Introduction: The Magic Box

Article | Contribuidor(es): Venera Fazio

Introduction: “Utopia for 500 Years”

Article | Contribuidor(es): Brent Nelson

Introduzione

Article | Contribuidor(es): Fabio Camilletti

Introduzione [to Special cluster of Articles: Etica, impegno, letteratura: nuove figure / Ethics, Commitment, Literature: Contemporary Figurations]

Article | Contribuidor(es): Eugenio Bolongaro

Introspecting food movements in Canada: Unpacking tensions towards justice and sustainability

2025-03-19 22:13:07 | Essay | Contribuidor(es): Amanda Wilson, Charles Z Levkoe | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i2.524

Over the past decades there has been a notable growth in community-based food systems projects and successes. Despite these advancements, food insecurity, precarious food work, ecological degradation, and corporate conglomeration in the food sector all continue to increase, compounded by the...

Invisible guests: A sound installation in a Montréal community restaurant

2025-03-19 22:03:42 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Melanie Binette | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v4i2.220

Invité.e.s invisibles (Invisible Guests) is a sound installation created in collaboration with a community restaurant that provides affordable meals to a disadvantaged population in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, a former industrial neighbourhood in Montréal. Recorded conversations were made...

Ioppolo, Grace, project dir. Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project. Other

Article | Contribuidor(es): Kara J. Northway

Ipocondria, scienza medica e poesia. Una congiuntura settecentesca

Article | Contribuidor(es): Sandra Parmegiani

This article opens with a survey of the works of those physicians who, in the eighteenth century, expanded on the Classical and Renaissance theorization of hypochondria. It then looks at the connections between hypochondria and literary creation, a theme which is explored by several Italian...

Irony and the Aesthetics of Nostalgia: Fellini, Zanzotto and Casanova's Redemption

Article | Contribuidor(es): Dana Renga

Irredentist Propaganda “Baedeker Style:” Anna Franchi’s and Willy Dias’ Nationalist Geographical Fantasy

Article | Contribuidor(es): Cristina Gragnani

This article analyzes how Anna Franchi and Willy Dias (Fortuna Morpurgo) utilized the language of tourism in their irredentist writings during the first two years of World War I. I look at how they adopted specific features of travel guidebooks to create a nationalistic geographical fantasy. I...

Is cell-based meat a climate solution for Canada? : Interpreting lifecycle footprints within the domestic agri-food context

2025-03-19 22:12:52 | Essay | Contribuidor(es): Ryan M Katz-Rosene | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i1.629

Interest and technological know-how in cell-based meat production has grown tremendously in recent years. The appeal is wide ranging, but two main drivers include: i) the possibility of producing edible meat without requiring the slaughter of sentient animals; and ii) the potential to...

Is it hot in here, or is it just me? On being an emotional academic

2025-03-19 22:03:47 | Article | Contribuidor(es): David Andrew Szanto | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i1.148

In writing this, I feel as if I am somehow coming out as an “emotional academic.” As if it were a thing I have been trying to keep hidden (not very successfully, probably) over the years. Yet I also suspect this label is one with which many of us might self-identify. Moreover, I believe that...

Is Open Scholarship Possible without Open Infrastructure?

2024-01-24 23:32:57 | Presentation | Contribuidor(es): Leslie Chan | https://doi.org/10.25547/Q029-D548

digital humanities, critical infrastructure studies

Is the ‘obesity crisis’ really the health crisis of the food system? The ecological determinants of health for food system change

2025-03-19 22:03:19 | Article | Contribuidor(es): Sarah Elton | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i1.447

Multilateral organizations and research institutions are increasingly calling for transformation of the industrial food system due to its negative health impacts, its contribution to climate change and the fact that the system fails to provide adequate food to more than 800 million people. A...

Is there something like open digital humanities?

2023-11-10 00:37:02 | Presentation | Contribuidor(es): Gimena del Rio | https://doi.org/10.25547/F4ET-ZG38

digital humanities, open science, Latin America

Is Virgil Naked? Clothing in Dante’s Commedia

Article | Contribuidor(es): Thomas Rendall

Dante’s poem presents the humiliation of nakedness as part of the punishment of the souls in hell. But what about those in purgatory and limbo, and what about Virgil himself? Although most readers cannot imagine a naked Virgil, Dante gives only a hint of the state of clothing of the souls in...

Isabella Andreini (Comica Gelosa 1560-1604): Petrarchism for the Theatre Public

Article | Contribuidor(es): Rosalind Kerr

This article locates Isabella Andreini as a self-reflexive mannerist artist who used her incarnation as an idealized neoplatonic innamorata to practise her sixteenth-century petrarchism on the stage. Examples from her poetry, letters and other writings show how consciously she worked to bring her...

Isabella Colalillo-Katz. Marlene Dietrich’s Eyes. Victoria, B.C.: Ekstasis Editions, 2014.

Article | Contribuidor(es): Josie Di Sciascio-Andrews

Italian Americans, Education, and Italian Language: 1880–1921

Article | Contribuidor(es): Matteo Pretelli

Italian migrants in the United States have been often associated to the tendency to neglect the importance of culture as an instrument of upward social mobility. Traditionally perceiving culture as a hegemonic tool of the elites, Italian migrants in the United States, who had a predominantly...

Italian Heritage and the Experience of Migration and Nostos in Canadian Poetry

Article | Contribuidor(es): Francesca Cadel

The article addresses the theme of nostos by referring to the journeys of three authors of Italian heritage: Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, Mary di Michele, and Gianna Patriarca. Their poetry allows the possibility to revisit their journeys and to consider migration as a source of knowledge, and positive...