Antonio Gramsci, Creative Commons By Dr. Francesca Antonini Postdoctoral Researcher Luigi Einaudi Foundation Abstract Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937) made his notes on science within his Quaderni del carcere (Prison Notebooks) written between 1929 and 1935, while imprisoned by the Italian fascist regime. This overview focuses mainly on three themes: 1) the Gramscian criticism of the idealist (Croce) and materialist (Bukharin)[…]
A statue of York with Lewis and Clark in Great Falls, Montana. (Andre Jenny / Alamy Stock Photo) In some ways, he encountered a world unavailable to the enslaved. But in others, the journey was rife with danger and degradation. By Dr. Shoshi Parks / 03.08.2018 Anthropologist Then again, York didn’t have a say in the[…]
Jacques-Louis David, Death of Marat, 1793, oil on canvas, 165 x 64.96 cm (Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium) By Dr. Claire McCoy / 06.09.2015 William B. and Sue Marie Turner Distinguished Faculty Chair in Art History Columbus State University In the decades following the French Revolution and Napoleon’s final defeat at Waterloo (1815) a[…]
Jan Van Eyck, “Arnolfini Portrait, 1434. Oil on panel, 2′ 8″ x 2′ 0″. National Gallery of Art (London) By Dr. Monica Bowen / 06.28.2017 Professor of Art History Seattle University I am really sad that I am unable to see the exhibition Reflections: Van Eyck and the Pre-Raphaelites that is going on at the National Gallery in London[…]
Cornelia Africana / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Peter Kruschwitz / 03.08.2018 Professor of Classics Fellow of the Pontifical Academy for Latin (Pontificia Academia Latinitatis) University of Reading In 195 B. C., Rome’s women had had enough. It had been for almost exactly twenty years that, due to a decision taken in 215 B. C., at the height of the Second Punic[…]
This mosaic from the Antakya Archaeological Museum, Hatay Province, Turkey dates to the 2nd Century CE and depicts a black African fisherman. By Arienne King / 03.07.2018 Historian Introduction At its fullest extent, the Roman Empire stretched from around modern-day Aswan, Egypt at its southernmost point to Great Britain in the north but the influence of the RomanEmpire went far beyond even the borders of its[…]