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To Embroider the Voice with its Own Needle

ARMS high res coverYousif M. Qasmiyeh
Creative Encounters Editor, Migration and Society

In poetry we hunt down details in the hope of preserving them and, in so doing, we assert our commitment to re-reading the daily and re-inventing the becoming.

In Creative Encounters, our modest aim, in this inaugural edition of Migration and Society, is to embroider the voice with its own needle: an act proposed to problematise the notion of the voice; something that cannot be given (to anyone) since it must firmly belong to everyone from the beginning. In voice, we look for our own meaning in this narrow-vast world. We look for something to cling to for the sake of passing time – something that reminds us of our presence as scattered voices.

In Mohamed Assaf’s poems, published in this edition of Creative Encounters, nothing seems young save the poet or more precisely his real age. In his observations, memories are as conspicuous as the sky on a clear day and as precise as an archivist’s. He writes what takes him back to his place: Syria, but also what he sees in the vicinity of his body – the body which has had to endure multiple flights in multiple times. Not with our approval but in spite of it, Mohamed writes the archive of what it means to live a life whose meaning is reduced to one’s own survival – a bodily survival – in the midst of such formidable physical and aesthetic destruction.

Mohamed’s name as printed in English M-o-h-a-m-e-d is not the name which was conferred upon him by the woman who gave birth to him in the place of his Arabic language. Rather, it is the transliterated twin of his name. It may be considered an equivalence or another proper noun which marks a change that will always be carried in the name, that is: the pronunciation of the new. Or, more pertinently, a trace of his definite name which is, as his poetry, still travelling in all directions.

Five poems by Mohamed Assaf*

Five poems were written by Mohamed Assaf – a young Syrian boy who currently lives in Oxford with his family and studies at Oxford Spires Academy – under the mentorship of the poet Kate Clanchy. View the Poems.

*Five Poems by Mohamed Assaf will be available to access until 1/31/2019.

To access the entire inaugural issue of Migration and Society until 1/31/2019, please use code: MS2019. To redeem, please visit: www.berghahnjournals.com/redeem.

Tribute to Roy Wagner

 

Anthropology mourns one of its greatest practitioners, Roy Wagner, who died on 10 September 2018. To honour Wagner and his intellectually inexhaustible work, we are re-issuing for free access a Special Issue of Social Analysis that was first published in 2002. The eponymous “Reinventing The Invention of Culture”, edited by David Murray and Joel Robbins, sought to assess the influence of Wagner’s renown book, following the twenty-fifth anniversary of its publication.

 

We re-issue this Special Issue to recognize Roy Wagner’s contributions to the field of anthropology. The texts it assembles were written by an array of authors who were in different ways touched by this brilliance and seek to convey it by transposing Wagner’s thinking in their own fields of interest. The collection adds to a steadily growing body of work that seeks to extend Wagner’s astounding insights in ways he would tag as ‘metaphoric’ (1981). To aid readers who may be inspired to navigate this literature, we have included below a bibliography of Wagner’s major works, as well as a list of works by others in which his vast and influential ideas can be experienced.

 

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Celebrate EASA 2018 with Berghahn Journals!

 

Berghahn Journals will be present at European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) 2018: Staying, Moving, Settling! To celebrate, we are delighted to offer EASA conference attendees free access to our complete Anthropology collection for the month of August! To access all the journals in the collection, login to our website and use the code EASA2018 (valid through August 31, 2018). View redemption instructions.
For a full list of anthropology journals, view our collections page.
View a list of Berghahn Editors and Editorial Board Members and their EASA panels below:

 

 

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International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda

Berghahn BooksTo mark International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda on 7 April, we’re offering FREE access to these relevant journal articles from Conflict and Society, Focaal, Journeys, and Social Analysis until April 14. 

From the UN website:

On 26 January 2018, the United Nations General Assembly adopted draft resolution A/72/L.31, designating 7 April as the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, recalling that Hutu and others who opposed the genocide were also killed. The new resolution amends the title of the annual observance, which was originally established on 23 December 2003 (A/RES/58/234) as International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda.

The date, 7 April, marks the start of the 1994 genocide. Every year, on or around that date, the United Nations organizes commemorative events at its Headquarters in New York and at United Nations offices around the world.

 

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Introducing Ted Nannicelli as the New Editor of Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind

Ted Nannicelli, Film and Television Studies, University of Queensland

The first thing I would like to do in my capacity as the new editor of Projections is to warmly thank the outgoing editor, Stephen Prince, for his outstanding stewardship of the journal over the past six years. Already a success when Stephen took over in 2012, Projections has only improved since then. It has been a great pleasure for me to work with Stephen as one of the associate editors over the past few years, and I am delighted that Stephen will remain involved with the journal in some capacity, since he has recently been elected the new president of the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI).
 
This is an opportune moment to note a few other recent changes. First, Projections is no longer associated with the Forum for Movies and Mind. As a result of this change, we have instituted a new editorial board, although some previous members will be continuing their service. I would like to extend my sincere thanks to all those associated with the Forum for Movies and Mind-in particular, Bruce Sklarew and others who conceived of and established Projections as an academic journal. I am also especially grateful to the outgoing members of the editorial board, whose service has established Projections as an academically rigorous, theoretically pluralistic journal.

Although Projections‘s only formal association now is with the SCSMI, our continued success is dependent upon our ability to maintain and expand a wide and diverse readership that significantly exceeds the SCSMI’s membership. I especially hope that those of you who began subscribing to Projections in conjunction with its affiliation with the Forum for Movies and Mind will continue to support us.
 
In addition, the two new associate editors, Tim Smith and Aaron Taylor, and I have our sights set on further expanding Projections‘s interdisciplinary scope and its readership. We have updated our statement of aims and scope accordingly, and we invite you to spread the word to others. We would be grateful if, even if you are already a regular individual subscriber, you could take a moment to complete the library recommendation form on our website so that Projections can also be available to students and colleagues at your institution.
 
In keeping with our commitment to interdisciplinary exchange, we are also introducing several new submission formats that are outlined in the “guidelines for submission” section on our website. Our aim is twofold: to make the minimal criteria for publication in Projections more explicit and to generate greater dialogue between researchers working in different scholarly traditions. We also hope that the new format options broaden the appeal of Projections as a destination for high-quality research among a broader and more diverse group of scholars.
 
I think that the collection of articles in the current issue* of Projections is indicative of the extent to which we have already successfully begun to publish excellent research from a variety of disciplinary perspectives-and it is also suggestive our future direction: it includes contributions by scholars based in English and comparative literature, film and media studies, psychology, and philosophy.
 
This issue begins with two articles that revisit Russian classical film theory in light of recent developments in neuroscience and psychology. First, Maria Belodubrovskaya explores the affinities between Sergei Eisenstein’s concept of “attractions” and the preconscious, automatic responses identified by contemporary neuroscience. Next, Sermin Ildirar and Louise Ewing present the results of their attempt to replicate the results of Lev Kuleshov’s famous editing experiments.
 
The following three articles investigate conceptual issues relating to film interpretation broadly construed to include narrative comprehension. Peter Alward offers a close analysis of Withnail and I (Bruce Robinson, 1987) in support of his argument for what philosophers of art call “the value-maximizing” account of art interpretation, which suggests that our higher-order interpretations ought to be partly guided by considerations of which interpretation(s) would make the artwork most artistically valuable. In contrast, Hannah Wojciehowski’s analysis of Arrival (Denis Villeneuve, 2016) focuses on a lower-order interpretive matter-namely, the viewer’s process of piecing together the narrative of a puzzle film. One implication of Wojciehowski’s article-that the filmmakers’ intentional jumbling of narrative pieces in a particular fashion affords them control over the viewer’s ability to arrive at a correct understanding of the story at the appropriate time-intriguingly chimes with Belodubrovskaya’s discussion of Eisenstein’s “cine-fist” in relation to contemporary action cinema. Wojciehowski’s analysis of Arrival also segues nicely into the concluding article, in which Veerle Ros and Miklós Kiss develop a new account, based on Torben Grodal’s PECMA (perception, emotion, cognition, motor action) flow model, of viewers’ engagement with narratively complex films.
 
Following Ros and Kiss’s article are several book reviews that we are publishing at once to hand over a clean slate to Aaron Taylor, our new associate editor in charge of book reviews. As with the articles, I am impressed by the diversity of perspectives represented in the books reviewed here, and I hope you will be, too.
 
*This issue will publish April 2018

 

Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind is published
in association with The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image

 

Winner of the 2008 AAP/PSP Prose Award for Best New Journal in the Social Sciences & Humanities!