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Q&A with the author of Performing Worlds at the Baroque Court of Christine of France
Read more: Q&A with the author of Performing Worlds at the Baroque Court of Christine of FranceThis interview explores how Christine of France used Baroque court spectacles to shape political authority, global imagination, and cultures of consumption.
Introducing Critiquing Gender and Islam: Transnational, Intersectional and Queer Perspectives

by Nadje Al-Ali & Kathryn Spellman Poots It has been over 10 years that we have seen uprisings in the…
‘Everything that wriggles’: The Muriel Spark Archives

By James Bailey ‘I am a hoarder of two things: documents and trusted friends’, wrote Spark in her 1992 autobiography,…
Four Irish Persephones

By Virginie Trachsler The young Persephone is gathering flowers in a meadow when her uncle Hades, god of the underworld,…
Democracy, Workers’ Councils, and Political Thought: What Can We Learn from Events?

When I first grappled with the questions that would in time turn into my Edinburgh University Press book Visions of Council Democracy: Castoriadis, Lefort, Arendt...
Remembering Sarah Kofman in the 2020s?

By Jacob Bates-Firth Sarah Kofman and the Relief of Philosophy (ed. Bates-Firth and McKeane) is out now as a special…
In memory of Professor Richard Sharpe FBA, FSA, FRHistS, Hon. MRIA

17 February 1954 to 21 March 2020 By John Reuben Davies (Editor, The Innes Review) A year has now passed…
10 Beats of The Pulse in Cinema

By Sharon Jane Mee and Bill Hunt [Content Note: This post contains shots from films depicting blood and gore] One…
Flawed Crystals: Muriel Spark’s Ways of Seeing

‘How do you do it? I am dazzled’, enthused Evelyn Waugh in a letter to Muriel Spark in 1960. Spark’s…
Young people and activism

By Niall Nance-Carroll Young people are a coveted demographic in politics, and they are increasingly shaping both the message and…


