Independent Dance

FROM FOLK TRADITION TO CONTEMPORARY STAGE: REIMAGINING CENTRAL ASIAN DANCE THROUGH CHOREOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION

Central Asian folk dance represents a significant component of the region's intangible cultural heritage, preserving collective memory, cultural identity, and embodied knowledge through movement traditions transmitted across generations. While existing scholarship has extensively...

“We Were in Solidarity with Each Other”: Oral Histories on Coming Out During the AIDS Crisis in Canada

This paper explores identifying, "coming out" and "coming in" as Two Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and/or queer (2SLGBTQ+) during the AIDS crisis in Canada (1981-1997). We conducted 30 oral history interviews about this unique historical moment between 2022 and 2025 with...

Is the Right to Disconnect a Testable Organisational Hypothesis for Physiological Recovery? A Comment on After-Hours ICT Use

Carlo Aresti, MD; Is the Right to Disconnect a Testable Organisational Hypothesis for Physiological Recovery? A Comment on After-Hours ICT Use, Journal of

Beyond HITL: Continuation Readiness as a Governance Requirement for Enterprise AI Workflows

Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) is widely treated as a default mechanism for satisfying AI governance requirements: when an AI system reaches a checkpoint, a human is asked to intervene. This paper argues that intervention is not sufficient. Enterprise AI governance requires continuabil...