T H E J O U R N A L O F 12, no. 1 (Summer 2021) HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING TRANSCULTURAL S T U D I E S 12, no. 1 (Summer 2021) T H E J O U R N A L O F TRANSCULTURAL S T U D I E S EDITORIAL NOTE Monica Juneja and Diamantis Panagiotopoulos vi ARTICLES Vladimir Aleksić and Mariachiara Gasparini The “Mongol” Cloud Collar of the Serbian Despot John Oliver: An Historical and Iconographic Investigation 1 Emily Hyatt “Sì in Muran come fuora de Muran”: Transcultural Itineraries and Material Counternarratives in Venetian Glass, c. 1450–1650 31 Emilio Amideo Language, Memory, and Affect in Diasporic Food Discourse: Austin Clarke’s Barbadian Culinary Memoir 63 Thor-André Skrefsrud A Transcultural Approach to Cross-cultural Studies: Towards an Alternative to a National Culture Model 81 iiiThe Journal of Transcultural Studies 12, no. 1 (Summer 2021) The Journal of Transcultural Studies 12, no. 1 (Summer 2021) Editors: Monica Juneja, Global Art History Joachim Kurtz, Intellectual History Diamantis Panagiotopoulos, Classical Archaeology Michael Radich, Buddhist Studies Rudolf G. Wagner†, Chinese Studies Managing Editor: Sophie Florence Editorial Board: Christiane Brosius, Antje Fluechter, Madeleine Herren, Birgit Kellner, Axel Michaels, Barbara Mittler, Vladimir Tikhonov, and Roland Wenzlhuemer Editorial Assistants: Gundė Daukšytė, Kush Depala, Anja Lind, Mhairi Montgomery, and Judhajit Sarkar The Journal of Transcultural Studies is edited at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS) and published by Heidelberg University Publishing. The journal is freely available at http://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/ (open access). ISSN: 2191-6411 iv Contributors Contributors to this Issue Vladimir Aleksić is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Niš, Serbia, where he teaches topics related to the political and economic development of Southeast Europe, including historical geography. He earned his PhD in medieval history from the University of Belgrade in 2013. His recent research has focused on digital humanities, particularly storytelling; the use of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) in the teaching of cultural heritage in higher education (MINERVA EU ERASMUS +); and the application of graph databases in social history research. He has participated in multiple exchange and educational programs, the most prominent of which were stays at the Free University of Berlin and the Humboldt University of Berlin. Mariachiara Gasparini is Assistant Professor of Chinese Art and Architectural History at the University of Oregon. She has also taught at the University of California Riverside, San José State University, San Francisco State University, and Santa Clara University. She studied Oriental Languages and Civilizations at the University of Naples “L’Orientale” and East Asian Art at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London (University of Manchester). Gasparini completed her PhD on the transcultural histories of Central Asian textiles at Heidelberg University in 2015. Her research focuses on Sino-Iranian and Turko-Mongol interactions, studied through material culture, wall painting, and the artist’s praxis. She is the author of Transcending Patterns: Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions through Central Asian Textiles (Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2020), and is currently coediting Trade and Industry: Global Circulation of Local Manufacture, and the Migration and Consumption of Textile Products, both Historically and Contemporaneously, Volume 6 of the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of World Textiles (forthcoming in 2023). Emily Hyatt is the project coordinator of “Heritage as Placemaking: The Politics of Solidarity and Erasure in South Asia” at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS). She completed her MA in Transcultural Studies from Heidelberg University within the focus area “Visual, Media, and Material Cultures.” She also holds a BA in art history and visual art from Columbia University and has worked as a museum educator at a number of history and art museums in New York City. Hyatt’s research interests include transcultural circulations in art and artisanal history, craft production in the sixteenth-century Republic of Venice, and the role of plants and animals in early modern artisanal production. vThe Journal of Transcultural Studies 12, no. 1 (Summer 2021) Emilio Amideo holds a PhD in English and is a Researcher in English Language and Translation at the University of Naples “L’Orientale.” His research interests lie at the intersection of English language and translation studies, cultural and postcolonial studies, gender studies, critical race theory, ecocriticism, and body studies. He was a visiting scholar at Northwestern University (Department of African American Studies, 2015) and at Goldsmiths, University of London (Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies, 2016). He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Gender Studies and the advisory board of JAm It! (Journal of American Studies in Italy). Amideo’s most recent publications include the monographs Queer Tidalectics: Linguistic and Sexual Fluidity in Contemporary Black Diasporic Literature (Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2021) and Il corpo dell’altro: Articolazioni queer della maschilità nera in diaspora [The body of the other: Queer articulations of black masculinity in diaspora] (Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2021). In addition, he has published articles on James Baldwin, Isaac Julien, Essex Hemphill, Thomas Glave, Jackie Kay, Lawrence Hill, Keith Jarrett, and Dean Atta. Thor-André Skrefsrud holds a PhD in intercultural education from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and works as Professor of Education and Religion at the Faculty of Education at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences. His research interests include teacher education, intercultural learning, and educational philosophy. Skrefsrud is currently a researcher in the projects “Non-formal Faith Education, the Public School, and Religious Minorities in Norway,” and “Critical Examination of Race and Racism in Teacher Education,” funded by the Research Council of Norway. His latest publications include articles in Intercultural Education, Journal of Peace Education, and Digital Culture & Education.