Poetry on Big Screen: 12 Movies with Poetic References (Part 2)
Even though often considered a dying art, poetry still has an important place in people’s lives and, by extension, in popular culture.
Literary Travelogue: An Interview With Jelena Vukicevic (Visibaba)
Photo by Milos Petrovic We open our upcoming series of literary interviews with our conversation with Jelena Vukicevic, a professor of literature and a former bookseller. Jelena holds a BA…
Rediscovering Freedom with Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing
Effia and Esi have never met. Their stories begin in the mid-18th century Ghana, when the British slave trade starts to flourish in the country. One of the two half-sisters…
Is Originality in Art Truly Possible?
Art is a form of human creation, something that moves through imagination, skill, and emotion. Sometimes it’s aesthetically pleasing, other times brutally truthful. For some, it becomes a way to…
Why do we feel understood by fictional characters?
People read fiction for various reasons. Some are drawn to the excitement of a plot, others to the comfort of escaping reality. There is something peaceful about sitting in a…
Is Global Governance Possible?
The question of whether global governance is possible is usually approached through very formal images such as institutions, treaties, and cooperation between states (Weiss, 2013). It almost immediately suggests a…
More than Sound: Listening to What Makes Us Human
Music is everywhere. It fills elevators, headphones, childhood bedrooms, stadiums, and quiet moments we did not know needed sound. It exists before we learn how to speak and stays with…
When Justice Stops Feeling Abstract
During my internship at the Judicial Reform Foundation in Taiwan, I learned something I had never fully understood before. Justice is not only about laws or verdicts. Sometimes, it is…
When Chips Quietly Shape Power
After attending a conference co-organized by the Bureau Français de Taipei, I left with the feeling that I had witnessed something much larger than a discussion about technology. The topic…
The Enlightenment: An Intellectual Revolution and the Foundations of the Modern World
A World Ready for Change This movement came to life during the eighteenth century, a period in which European societies were marked by extreme social inequalities, strong religious authority, and…