique of Critical Discourse Analysis
Up until now, scholarship around discourse has been divided into two distinct approaches: "non-critical" or "descriptive" Discourse...
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khalid
- Feb 12
- 2 min
International Mother Language Day
The 21st February is our pride and courage. The day, February 21, 1952 and the martyrs of the day in Bangladesh make us remember that we...
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khalid
- Feb 7
- 1 min
Intrusion of English on Bengali
I raise a debatable topic. The relationship between Bangladesh people and English is deeper than usually measured in the scale of the...
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ngsmith49
- Feb 6
- 5 min
Some Practical Experience
In a certain land, in a certain kingdom, that is what they say in old Russia... January gone, the shape of my semester is turning out to...
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frankonuh
- Feb 6
- 3 min
Echoes of Resistance #1
The Aba Women's Riot of 1929 represented a pivotal moment in the history of Nigerian women, as well as in the wider context of Africa....
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Barbara Bordalejo
- Feb 5
- 2 min
Tell Me What Ink You Use to Draw Your Experimental Animals, and I'll Tell You Who You Subjugated.
Thanks to the paleography class, I have been thinking a lot about handwriting. I have not yet recovered from the shock of learning that...
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davide.pafumi
- Feb 4
- 3 min
Hijos de una Gran Chingada Madre
This story comes also along with a very agitated week at the UoL in which we saw the strong contraposition between unreconcilable...
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ngsmith49
- Jan 29
- 4 min
The Importance of Fidelity in Adaptations
It isn't. Or, it is and it isn't. The beginning of Linda Hutcheon's textbook 'A Theory of Adaptation' discusses the key concept of...
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davide.pafumi
- Jan 28
- 2 min
On the Challenges of Literary Interpretation
Recently, conversating about a paper I was preparing for a conference with my professors. The paper dealt with an unorthodox...
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Barbara Bordalejo
- Jan 23
- 2 min
Do you Like Ethics?
Should everyone take ethics classes? The data course highlights the problem of the need for more training in various educational sectors,...
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frankonuh
- Jan 23
- 1 min
Decolonizing Knowledge: Examining the Power Dynamics of Global Unity and Equality
Who decides what a word should mean? Who decides what is an appropriate or inappropriate meaning? How do we measure and compare knowledge...
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davide.pafumi
- Jan 23
- 2 min
Talking of Michelangelo
"In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo." (T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock") While writing a...
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Daniel Paul O'Donnell
- Jan 22
- 7 min
The rise of the house of Usher: Standardisation and the decline of the value proposition in post-sec
What was it—I paused to think—what was it that so unnerved me in the contemplation of the House of Usher? It was a mystery all insoluble;...
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ngsmith49
- Jan 22
- 4 min
Reading the Introductions of Mabinogi(on) Translations
There is an abundance of information to be found in the various introductions of the different Mabinogi translations (occasionally titled...
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ngsmith49
- Jan 20
- 3 min
Introductions and Work
Hello, World! You'll perhaps forgive me for being slightly deficient in technological skills (despite the admittedly dated reference...
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davide.pafumi
- Jan 15
- 2 min
Body Authonomy or Authonomy of the Body?
Foucault discusses biopower and biopolitics extensively in his works. He defines biopolitics as the use of institutionalised authority to...
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Barbara Bordalejo
- Dec 22, 2022
- 1 min
Welcome, Frank!
The Humanities Innovation Lab welcomes its newest member, Frank Onuh, who will work on text analysis of political discourse and hate...
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Barbara Bordalejo
- Dec 22, 2022
- 1 min
Congratulations, Khalid!
We are proud to congratulate Khalid on the successful defence of his thesis, The History of English in Bangladesh. Khalid showed mastery...
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morganpearce3
- Dec 12, 2022
- 3 min
Medieval Melancholia and Depression (Pt. 1)
Continuing my journey through the game Pentiment, I came across an especially resonant part of the game. In order to convey its full...
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