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Otobiography of a Cancer: Life Writing and Indian Rhythm in Transdisciplinary Composition (2024)
Thesis
Wilson, H. A. Otobiography of a Cancer: Life Writing and Indian Rhythm in Transdisciplinary Composition. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

At an intersection of composition, practice research, and performance autoethnography, this research examines the creative possibilities for the development of corporeal acoustemology: a sonic and auditory knowledge of the body, health, and therefore... Read More about Otobiography of a Cancer: Life Writing and Indian Rhythm in Transdisciplinary Composition.

Personal Commemoration and Collective Enactment: Performing Literati Identity through Autobiographical Landscape in 19th-century China (2024)
Thesis
Chang, J. C.-C. Personal Commemoration and Collective Enactment: Performing Literati Identity through Autobiographical Landscape in 19th-century China. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This dissertation distinguishes a new genre of autobiographical materials under the rubric of landscape, in which early 19th-century Chinese intellectuals performed the ideal male selfhood through intertextual discourse. I term these works as “autobi... Read More about Personal Commemoration and Collective Enactment: Performing Literati Identity through Autobiographical Landscape in 19th-century China.

Recreating the Past: Guwan tu Handscrolls and Practices of Illusionism under Emperor Yongzheng (r. 1723–35) (2024)
Thesis
Ma, K. Recreating the Past: Guwan tu Handscrolls and Practices of Illusionism under Emperor Yongzheng (r. 1723–35). (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis centres on two Yongzheng period (1723–35) handscrolls entitled Guwan tu 古玩圖 (Pictures of Ancient Playthings) housed in the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. By reexamining the scrolls not solely as pictorial representa... Read More about Recreating the Past: Guwan tu Handscrolls and Practices of Illusionism under Emperor Yongzheng (r. 1723–35).

Reimagining the Feminine Self: Strategies of Subversion in the Works of Contemporary Iranian Female Artists (2024)
Thesis
Shahandeh, K. Reimagining the Feminine Self: Strategies of Subversion in the Works of Contemporary Iranian Female Artists. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis examines the works, produced over the last thirty years of around fifty contemporary Iranian female artists, both living in Iran and the diaspora. The artists discussed, mostly were either very young or were born after the Iranian Revolut... Read More about Reimagining the Feminine Self: Strategies of Subversion in the Works of Contemporary Iranian Female Artists.

‘From all quarters of the Indian world’: The temple at Rameshvaram, Hindu kings and Dutch merchants (2023)
Journal Article
Bes, L., & Branfoot, C. (2024). ‘From all quarters of the Indian world’: The temple at Rameshvaram, Hindu kings and Dutch merchants. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 34(2), 325-359. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1356186323000329

On Rameshvaram island in the south-east corner of India lies one of Hinduism's most important temples—the Rāmanāthasvāmi, one of the four dhams (‘holy abodes’) and the site of two Śiva-liṅgas said to have been consecrated by Rāma himself. A temple ha... Read More about ‘From all quarters of the Indian world’: The temple at Rameshvaram, Hindu kings and Dutch merchants.

Year of the Goblin: Tracing New Developments of Digital Folklore and Urban Modes of Living in Online Music Subcultures (2023)
Journal Article
Monteanni, L. (2023). Year of the Goblin: Tracing New Developments of Digital Folklore and Urban Modes of Living in Online Music Subcultures. magazén: International Journal for Digital and Public Humanities, 4(2), 291-327. https://doi.org/10.30687/mag/2724-3923/2023/02/006

This paper sheds light on the connections between musical undergrounds and the global emergence of ‘goblin mode’ as a political aesthetic. In March 2022 The Guardian published an article discussing the popularity of a new locution emerging on social... Read More about Year of the Goblin: Tracing New Developments of Digital Folklore and Urban Modes of Living in Online Music Subcultures.

Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Translation. A Conversation about James McNeill Whistler’s Peacock Room (2023)
Journal Article
Glazer, L., & Pierson, S. (2023). Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Translation. A Conversation about James McNeill Whistler’s Peacock Room. Winterthur Portfolio: A Journal of American Material Culture, 57(2-3), 124-144. https://doi.org/10.1086/728448

The authors discuss Chinese ceramics and James McNeill Whistler’s Peacock Room as a case study in cultural translation and cosmopolitan aestheticism. The article, derived from a talk given by the authors at a conference on the global impact of Asian... Read More about Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Translation. A Conversation about James McNeill Whistler’s Peacock Room.

From One Woman to Another: The Screen Worlds of Bongiwe Selane (2023)
Digital Artefact
Dovey, L. (2023). From One Woman to Another: The Screen Worlds of Bongiwe Selane. [Film]

The film focuses on the “Female Only Filmmakers” project, funded by the National Film and Video Foundation, and which Selane led from 2013 to 2016, and delves in particular into the relationship between Selane and actress and producer Dineo Lusenga.... Read More about From One Woman to Another: The Screen Worlds of Bongiwe Selane.

Rebranding China through facsimiles: A study of mubanshuiyin reproductions in PRC’s art diplomacy and soft power building, 1952–79 (2023)
Journal Article
Qian, Y. (2023). Rebranding China through facsimiles: A study of mubanshuiyin reproductions in PRC’s art diplomacy and soft power building, 1952–79. Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, 10(3), 317-336. https://doi.org/10.1386/jcca_00087_1

In September 2022, China Central Television released a five-episode documentary about Rongbaozhai, one of the oldest stationery companies and art galleries in China, to celebrate its 350th anniversary. This was part of the global propaganda aiming to... Read More about Rebranding China through facsimiles: A study of mubanshuiyin reproductions in PRC’s art diplomacy and soft power building, 1952–79.

Review of: The Sound of Salvation: Voice, Gender, and the Sufi Mediascape in China, by Guangtian Ha, New York, NY, Columbia University Press, 2022, 312 pp., $140.00 (hardback), ISBN 9780231198066; $35.00 (paperback), ISBN: 9780231198073 (2023)
Journal Article
Harris, R. Review of: The Sound of Salvation: Voice, Gender, and the Sufi Mediascape in China, by Guangtian Ha, New York, NY, Columbia University Press, 2022, 312 pp., $140.00 (hardback), ISBN 9780231198066; $35.00 (paperback), ISBN: 9780231198073. Politics, Religion & Ideology, 24(4), 626-629. https://doi.org/10.1080/21567689.2023.2269709

Mandalas Intertwined: Why Minor Goddesses in the Tabo Main Temple Matter (2023)
Book Chapter
Luczanits, C. (2023). Mandalas Intertwined: Why Minor Goddesses in the Tabo Main Temple Matter. In V. Eltschinger, J. Kramer, P. Patil, & C. Yoshimizu (Eds.), Burlesque of the Philosophers. Indian and Buddhist Studies in Memory of Helmut Krasser (363-393). Projektverlag

Review of 'Quietude: a musical anthropology of "Korea’s Hiroshima"' , by Joshua D. Pilzer, New York, Oxford University Press, 2023, xvii+191 pp.with companion website, £94.00 (hardback), ISBN 9780197615089, and £25.99 (paper), ISBN 9780197615096 (2023)
Journal Article
Howard, K. (2024). Review of 'Quietude: a musical anthropology of "Korea’s Hiroshima"' , by Joshua D. Pilzer, New York, Oxford University Press, 2023, xvii+191 pp.with companion website, £94.00 (hardback), ISBN 9780197615089, and £25.99 (paper), ISBN 9780197615096. Ethnomusicology Forum, 33(1), 147-150. https://doi.org/10.1080/17411912.2023.2257239

The politics of being Murle in South Sudan: state violence, displacement and the narrativisation of identity (2023)
Journal Article
Felix da Costa, D. (2023). The politics of being Murle in South Sudan: state violence, displacement and the narrativisation of identity. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 17(3), 404-423. https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2023.2259547

The article offers a nuanced account of how identities are negotiated and contested in South Sudan, by focusing on how Murle and ŋalam identities were deployed in different ways in different places in overlapping periods during a time of armed confli... Read More about The politics of being Murle in South Sudan: state violence, displacement and the narrativisation of identity.

Thành lũy Champa ở Quảng Bình, Quảng Trị, Thừa Thiên Huế trong tổng thể thành lũy Champa ở miền Trung Việt Nam [Champa Citadels and Ramparts in Quảng Bình, Quảng Trị and Thừa Thiên Huế, within the General System of Champa Citadels and Ramparts in Central Việt Nam] (2023)
Journal Article
Nguyễn Văn Quảng. (2023). Thành lũy Champa ở Quảng Bình, Quảng Trị, Thừa Thiên Huế trong tổng thể thành lũy Champa ở miền Trung Việt Nam [Champa Citadels and Ramparts in Quảng Bình, Quảng Trị and Thừa Thiên Huế, within the General System of Champa Citadels and Ramparts in Central Việt Nam]. Pratu (London), 2(Article 3), 1-41. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00040131

Trên cơ sở nghiên cứu thực địa và các kết quả nghiên cứu khảo cổ học trong thời gian gần đây, bài viết đề cập đến 8 thành lũy Champa ở các tỉnh Quảng Bình, Quảng Trị, Thừa Thiên Huế (Việt Nam). Đây được xem là vùng phía Bắc của Lâm Ấp, sau đó là Cham... Read More about Thành lũy Champa ở Quảng Bình, Quảng Trị, Thừa Thiên Huế trong tổng thể thành lũy Champa ở miền Trung Việt Nam [Champa Citadels and Ramparts in Quảng Bình, Quảng Trị and Thừa Thiên Huế, within the General System of Champa Citadels and Ramparts in Central Việt Nam].

The Fourth Cinema: Morality, and Tragedy in African Cinema (2023)
Journal Article
Bello, S. (in press). The Fourth Cinema: Morality, and Tragedy in African Cinema. The Journal of Aesthetic Education,

This paper focuses on the concept of “The Fourth Cinema” whose questions of morality and tragedy as well as deep history and recorded history are interwoven and inseparable. This is important not solely to clarify specific misinterpretations but also... Read More about The Fourth Cinema: Morality, and Tragedy in African Cinema.

Intermediality in Academia: Creative Research through Film (2023)
Journal Article
Dovey, L. (2023). Intermediality in Academia: Creative Research through Film. Arts, 12(4), 169. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts12040169

This article provides an overview of the recent flourishing of research and pedagogy in higher education that seeks a greater rapprochement between criticism and creativity, bringing together diverse media, disciplines, and modes of knowledge product... Read More about Intermediality in Academia: Creative Research through Film.