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A conversation with Demet Çaltekin on ‘Conscientious Objection in Turkey’
Read moreby Demet Aslı Çaltekin Can you tell us a bit about Conscientious Objection in Turkey: A Socio-legal Analysis of the…
5 places where modernism survived
Adapting or recasting the formal experiments of their modernist forebears...Here is a brief tour of five places where modernism survived well into the second half of the twentieth century.
“Is Such A Life Worthy of the Name?”: Christopher Douglas on the Adaptation of George Gissing’s The Odd Women (Part 2)
by Tom Ue Continued from Part 1 Your integration of The Taming of the Shrew when describing Rhoda and Everard…
“Is Such A Life Worthy of the Name?”: Christopher Douglas on the Adaptation of George Gissing’s The Odd Women (Part 1)
by Tom Ue George Gissing’s novel The Odd Women (1893) opens, in 1872, with Dr Madden declaring his intention to…
Researching the History of British Film Finance
by James Chapman Big research projects take a while to bear fruit. In the case of The Money Behind the…
Xenophon’s Anabasis in 16 Pictures
This selection of sixteen photographs together with the accompanying descriptions by Xenophon aim to provide a sense of the travel experience from the journey’s beginning at Sardis to the army’s famous sighting of the Black Sea from the mountains south of modern Trabzon.
Surveying the Anthropocene: Endangered wildlife: the threats to seabirds, and the use of rephotography
by Patricia Macdonald This is the second of a series of blogs featuring themes and participants from the book Surveying…
The Woman Writer’s Playbook to Fighting Censorship
This isn’t The Handmaid’s Tale. It’s Brave New World. But without soma.
The Global Sphere of Academia: Writing in a Second Language
By Alex Oxford As Chris discussed on the blog in March, Early Career Researchers are often thrust headfirst into the…
Seamus Heaney, Virgil and the Good of Poetry
The work and life of Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) were, in Bill Clinton’s words, a gift to the world: ‘His mind, heart, and his uniquely Irish gift for language made him our finest poet of the rhythms of ordinary lives.’