The Value of Testimonies for Historical Analysis When I conducted fieldwork in Iraqi Kurdistan, people shared conflicting stories with me about their pasts. This post focuses on my attempt to do justice to such fragmented and contradictory narratives in my research. Bareez Majid • May 11, 2017
Who’s with me? Cultural Identity and the Alexandrian riots of 38 CE Disputes about cultural identity can be traced throughout history. In the first century C.E., Alexandria was one of the most diverse, multicultural cities of the Roman Empire. In 38 CE large-scale riots broke out between Greek and Jewish Alexandrians. Renske Janssen • April 27, 2017
What's that Noise About?: Metal Music Playing the Devil Clichés: Metal music is devil’s music subconsciously brainwashing people to commit suicide and murder; people who listen to metal music worship Satan, or at least are socially deviant and mentally troubled, etc. etc. etc. Kai-wen Chiu • April 21, 2017
Happy Birthday Blog To celebrate the blog's first birthday, this post looks back on some of the highlights so far. Sophia Hendrikx, Lieke Smits, Nynke Feenstra, Tessa de Zeeuw, Robbert Striekwold and Céline Zaepffel • April 06, 2017
Series Final: The Intersection of Multiple Minoritizing Identifications Looi van Kessel and Nynke Feenstra collaborate in a blog series on the intersection of different minoritizing identifications. In this series final, they reflect on the main insights they have acquired while writing this series. Looi van Kessel and Nynke Feenstra • March 31, 2017
What’s in a name? Mislabeling fish since the 16th century. A 16th century example of fraudulent mislabeling and Babylonian confusion... Sophia Hendrikx • March 23, 2017
The Rooster & the Pearl: A Little Aesopic Odyssey Fables are very old and flexible. This is substantiated by a juxtaposition of several versions of the fable of The Rooster and the Pearl, which may be called a “metafable”, since it is a fable about fables. Gert-Jan van Dijk • March 16, 2017
Close to the Skin: Courtroom Sketches A post about the erotics of courtroom sketching and our collective attraction to sensational criminals. Tessa de Zeeuw • March 09, 2017 • 2 comments
A Literary Shroud: Embroidering Derek Walcott’s Omeros A bird stitching an epic: intertextuality and metaliterature in Derek Walcott’s Caribbean epic Omeros. Amaranth Feuth • March 02, 2017
