‘How do you do it? I am dazzled’, enthused Evelyn Waugh in a letter to Muriel Spark in 1960. Spark’s…
Category: Cultural Studies
By Brigitte Nelrich Note: This blog article has been reused with kind permission from the author. The original post can…
By Craig Lamont The Cultural Memory of Georgian Glasgow is the first book-length study of a long-neglected period in the…
By Fraser Raeburn On this day 84 years ago, Scottish soldiers went into battle. For most of them, it was…
By Ewen Cameron I was delighted to publish Freshness, Freedom, and Peace?: Land Settlement in Scotland after the Great War …
By Kenny Brophy Decades before Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and Twitter, to be an influencer involved analogue methods, persistence, and very,…
By Simone Pfeifer and Christoph Günther Recent violent attacks in Kabul, Dresden, Paris, or Vienna, legitimized as Jihad, urge our…
By Victor Fan ‘Cinematic Imaging and Imagining through the Lens of Buddhism’ (from the latest issue of Paragraph) is one…
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Religion, Identity and Power: Turkey and the Balkans in the Twenty-First Century
by Ahmet Erdi Öztürk Religion and belief are two of humanity’s oldest identity codes. Identity is intertwined with religion and,…
By Cliff Hague COVID-19 brought Edinburgh’s tourism boom to a screeching halt, and wiped out the city’s main festivals in…