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Ten everyday lessons
Read more: Ten everyday lessonsChantelle Gray offers a vivid tribute to Deleuze and Guattari’s radical becomings, calling for creative resistance and world-making.
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EUP 75: Our Publishing in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Discover the story of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Edinburgh University Press – the first publications, the books that changed the field and what you can expect to see in future.
A Conversation on the Nature of Practice in Hip-Hop
Creativity, Skill, Integrity, Intelligence and Community
Q&A with the author of ‘Historical Media Memories of the Rwandan Genocide’
by Tommy Gustafsson Author Tommy Gustafsson discusses what inspired his research for his new book, Historical Media Memories of the Rwandan Genocide, and what most surprised him during the writing process. Tell us a bit about your book. Historical Media…
A Celebratory Issue of ‘The New Americanist’
by Matthew Chambers The text for this blog is taken from the Editor’s Introduction of The New Americanist Vol 2.2. The New Americanist continues a tradition of research publication at the American Studies Center (University of Warsaw)—some iteration of the…
Making art is messy
by Simon Ellis Making art is messy. Artists make lots of decisions under less-than-ideal conditions without a clear understanding of how the work will turn out and how it will be felt and experienced by others. When we make artistic…
Edinburgh University Press – 75th Anniversary
by Nicola Ramsey 2024 is a milestone year for Edinburgh University Press as we celebrate 75 years of books, journals and engaging with the academic community. This January we’re reflecting on recent successes as well as looking forward. Our 75th…
Yogic Yeats and Jung: Early European Receptions of Asian Meditation Manuals
by Chris Murray Should Europeans meditate? Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) said not, but William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) disagreed. To argue his opinion, each adopted Goethe’s character Faust as a paradigm for the non-Asian psyche. For much of his life, Yeats…
Astrophil and Stella: The Sidney-Jonson Connection
by Bob Evans In 2023, the Ben Jonson Journal celebrated its thirtieth anniversary with a special issue devoted to detailed explications of all 108 sonnets in the important Astrophil and Stella sonnet sequence composed by Sir Philip Sidney. Edinburgh University…
Mine Games: Humanitarian Mine Action and The HALO Trust
by Angus Mitchell In January 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales, undertook a trip to Angola on behalf of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Her mission: to highlight the plight of landmine victims. With an entourage of photographers, journalists,…
Lost Property at the British Museum
by Sarah Keenan It’s easy to get lost at the British Museum. The expansive central London building, set out over three floors and divided up into over 60 galleries, displays some 80,000 objects from all over the world. The British…