Issue 4 | February 2017

A Special Feature on Forced Migration, Cultural Identity, and Trauma

• Introduction by Nicole Shea and Turhan Canli

Research

• “Confronting the Terrorist/Refugee Narrative” by James Fitzgerald

• “Refugee Mental Health Through the Lens of Neuroscience and Genetics” by Turhan Canli

• “The ‘In Defense of National Identity’ Argument: Comparing the UK and Hungarian Referendums of 2016” by Eamonn Butler

Commentary

• “Trump Against Europe” by Morten Høi Jensen

• “Untranslated Fire: Francophone Responses to the Charlie Hebdo Attacks” by Arturo Desimone

Poetry

• “The Night So Long” by Marjorie Agosín, translated from the Spanish by Alison Ridley

Fiction

• Excerpt from Frontier by Can Xue, translated from the Chinese by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping

• Excerpt from The White City by Karoline Ramqvist, translated from the Swedish by Saskia Vogel

• Excerpt from The Magician of Vienna by Sergio Pitol, translated from the Spanish by George Henson

Nonfiction

• Excerpt from What Language Do I Dream In? by Elena Lappin

Reviews

• Prosopopoeia, reviewed by Poupeh Missaghi

• Metropolitan Preoccupations: The Spatial Politics of Squatting in Berlin, reviewed by Fabian Frenzel

• British Urban Trees: A Social and Cultural History, C.1800-1944, reviewed by Peter Clark

• Divided Subjects, Invisible Borders,  reviewed by Samantha Fox

Interviews

• “Forced Migration and Displacement: An Interview with Maria Höhn”  by Mount Saint Mary College

Podcast

• “The History of Migration in Europe” produced by Daniel Goulden

Visual Art

• Assemblage: An Art Series on Identity, Memory, and Displacement

Campus Spotlight: University of Kansas

• “University of Kansas Offers First-Year Seminar on World War I” by Dale Urie

• “World War I American Immigrant Poetry: A Digital Humanities Project” by Lorie A. Vanchena

• “The University of Kansas Commemorates World War I Centennial” by Lorie A. Vanchena

Editor’s Pick

• The Courtesan and the Gigolo: The Murders in the Rue Montaigne and the Dark Side of Empire in Nineteenth-century Paris by Aaron Freundschuh

• Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move by Reese Jones

• The EU and the World: Players and Policies Post-Lisbon  by Antonio Missiroli

• Exploring the EU’s Legitimacy Crisis: The Dark Heart of Europe  by Christian Schweiger