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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.
How do women and men swear on Twitter, and why does it matter?
By Michael Gauthier For decades now, sociolinguistic studies have showed that social parameters have an influence on the way we…
Burns Chronicle: The Oldest Scottish Literature Journal in the World?
By the Editors & Reviews Editor, the Burns Chronicle Almost 130 years ago, in 1892, enthusiasts started publishing the Burns…
Reading the War on Terror in Moroccan Picture Books
By Sara Austin and Ann Wainscott We met at New Faculty Orientation in 2018. Sara was seated across a large…
Cultural Cooperation and Intellectual Freedom in “These Anxious and Baffling Times”
By Marek Sroka Seventy-five years ago, Winston Churchill, in what was to become one of the most famous orations…
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…