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This special section of Jezikoslovlje is the fortunate result of papers on multimodality (crossmodality) and embodiment presented at the Third International Symposium on Figurative Thought and Language (FTL3) on April 26–28, 2017 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Osijek, Croatia. The objective of the three-day symposium was to further a forum that discusses the links between figurative thought and language. Two previous events had been held in Thessaloniki - Greece (2014) and Pavia - Italy (2015), one has since been held in Braga - Portugal (2018), and one other is currently planned in Sofia – Bulgaria (2020).
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As a mode that evolved around our fears over technological development, science / fiction, understood in a broad sense of fictionalizing scientific narratives, has more recently turned towards biology as the science of the future. In parallel, life sciences have established their presence within the field of humanities, as both strive to tackle the burning political issues. Climate change, mass extinctions, biotechnological fallouts – these aspects of the Anthropocene feature in contemporary fiction, reflecting the global anxieties, but their trajectory could be traced back to modernist works (and further back). The sixth volume of Pulse, entitled “Alternate Realities of Life Sciences and Science Fiction,” brings together a number of texts exploring how possible realities alternate to the biopolitical ordering, are both constructed and deconstructed at the intersection of life sciences and science / fiction in different ways, in the modernist and contemporary periods. The texts are interventions across a range of perspectives: from continental philosophy, cultural studies, to eco-criticism, animal studies, and medical humanities.
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An introductory text on the 20th anniversary of SLEDVA by the editor-in-chief, Bilyana Kourtasheva: the outcome is 40 issues, more than 4000 pages on university culture hallmarked by the New Bulgarian University; among the contributors are both renowned academics and students; some of the aspiring young authors have become well known names in their fields.
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In Volume 6 of the edition “Monumenta Srebrenica“ we talked about the phenomenon and meaning of the culture of remembering for the whole socio-historical existence of social groups, first and foremost, nations and states. In the last, Volume 7 of the edition “Monumenta Srebrenica“, we discussed only one, specific form of collective consciousness of Bosniaks, that has developed recently, and that is self-shame, and we can also call it self-hatred, auto-chauvinism and the like, but that form of consciousness is very similar to the inferiority complex, that essentially degrades one’s own and values other cultural, traditional, political, religious and other life values.
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The article deals, using some illustrative details, with a perennial and major strategic goal of the decision-makers in Washington, D.C.: that of continuously maintaining and strongly consolidating freedom of navigation in different parts of the World Ocean. At this very moment, this major strategic goal is vividlyillustrated by the FONOPs (Freedom of Navigation Operations) in the South China Sea. But these current FONOPs are nothing else but a quite tiny chapter in a very long and astonishingly complex story, more than two centuries long, mixing some major political principles and an active search for accomplishing significant (and sometimes vital) elements of the U.S. national interest.
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Osvrt na znanstveni skup Splitski gradonačelnici od pohrvaćenja splitske Općine do kraja Prvoga svjetskog rata (1882.-1918.) održanom 8. svibnja 2018. u Muzeju grada Splita.
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The demise of communist dictatorships in East Central Europe, the end of their Cold War border regimes, and the region’s “return to Europe” shook the sociogeographical notions predicating national identities and their place within the continent. At one extreme, the Schengen process turned some of the formerly most contested and zealously guarded borders into open spaces; at the other, some of the previously relatively permeable intra-USSR administrative lines became state borders of “Fortress Europe.” Parallel to and cutting across the genealogy of territorial borders and border politics, memories have formed of post-war/Cold War national seclusion and exclusion, cultural frontiers and cohabitations, and community separation and proximity. [...]
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Twenty-seven years have passed since the publication of the first issue of East European Politics and Societies. The journal was launched at a time when communist regimes still controlled east European states, but the decay of their might had already become evident and the seeds of change had been planted. Soon after, the wave of democratic revolutions swept the region, followed by a period of transition that was longer and more difficult than expected. At present, eastern Europe is characterized above all by its diversity. The journal has not only borne witness to these tumultuous times, but also, under the capable leadership of our predecessors, has become a central forum for reflection on developments in the region. Our primary goal as its new editors is to maintain the status of EEPS as the leading journal on the area, and to continue its role as a space and a stimulus for the sort of interdisciplinary, comparative, and transnational research that characterizes area studies at its most productive.
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For the vast majority of Americans, the mention of Warsaw conjures up images of the Holocaust and World War II. In comparison with other Central European capitals such as Berlin, Budapest, Prague, and Vienna, Warsaw remains fixed as a site of wartime suffering and destruction in English-language publications. In part, these impressions stem from the fact that interwar Warsaw was a major center of Ashkenazi Jewish culture, and stories of this center’s flourishing and destruction attract the largest number of American readers. Because the Holocaust relentlessly reduced this Jewish center to a ghetto and then a ghost town, tributes to the Polish Jewish dead and memoirs of the Holocaust’s survivors naturally dominate Englishlanguage tales of the city.
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Ukraine’s 2010 election sent contradictory messages. On one hand, the voting was free, fair, and accompanied by raucous public debate, evidence of a consolidation of electoral democracy. On the other, the “Orange” forces that forced free elections in 2004 were decisively defeated. Ukrainian voters instead elected Viktor Yanukovych, despite his effort to steal the 2004 election, leaving many questions about the meaning of the election and the state of Ukrainian democracy. [...]
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Although almost all of us are too young to remember anything of the 1940s, we are nevertheless condemned to live in memory cultures that begin with the Second World War and its victims. Historians, especially those who take as their subjects Germany and Russia and the lands between, must somehow negotiate the slippery territory between memory cultures and historical scholarship. One approach is to treat the memory cultures themselves as an object of study, as do Alexandra Goujon and David Marples in the essays published here. [...]
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It is not the usual practice for this journal to publish an author’s reply to reviews of his or her books. However, Professor Sabrina Ramet’s book, Thinking about Yugoslavia, is an unusual book presenting specific problems that led to this unusual treatment. [...]
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