Human Rights in Africa – Photographer Lungelo Mbulwana & ‘Gogo’s Village of Rape’
The German Development Media Awards champion independent media across the world and put the spotlight on journalists telling important stories affecting their communities, countries and regions. These awards - which recognize excellence in human rights and development journalism - are a new initiative by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and Germany's international broadcaster,…
Call for Papers & Call for Photos – ‘Christianity & The Western World’ – UA Journal of Social Sciences
Call for Papers In October 2012 the United Academics Journal of Social Sciences (UAJSS) published the first part of a 'World Religions' series, themed 'Islam & The Western World' (http://www.united-academics.org/journal/septemberoctober-2012-2/). In preparation of part two of this series, we are currently inviting research papers from the various disciplines of the social sciences and humanities that reflect on aspects of…
Morbid Curiosity: “The Voice of the Silence of the Sacrificed” – Käthe Kollwitz (1867 – 1945)
"The Voice of the Silence of the Sacrificed" - Käthe Kollwitz (1867 – 1945) The work of Käthe Kollwitz which reflects the ordeal and the pain of the humble and simple is the grandest German poem of the age. This woman of virile heart has looked on them, has taken them in her motherly arms, with a solemn and tender compassion. She is the voice of the silence of the sacrificed. (Romain Rolland, winner of the 1915 Nobel…
Rock the Casket | New Orleans Jazz Funerals Celebrate the End of the Struggle
By Patrick Meyer New Orleans Jazz Funerals Celebrate the End of the Struggle Unlike most port cities in the American South, New Orleans is very Catholic. And with Catholicism come the longstanding and elaborate “Old World” rituals. And unlike anywhere else in the world, New Orleans has its very own jazz funeral, a communal celebration where grief is danced out of the body and cast off into the air with soaring jazz…
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Ordinary People Doing Remarkable Things: Part 4 – Dr. Alan Shapiro | Children’s Health Fund
By: Elke Weesjes, Ph.D and Lori Peek, Ph.D In 1987, Irwin Redlener, MD, and singer/songwriter, Paul Simon, founded Children's Health Fund (CHF)…
Opinion | Reproducing Violence: Rihanna, Chris Brown and the Aestheticization of the Ciudad Juarez Femicides – By Laura Ellen Joyce
By: Laura Ellen Joyce When the initial furore over the Juarez-inspired Fall/Winter 2010 collection designed by Rodarte in collaboration with MAC…
‘Don’t Move’ – A Short History of Post-Mortem Photography
We are all familiar with photographs of death. From Margaret Bourke-White's coverage of Nazi concentration camps and Eddie Adam's world famous image…
Interview with New APPS (Art, Politics, Philosophy and Science) Blogger Catarina Dutilh Novaes
John Protevi, Professor of Philosophy at Louisiana State University, launched a blog called New APPS in September 2010. He felt that the…
A Bat in a Jar – Wet Specimen and the History of the Curiosity Cabinet – By: Elke Weesjes
As some of you may already know, at United Academics we are currently building an app for our Journal of Social Sciences. The theme of our first…
Innocence Assassinated – Living in Mexico’s drug war | By: Katie Orlinsky
I met Katie Orlinsky - award-winning photojournalist from New York City - at a birthday party in December 2012. We started to talk and I mentioned…
West Germany “Forgets to Remember” – Kurt Maetzig: German Film Maker 1911-2012
By: Richard McKenzie The 1979 showing of the American movie Holocaust on West German TV became an occasion for a mass outpouring of grief and…
Ordinary People Doing Remarkable Things: Part 3 – Andrew So | South Bronx United
Since the 1980s the ruins of the Bronx have been replaced by thousands of new housing units. The past few years in particular, have seen the urban…
Call For Papers – Morbid Curiosity (Journal) & Modernist Intimacies (Conference)
CALL FOR PAPERS: MORBID CURIOSITY The United Academics Journal of Social Sciences (UAJSS) invites research papers related to the theme 'Morbid…
Searching for Rosa Luxemburg – By: Elke Weesjes
94 years ago today, on January 15, 1919, Rosa Luxemburg and her close comrade Karl Liebknecht were executed whilst in police custody. The last…