The Karlovian Team
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Between Districts and Dialects: Can we imagine a map of identity not drawn in lines, but woven in words?
By: M. Azzam Rakan Noor Growing up in a city where regional language felt alienated from daily life, I often felt disconnected from the places my parents came from. My mother, a Sundanese woman, speaks fluently with her friends and family, but she never really passed the language down to me. Driven by a growing…
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On Money Laundering: A route for Smurfs in Banking
By: Carlos I. The globalisation has brought many positive effects for society, for example the easing of transit and communication and the relative decrease of transaction costs for international cooperation, to name just a few. The internationalisation of the financial system is a huge piece of this globalist scenario, however with its development, some principal…
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Pakistan and India: a new nuclear war?
By: Isciane Genuist On April 22nd, a terrorist attack occurred in the city of Pahalgam, India, killing twenty-six civilians, twenty-five Indian nationals and one Nepalese tourist. This incident marks one of the deadliest attacks in the mountainous region of Kashmir in the past two decades. Kashmir, located in northern India and bordering both China and…
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Meaning in Conceptual History: A Dialogue between Gadamer and Koselleck
By: M. Azzam Rakan Noor In approaching a particular event or term, it is said that historians have to be accurate and non-influential–nonpartisan. However, it is still debatable how historians should be purely objective or should involve various essences of subjectivity, i.e prejudice, in order to analyse thoroughly. One example is how Gadamer’s hermeneutics and…
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Living in the Stretch: Raising Awareness for Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
By: Natasha Noam Gol May is Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) Awareness Month — a time to shine a light on a condition that hides in plain sight. EDS isn’t rare in the sense of being uncommon, but it’s underdiagnosed, misunderstood, and often dismissed. For many of us living with EDS, awareness isn’t just about medical terminology;…
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Why does the US bomb Yemen?
By: Isciane Genuist For the past two weeks, the United States has intensified its airstrikes in Yemen,targeting the Houthis, a rebel group based in the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula. U.S. President Donald Trump aims to apply maximum pressure on Iran to force it to abandon its nuclear ambitions. “Real pain is yet to…