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Cultural History

5 Lesser-known Werewolf Films to Watch on Halloween

posted by Carla Hepburn October 28, 20209 min read12 Views

Craig Ian Mann discusses all things werewolf with his pick of5 Lesser-known Werewolf Films to Watch on Halloween.

Language and Literature

Brigid Brophy: Writer, Critic, Activist

posted by Carla Hepburn June 12, 20202 min read113 Views

In this second part of a four part blog series, Richard Canning discusses Brigid Brophy as a critic but also her want to entertain.

Cultural Studies

Staging Banquo’s Ghost

posted by Carla Hepburn June 8, 20205 min read393 Views

Catherine Belsey and Alan Dessen discuss the complexities of creating Banquo’s ghost for the stage in Macbeth.

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Cultural History

Ghosts in a Time of COVID-19

posted by Carla Hepburn May 1, 20203 min read401 Views

Catherine Belsey explores throughts of ghosts in a time of COVID-19, its impact on our towns, streets and transport around the world.

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Cultural Studies

Q&A with Murdo Macdonald, author of ‘Patrick Geddes’s Intellectual Origins’

posted by Zuzana IHNATOVA March 15, 20206 min read615 Views

Read on to find out what inspired Murdo Macdonald to research Patrick Geddes in his new book Patrick Geddes’s Intellectual…

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Philosophy

God in Aristotle’s Ethics

posted by Teri Williams January 13, 20202 min read631 Views

By Tom Angier Does ethics need religion? Do we need to believe in God to be good? These are standard…

Post 19th Century Literary Studies

Robert Louis Stevenson and Character Creation

posted by Kirsty Crosbie December 10, 20195 min read502 Views

Audrey Murfin explores Robert Louis Stevenson and his methods of Character Creation

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Film and TV

Philosophical Filmmaking is Alive and Well in Russia: Three Russia-Based Directors with Roots in Philosophy

posted by Carla Hepburn November 21, 20196 min read744 Views

Alyssa DeBlasio The Russian novel has long been synonymous with philosophical literature. These are the unwieldy and existentially thick novels…

Film and TV

“One Day More”: Les Misérables and the Hong Kong Protests

posted by Kirsty Crosbie October 30, 20198 min read863 Views

“One Day More”: Les Misérables and the Hong Kong Protests

Tom Ue discusses the relation between Les Misérables and the Hong Kong Protests

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Cultural History

Cognitive disability and its psychoanalytic discontents

posted by Teri Williams October 18, 20196 min read803 Views

The idea of the death-wish has haunted the history of psychoanalysis in its encounters with cognitive disability. But who is…

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