The Future of the Humanities: Crisis or Opportunity
What are we doing in the Humanities to speak to a new generation, to recruit and retain and ultimately train them for life? Are we…
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The Importance and Implementation of ESG Standards in African Stock Listed Companies
The study delves into the evaluation of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) aspects within the Material sector in Africa, with a specialized examination of South…
Living in the age of the polycrisis: how complex crises emerge and how humanities can confront them.
Living in the age of the polycrisis: how complex crises emerge and how humanities can confront them. The popularity of the term polycrisis suggests a…
Unveiling hidden memories: exploring the relevance of autoethnographic film for social change
In times of crisis, the role of liberal arts education becomes increasingly significant in addressing complex global challenges. Ongoing migration, conflicts, violence and human suffering…
A Framework for Building a Responsive Local Government System in Sierra Leone: Integrating Felt Needs Fulfilment Model with the Hybridity of Paramount Chiefs
Sierra Leone adopted decentralisation in 2004 following the enactment of the Local Government Act. After the 11 years brutal war of 1991 to 2002. Decentralisation…
The Ecocritical Instapoet: Digital Media Ecofeminist Poetry
In recent years, a new poetry genre has emerged, currently known as Instapoetry, and its chief practitioners are often young females (Pâquet 2019). Instapoetry has…
For whom the algorithm tolls?
With the recent developments of AI in music, the automation of analysis, synthesis and composition seems more and more achievable. Once again, a new technology…
Liberal Arts Across Borders
This panel will address how the liberal arts can address the resurgence of borders. Underpinned by research on the impact of borders on the formation…
The stories of a community-based intervention, collaboratively addressing the violence in a Johannesburg township high school in South Africa
We need to stop the violence in schools, it’s too much for us: The stories of a community based intervention, collaboratively addressing the violence in…
Shakespeare’s The Tempest as a Native/Indigenous Narrative to Rethink the Other and the World
In this presentation I propose an unconventional reading of Caliban in Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Drawing from the “decolonial perspective” (Quijano 2007; Mignolo 2012; Mignolo &…
The role of art in supporting minority groups to heal from prolonged trauma
This presentation stems from our shared research interest and applied work in supporting minority groups to heal from traumatic experiences via creative interventions. We will…
Media and Peace: Towards Constructive Journalism Philosophy in Ethiopia
It is feasible to argue that, as we reflect on media theory and practice over the course of more than a century, the field has…
RESQL: A Digital Solution for Addressing Bullying and Cyberbullying in Schools
Bullying and cyberbullying, typically defined as a social process wherein individuals in less powerful positions are intentionally and repeatedly harassed or excluded by their peers…
‘Re-Dressed’: Using an artistic response to study historic collections in the Foundling Museum, London
The Foundling Hospital in London has long fostered associations with artists, including Handel and Dickens, as interpreters of child abandonment. The Foundling Museum continues this…
Invisible theatre for social change
Currently, our world is confronted with a myriad of societal problems that have the potential to impact individuals and groups on various levels. It is…
Forest of Imagination as an Aesthetic Imaginary
This paper addresses the themes of the Environmental crisis and Art for Social Change and invites collaboration. In times of crisis, it is the responsibility…
Towards a possible future of Latin American Cosmotechnics
This article develops a reflection on the concept of Cosmotechnic by the Chinese philosopher Yuk Hui (2017), in order to achieve a critical latin american…
Heavy metal levels in water and sediment samples of Dire and Aba-samuel Reservoir Ethiopia
Dire is among the main sources of drinking water supply for Addis Ababa city while Aba-Samuel Reservoir is a multi-purpose reservoir for the nearby residents.…
Repercussions of land use and land cover on natural ecosystems and socioeconomic systems.
The land use and land cover (LULC) change has far-reaching repercussions on both natural ecosystems and socioeconomic systems worldwide. The objective of this study is…
BITCH, a dance spectacle: A Brazilian perspective of resisting through dance and songwriting.
BITCH is a solo dance which explores the concept of ‘cultural anthropophagy’ as an embodied process of incarnation. With the aim of offering an alternative…
