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2026 EN
Toschi Caterina
This study investigates the phenomenon since World War II of reconfiguring the borders of the Western art system by analyzing the contribution of women art dealers, who were active more on the margins of the art market, and therefore more interested in promoting experimental and peripheral art contexts. The research examines the exemplary case of Beatrice Monti della Corte of the Milanese Galleria dell’Ariete (1955–80), among the promoters of a new taste for non-Western cultures, after the fascist autarkical closure, in the four decades preceding postcolonial exhibition reflection, marked by U.S. centrality–a bridge to the East Asian market–, and the entry of Latin American arts. Using a cross-analysis of archival sources and photos of Beatrice Monti's travels, with a comparative approach between border studies, gender studies and art market studies, the survey delves into the new geographies of the art market in which travel becomes an important tool of women's emancipation through which to build personal and professional networks outside the traditional Eurocentric art system.
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2026 EN
Magnaghi Virginia
In this article, the concept of “borderscape” is used as a methodological tool to examine a series of architectural and infrastructural public projects commissioned in Trentino (Italy) during the interwar period to preserve the collective memory of the First World War. At a time when the northeastern border of Italy was undergoing a process of redrawing, the region became a potential borderscape where the questions of monumentalization, representation, and perception of borders became urgent. Rather than focusing on individual monuments or infrastructures as isolated case studies, the article explores their intertwined histories – all of which are inextricably linked to the burning need to process grief – and situates them in a dialogue with that of the surrounding landscape, thereby illuminating border aesthetics and their evolving dynamics anew. The integration of documentary and photographic sources will facilitate an interdisciplinary exploration of the historical evolution of architecture, urbanism, art, and the Alpine landscape and environment.
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2026 EN
Corsale Andrea
The synagogues that suffered the ravages of World War II in Central and Eastern Europe faced an uncertain future. A limited number managed to retain their original religious functions, while the majority were either neglected or repurposed for entirely different uses. In the last thirty years, numerous towns and cities have started to “rediscover” these buildings as vital components of local history and culture. With their original roles as pivotal religious, cultural, and social centres for Jewish communities inevitably diminished, issues of ownership, control, and authenticity have emerged. The ongoing debate about whether these structures represent “Jewish heritage” or a more expansive cultural heritage that encompasses local, national, and international dimensions remains unresolved. This study examines the situation in Bucharest, which once boasted a significant Jewish population that has since dwindled. Although many synagogues have been lost over time, four have recently been restored, showcasing their fascinating eclectic architectural styles. These buildings now serve a combination of religious, social, cultural, and museum functions, gradually reintegrating them into the city’s identity and practices. Nonetheless, challenges and disagreements emerge, within the Jewish community itself, regarding the management and representation of these sites, as well as their inclusion into the tourism dynamics.
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2026 EN
Gebeyaw Getachew · Gashaw Shambel Desale · Kasseye Eyayu
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In November 2020 an outbreak of ethnically and politically motivated armed conflict started in Tigray and expanded to the Amhara and Afar regions of Ethiopia, bringing a devastating impact upon civilians and disadvantaged groups. Persons living in those areas, including older adults, were forced to flee and seek refuge at internal displacement centers. Given the lack of scholarship on aging and humanitarian contexts, this study investigated the challenges faced by older individuals fleeing the war zone and settling in internal displacement centers during Ethiopia’s armed conflict. A qualitative descriptive study was used in this cross-sectional investigation. Data from the in-depth interviews with 13 older adults were supplemented with key informant interviews and observations. Interview data was analyzed using thematic analysis. Findings revealed that the older adults escaping their homes and staying in the displacement center faced food shortages; inadequate shelter, clothing and bedding; lack of sanitation and hygiene supplies; inaccessible health services; social network destabilization; family disintegration; lack of care and support; and psychological stress, all of which negatively impacted their physical and psychosocial well-being. The findings call attention to the need for practical access to social and economic integration of older adults in the aftermath of the war as well as ongoing psychosocial intervention.
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2026 EN
Pascual Soler Nieves
This essay discusses three cookbooks by women exiled in Mexico after the Spanish Civil War. It focuses on the life stories they told through their recipes. It argues that they used cooking to heal from the trauma of being forced away and to communicate their resistance to Francisco Franco’s regime.
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2026 EN
Gómez-Martín María · Roncero-Bellido Ana
This essay introduces the Cluster, “Spaniards across the Americas after the Spanish Civil War: ‘Soy del país del exilio’: I am from the country called Exile,” in light of the soon approaching 90th anniversary of this tragic event.
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2026 EN
Piñero Gil Eulalia
This essay examines Luisa Carnés’s life writing practices during her forced exile in France and Mexico as a consequence of the Spanish Civil War and Franco’s dictatorship. As her writings map Carnés’s cartographies of the self, Carnés voices her experiences of exile and those of other exiled Spaniards, and the duality of her narrative subject, which establishes her new identity as a Mexican citizen wrapped in an existential nostalgia for her city of birth, Madrid.
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2026 EN
Kulik Liat · Zorchinsky Anita
This study investigated the relationship between social support and communication quality among combatants and their partners, and the partners’ mental health during Israel’s Swords of Iron War against Hamas. Mental health was assessed through emotional, social, and psychological dimensions. Communication quality was evaluated by assessing both positive and negative aspects of electronic and face-to-face channels. The sample included 201 women in various relationship statuses with men who were recruited as combatants: married, cohabiting, and in a stable relationship. Most women reported positive electronic and face-to-face communication with their partners during the war. Nonetheless, nearly 20% mentioned an increase in the negative aspects of face-to-face communication compared to pre-war conditions. Negative communication correlated with poorer psychological health. No direct link was found between positive communication and mental health. However, an indirect relationship was observed, with perceived social support serving as a mediator. The psychological dimension ranked highest among the mental health dimensions, followed by the social dimension, with the lowest ranking found for the emotional dimension.
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2026 EN
Hlaing Ngu War · Kamardin Kamilia · Yamada Yoshihide
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A meander line antenna (MLA) is well known for its compact size and efficient performance in terms of antenna efficiency, input resistance, and bandwidth. This study investigates MLA performance in human body environments, focusing on medical devices and wireless implants. Due to their small size, MLAs are ideal for use in biological tissues with complex and lossy properties. The study analyzes MLA behavior in fat and muscle tissues, considering key parameters such as conductivity, radiation efficiency, and self-resonance. Input resistance and Voltage Standing Wave Ratio (VSWR) are examined. The smallest antenna size of (14.9 × 4.1 × 0.1) mm³ is achieved. Human body phantoms for fat and muscle tissues were successfully formulated and fabricated, with dielectric constants aligning with reference values. A Q factor of approximately 2 was obtained through VSWR characteristics and validated against theoretical calculations, showing a 92% agreement. MLA gains of −30 dBi and −40 dBi were recorded in fat and muscle phantoms, respectively. These findings enhance the understanding of MLA performance in human tissue environments, supporting the development of next-generation implanted technologies for clinical and therapeutic applications.
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2026 EN
Wilkinson John
During the Second World War, the British painter Prunella Clough composed a set of poems now preserved in her archive at Tate Britain, of which only two were published. This article prefaces the sixteen poems, situating them in relation to Clough’s avowed models in poetry of the period, and comparing them to poems by two women writing on the Second World War home front, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Lynette Roberts. Clough’s developing practice as a painter is considered in the light of her poems, which preceded her post-war commitment to painting as primary vocation. Clough’s paintings are analysed in their equivocal relation to abstraction, both American and British. Her later paintings’ singular focus on detritus staged before an undifferentiated background, is interpreted as consistent with her poems’ startling domination by the death drive, inviting the destruction of the Blitz. Clough’s peculiar sublime, whereby the act of seeing becomes death-dealing, is shown to be announced in her poems, and contrasted with the high capitalist abstract sublime exemplified in Peter de Bolla’s encounter with Barnett Newman. The article ends by associating Clough’s objectifying vision with the photography of Robert Mapplethorpe, using terms that draw on the writing of Roland Barthes.