Fifty years have passed since the publication of Of Grammatology, and the Oxford Literary Review has dedicated its July 2018…
Category: Politics, Philosophy and Religion
My guest edited special issue of Nottingham French Studies (NFS), explores ‘Text, Knowledge and Wonder in Early Modern France‘, fleshing out…
Wonder is largely absent as a topic of concern to contemporary philosophers. Yet ancient philosophers saw it as the source…
Tell us a bit about The Pilgrims Society and Public Diplomacy, 1895–1945 My book is about the Pilgrims Society, which…
It is a pleasure to see the launch of the first issue of Afghanistan, a journal to showcase the country’s…
Sir Thomas More (1477 – 1535) was the first person to write of a ‘utopia’, a word used to describe…
My article “Promoting Commercial Agriculture in Nigeria Through a Reform of the Legal and Institutional Frameworks” in African Journal of International…
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
7 things you should know about the destruction of graves in the Islamic world
By Ondrej Beranek and Pavel Tupek 1) Over the past years and decades, various parts of the Islamic world –…
In James Benning’s film Concord Woods (2014), we watch a replica of Henry David Thoreau’s famous cabin at Walden Pond….
I was standing in a library aisle in the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, my neck craning to…