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New Gaelic Speakers in Nova Scotia and Scotland: A Q&A with Stuart Dunmore
Read more: New Gaelic Speakers in Nova Scotia and Scotland: A Q&A with Stuart DunmoreStuart Dunmore discusses his motivations for researching new Gaelic speakers, and the incredible places and experiences this led to.
The Jesuits and the Globalisation of the Renaissance

By Peter Burke The idea that the unintended consequences of human action are often more important – for better and…
The Future of the Energy Transition for Middle East Gulf Economies Post Pandemic

By Jamil Hijazi, Jessica Obeid and Michel-Ange Medlej Jamil Hijazi and co-authors (Jessica Obeid and Michael-Ange Medlej) navigate the future…
The Poisonous Flowers of H. Rider Haggard’s Cleopatra: Part Three

By Jemma Stewart Read Part 1 and Part 2 of this blog series. Rose Roses…have ever reigned as queens of…
The Poisonous Flowers of H. Rider Haggard’s Cleopatra: Part Two

By Jemma Stewart Read Part 1 of this blog series. Lotus And as the voice spoke, a cold hand touched…
The Poisonous Flowers of H. Rider Haggard’s Cleopatra: Part One

By Jemma Stewart H. Rider Haggard’s Gothic Garden In the Gothic Studies articles ‘Blooming Marvel’ and ‘She shook her heavy…
Jean-François Lyotard: A Sceptic for Our Times

I first encountered Jean-François Lyotard's work in the mid-1980s, after the publication of the English translation of his book The Postmodern Condition. It was a text that created quite a stir in the English-speaking academic world, drawing a lot of both praise and criticism. I was one of those to be critical, as in the first thing I ever wrote about Lyotard, a journal article for Radical Philosophy, where I argued there was a nihilistic quality to his thought.
The Innes Review Turns 70

By John Reuben Davies Read the editorial introduction from The Innes Review: 70th Anniversary Virtual Collection, which is free to…
Three Ways to Counter a Propaganda Narrative (and How Iraqi Writers under Saddam Hussein Did it)

When I first started my research on propaganda and culture in Iraq under Saddam Hussein, the study of propaganda was…
The myth of the selfless philosopher

By Enrico Galvagni There is a myth that spans the history of western thought: the myth of the selfless philosopher.…