Past Issues

Issue 8 (Fall 2018)

Criticism

MATTEO SANSONE | A composer between two worlds: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (Florence, 1895 – Beverly Hills, 1968)
ROBERT SQUILLACE | Nativism, Normalization, and the Humanities (and Vampires)

Creativity

DEJAN ALEKSIĆ | Hat | Button | Candle | Comb | Shoes
CATHERINE BARNETT | O Esperanza! | En Route
KATHY ENGEL | Il corpo per cui scrivo | Cavalli, ancora | Chiedo scusa alle parti del corpo | Caffè | Ora prego
VINCENZO FRUNGILLO | Heavy Mechanics | Foreign Lands | The Curve of the Coast
ANDREA INGLESE | Lawn n. 3 | In this Poem
MIHAELA MOSCALIUC | Come chiedermi la mano alla tomba di mia nonna | Luna | A Ovidiu | Canto di Natale
ALEŠ ŠTEGER | Were you there? | At the circus | Look how the mountains | Son | Love is
RITA TOGNINI | Bella Ciao
IDA TRAVI | Poems

Visual Art

ELENA FABRIS | Calìbrio
LYALL HARRIS & PATRICIA SILVA | Paper Boats

Issue 7 (Winter 2018)

Criticism

STEFANO ADAMO | When Democracy turns against itself: Populism and the myth of direct democracy
MARYAM EL-SHALL | Demystifying the War on Terror
MARNIE ROHRHOLM | Cultural Visibility of the Pink Triangle: Examining Gay Germany through a Global Leadership Lens
LAURA TARABUSI | Awareness, Knowledge and Skills: strategies for the development of intercultural communicative competence

Creativity

MADGA BOGIN | Excerpt from Suppose It Begins Here
RIINA KATAJAVOURI | ** | La figlia del sagrestano | Il capitano James Cook | Lettera al capitano James Cook da sua moglie
ERIK LINDNER | I remember | A stairway leads into the sea | Ostend | If I’m lost for words
NADIA MIFSUD | autunno 1 | no, non è vero che la terra è tonda (per S.) | esilio/asilo per suleiman
NICOLE ROBINSON | The Privilege of Watching Neighborhood Baseball | What the Bones Say | America, 2017
ELISABETH SCHMEIDEL | Against | Answer Me | Carry Me Out | Found Objects | Immovables | In Between Word

Visual Art

FRANCESCO LEVY | Azimuths of Celestial Bodies
BRADLY DEAVER TREADWAY | Booked for Safekeeping: A multi-generational exploration of Community Policing and Mental Illness

Issue 6 (Winter 2017)

Criticism

RENATA CARLONI | Note sulla questione del genere nella lingua Italiana
LUIS RAMOS | Art as Cultural Diplomacy: The Politics of Exhibiting Mexico’s Revolutionary Modernism in MEXIQUE 1900-1950: Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, José Clemente Orozco et les avant-gardes
GUIDO REVERDITO | Lunga vita agli sbarchi: La convenienza dell’orrore. Lampedusa tra emergenza umanitaria e sfruttamento in celluloide.
MATTEO SANSONE | Pierrot: A Silent Witness of Changing Times
JUSTIN RANDOLPH THOMPSON | Question the Answers…all of them

Creativity

RICHARD JAMES ALLEN | A Party in Small Moments | Three Spires | It’s Saturday night in almost any city around the world and
SOPHIE CURZON-SIGGERS | vocali in scambio | canto dei plurali | catalogo degli acquai
GLEN PHILLIPS | HARD BITTEN (or, on Making Poetry Great Again)
ALESSANDRA SARCHI | The Swimmer
NATHAN SHEPHERDSON | a ladder cannot be convinced to climb down from itself | red-prayered | pear | peach
MELINDA SMITH | The other manual | Considering Lake Canobolas | There will be
RITA TOGNINI | A Good Foundation

Visual Art

NICOLÒ PANZERI | Sătŭra

Issue 5 (Summer 2016)

Criticism

RICCARDO DONATI | Chronicles of the Regime. Fascist Sexual Psychology after Fascism: literary echoes
GABRIELA DRAGNEA HORVATH | Book Review: Philosophy as an Art of Dying
BRIAN G. HENNING | La Stewardship e le radici della crisi ecologica
WERNER VORDTRIEDE | Young T.S. Eliot

Creativity

DEJAN ATANACKOVIC | Something Like a Mirror
GIUSEPPE BERTO | Oh Serafina! A Fable of Ecology, Lunacy, and Love
NATHALIE HANDAL | Haifa, My Longing | Haifa Blues | Talhamiyeh
KRISTINA HOČEVAR | You Step Into Your Own Ring
BHIMAGOUDA PATIL | Who Calls Me in This Darkness?
WALLIS WILDE MENOZZI | Life-fuse | Long After | Drawing a Line

Issue 4 (Winter 2015)

Essays

BURT HOPKINS | Image and Original in Plato’s Meno: On the Necessity of Imagination for Learning

Creative Writing

Poetry
JOHN MAHNKE | Vines | Territory | Trespasses
D.S. BUTTERWORTH | The Historian Returning Home | Old Woman Raking Leaves: Sonata in A Minor for Solo Flute by J.S. Bach
Prose
JULIO MONTEIRO MARTINS | As You Were Sleeping
SERENA BALDINI | When the Fields Were Running
BARET MAGARIAN | The Rich and the Slaughtered

Eclecta

VITTORIA CHIERICI | Diary
NINA D’ALESSANDRO | Encounters with the City: A Year in Florence
OLGA VISHNYAKOVA | Heart of a Dog — A Reading

Book Reviews

G. DRAGNEA HORVATH | The Cambridge Companion to Italian Renaissance
D.S. BUTTERWORTH | Glen Phillips: Alpi & Prati, Winged Seed Songs, Tides and Groundwater, Three in The Campagna

Issue 3 (Spring 2014)

Essays

PAOLO ROSSI | On Pain at the End of Time
JAMES RISSER | The Humanities and the Art of Imagination
IRMGARD FUCHS-LEVY | Authority and Domination: Nihilism as an Answer to the Absurd
GEORGIE ANN WEATHERBY | Daring to Be Different – The Impact of Positive Deviance on the Global Stage
COSTICA BRADATAN | Elogio del Falimento
FRANCESCO VOSSILLA | Valentino Moradei Gabbrielli

Creative Writing

Poetry
STUART FRIEBERT | Cephalocaudal | Birds of Paradise | Head Shy | Jacanas |Supersedure
ANNETTE BARNES | At the Post Office | Women Dressing and Undressing
ANDREW KAUFMANN | Children in the Forest | Against Dying
SHARON KUBASAK | Stakeout | Darkroom Interludes

Prose
GLEN PHILLIPS Wake in Fear
GLEN PHILLIPS The Poetics of Landscape

Issue 2 (Summer 2013)

Essays

THOMAS JEANNOT | Gadamer, Dewey, Marx: Work and Interpretation
SERGIO GIVONE | The Metaphysics of the Plague
MICHAEL PRINGLE & ERIK SCHMIDT | Re-Thinking Education: Philosophy and Literature in an Interdisciplinary Perspective
SERENA BALDINI & DAVID MARINI | Counselling e il nuovo status del docente
PATRICK WEST | Lying Idiots: Reality Television & Lie to Me

Creative Writing

RADU R. SERBAN | The Question of the Lion in Landscape Art
STUART FRIEBERT | A Wrestler Named Plato | Beast of Kings | Flying Wedding Rings | Sea Squirt | Shadow
GLEN PHILLIPS | The Rest of My Mind | Yenyenning Lakes Evensong 1949 | China Dream
ELVIRA LATO | La Fontana Maggiore | Piero della Francesca | Rimpianto

Issue 1 (Spring 2013)

Translations

D.S. BUTTERWORTH | Alchemies
ALESSANDRO POLCRI | There is Always a Point Where You Hesitate | If I Linger Near the Woods

Essays

GABRIELA DRAGNEA HORVATH | Thinking with Flowers
PATRICK BURKE | Marsilio Ficino and the Sacrament of Color
PIERLUCA BIRINDELLI | La Difficolta’ Teorica nell ‘Interpretare il Rapporto Soggetti-Territorio Firenze e l’area Metropolitana
CHIARA TOGNOLOTTI | L’Immagine di Firenze nel Cinema d’Autore
MERCEDES MATOS CARRARA | Mario Bernocchi: The Master of the Gold Florin

Creative Writing

BETH COOLEY | Flora
GLEN PHILLIPS | After Chamber Music | On the Pietà of Michelangelo

The very term humanism has come to signify a number of concepts, from the cultural trend initiated in 14th century Italy focused on the study of humanities to any system of thought or any initiatives and actions that promote human interests and human values. The foundation of any form of humanism is the understanding of human nature.

Today, we are witnessing and participating in the most spectacular achievements of science, technology and exploration that are impacting the way humans relate to nature, to other humans and to themselves. And yet these rapid transformations are not free of tensions and counter-tendencies. Expeditions to Mars take place alongside flat-earth conferences and the same human impulse that promotes progress and welfare is also responsible for climate change and the depredation of natural resources and habitats. We live in a paradoxical moment in which technological advancement is shadowed by new forms of illiteracy, and the promise of an interconnected peaceful global community still leads to new wars, new divisions and new forms of intolerance.

Voyages wishes to capture the reactions of intellectuals and artists to these tensions and opposing tendencies by providing a forum for responses and reflections on contemporary human endeavors in all of their diversity, complex manifestations and disquieting aspects.

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