Forum Post-Graduate Journal

FORUM's 34th Issue, 'trans-', is now live! Many, many thanks to our extraordinary authors and editors for making this happen.

This kaleidoscopic issue features ten articles on methods and representations of 'trans-' across translation studies, gender and sexuality studies, literary criticism, art history, and more. This issue comprises contributions from a range of postgraduate and and early career researchers, working in periods from the eighteenth century to the present.

The issue opens with the innovative work of award-winning poet Prerana Kumar (https://preranakumar.com/) and an introduction by the 2022-23 Deputy Editor, and FORUM's incoming Editor-in-Chief, Claudia Sterbini. Make sure to take a look!

http://journals.ed.ac.uk/forum/issue/view/570

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Vol 34 (2023): Trans- | FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & the Arts Trans- is powerful: attaching itself to concepts, it challenges supposedly settled knowledge about the world we live in. In FORUM’s 34th issue, this destabilisation becomes central. We draw attention to the importance the prefix ‘trans-’ has acquired in recent decades as an index of movement, ...

On this we are sharing Hsin-Yun Cheng's article about the Taiwanese artist Chen Chieh-Jen 🇹🇼

Bodies, Temporality, and Spatiality in Chen Chieh-Jen’s Lingchi: Echoes of a Historical Photograph (2002) and Factory (2003) | FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & the Arts Bodies, Temporality, and Spatiality in Chen Chieh-Jen’s Lingchi: Echoes of a Historical Photograph (2002) and Factory (2003) Hsin-Yun Cheng University of Rochester Abstract This article discusses Taiwanese artist Chen Chieh-Jen’s (1960-) two early videos Lingchi: Echoes of a Historical Photograp...