St Anne's Academic Review

Fresh Academic Voices: NEW PODCAST EPISODE

Medic and neuroscientist Dora Markati (DPhil, Paediatric Neurology) explains how some viruses can be used as vectors – or platforms – to treat genetic disorders. Her paper published in St Anne's Academic Review (Volume 11, 2021) presents evidence on a range of diseases that have benefited from viral-mediated approaches. She hopes to see more efficient treatments for such diseases being made available to children across the world.

Dora holds degrees in medicine and neuroscience from the University of Patras, Greece, and the University of Cambridge, respectively. She trained in children's medicine in Cambridge and in London. Her current work involves clinical studies and trials for the treatment of rare childhood diseases affecting the nervous system, with a focus on Angelman Syndrome.

Listen to Dora on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7eZpG2gDnmDHdBG0JAa16w?si=23209169213347d9

Read STAAR Volume 11 and listen to more episodes of Fresh Academic Voices on our website: http://www.stannesacademicreview.com/podcasts.html

Call for Editor-in-Chief (January 2022 onwards)

St Anne's Academic Review is recruiting a new Editor-in-Chief to steer the journal's activities from Hilary Term. The Editor-in-Chief will be responsible for managing and overseeing the submission, editing, peer review, and production stages of the journal.

Closing date for applications: Wednesday 12 January. Please visit our website to find out more about the role and how to apply. http://www.stannesacademicreview.com/vacancies.html

Call for Editor-in-Chief (January 2022 onwards)

St Anne's Academic Review is looking for a new Editor-in-Chief to steer the journal's activities from Hilary Term. The Editor-in-Chief will be responsible for managing and overseeing the submission, editing, peer review, and production stages of the journal.

Please visit our website to find out more about the role and how to apply: http://www.stannesacademicreview.com/vacancies.html

Warmest wishes to everyone this festive season! Our gift to you is Volume 11, a collection of academic manuscripts, cultural reviews, and creative pieces written and crafted by members of St Anne's College, Oxford.

Volume 11 can be read online and downloaded. For a more enjoyable experience, please read from a desktop. Copies of the volume can be purchased from St Anne's MCR at £10 apiece.

We are so grateful to our contributors and editors for their hard work, and to our peer reviewers for supporting St Anne's Academic Review.

Volume 11 Ye-Ye Xu, Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics

Posting copies of Volume 11 to The British Library, the Bodleian Libraries, and our contributors and editors today! It makes us smile to think of St Anne's Academic Review dotted in different places around the world. The UK, Europe, Malaysia, and the United States, to name a few.

Readers, are you excited for Volume 11 of St Anne's Academic Review? It's almost ready! You can enjoy a little film we shot at St Anne's College over the summer when our articles were going through the Open Peer Review process and being sent out to academics across the world.

https://youtu.be/GxWP8CcFnYg

Editor-in-Chief: Ye-Ye Xu
Producter/Director: Daniel Mercieca
Camera/Editing: Nina Mangold
Interviewees: Zhihang Wang, Mikey Bicarregui

What are emotions? Are they ingrained in the brain’s architecture, or are they socially constructed? We dive into the wonders of the human brain with Conrado Eiroa Solans, a Master’s candidate in Psychological Research who studies the nature of human emotions. In his paper for St Anne's Academic Review, Conrado presents the two schools of thought – the classical biological perspective and the social-constructionist view – and he draws evidence from a lesion case study and brain scans to explain the nature of what human beings feel. He speaks with STAAR Editor in Chief Ye-Ye Xu about this theoretical debate.

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1fPUbswX1Jp5amHhhBWSVw?si=JA8fl0vhSBuIyixnKUevsg&dl_branch=1

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/conrado-eiroa-solans-the-nature-of-human-emotions/id1542530432?i=1000536511196&l=en

Dora Markati's hope is to see treatments for rare childhood diseases being made available to children across the world. After training in children’s medicine in London and Cambridge, the medic and neuroscientist is now working on clinical studies for particular diseases that affect the nervous system.

Her paper 'Viral-Mediated Gene Therapies for Paediatric Neurological Diseases' is now available for Open Peer Review. To submit a review, please visit: http://www.stannesacademicreview.com/volume-11.html

The deadline for reviews is 23.59 on Friday 20 August.

Between 1991 and 1997, Japan’s engagement with Central Asia increased significantly in its attempt to exert greater political and economic influence on the region. The process was led by three distinct groups: the politicians, the bureaucrats, and the big businesses.

Zhihang Wang, The Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, University of Oxford, analyses this process, and the problems faced by Japan throughout, in his thesis entitled:

'Japan's involvement in Central Asia in the early post-Cold War era (1991-1997): ​A Review from the Perspective of Neo-Classical Realism'

The first chapter of Zhihang's thesis will be published in print in Volume 11 of St Anne's Academic Review. It is available for Open Peer Review until Friday 20 August: http://www.stannesacademicreview.com/volume-11.html

What is language contact? How and why does it occur? Brittany Hause, a DPhil candidate in Linguistics explains this phenomenon through a Spanish poem 'Amor de un campestre' – A Rustic's Love – by Bolivian writer Pedro Rivas. The use of regionally specific vocabulary that characterises the piece illustrates several of the effects of language contact, which continue to distinguish the variety of Spanish spoken in Santa Cruz from other varieties heard today in Bolivia and around the world.

Brittany is preparing an article on language contact for Volume 11 of St Anne's Academic Review. Enjoy hearing Brittany in conversation with STAAR Humanities Editor, Erin Nickalls about her article and research in this field.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1bTniHXzpMAhD5KQX4oi0F?si=kM8AffaSQke2pRje0I6Q-g&dl_branch=1

Read about the Fresh Academic Voices series on our website: http://www.stannesacademicreview.com/podcasts.html

We are also pleased to present Conrado Eiroa Solans, Oxford University Department Of Experimental Psychology. His article now available for Open Peer Review is entitled:

'Are basic emotions ingrained in the brain's architecture?'

Conrado's article can be downloaded from our website. To submit a review for Conrado, please visit: http://www.stannesacademicreview.com/volume-11.html

Deadline: 23.59 on Friday 20 August

St Anne's Academic Review is pleased to present:

'Theatricality and Metatheatricality in the Old French fabliaux'
Ramani Chandramohan, Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford

Ramani's article is now available for Open Peer Review ahead of publication in Volume 11 of the journal this September. To submit a review for Ramani's article, please visit: http://www.stannesacademicreview.com/volume-11.html

Deadline: 23.59 on Friday 20 August