Issue 54 | November 2023

Research

• “The Challenge of Populism and Disinformation on the Pandemic Response in Romania” by Andreea Mosila

• “Humanity in the State of Nature: Notes on José Saramago’s ‘Blindness’ and Cormac McCarthy’s ‘The Road'” by Patricia Chiantera-Stutte

• “What Book Are You?: One Map of English-Language European Art Writing” by David Berridge

Commentary

• “Impressions from France: A Review of the Exhibit ‘Imprimer! L’Europe de Gutenberg, 1450–1520’ at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France” by Benjamin Bernard and Matthew McDonald

• “The Return of the Russian Gulag” by Oksana Ermolaeva

• “Gendered Invisibility: (Un)Certain Havens for Asylum-Seeking Women in Europe” by Vanja Petricevic

Visual Art

• “In and Out Clouds,” an art series curated by Hélène B. Ducros

Poetry

• One Poem by Julie Field (aka Julie Goo), translated from the Irish by Sorcha de Brún

• Two Poems by Pierre Haroche

Fiction

• Eastbound by Maylis de Kerangal, translated from the French by Jessica Moore

• Kinderland: A Novel by Liliana Corobca, translated from the Romanian by Monica Cure

Interviews

• “Researching Queer Mobilities in Europe: An Interview with Andrew Shield” by Luke Forrester Johnson

Book Reviews

• Feminist Transformations and Domestic Violence Activism in Divided Berlin, 1968-2002, reviewed by Lauren Stokes

• Moscow’s Heavy Shadow: The Violent Collapse of the USSR, reviewed by Leora Eisenberg

• Undesirables: A Holocaust Journey to North Africa, reviewed by Biz Nijdam

Campus Spotlight: Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, with Columbia University

• Introduction by Holger A. Klein and Alain Duplouy

• “From the Sorbonne to the Institut d’Art et d’Archéologie” by Alain Duplouy

• “The Cylinder Seal Project: The Role of Jean Deshayes in French Mecanography” by Mariana Silva Porto and Mathilde Castéran

• “A Collection of Ancient Iranian Seal Impressions at the Institut d’Art et d’Archéologie” by Guido Antinori

• “The Digital Management of Archaeological Collections: The VERGILIUS Portal” by Vincenzo Capozzoli

• Syllabus: “Interpretive Archaeology: Historiography of the Ancient World” by Alain Duplouy

Campus

• “Art as a Passport for Learning and Healing in Refugee Camps” by Paul O’Keeffe

Campus Round-Up

• “European Studies Decentered” by Hélène B. Ducros

Campus Series: Teaching Genocide

• “The Drowned, the Saved, and the Sonderkommando: A Lesson Plan for Teaching ‘Son of Saul’ and Primo Levi in Tandem” by Nicholas Ostrum

Editor’s Pick

• Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project by Hans Kundnani

• Right and Wronged in International Relations: Evolutionary Ethics, Moral Revolutions, and the Nature of Power Politics by Brian C. Rathbun

• Paroles d’Arbres by Ernst Zürcher

• Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice by Xenia A. Cherkaev

Cover image: Berndnaut Smilde
Cover design: Hélène B. Ducros