Lecture

At the turn of the twentieth century, radical utopian communities were built all around the world. They served as retreats, but they simultaneously constituted hubs for activists, reformers, and revolutionaries to meet, share, and develop new ideas and practices of community and human existence. The talk deliberately builds on different and seemingly unrelated case studies […]

In the early twentieth century Richard Outcault's American comic strip Buster Brown appeared in different forms in countries such as Brazil, Britain, Denmark, France, Italy, and Spain. This article discussed those appearances in light of Outcault’s attempts to preserve his intellectual property rights and his shift of the strip from the New York Herald to […]