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Eyes on the City: “Diving In”

NOTE: WORK OF FICTION

As you step out of the crowded wagon, you feel it right away. It is in the air, a kind of electricity. It radiates everywhere, as if every passer-by was the pole of an alkaline battery. It is more acute than a mere atmosphere : you feel it like a real sensation, a shiver, running its claws down your spine. Both stressful and exciting. You have the impression to be a high-liner sent on the cable without harness : you are unsafe, but oddly confident – in fact, your location is nothing but the usual.

You know it in here.

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COVID-19 and Linguistics: A Bidirectional Relationship

“As our multilingual world goes through one of the worst plagues in history, does language assist or exacerbate the situation? How, if at all, does it evolve in the process?”
By Sila Ceyhan

As our multilingual world goes through one of the worst plagues in history, does language assist or exacerbate the situation? How, if at all, does it evolve in the process?

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The Perils of Research: Reflections on Giulio Regeni’s Story

By Prof. Alberto Rinaldi

It could have been me.

These are the words that come to my mind, every time I think back to the years I spent in Egypt. Along with the excellent memories as a student, the wonderful moments spent traveling, meeting new people and confronting myself with a completely different reality from the one I was used to back at home, nowadays I cannot but recount everything in the light of that infamous January 25, 2016; the day Giulio Regeni went missing.

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NEWS UPDATE: What’s Happening in Turkey?

By Sila Ceyhan

Turkey: Student protests grow against Erdogan-appointed rector

After Recep Tayyip Erdogan appointed AKP-affiliated Melih Bulu as the rector of prestigious Bogazici University, students and academicians from all over Turkey and the world reacted with protests.

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Tous Humains : Mon expérience dans le camp de réfugiés de Grande-Synthe près de Calais

By Zoé Détrez

Because We Are All Human.

Qui n’a pas entendu parler des réfugiés dans les médias ? Des centaines de personnes qui meurent chaque jour dans la Méditerranée (près de 20 000 depuis 2014), des camps de migrants à Calais, de démantèlement, et par dessus tout, de la fameuse « crise de réfugiés » ? Nous sommes bien nombreux à n’entendre parler de ce « problème » qu’à travers nos écrans, ayant pour impression que nous ne sommes pas concernés et que cela se passe loin de nous. Mais pourtant, il s’agit bien d’une réalité inhumaine qui se déroule dans le monde, mais aussi sur notre territoire, là, juste à côté de chez nous.