Athenaeum Review

30/09/2021

Issue 6 is out now! Find out more at the link:

https://athenaeumreview.org/issue/6/

30/09/2021

Learn more about the UT Dallas faculty members featured in the newest issue of Athenaeum Review here:

Athenaeum Review Issue 6 Cover In the sixth issue of Athenaeum Review, now available online and in print, historians from the UT Dallas Arts &...

26/01/2021

Issue 5 is now available! Read more on our website: https://athenaeumreview.org/issue/5/

29/09/2020

Dr. Whitney Stewart, Assistant Professor of Historical Studies at UT Dallas, in conversation with Dr. Benjamin Lima, Editor of Athenaeum Review, on the pract...

03/06/2020

The summer 2020 issue of Athenaeum Review is coming soon!

Read more about the UTD faculty and alumnae featured in the new issue, including Marilyn Waligore, Robert J. Stern, A. Kendra Greene, Kenneth L. Brewer, Kazuya Sakai, Ciara Bryant, Lauren Christlieb, and Jessica Fuentes:

https://www.utdallas.edu/ah/news/4454/arts-and-humanities-faculty-alums-featured-in-new-journal/

17/02/2020

Robert E. Gordon reviews "Jacob Hashimoto: Clouds and Chaos" at the Crow Museum of Asian Art

"Binaries, Buddhism And The Art Of Reminders In The Work Of Jacob Hashimoto"
https://athenaeumreview.org/review/binaries-buddhism-and-the-art-of-reminders-in-the-work-of-jacob-hashimoto/

14/02/2020

"The (Syn)Aesthetics Of Conspiracy"
https://athenaeumreview.org/review/the-synaesthetics-of-conspiracy/

Andreas Önnerfors reviews "Everything is Connected: Art and Conspiracy" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and John J. Curley, "A Conspiracy of Images"

13/02/2020

David Carrier, "The Best Painting in Naples"
https://athenaeumreview.org/essay/the-best-painting-in-naples/

"There are no true precedents for this image, which includes all six acts of mercy listed by Matthew, and one more, burying the dead (added by the medieval church), in one picture."

12/02/2020

Julia Friedman reviews *Provocations* by Camille Paglia:

"The Last Call"
https://athenaeumreview.org/review/the-last-call/

"Provocations is the last call to a society that 'can barely survive the anxieties of freedom.'"

11/02/2020

Steven Grosby reviews Lewis Glinert, The Story of Hebrew

"The Resurrection Of A Language And The Language Of Resurrection"
https://athenaeumreview.org/review/the-resurrection-of-a-language-and-the-language-of-resurrection/

"In 1913 when the Technion, the engineering/technology university, was being founded, the so-called 'war of languages' erupted over what should be its language of instruction, German or Hebrew."

10/02/2020

Carol Anne Costabile-Heming reviews the Berlin novels of Jenny Erpenbeck:

"Interwoven Fates: 20th-Century German History And The European Refugee Crisis"
https://athenaeumreview.org/review/interwoven-fates-20th-century-german-history-and-the-european-refugee-crisis/

"Portraying the refugees as men 'who have fallen out of time,' she underscores their plight by showing how they must 'become foreign' in order to start a new life."

07/02/2020

"Diamonds In The Rough: Synthetic Gems From Pliny To Lightbox"
https://athenaeumreview.org/essay/diamonds-in-the-rough-synthetic-gems-from-pliny-to-lightbox/

by Lydia Pyne

"Pliny further claims that fake gems can be ferreted out by 'blisters in the body of the fictitious stone…filaments…and an unequal brilliancy.'"

06/02/2020

Diane Purkiss, "Managing Our Darkest Hatreds And Fears: Witchcraft From The Middle Ages To Brett Kavanaugh"
https://athenaeumreview.org/essay/managing-our-darkest-hatreds/

"Let me be clear that I am not urging modern witches to take to pushing people into nearby bogs to prove their authenticity."

05/02/2020

Jo Ann Cavallo, "The Substance Of Sicilian Puppet Theater: Past And Present"
https://athenaeumreview.org/essay/the-substance-of-sicilian-puppet-theater-past-and-present/

"Those three two-foot-tall puppets dangling in my living room proceeded to stare at me daily until I decided to go see for myself how Sicilian puppet theater brought to life the medieval and Renaissance poems that had driven my research since my graduate student days."

04/02/2020

Brian Fagan on the state of the field:

"Archaeology’s Cutting Edge: Far Beyond The Science Of Rubbish"
https://athenaeumreview.org/essay/archaeologys-cutting-edge-far-beyond-the-science-of-rubbish/

"We know a great deal about the common features of pre-industrial civilizations—socially stratified societies, densely populated or more dispersed cities, elaborate public buildings, and usually some form of written script for record keeping. Pre-industrial states relied on human hands, and, in the Old World, on draft animals, and depended on charismatic, centralized leadership, often in the guise of absolute rulers claiming to be of divine descent, to survive."

04/02/2020

Funny and terrifying:

Wendy Weil Atwell reviews "Robyn O'Neil: WE, THE MASSES" at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

https://athenaeumreview.org/review/funny-and-terrifying-robyn-oneils-apocalyptic-dystopian-humor/

03/02/2020

"The Americans And The N***s: Who Copied Whom?"
https://athenaeumreview.org/review/the-americans-and-the-nazis-who-copied-whom/

Michael A. Livingston reviews James Q. Whitman, "Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of N**i Race Law"

"It is true, notes Whitman, that many American precedents were rejected, in some cases because they were deemed too harsh for the German situation."

31/01/2020

Walter Nugent reconsiders Frederick Jackson Turner's thesis:

"Does Turner Still Live? Considerations On The Popular Afterlife Of The American Frontier"
https://athenaeumreview.org/essay/does-turner-still-live-considerations-on-the-popular-afterlife-of-the-american-frontier/

"More homesteads were patented from 1900 to 1920 than in the previous forty years."

30/01/2020

Johnathan O'Neill reviews books by Eric J. Segall and Jonathan Gienapp on originalism:

"Originalism Then and Now"
https://athenaeumreview.org/review/originalism-then-and-now/

"Why obey what is said in the name of the law and the Constitution once we know that judges are really just doing what they think is right?"

29/01/2020

"Immigration And Decency"

by Michael Lesy, Al Martinich, and Tom Palaima
https://athenaeumreview.org/essay/immigration-and-decency/

"Justice was on the side of the Merchant of Venice when he demanded a pound of flesh. But justice would have been repugnant to decent people."

28/01/2020

"A Somewhat Reassuring Defense of Populism"
by Donald Critchlow
https://athenaeumreview.org/essay/a-somewhat-reassuring-defense-of-populism/

"Significant reform in American history often begins with populist grassroots movements challenging the established political order."

27/01/2020

"Treasures Better Hid: The Making Of Our High-Energy World"

Adam Briggle reviews books on the history of energy by Maya Rao, Richard Rhodes, and Vaclav Smil

https://athenaeumreview.org/review/treasures-better-hid-the-making-of-our-high-energy-world/

24/01/2020

"The Modern Memory Hole, Or, Cyberethics Unchained"
By John McClellan Marshall
https://athenaeumreview.org/essay/the-modern-memory-hole-cyberethics-unchained/

"Recycling, whether it be trash or data stored digitally in unrecoverable formats, effectively detaches the present from the past."

23/01/2020

"Exile At Home, Or At Home In Exile"
by Sarah da Rocha Valente
https://athenaeumreview.org/essay/exile-at-home/

"Portuguese provides the perfect possibility of missing the unknown, the yet-to-be, the never been, the gone already. The word saudade is all these things and more."

22/01/2020

"Blinded"
by Jane Saginaw
https://athenaeumreview.org/essay/blinded/

"I felt less like a nuisance and more like an intruder now, entering personal territory where I didn’t belong and wasn’t wanted."

21/01/2020

"A Tale of Two Memorials: Dallas and New York"
by Richard R. Brettell
https://athenaeumreview.org/essay/a-tale-of-two-memorials-dallas-and-new-york/

"The 'twin voids' possessed the most concentrated form of emptiness I had ever experienced."

20/01/2020

"Berlin, Intersecting Traumas"
by Nils Roemer UT Dallas Arts & Humanities
https://athenaeumreview.org/essay/berlin-intersecting-traumas/
"Berlin’s realms of memory are not linear. They exist in curious juxtapositions, at odds with each other rather than in harmony."

17/01/2020

"Mythremembering: Memory And Its Fictions"
by Dennis M. Kratz UT Dallas Arts & Humanities
https://athenaeumreview.org/essay/mythremembering/

"A story, once begun, will guide the selection of events that fit; the need to attract and maintain attention will require emphasizing some events at the expense of others."

03/10/2019

Issue 3, "Painful Remembrance" is coming next week! Join us on Oct. 14th at UT Dallas Arts & Humanities or Oct. 19th at Deep Vellum Books to celebrate and pick up a copy. The issue includes essays by guest editor Drs. Nils Roemer, Dennis M. Kratz, Richard R. Brettell, Sarah da Rocha Valente, Jane Saginaw, and much more.

03/10/2019

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