By the EuropeNow Editorial Committee
Here is this month’s editor’s pick from Research Editorial Committee member Hélène B. Ducros.
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Interviewed by Anastasia Paparis
Culture always reflects what occurs in the world, and sometimes art and culture even function as a “seismometer” for future development. It is unimaginable that future European Capitals of Culture not embody Europe’s disillusion about never engaging in war again.
Reviewed by Molly Walker
Nation-building wove together smaller ethno-national groups and cast out the outliers to manufacture a unified Georgian identity.
Interviewed by Anastasia Paparis
In all our cultural development activities, networking, or educational projects, we have striven to support the inhabitants in their initiatives and to improve their skills and capacities.
The Dragoman Renaissance Diplomatic Interpreters and the Routes of Orientalism by E. Natalie Rothman
Reviewed by Duygu Yıldırım
Despite the growing number of ambassadors at the Porte, the first Ottoman diplomatic residency in Europe was only established as late as 1793. This asymmetrical relation in early modern diplomacy was not uncommon since residential diplomacy was a European exception.
Interviewed by Anastasia Paparis
Culture is not an EU “competency.” Arts and cultural policies and related topics are the prerogative of national governments. The EU can only intervene in cultural affairs by linking them to other EU policies.
By Nick Ostrum
This course examines themes of resistance and rescue, escape and survival, and perseverance and dignity in the face of the very worst that fascism, industrial modernity, and humanity had to offer.
Translated by Nina Bogin
In immense rooms, straw mattresses are spread out on the floor. There are collective showers and a vast dining hall.
Translated by Hope Campbell Gustafson
When I ask my mother what happened to my father, she says that there’s been war in our country for fifteen years and as far as she knows he could be dead. She says it with a coldness that upsets me, so I immediately stop asking questions.
