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A Lifetime Exploring the Achaemenid Empire
Read more: A Lifetime Exploring the Achaemenid EmpireA tribute to a lifelong scholar, this blog explores the travels and research behind Coinages in the Achaemenid Empire.
An Interview with Warwick Ball, author of The Eurasian Steppe
In this interview, author and archaeologist Warwick Ball discusses his travels and research that led to his new book, The…
The Burns Supper: A New Field of Study
By Dr Paul Malgrati Over the past 220 years, the Burns Supper has become the quintessential festival of Scottish culture,…
Jean-Luc Nancy and Paragraph
By Peggy Kamuf In tribute to Jean-Luc Nancy, whose death was announced in August, Peggy Kamuf looks back on a…
The destruction of ‘un- Islamic’ edifices by ISIS and the Taliban
by Shivan Mahendrarajah The Taliban are back in power, ushering in renewed fears of destruction of cultural heritages. Their first…
“Potency is important for a real man”: Viagra-spam and the circulation of gendered discourse (Part 2)
by Mie Birk Jensen Have you read “Potency is important for a real man”: Viagra-spam and the circulation of gendered…
“Potency is important for a real man”: Viagra-spam and the circulation of gendered discourse (Part 1)
by Mie Birk Jensen “Need some love pills? So, why go to your local drugstore? Why waste time and extra…
An extract from “Wasted Innocence: Children and Childhood in Cao Xueqin’s Dream of the Red Chamber”
by Xiaofei Shi and Labao Wang Does Chinese children’s literature have a prehistory? While it is presumptuous to date the…
Scythian Gold: An Extract from The Eurasian Steppe by Warwick Ball
In this exclusive extract from chapter 6 of The Eurasian Steppe, author and archaeologist Warwick Ball explores the material culture…
Author interview: Christian Long talks Albert Brooks
In this interview, Christian Long, editor of ReFocus: The Films of Albert Brooks (out now in our series ReFocus: The…