There is an increasingly prevalent journalistic tendency to intertwine contemporary and anticipated conflicts with energy-related concerns. In the following illustrative excerpt, the rhetoric adopts a cautionary tone, assuming the stance of ...read more
This project challenges the assumption that narrative fiction is valuable because it creates understanding of other people’s experiences and lived realities through empathy. To date, popular perception frames failures of ...read more
Democratic Literacy and Humour (DELIAH) examines the multifaceted role of humour in artistic forms, cultural spaces, and online and offline fora, identifying how humour can either support or undermine democratic ...read more
For decades, Palestinian women's movements have moved and continue to move in the field of tension of a double resistance - characterised by the struggle against occupation and the challenges ...read more
This seed funded collaborative workshop proposes to facilitate the revision and resubmission of the ENLIGHT Thematic Network (ETN) proposal Boundaries of the Religious (BAR). The workshop will bring together the previous core ...read more
DEI-GN investigates the representations of disability in graphic narrative and their post-reading impact. As noted by Purcell (2021), “the visualization of the embodiment of disability” in graphic narrative greatly supports the emerging ...read more
This bilateral research project investigates how embodied sounding practices can be transmitted, experienced, and critically re-activated within immersive digital environments. Focusing on the vocal and performance traditions of LUME Teatro ...read more
Friendship remains a surprisingly understudied topic, particularly in non-Western contexts, even less so concerning the Middle East and North African (MENA) region. Furthermore, when investigated, there has been little attention ...read more
This interdisciplinary research examines the design and dressing of fashion dolls as forms of queer aesthetic labor, enabling new aesthetic possibilities to envision gendered bodies in contemporary fashion. This research seeks to answer how the interaction between the doll, maker, and dresser ...read more