ISSUE 4 | April 2026
Research in Focus | Eurovision: A Vision for Europe?
- Introduction, Eurovision: A Vision for Europe? by Manuela Achilles and Peter Debaere
- Participating Is Political: Eurovision, EU Membership, and Human Rights, by Manuela Achilles and Peter Debaere
- A Heart with Seventy Layers: Eurovision, Branding, and the Idea of Europe, by Luca Cian
- Do You Speak Eurovision? Translating Identity in the Song Contest, by Ivan Raykoff
- Eurovision’s LGBTQ+ Politics at a Crossroads, by Catherine Baker
- A Minor Turn in Europe’s Vision: The Changing Tonal Politics of Eurovision, by Ella Jackson
- Voting for Türkiye in Eurovision: Personal Reflection and Data, by Kerem Coşar
- Contested Songs and Musical Ambassadors: Israel and the Eurovision Song Contest, by Zvi Gilboa
- A Different Vision: The Intervision Song Contest from the Cold War to the War on Ukraine, by Kyrill Kunakhovich
Interviews
- Eurovision in the History of Postwar Europe: An Interview with Dean Vuletic, by Manuela Achilles
Art
- Layer Drawings, by Nobuhiro Nakanishi
Reviews
- Mamushka and Babushka in the Soviet Century and Beyond: A Review of Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy, by John Pickles
Literature in Translation
- Return by Raharimanana, translated from the French by Allison M. Charette
- My Dreadful Body by Egana Djabbarova, translated from the Russian by Lisa C. Hayden
On our Bookshelf
- Why Nations Still Fight, by Richard Ned Lebow (Cambridge University Press)
- When Fitness Went Global: The Rise of Physical Culture in the Nineteenth Century, by Conor Heffernan (Bloomsbury Academic)
- Zero Point: Essays, by Slavoj Žižek (Bloomsbury Academic)