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A parcel of rogues in a nation? Twenty-five years of the Scottish Parliament
Read more: A parcel of rogues in a nation? Twenty-five years of the Scottish ParliamentDavid McCrone explores public opinion on the devolved Scottish Parliament over the past 25 years.
Is this the time of the essay? CounterText: Volume 9, Issue 3

by Mario Aquilina ‘Is this the time of the essay?’ Or ‘is the essay out of time?’ ‘What is time in the essay?’ ‘What, actually, is the essay, today?’ ‘Do we, in post-literary times, keep focusing on the essay as…
International Women’s Day: We’ve had our fill of hashtags

by Dr Helen O’Shea and Prof Kim Barker International Women’s Day: an important day to mark, recognise, and observe women’s achievements…but we’ve had our fill of hashtags. So another one rolls around again and we can expect the usual avalanche…
Five Influential Psychiatric Films

by Tim Snelson, William R. Macauley and David A. Kirby In the ‘long 1960s’, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals intervened in and influenced cinema culture in unprecedented ways, changing how films were conceived, produced, censored, exhibited and received by…
Writing Dancing and the Stance

by ‘Funmi Adewole Elliott Over the years I have carried out several research projects as a practitioner, at times with funding from organisations like the Arts Council and Chisenhale Dance Space or with support from The Space at Clarence Mews.…
Planning the perfect Oscars look with the Red Carpet Doctor

by Elizabeth Castaldo Lundén The Oscars are awards season’s final show and the mothership that paved the way for all other awards ceremonies. Therefore, one must reserve the best look to capitalize on the build-up. But what makes an Oscars…
EUP 75: Our Publishing in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

A Conversation on the Nature of Practice in Hip-Hop

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…